Freeware

Ghoster Dims all windows except the active one. Features: place a transparent image across the screen; highly configurable. http://www.donationcoders.com/skrommel/ Run Opens the Run window. Place it on your QuickRun toolbar for easy access! ... http://www.donationcoders.com/skrommel/ (view more)

Gnu Utilities For Win32 Native Win32 ports of some GNU utilities, created for the GNU-Linux OS, now usable in Windows. Includes bc-1.05, bison-1.28, bzip2-1.0.2, diffutils-2.7, fileutils-3.16, findutils-4.1, flex-2.5.4, gawk-3.1.0, grep-2.4.2, ... gsar110, gzip-1.2.4, indent-2.2.9, jwhois-2.4.1, less-340, m4-1.4, make-3.78.1, patch-2.5, recode-3.6, rman-3.0.7, sed-3.02, shellutils-1.9.4, tar-1.12, textutils-2.1, unrar-3.00, wget-1.8.2, which-2.4 . http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ Hardening Windows Xp Windows XP has considerably more functionality than Windows 2000. With this functionality come ... (view more)

Dm2 DM2 provides several Windows enhancements that may help in every-day work. One of the nicest and most popular features of DM2 is minimizing windows to floating icons (unique feature!) freeing both task bar and tray bar space. Moreover, DM2 can ... manipulate windows in various ways: minimize to tray, make them standing always on-top over all other windows, roll to caption, resize, align to screen borders, hide, set the opacity etc. DM2 also helps with Open/Save dialog boxes, by providing user-defined menu with favorites and recent files and folders. Plenty of program's settings options will ... (view more)

Bo2k BO2K is the most powerful network administration tool available for the Microsoft environment, bar none. Built upon the phenomenal success of Back Orifice released in August 98, BO2K puts network administrators solidly back in control. In ... control of the system, network, registry, passwords, file system, and processes. BO2K is a lot like other other major file-synchronization and remote control packages that are on the market as commercial products. Except that BO2K is smaller, faster, free, and very, very extensible. With the help of the open-source development community, BO2K will grow ... (view more)

Informer We love this one -- A text string on your desktop dynamically showing your current system load. And it shows you every time a program executes, and a lot more. You can place it at the desired location on screen, change font and color. ... Process list window shows you full list of running processes. About system window shows what's inside of your computer: main board, video, network, drivers, sound, processor, memory etc. In Settings window you can tune Informer appearance and behavior. Fonts, colors, events, hotkeys are controllable. Events window tells about events selected in settings ... (view more)

Folder Iconizer An easy three steps wizard to change the computer folders identity, by adding icons or de-iconizing them according to the user's desire. http://users.spark.net.gr/~stamatb/freesoft/index.htm 6 Dumbest Ideas In Computer Security What ... are they? They're the anti-good ideas. They're the brain damage that makes your $100,000 ASIC-based turbo-stateful packet-mulching firewall transparent to hackers. Where do anti-good ideas come from? They come from misguided attempts to do the impossible -- which is another way of saying "trying to ignore reality." Frequently those misguided ... (view more)

Graphic Shell Extension This is a very handy application that extends Windows Explorer User Interface with 3 useful commands for graphic files. ShellExtension adds an option to context menu that allows you to view a thumbnail of an image, convert it ... to any of supported formats and print them. (Note -- we had a lot of trouble making the conversion work until I looked at the FAQ on the site It does work. You just have to give the file a new name apparently). http://www.firmtools.com/products/shellextension/ 20 Secret Tweaks 20 unexpected ways to unleash the true potential of the technology ... (view more)

Winext Desktop Bar Customize your desktop with a horizontal bar that gives you easy access to all your programs and documents. WinExt is not an alternative to the windows shell, but a good expansion which gives your shell at set of new features. By ... letting you customize appearance, content, and features makes your desktop environment more personal and suited for your needs. http://winext.hulubulu.dk/ Quicktime Alternative QuickTime Alternative will allow you to play QuickTime files (.mov, .qt and other extensions) without having to install the official QuickTime Player. It also supports ... (view more)

Deskcon Intercepts the minimizing of applications to the taskbar and instead minimizes them to the desktop. The icon representation of the application on the desktop is a scaled version of a screenshot of the window for the application. Deskcon also ... provides system menus, as well as restoring the windows on double click. http://aquaria.za.net/ Win Dowse WinDowse shows any window's internals -- text, caption, resource ID, process ID, application instance handle, window handle, parent handle, function address, menu handle, coordinates in parent, coordinates in screen, size, client area size, ... (view more)

Lcars 24 Fast, smooth, powerful, and handsome 32-bit, TrueColor Starfleet-standard GUI with many LCARS games, applications, and utilities, the real thing, programmed from scratch in C, not Visual Basic or Flash. http://lcars24.sourceforge.net/ Data ... Recovery Freeware List Freeware for your data recovery needs. http://www.s2services.com (view more)