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  • ncleaner

    nCleaner advanced System cleaner

    I'm currently using several tools to clean my system, change settings to increase security and privacy, control startup items and tweak system settings to impro

  • Page Defrag

    Page Defrag is a tiny 70 Kilobyte software that displays information about how fragmented your paging files and registry hives are.

  • schedule software

    Schedule Software Starts

    I was looking for a way to start softwares at a given time of the week and found X-ecutor to be the perfect choice for that.

  • Add Registry Key Bookmarks

    If you happen to work regularly with the registry of your Windows system you might have thought that it would be great to be able to open the most used registry

  • Resource Friendly Spell Checker

    Firefox, Word, Thunderbird and several other applications all have a build in spell checker that warns the user if a word that was written was not found in the

  • File and Directory Monitoring

    If you are looking for a sophisticated file and directory monitoring software that looks rather complex on first sight but offers a lot of possibilities if one

  • Free Software for your computer

    Gili over at Connected Internet compiled a list of 15 applications that he calls the best free software for your computer.

  • Ultra-Pad a Wordpad replacement

    Wordpad offers an advanced functionality in comparison to Notepad but is not able to compete against Office suites such as Open Office or Microsoft Word.

  • move-folders

    Move MyDocuments to another drive

    Microsoft tried to enhance Windows XP by adding a central folder for user data which is called MyDocuments which is the default place for save games, pictures,

  • Filezilla FTP Client

    I have been working with the ftp client Filezilla for some time now and switched to release candidate three of the new and upcoming Filezilla 3 just recently.

  • 10 Freeware Recommendations 2

    It has been a while since I posted the first part of this mini series entitled 10 Freeware Recommendations.

  • Change Vista's Windows Experience Rating

    If you want to show of your Windows Experience Rating in Windows Vista which displays a hardware rating of your computer but have a rather weak score you should

  • norton removal tool

    Norton Removal Tool

    I have been using Norton products in the past and was always astonished how resource hungry those products were.

  • Microsoft killing Autopatcher Project

    I have written several times about the Autopatcher project which was basically providing users with the opportunity to download one executable file that contain

  • Autopatcher August 2007 released

    The Autopatcher team seems to be back on track with the release of core and update Autopatcher files for Windows XP, Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 Server.

  • Windows Vista Sidebar Styler

    I don't like the Windows Vista sidebar that much and think that most applications - also called widgets and gadgets - are pretty much useless.

  • CCleaner 2.0 beta

    I decided to uninstall the old CCleaner version that I had installed on my system and replace it with the first CCleaner 2.

  • XdN Tweaker for Windows

    XdN Tweaker is not one of those usual tweaking softwares that give you access to change hundreds of Windows settings in one tiny menu.

  • Clear all non system fonts automatically

    Roman commented on my article about removing fonts to increase system startup speed yesterday mentioning the free software Font Frenzy which could remove all no

  • Windows vista resource issue

    Solving a Windows Vista Resource Problem

    I regularly work with a lot of applications in Windows Vista at once which should not be a problem because I have enough RAM and a fast enough CPU to handle all

  • Microsoft Port Reporter

    Microsoft Port Reporter is a handy application that can be installed as a service in Microsoft Windows to log port usage data.

  • Some Windows Taskbar Tweaks

    The Windows taskbar is not only useful for showing which programs and folders are currently active on your system but can also he customized to store permanent

  • How to remove browser toolbars

    Toolbars are a plague; Every other software, especially free software asks the user if he wants to install a toolbar on his system.