Password Protect your Applications with Program Protector

Program Protector is the world's number one tool for password protecting programs.

You can easily password protect any Windows application. Program Protector is very easy to use and does not require any special computer knowledge. You can password protect programs with a few clicks.

Key features and benefits

• Password protect any Windows application
• Drag and drop program files and shortcuts to protect them
• Browse the list of protected programs
• Password protect the Program Protector itself
• Customize password prompt
• View protected program activity log
• 100% protection, can't be bypassed
• Compatible with all programs, including Internet Explorer and Outlook Express
• Works with Windows Vista®

Download Program Protector v 3.1

Improve your XP Performance With SparkleXP

SparkleXP is an application designed to tweak Windows XP and improve its performance. It helps freeing up computer resources resulting in a faster and responsive computer.

This tool creates a second Hardware Profile and a correlative new User to get a lightweight desktop. You can choose to boot into your regular or SparkleXP configuration at startup.

Firts Pic : Normal XP Configuration
Second Pic : SparkleXP Configuration

Download SparkleXP v0.5

Copy Your Files Faster And Easier With TeraCopy

TeraCopy is a compact program designed to copy and move files at the maximum possible speed, providing the user a lot of features:

• Copy files faster. TeraCopy uses dynamically adjusted buffers to reduce seek times. Asynchronous copy speeds up file transfer between two physical hard drives.


• Pause and resume file transfers. Pause copy process at any time to free up system resources and continue with a single click.


• Error recovery. In case of copy error, TeraCopy will try several times and in the worse case just skips the file, not terminating the entire transfer.


• Interactive file list. TeraCopy shows failed file transfers and lets you fix the problem and recopy only problem files.


• Shell integration. TeraCopy can completely replace Explorer copy and move functions, allowing you work with files as usual.


• Full Unicode support.

Download TeraCopy v 1.22

Paint.NET : Free Image And Photo Editing Software

"Impressive." - PC World, #19 on "Top 100 Products of 2007"

Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins.

Originally intended as a free replacement for the Microsoft Paint software that comes with Windows, it has grown into a powerful yet simple image and photo editor tool. It has been compared to other digital photo editing software packages such as Adobe® Photoshop®, Corel® Paint Shop Pro®, Microsoft Photo Editor, and The GIMP.


Download Paint.NET v3.20

GplusMessenger - Google Talk Enchancer

Gplus is an add-on for Google Talk, the instant messaging software by Google.

Features:

Emoticons:

And I mean real emoticons not just . Gplus allows you to enhance your chatting experience by allowing you to express various emotions through the familiar emoticons common to all major chat agents but missing, until now, from Google Talk. Gplus, of course, supports animated emoticons.

EmotiSounds:

Wanna draw more attention from the person you're chatting with....You need to make a little noise, express what you feel in sound...Gplus let's you chose from a bank of sounds that you can send just like you would send text or smileys. Simply open up the sound menu and chose from the list...from church bells to south park sound bites...try it.

Chat logs:

Gplus allows you to log your chats locally and view them later. Conversations are logged in the html format and can be viewed using your web browser or the chat log viewer that comes with Gplus.

Text Formatting:

Gplus allows you to add color to your text messages by giving you the ability to use text formatting such as bold, italic, etc...

Text filters:

Gplus allows you to define text filters. Filters can be used to censor certain words your contacts may use. They can also be used as aliases that allow you to say more while typing less.

Multilingual:

Upcoming versions of Gplus will be multilingual and will reflect the language used by Google Talk.

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Codec Pack V 6.0.9 Standard : Play Anything

The Standard Codec Pack is mainly for general use, it features a large number of playback codec's/filters and a small number of encoding codec's should you wish to encode files.The package will enable you to playback most major formats currently available.

Installation of the package is made easy for users through the informative menu's.Options that may cause problems have a warning in the description pane, the installer will also unselect options that may cause conflicts.

Features :

● ffdshow Video Codec Build 20070212 Revision 918 by xxl.
● Haali Media Splitter 27/02/07 - For MP4, MKV, OGM and AVI container files
● Flash Video Splitter 1.0.0.1.

And many more...


Download Codec Pack V 6.0.9 Standard

Auslogics BoostSpeed 4: Boost Your Computer Performance

Start programs faster. Speed up computer start time. Increase Internet speed, optimize your Internet Explorer, Firefox and E-mail programs.

Boost Speed will clean up disks and the Registry to speed up your computer and tweak Windows to its peak performance.

Version 4.0.0.40

• fixes a memory leak in the Integrator
• improved Visual Effects tweaks after reboot
• fixes Disk Cleaner and Track Eraser issues with web browsers
• removes memory leaks in Registry Cleaner and Tweak Manager
• fixes a bug with System Information incorrectly reading from the Registry
• fixes a number of spelling errors and cosmetic problems

Download Auslogics BoostSpeed v 4.0.0.40

VideoCacheView v1.05 - Watch Cached Videos Offline

After watching a video in a Web site, you may want to save the video file into your local disk for playing it offline in the future. If the video file is stored in your browser's cache, this utility can help you to extract the video file from the cache and save it for watching it in the future.

It automatically scans the entire cache of Internet Explorer and Mozilla-based Web browsers (Including Firefox) and finds all video files that are currently stored in it. It allows you to easily copy the cached video files into another folder for playing/watching them in the future. If you have a movie player that is configured to play flv files, it also allows you to play the video directly from your browser's cache.

Download VideoCacheView v1.05

Easy Video Downloader v 1.4.2 - Download Videos From Youtube

With Easy Video Downloader you can easily download videos from YouTube, Google Video and save it as AVI (High Quality for PC) or MPEG4 (for iPod, PSP).

Easy Video Downloader is a completly FREE Software. It contains absolutely NO ADWARE, NO SPYWARE, NO REGISTRATION, NO POPUPS, NO MALWARE or other unwanted software.

The user interface of Easy Video Downloader is very simple, so you don't need any technical knowledge to use it. No need to use scripts for web browsers. Just run Easy Video Downloader and start downloading!

All you need to do is to paste URL of movie and press Start button.

If you haven't flash player to play videos from YouTube just select "Save as AVI" and Easy Video Downloader automatically convert video to avi format.

Download Easy Video Downloader v 1.4.2

Download BitDefender 2008 Antivirus

BitDefender Standard Edition is a powerful antivirus tool with features that best meet your security needs.

Features as easy to use and automatic updating make BitDefender Standard Edition an "install and forget" antivirus product.

BitDefender Standard Edition uses the ICSA Labs certified scanning engines for Microsoft Windows® XP allowing users to enjoy their virus protection as they head towards the future's technologies.

Using powerful engines to filter all possible access ways into your system, BitDefender Standard Edition is the ideal protection for your critical information.

Download BitDefender 2008 Antivirus

DRM Removal 3.1.9 - Free Your Music from Copy Protection Legally

Convert DRM protected audio and video.

Fast and simple to use DRM protected media converter. Easily converts ALL audio and video files from your PC to unprotected MP3, WMA, AAC, iPod at high speed and preserving original quality. Legally.

With a single click your got your MP3, AVI (or other audio and video) converted and copied directly to iPod without loosing ID3 tags and quality.

The Drm-Removal supports Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows 2008 and Windows Vista.


Download Drm-Removal 3.1.9

Active@ File Recovery 7.3 - Recover Your Deleted Files

Active@ File Recovery is a powerful software utility, designed to restore accidentally deleted files and directories. It allows you to recover files that have been deleted from the Recycle Bin, as well as those deleted after avoiding the Recycle Bin (e.g. Shift-Delete).

Active@ File Recovery can be installed on and run from a floppy disk, so that the risk of overwriting your data is minimized.

Active@ File Recovery Professional is an enhanced version of Active@ File Recovery software that includes Active@ Partition Recovery for Windows that can detect and restore accidentally deleted partitions (volumes, drives) on Hard Disk Drives, external USB drives, and memory cards (SunDisk, MemoryStick, CompactFlash, etc...)

Active@ File Recovery will help you to restore data residing on hard drives or floppy drives formatted in any of the following file systems:

• FAT12

• FAT16

• FAT32

• NTFS

• NTFS5

• NTFS + EFS
  

Download Active@ File Recovery v.7.3

HiDownload Pro 7.07 All in One Download Manager

HiDownload is a multi-threaded download manager that allows you to download individual files (or lists of files) from web and FTP sites while maximizing the potential of your internet connection. It also supports multimedia streaming and and RTSP (Real Time Streaming Protocol) with optional resume, enabling you to download movies, music and capture streaming video and audio,record radio from Internet. HiDownload also offers a built-in Broadcast Manager. In addition, it provides all the standard features of a download manager, including scheduling, drop basket, download history, clipboard monitoring, download categories as well as zip preview and more.

JkDefrag - Disk Defragmenter and Optimizer

JkDefrag is a disk defragmenter and optimizer for Windows 2000/2003/XP/Vista/X64. Completely automatic and very easy to use, fast, low overhead, with several optimization strategies, and can handle floppies, USB disks, memory sticks, and anything else that looks like a disk to Windows. Included are a Windows version, a commandline version (for scheduling by the task scheduler or for use from administrator scripts), a screensaver version, a DLL library (for use from programming languages), versions for Windows X64, and the complete sources.

First Hand With Firefox 3 Beta 2

ZDNet has taken a look at the second beta version of Firefox 3. The reporter says Firefox 3 feels faster and more responsive again and features improved memory management.

But it’s not new features that I’m interested in, it’s performance and reliability - so how does Firefox 3.0 Beta 2 stand up? Well, it’s only been out a few hours but I’ve been hammering it hard on several systems and my feeling is that beta 2 is a significant improvement on beta 1.

Functionally and visually, beta 1 and beta 2 are hard to tell apart, but after a few seconds of using them side-by-side I think that I could tell them apart on pretty much any system. Beta 2 feels snappier and far more responsive than beta 1 (or Firefox 2.0 for that matter) and I can feel the difference on all the systems that I’ve tried it on - from a lowly Sempron system to my quad-core monsters. No matter what you want doing - opening a new tab, moving tabs, opening up Find, zooming in and out of the page, bookmarking - it all happens swiftly and smoothly. Finally, Firefox feels like it’s back to being faster and more responsive than Internet Explorer. The bloat seems to have been trimmed away and what remains is fast.

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LightZone - Photo Editing Software For Linux

Light Crafts has announced immediate availability of a Linux version of its award-winning LightZone photo-editing software. With this open beta release, Linux users now have all the powerful LightZone tools for editing, enhancing and improving digital photos that Windows and Mac users have including the innovative ZoneMapper and Re-Light tools. LightZone is the first and only application of its kind spanning all 3 major platforms. The 3.3B beta version of LightZone for Linux is free and available for download.

Firefox Addon - DataFox,Check your Internet Usage

Check your BSNL DataOne and MTNL Triband bandwidth utilization in Firefox at the click of a button. A color coded progress bar and bandwidth usage tracking helps you stay within your monthly cap and efficiently utilize your bandwidth.

You don't need to take time every day (or every few hours) to log in to the usage site, click through to the relevant page and grok the details; DataFox will give you the info you need instantly in your statusbar, additional information is available in the tooltip. Statusbar and tooltip strings are completely customizable.

DataFox currently supports two of the largest ISPs in India, BSNL and MTNL. More ISPs may be added in the future.

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Reclaim Your Optical Drive

This hack might help if your optical drive isn't being detected.This hack is applicable if your drives disappear after you uninstall any softwares or have disappeared for no apparent reason.

Open the registry editor by typing regedit in the Run Command and navigate to this :

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\
Control\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}

Delete the values inside the keys UpperFilters and LowerFiltes.If that doesn't seem to work go ahead and delete the keys themselves.You'll need to reboot to see the effect.

Windows Registry : Introduction and Structure

The Windows registry is a directory which stores settings and options for the operating system for Microsoft Windows 32-bit versions, 64-bit versions and Windows Mobile. It contains information and settings for all the hardware, operating system software, most non-operating system software, users, preferences of the PC, etc. Whenever a user makes changes to Control Panel settings, file associations, system policies, or installed software, the changes are reflected and stored in the registry.

Structure

Keys and Values

The registry contains two basic kinds of elements: keys and values.

Registry Keys are similar to folders - in addition to values, each key can contain subkeys, which may contain further subkeys, and so on. Keys are referenced with a syntax similar to Windows' path names, using backslashes to indicate levels of hierarchy. E.g.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows refers to the subkey "Windows" of the subkey "Microsoft" of the subkey "Software" of the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE key.

Registry Values are name/data pairs stored within keys. Values are referenced separately from keys. Value names can contain backslashes which would lead to ambiguities were they referred to like paths. The Windows API functions that query and manipulate registry values take value names separately from the key path and/or handle that identifies the parent key.

Hives

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT

Abbreviated HKCR, HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT stores information about registered applications, such as Associations from File Extensions and OLE Object Class IDs tying them to the applications used to handle these items.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER

Abbreviated HKCU, HKEY_CURRENT_USER stores settings that are specific to the currently logged-in user.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE

Abbreviated HKLM, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE stores settings that are general to all users on the computer.

HKEY_USERS

Abbreviated HKU, HKEY_USERS contains subkeys corresponding to the HKEY_CURRENT_USER keys for each user registered on the machine.

HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG

Abbreviated HKCC, HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG contains information gathered at runtime; information stored in this key is not permanently stored on disk, but rather regenerated at boot time.

HKEY_PERFORMANCE_DATA

This key provides runtime information into performance data provided by either the NT kernel itself or other programs that provide performance data.

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