System Monitor: HWM BlackBox 2.0

HWM BlackBox is a utility designed to deliver precise details on the core components of your computer to the maximum. As well as providing you with you with in-depth information about hardware such as the processor, memory modules, mainboard, hard drives and video card, it also offers the opportunity to assess critical parameters such as clock speeds and temperatures. HWM BlackBox also presents Vista – compatible tools to test your computer’s performance under Microsoft Windows Vista.

Image Viewer: Imagina 1.5

Imagina is a next-generation image viewer and editing tool.  Based around 3D technology, it offers the finest viewing experience yet for Windows-based PCs. Featuring one of the slickest and most intuitive user interfaces around, once you’ve used it you just won’t want to go back to anything else. It is in short, the photographers favourite tool.

File Management: FileSeek v1.9.8

Have you ever needed to find a file buried somewhere in your computer? Have you ever needed to find a specific string of text inside a file? FileSeek can do that, and more. FileSeek is lightning fast, small and super easy to use.  It can even be integrated right into the Windows Explorer right-click menu to provide quick and easy access. FileSeek doesn’t use background indexing, so when FileSeek is closed your computer’s performance won’t be affected.

Video Converter: Freemake Video Converter

Convert between video formats, rip DVD, convert to devices, burn DVD, create photo slideshows and music visualizations, cut, join, rotate and upload video, photos, music to YouTube with our free video converter.

Music Synchronization: iTunes Sync 1.51

iTunes Sync: Free iTunes MP3 Player Integration

In just a few easy steps iTunes Sync will let you synchronize any iTunes playlist with any MP3 player that shows up as a drive letter in Windows. iTunes Sync is designed and tested to work best with iTunes 8. You can configure as many different MP3 players as you need and synchronize each one with a different iTunes playlist. You can use standard playlists or dynamically updating smart playlists to synchronize your MP3 Player. It’s as simple as 3 easy steps:

Text Editor: PilotEdit Lite 3.4.0

PilotEdit Lite is an advanced text and hex editor that supports opening of files larger than 4GB. It offers customizable syntax and keyword highlighting, advanced search and replace operations, HEX mode, column mode, and more. In addition, a built-in FTP client lets you open, edit and upload files directly to/from an FTP server.

Desktop Tools: Stardock Fences™ Basic

Fences™ is a program that helps you organize your desktop, and can hide your icons when they’re not in use. A “Fence”, a term coined by this program, is an icon group on your desktop. Fences is an add-on to your desktop, not a replacement.

Invoice: SSuite Office – Invoice Master 2.0

Our invoice application is based on the latest graphical-user-interface technology. There is no typing necessary, just point and click to create and/or print product or service invoices for your clients… quick and easy. It also includes a custom reports/invoice writer and creator. It also handles TAX or VAT systems and mass client email. Add your own custom logo to your report/invoice prints.

Image Upload: Rightload 1.9

Rightload is a small program that allows you to quickly upload files directly from a Windows folder to your server. Instead of using complicated software just to upload a few pictures, you just right-click on the files, select the server and target folder and Rightload will do the rest for you.

Password Manager: SXPasswordSuite 1.0

SXPasswordSuite is the complete collection of all the FREE password recovery softwares released by SecurityXploded.com. It contains the latest version of all the password tools which makes it easy for the user to get all these tools at one place without worrying about downloading each of them separately.

All of these tools are standalone applications which does not require any installation and works over wide range of platforms from Windows XP to latest Windows 7 version.

Photo Tools: Collage It 1.1.6

CollageIt is an easy-to-use and free collage maker, which makes photo collage automatically. There are only three steps to make your stunning collage: add photo->set parameters and generate collage preview->save collage as image format, such as BMP, JPEG, PNG, TGA, GIF etc.

Compression: PeaZip 3.2.1

Free, open source file and archive manager, PeaZip is cross platform, available as portable and installable software for 32 and 64 bit Windows (9x, 2000, XP, Vista) and Linux (PeaZip is a desktop neutral application).

Navigation: KML Generator 2.05

KML Generator can be used to analyze GPS log files containing NMEA string data and then generate Google Earth (TM) compatible KML files.

Requirements:
Win95,Win98,WinME,WinNT 3.x,WinNT 4.x,Windows2000,WinXP,Windows2003,Windows Vista Starter,Windows Vista Home Basic,Windows Vista Home Premium,Windows Vista Business,Windows Vista Enterprise,Windows Vista Ultimate,Windows Vista Home Basic x64,Windows Vista Home Premium x64,Windows Vista Business x64,Windows Vista Enterprise x64,Windows Vista Ultimate x64

Audio Tools: Mixxx 1.7.2

Complete DJ Solution
Mixxx is a complete package for amateur and professional DJs alike, providing everything you need to create live mixes.

New to DJing?
No problem – Mixxx can run without any extra hardware, and is fully functional replacement for a traditional “turntables and mixer” DJ setup.

Personal Finance: AceMoney Lite 4.1.2

AceMoney Lite is a freeware personal finance manager. It has all the features of its big brother except multiple accounts management. As AceMoney, AceMoney Lite helps people organize and manage their personal finances quickly and easily.

3D Design: Sculptris 1.02

Free 3D digital sculpting program.

Most tools will be relatively easy to understand by just experimenting with them for a little bit. They are not very complicated.

Grab, scale and rotate can be switched into “Global mode”, in which they will manipulate the whole selected region rather than just the area you’re pointing at.

System Monitor: System Monitor II 9

System Monitor II will shows you all core CPU usage (1 Core, 2 Core, 3 Core, 4 Core, 6 Core, 8 Core, 12 Core or 16 Core) and RAM (physical, page file and full, includes virtual) usage. It also displays all cores and RAM usage history. Have many settings to customize.  It does not require any 3rd party applications. Resizable! Uses two bar graphs mode. Many settings. Save settings to file. (File will created – Path: %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming File: gadgetname_Settings.ini)

Network Monitor: Network Monitor II 5.5

The Network Monitor II (wired and wireless) will show you SSID, signal quality, Internal IP address, External IP address with your country flag when you are connected to the internet, network utilization, upload speed, download speed and total (both current session and global) of usage. It does not require any 3rd party applications. Resizable! Save settings to file. (File will be created – Path: %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming File: gadgetname_Settings.ini).

Data Security: Datum Locker 0.1.8

Datum Locker allows the record keeping of account credentials and note taking which are deemed sensitive. Its strength comes from the use of an undocumented mathematically sound cryptographic algorithm to store your data on disk in addition to presenting an intruder with random semantics for the omittance of a valid key.

Datum Locker operates on a timer thus monitoring when the application becomes idle, such a time will result in the application locking’n'docking onto the system tray.

File Management: IZArc 4.1.1

IZArc is the best freeware archive utility supporting many archive formats like: 7-ZIP, A, ACE, ARC, ARJ, B64, BH,  BIN, BZ2, BZA, C2D, CAB, CDI, CPIO, DEB, ENC, GCA, GZ, GZA, HA, IMG, ISO, JAR, LHA, LIB, LZH, MDF, MBF,  MIM, NRG, PAK, PDI, PK3, RAR, RPM, TAR, TAZ, TBZ, TGZ, TZ, UUE, WAR, XXE, YZ1, Z, ZIP, ZOO.  With a modern easy-to-use interface, IZArc provides support for most compressed and encoded files, as well as access  to many powerful features and tools. It allows you to drag and drop files from and to Windows Explorer, create and extract  archives directly in Windows Explorer, create multiple archives spanning disks, creating self-extracting archives, repair  damaged zip archives, converting from one archive type to another, view and write comments and many more.  IZArc has also build-in multilanguage support.

Network Utility: MiTeC Network Scanner 3.6.0

MiTeC Network Scanner is a free multi-threaded Port, IP, NetBIOS and SNMP scanner with many advanced features. It is intended for both system administrators and general users who are interested in computer security. The program performs ping sweep, scans for opened TCP and UDP ports, resource shares and services.

For devices with SNMP capability available interfaces are detected and basic properties displayed.

Partition Tools: Easeus Partition Master 6.0.1

As Partition Magic alternative, EASEUS Partition Master freeware is an ALL-IN-ONE partition solution and the most convenient hard disk partition manager toolkit including Partition Manager, Disk & Partition Copy Wizard and Partition Recovery Wizard  on MBR and GUID partition table (GPT) disk under Windows 2000/XP/Vista/Windows 7 and Windows Server 2000/2003/2008 (32 bit and 64 bit). It allows users to Resize/Move Partition, Extend System Drive, Copy Disk & Partition, Merge Partition, Split Partition, Redistribute Free Space, Convert Dynamic Disk, Partition Recovery and much more. You can free enjoy EASEUS Partition Master Home Edition like the commercial Partition Magic software.

Multimedia Player: Gom Player 2.1.26.5021

GOM Player is a video/audio player with additional multimedia functions. This is a player of the new generation, which allows you to quickly and conveniently use the advantages of digital technologies.

GOM uses low CPU utilization while giving you the best possible image and subtitle quality and plays incomplete files without buffering. You can play any media files with GOM’s built-in codec and Codec Finder service:

System Tweak: Glary Utilities 2.26.0.956

One Click A Day For PC Maintenance, Keeps Any PC Problems Away. With millions of worldwide users, the first-rank & free Glary Utilities is an INDISPENSABLE friend for your PC, with its 100% safe, thorough & quick cleaning and worry-free restoration.

Glary Utilities is a freeware with registry and disk cleaning, privacy protection, performance accelerator and amazing multifunctional tools. It can fix dogged registry errors, wipe off clutters, optimize internet speed, safeguard confidential files and maintain maximum performance.

Antivirus: Dr.Web CureIt! 5.0.0

Dr.Web CureIt! is an indispensable tool for curing computers running MS Windows 95OSR2/98/Me/NT 4.0/2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008/Windows 7.

Dr.Web CureIt! detects and neutralizes viruses, rootkits, Trojan horses, spyware, and other malicious objects that have gone undetected by your anti-virus software.

Remote Network: TeamViewer 5 5.0.8625

TeamViewer establishes connections to any PC or server all around the world within just a few seconds. You can remote control your partner’s PC as if you were sitting right in front of it. Find out why more than 60 million users trust TeamViewer!

Password Manager: Scarabay Passwords Manager 3.094 beta

SCARABAY saves and protects logins, passwords, E-mails, URLs and any secret information.

Autofills web-page logins and passwords.

Fill login, password, E-Mail fields with drag-and-drop to any forms.

System Maintenance: CCleaner 2.33.1184

CCleaner is a freeware PC optimization tool.
It combines a system cleaner that removes unused and temporary files from your system and also a fully featured registry cleaner!

CCleaner allows Windows to run faster, more efficiently and gives you more hard disk space.

Multimedia Center: MediaPortal 1.0.2

MediaPortal  turns your PC and TV into a very advanced home media center. Our software allows you to listen to your favorite music and radio stations; watch and store your videos and DVDs; view, schedule and record live TV as a digital video recorder; and much, much more. MediaPortal is open source software. This means you can help develop MediaPortal or tweak it for your own needs with lots of innovative plugins from our great community.

Launcher: sTabLauncher 2.2.2

sTabLauncher helps finding and launching your favorite programs, web pages, folders, or any type of files in a fast and easy way. Taking up fewer resources as possible, and allowing you to personalize the appearance in many ways, by changing colors, images, transparency, animations, and many other options to make it blend in with your desktop.

Photo Editor: FotoSketcher v1.97

FotoSketcher is a 100% free program which can help you convert your digital photos into art, automatically. If you want to turn a portrait, the photograph of your house or a beautiful landscape into a painting, a sketch or a drawing then look no further, FotoSketcher will do the job in just a few seconds.

Thanks to FotoSketcher you can create stunning images to make original gifts for your friends or relatives. Create birthday cards, season’s greetings stationery or simply print your work of art and hang it on the wall.

Network Tools: Speed Dial 0.9.5.1

With Speed Dial, you can easily access your most used websites. To show the Speed Dial tab, use the Speed Dial button (which can be added to the toolbar), or enter “chrome://speeddial/content” in your location bar.

To assign one website to Speed Dial, use the new “Set as Speed Dial” option in the bookmarks menu, or right click on the tab you want to add, and choose “Set as Speed Dial”. That option is also available in the contextual area menu.

Alarm: Easy Timer 1.01

Use Easy Timer as a simple alarm clock. Just set the time or in how many minutes it should alert and press activate – done!

Customizable is the alert sound (choose one of the 21 preinstalled or load a wave file) and it’s also possible to setup a notification message.

Printer: Easy Poster Printer 2.0.3.0

Easy Poster Printer enables you to print posters of any size (max 20×20 meters) with a regular printer. Just drag n drop your picture into the application and click print.

Easy Poster Printer comes with a Windows Shell Extension that allows you to see thumbnails of your posters in Windows. This ensures that it is very easy to locate your posters in Windows for later use or sharing. Easy Poster Printer uses the latest technologies from Microsoft .NET, which ensures you a wide compatibility.

Multimedia Player: VLC Media Player 1.1.0

VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player and multimedia framework capable of reading most audio and video formats (MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, DivX, MPEG-1, mp3, ogg, aac …) as well as DVDs, Audio CDs VCDs, and various streaming protocols. See the full features list.

It can also be used as a media converter or a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on networks.

Organizer: Flashnote 3.8

Flashnote is a quick notes manager created for such cases. When you need a rough copy to save or to process some pieces of a text, Flashnote is small, quick and convenient. Press the shortcut-key combination and a rough copy is on the screen in a flash of a second. Press ESC and the program hides. It’s that simple. You don’t need to find a place for text, to run Notepad or huge heavy PIM. Flashnote is a lightweight notes manager, everything gets done quickly, simply and in a more convenient way.

Encryption: gpg4usb 0.2.4

gpg4usb is a very easy to use portable-application, which combines a simple text-editor with a GnuPG-frontend to write, encrypt and decrypt your text-messages. gpg4usb should work on almost any computer you’re working on, should it be a Linux-machine or even one with a Microsoft-OS running.

Almost the only thing required is an available usb-port you are allowed to access. With this application you can write safe and encrypted messages anywhere you are: should it be an internet-cafe, at work or somewhere else on holiday… and you always have the encryption-keys available for usage!

Money Manager Ex 0.9.6.0

Money Manager Ex is a free, open-source, cross-platform, easy-to-use personal finance software. It primarily helps organize one’s finances and keeps track of where, when and how the money goes. It is also a great tool to get a bird’s eye view of your financial worth.

Time Table: FET 5.13.5

FET is open source free software for automatically scheduling the timetable of a school, high-school or university. It uses a fast and efficient timetabling algorithm. It is licensed under GNU GPL.

Usually, FET is able to solve a complicated timetable in maximum 5-20 minutes. For simpler timetables, it may take a shorter time, under 5 minutes (in some cases, a matter of seconds). For extremely difficult timetables, it may take a longer time, a matter of hours.

Web browser: Lunascape 6.1.6

Lunascape is the world’s first and only triple engine browser. It has been downloaded over 15 million times and it’s available globally in 11 languages. Try it yourself the new kind of speed and versatility.

File Management: Bulk Rename Utility 2.7.1.2

Bulk Rename Utility is a free file renaming software for Windows. Bulk Rename Utility allows you to easily rename files and entire folders based upon extremely flexible criteria.

Add date/time stamps, replace numbers, insert text, convert case, add auto-numbers, process folders and sub-folders….plus a whole lot more!

Reminder: Desktop Reminder 1.16

Desktop-Reminder is a freeware task planner for Windows to manage your tasks and other to-dos’ in easy way. Always during start of Windows it lists all tasks, which are urgent for that day. In case, there is additionally time of day in task defined, according notification message will be shown, when the time comes.

File Manager: FreeFileSync 3.8

FreeFileSync is an Open-Source folder comparison and synchronization tool. It is optimized for highest performance and usability without restricted or overloaded UI interfaces.

Bandwidth Monitor: NetWorx 5.1.2

NetWorx is a simple and free, yet powerful tool that helps you objectively evaluate your bandwidth situation. You can use it to collect bandwidth usage data and measure the speed of your Internet or any other network connection. NetWorx can help you identify possible sources of network problems, ensure that you do not exceed the bandwidth limits specified by your ISP, or track down suspicious network activity characteristic of Trojan horses and hacker attacks.

Network Tools: LAN Bridger 0.9.10b

LAN Bridger is an easy-to-use VPN tool. It lets you be a part of the same local computer network at your job, on the road, or half way around the world. Share files. Administer machines. Access music. Or kick back and play a game. If you can do it locally, LAN Bridger lets you do it remotely. It’s as easy as click, click, you’re connected.

File Manager: Master Commander 0.9.4

Master Commander is a file manager, which is the replacement for Windows Explorer.

A convenient dual-panel view and additional features allow you to perform a series of shorter file operations.

Security: PeerBlock 1.0+ (r404)

PeerBlock lets you control who your computer “talks to” on the Internet.  By selecting appropriate lists of “known bad” computers, you can block communication with advertising or spyware oriented servers, computers monitoring your p2p activities,  computers which have been “hacked”, even entire countries!  They can’t get in to your computer, and your computer won’t try to send them anything either.

Productivity Tool: TriX 0.0.11.10

TriX is an award-winning free productivity tool for windows OS based computers which does many simple tasks in a click:

Text formatting (upper case, lower case, sentence case…), web search (Google, Yahoo!, Bing, YouTube…), data exporting (Notepad, MS-Word, MS-Excel…), data extraction (emails, links…) and much more.

Navigation: EasyGPS 4.0

EasyGPS is the fast and easy way to transfer waypoints, routes, and tracks between your computer and your Garmin, Magellan, or Lowrance GPS. EasyGPS lists all of your waypoints on the left side of the screen, and shows a plot of your GPS data on the right. Use EasyGPS to back up and organize your GPS data, print maps, or load new waypoints onto your GPS for your next hike or geocaching adventure.

Audio Recording: eRecords player 3.0.3009

Your digital media experience gets better with eRecords, taking you to another level with features such as audio recording, a intuitive user interface and advanced content management. eRecords also includes build in abilities allowing you to rip and burn CDs.

Launcher Tools: No Autorun 1.1.1.20

Blocks virus in USB flash/disk from auto-running. When a USB disk is inserted, this tool not only locks the autorun.inf file, but also locks all the autorun-related virus. Most software of the same kind just delete autorun.inf and leave the virus file.

Personal Finance: iFreeBudget 2.0.29 Personal Finance Manager

iFreeBudget is a free, open source Personal finance software application. It is designed for home and small business users with simple interface and fast user interaction. It is safe and secure with password based encryption for storing financial data.

Music Player: Jaangle 0.98e.971

Jaangle (formerly Teen Spirit) is a free music player and organizer software. It categorizes your mp3, ogg, wma, avi etc collection and displays it in easy to browse, user interface. It has a quality audio – video player and also an integrated tag editor.

Windows Protector: Windows Vulnerability Scanner 1.47

Protector Plus – Windows Vulnerability Scanner checks your system for Windows Vulnerabilities. It guides you to update with the right patch to make your system secure.

Network Monitor: Speed Test 1.0.7

Downloading data from the Internet and measuring the largest amount of data that can pass through your connection within a specified time period. Speed Test allows you to do this, completely autonomously without your intervention.

Speed Test doesn’t just monitor your connection, it will actually download a file on a regular basis to test your connection.

Hardware Monitor: HWiNFO32™ v3.51

HWiNFO32™ are professional hardware information and diagnostic tools supporting latest components, industry technologies and standards. Both tools are designed to collect and present the maximum amount of information possible about computer’s hardware which makes them suitable for users searching for driver updates, computer manufacturers, system integrators and technical experts as well. Retrieved information is presented in a logical and easily understandable form and can be exported into various types of reports.

System Maintenance: Dr.Web CureIt!

Dr.Web CureIt! is an indispensable tool for curing computers running MS Windows 95OSR2/98/Me/NT 4.0/2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008/Windows 7.

Dr.Web CureIt! detects and neutralizes viruses, rootkits, Trojan horses, spyware, and other malicious objects that have gone undetected by your anti-virus software.

System Tweak: Tweak Me! v1.1.0.2

Tweak Me! Is a new unique Windows Tweaking Application which supports Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7! Never has it been so easy to tweak all most used versions of Microsoft Windows using just one application.  Tweak Me! has a modern user friendly GUI which makes it extremely easy for you to manage the most important tweaks which save you a lot of time when setting up Windows!

Laptop Utility: BatteryCare 0.9.7.11

BatteryCare is a software created to optimize the usage and performance of the modern laptop’s battery.

It monitors the battery’s discharge cycles and helps increasing it’s autonomy and improving its lifetime.

Windows Startup: StartMenu7

Replace Microsoft Windows standard Start Menu.