Thread: Windows applications and stuff

Ive posted a few of these but heres how to get a few of the Windows 7 features on XP/Vista.

Windows 7: Get Windows 7's Best Features Right Now

If you like free stuff then check this site

Giveaway of the Day - free licensed software daily. Today: Windows Automation Macro Recorder - Windows Automation Macro Recorder is a handy utility that automates repetitive and boring tasks on computers. It records all operation ...

Developers give stuff away for free sometimes to get a larger userbase, this site tracks some of them and gives you links to free software that you would usually pay for.

Something nice from Microsoft if you get .DOCX files and are on an older system which has an older version of Word on it.

This is a plugin for Firefox and works with Windows and Linux.

Featured Firefox Extension: OpenXML Document Viewer Opens Office 2007 Files in Firefox

Giveaway of the Day - free licensed software daily. AnVir Task Manager 5.4.1 - Get several Windows enhancements, get full control of PC, remove Trojans, increase performance.

Found this for making a stripped out version of Windows. YOu can strip out all the stuff you dont want/need/use to make a sleeker install.

Slimming Down Windows XP: The Complete Guide - Bold_Fortune Forums

Feature: Trim Down Windows to the Bare Essentials

Google Chrome - Download a new browser

Google Chrome out of BETA now becomes 1.0

Busy day in Windows land

http://perso.accelance.net/~pesoft/trm/us_trm.html

small tool that displays useful information about system resources in real time, but it also gives much more detail when you right-click on the displayed fields

heres a nifty little way of downloading and playing flash games you find on the net offline on your PC.


How To Download and Play Flash Games Offline | MakeUseOf.com

Download SpeedBit Video Accelerator for YouTube
Never heard of or used it.

We all forget passwords every once in a while but what about when its the biggie? The admin password for your computer

3 Ways to Reset the Forgotten Windows Administrator Password | MakeUseOf.com

Free spyware removal and spyware protection - Spyware Terminator

A limited feature free version with the upgrade option. Supposedly a decent alternative to AdAware

Originally Posted by melvbot

Download SpeedBit Video Accelerator for YouTube Never heard of or used it.

I use this it's ok .

If youre a budding Bustak taking oodles of photos a every opportunity then at some point you'll have to start to organize the hundreds/thousands of photos you have.

This free program claims to be able to search your photos with some unknown claim of accuracy/voodoo. My guess is it will do OK but throw up some wrong results as its impossible to make these types of programs work 100% of the time.

photology makes finding photos easy, fast & fun

We've all heard of Swiss Army knives and how they have a tool for any situation but if you've ever owned one you find out theyre about as useful as a chocolate teapot in a lot of situations, so when someone bills and app as "The Swiss Army Knife of PC tools" I have a little snigger and make a cup of tea from my non chocolate teapot.

This tool however might have a few uses

Capture .NET - A multifunctional desktop utility

Theres a free and a pay version. The free version includes

Screen Captures, Post it Notes, A Color Picker, Alarm Clock, World Time, Timer and Time Synchronization, A Backup Expert, A Tweaker, A File Format Convertor


and probably some other stuff as well. Small download of about 700kb.


If you look at the site and it scream "malware!" then run the file through this site to check it for any nasties.

VirusTotal - Free Online Virus and Malware Scan

With it being Christmas and lots of people buying computers as gifts Microsoft have kindly set up a new forum so you can ask a nerd a question if youre stuck with something on Vista.

Windows Vista Community Forums | Microsoft Answers

not sure if you posted it already, but there is a collection of Portable Apps for WinXP which are very nice when you want to fit all the useful apps in a small 1GB USB drive

PortableApps.com - Portable software for USB drives

Here a freeware/open source screenshot capture program. Allows you to take a screenshot or a selection, apply text and shapes to the screenshot for anything that needs highlighting along with supporting a few file formats.

greenshot.sourceforge.net

This might be of use to someone somewhere.

DLL-files.com - Download all your missing dll-files.

Has the most common files that might get corrupted on your computer, all free to download.

If youre an international spy, have lots of passwords, financial data or dodgy porn vids you want to hide then tunnel over to this site. Works with Win/Mac/Linux

TrueCrypt - Free Open-Source On-The-Fly Disk Encryption Software for Windows Vista/XP, Mac OS X and Linux



If you try and delete a file and get that annoying "cannot delete folder" error try this

UNLOCKER 1.8.7 BY CEDRICK 'NITCH' COLLOMB

Whenever you can’t delete a file, just right-click on it and choose “Unlocker” (the app integrates itself into the Explorer right-click menu). Unlocker will then kill all the Windows processes that are holding that app and stopping you from deleting it. You can then go ahead and nuke the file.

If you install a lot of applications and your computer takes longer and longer to start up its usually due to apps setting themselves to start at the login after you boot the computer. This means they are running in the background even though they arent visible so when you want to use the app it starts pretty much straight away.

Do you really need skype, messenger, winamp etc starting as soon as you boot the computer? Theres a youtube video here for the lazy ones



Or you can head over to this site

Disable Startup - Free Startup Manager and Monitoring Software

And check out this free app for managing startup items in Windows.

If you like making your desktip look a bit prettier Kaelri has released a new version of his Enigma desktop

Enigma by ~Kaelri on deviantART


Microsoft arent exactly know for giving stuff away free but some nice bloke has compiled a big ol' list of the feebies that Microsoft has to offer.

http://bhandler.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!70F64BC910C9F7F3!1231.entry?wa=wsignin1.0

Everyone who has used a computer regularly has experienced it from time to time. You are running some very intensive tasks, running several programs simultaneously and suddenly you find that your computer does not respond to you anymore. For some reason the computer is so busy that it does not respond to your actions anymore. Your clicks and key presses are handled much later or not at all, giving you no chance to interact with the system. Your system is hanging.

This tool is free for now.

AntiFreeze is a self proclaimed ‘Emergency Task Manager’ that is capable is suspending all applications presently running, and killing them if necessary. This is how it works.

While AntiFreeze is sitting in your system tray, eating up very little resources, it’s awaiting the hotkey combination of ‘ALT+CTRL+WIN+HOME’. Once this sequence of keys is pressed, the task manager like AntiFreeze is launched and a majority of running applications go into a ’suspended’ mode. Where as it doesn’t kill any particular app, but it places it into an anti virus like quarantine and allows you view any programs that may be the culprit.

Resplendence Software - AntiFreeze Introduction

If you fancy trying to get a genuine (not torrented) copy of Windows 7 Beta Microsoft will be unleashing it today (ish). Its tagged for release on this site

Welcome to Windows 7

On the afternoon of January 9th in one of the US timezones. Snag is they are only allowing 2.5mil copies to download so if you really want a freebie from Microsoft you'll have to be hitting refresh pretty often.