Utility Freeware

• Aero Blender  AeroBlend can automatically adjust the color of your windows and taskbar to match the current desktop wallpaper. The program works with manual background changes as well as slideshow modes. It uses a quick algorithm to obtain the average color of the wallpaper and then adjusts your window color accordingly. For those who take color coordination (too) seriously, the program has an option get the average color from the application icon or content of the currently active window (instead of the desktop background), which will automatically adapt your colors based on the application you are using. Size: 486KB. Win 7.
• AlwaysOnTop  Always on Top when run, CTRL+ALT+T makes the foreground program always remain on top. You must minimize that window to get to another window on top. To unselect that program as remaining on top, simply use CTRL+ALT+T again. CTRL-ALT-T turns a window always on top when you hear a beep, if it turns a window not always on top, you will hear nothing and the application is turned to the bottom of other applications. It runs as a process (4megs) and is not visible in your task bar or tray. You know if the program is running by looking in the processes tab in task manager or using CTRL+ALT+T and hearing the ding. To close the program, use CTRL+ALT+Q or terminate the process in task manager. Portable. Size: 24KB. Win ALL.
• Android App Player  BlueStacks App Player will play Android apps fast and full-screen. Push your favorite apps from your Android phone to your PC using BlueStacks Cloud Connect. Run 10 pre-loaded apps "out of the box". Install up to 26 more of your favorite apps. Win7.
• Application Virtualization  Cameyo takes a snapshot of your existing Windows system, looks at your installed software, and then lets you pick which programs you'd like to turn into a virtual package. The package can then be run on other systems that don't already have that same software installed, so any program you want becomes instantly portable. Pack an entire application into one single .EXE and take it with you anywhere without having to reinstall it every time. Size: 5.2MB. Win XP/Vista/7.
• Auto PC Logon  Luxand Blink! Login to Your PC by Simply Looking! Logging into Windows has never been easier! Just look into a webcam for a moment, and you’ll be logged into your account before you notice. Blink! employs advanced face recognition technologies to provide automatic, quick and reliable login to one or many computer users. Size: 8.3 MB. Win Vista/7.
• Automation-Macro  AutoHotKey will automate almost anything by sending keystrokes and mouse clicks. You can write a mouse or keyboard macro by hand or use the macro recorder. Create hotkeys for keyboard, joystick, and mouse. Virtually any key, button, or combination can become a hotkey. Expand abbreviations as you type them. For example, typing "btw" can automatically produce "by the way". Create custom data-entry forms, user interfaces, and menu bars. Remap keys and buttons on your keyboard, joystick, and mouse. Respond to signals from hand-held remote controls via the WinLIRC client script. Run existing AutoIt v2 scripts and enhance them with new capabilities. Convert any script into an EXE file that can be run on computers that don't have AutoHotkey installed. Change the volume, mute, and other settings of any soundcard. Make any window transparent, always-on-top, or alter its shape. Use a joystick or keyboard as a mouse. Monitor your system. For example, close unwanted windows the moment they appear. Retrieve and change the clipboard's contents, including file names copied from an Explorer window. Disable or override Windows' own shortcut keys such as Win+E and Win+R. Alleviate RSI with substitutes for Alt-Tab (using keys, mouse wheel, or buttons). Customize the tray icon menu with your own icon, tooltip, menu items, and submenus. Display dialog boxes, tooltips, balloon tips, and popup menus to interact with the user. Perform scripted actions in response to system shutdown or logoff. Detect how long the user has been idle. For example, run CPU intensive tasks only when the user is away. Automate game actions by detecting images and pixel colors. Read, write, and parse text files more easily than in other languages. Perform operation(s) upon a set of files that match a wildcard pattern. Work with the registry and INI files. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/7.
• Automation-Macro  AutoIt is a freeware BASIC-like scripting language designed for automating the Windows GUI and general scripting. It uses a combination of simulated keystrokes, mouse movement and window/control manipulation in order to automate tasks in a way not possible or reliable with other languages (e.g. VBScript and SendKeys). AutoIt is also very small, self-contained and will run on all versions of Windows out-of-the-box with no annoying "runtimes" required! Scripts can be compiled into stand-alone executables with Aut2Exe. Also supplied is a combined COM and DLL version of AutoIt called AutoItX that allows you to add the unique features of AutoIt to your own favorite scripting or programming languages. Easy to learn BASIC-like syntax. Simulate keystrokes and mouse movements. Manipulate windows and processes. Interact with all standard windows controls. Scripts can be compiled into standalone executables. Create Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs). COM support. Regular expressions. Directly call external DLL and Windows API functions. Scriptable RunAs functions. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008.
• Automation-Modules  Action(s) is a java based app that lets you build workflows that accomplish manual chores quickly, efficiently, and effortlessly. You don’t have to know any scripting languages or write any code unlike AutoIt nor is it a macro recorder like AutoHotKey. Instead, you create and execute automation “workflows” (or modules) simply by dragging and dropping each individual step of a process. Action(s) comes with dozens of prebuilt actions you can use to populate your workflows and more are being added with updates. Requires Java SE 6 or later. Win XP/Vista/7.
• Automation-Script  Sikuli is a visual technology to search and automate graphical user interfaces (GUI) using images (screenshots). The first release of Sikuli contains Sikuli Script, a visual scripting API for Jython, and Sikuli IDE, an integrated development environment for writing visual scripts with screenshots easily. Sikuli Script automates anything you see on the screen without internal API's support. You can programmatically control a web page, a desktop application running on Windows/Linux/Mac OS X, or even an iPhone application running in an emulator. Win XP/Vista/2008.  DemoA short demonstration of the program.
• Automation-Text  Texter Text substitution application, Texter saves you countless keystrokes by replacing abbreviations with commonly used phrases you define. Addresses, email, html code, clipboard, just about anything. Runs in the system tray and works on anything you can type text in. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/7.  DemoA short demonstration of the program created with Screen2exe.
• Blue Tooth  BluetoothView Monitor the activity of Bluetooth devices around you, and notifies you when a new device is detected. Win XP/Vista/7.
• Clipboard Manager + AutoText  OrangeNote is a text clipping manager for Windows that allows you to store an unlimited number of fully-indexed and taggable text clippings in its database and pull them up at any time with a quick full-text search. You can assign clippings custom hotkeys and paste them into any running program, so commonly-typed things become as quick as a single keystroke. OrangeNote works great as a text backup utility, too. For example, if you’re writing out a lengthy reply or post to a web page and want to make sure you don’t accidentally lose what you’ve written, just copy it to the clipboard. Each time you copy, a new note will be created so you can never accidentally “copy over” the text on the clipboard. This great program can replace PhraseExpress, Quotepad, and clipboard managers. Requires .NET 3. Size: 2.8MB. Win XP/Vista/7.
• Clipboard Manager  Ethervane Echo is a clipboard manager that sorts clipboard entries into tabs for easier access. Start Echo and it will begin capturing clips. Press Win+Insert (configurable) to bring up the main window. Scroll or find a clip, then press Enter to paste it into the active application window. A search is provided for finding clipboard entries. Clips are automatically sorted by date, with options to change the sorting order to alphabetical, application, use count, length or ID. The right-click menu offers to copy, paste and delete clips, and editing options. All information are stored in it's own database in the program folder. The program creates the database automatically on first run. The database is cleaned up ever 30 days by default, with options to change the frequency of the cleanup in the program preferences. It is even possible to keep the database in memory all the time and not on the computer’s hard drive. You can paste multiple clipboard entries at the same time into the active application window, integrate a spell checker (a download is available at the site.) Only captures text. Fully Unicode-enabled. Portable version. Size: 10.4MB. Win XP/Vista/7. 32/64bit.
• Clock  Vector Clock is a fully scalable collection of 10 attractive desktop alarm clocks. The setup program gives you a portable install option. There is even a Functional Desktop Alarm Clock designer software on the site (Vector Clock Designer) which you can design your own with an easy and expert mode. Size: 11.4MB. Win 2k/XP/Vista/7.
• Clock  Alarm Very nice digital alarm clock that displays a message of your choosing and plays the sound or music you assign. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/7.
• Clock Countdown  AleJenJesTimer Excellent countdown timer. Last Freeware. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/7.
• Clock Stopwatch  PC Chrono is a countdown timer capable of .mp3, .ogg or .wav file playback on completion. S1 S3 (suspend to RAM) S4 (hibernate) resume is supported; stopwatch; 12/24 hour clock; customizable voice notifications for all modes (timer, stopwatch and clock), and portable. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/7.
• Close Running Programs  SmartClose is a free program that will automate the process of closing all running programs. It can also save the state of the system to a system snapshot, so all the programs that have been closed can be easily restarted later by SmartClose. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/7.
• Computer Troubleshooter  Fixit Center To setup Microsoft Fix it Center (beta) go to their website and click the Try It button. Fix it center will install a number of troubleshooters based on your PC configuration but to tap into the full power of the product you need to setup an online account. Then you will not only have access to a full range of troubleshooters but access to other support resources as well such as the Microsoft knowledge database. Click the Fix-it Center icon installed on your desktop, select the broad area where you are having problems and the appropriate troubleshooter will be launched which will step you through the problem detection and correction procedure.
• Control Multiple Computers  Input Director is a Windows application that lets you control multiple Windows systems using the keyboard/mouse attached to one computer. It is designed for folks who have two (or more) computers next to each other and find themselves regularly switching from one system to the other. With Input Director, you can share a single keyboard/mouse across a set of systems. You switch which system receives the input either by hotkey or by moving the cursor so that it transitions from one screen to the other (in a very similar fashion to a multi-monitor setup). The idea being that you can position the monitors from two or more systems in a row and use a shared keyboard/mouse to control all of them. The systems must be networked. Win 2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008/7. 32/64bit.
• Copy Anything  SysExporter Copy the data you can't normally highlight and copy stored in standard list-views, tree-views, list boxes, combo boxes, text-boxes, and WebBrowser/HTML controls from almost any application running on your system, and export it to text, HTML or XML file. Portable. Win 98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/7.
• Desktop  Desk Topmost will transparently float the desktop on the top of open Windows instead of minimizing all the windows as the Windows Show Desktop feature works. The application uses CTRL+ALT+D as the default keys to float the desktop but you can change this, as well as transparency levels, from the configuration dialog. Size: 505KB. Win XP/Vista/7.
• DeskTop Luminance  F.lux makes the color of your computer's display adapt to the time of day, warm at night and like sunlight during the day. Win XP/Vista/7.
• DeskTop Utility  Pitaschio includes a large number of useful Windows functions. Snap a window to other windows when moving and resizing, Restrict a window position to inside of the screen, Always keep a window above all other windows, Minimize a window to the system tray, Use small icons in the desktop, Disable Windows key, Insert key, Alt key etc., Lock the mouse or keyboard while cleaning them, Take statistics about mouse and keyboard, Calculate Moon's age, Control the sound volume using the mouse wheel, and Display the sound volume level on the screen. Win 2000/2003/XP/Vista/7.
• DeskTop Icons  Fences is a one-of-a-kind program, allowing you to draw labeled shaded areas on your desktop, which become movable and resizable containers for your desktop icons. These groups can help bring organization and consistency to your computer's desktop, solving the constant mess problem that has plagued the desktop since its inception. Fences also helps you finally appreciate the wallpaper you have hiding behind all that clutter. In addition to its organizing features, Fences offers a novel quick-hide feature. Double click your desktop, and all your icons will fade out. Double click again, and they'll return. Size: 6.31m. Requires .Net 2.0 for XP. Win XP/Vista/2008/7.  DemoA short demonstration of the program created with Screen2exe.
• DeskTop Icons  Auto Hide Desktop Icons is a portable lightweight single executable file. If you use desktop backgrounds, it helps you to see the wallpapers clean and in full bloom. It has an automatic hiding and showing feature of the desktop icons, an adjustable timer and arbitrary activation options. As an optional feature: you can also activate the Auto Hide and Show the Task Bar feature. Excellent little utility. Size: 37KB. Win 98 - 7.
• DeskTop Icons  Iconoid will save and Restore Icon positions for each (or every) screen resolution and more. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/7.
• DeskTop Icons  DesktopOK is a small but effective solution for users who wish to save and restore the positions of icons for various screen resolutions. Minimizes to tray area for easy access. Portable. Size: 37.5KB Win 98/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista/7.
• DeskTop Virtual  VirtuaWin is a virtual desktop manager for the Windows operating system (Win9x/ME/NT/Win2K/XP/Win2003/Vista/Win7). A virtual desktop manager lets you organize applications over several virtual desktops (also called 'workspaces'). Virtual desktops are very common in Unix/Linux, and once you get accustomed to using them, they become an essential part of a productive workflow. VirtuaWin is designed to be simple and elegant to use yet still be highly configurable and extensible.
• DeskTop Virtual  DexpotVirtualDesktop you may have separate virtual desktops for different applications. One desktop might feature applications for graphic design, for example, and another might feature your business applications. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/7.
• DeskTop Virtual  WindowsPager is a desktop switcher for Windows Vista/XP/2000 to manage four virtual desktops. Four mini-desktops run on the task bar, which each represents a separate desktop. It does not create saved virtual desktops, but provides blanks for your use each time you run it. Handy for extensive multi-tasking. Portable no-install. Win NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/7.
• Diary  Efficient Diary is an easy to use personal diary that comes with all the features you need to maintain a daily diary of events or ideas. It offers a modern interface and full support for rich text editing as well as emoticons, tables, links, images and attachments. Your entries are automatically categorizes by date and can be viewed in a table or card view. The content of the diary is stored encrypted and password protected so that your personal thoughts are secure from unauthorized viewing. Other features include a customizable interface, export to RTF or text format, content groups and more. Win 98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/7.
• eBay  Prospector Save and organize an unlimited number of searches. Automatic searches with email notification. Win 98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• eBay  AuctionSieveFind the real bargains on eBay and target the auctions you are really interested in. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/7.
• Google Maps  Google Map Saver interfaces with Google maps and offers larger maps which you can set the resolution and save or print in various formats. It has all of the scroll, zoom, and type of map features that Google’s interface has. It also lists the coordinates of the location which you enter. It downloads as a stand alone portable executable, no install. Size: 432 KB. Win XP/2000/Vista/7. Size: 432 KB. Win XP/2000/Vista/7.
• GPS  EasyGPS Transfer waypoints, routes, and tracks between your computer and your GPS. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/7.
• GPS  TrackMaker The most complete free program for GPS devices! Create your own maps, support for vector maps and images, and Vehicle Tracking and AVL. Win 98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/7.
• GPS Map  USAPhotoMaps Downloads USGS aerial photo and topo map data from Microsoft's free TerraServer Web site, saves it on your hard drive, and creates maps with GPS accuracy. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/7.
• GPS Map  OkMap will Calibrate raster maps with different types of cartographic projections. Create own digital maps drawing point, multipoint, polyline and polygon. Display simultaneously raster and vectorial maps. Import vectorial data with different types of cartographic projections. Use raster and vectorial maps as background for navigation. Create and manage waypoints, routes and tracks in GPX format. Use digital terrain models to display the elevation. Upload and download data to and from a GPS device. Navigate in real time with a GPS device through NMEA protocol. Display Google Earth and Google Maps in current map location. Exchange data with Google Earth and view your map in 3D. Find nearby cache in Geocaching.com web site. Exchange data with GpsGate.com server. Receive customized navigation data from remote GPS devices. Send the current position to an OkMap remote server. Make conversions between different types of coordinates, datum, formats, etc.. Use a handy calculator for your calculations. Upload/download through GpsBabel: Garmin and Magellan, NMEA navigation: all GPS devices that support Nmea protocol. Many other things… Microsoft Windows XP or higher.
• GPS Tools  GPS Tools for Geocoding using Google Maps, Geocoding using Yahoo Maps, Reverse geocoding using Google Maps, Toolbox for POI files, and Calculation of distances, bearings between POIs. Win 98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/7.
• Hearing Loss  Ear Test Designed to give you a quick test of your ear's capabilities to hear all frequencies of the audible spectrum, separately for each ear. You can measure with good accuracy up to which frequency you can hear and compare your result with those of your friends and family. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/7.
• Java  JavaRa Updates Sun Java and/or removes old java files or Java installs which Sun Java leaves behind. Portable. Size: 1MB. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/7.
• Kill Hung Process  SuperF4 kills the currently selected program when you press Ctrl+Alt+F4. This is different from when you press Alt+F4. Alt+F4 only asks the currently selected program to exit, allowing it to decide for itself if it really want to. You can also kill a process by pressing [the windows key]+F4 and then clicking the window with your mouse. Note that the mouse cursor does not change to reflect that SuperF4 is in this mode. You can press escape or the right mouse button to exit this mode without killing a program. SuperF4 should be able to kill all kinds of processes, whether they are hung or not. Beware though, SuperF4 effectively kills the program and doesn't give it a chance to save unsaved work. Portable Mode. Size: 15 KB. Win All.
• Launcher  Executor is a multi purpose launcher and a more advanced and customizable version of windows run. Keywords have properties like shortcuts, and you can for example drag-drop a shortcut/file/folder/favorite to add it as a keyword. Auto-completion for keywords, file system and history. URL detection. Keywords support parameters. There are many additional features that make this program BearWare's choice for this category. Portable. Size: 1.5MB. Win XP/Vista/7.
• Launcher  PStart Start menu program for portable devices and every day computer use. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/7.
• Launcher  MadAppLauncher is a simple application launcher. Group applications, folders, scripts, etc. with ease. It supports drag and drop and manual editing. There is no need to remember all those hot keys, just activate the application launcher, press one number key to select a tab(group) and another key(letter/symbol) to launch the corresponding application. Assign 30 programs for each of the 10 tab pages. A total of 300 per configuration. Press a key to find a program, 0-9 to activate tabs and the corresponding letter/symbol to launch a program. Organize better by assigning a configuration file to a button - effectively creating a cascading set of programs. Auto activate tabs on mouse over. Size: 103KB. Win XP/2000/Vista/2008/7. 32/64bit.
• Magnifyer  VirtualMagnifyingGlass Full-featured screen magnifying glass that allows you to zoom in on an area of the screen for better readability. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/7.
• Memory Manager  CleanMem Frees up RAM memory. It doesn't run as a service. It uses the Windows task scheduler to run every 30 minutes by default, frees up memory and closes. Excellent utility. Win 2000/2003/XP/Vista/7.
• Memory Manager  Minimem Initially developed for Firefox only, Minimem now can reduce the memory footprint of any application. It runs in the background and can be set up to optimize as many processes as you'd like, using a very intuitive graphical interface. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Mouse Gesture  StrokesPlus is a lightweight mouse gesture recognition software with an incredible amount of options. Minimizes itself automatically on program start. A right-click on the system tray icon displays some of the most important program options. This includes enabling or disabling mouse gestures, running a test mode to draw gestures on the screen without executing the command, changing the button that initiates the command, and links to program preferences, configured actions and the program’s ignore list. Each action consists of the initial action button, the gesture itself and optional mouse or keyboard modifiers. New actions can be created globally or for a specific application. Portable. Size: 1.21MB. Win XP/Vista/7. 32/64bit.
• Mouse Scroll  KatMouse is to enhance the functionality of mice with a scroll wheel, offering 'universal' scrolling: moving the mouse wheel will scroll the window directly beneath the mouse cursor (not the one with the keyboard focus, which is default on Windows OSes). This is a major increase in the usefulness of the mouse wheel. Another feature involves the wheel button. Since the wheel button is not consistently used in Windows, KatMouse can use it for a kind of task switching: with a click of the wheel button you can push a window to the bottom of the stack of windows that is your desktop, making a recovered window the active window. Size: 334KB. Win NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Network Activity Monitor  Network Activity Indicator Windows 7 no longer includes the network activity monitor that displays the old 'two monitors' icon that flashed blue to show network activity on the System Tray. It indicates outgoing and incoming network packets on all available interfaces. Network Activity Indicator utility is a standalone executable which displays a system tray icon with which you can monitor your network traffic in Windows 7 using XP-like 'two monitors' icon on the System Tray. To customize program settings right click the mouse on the System Tray icon. Portable. Size: 338KB. Win 7. 32/64bit.
• Optimizer  Toolwiz Care is a free tool kit designed to speed up your slow PC. With multi-functional optimization suite, this Windows system optimizer provides a collection of tools which includes a one click System Checkup, System Cleanup, System Speedup, and 40+ powerful tools to enhance your PC performance, local and network security, and optimize the start-up procedure. File and history cleaner, registry cleaner and defrag, system defrag and frag prevention, System Information and optimizer, boot report, startup optimizer, game booster, password generator, undelete and much more. Win XP/Vista/7/8. 32/64bit.
• Optimizer XP/Vista/7  RefreshPC will reset your PC's settings safely and easily. RefreshPC is a utility to return select registry settings and all Windows services to their default state. RefreshPC can fix many problems with your computer. It is a very easy to use and safe utility for fixing misconfigurations in your services and in the registry itself. Reduce errors in the Event Viewer. Fix service misconfigurations that may be causing problems including slow boots. Clean your temporary folders. Reset key registry entries back to their default values. During install, opt out for Bing search bar, setting homepage to Bing, and Bing as default search provider. It also adds a link on your desktop to Get Vista Smoker Pro Free. Delete it. Size: 1MB. Automatically detects Win XP/Vista/7. 32/64bit.
• Optimizer Win7  GIGATweaker is a free powerful and compact tool that allows you to optimize and tweak your Windows 7. It works with both 32 bit and 64 bit versions of Windows 7 and can be used as a portable application. GIGATweaker is completely portable and lightweight tool with built-in Startup Manager and UnInstall Manager. All changes made by GIGATweaker in the system are transparent through informative console. Size: 1.2MB. Windows 7.
• Optimizer Vista/7  FixWin can fix common Windows problems in a single click. Over 50 issues – such as a missing Recycle Bin are covered, and although it is designed for Windows 7 and Vista, many fixes work in XP too. FixWin detects whether you have Windows 7 or Windows Vista installed and accordingly offers you the relevant fixes only. While there are several tutorials already available on the Internet to deal with such annoyances, FixWin as a single utility was conceptualized, to fix some of the common annoyances which may be faced by a Windows user. Portable. Win XP/Vista/7.
• Optimizer Vista/7  Ultimate Windows Tweaker For those of you that remember and loved the TweakUI utility from Microsoft, Ultimate Windows Tweaker is a freeware tool that takes the concept of the old TweakUI and supercharges it for Windows Vista and 7. You can tweak hundreds of settings and variables—system tray icons, the menu pop-up speed, security settings for the control panel, and a lot of other things you can't normally get to. It's a 380 KB, stand-alone portable application. Win Vista/7.
• Optimizer Vista/7  TweakVI The first software designed to both tweak and optimize Windows Vista/7.
• Optimizer Services  Vista/7 Services Optimizer Tweak your Windows services in an easy, automatic and safe way based on how you use your computer without requiring any technical knowledge. Have the power to control Windows services in an easy, safe and advanced way without getting involved with Windows services names and dependencies. Diagnose and fix Windows services and inspect your system performance and security status according to your current Windows services configurations. Create, apply and preview Services Profiles which help saving you a lot of time when dealing with multiple users and computers. Smart Rescue Center can restore default Windows services configurations in case of any problems using Services Snapshots. Portable Version. Win Vista/7.
• Optimizer XP  FreshUI (xp) Loaded with hundreds of useful settings to configure and optimize WindowsXP. (Now has to be registered, but still free.)
• Optimizer XP  X-Setup (xp) knows more than 1,600 tweaking settings for XP. (Last freeware version download from my website.)
• Optimizer XP  HiddenUtilitiesXP (xp) Access to nearly 100 hidden utilities that are not easily accessible to the average XP user.
• PC Performance Analyzer  PerfView is a performance-analysis tool from Microsoft that helps isolate CPU- and memory-related performance issues. Portable single executable. Size: 14.9MB. Win Vista/2008/7.
• Port Forwarding  Simple Port Forwarding is freeware that works with Web pages and not directly with your router; it’s no different than using Firefox, IE, or any other browser to set up port forwarding yourself. The program works by automating the process for you, so whether you don’t understand how to forward ports or you’re simply looking for an easier way to forward ports, then this program is for you. It’s port forwarding made simple! Win 98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/7.
• Portable Creator  RegistryRapper Copies installed programs setting and uses them to make a Portable program. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/7.
• Portable Creator  X-Launcher Enable almost every application to be used from a removable drive. X-Launcher can be easily recompiled to generate personalized launchers for each application. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/7.
• Prevent Sleep  Don't Sleep is a small portable program to prevent system shutdown, Standby, Hibernate, Turn Off and Restart. Especially when old Programs run on Windows-7 or Windows Vista. Here's more aggressive power-saving features with new rules. But not only that, it also prevents login off the computer, and the deactivation of the monitor or activation of the screen saver. Of course you can also manually disable all the options and then activate again, but with Don't Sleep one can save now many hand moves and also save time! And it's easier than ever. Don't Sleep has a timer that allows time control unblock, or shutdown the computer for a specified time. Runs in the system tray with nice options. Portable. Size: 24 KB. Win 98/2000/2003/2005/XP/Vista/7 32/64bit/.
• Process Manager  Process Lasso Automated process management adjusting the allocation of CPU cycles so that system responsiveness is improved in high-load situations. This is also the program that will tell you what's running when you see activity on your hard drive and want to know what it is. Simply go to the active processes tab and your questions will be answered. It also logs all processes that ran or you can adjust the number of recent processes that ran to show. Right click the tray icon to quickly set gaming mode. Win 2000/2003/XP/Vista/7.
• Program Updater  Software Informer runs in the tray if you desire and notifies you of updates available for programs installed on your computer and provides links. Right click the start button or right click the icon in the tray, and you get a nice launch pad. The launchpad includes a search function, and shows the quick launch icons you have on your task bar and goes away on it's own when you move away from it. As a bonus, it reveals a huge database of programs shared by other users and ordered by most popular and gives you a lot of peer information on them. They are clearly labeled free, shareware, payware etc. This is informative to browse through. I found some very interesting programs doing so. Size: 3.4MB. Windows XP, Vista, and 7.
• Program Updater  Update Notifier is a small utility that scans your computer for installed software and displays a list of updates. Also you can see the latest updates for applications from your Watch List. Portable no installation needed. Win 2000/2003/XP/Vista/7.
• Quick Send  Click.to enables you to send highlighted text, images, videos etc. quickly to a web or program destination. Click.to can be combined with every possible program. Separate applications are easy to implement yourself. You don't need any programming skills. Text, images, videos, and other documents which are selected can be sent to other applications with a single click. The programs can handle the selections automatically. Click.to basically transforms everything in your computer into a hyperlink. Just Copy (CTRL+C) and click.to the destination. When you add your own destination program, you must add an argument (Arguments: [Text] [TextURL] [ContentAsFile] [Files;] [Files,] [FilesLines] [ImageFile]). Size: 3MB. Win XP/Vista/7/8.
• Screen Marker  ScreenMarker Draw on Windows with different size pen and color. Win 98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/7.  DemoA short demonstration of the program created with Screen2exe.
• Screen Mask  Zorro is a utility to completely blank the screen except for a rectangular area selected by the user. This is especially useful for watching videos on your computer without being distracted by other programs. Also Portable. Win 98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/7.
• Search Assistant  GGSearch is a handy tool for people who are spending lots of time searching the various newsgroups posts, images, links, Uncle Sam, Linux, news, Bsd, Microsoft, answers, stocks, viewer, web quotes, froogle, directory's, and many more options in Google. It runs in the system tray, and left clicking the tray icon brings up the search window. Once a search is entered, it opens your web browser for the results. Searches are customizable. Right clicking the tray icon brings up even more options. This software is not a product of Google nor is it related to Google. The application only makes use of some of Google’s goodies. You can extract the app folder using Universal Extractor rather than running the installer to get a portable version. Size: 336KB. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/Vista /7.
• Services Manager  SrvMan is a small tool that simplifies all common tasks related to Windows services. It can create services (both Win32 and Legacy Driver) without restarting Windows, delete existing services and change service configuration. It has both GUI and Command-line modes. It can also be used to run arbitrary Win32 applications as services (when such service is stopped, main application window is closed automatically). Size 360 KB. Win All both x86 and x64 systems.
• Shortcup Keys  Shortcut Key Explorer helps you manage the list of shortcut keys you have loaded on your computer. Simply run Shortcut Key Explorer and it will automatically load the existing shortcut keys and display them in an easy to read list. From this list you can double-click on any item and edit the properties of the Windows shortcut. This is great for troubleshooting duplicate shortcut keys or shortcut keys you did not even know existed. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/7.
• Shutdown Computer  Shutter is a multifunctional shutdown utility, which has a user friendly and easy-to-use interface and supports many different Events and Actions. Events: Countdown, On Time, Winamp Stops, Low CPU Usage, User Inactive, Battery Low, Window Closes, Process Stops, Ping Stops, File Size Limit; Actions: Shutdown, Reboot, Log off, Lock Workstation, Sleep, Hibernate, Monitor Turn Off, Mute/Un-Mute Master Volume, Hang Up, Alarm; Also, it is able to play a custom sound and/or run a program of your choice, in addition to the simple shutdown message. Optionally, Shell Links can be created to immediately execute any of the supported actions from the desktop. Web Interface - allows Remote Execution of any Action, it also displays some run-time information about the computer: Logged In User, Up Time, List of Processes, Screenshot of a Desktop, plus Command Line Execution. Win 98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/7.
• Shutdown Manager  System Silencer Run System Silencer and when you're away your computer's monitor can turn itself off, the sound will be muted and you can even choose to hide your taskbar and desktop icons! Of course, you can skip all the hiding and just configure System Silencer to lock your computer while you're away. Additional options allow you to kill a process and run a program or file, if you have anything specific you'd like to hide or show while you're "afk". Size: 525KB. Win XP/Vista/7.
• Startup Delay  Startup Delayer allows you to configure which programs to start first and which ones to delay when your computer is rebooted. You can set a custom delay for each one, even drag the visual display graph which shows you exactly how your programs are starting and allows you to easily modify the order or adjust delay times. Win 98/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/7.
• Startup Manager  AutoRuns Most comprehensive knowledge of auto-starting locations of any startup monitor. Win XP/Vista/7.
• Startup Manager  WhatInStartup displays the list of all applications that are loaded automatically when Windows starts up. For each application, the following information is displayed: Startup Type (Registry/Startup Folder), Command-Line String, Product Name, File Version, Company Name, Location in the Registry or file system, and more. It allows you to easily disable or delete unwanted programs that run in your Windows startup. You can use it on your currently running instance of Windows, as well as you can use it on external instance of Windows in another drive. WhatInStartup also supports a special "Permanent Disabling" feature - If a program that you previously disabled added itself again to the startup list of Windows, WhatInStartup will automatically detect the change and disable it again. Portable. Size: 73KB. Win 2000 thru 7.
• Sticky Note  Stickies Can be attached to a web site, document or folder so they only show when it's on screen. Stores all information in a single ini file and does not write to the registry. Win 98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/7.
• System Manager  System Nucleus is a powerful tool for viewing, editing and managing system resources and settings, consolidating functionality that normally requires numerous tools into a single interface designed to make these tasks easier than ever. An emphasis has been placed on batch processing, filtering, and easy visual identification of items using distinctive icons. Portable Version. Size: 3.5 MB. Win XP/2003/Vista/7.
• System Information  WinAudit reports on virtually every aspect of computer inventory and configuration. Results are displayed in web-page format, categorized for ease of viewing and text searching. Whether your interest is in software compliance, hardware inventory, technical support, security or just plain curiosity, WinAudit has it all. The program has advanced features such as service tag detection, hard-drive failure diagnosis, network port to process mapping, network connection speed, system availability statistics as well as Windows update and firewall settings. Also for Commercial use. Portable. Size: 865KB. Win PE/95/98/Me/NT3.51/NT4/2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008/7. 32/64bit.
• System Information and repair  Tweaking.com A collection of programs by Tweaking.com to repair/restore various important functions of Windows. Programs are: Windows Repair (All In One), System Information Tool, Reset Registry Permissions, Reset File Permissions, Register System Files, Repair WMI, Repair Windows Firewall, Repair Internet Explorer, Repair MDAC & MS Jet, Repair Hosts File, Remove Policies Set By Infections, Repair Icons, Repair Winsock & DNS Cache, Remove Temp Files, Repair Proxy Settings, Unhide Non System Files, Repair Windows Updates, Auto Assign Drive Letters, Disable or Enable Data Execution Prevention (DEP), Disk Error Checking at Next Boot, Kill Frozen Programs, Simple Performance Boost, Repair CD/DVD Missing/Not Working, and Repair Volume Shadow Copy Service.
• System Scheduler  System Scheduler is an alternative to the Windows Task Scheduler, with more features and flexibility. It is a Scheduler to run applications, popup reminders and other useful tasks. Various scheduling options and ability to send keypresses to applications make this a really useful tool. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/7.
• System Scheduler  Z-Cron Execute tasks on your PC automatically and time-triggered, central control center for automation and scheduling of software. Win NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Task Bar  7stacks is a free utility for Windows that lets you create stacks just like on the Mac. It's the perfect way to reduce icon clutter on your Windows 7 taskbar, by combining groups of applications into a single icon. You also have a variety of different appearances and options to customize exactly how you want your stacks to look. Size: 2806KB. Win XP/Vista/7.
• Text  PureText Very small tray program that allows you to easily paste text to any application without the formatting. Win NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Time Display  Titlebar Date-Time displays the date and/or time on the right hand side of the titlebar of whatever program is active. I used Universal Extractor to decompile the setup program and the apps folder is all you need for a nice portable application that applies the day, date, and time in the title bar of any window you have active. Size: 212 KB. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Time Sync  Neutron Time synchronizing program that retrieves the accurate time from one of several specialized time servers on the Internet. Once the network time has been retrieved the program can set your computer's clock to match it. When you start the program, it will sync your computer time, then exit thereby no longer utilizing system resources. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Time Stopper  RunAsDate is a small utility that allows you to run a program in the date and time that you specify. This utility doesn't change the current system date and time of your computer, but it only injects the date/time that you specify into the desired application. You can run multiple applications simultaneously, each application works with different date and time, while the real date/time of your system continues to run normally. Some people use this to stop time trial software from timing out though this is not recommended. There are other uses for it. Portable. Win 2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Travel Guide  Schmap Dynamic travel guide that allows you to download interactive city maps that contain virtual tours with photos, city search, trip planning features and more. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Tray  TrayIt! Removes applications from the task bar and puts them in the system tray. Win 98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• [Utility] Tray Notify Cleanup  Notification Area Cleaner When you uninstall programs, change locations or remove portable programs from your computer, your past notification icons in Win 7 retain these old entries. If you would like to clean these up use the following procedure. Notification Area Cleaner allows you to remove obsolete notification area icons in Windows 7 (i.e. icons for programs that are no longer installed) which appear in the list icons for which you can change the notification area behavior. To remove the notification area icon cache just run the executable and click the Clean button. Running this tool will basically reset all your notification area icons and keep only your active ones. To manually clean up the past notification area icons in your system tray perform a registry search (always backup your registry) for the "TrayNotify" folder that contains the "IconStreams" and "PasteIconsStream" entries and delete both. Now hit Ctrl +Alt + Del to open Task Manager and kill "explorer.exe" process (your entire taskbar will dissappear). In Task Manager click "File > New Task (Run...) " and enter "explorer.exe" and click OK to start explorer.exe again. You Task bar will re-appear and all past icons have now been removed. This is exactly what this program does. Portable. Size: 57KB. Win 7. 32/64bit.
• Unit Converter  Convert is a free and easy to use unit conversion program that will convert the most popular units of distance, temperature, volume, time, speed, mass, power, density, pressure, energy and many others, including the ability to create custom conversions! For some conversions that you may never use, you can hide them to simplify the unit listings. A restart of Convert will bring you to the last conversion you entered. Portable. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• USB Ejector  ProEject is an easy to use application which allows you to safely dismount a removable drive by closing running applications and open windows, as well as clearing the registry and folders of any trace that the USB drive might have left behind. ProEject will remove traces of programs in the MRU (most recently used) sections of the Windows Registry, as well as entries created in the Ԓun on Startup key. As an addition ProEject also checks for shortcuts created in the SendTo, Recent, Quick Launch, Pinned (Windows 7 only!) and the Windows Firewall. Portable Stealth. Size: 900KB. Win XP/Vista/Win7.
• USB Autorun  AutoRun Maker Add autorun functionality to your USB drive or CD/DVD. Portable. Win 98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• USB Image  USB Image Tool Create images of USB memory sticks and MP3 players, that are mounted as USB drives. It allows you switch between images with different music styles on your MP3 Player or to make an exact backup image of your USB Stick. Portable. Requires .NET. Win XP/Vista/2008/7.
• USB Utility  Check Flash will test, manage and format your USB flash drive. You can also run a read-write cycle on your USB flash drive, which returns not only the speed but also any errors (read/write or physical) in your USB drive. The software does not rectify the problem but merely reports it. File Size: 812KB. Portable. Win 2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• USB Write Protector  USB WriteSHIELD Protector prevents write access to USB storage devices, such as a USB stick. Portable. Win XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Utilities  Glary Utilities is an all-in-one utility that offers numerous powerful and easy-to-use system tools and utilities to fix, speed up, maintain and protect your PC. Monitor the activity of Bluetooth devices around you, and notifies you when a new device is detected. I recommend the Portable download or the no tool bar download. Win XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Volume  Volume2 is an advanced Windows audio mixer, a complete replacement for the standard Volume Control. This application lets you easily change the sound volume just by rotating the mouse wheel or by using keyboard hot keys or just mouse move on screen border. It includes an audio mixer with advanced volume controls support, a scheduler, an on-screen display, command line support, the ability to store and recall different unlimited presets via one mouse click or system-wide hot keys. Size: 6.9KB. Win XP/Vista/7.
• Volume  Volumouse provides you a quick and easy way to control the sound volume on your system - simply by rolling the wheel of your wheel mouse. It allows you to define a set of rules for determining when the wheel will be used for changing the sound volume. For example: You can configure Volumouse to use your mouse wheel for volume control when the Alt key is hold down, when the left mouse button is down, when the mouse cursor is over the taskbar, and so on. When the conditions that you define are not satisfied, your mouse wheel will be used for the regular scrolling tasks, exactly as before. Portable mode. Size: 80 KB. Win 98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/7.
• Wallpaper Changer  Adolix Wallpaper Changer that supports many file types like JPG, GIF, PNG, and BMP. Our free wallpaper changer and sequencer has a simple and intuitive control panel to customize your desktop wallpaper conveniently. Win 98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Weather  WeatherWatcher Automatically retrieve the current conditions, hourly forecast, daily forecast, detailed forecast, severe weather alerts (US only), and worldwide weather maps. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Weather  WeatherPulse Popular Satellite images and video from around the globe, share images with your friends and family, stay updated on current and expected weather conditions. Win 98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Window Hider  ClickyGone is a window hider application. It is used to quickly hide windows on the desktop and the tabs on the task bar. Removing sensitive materials without closing programs or losing documents helps protect your privacy. A unique and very fast way to hide windows by clicking them. Also has a boss key feature that hides the active window and mutes the sound, a hide in system tray, Hide and Priority menu item in the applications system menu (Where it asks you to Close through the taskbar). Also Portable. Win 2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Window Revealer  Unhider Hide or find and unhide any hidden window usually caused by a crash of Windows Explorer. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Window Transparency  Peek Through is a freeware application for Windows 7, Vista & XP which makes the foreground window transparent with the press of Hot Keys. Peek Through lets you adjust the amount of transparency and choose the Hot Keys. You also have the ability to “click through” the transparent window onto the window beneath it. After selecting your settings, click the Activate button, the application will then be minimized to the system tray. You may minimize the program window to send it to the system tray, or close it to exit the program. Clicking the icon in the system tray will bring the window back up. Simply pressing the Hot Keys will enable the transparency and pressing them again will remove the transparency.