Speccy is a free tool that will inspect your computer configuration and give you information about the CPU, the hard drive, the optical drives, the RAM, the graphic card and other components of your hardware, as well as the installed operating system. This is very useful if you need to update your drivers, find out if you can add more RAM or replace any of your RAM chips and see if your computer meets the minimum requirements for running certain program or a game; advanced users or computer technicians can get other useful information such as CPU temperature, bus speed, BIOS brand and version, DRAM Frequency, etc.

Free studio is software pack that allows you to work with media files and convert from one video and audio file format to another; you can use some of the included applications to also burn DVDs and music CDs, download YouTube videos, extract the sound from YouTube videos in mp3 format, watch and listen to video and audio files on portable devices such as iPhone, iPod, PSP, Blackeberry and perform other many operations. The pack has more than 20 different tools and applications, which are designed to make working with different media files much easier.

If you are looking for a way to speed-up your computer without adding any new hardware, removing the unwanted fonts should be one of the few steps that you may want to try – each installed program might add new fonts to your system and inevitably slowing it down. Finding and removing these fonts one by one is a tedious task and this is where FontFrenzy comes into the picture – it will show you all the fonts, currently installed on your machine, and help you safely remove and backup the ones that have been installed after your original Windows installation – this results in faster boot-up and better general performance of your computer.

If you want to install some of the best free Windows applications in a matter of minutes, then Ninite is all you need. It is an online “batch installer,” which allows the end user to get his or her hands on the latest versions of the most popular browsers, messengers, image editors, office tools, file sharing and other utilities. The process is quite simple and straightforward – you don’t need to register, create an account, or go through any other hoops – point, click, install and you are done. If you are thinking of upgrading to Windows 7 or just reformatted you hard drive, then Ninite can come in handy and save you a lot of time – with close to 60 applications in more than 10 categories, it will help you populate your computer with the latest freeware and shareware programs.

When it comes to media players that are feature-rich, easy to use, and conflict-free, KMPlayer is without a doubt one of the best. If all you want is to enjoy watching movies or listen to your audio files, you will most likely never have to change any of the default settings – simply run the player, open your files and enjoy. However, the more advanced users will find anything that they need as well – KMPlayer supports plugins, internal and external filters, various subtitles (including text to speech for reading subtitles), and most of the media file formats such as VCD, DVD, AVI, MKV, Ogg Theora, OGM, 3GP, MPEG-1/2/4, WMV, RealMedia, and QuickTime amongst others.

Miro is a cross-platform, open source software that provides you with a free high definition media player and video podcast manager. It allows you to search for video files on the most popular movie sharing sites, organize your local media files into libraries, subscribe to audio and video feeds, build playlists, and get access to legal torrents.

Virtual CloneDrive allows you to create up to eight virtual drives, which you can use just as your physical CD or DVD drives. This gives the option to open, browse and use compressed image files “on the fly,” without having to decompress them to your hard drive first. The supported image file formats are ISO, BIN, and CCD and they can reside on the hard drive or a network drive. The speed of this free application is quite impressive and Virtual CloneDrive is also extremely easy to use.

Winamp is by far one of the most popular media players, downloaded by millions of users Worldwide. It can playback all popular media file types, comes with built-in equalizer, the sound quality is good, can be expanded with the help of the countless plug-ins and allows you to easily save and organize your playlists. The latest release comes with portable device sync support, more language packs, support for classic and modern skins, iTunes library import and other exciting features.

If you want to find any files or emails on your hard drive, search the Web, add an extra level of security to your computer and get a number of free gadgets such as Calendar, Google Docs, Youtube and Gmail, News, Weather, then you would love Google Desktop. It brings you a lot of useful little applications, it is extremely easy to use, surprisingly lightweight and not to mention free.

If you want to download files of any kind: movies, music, video clips, documents, software, games and books, then Vuze is the tool that you need. With this based on the bittorent protocol application even the largest files can be downloaded in a matter of minutes, providing that you have fast Internet connection and there are enough people seeding them; this allows independent producers and musicians to share their work with millions of users Worldwide without having to spend huge amount of money on bandwidth and servers. It also lets the regular user share any of his files with all his online friends or the entire community.