The computers operating system is an integral part of the personal computer. This is the basic “software” side of computing. Without it you cannot operate the programs that are installed in your laptop or PC. In other words, without the operating system your computer will just be a big paper weight. In the case of the Microsoft OS based PC, the operating system has indeed grown by leaps and bounds.

Vista Battery Saver is a free little utility made for saving battery power on your laptop.

This tinny program will save up to 70% of your battery by disabling those nice, but greedy Vista features. Running in task bar with private workset of 5.5M and 0% CPU it will do all work for you, by enabling and disabling customizable features when power source changed or battery power fall under certain percent.

Windows has a tendency to get a bit messy after time, resulting in slowdowns and software crashes. This is why there are so many registry cleaners out there, today I will have a look at the famous CCleaner which is a completely free tool designed to improve windows performance. CCleaner does this by deleting files that you don’t need and removing invalid entries in the registry. After running CCleaner you can expect to have a faster and more reliable computer, you’ll even get more disc space!

Mouserate Switcher is a program that lets you change your USB polling rate. The default rate is 125mhz, this means it takes 8ms until mouse reacts. With Mouserate Switcher you can change the polling rate up to 1000mhz (1ms), but remember that you will need a mouse that supports the given poling rate, to achieve this Mouserate Switcher patches the default usbport.sys. This article does also include a nice little utility to check the pulling rate.

Download RockXP4RockXP allows you to retrieve and change your XP product key that you used when you installed Windows. This can come very handy if you need to reinstall but have misplaced or lost the CD cover with the serial sticker. In addition, the program also lets you save the product activation to a file, enables you to recover usernames and passwords contained in the Windows Secure Storage, recover your Microsoft Windows Products keys and generate random passwords.

As you might now windows XP with SP2 got a limit of 10 TCP connect attempts at the same time. Microsoft said they made this restriction to prevent worms from spreading. But that is not really true. This restriction will not really prevent worms from spreading…