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.

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.

Format Factory is a free media files converter that allows you to easily convert your video, audio and image files to and from the most popular file formats. It also repairs damaged media files, reduces their size and supports file formats that are used by portable devices such as iPhone, iPod, PSP and BlackBerry. Format Factory also comes with a DVD ripper and has been translated to 50 different languages.

Powerresizer makes working with multiple windows extremely easy and lets you maximize your desktop space; even though some of its functionalities are built-in in Windows 7, it comes with additional features that make working with numerous windows much easier.

Download accelerators used to be all the rage back in the days of dialup, especially as many of them introduced features that browsers at the time simply couldn’t do, such as split part downloading and pausing of live downloads. Now the browser market has done some catching up and most people have good broadband connections, are download accelerators a thing of the past? Not if FlashGet has anything to say about it.

One of the best things about the internet and modern technology is that they’ve made music more accessible than ever. Many thousands of us have ripped all of our most precious albums to computer se we can enjoy them wherever we go. The trouble with doing this? Once you’ve got through the first 100 albums, you might notice file organisation is a problem. Poorly labelled tracks, missing artist names and misspelled albums can make searching difficult. Mp3tag can help.

On paper, it’s difficult to describe the point of Launchy.  We can tell you let it lets you launch your applications quickly, but without a more thorough explanation, that simply sounds like something Windows – especially the later versions – can already do. Launchy can be a very useful little application though, especially if you don’t like the way Microsoft uses the start bar and search functions.

FileZilla Server is an FTP server program. If you don’t know what an FTP server program is, it’s a utility that lets you use your computer as a file server, allowing other people to connect to you and download your files. If you do know what one is, than you owe it to yourself to take a look at FileZilla server, one of the best programs around for setting up and maintaining an FTP server.

Although VirtualDub’s own site admits that their software lacks the editing power of programs like Premiere, it’s still an excellent performer and one of the best options around if you’re looking to edit video, with its fast operation speed, third party support and batch processing abilities. At its most basic, VirtualDub is a program that designed to do quick and easy clean up and capture of digital video. We take a look to see just how it handles this often complex task.