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.

Vista Battery Saver is easy to use. You have three main options to save battery power:

• Enable or disable Windows Aero Interface
• Enable or disable Windows Sidebar
• Choose which power plan Vista should use when running on battery and on AC power.

If you choose to disable Aero in Vista Battery Saver, Aero will run when your computer is running on AC power, but as soon as your computer starts running on battery power it will disable Aero. Sane applies for the Sidebar. This way you save battery power and you can use Vista’s nice features when using AC power.

Vista Battery Saver will run in the system tray without interrupting your work, it uses about 5.5MB of your computers system memory, a small sacrifice for better battery performance!

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What is KillBox?
KillBox is a tool to delete in-use files. If the file is running, KillBox will attempt to end the process (close the running file) and delete it. For more difficult files that have loaded .dll’s or are services, Delete on Reboot will use the native Windows function of deleting or replacing in-use files.

To run this utility simply extract the archive and run killbox.exe, type in or browse for the file/folder you want to delete and choose the type of deleting you want:

• Standard File Kill - this option will try to stop the file from running and then delete it
• Delete On Reboot - this option will delete the file before Windows has finished booting up
• Replace On Reboot - this option will replace the given file or folder with a file/folder you choose or with a dummy file

If you have problems deleting a file try ending the explorer shell while deleting

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CCleaner is a tool designed to reduce this effect 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!

CCleaner Review

Lets start with the developers description of CCleaner:

CCleaner is a freeware system optimization and privacy tool. It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history. But the best part is that it’s fast (normally taking less than a second to run) and contains NO Spyware or Adware!

Sounds good, right? Lets have a closer look on what CCleaner actually cleans:

Temp files and similar from the following applications:

• Internet Explorer
• Recycle Bin
• Clipboard
• Windows Temporary files
• Windows Log files
• Recent Documents (on the Start Menu)
• Run history (on the Start Menu)
• Windows XP Search Assistant history
• Windows XP old Prefetch data
• Windows memory dumps after crashes
• Chkdsk file fragments

Temporary files and recent file lists for the following applications:

• Firefox
• Opera
• Safari
• Media Player
• eMule
• Kazaa
• Google Toolbar
• Netscape
• Microsoft Office
• Nero
• Adobe Acrobat Reader
• WinRAR
• WinAce
• WinZip

and more…

You may also choose to clean:

• Menu Order cache
• Tray Notifications Cache
• Window Size and Location Cache
• User Assist history
• IIS Log Files
• Custom Folders

We do not recommend you choosing the last six them if you aren’t a advanced user
and know what you are doing.
What we think so far:

The list is long, but running CCleaner doesn’t take a lot of time. We have also experienced that we got more disc space to play with after deleting lots of temp files, if you have used your computer for
some time it isn’t unusual that CCleaner would delete several
gigabytes of crap. Remember to defrag your hard drive if this happens to you!
The registry cleaning:

CCleaner is designed from the ground to be safe and secure to use. It has
multiple levels of checks in place to ensure that it won’t delete any useful information or documents you may still need.

CCleaner is capable of cleaning the following entries from the registry:

• File Extensions
• ActiveX Controls
• ClassIDs
• ProgIDs
• Uninstallers
• Shared DLLs
• Fonts
• Help File references
• Application Paths
• Icons
• Invalid Shortcuts and more…

Our Conclusion:

We have been using CCleaner for several months now, and we think that CCleaner is getting better and better by every program update. Did we mention that CCleaner got a auto update function? There is a new CCleaner release every month so remember to update CCleaner!
Cleaner is fast in use as long as you choose just to delete files, but if you choose the safe file deletion it takes much longer time, but this is normal as the files are overwritten several times. For normal users we would recommend just using the normal deletions method, but if you want your temp files to really be deleted, then go ahead, use the secure file deletion.
The registry cleaner part of CCleaner is not the best registry cleaner out there, but it’s good enough for a normal Windows user. Remember that this piece of software is free! Available in 35 different languages.

Pros:

• Freeware
• Easy in use
• Fast
• Doesn’t delete needed files/entries

Cons:

• Not the best registry cleaner

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Cleaner (Crap Cleaner) is a freeware system optimization tool. That removes unused and temporary files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster, more efficiently and giving you more hard disk space. The best part is that it’s fast! (normally taking less that a second to run) and Free.

Whats the difference between CCleaner and CCleaner Portable?

CCleaner portable is not dependent on regsvr32.exe or regedit.exe as the normal version of CCleaner is.

You can save your CCleaner settings in a INI file called ccleaner.ini. This file is created the first time you run Portable CCleaner. This makes it possible to customize what CCleaner Portable should clean.

Here is my ccleaner.ini:

[Options]
UpdateKey=05/30/2008 03:27:52 PM
(App)Hotfix Uninstallers=True
(App)Old Prefetch data=True
(App)Desktop Shortcuts=True
(App)Start Menu Shortcuts=True
WINDOW_MAX=1
WINDOW_LEFT=330
WINDOW_TOP=272
WINDOW_WIDTH=620
WINDOW_HEIGHT=450

After you have made a INI file you could burn CCleaner to a CD, if you are just going to put CCleaner Portable on an external hard drive or memory stick you can just place CCleaner Portable on it without making the INI file first.

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Recuva (pronounced “recover”) is a freeware Windows utility to restore files that have been accidentally deleted from your computer. This includes files emptied from the Recycle bin as well as images and other files that have been deleted by user error from digital camera memory cards or MP3 players. It will even bring back files that have been deleted by bugs, crashes and viruses!

How does Recuva work?
When you first run Recuva you get a screen letting you choose what filetype(s) you would like to recover. I found this to be very practical because it makes Recuva only search for the needed files, and not all deleted files.

Then Recuva starts scanning for the filetype(s) you selected. Under is the result screen.

Now you will just have to select the files you would like to recover and let Recuva do its magic. Recuva does also include an auto updater so you will stay updated

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Description from Earth.Google.com:

Google Earth lets you fly anywhere on Earth to view satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings and even explore galaxies in the Sky. You can explore rich geographical content, save your toured places and share with others.

You can use Google Earth for:

• Planning a trip
• Getting driving directions
• Finding a house or apartment
• Finding a local business
• Exploring the world
• Playing with the flight simulator

The requirements to run Google Earth are:

• Operating System: XP, Mac OS X (10.3.9 +) or Linux
• CPU: Pentium 4 2.4GHz+ or AMD 2400xp+
• System Memory (RAM): 512MB
• Hard Disk: 2GB free space
• Network Speed: 768 Kbits/sec
• Graphics Card: 3D-capable with 32MB of VRAM
• Screen: 1280×1024, “32-bit True Color”

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To speed up the pulling rate you will have to follow these three simple steps:

1. Run this utility with admin rights (It’s recommended to restart into Safe Mode)
2. Run Mouserate Switcher and follow the on screen instructions
3. Restart Windows and you’re done!

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I do not take any responsibility for what this program do with your computer. If you have a USB headset or similar you should not use this tool. Same thing with scanners and printers. But it’s worth a try! Maybe you are lucky and it will work. You can always restore the usbport.sys file with this program. Its good to have a PS/2 in case your USB mouse doesn’t work after running this tool.

I have attached a little program called Mouse Rate Checker 1.1b. It measures and displays the sample rate of a computer mouse. This is shown in Hz, how often the mouse sends information to the computer per second. The standard rate of a PS/2 40Hz/60Hz, a USB mouse 125Hz.

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With RockXP 4.0 you can:

• Get all Microsoft Software Serials
• Change your XP key
• Save you XP activation
• Retrieve you internet connection parameters (like passwords)
• Retrieve MSN login and password
• Retrieve XP login and HASH password
• Display system password (LSA)
• Generate random password
• and more…

Here is a short video intro to RockXP:

NOTE: Some antivirus programs claim that RockXP is or contains a virus, this is just a false positive. The reason is that RockXP uses a open source software called Pwdump2.exe to retrieve passwords. Just ignore the warning, there is nothing wrong with RockXP.

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It will only be a pain if you are using Bittorrent as it’s make your computer only try to make 10 new connections at the time which will make the download slower if you are downloading a torrent with much seeds and lechers, like a Linux torrent, even your web browser and email client could be affected. So LvlLord decided to make a patch to solve this problem.

The patch replaces the default TCPIP.SYS file. How do I do all this? Well first thing you could do is to download the free patch . Then unzip the folder. Double click the EvID4226Patch.exe file and follow the instructions.

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Description from Dataproductservices.com/dpt, the author:

Dead Pixel Tester, with display tests. NEW VER 2.30 - TFT screens have thousands of pixels, on a 1024×768 monitor, there are three cells for each pixel - one each for red, green, and blue - which amounts to nearly 2.4 million cells (1024×768x 3 = 2,359,296). There’s only a slim chance that all of these will be perfect; more likely, some will be stuck on (creating a “bright” defect) or dead (resulting in a “dark” defect). DPT was written to help me check my own screens (Couldn’t find one that worked across multiple desktops so had to write my own!) by cycling through the three primary colours used (red,green,blue) and all on (white) and all off (black).

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