K-Lite Codec Pack is a collection of codecs and related tools. Codec is short for Compressor-Decompressor. Codecs are needed for encoding and decoding (playing) audio and video. The K-Lite Codec Pack is designed as a user-friendly solution for playing all your movie files. With the K-Lite Codec Pack you should be able to play all the popular movie formats and even some rare formats.....(free).....

The Browser You Control - an extremely fast, customizable, lightweight web browser for the Win32 (Windows) platform based on the Gecko layout engine (the rendering engine of Mozilla). K-Meleon is free, open source software released under the GNU General Public License. .....(free).....

K9 is an email filtering application that learns from its mistakes and becomes better and better at being able to identify spam. More importantly it learns to recognize what you consider to be spam.....(free).....

Kaboodle is a freeware Internet app which provides: Complete visualization of your LAN, updated in near-real time. A "personal VPN" capability to connect Kaboodle- enabled LANs together. Secure wrappers for other Internet applications (file transfer, VNC, etc) and Kaboodle is optimized for easy use; no TCP/IP expertise required.....(free).....

When experimenting with alternative shells one often needs to get back to Explorer quickly and easily without having to edit the registry and reboot. Kansas is an executable which changes the shell back to Explorer and logs off without any user interface.....(free)..... (scroll down the page to find)

We could play with this for a long time. Try searching Shell Extension City.... Kartoo is a meta search engine which presents its results on a map which includes graphics and animatronics.....(free).....

This is big. The very popular KDE Windows manager, long used by Linux lovers, is now ported to Windows and the Mac. If anything pulls Windows and Mac users to Linux, this will do it. Get the feel of Linux right inside your own OS. Alpha release .....(free).....

KDiff3 is a program that compares or merges two or three text input files or directories, shows the differences line by line and character by character (!), provides an automatic merge-facility and an integrated editor for comfortable solving of merge-conflicts, supports Unicode, UTF-8 and other codecs, autodetection via byte-order-mark "BOM" supports KIO on KDE (allows accessing ftp, sftp, fish, smb etc.), Printing of differences, Manual alignment of lines, Automatic merging of version control history ($Log$), and has an intuitive graphical user interface. Windows-Explorer integration Diff-Ext-for-KDiff3 - shell extension included in installer.....(free).....

KeepTube is a tool that downloads and plays videos from www.YouTube.com .....(free).....

KeePass is a free open source password manager, which helps you to manage your passwords in a secure way. You can put all your passwords in one database, which is locked with one master key or a key file. So you only have to remember one single master password or select the key file to unlock the whole database. The databases are encrypted using the best and most secure encryption algorithms currently known (AES and Twofish).....(free).....

Keycounter provides a way of keeping track of when you've been active on your PC during the day. It does pretty much what it says - counts the number of keystrokes you make every minute and records that information, along with whether the mouse has moved. Keycounter can then be used to browse the files, and display a graph of when you were at your most busy. It details the time of the first and last keypress in a day, and the graph clearly shows when you weren't at your machine - making the coffee or gone for lunch.....(free).....

Application launcher - forget your start menu - launch applications with just a few keystrokes.....(free).....

Keytweak is a keyboard remapper for Windows. It makes use of Microsoft's Scancode Map registry key to remap your keyboard. VB6 Runtime files are required, but are already present on Windows 2000/XP .....(free).....

Training program for novice computer users. It will train any novice user to use all the common keys on the computer keyboard. It is ideal for computer training centres and workshops. In about 60 minutes time, a novice computer user can become acquainted with the computer keyboard, without the intervention of a supervisor.....(free).....

This article lists keyboard shortcuts you can use with Windows XP. We recently listed Shortcuts for Windows, but they only worked with Win 98.....(free).....

This article lists keyboard shortcuts you can use with Windows 98.....(free).....

Keyboard shortcuts can sometimes be faster and more convenient than a mouse. Keyboarding is an informational tool that lists 2,900 keyboard shortcuts for Windows 95/98/Me/2K, Access 97 & 2000, Excel 97 & 2000, Outlook 97 & 2000, Word 97 & 2000 and Internet Explorer 4 & 5. Also lists 60 DOS commands and their switches .....(free).....

Launch a Web page in Internet Explorer's kiosk mode with the press of a key, or automatically from a CD. KioskLaunch is a handy tool for anyone who needs to deliver an HTML-based presentation, and for Web designers who need to preview their designs without the browser's interface.....(free).....

Detect keylogging activity on your computer.....(free).....

.With this utility you can browse your harddisk in a way that closely resembles the workings of the Start Menu. Just one click to start and one click when you reach the desired folder. Klik-A-Dir constantly shows the actual harddisk-structure, so no need to "refresh".....(freeware).....

KLog is a Win32 implementation of nix syslog daemon to support remote logging of message from syslog-enabled unix servers, routers and other networked devices and applications. Here is a brief summary of klog features: Lets you flexibly pick up events to log based on priority/facility and source IP address. Optionally produces audible alerts when the message received meets certain criteria. Convenient GUI. Can run in background, taking up a 256 pixels of screen nicely packed as a 16x16 square in your notification tray area. Open source for those willing to add missing features, fix bugs and examine code for potential flaws and fun.You're free to torture it the way you want to as long as you preserve original author's credentials.....(free).....

Live Linux Filesystem you download and burn to CD. This is perfect if you have another OS, like Windows, as your main system. KNOPPIX is a bootable CD with a collection of GNU/Linux software, automatic hardware detection, and support for many graphics cards, sound cards, SCSI and USB devices and other peripherals. KNOPPIX can be used as a Linux demo, educational CD, rescue system, or adapted and used as a platform for commercial software product demos. It is not necessary to install anything on a hard disk. Due to on-the-fly decompression, the CD can have up to 2 GB of executable software installed on it.....(free).....

KO Approach helps you access your files quicker. All you have to do is click on any folder in Windows Explorer and leave the mouse button pressed for a while. A menu will appear shortly displaying the contents of the folder that you have just clicked. Navigate to an item buried deeply in your folder structure and double-click it. With KO Approach you can also preview pictures instantly. The supplied plugin can display thumbnails of most common graphics formats, right from KO Approach menus.....(free).....

Program which can be used for coloring images.....(free).....

A powerful multi-track recorder, audio sequencer and mixer - ideal for anyone wanting to get started with recording, mixing and mastering digital audio. It is designed as a modular system. The main application provides a mixing console, while the audio sequencer, live audio input and so on are loaded as separate PlugIns. Kristal audio engine is freeware for personal, educational and non-commercial use. .....(free).....

Kruptos 2 is a powerfull 128 bit file encryption utility that allows you to secure any sensitive files stored on your PC or portable storage device.Kruptos 2 includes a powerful file shredding utility, and the ability to generate self decrypting files.....(free).....

This is a utility that allows you to minimize any program to your system tray area and remove it from the task bar. You can define any program, and you can also define your own icon to use! KSTray will remember the program the next time you run it as well. At any time, you can show or hide the program window .....(free).....

Web accelerator and offline browser for Internet Explorer. GetEmAll allows you to get many links with a single keypress. It will get the pages without hanging your computer. You can continue to use IE or other programs. GetEmAll will keep the pages so they can be read off-line / later. It will even remember what you requested - keep pages fetched when Windows crashes .....(free).....

A program that darkens the whole Screen, except a user-defined area which the user wants to emphasize. Great for presentations. It also works with Multi-Screen configs

All inclusive backup of operating systems, device drivers and programs. Includes 100’s of Tools. With Kleo, you can now create all inclusive backups of your servers. Saves 100s of hours tracking down original CD’s or obsolete device drives. Kleo enables you to recover from server failure without the need of any other software.

Kolibri is a small x86 assembler hobby operating system. It forked off MenuetOS in 2004 and has mostly been developed by ex-USSR community since. API and ABI is being enreached with developer-frendly features. User interface is not that good yet but we are trying to improve it as well. Your feedback is very appreciated, although help would always be much more valuable. Current 0.7.7.0 release introduces several kernel, applications and libraries updates Thanks to instant fundas

Stop runaway or frozen processes

Great program for programmers and text users. KDiff3 is a program that compares or merges two or three text input files or directories, shows the differences line by line and character by character, provides an automatic merge-facility and an integrated editor for comfortable solving of merge-conflicts, supports Unicode, UTF-8 and other codecs, autodetection via byte-order-mark "BOM" supports KIO on KDE (allows accessing ftp, sftp, fish, smb etc.), Printing of differences, Manual alignment of lines, Automatic merging of version control history ($Log$), and has an intuitive graphical user interface

KeePass is a free open source password manager, which helps you to manage your passwords in a secure way. You can put all your passwords in one database, which is locked with one master key or a key file. So you only have to remember one single master password or select the key file to unlock the whole database. The databases are encrypted using the best and most secure encryption algorithms currently known (AES and Twofish).

KeePass is a free open source password manager, which helps you to manage your passwords in a secure way. You can put all your passwords in one database, which is locked with one master key or a key file. So you only have to remember one single master password or select the key file to unlock the whole database

KillKeys disables specified keys, preventing programs from picking them up. The default behavior is to disable both windows keys and the menu key when in fullscreen windows to prevent accidentally pressing them when playing games. Thanks to gHacks

KeyScrambler Personal is a browser add-on. It protects all your inputs against known and unknown keyloggers in IE, Firefox, and Flock: your login credentials, credit card numbers, passwords, search terms, Java, Flash, PDF Forms, web email, and more (scroll down to find)

Erase Hard Drive Completely. Detects and displays information about all partitions, hard disks and floppy drives currently connected to your computer. Wipes out all floppies and hard disk drives completely by secure overwriting data on physical level using [One Pass Zeros] data destruction method. Erases partitions, logical drives and even not used disk space. Erasing report is created and can be saved as a file. Supports IDE, SATA and SCSI drives. Supports larger than 128GB hard disks via using LBA(LBA48) mode to access drive's data

Using this too, you can lock your keyboard and mouse by entering a phrase, and then unlock it by entering a different one

Widget engine for Windows, compatible with Apple dashboard. You can now run Apple dashboard widgets on MS Windows. (At least most of them) Webkit-based, Nokia QT-based (multi-platform), Yahoo Widget Engine inspired. Opensource

So you've looked in task manager, and there's a dozen iexplore.exe processes listed! Clicking the End Process button for each will take far too long

Kidsmenu is designed to be a child friendly replacement windows shell, and is also functional as a normal launcher-menu application. kidsmenu avoids some of the complexity and danger introduced by the standard windows shell (explorer) when put in front of young children. for example, as there's no start menu, hitting the windows key accidently while playing a game won't show the start menu. (note this functionality currently requires kidsmenu to be running as the replacement shell). And of course, we denizens of Shell City can find more uses for it. For example, how about in computer labs where you don't want the kids to screw anything up?

KDE is a desktop environment originally built for UNIX. But now it's available for Windows. You can use this installer to download and install the various binary packages that you need to run KDE applications on MS Windows. KDE is free and open source so you can build all the applications "from scratch" from their source code; but as a convenience for others, volunteers create these pre-compiled packages and make them available on the Internet

Kiwi application monitor is a small program which lets you monitor your apps, processes, Windows and User activity. All you need to do is select an application or proccess from the build-in process viewer or enter an application exe name. The program can be set to start with Windows and run in background with small system resources usage

Simple web based youtube downloader. Thanks to Create Computers .....(free).....

Tired of paying a lot of money for the basic functions of an Office program? Kingsoft Office Suite Free 2012 offers the three classic programs (Writer, Presentation and Spreadsheet) all at the cost of nothing. This suite is innovative in that its small size of 39MB adds little strain to your computer whilst delivering the core functions of word processing, multimedia presentation and data processing and analysis.