Now you can convert applications to run on your USB Flash Drive. PackageFactory lets you convert any application or EXE into a U3P Package File! You can then install this U3P file onto any U3-compatible flash drive (most recent usb drives). PackageFactory for U3 is free to use for non-commercial purposes.....(free).....

PacketProtector is a Linux distribution for wireless routers, built on top of OpenWrt. The goal of this project is to transform the router into a unified threat management device. Here's what you get- a stateful firewall (iptables), WPA/WPA2 Enterprise wireless (802.1X and PEAP with FreeRADIUS), intrusion prevention (Snort-inline), remote access VPN (OpenVPN), content filtering/parental controls (DansGuardian), web antivirus (DG + ClamAV), anti-phishing (OpenDNS), automatic updates (for Snort and ClamAV), a local certificate authority (OpenSSL), secure management interfaces (SSH and HTTPS), advanced firewall scripts for blocking IM and P2P apps, IP spoofing prevention (Linux rp_filter), basic protocol anomaly detection (ipt_unclean), Each of these services is automatically bootstrapped and configured with sensible defaults. A secure web interface makes common configuration tasks as simple as a point and click. All you need is a Linksys WRTSL54GS or ASUS WL-500g (Deluxe or Premium) router, and a USB 2.0 drive with 100MB of free space.....(free).....

PacketTrap free network management tools are comprehensive, effective and intuitive. IT organizations around the world rely on our network management tools every day, why shouldn't you? .....(free).....

Page Links is a simple MDI ( Multi Document Interface) web browser based on Internet Explorer that allows the user to browse multiple sites simultaneously. The distinctive feature of Page Links is the ability to quickly view the URLs that are on the current webpage you're viewing. Ever find yourself surfing on a cluttered, hard to navigate, hard to find links website? Simply click the Page Links button, and every single URL on the webpage is displayed on a panel for easy navigation. Page Links also features a built in Google Search engine, popup blocker, integrated IE favorites, and a last page stored option. Page Links utilizes Internet Explorer settings and features.....(free).....

Copy your favorite webpages to hard disk with PageNest. Give PageNest the address of a website and it will copy either the page, or the entire site (whichever you prefer) to your hard disk. It will create an exact copy of what you see on the internet including html, images and css. PageNest can be used to create a 'cache' of your pages you read regularly, to store copies of websites so you can read them when you are not connected, or it can archive sites before they change or disappear.....(free).....

Free Software for Digital Photo Editing. Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools.....(free).....

Panda3D is a 3D engine: a library of subroutines for 3D rendering and game development.....(free).....

With the Pandora Desktop Application, you can play your Pandora stations right from your desktop ? without opening a new browser window. Easily see what's playing with one click from your tooltray/dock. Conveniently pause, play and change stations. Quick start to begin listening to Pandora. Requires download of Adobe Air as well.....(free).....

Pandora Recovery is a powerful free tool that provides its users an effective way to attempt recovery of permanently deleted files. And that does not mean restoration of a file from Recycle Bin. Pandora Recovery actually recovers files permanently removed from Recycle Bin, files originally deleted using Shift + Delete keys bypassing Recycle Bin and files deleted from DOS prompt. Pandora Recovery is not a backup tool - it can recover files that have been deleted months before Pandora Recovery was installed. And while the likelihood of successful recovery is negatively affected by the time passed since the deletion of files Pandora Recovery users were able to recover files deleted more than five years after deletion.....(free).....

The program can attach any desktop window to one of the screen edges and auto hide it. (Hidden panels will work like the windows TaskBar).....(free).....

Paper Changer is a small application for changing the background wallpaper on the windows desktop from a random selection of JPEG images within a specified folder. Paper Changer can be set to change the wallpaper every time that you start Windows (without remaining loaded) or just used to change the wallpaper whenever you get bored of the current picture. Paper Changer stretches the image to fit as much of the desktop as possible without distorting it.....(free).....

The Parallel Port Monitor is a utility for viewing and manipulating the state of a parallel port on a Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000 computer .....(free).....

.A simple but very useful utility to add command-line parameters to any program in Explorer. It associates itself with the following program extensions, .exe, .com, .bat. To use, simply right-click any program in Explorer.....(free).....

Prevent others from adjusting your PC settings, or from viewing certain web sites.....(free).....

Implements a new concept of deleted or lost partition recovery. It works in the most convenient way possible ? by locating and mounting partitions into the system, thus making those lost partitions available to you like any generic disk volume. Partition Find & Mount will also work in case any Boot Record (including the Master Boot Record) is missing, damaged or overwritten .....(free).....

Partition Rescue backs up your disk's partition system to floppy disk. If your disk's partition system gets damaged you can restore it by booting your system using this rescue disk. It can recover your disk from damaged partition table, missing partitions, virus attack etc.....(free).....

The first free program to resize and move partitions without data loss, with support for disks up to 2TB of size. Int13 extensions support allows handling of disks up to 2TB (2048GB) of size. New Resizing/Moving engine, with simpler interface. Move and resize your partitions in one step. Transparent extended partition resizing (no more confusion with extended partitions). Command line parameters for accessing advanced options (read-only operation etc.). Partition resizer is a small DOS executable, which requires no installation, and can perform all these tasks in a short while, giving you the opportunity to re-arrange your disk partitions safely, quickly, and fuss-free......(free).....

With this program you could save all data on a partition to a file (such as you could save this file on a CD for example). Then if something goes wrong, you can completely restore the partition from the backup file. You no longer have to reinstall every piece of software from scratch. All you have to do is restore the partition from the backup file and then update any software that was modified since the backup was created. Partition Saving is able to compress data (using the gzip compression algorithm) and split it up into several files (e.g. if you need to save a 2 Gb partition onto a CD, this can be done by compressing it and, if necessary, splitting it up into 650 Mb files). Most partition types are supported. In the case of FAT (12, 16 and 32), ext2/3 and NTFS partitions, you can choose between saving all sectors or in-use sectors only.....(free).....

Create a password protected central repository for all your user names and passwords. All passwords are encrypted using the Blowfish algorithm. All your data is stored on an xml file. Since Passfile does not write any information to your registry or any ini file one can copy the file to a removable media such as CD-RW, USB memory stick and carry all your passwords around.....(free).....

Password manager with a clean, easy to use interface and strong encryption.....(free).....

With Password Safe, a free Windows utility designed by Bruce Schneier, users can keep their passwords securely encrypted on their computers. A single Safe Combination--just one thing to remember--unlocks them all. Password Safe protects passwords with the Twofish encryption algorithm, a fast, free alternative to DES. The program's security has been thoroughly verified by Counterpane Labs under the supervision of Bruce Schneier, author of Applied Cryptography and creator of the Twofish algorithm.....(free).....

Pastebin is here to help you collaborate on debugging code snippets.....(free).....

Clipboard Enhancement Utility enhances the Windows clipboard. It supports pasting multiple texts, as well as the ability to copy & paste files from Explorer as text paths. In addition it provides some basic computer info, such as host name, IP address and free drive space.....(free).....

With the introduction of XP-SP2 Microsoft introduced a new limit into the TCP-IP stack that windows uses. This new limit restricts the number of concurrent connection attempts to 10. This number is hard-coded. In the event that this limit needs to be enforced it is marked in the system Event log (Event ID 4226). What this patcher does is modify the IP stack so that the number is larger (default is 50).....(free).....

Easily change predefined folders in the Windows file Explorer and in 'Open' & 'Save' dialogs with hotkeys or thru a browseable list. Pathbuddy gives you quick access to frequently used folders.....(free).....

Path is another re-invention of Windows Run menu with several extra features added to it, such as desktop and start menus, and user-defined tools. This application uses very little system resources and minimizes to the system tray. Replace the standard Windows ?Run? menu, with a more efficient one and access all areas of your system conveniently.....(free).....

PC Accelerate increases the priority of foreground windows and optimizes their memory status. Work with maximum performance .....(free).....

The PC Decrapifier will uninstall many of the common trialware and annoyances found on new PCs from OEMs.....(free).....

Nice new skinz and shell emulation site. Heavy on the Mac look. How does your GUI look today?.....(free).....

Pc Sleep is a Sleep timer for your computer. Automated Shutdown, Restart, Log Off, Standby, and Hibernate Windows functions in a user friendly, menu-driven program. You can leave your computer and PC Sleep will safely perform the selected function in the entered amount of time with no effort on your part. A noticeable pop-up window will appear when there is one minute left on the timer. The same window will pop-up if no time is selected; giving you 30 seconds to stop the timer before PC Sleep executes the selected function. This utility is particularly good for long downloads where you would like your computer to shut down after a certain amount of hours, playing music before you go to bed, or any other reason you might need PC Sleep to perform its functions while you're away from your computer.....(free).....

PC SMS Receiver is an application for receiving SMS messages on your computer via a GSM - UMTS mobile phone or modem connected to a serial port, USB, Bluetooth or Infrared port.....(free).....

PC WIZARD 2006 is a powerful utility designed especially for detection of hardware, but also some more analysis. It's able to identify a large scale of system components and supports the latest technologies and standards. This tool is periodically updated (usually once per month) in order to provide most accurate results. PC WIZARD 2006 is also an utility designed to analyze and benchmark your computer system. It can analyze and benchmark many kinds of hardware, such as CPU performance, Cache performance, RAM performance, Hard Disk performance, CD/DVD-ROM performance, Removable/FLASH Media performance, Video performance, MP3 compression performance .....(free).....

PCWin Speaker Record - records everything you hear from your speakers. Save as mp3 or wav files. Records at 128 Kbps CD quality. Now you can enjoy your music and podcast anytime. Record from Internet radio stations. Grab audio from any web site, podcast, Internet Radio, DVD or CD as it plays. Easy-to-use. Select mp3 or wav file format. Click 'Start Recording' and when you are ready to stop recording press 'Stop Recording' button. Then save your newly created mp3 or wav file and play it anytime .....(free).....

Reduce the actual size of PDF files by compressing text and graphics. Compressed PDF files can be opened and viewed normally by Adobe Acrobat Reader .....(free).....

PDFCreator easily creates PDFs from any Windows program. Use it like a printer in Word, StarCalc or any other Windows application.....(free).....

Fast and effective search of PDF Filenames, Titles, Subjects, Authors, and Keywords fields of all the PDF files present in a certain folder or disk.....(free).....

PDF Image Extraction Wizard is a free utility that allows you to easily extract bitmap images from PDF documents and store them as individual image files. .....(free).....

Change the document properties of PDF files, include author, title, subject, keywords, creator, producer and PDF version information.....(free).....

A completely FREE PDF Printer that allows you create PDFs by printing to a PDF document from any Microsoft Windows application. No ads. Supports Windows 2000, 2003, XP and Vista (both x64 and x86 platforms)......(free).....

PDF SpeedUp allows you to significantly speed up the time it takes to load Adobe Reader. If you notice that when the Reader starts it loads many plug-ins which you may or may not need, this program simply disables the plug-ins and loads only the absolute necessary ones so the program starts quickly. It offers several options and you can also manually enable or disable the plug-ins as needed. PDF SpeedUp works with Acrobat versions 3 through 6.xx. Multi-lingual interface.....(free).....

Add a watermark -- such as Draft, Confidential, or even your company's name -- to PDF files quickly and easily. To stamp a watermark on your PDF files is to mark you PDF documents as your copyrighted property. The watermark can be stamped behind virtually every element of a PDF file. You can choose whether to overwrite the existing text of a PDF file when the watermark is created. With this freeware utility, you can number the pages of existing PDF files or add you company text logo or your copyright message and much more.....(free).....

Pdf2exe is a freeware program to quickly convert PDF to EXE, making PDF readable on any computer without Adobe Reader or Adobe Acrobat software installed. The conversion from PDF to EXE preserves the look and feel of the original document.....(free).....

If PDF is electronic paper, then pdftk is an electronic staple-remover, hole-punch, binder, secret-decoder-ring, and X-Ray-glasses. Pdftk is a command-line tool for doing everyday things with PDF documents. Keep one in the top drawer of your desktop and use it to merge PDF Documents, Split PDF Pages into a New Document, Decrypt Input as Necessary (Password Required), Encrypt Output as Desired, Fill PDF Forms with FDF Data and/or Flatten Forms, Apply a Background Watermark, Report on PDF Metrics such as Metadata, Bookmarks, and Page Labels, Update PDF Metadata, Attach Files to PDF Pages or the PDF Document, Unpack PDF Attachments, Burst a PDF Document into Single Pages, Uncompress and Re-Compress Page Streams, Repair Corrupted PDF (Where Possible) .....(free).....

This is a fully-functional utility for working with PE/PE +(64bit) files. Including: Editor PE of files, Task Viewer, Win32 PE files optimizer, detector of compiler/packer and many other things.....(free).....

PeaZip free archiver utility is a portable, open source archiving, encryption and file split tool. PeaZip archiver is cross platform, it runs on Windows 9x, 2000, XP, Vista and on Linux and supports handling of many archive and compression formats .....(free).....

Instructions for getting around blocking software, including an interesting program, Circumventor .....(free).....

Emulate PowerPC on an x86 machine. If you're brave and have the time, run OS X under Windows. PearPC is an architecture-independent PowerPC platform emulator capable of running most PowerPC operating systems. The following operating systems were tested and run (to some extent) in PearPC (ie. as clients): Mac OS X 10.3: Runs well with some caveats. Mandrake Linux 9.1 for PPC installer: Runs well. Mandrake Linux 9.1 for PPC after installation: Hard to boot. Runs very well afterwards. Darwin for PPC: Runs well. OpenBSD for PPC: Crashes while booting (accesses PCI in an unsupported way). NetBSD for PPC: Crashes while booting. AIX for PPC: Some people ask about that.....(free).....

Boot and run Linux from a USB flash memory stick USB.....(free).....

PerfMonitor is a processor performance monitoring tool. It tracks the frequency of 4 events choosen in a set of model-specific list. PerfMonitor can be used to identify the performance bottlenecks of a system, or to monitor a program for cache-miss rate or mis-predicted branches. But PerfMonitor can also be used as a hardware-level CPU comparison tool, comparing the key parameters of different CPUs runnning the same benchmark .....(free).....

Performance Monitor is a small program that shows you the CPU, Memory, Disk and Network utilization under Windows NT platforms (2000, XP+). It's composed by four fully configurable small graphs and it can work in the tray area also. The windows are fully anchorable and by moving the "CPU" window you'll move the other attached windows. PerfMon can become transparent and permits you to forward left-mouse clicks so you can place it anywhere. You can also change the program priority saving CPU work and double its size for big monitor resolutions .....(free).....

Periscope is a PE file inspection tool. For example you can use it as an aid when you are looking for malicious code in files .....(free).....

A free network firewall designed to protect your PC against attacks from the Internet or via a local area network. SoftPerfect Personal Firewall offers customizable security using user-defined rules for packet filtering. It supports multiple network adapter configurations. The program is easy to use, comes with a set of predefined rules and it is completely free. Additional features include password protection, logging and more.....(free).....

Executable code steganography. It embeds text into windows exe files using interchangeable assembly opcodes.....(free).....

PETROS? is a new 32 bit operating system for the 486+ family of machines. It is designed to be compatible with MS-DOS and Windows 95. PETROS? understands FAT12, FAT16 and FAT32 file systems with the Windows 95 long name extensions. The executable file format is a 32 bit file format closely resembling that of Win32 programs. It is intended to maintain full compatibility with win32 programs, and also to support native Java programs.....(shareware, $50 after trial).....

Bulk file renaming program that runs under Windows. With this tool you can easily organize your music files, picture files, or any other types of files. PFrank comes equipped with many features, some of which you won't find on any other renaming program. The beauty of this tool is it's flexibility. You can easily build any renaming command sequence you like, preview all of the results, press the rename button, and you're done.....(free).....

Download gmail emails through any email client. Sits between you GMail account and your email client, converting messages from the web based mailbox into POP3 messages that a program such as Outlook Express or Firebird can understand.....(free).....

Phantom Desktop Screen Saver, when activated, hides all application windows, desktop icons and the MS Windows taskbar, replacing them with an empty desktop. This empty desktop can be the standard wallpaper image, or a custom bitmap and can also be optionally configured to dissolve to a simple black background.....(free).....

Fill up your hard drive. Why? Some old applications and games won't install or work properly if they detect that your hard drive has more than 2GB or 4GB free, depending on how they were written. This is because those programs were written in the days when most people didn't even know what a gigabyte was. Another reason you might need to temporarily fill up your drive is that developers often have to stress-test their applications or installer routines to ensure they work gracefully when a PC is very low on disk space. Finally, the only way to truly permanently erase data on a hard drive is to overwrite it with other data. Simply reformatting your drive is not enough.....(free).....

According to the author, "The astounding response to the first MailFrontier Phishing IQ test, taken by over 225,000 people, successfully raised "phishing" awareness to an all-time high. But with phishing emails increasing daily, it's time for a whole new challenge: the MailFrontier Phishing IQ Test II. We're back with 10 new suspect "phish" fresh from our collection ? all actually received by real people like you. Whether you're brand new or a repeat tester, the question is the same: If you received one of these emails in your inbox ? what would you do?".....(free).....

PhoneMe Easy converts a phone number into a meaningful word (phone mnemonics). Instead of remembering the meaningless sequence of digits you can easily remember the phone 'word'. Afterwards, just type the word on your phone and you will get your phone number. Huge dictionary of words (over 220,000).....(free).....

Lots of nice tools for manipulating images. English version of the German photography download archive Foto-Freeware.de.....(free).....

Give your photo series the cinematic quality of a movie, the control of a video game, and the mind-blowing detail of the real world. With nothing more than a bunch of photos, Photosynth creates an amazing new experience......(free).....

phpCodeBeautifier is a tool which will put proper indents into php code, thus saving you hours spent on reformating code. The tool comes in 3 versions: A GUI version which allow to process file visually. A command line version which allow to be batched or integrated with other tools (CVS, SubVersion, IDE ...) As an integrated tool of PHPEdit.....(free).....

Guide to Creating Fantastic Documentation.....(free).....

The free php4 to php5 converter helps you quickly identify the changes required and provides you with a report with all the files that need to be changed. The advanced convert options even changes the code one by one just like the MS Word find replace feature so that all your project files are scanned and changed one by one making the conversion just a breeze. The process of converting a website from PHP4 to PHP5 is quite simple task for a php developer, but for the end users who are not able to code well enough in PHP, it can be very time consuming and frustrating too.....(free).....

Save countless keystrokes. Clipboard utility organizes your frequently used phrases and allows you to paste them into any application. The auto complete feature automatically expand abbreviations and corrects typos while you type.....(free).....

Powerful utility can do two things: it can change the size of a picture (including smooth resize) and it can convert pictures from one graphic format to another .....(free).....

PieceCopy is a tiny tool which will extract a portion of a specific file. You can use it to extract data of files, to cut file headers, to retrieve binary data of a specific position, to rescue parts of damaged files/disks or whatever.....(free).....

System Monitoring, Configuration Management, and More. PIKT is cross-categorical, multi-purpose software for monitoring and configuring computer systems, administering networks, organizing system security, and much more. PIKT is intended primarily for system monitoring, and secondarily for configuration management, but its versatility and extensibility evoke many other wide-ranging uses.....(free).....

With Piky Basket, you can reduce repetitive tasks when copying/moving files and folders in Windows. Piky Basket allows you to select files/folders in to a "basket" from different locations. Once you are done selecting, you can paste them all at once to the target folders. It also allows you to selectively paste the files to the target folder. Piky Basket is integrated with Windows Explorer. You do not have to run Piky Basket as a separate program. It can be accessed from the menu which appears by right clicking on any files/folders in Windows Explorer.....(free).....

PimpFish empowers you to save any material you see on any website, download faster, share stuff easily and get hold of those hard-to-get embedded video files. Basic is the free version.....(free).....

Feature-rich Windows program for safe and comfortable storing of any secure information like passwords, accounts, PINs etc. PINs uses a secure 448 bit Blowfish algorithm to ensure the data are not crackable. The password used for securing access to stored data is not saved anywhere. PINs does not require installation and does not need any special dlls, drivers or system files which can mess up your system. This means that PINs can run directly from floppy - including data files - without installing anything. This is extremely useful if you wish to easily access your data on other computers as well.....(free).....

Pipelines is a utility that allows you to modify the contents of a text file or files, quickly and easily. You can specify that only certain sections of a file are to be changed; you can confine those changes to a column, word or field range, translate words and phrases, discard or insert new lines of text. You can perform a whole range of operations on a file or files, using only a simple set of commands. Pipelines build?s on the concept of directing the output of one process to the input of another, commonly known as pipelining.....(free).....

Windows application that allows users to mount the contents of ZIP, ISO, and Private Folder files to the file system as virtual folders .....(free).....

PixFire 1.0 is a very easy to use windows tool to make image thumbnails and larger images from original pix. It includes a naming option depending on if the picture is in portrait or in landscape format. Just point PixFire to a folder containing the original pictures, adjust the settings and click "Fire!" - PixFire creates a sub folder with 2 result pictures for each original picture (thumbnail and large image) according to your size and nameing settings .....(free).....

PIXresizer is a tool for quickly generating screen-friendly versions of your images with dramatically reduced file sizes.....(free).....

PixelToolbox is the complete solution for designing desktop graphics for Windows. Create, edit, and apply 1-bit patterns, wallpaper tiles, icons, and cursors - all from a single integrated environment. PixelToolbox offers the standard set of painting tools along with a few filters and features not found in other software. The unique interface, tools, and workflow were engineered to maximize your creative potential.....(free).....

Pixelformer is an advanced icon editor which is designed to give you full control over every pixel of your images. With its predictability and subpixel precision you can easily create professional quality icons and bitmaps .....(free).....

PlacesBarEditor is a free utility for Windows 2000 and XP that allows you to customize the "PlacesBar" that appears on the left side of the Open and Save dialogs in most applications. The PlacesBar is a set of shortcuts to commonly-used folders, but wouldn't it be more useful if you could determine what "commonly used" means for yourself, instead of letting Microsoft define it for you? That's where PlacesBarEditor comes in.....(free).....

PLASMA PONG is a variation of PONG that utilizes real-time fluid dynamics to drive the game environment. Players have several new abilities that add fun twists to the classic game. In the game you can inject plasma fluid into the environment, create a vacuum from your paddle, and blast shockwaves into the playing area. All these abilities have fluid-based kinetic effects on the ball, making Plasma Pong a fast-paced and exciting game.....(free).....

Plax Network Suite is an easy to use collection of network tools which give you full control over the internet activity of your computer. Designed for quick access, the Windows Firewall button provides an instant ON/OFF switch for Windows XP Firewall. Designed to integrate with Windows, and be powerful but simple to use, Windows Firewall operates deep under cover, without bothering you at all. It can help stop viruses and worms reaching your computer, ask for permission to block or unblock certain connection requests from applications and software, and create a security log if required. It's an automatic first line of defense for those who don't have any other software installed. Just in case you need and instant internet lockdown, Plax Network Suite offers the possibility to block all internet connections by the flick of a button. This works like an Internet shield preventing any hacker or spyware reaching your computer. Whenever you want to cloak your computer IP address, Plax Network Suite can instantly block all inbound ping connections. This prevents other users from knowing if your computer is online or not. Perhaps one of the most popular features of Plax Network Suite is the visual report of all open TCP/IP and UDP ports and the mapping to the owning application. This can be used to quickly identify unknown open ports and their associated applications. The software provides detailed information about every network connection: Protocol, Process ID, Process Name, Local Address, Local Port, Remote Address, Remote Port, and Connection State. They say ?the best defense is a good offense? and Plax Network Suite provides you with an active reconnaissance tool: the port scanner. Simply enter the IP address to be scanned and the range of ports and within seconds you find out which ports are open on the target PC .....(free).....

PMMon monitors your system for Win32 power management events that are sent to all application windows, under the wm_powerbroadcast window message. These messages are then decoded and displayed in a log window.....(free).....

Pocket Linux is an almost minimal, one floppy linux system designed to quickly convert a PC workstation into a secure linux-based workstation using ssh to connect to remote host (other networking clients are also supported). It supports bootp for determining host IP and other network parameters (there's also manual configuration possible, but bootp is recommended). In addition to workstations equipped with a network card (ethernet or arcnet), you can also use Pocket Linux on a PC equipped with a modem. Modem is automatically detected and then PPP connection is made......(free).....

User Policies Editor. Polsedit is a freeware utility that allows you to modify user policies such as user account rights and user privileges on a local or remote Windows NT-based system. This can be useful when for some reason you are unable ro run secpol.msc snap-in, for example, XP Home and Vista Home do not have secpol.msc at all. The user interface of Polsedit is very similar to the standard policies editor from Windows, but it also displays some internal data, which can be useful for developers.....(free).....

If you are looking for a simple but powerful programmer you are right, it's here. PonyProg is a serial device programmer software with a user friendly GUI framework available for Windows95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP and Intel Linux. Its purpose is reading and writing every serial device. At the moment it supports I?C Bus, Microwire, SPI eeprom, the Atmel AVR and Microchip PIC micro. SI-Prog is the programmer hardware interface for PonyProg. With PonyProg and SI-Prog you can program Wafercard for SAT, eeprom within GSM, TV or CAR-RADIO. Furthermore it can be used as a low cost starter kit for PIC and AVR.....(free).....

Simple, tiny, barebones, GUI-free tool for controlling popups in Internet Explorer.....(free).....

POP Peeper is an email notifier with several options that will decrease or eliminate the risks of reading your email (viruses, javascript, webbugs, etc). POP Peeper can be run from a portable device and can be password protected. Many notification options are availble to indicate when new mail has arrived, such as sound alerts (configurable for each account), flashing scroll lock, skinnable popup notifier, customized screensaver and more.....(free).....

Port Reporter logs TCP and UDP port activity on a local Windows system. Port Reporter is a small application that runs as a service on Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003. On Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 this service is able to log which ports are used, which process is using the port, if the process is a service, which modules the process has loaded and which user account is running the process. On Windows 2000 systems, this service is limited to logging which ports are used and when. In both cases the information that the service provides can be helpful for security purposes, troubleshooting scenarios, and profiling systems? port usage.....(free).....

PortableApps Suite is a collection of portable apps including a web browser, email client, office suite, calendar/scheduler, instant messaging client, antivirus, sudoku game, backup utility and integrated menu, all preconfigured to work portably. Just drop it on your portable device and you're ready to go.....(free).....

Portable Start Menu is a simple and free start menu application that can be installed on USB sticks or local PCs. Organize your programs in a simple menu system and launch them via a tray icon. If you close Portable Start Menu on an USB-Stick, running applications can be closed automatically, too .....(free).....

Portinator is a Windows command line utility to monitor local network port usage for changes. By setting a baseline and running Portinator at various intervals, the user can be notified by email or view a log file of any changes to network port usage on that machine. Portinator has several options to aid in reducing noisy emails. Portinator uses md5 checksums to help in identifying/monitoring applications using ports (can be useful in identifying .exe changes such as trojans).....(free).....

Portmon is a utility that monitors and displays all serial and parallel port activity on a Windows system. It has advanced filtering and search capabilities that make it a powerful tool for exploring the way Windows works, seeing how applications use ports, or tracking down problems in system or application configurations .....(free).....

PostCast Server is a free server program that enables you to send messages directly from your computer. When you install it, it turns your computer into outgoing mail server. This is a perfect solution for sending newsletters, distributing messages to different mailing lists, sending notifications to your customers, as well as for sending individual messages. You can use it instead of the SMTP server of your Internet Service Provider.....(free).....

A tray Icon utility to paste user defined text to the current application.....(free).....

Replace the native battery power meter for Windows with a better one. Power Meter Plus has the following features: It gradually appears as the power levels drop. The lower the power, the more prominent the meter will be. When you're charging the laptop it'll turn green and slowly disappear/fade as the charge increases. The meter appears either on the bottom left or bottom right of the screen; it moves to the opposite corner if you move your mouse over it.....(free).....

Save Power - Turn Off Monitor whenever you want.....(free).....

Poweroff is a small program for Win95/98/NT/W2K/XP to schedule a shutdown, reboot, logoff, poweroff, Standby, Hibernate, Lock, Wake-On-LAN at a certain time. Also supports command line options that allows poweroff to be used in batch scripts. It has a built-in scheduler, it allows you to run a program before doing the action, you can give a warning message to the user, wait for a process to finish before doing the action and full remote control is supported.....(free).....

PowerPro lets you take control of how you use Windows 2000 and XP. Run commands and configure your system any way you want. PowerPro gives you a compact and powerful launch bar, menu, and tray icon facility. But this is just the start. With a little experimenting with its configuration, you'll find that you can use PowerPro to change the way you work with your system. The source of its power is the way PowerPro integrates three capabilities: Running commands: Tool bars, tray icons, hot keys, mouse actions, menus, timer, scheduler. Controlling other program's windows: Close, minimize, maximize, roll-up to caption, tray minimize, position. Providing utility functions: Send keystrokes to programs, run commands when windows first open, virtual desktops, clipboard extender, keyboard macros, shutdown, show all folder files in a menu, sounds, wallpaper, and screensaver activation and randomization .....(free).....

PowerStrip combines extensive WinAPI-compliant control over display settings with direct hardware support for DDC monitors and color calibration. Custom cursor and flexible DTP font controls. Resolution, color depth and refresh rate controls. Comprehensive RGB color calibration controls. On-the-fly color depth switching under all versions of Windows. Multi-monitor support for up to 9 display devices under Windows 98. Extensive DDC monitor support plus a database of over 1000 pre-PnP monitors. Comprehensive graphics system diagnostics. Autodetect support for auxiliary Direct3D devices. Direct DPMS power management control. Special screen saver, PowerStrip has DirectX and OpenGL support. User-defined hot keys, preset display schemes, and program associations .....(free).....

Time to dig into the less obvious functionality and options. Become a keyboard shortcut master, take a peek under the hood, and customize its behavior and skin with some of the best shortcuts, bookmarklets, themes, add-ons, and subtle functionality .....(free).....

Pretty Run is a small program that can search your start menu, desktop or any other folder for shortcuts. (Go to Freeware) .....(free).....

Turn your computer into a lie detector. Lightweight Win95/98/NT application suitable for use as browser helper or standalone app. Performs Fourier Analysis of vocal frequencies and displays the shift of vocal frequencies which accompany even the mildest of physiologic stress. Self-Calibrates over frequency domain of audio data, determining min/max and average frequencies. Eliminates audio noise packets with amplitude less than average. Provides visual cue to vocal stress deviation from nominal (green) to user settable 'stressed' tolerance (red). Records, Plays back, and Saves.....(free).....

Make the Preview pane in Vista display contents of text based files .....(free).....

Convert to PDF from any application by simply 'printing' to the PrimoPDF printer - it couldn't be easier! Within minutes, you can create high-quality PDFs by converting from Word, Excel, PowerPoint and virtually any other printable file type.....(free).....

Print Censor Free comes with features that can be used to optimize work of printers - job queue management and one-click default printer setup; one-click job priority setting; any standard printer command can be executed directly from Print Censor Free. In addition, the program can be used for remote control by any printer of a network (Go to Freeware).....(free).....

PrintFile is a freeware MS Windows utility program that will enable you to print files fast and easily. The program recognizes plain text, PostScript, Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) and binary formats. Using this program can save you a lot of paper and thereby also saving valuable natural resources.....(free).....

The Print Logger FE software is intended for a print management (print control and audit printing activity) for printers at print workstation, based on Windows NT operation systems family. At this time this family includes Windows 2000/XP and Windows Vista. The program inspects the print jobs on a computer, where software is installed. Main assignment of the program - collection of the information about sizes (in pages) for local print jobs and record it to the database for the subsequent analysis or creation reports about printing activity .....(free).....

Of every type -- fabulous idea .....(free).....

With PrinterAnywhere you can print documents and photos on other people's printers as easily as on the local one connected to your machine. No special technical knowledge is required from both - printer owner and user. It just works. With PrinterAnywhere you can share your printer in less than a minute and let other people connected to the Internet (your friends, relative and colleagues) print paper documents on it. You don?t need to know or deal with specifics of network sharing, complex settings and figuring out Windows access rights.....(free).....

This very simple freeware utility lets you know the paper size, printable area size and all margins in pixels, millimeters and inches for any of your printers. Those may be very important parameters if you want to get the most out of your printer, yet no printing software clearly shows them. (All the way at the bottom of the page).....(free).....

PrioSet is a simple program launcher that lets you set the system level priority of any application. PrioSet can relieve your processor by lowering the share of resources that goes into background processes. Just set their priority to 'Idle' and they won't bother you anymore. You can also make sure the CD burner program gets enough processor power by selecting 'Real time' mode. Command line arguments are also supported. (PrioSet has only been tested on Windows XP. No system files will be overwritten during installation.).....(free).....

The PrivacyBar toolbar offers a complete set of privacy and security tools with Easy Access, providing Instant Security Controls with a mouse click. No more digging in preferences menus or editing complicated configuration screens. Just point to the toolbar, select the privacy and security options you require: light to paranoid, and surf .....(free).....

Privacy Mantra cleans your computer from online and offline tracks. Most people are unaware of that every web site they have visited remains in the undeletable index.dat file, even after the Internet history and cache has been removed. Your system is also keeping information of executables you run, movies you watch and documents you open. Some of these prints can't be deleted manually as they are locked by the system. Privacy Mantra will erase and wash away most privacy threats in your machine including, Internet history, cache, cookies, index.dat files, auto-complete forms, search assistant, recent documents, open/save dialogs, run files and more. Privacy Mantra allows the user to easily download the latest database of threats. It will not only protect your privacy but also free disk space by deleting junk files. Privacy Mantra is Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 compatible.....(free).....

Process Hacker is a tool for viewing and manipulating processes and their threads, modules, memory and handles. It shows system services. It can also search through process memory: for a sequence of bytes, using regular expressions, for strings, or for heap blocks. It can run programs as another user or as SYSTEM, LOCAL SERVICE or NETWORK SERVICE if you have administator privileges. This is achieved using a helper program which is installed as a system service (similar to PsExec). It loads symbols from various libraries automatically and uses them when displaying the call stacks of threads (just like Process Explorer). It also has a disassembler derived from OllyDbg's which can be accessed when viewing PE files' exports .....(free).....

Process Lasso is a unique new technology intended to automatically adjust the allocation of CPU cycles so that system responsiveness is improved in high-load situations. It does this by dynamically temporarily lowering the priorities of processes that are consuming too many CPU cycles, there-by giving other processes a chance to run if they are in need. This is useful for both single and multi-core processors. No longer will a single process be able to bring your system to a virtual stall. In addition, Process Lasso offers capabilities such as default process priorities, default process CPU affinities, termination of disallowed processes, and logging of processes executed. Process Lasso does all this while consuming almost no system resources thanks to being written in native C++ code, using native win32 APIs complimented with NT native APIs for process management (instead of toolhelp or psapi). Also, we used advanced data structures to track processes in the most efficient way possible. No other competing product can claim the efficiency of Process Lasso .....(free).....

Enhances the functionality of Windows Task Manager by providing a security risk rating, a process description, and file path. The security risk rating indicates the likelihood of the process being potential spyware, malware, a Trojan, or keylogger.....(free).....

This program scans devices on your local network or the Internet to determine if they are accessible from your computer. Use it to Quickly determine if there is a problem on your home or small business network, Identify and locate intermittent network problems, Monitor your favorite web servers to see if they are up or down. The program uses the ECHO protocol to test each device at regular intervals and displays the devices status in the main window. A log file records status changes of each device, providing useful troubleshooting information. If a computer can not be reached, the reason why is displayed in the status column.....(free).....

Program Protector is state of art security utility, which allows you to password protect programs. You can password protect any Windows application. This functionality is achieved by modifying executable file of the application, so that it requires to enter valid password before program can start.....(shareware, $18.95 after trial).....

Web mashups and the web as platform.....(free).....

According to Microsoft, "After you install Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2), some programs may seem not to work. By default, Windows Firewall is enabled and blocks unsolicited connections to your computer. This article discusses how to make an exception and enable a program to run by adding it to the list of exceptions. This procedure permits the program to work as it did before the service pack was installed".....(free).....

Project Dakota is a easy way to update Windows XP. It's an ISO to burn to CD that contains all the updates found on the Windows Update Website, including Service Pack 2, with a small standalone programs that run the updates in the order specified by Microsoft according to the order set by Microsoft .....(free).....

Protect Folders is a utility to prevent malicious users from unwanted access to your sensitive data. The free version can protect three folders, five megabytes each.....(free).....

Windows Vulnerability Scanner checks your system for Windows Vulnerabilities. It guides you to update with the right patch to make your system secure. (Must give an email address to dl).....(free).....

Protonic.com is an online community that provides technical support to computer users for free. We prefer to call our users "Clients," because we have the philosophy that, despite our service being free, you should still receive the highest quality technical support.....(free).....

Protowall is a lightweight program that runs in the background, taking up little CPU and memory, while blocking thousands of bad IP addresses. In Protowall, all the work is done by the driver that filters each packet, extracts the IP header and then compares the address with the ones in the table, then either discards or permits the packet to pass. The GUI is essentially a "driver instructor" that communicates to the driver the IP list to check against. The GUI also receives notifications from the driver when a packet arrives and when actions are performed with a packet. Protowall Blocks both inbound and outbound packets. Protowall blocks incoming packets from Internet addresses that are on the Bluetack Blacklists.....(free).....

Free, highly flexible, user-configurable, small but very powerful, local HTTP web-filtering proxy .....(free).....

Simple change to the configuration of your web browser, setting it such that it avoids making connections to banner advertisement servers and avoids downloading ad images. If your browser can't connect to the advertisement server, it can't show you the ad image. The trick behind this is that it uses a mechanism already built into most recent browsers (IE, Netscape, Mozilla, and Opera) and available on most platforms (Windows, Mac, UNIX) .....(free).....

Proxy Changer is a windows program that runs in the system tray and allows you to quickly change between proxy servers, or to quickly change proxy settings. Simply setup proxy servers in the program and set one as default and one as an alternate to be able to quickly switch between them. Can also enable and disable proxy, set to automatically detect settings, or to use the automatic configuration setting, all from the system tray within a few clicks. Ideal for users who use a laptop between home and work, or for anyone who needs to quickly and effortlessly be able to change a proxy setting in IE. All settings are changed on the fly without the need to restart Internet Explorer .....(free).....

It takes way too many clicks to turn your Internet Explorer proxy on and off. After installing ProxyPal, just add it to your IE toolbar and you have one click access to toggle your proxy. This is very useful for corporate latptops that connect to the Internet away from work. Install ProxyPal today to put an end to seven-clicking your proxy on and off.....(free).....

If you ever needed to switch between different proxy servers while surfing the net, then this program is for you, it allows you to define list of proxy servers and switch between them just in a couple mouse clicks.....(free).....

ProxyWay is a free proxy server agent which you can use together with your web browser to ensure your anonymity when you surf the Internet and download files: anonymous proxy surfing, changing computer information that is sent out by your web browser. ProxyWay provides an extended proxy management system that enables you to search for, analyze, validate proxy servers and create proxy chains.....(free).....

PRTG Traffic Grapher is the perfect small tool for quick and easy bandwidth monitoring via SNMP, NetFlow and packet sniffing. It installs in a few minutes and provides current and historic bandwidth usage data for your network.. Free for personal and commercial use but the free version is limited to ten sensors.....(free).....

Alternative to the Start menu and the Quick Launch panel. Quickly run apps, open docs, go to folders and web pages, send mail to a specified address, more.....(free).....

Universal editor, useful for people who work with plain text - the editor has a wealth of formatting functions, including a spell checker, create web pages - as a web authoring editor, PSPad contains many unique tools that save your time, want to use a good IDE for their compiler - PSPad catches and parses compiler output, integrates external help files, compares versions and much more.....(free).....

The Windows NT and Windows 2000 Resource Kits come with a number of command-line tools that help you administer your Windows NT/2K systems. This is a collection of similar tools, including some not included in the Resource Kits. What sets these tools apart is that they all allow you to manage remote systems as well as the local one. The first tool in the suite was PsList, a tool that lets you view detailed information about processes, and the suite is continually growing. The "Ps" prefix in PsList relates to the fact that the standard UNIX process listing command-line tool is named "ps", so I've adopted this prefix for all the tools in order to tie them together into a suite of tools named PsTools. Note: some anti-virus scanners report that one or more of the tools are infected with a "remote admin" virus. None of the PsTools contain viruses, but they have been used by viruses, which is why they trigger virus notifications. The tools included in the PsTools suite, which are downloadable as a package, are: PsExec - execute processes remotely, PsFile - shows files opened remotely, PsGetSid - display the SID of a computer or a user, PsInfo - list information about a system, PsKill - kill processes by name or process ID, PsList - list detailed information about processes, PsLoggedOn - see who's logged on locally and via resource sharing (full source is included), PsLogList - dump event log records, PsPasswd - changes account passwords, PsService - view and control services, PsShutdown - shuts down and optionally reboots a computer, PsSuspend - suspends processes, PsUptime - shows you how long a system has been running since its last reboot (PsUptime's functionality has been incorporated into PsInfo). All of the utilities in the PsTools suite work on Windows Vista, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. The PsTools download package includes an HTML help file with complete usage information for all the tools.....(free).....

There are times when you want to be sure that no one can listen to your online conversations. Whether exchanging credit card numbers, or discussing sensitive corporate material, or sharing delicate personal information, you need to be sure of your privacy. Most chat and instant messaging programs route your communications through central servers, and/or relay your messages in plain text for all to see. Enter PSST... With PSST, your private messages don't go through any server - they are peer to peer, direct from your PC to the PC of the person you're talking to. Also, they're encrypted, meaning that nobody without a lot of expensive resources can eavesdrop on you. All encryption is handled automatically in the background, so you don't have to mess around with complicated keys and so forth.....(free).....

PStart is a simple menu tool designed to run portable applications (like portable Firefox & Thunderbird). Install PStart to your USB stick to launch portable applications easily and open important documents or folders.....(free).....

Accurately measure program execution time.....(free).....

Free online book, by James Boyle, introduces readers to the idea of the public domain and describes how it is being tragically eroded by our current copyright, patent, and trademark laws. In a series of fascinating case studies, Boyle explains why gene sequences, basic business ideas and pairs of musical notes are now owned, why jazz might be illegal if it were invented today, why most of 20th century culture is legally unavailable to us, and why today?s policies would probably have smothered the World Wide Web at its inception. Appropriately given its theme, the book will be sold commercially but also made available online for free under a Creative Commons license......(free).....

High speed defragmentation, includes Individual file or folder defrag. Puran Defrag is a very simple defragmentation utility. Upgrades your hard disk performance and thus overall system speed. In addition it results in low wear and tear of hard disk and therefore increases its life.....(free).....

This is a must have utility! Have you ever copied some text from a web page, a word document, help, etc., and wanted to paste it as simple text into another application without getting all the formatting from the original source? PureText makes this simple. Just copy/cut whatever you want to the clipboard, click on the PureText tray icon, and then paste to any application. Better yet, you can configure a hot-key to convert and paste the text for you. The pasted text will be pure and free from all formatting. After running PureText.exe, you will see a "PT" tray icon appear near your clock. To convert the data currently in the clipboard to pure text, simply click on the tray icon with the left mouse button.....(free).....

Make your PrintScreen (and alt-print screen) button work the way it ought. Save to file (bmp, png, jpg), print to printer, or copy to dumb ol' clipboard. Works in any version of windows since Win95, and it's only 114k.....(free).....

PuTTY is a free implementation of Telnet and SSH for Win32 and Unix platforms, along with an xterm terminal emulator.....(free).....

Easily identify and remove crapware from a new (or old) PC. "The PC Decrapifier is a program designed to remove or uninstall a specific list of unwanted software in an unattended fashion. It can be used to clean off most of the annoying software that is typically shipped with new PCs."

Details on the processes of your computer. "Process Hacker is a feature-packed tool for manipulating processes and services on your computer."

Print to PDF. "PDFCreator is a free tool to create PDF files from nearly any Windows application."

Vertical shoot 'em up. "Defeat retro enemies modernly. Retro-modern hi-speed shmup."

You have dozens of accounts on all kinds of websites and other systems, each of whom wants you to pick a secure password. But they all have different rules, and anyway, you can't even remember one secure password that consists of a random string of letters and numbers, let alone dozens of them! So, you use simple, easy to remember (and easy to guess) passwords, or you use the same password everywhere. We all do it. But in these days of identity theft, that is a very bad idea! Enter PasswordCard. A PasswordCard is a credit card-sized card you keep in your wallet, which lets you pick very secure passwords for all your websites, without having to remember them! You just keep them with you, and even if your wallet does get stolen, the thief will still not know your actual passwords Thanks to Sequimtech Blog

Increase your control over processes and windows, and set sticking priorities. PMW adds following menus to system menu of any application. 1. Kill 2. Priority 3. Remember Priority for Application 4. Hide me 5. Hide Others 6. Always on top 7. Minimize to system tray 8. Transparency. This version of PMW also adds following items to tray menu of its own. 1. Kill All 2. Kill [Introduced in v2.0.886] 3. Hide All 4. Unhide All 5. Unhide

ProgressBar Clock is a normal clock that shows seconds, minutes, hours, years, months and days. The time is mainly shown in progressbar form, but labels have been added for an accurate time. ProgressBar Clock also has a stylish glassy look. Thanks to Instant Fundas

This compact program allows you to save the priority you specify for any process on your system, so you won't have to change priorities every time you start a program

Comprehensive online library of processes is for everyone who needs to know the exact nature and purpose of every process that should, and should not, be running on their PC

Portable Start Menu is a simple and free start menu application that can be installed on USB sticks or local PCs. Organize your programs in a simple menu system and launch them via a tray icon. If you close Portable Start Menu on an USB-Stick, running applications can be closed automatically, too

PicPick is an all-in-one software for software developers, graphic designers and home user. It has an intuitive interface and simple, elegant operation. After starting the software, you simply select one of the tool from the PicPick Tools trayicon menu when you want. It features a powerful capture tool, image editor, color picker, color palette, pixel ruler, protractor, crosshair, whiteboard and etc. You can use all these tools freely

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The swiss-army knife of QuickTime components. Perian is a free, open source QuickTime component that adds native support for many popular video formats.

PhpSecInfo provides an equivalent to the phpinfo() function that reports security information about the PHP environment, and offers suggestions for improvement. It is not a replacement for secure development techniques, and does not do any kind of code or app auditing, but can be a useful tool in a multilayered security approach.

Planet M.U.L.E. is a free remake and tribute of the original game M.U.L.E. from Ozark Softscape

One way to protect your machine is to lock it using a simple USB drive which can be used in the same way you use your key to turn on your car. PREDATOR locks your PC when you are away, even if your Windows session is still opened. It uses a regular USB flash drive as an access control device. Free for non-commercial use. Thanks to Web Talk

Prevent cut, paste, copy, delete, re-naming of files & folders. Prevent: 1. Stops Cut 2. Stops Paste 3. Stops Copy 4. Stops Delete 5. Stops Copy To 6. Stops Move to 7. Stops Send To 8. Prevents renaming 9. Disables Task Manager’s End Process button. Also it doesn’t allow you to right click on process name and click on end process. It also grays out the context menu items, disable Ctrl+C, Ctrl+X and Ctrl+V and/or stops the process.

Partition Find & Mount implements a new concept of deleted or lost partition recovery. It works in the most convenient way possible — by locating and mounting partitions into the system, thus making those lost partitions available to you like any generic disk volume. Partition Find & Mount will also work in case any Boot Record (including the Master Boot Record) is missing, damaged or overwritten

PStart is a simple tray tool to start user defined applications. Designed to run portable applications (like portable Firefox & Thunderbird), you can start anything runnable from USB key devices or removable disks

PMeter is a very handy pixel meter. There are plenty of desktop rulers around, but it's hard to find a good one, which is free. PMeter is a simple to use desktop ruler allowing to switch between 3 user configurations easily. For each configuration you can set width and colors individually, choose to add a desktop magnifier to your ruler, and more. PMeter also includes a color picker in case you need to know or work with the color of any pixel visible on your screen. The additional display for mouse cursor coordinates might also be useful for you

Free partitioning tool. The Parted Magic OS employs core programs of GParted and Parted to handle partitioning tasks with ease, while featuring other useful programs (e.g. Partition Image, TestDisk, Truecrypt, Clonezilla, G4L, SuperGrubDisk, ddrescue, etc...) and an excellent set of documentation to benefit the user. An extensive collection of file system tools are also included, as Parted Magic supports the following: ext2, ext3, ext4, fat16, fat32, hfs, hfs+, jfs, linux-swap, ntfs, reiserfs, reiser4, and xfs. Parted Magic requires at least a i586 processor and 256MB of RAM to operate or 128MB in "Live" mode

Want to touch up photos like a professional Photoshop artist? No need to pour over dozens of Photoshop tutorials or spend hundreds of hours in practice, just use Portrait Professional – the automatic portrait airbrushing software that has been "trained" in human beauty. Exceptionally fast and easy to use, and capable of the highest quality touch up, it lets you improve your photos instantly, just by moving sliders. Portrait Professional allows unskilled users to get sophisticated fully professional touch-up in minutes. Thanks to instant fundas

Predator can lock and protect your PC with a USB flash drive as a key. Thanks to gHacks

Phatch is an user friendly, cross-platform Photo Batch Processor and Exif Renamer with a nice graphical user interface. Phatch handles all popular image formats and can duplicate (sub)folder hierarchies. Phatch can batch resize, rotate, apply shadows, perspective, rounded corners, … and do much more actions in minutes instead of hours or days if you do it manually

PingPlotter Freeware is a high performance, low-overhead traceroute application. It allows you to quickly "trace" the route between you and a target of your choice (a web site, Voice over IP provider, online game server, or similar target), and then continue to collect performance metrics about that route. Packet loss and latency numbers are available within seconds, and the results are displayed in a graphical format, in addition to text values. This allows you to quickly see if the final destination is performing as you expect, and if it's not, you can see which hop is causing the problems

PhotoRec is file data recovery software designed to recover lost files including video, documents and archives from Hard Disks and CDRom and lost pictures (thus, its 'Photo Recovery' name) from digital camera memory. PhotoRec ignores the filesystem and goes after the underlying data, so it will still work even if your media's filesystem has been severely damaged or re-formatted

Process Monitor is an advanced monitoring tool for Windows that shows real-time file system, Registry and process and thread activity. It combines the features of two legacy Sysinternals utilities, Filemon and Regmon, and adds an extensive list of enhancements including rich and non-destructive filtering, comprehensive event properties such session IDs and user names, reliable process information, full thread stacks with integrated symbol support for each operation, simultaneous logging to a file, and much more. Its uniquely powerful features will make Process Monitor a core utility in your system troubleshooting and malware hunting toolkit

Perfgraph is a CPU, memory, network, hardware monitor. It is implemented as an Explorer toolbar so it does not necessarily take up space from your desktop. A quick overview of its features: CPU utilization display for up to 8 cores, Memory utilization indicator, Network throughput monitoring via SNMP, Network performance & reliability monitoring by pinging remote hosts, CPU temperatures, Chipset temperatures & fan speeds, HDD temperature, Gigabyte Odin PSU support (voltage, current, power, etc.), Very lightweight: minimal CPU and memory utilization. Perfgraph will run on both x86 and x64 versions of Windows XP or later

PDFTools is a PDF management application. It can encrypt, decrypt, join, split, stamp, create and rearrange a PDF file. Version 1.1+ includes a very powerful and simple to use XML to PDF converter

Product Key Finder is a free Windows application that retrieves license key information (CD Keys) from the Windows registry. Product Key Finder currently supports retrieval of 200+ windows applications such Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office and Adobe Acrobat

It then lets the user choose one power scheme that will be used during the working day and a second power scheme that will be used at night. During the day none of us want our PC to switch off the monitor or the hard drives or even power down just because we went for a coffee however, if we leave our PC on all night then after work hours it should be okay to power some of these devices down. When PowerSlave sees that the time has gone past the end of your working day it switches to the night-time power scheme. When you come back in the morning it will see that we are back in work hours and automatically switch back to your chosen day time plan

The pdf toolkit. If PDF is electronic paper, then pdftk is an electronic staple-remover, hole-punch, binder, secret-decoder-ring, and X-Ray-glasses. Pdftk is a simple tool for doing everyday things with PDF documents. Keep one in the top drawer of your desktop and use it to:, , Merge PDF Documents, Split PDF Pages into a New Document, Rotate PDF Pages or Documents, Decrypt Input as Necessary (Password Required), Encrypt Output as Desired, Fill PDF Forms with FDF Data or XFDF Data and/or Flatten Forms, Apply a Background Watermark or a Foreground Stamp, Report on PDF Metrics such as Metadata, Bookmarks, and Page Labels, Update PDF Metadata, Attach Files to PDF Pages or the PDF Document, Unpack PDF Attachments, Burst a PDF Document into Single Pages, Uncompress and Re-Compress Page Streams, Repair Corrupted PDF (Where Possible), Pdftk allows you to manipulate PDF easily and freely. It does not require Acrobat, and it runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD and Solaris

You've got a huge music collection in your iTunes at home. You want to access that music from the office, at a friend's party, or let other people hear it from anywhere in the world. Install pulpTunes and access your music from anywhere, through a web browser

PowerResizer is a utility that provides many facilities in moving or resizing windows in a Microsoft(R) Windows(R) desktop environment: one of the key-features of PowerResizer is windows-docking

Software to keep track of your stolen laptop. Prey is a simple and lightweight program that will help you track and find your laptop if it ever gets stolen. It works in all operating systems and not only is it Open Source but also completely free

PDF Security, Copy Protection, Digital Rights Management (DRM) and Distribution Management Solution. PDF Security, DRM, Protection and Distribution Management technologies are used as a copyright enforcement mechanisms and sometimes as an alternative mechanism to copyright law. Granting exclusive ownership rights to authors and creators through Copyrights, Security and DRM, allows for a better chance of enrichment of more and more creativities and cultural products, and they can nominally compensate their efforts and costs. Intellectual efforts for producing a product or artifact must be appropriately prizes and we must prevent people to benefit from such products free of charge. PDF Security and DRM provides a better base for protecting contents against illegal distributions, usages and sells. PDF Security and Digital Rights Management (DRM) systems are provided to ease distribution of PDF documents for end users by enforcing some usage and distribution limitations like printing, copying, save, transfer

Freeware Registry Cleaner. Detects and fixes registry errors, Finds and cleans unneeded registry junk. Finds leftover temp files. Clears History and MRU data. Safe to use - automatic backup feature. Multilingual user interface

PowerResizer is a utility that provides many facilities in moving or resizing windows in a Microsoft Windows desktop environment. One of the key-features of PowerResizer is window-docking: with PowerResizer you can organize your window in an intelligent way. Try the following: run PowerResizer, then dock a window in the left-half of your screen (simply dragging-it with your mouse to the left of your screen) and another window in the right-half; now you can resize them using either the left border of the right window or the right border of the left window... the magic happens! So, if you want either compare some documents or rapidly resize and move your windows, PowerResizer allows you to do some actions (such as resizing a window mantaining its center point fixed) by using some keyboard shortcuts during moving or resizing that window (see Readme file included in setup package or sources). Thanks to Freeware Genius

Windows Operating Systems use the AUTORUN.INF file from removable drives in order to know which actions to perform when a new external storage device, such as a USB drive or CD/DVD, is inserted into the PC. The problem is that this feature, widely critizised by the security community, is used by malware in order to spread by infecting as soon as a new drive is inserted in a computer. Due to the large amount of malware-related problems associated with Microsoft AutoRun we have created a free utility for our user community called Panda USB Vaccine

Long list of links to available open source PDF readers

pserv.cpl is a Windows NT/2000 Control Panel Applet that allows you to control all NT or 2000 services and adds some additional functionality that the standard services applet does not offer. You can also connect to remote machines, install new services, remove invalid entries and more. The program offers a simple, color code display, that allows you to quickly identify which services are running, stopped or invalid. Items can also be exported to HTML, XML and clipboard

Monitor data through your computers Ethernet network ports, support to capture all network packets bypassing the protocol stack. You can use this free network utility to monitor all your network adapters in your PC, not only local computer, this program can monitor and capture remote host packet. This useful network utility has some powerful features for analyzing all network packages, including kernel level packet filtering, network statistics engine and more. This program can work smoothly under most Windows operating systems; include Windows XP, 2003, 2000 and Windows Vista. This is one handy tool for normal users, programmers and network administrator

Currently just an automated process killer. It means that the running of an application is not blocked and a little time (less than one second) can pass until the tool kills a process. But more is to come

Ever read one of those top ten lists or photo galleries where every item is on a different page? You spend more time clicking "Next" and waiting than actually reading anything. PageZipper is a free bookmarklet which automatically merges all the "Next" pages into one, so you can skip directly to the stuff you want

Pitaschio includes a large number of useful functions. Snap a window to other windows when moving and resizing. Restrict a window position to inside of the screen. Always keep a window above all other windows. Minimize a window to the system tray. Use small icons in the desktop. Disable Windows key, Insert key, Alt key etc. Lock the mouse or keyboard while cleaning them. Take statistics about mouse and keyboard. Control the sound volume using the mouse wheel. Display the sound volume level on the screen. The Pitaschio is a essential tool to use windows efficiently

Tired of printing web pages only to find your printout is full of ads, empty space and other junk you don't want? PrintWhatYouLike is a free online editor that lets you format any web page for printing in seconds. Thanks to gHacks

What is Port Triggering Initiator? When you use port triggering on your router a connection attempt must be made from your computer to an address on the trigger port. When you router detects the connection attempt your router then turns on the ports, thus you have port triggering, a on/off switch for port forwarding. Well the problem comes if you are using port trigging for a program that doesn't make a connection attempt, such as say a ftp server or hosting a game. If a connection is never detected the router never enables the ports. Well that's what Port Triggering Initiator is designed for. You enter the triggering port to make a connection on and give it a address outside your network. Any address will do even if the connection fails its the attempt that triggers the port

Have you ever wondered why you can pin applications to the start menu, but you can't pin folders? There's a number of articles around that tell you how to pin them using complicated registry hacks, but there's actually a very simple way to do it

A PURL is a Persistent Uniform Resource Locator. Functionally, a PURL is a URL. However, instead of pointing directly to the location of an Internet resource, a PURL points to an intermediate resolution service. The PURL resolution service associates the PURL with the actual URL and returns that URL to the client. The client can then complete the URL transaction in the normal fashion. In Web parlance, this is a standard HTTP redirect

When you access the Internet with your web browser, a lot of things happen that are hidden to you. The browser and the website exchange "headers" that define the behaviour of the browser's cache system, create or use cookies, tell the website who you are and where you came from, and so on. Moreover, the page's html code contains hidden tags or javascript programs that control the browser's behaviour, such as "mouse-over" animation, page layering, URL masking or pop-up messages. And last but not least, the page often contains ads and banners that pollute the screen and slow down your web experience. Proximodo acts as a mediator between the browser and the website. It "sees" everything that is going on and, according to your choices, modifies headers and html page content on-the-fly to make things right. You don't want pop-ups and banners? Just activate the corresponding filters and they will disappear. You want cookies to be deleted when you close your browser? Proximodo will do it for you. You want a fast navigation in the pages you already visited? Page caching will be forced. Basically, Proximodo is a clone of a great piece of software called The Proxomitron, developed by Scott R. Lemmon. Now that for sad reasons Proxomitron is unmaintained, I started this project to carry on the idea. Though a few Proxomitron features are still missing in Proximodo (mainly SSL support) the essential is already there: 100% of Proxomitron filters will run under Proximodo (plus there is a menu to import your custom Proxomitron filters). Proximodo currently comes with default Proxomitron filters, which can do quite a lot of different things. But you can write your own filters, using a powerful syntax that, despite its seeming complexity, is quite easy to use and master.

This is Portable Chrome - built with Code of Chromium. Just download, extract and start with ChromeLoader.exe. Chromeloader.exe is a simple AutoIt-Script – compiled to an exe-File. According to the author, if you get an error from your AV: it’s just a false poitive, because ChromeLoader.exe was packed with UPX. All settings are stored in Profil folder

The Proxy Switcher is a small tray icon type utility that allows you to select whether Windows and Mozilla Firefox should use a proxy server for Internet access in a couple of clicks. No more digging around in the Internet Options screen for Windows or the Advaced tab in Firefox. Simply right click on the tray icon and choose 'Home' for a direct connection to the Internet or 'Office' to use the proxy, there is even an 'Auto' option which will change the setting for you when you connect to your work/home or work VPN network. Proxy Switcher will even inform your windows environment of the changes so you don't even need to restart applications such as Internet Explorer or MSN Messenger when the proxy settings change

Proxomitron lets you view the web the way YOU want. Getting rid of many common annoyances is as simple as clicking on one of the filtering rules included with the program, but best of all, the Proxomitron's rules aren't "hard-coded". You can look at them, modify them, even write entirely new ones! If you know some HTML, you'll find the Proxomitron allows you to personally customize just about any web page you view. You'll no longer be at some web-master's tender mercy. Even if you know no HTML, you'll find the included rules give you far more control than you've ever had before, and my hopes are that other Proxomitron user will contribute useful rules they've written for the benefit of everyone. Besides filtering web pages, The Proxomitron also allows you to control the normally hidden HTTP header messages that pass between your browser and the outside world. Many people are unaware that this covert conversation is even taking place, yet it can reveal all sorts of information. See exactly what your web browser has to say, then have it tell the world only what you want! Even those notorious "cookies" can be deleted or modified if you wish. Proxomitron: a free, highly flexible, user-configurable, small but very powerful, local HTTP web-filtering proxy

A simple, fast, and powerful backup program. Customize the program to your needs. Allows you to backup whole folders/directories, or individual files, or files matching a search pattern. Organizes your backup tasks into groups to keep you on top of what would otherwise be a complicated job

Software for indexing CDs, DVDs and any other types of disks. Primitive Disk Indexer is a simple program that will allow you to save the file structure of any disk. It will allow you to view what folders and files there are on a disk even if you do not have this disk. For example, if you have a large CD and DVD collection, you will be able to view what files there are on any disk without even having to touch that disk and insert it into the CD drive The program has an Explorer-like interface. Disks of any type are supported: floppy disks, CDs, DVDs, hard disks, USB disks and others. The program is absolutely free and does not require installation.

Completely hides the taskbar until the Windows key is pushed. By Skrommel

Every week we learn about a new tip to enhance the taskbar, and it is hard to keep them all straight. Here's the Lifehacker power user guide to tweaking and using your taskbar.....(free).....

Pidgin is an easy to use and free chat client used by millions. Connect to AIM, MSN, Yahoo, and a million other chat networks all at once .....(free).....

This free time tracking tool shows the times your computer has been active during the last 3 weeks, with no previous setup required. The software doesn't need to run in the background, because Windows OS tracks logon and logoff/standby times (working hours) by default, and the program analyses it .....(free).....

PeStudio is a free tool performing the static analysis and investigation of any Windows executable binary. A file being analyzed with PeStudio is never launched. Therefore you can evaluate unknown executable and even malware with no risk.

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