Apple's Mac browser ported to Windows. Try the beta .....(free).....

Safarp is a small and fast alternative to the Add or Remove Programs Control Panel applet of Windows 2000/XP. It displays a list of the installed programs and allows one to uninstall / repair them .....(free).....

Safavor is a browser independent bookmark manager which can be stored on a USB stick (or on any other storage medium) to ensure easy transport.....(free).....

Firefox Add-on segments the cache on the basis of the originating document, defending against web privacy attacks that remote sites can use to determine your browser history at other sites .....(free).....

SafeDelete is an advanced security tool for Windows that allows you to completely remove sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it several times with carefully selected patterns. The patterns used for overwriting are based on Peter Gutmann's paper Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid-State Memory and are selected to effectively remove magnetic remnants from the hard drive. Other methods include the one defined in the National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual of the U.S. Department of Defence, and overwriting with pseudorandom data. You can also define your own overwriting methods. Delete any file using a variety of overwrite patterns.. Comply with the Department of Defense and the Gutmann overwipe pattern. Ability to encrypt and decrypt files using the super-strong AES 256-bit encryption.....(free).....

SafeSquid is a robust Content Filtering Internet Proxy server that allows you to - distribute Web-access to a large number of users remove unwanted content, increase privacy, and to simply make surfing the Web a more pleasant experience. SafeSquid helps you ... STOP Getting lured by fraudulent web-links to visit pornographic sites, BLOCK Advertisement pop-ups that drive you crazy, PREVENT Employees from wasting business-hours and resources on needless downloads, PREVENT Computers from getting infected with viruses / Trojan by a visit to innocent looking web-sites AVOID losing precious hours trying to implement - optimal and clean Internet access for all your users. For Linux servers.....(free).....

Safe XP allows users to quickly tweak various security and privacy related settings in XP. The options include Media Player settings, Services settings (error reporting, time synch, remote registry etc.), as well as and option to remove items from the Start menu, network security settings and more. Safe XP improves your system performance and makes Windows run faster, more secure and reliable! It is suitable for beginners and experts. CAUTION--This program automatically changes many settings in your Windows config. You may not know which settings are changed. And some have indicated there may be problems restoring the system.....(free).....

Safety.Net offers Internet security, content security and advanced Internet firewall protection for all your LAN computers, and trust controls to block unwanted or harmful applications from accessing the network. You can define granular user or computer specific access controls based on site, content, PICS ratings and time of day. You can monitor connection level network activity round-the-clock and view detailed reports to analyze traffic and usage patterns. Free for non-commercial use.....(free).....

Are you an IT professional, an overclocker, a gamer, a desktop modder? If so, you've come to the right place. Samurize provides all the information you need about all your computers in one central location on your desktop. Skinnable and customizable, Samurize features a script plugin system which allows you to add the information you want, when you want it. Some examples of information that Samurize can provide right on your desktop are: CPU Usage, Disk utilization, Network traffic, system temperatures, Top processes, Memory information, WMI classes and much much more.....(free for personal use).....

3D Video Game Design Creation Software Tool. Platinum Arts Sandbox is the game design tool based on the Cube 2 engine that allows users to quickly and easily create and edit their own worlds in game, even cooperatively. It is free, open source, and easy to use for Kids and Adults.....(free).....

Run programs and web browsers and apps inside an isolated environment so they can't affect your system. Think of your PC as a piece of paper. Every program you run writes on the paper. When you run your browser, it writes on the paper about every site you visited. And any malware you come across will usually try to write itself into the paper. Traditional privacy and anti-malware software try to locate and erase any writings they think you wouldn't want on the paper. Most of the times they get it right. But first the makers of these solutions must teach the solution what to look for on the paper, and also how to erase it safely. On the other hand, the Sandboxie sandbox works like a transparency layer placed over the paper. Programs write on the transparency layer and to them it looks like the real paper. When you delete the sandbox, it's like removing the transparency layer, the unchanged, real paper is revealed.....(free).....

SanityCheck is an advanced rootkit and malware detection tool for Windows which thoroughly scans the system for threats and irregularities which indicate malware or rootkit behavior. By making use of special deep inventory techniques, this program detects hidden and spoofed processes, hidden threads, hidden drivers and a large number of hooks and hacks which are typically the work of rootkits and malware. It offers a comprehensible report which gives a detailed explanation of any irregularities found and offers suggestions on how to solve or further investigate any situation (Go to Free Downloads).....(free).....

Satsuki Decoder Pack: open any media file from any app with this nifty decoder pack .....(free).....

Program intended to intelligently allow you to change the location of My Documents, Desktop, Favorites, History and SendTo .....(free).....

Some (read: many) programs do not support auto save. This program saves your work every X minutes, and all you have to do is specify when and give the application title (if you don't, the program saves your work in the current application). Note: If pressing Ctrl+S does not save in an application, Saver will not either.....(free).....

Here is a compiled list of software that will not only allow you to do everything Adobe Creative Suite allows, but it also costs less. Uhmm?.actually it happens that they are all free. .....(free).....

SayPad is a freeware talking text editor that can read you a good book or help you write one, using the latest speech technology. It carefully installs the SAPI 5.1 Text To Speech engine from a compact 8.2 megabyte download. This is a quick and painless way to get the SAPI5 TTS onto your system, plus it does cool things like read to you with natural phrasing as a person would. SayPad can now convert Text to MP3, even a whole book in one run, splitting off chapters into separate, well named MP3 files you can burn onto a CD.....(free).....

A Talking Digital Clock which speaks on demand, or according to a schedule (at specific time intervals, between the times of day you select), using either pre-recorded Real Speech or Text To Speech (TTS). Features a powerful recurring alarm notification option, beep-before-speak option and visual speech indicator. Lets you swiftly change from one voice to another, as well as the mode of operation (Announce Time or Alarm mode) of the application.....(free).....

Sayz Me is a very simple text to speech reader. Copy text from web pages, emails or documents and this free utility will read the words out aloud to you. Sayz Me uses the Microsoft speech engine and synthetic voices. Listen to text and give your eyes a rest. Great accessibility software as you can adjust the font size and color to assist reading. Very simple and easy to use .....(free).....

SC-QuickStart offers several superior methods for launching your favorite applications, opening documents, websites, folders, directories and starting common Windows tasks. Forget the cumbersome Windows start menu! Now you can launch your favorite tasks and programs using SC-QuickStart's convenient control panel, a system tray menu bar or with handy keyboard shortcuts called hotkeys. SC-QuickStart will allow you to simplify and speed up work on your computer considerably by providing you quick and simple access to the most frequently used actions. Create so-called QuickStart objects for the frequently used actions with an easy wizard. Organize the QuickStart objects in the control panel and the system tray menu to set up your own launching solution .....(free).....

Beats the lame XP search function. Use ScanDir to search (multiple) directories for all files or a selection of files. Select files based on filename, path, extension, filesize and / or filedate. Scan results can be printed or saved to an ASCII textfile. Output header, seperator characterand output format are customizable. You can Delete, Purge, Rename, Copy, Move or change Attributes of the selected files.....(free).....

Interesting media usage visualization tool. Displays a special pie chart, including all major files and folders. Outer segments represent deeper directory levels. Angle and area size correspond to the space used by the clusters an object covers. Information on a particular object is available by moving the cursor over. Click on a folder segment to zoom into.....(free).....

According to the author, "ScaraOS is a 32bit mutiboot OS kernel for IA32 (PC/AT) systems. I wrote it to teach myself OS fundamentals and just to have a bit of fun. It already has PCI support, the beginnings of a paged memory management system, and the start of a VFS layer. It supports the basic PC/AT stuff such as timer, PIC, keyboard, floppy".....(free).....

Remarks by Stephen Hawking.....(free).....

Shell extension for text editor SciTE (Open with SciTE) for 64-bit windows. For SciTE itself that is not a problem since the 32-bit version runs fine under XP 64. The problem is that the 32-bit shell extension does not work, it just doesn't show up in the 64 bit explorer. Shell extension by Andre Burgaud recompiled it for x6 .....(free).....

A free source code editor for Win32 and X.....(free).....

This is the tiniest of screen capture programs. Prevents having to go paste every screen capture somewhere. The behavior of this one is modeled after the Mac. You run it, and then: alt-shift-3: captures full screen or alt-shift-4: captures current window. Then It makes nice filenames (with a datestamp) and puts BMP files in a folder called "scraps" on your desktop.....(free).....

Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web. Scratch is designed to help young people (ages 8 and up) develop 21st century learning skills. As they create Scratch projects, young people learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also gaining a deeper understanding of the process of design.....(free).....

Listen to internet radio and record it too.....(free).....

ScreenHunter is a screen capture tool which can copy the fullscreen, the active window, the client window or a rectangular area. It features auto-save of capture in BMP or JPG format, save to Clipboard, timed capture (1 to 60 seconds), selectable hotkey capture (F1 to F10), uses virtually no system resources on standby, etc. This is a terrific screen capture tool. While on standby it lives as an icon in the desktray (next to the clock) and uses less than 1% of system resources. This means that it isn't a drain on the system while on standby. It has a fabulous array of options to control the program and it even offers refinements like optionally hiding the icon while a capture is taking place.....(free).....

Use this program to simplify your experience of using Windows, by confining groups of running programs to different "screens" (or virtual desktops), and hiding all running applications other than those on the current screen. As computers become more powerful, it becomes possible to run a great many programs at the same time. This can make the desktop and its task bar crowded and unmanageable. To combat this overload, Screen-It creates 2 virtual desktops (screen pages) on your single physical one. Only one screen page is visible at a time. This program can also launch a number of programs automatically when it starts-up, in a fresh screen or virtual desktop, saving you from having to manually launch a group of programs each time you need to do a certain job. 32 bit Freeware program.....(free).....

Screen Launcher lets you choose any program to run as a screensaver. You could start a Powerpoint, a movie or any EXE or associated file. To install, simply unzip, right-click and click Install on the context menu. You can then use Screen Launcher just like any other screensaver.....(free).....

ScreenMask is a small utility helping you to check your monitor color settings and help you to set up the logical screen on it by providing 8 color and 2 test patterns.....(free).....

Screen Saver Generator converts Html to Screen Saver. With a simple user interface, you can create your Screen Saver just like publishing a website. Unlike other generators, Linkexe Screen Saver Generator creates just one single dot scr file. You probably ask why Html, it is because Html is a well-developed and easy-to-use language. It gives you the full control to script/program a Screen Saver on your own.....(free).....

Freez Screen Video Capture is a tool to record screen activities and sounds as standard AVI video files.....(free).....

Screen Recorder - Create instant screen demos with the highest compression ratio in the world .....(free).....

ScriptDb is a simple console app written in C# that uses SQL Management Objects (SMO) to script all the objects in a database. It will work against any SQL Server 2000 or 2005 database. It creates a directory tree structure with a similar hierarchy to that in Object Explorer in SSMS, with a separate file for each object. It will also (optionally) script the data using bcp.exe. Useful if you want to get the scripts for a database into source control that isn't already under source control. Saves many hours of work.....(free).....

Batch files and scripts are crucial tools for Windows Systems Administrators. The traditional scripting functionality in Windows is robust but the limitations start becoming obvious when you involve multiple remote systems. Enter Script Zombie.....(free).....

ScummVM is a program which allows you to run certain classic graphical point-and-click adventure games, provided you already have their data files. The clever part about this: ScummVM just replaces the executables shipped with the game, allowing you to play them on systems for which they were never designed! Some of the adventures ScummVM supports include Adventure Soft's Simon the Sorcerer 1 and 2; Revolution's Beneath A Steel Sky, Broken Sword 1 and Broken Sword 2; Flight of the Amazon Queen; Wyrmkeep's Inherit the Earth; Coktel Vision's Gobliiins; Westwood Studios' The Legend of Kyrandia and games based on LucasArts' SCUMM (Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion) system such as Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Sam and Max and more. You can find a thorough list with details on which games are supported and how well on the compatibility page. ScummVM is continually improving, so check back often. Among the systems on which you can play those games are Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Dreamcast, PocketPC, PalmOS, AmigaOS, BeOS, OS/2, PSP, PS2, SymbianOS/EPOC and many more.....(free).....

SE-Explorer is a free simple and powerful file manager for Windows. Main Features: Two file windows side by side, Enhanced search function, Tabbed interface, A lot of build-in viewers, Portable version available.....(free).....

SEAL is a 32-bit graphical user interface (GUI) for DOS. It supports many advanced features, such as a dynamic linking system (XDL), sound and other multimedia functions (SFA), multilingual support, and more! The minimum system requirements are as follows: A 486 processor or better, At least 8mb of RAM (you may be able to run SEAL with less, but it is not recommended), A video card which supports at least 640x480 resolution in 256 colours, although 16-bit colour is recommended. At least 1.6mb of hard disk space (more recommended). MS-DOS 3.0 or higher (or compatible - DR-DOS, PC-DOS and FreeDOS all work with SEAL).....(free).....

Seccia is a development software with a new powerful object-oriented programming assisted. In a few words: A full Object-Oriented Programming with Inheritance and Polymorphism. Two modes: assisted programming for novices and a multi-tab auto-complete editor with syntax coloring and checking. A completely new architecture, liberated from the tyranny of MFCs. Everything is being rewritten from the ground up. Much more powerful integrated objects (e.g. a Relational Database object, network and web enabled, possibly with a MySQL bridge at a later date). Alpha transparency in all its glory: true transparency, unlimited irregular windows. An integrated graphics engine unparalleled amongst our competitors. 3D integration with DirectX. C++ and above all Seccia extensions, which become objects in their own right.....(free).....

Very tiny secure notepad: a notepad and file cipher utility. Uses AES-256 and SHA-256 encryption - with such a level of key size, your data are top-secret protected.....(free).....

These are Firefox bookmarklets to aid in security auditing. Click and drag the extentions up to the bookmarks toolbar and click them to perform the intended action when you find a site that you'd like to begin auditing. These were coded up by random people in random places but collected for useful security bookmarklets for by-hand auditing purposes......(free).....

ABC Security Protector is a nice free password protected security utility, which enables you to protect your PC by disabling some features like: use of the MS-DOS command prompt in Windows and real mode DOS applications from within the Windows shell, and disable function keys on boot up like the F5, F6 and F8 keys. The program is very useful if you want to disable the lowlevel access to your system. It's easy to use, reliably protected by the password and excellent online help is also available.....(free).....

The Threats and Countermeasures Guide contains detailed information about relevant security settings that can be configured on Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP.....(free).....

A utility to add Select All to the Explorer context menu.....(free).....

The Web was designed as an information space, with the goal that it should be useful not only for human-human communication, but also that machines would be able to participate and help. One of the major obstacles to this has been the fact that most information on the Web is designed for human consumption, and even if it was derived from a database with well defined meanings (in at least some terms) for its columns, that the structure of the data is not evident to a robot browsing the web. Leaving aside the artificial intelligence problem of training machines to behave like people, the Semantic Web approach instead develops languages for expressing information in a machine processable form. This document gives a road map - a sequence for the incremental introduction of technology to take us, step by step, from the Web of today to a Web in which machine reasoning will be ubiquitous and devastatingly powerful......(free).....

Utility that will send keys repeated to the computer.....(free).....

An enhancement of the Send To system menu. Send To "Folder..." sends a file or files to another folder, you will be shown a dialog box that lets you choose where the files should be copied. Send To "Clipboard (as name)" copies the name of the file or files to the clipboard.....(free).....

Sends selected text to a file and then opens that file in an external application. You can use the context menu or a shortcut.....(free).....

Sendtosendto is not really a program, just a tweak that allows you to very easily create new items in your send-to context menu, thus allowing you to send further items to the new send-to entry.....(freeware).....

Wide ranging list of services running in XP and what they do, whether they're necessary.....(free).....

This extension allows you to save the current state of Firefox (history, text data, cookies) and return to that state at any later moment. Besides the manually saved states, Session Manager automatically stores the current state in case of a crash. All sessions are stored in the "sessions" folder inside your profile directory and can be moved around as any other file. To get to that folder, simply select "Open Session Folder" in Session Manager's menu (might not work on all OSes). Finally, Session Manager also allows to reopen the 10 last closed windows and tabs.....(free).....

Manually set the default Windows web browser.....(free).....

Utility that lets you set the date of one or more files. You can change all three dates (last write, creation and last access). Setdate works as a Windows shell extension, which adds a "Set date" option to all file context menus.....(free).....

Shalom Help Maker (SHM) is an easy to use Windows help file editor that supports images, popup windows, links to other pages, web pages and E-mail addresses, and has automatic updating of links when pages are rearranged, listing of unused bitmaps and popup pages, listing of links to the present page ... and lots more. (SHM makes hlp files, not chm files.) Unlike other help file creators Shalom Help Maker works like any ordinary editor and therefore has practically no learning curve. You don't have to know anything about help file making. Just start typing, insert pictures and write page headers. Hit F4 to see a preview of a page or F9 to compile the whole help file .....(free).....

Add and remove music, videos, playlists and artwork on your iPod. Backup all those tracks your just can't lose onto your computer. Import them easily into your iTunes library.....(free).....

IDE for C Sharp and VB.NET projects on Microsoft's .NET platform. It is open-source, and you can download both sourcecode and executables from this site.....(free).....

Each time that you open a folder in Explorer, Windows automatically save the settings of this folder into the Registry. This utility displays the list of all folder settings saved by Windows. For each folder, the following information is displayed: The date/time that you opened it, the entry number, display mode (Details, Icons, Tiles, and so on...), the last position of the window, and the last size of the window .....(free).....

MiTeC Shell Extension Pack adds new items into system context menu for executables, music and image files and other useful menu items .....(free).....

One of the most complete lists of Windows replacement shells currently available, with links.....(free).....

Small utility that displays the list of static menu items that appear in the context menu when you right-click a file or folder on Windows Explorer, and allows you to easily disable unwanted menu items .....(free).....

Shell Tools is a collection of free Windows shell extensions and utilities. This package contains updated versions of our old shell extensions FontLoader, FileNote, RegisterEx, CopyURL and new ones, including nice control panel that allows you to control all the extensions in one place.....(free).....

The ShellExView utility displays the details of shell extensions installed on your computer, and allows you to easily disable and enable each shell extension .....(free).....

Rootrider, formerly of FPN, has opened up his own shell shop, and it's looking pretty good. News, replacement shells (with the focus on Litestep), and quite a bit more. Put him on your daily rotation, he's going to be on ours.....(free).....

One of our favorite sites for a long time. Shell and software news and downloads. We know you'll like it.....(free).....

Shoot is a speech recognition program that translates your voice commands into arbitrary keystrokes. Perfect for commanding your AI buddies in your favorite flight simulator or FPS! Forget about having to memorize all those keyboard shortcuts, now you can just say what you want to happen. Although was created with games in mind it can be adapted to practically any program by creating an appropriate command profile. Shoot is similar to Game Commander and Gamevoice, but it is free for non-commercial use.....(free).....

Utility that allows you to set up replacement text or paragraphs for any given number of user defined keystrokes. ShortKeys monitors the keyboard activity on a global nature and anytime a user defined keystroke combination is typed in, it will be replaced with the replacement text.....(free version).....

Shortcut Key Explorer helps you manage the list of shortcut keys you have loaded on your computer. Simply run Shortcut Key Explorer and it will automatically load the existing shortcut keys and display them in an easy to read list. From this list you can double-click on any item and edit the properties of the Windows shortcut. This is great for troubleshooting duplicate shortcut keys or shortcut keys you did not even know existed.....(free).....

List of web sites can take a long URL and give you back a shorter URL without requiring registration. Any of these services will do a good job, but if you want to study them before you pick one, there is an informal survey of the competitive landscape.....(free).....

When ShortPopUp is run, it scans its starting directory for all files, and then displays those in a popup menu from your taskbar.....(free).....

Essentially it boils down to this: Windows XP comes with a bunch of pre-loaded software. Lots of it you can't even find in Add/Remove programs. Why? Because Microsoft designed it this way.....(free).....

Shutdown, Power Off, Reboot, Log Off, Suspend or Hibernate -- all from a desktop shortcut or command line.....(free).....

Showcase provides a new way to manage your Firefox tabs and windows by showing them as thumbnails in a single window, tab or sidebar. Includes a find bar that will filter the thumbnails, and the capability to select the thumbnails in the same way you would select files in your system.....(free).....

This is an open source Remote PC access project, an alternative to subscription based sites like WebEx or Gotomypc. ShowMyPC uses SSH port forwarding mechanisms and the Open Source SSH client plink and VNC Remote access software. Users can use their own middle SSH server. No registration, no logins, all open and free.....(free).....

Automatically resize photos for email, instant messenger and web uploads Attach dozens of photos to emails without any problems. Upload to your blog or website in seconds, and share with your friends instantly! Shrink Pic automatically detects when you send photos by email, Instant Messenger or web browser and compresses them for you. There's no need to make duplicates and resize - it all happens instantly, when you send photos.....(free).....

A typical PC shutdown takes forever. Here are a bunch of Registry tweaks that reset Windows to close shop like it's late for the bus ride home. Keep in mind, any changes to the Registry can be troublesome, so you may want to make these alterations one or two at a time just to make sure they don't futz up the works (it'll also be easier to diagnose any problems that may arise). And for sure back up the Registry by creating a restore point before you begin.....(free).....

This addin SAFELY shuts down Microsoft Outlook 2000/XP/2003 when you exit the application rather than allowing it to remain running in the background eating up precious system resources. This recent update now includes the ability for force Outlook to shutdown via the shutdown progress dialog .....(free).....

Shutdown screensaver powers down the computer after 2 minutes from startup. It works on all versions of Windows. It can be very useful if it happens often to you to forget turning off your machine. It displays number of seconds left to shutdown. You can terminate the countdown by deactivating screensaver .....(free).....

Shutdown or restarts your computer automatically after the following criteria. - After a given time - After a given date+time - Because of the value of caption of a window - Because a process is running - Because a file exists - Because the cpu usage.....(free).....

SideSlide is an advanced, portable, unobtrusive, dockable, skinnable, instantly accessible, highly configurable Desktop Extension. Get instant access to everything you have. Dock SideSlide to any screen edge; browse through your favorite RSS news feeds, keep shortcuts to files, folders and URLs you frequently visit; execute various commands quicker than ever; add multiple notes; multiple, sizable, pictures; schedule reminders; save web snippets and more...Customize it to emphasize the things you use the most and make more information accessible without occupying precious screen space. By using containers you can shrink and fold, linking containers to actual folders on disk, launch groups that allow you to start multiple programs at once, shortcut tags, zooming in and out of shortcuts, news feed reader, keyboard navigation, different skins, different size pictures, picture containers and colored notes; SideSlide is designed to make a great deal of content instantly accessible. SideSlide is portable and you can use it from your USB drive.....(free).....

SignGUI is a free graphical front end for Microsoft's SignTool.exe console utility, used by software developers to digitally sign their programs for authentication.....(free).....

Find a Cell Phone Signal or Add Your Own Signal to this web application......(free).....

Speech regognition software, developed for the handicapped, but usable by anyone. The project provides a ready-to-use interface for the julius CSR engine for a handicapped child which is not able to use the keyboard well. It integrates into X11 and Windows Alpha - neither stable nor feature-complete, but it should give you a pretty good overview of what simon will be like.....(free).....

SimpleOCR, a fully-featured, free OCR application .....(free).....

Forward ports on your router. The program works by automating the process for you. So whether you don't understand how to forward ports, or your simply looking for an easier way of doing things then this program is for you.....(free).....

Simple Static IP is a free program by PcWinTech.com to help users set their IP address to static with just a few clicks. At times there may be a reason you need to have your IP address set to static. A static IP is an IP address that never changes. By default peoples IP is dynamic which means it can change at any time. When port forwarding you forward to your local IP address, and if your IP changes your port forwarding will no longer work as it is not pointing to your new IP. This is the same for nearly all settings in a router that points to your computer, such as DMZ and logging. So to keep that from happening you need to set your IP to static so it never changes, then you no longer have to worry about your IP changing. (This should be done for computers behind a router) .....(free).....

Article by Vernor Vinge. He says, "The acceleration of technological progress has been the central feature of this century. I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth. The precise cause of this change is the imminent creation by technology of entities with greater than human intelligence"......(free).....

This application simply reads the given directory and its subdirectories, and produces an htm file based on a given template. The resulting file can be used to print out the contents of the folder, or as a sitemap of your website. Note: this program can't read your website online, it also doesn't understand external URLs.....(free).....

A utility that includes detailed specs for your Motherboard, BIOS, CPU, Devices, Memory, Video, Drivers, Ports, Printers. It displays information about Operating System, Installed Programs, Processes, Services, Serial Numbers, Users, Open Files, System uptime, Users, Network, Network Shares, and more, as well as real-time monitors for CPU, Memory, Page File usage and network traffic. SIW also displays currently active network connections, Passwords hidden behind asterisks, installed codecs, and more. A standalone tool that does not require installation.....(free).....

Many so called security experts propagated these myths through speaking engagements and publications and many continue to this day. Many wireless LAN equipment makers continue to recommend many of these schemes to this day. One would think that the fact that none of these schemes made it in to the official IEEE 802.11i security standard would give a clue to their effectiveness, but time and time again that theory is proven wrong .....(free).....

Allows you to resize any window to an exact, predefined size. This is extremely useful when designing web pages, as it allows you to see how the page will look when viewed at a smaller size. The utility is also handy when compiling screen-shots for documentation, using Sizer allows you to easily maintain the same window size across screen grabs.....(free).....

Tax records, resumes, photo albums--the modern hard drive can keep increasingly larger volumes of information at the ready. But that can turn into a problem when it comes to effectively erasing the devices. There are a number of options for cleansing the drives of unwanted computers, from special wiping software to destruction services to manufacturers' recycling programs. But what many PC owners don't realize, experts say, is that these methods are often not enough.....(free).....

One of Shell City's favorite sites. Want to find a skinnable freeware app? Got one that needs beta testing? Got an idea for one, but need someone to code it? Looking for one that seems to have disappeared? Want to participate in beta testing? All this and more.....(free).....

The place to go to get skinz---radical enhancements to the way your Windows look.....(free).....

Slax - your pocket operating system - Slax is a modern, portable, small and fast Linux operating system with a modular approach and outstanding design. Despite its small size, Slax provides a wide collection of pre-installed software for daily use, including a well organized graphical user interface and useful recovery tools for system administrators. The modular approach gives you the ability to include any other software in Slax easily. If you're missing your favourite text editor, networking tool or game, simply download a module with the software and copy it to Slax, no need to install, no need to configure. If you are a beginner or you're just too busy to make it yourself, follow a few steps to build your own customized operating system by using web-based interface here.....(free).....

Sweet set of browser bookmarklets. According to the author, "This is a favelet that combines most of my development favelets. When invoked, a div element will appear in the top left corner of your browser window with a list of all the favelets I've included. Simply click the link you want to invoke the favelet. An "info" icon is available to take you to the favelets information page here on slayeroffice. Included in the suite: Color List, Document Tree Chart, HTML Attribute Viewer, HTTP Header Viewer, Hidden Field Modifier, Javascript Object Tree, Mouseover DOM Inspector, Object Dimensions, Page Info, Remove Children, Resize Fonts, Ruler, Show Source, Style Sheet Tweak, Style Sheet Viewer. From

SlickRun is a 32-bit floating command line utility for Windows. Occupying less than 1.5% of a 800x600 display, SlickRun gives you almost instant access to any program on your computer. SlickRun allows you to create command aliases, so C:\Program Files\Outlook Express\msimn.exe becomes Mail. Enter a web URL into SlickRun and it will launch your browser and navigate to the specified address. Jot a note, look up a definition... SlickRun does it all.....(free).....

SlimBrowser is a multiple-site browser based on tab-page interface. It incorporates a large collection of powerful features like recoverable popup killer, skinned window frame, form filler, site group, quick-search, auto login, hidden sites, built-in commands and scripting, online translation, script error suppression, blacklist / whitelist filtering, URL Alias. It brings you convenient and comfortable browsing.....(free).....

Flexbeta SlipstreamerXP is an application that will slipstream any Windows XP or Office XP Service Pack into your installation files. It has currently been tested to work for all Windows XP and Office XP Service Packs up to SP2 (SP2 1213 for Windows XP). Unattended install. ISO creator. Friendly graphic user interface.....(free).....

Small Basic is a project that's aimed at bringing "fun" back to programming. By providing a small and easy to learn programming language in a friendly and inviting development environment, Small Basic makes programming a breeze. Ideal for kids and adults alike, Small Basic helps beginners take the first step into the wonderful world of programming.....(free).....

The primary cause of slow or unstable PC performance is disk fragmentation. IObit SmartDefrag helps defragment your hard drive more efficiently than any other product on the market ?? free or not. Features of this powerful, award-winning defragmenter program include: An "Install It and Forget It" feature that works automatically and quietly in the background on your computer. The ability to constantly keep your hard drive safe, error-free and running at its top speed and optimum performance. Eliminates slow downs, freeze-ups and crashes.....(free).....

Smart Email Recovery offers an easy way to recover deleted email and corrupted email databases in Microsoft Outlook Express. The innovative technology allows for fully automatic operation, and recovers deleted messages quickly and efficiently. Unlike competition, Smart Email Recovery does not depend on the DBX header when scanning the mail database for messages (Go to Products).....(free).....

Make your PC run faster and ensure problem-free operation, protect your security and recover lost data with the only software suite you'll ever need! Fix your computer yourself and make it load and run faster in a few easy steps. Clean up registry errors and take care of viruses and spyware, ensure your personal privacy and recover deleted files. Do all that and more with Smart PC Suite.....(free).....

Smooth Program Scheduler will start any program you want at a scheduled time. It can perform both one-time and recurring tasks.....(free).....

SMP Seesaw is a small utility for dual-CPU workstations that allows the user to finely tune how Windows balances the processing load between the two CPUs.....(free).....

When a dll or exe file is signed with strong name keys, .NET doesn't allow you to modify it. If you try to use a signed assembly, after you have made some changes with Hex editor or any other tool, you'll get an exception (Go to Freeware, Misc) .....(free).....

The smallest free tool for taking screenshots of different size. Just open Snapa, resize its window to fit the area you want to save, and press "save it" button .....(free).....

Snoopy is a PHP class that simulates a web browser. It automates the task of retrieving web page content and posting forms.....(free).....

Open source network intrusion prevention system, capable of performing real-time traffic analysis and packet logging on IP networks. It can perform protocol analysis, content searching/matching and can be used to detect a variety of attacks and probes, such as buffer overflows, stealth port scans, CGI attacks, SMB probes, OS fingerprinting attempts, and much more .....(free).....

SocketSniff allows you to watch the Windows Sockets (WinSock) activity of the selected process. For each created socket, the following information is displayed: socket handle, socket type, local and remote addresses, local and remote ports, total number of send/receive bytes, and more. You can also watch the content of each send or receive call, in Ascii mode or as Hex Dump .....(free).....

Softi FreeOCR is a complete scan and OCR program including the Windows compiled Tesseract free ocr engine V2.00. It includes a Windows installer and It is very simple to use and supports multi-page tiff's, fax documents as well as most image types including compressed Tiff's which the Tesseract engine on its own cannot read .It now has Twain scanning included and support for multipage Tiff documents.....(free).....

Network scanner runs from a USB stick -- SoftPerfect Network Scanner is a free multi-threaded IP, NetBIOS and SNMP scanner with a modern interface and several advanced features. It is intended for both system administrators and general users who are interested in computer security. The program pings computers, scans for listening TCP ports and displays which types of resources are shared on the network (including system and hidden). In addition, it allows you to mount shared folders as network drives, browse them using Windows Explorer, filter the results list and more. SoftPerfect Network Scanner can also check for a user-defined port and report back if one is open. It can also resolve host names and auto-detect your local and external IP range. It supports remote shutdown and Wake-On-LAN. It is absolutely free, requires no installation.....(free).....

This is the textbook for the MIT course "Software Engineering for Internet Applications". The course is intended for juniors and seniors in computer science. We assume that they know how to write a computer program and debug it. We do not assume knowledge of any particular programming languages, standards, or protocols. The most concise statement of the course goal is that "The student finishes knowing how to build amazon.com by him or herself." .....(free).....

Eliminates hidden applications and processes. Removing rootkits without compromising system integrity is particularly challenging and needs to be done with care. Our free software, Sophos Anti-Rootkit, finds and removes any rootkit that is hidden on your computer. What is a rootkit? The term rootkit is used to define a Trojan (or technology) used to hide the presence of a malicious object (process, file, registry key, network port) from the computer user or administrator.....(free).....

Used to edit, filter and modify sound files. Can be used by: Musicians: for added effects on their records (wah-wah, reverberation, etc.) SoundEditor can also be used to correct small imperfections (i.e volume or tempo). You can use MonPiano (one of the add-ons) to add new melodies or sound effects to your creations. DJs: to create new sounds from samples or by synthesizing them. A complete new creation can be made and mixed with SoundEditor. You can use MonPiano (one of the add-ons) to add new melodies or sound effects to your creations. All users: to convert sounds from MP3 to WAV or vice versa. to split a mixed album into separate parts, etc.....(free).....

Interesting and fun prog - Soundmaps makes music out of your desktop actions. Soundmaps translates a part of the bitmap image on your desktop into sound. Drawing, typing, surfing, playing a movie etc. will constantly change the sound. Hence, you can make your own music while working. Soundmaps becomes your personal music mate. Soundmaps has 6 different modes and is very easy to install and use .....(free).....

SourceMonitor lets you see inside your software source code to find out how much code you have and to identify the relative complexity of your modules. For example, you can use SourceMonitor to identify the code that is most likely to contain defects and thus warrants formal review. SourceMonitor, written in C++, runs through your code at high speed. SourceMonitor provides the following: Collects metrics in a fast, single pass through source files. Measures metrics for source code written in C++, C, C#, Java, Delphi, Visual Basic or HTML. Saves metrics in checkpoints for comparison during software development projects. Displays and prints metrics in tables and charts. Operates within a standard Windows GUI or inside your scripts using XML command files. Exports metrics to XML or CSV files for further processing with other tools .....(free).....

Ever worry that the code that you are downloading is malicious? Verify the code before you run it, with Source Search. Just drag and drop your project file onto the form and let Source Search check out the code against a customizable search dictionary. It will also enumerate through your project file to make sure that all referenced components are scanned. I have included a basic dictionary with the project.....(free).....

Source Viewer is a php coded web page allowing you to display the html and php source code of files on your server directly in a browser. Using standard browser View Source functions php code is not displayed as it is processed by the server prior to the page being delivered to the browser. Source Viewer allows the html and php code to be displayed.....(free).....

Spacetornado Killer is a free Windows utility that allows you to kill multiple running Windows processes at once, with one click of a button.....(free).....

The best spam stopper we've found. Works from the server. SpamAssassin is a mail filter to identify spam. It is an intelligent email filter which uses a diverse range of tests to identify unsolicited bulk email, more commonly known as Spam. These tests are applied to email headers and content to classify email using advanced statistical methods. In addition, SpamAssassin has a modular architecture that allows other technologies to be quickly wielded against spam and is designed for easy integration into virtually any email system.....(free).....

Enter your email address to convert it into unicode for use on a web site. This makes it hard for spam bots to read your email address .....(free).....

SparkleXP is an application designed to tweak Windows XP and improve its performance. It helps freeing up computer resources resulting in a faster and responsive computer. This tool creates a second Hardware Profile and a correlative new User to get a lightweight desktop. You can choose to boot into your regular or SparkleXP configuration at startup .....(free).....

Speak-Freely is an Internet voice application that allows you to talk (actually send voice, not typed characters) over the internet.....(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! Play your saved recording with Microsoft media player, Video Lan, WinAmp or any media player! It so easy, no complicated settings, just great CD quality 128 Kbps mp3 or wav files everytime.....(free).....

Speakonia is a FREE Text-To-Speech (TTS) GUI (graphical User-Interface) Program which uses the Microsoft Speech Technology. The easy-to-use graphical user interface (GUI) is similar to Notepad. Speakonia reads aloud any given text with just one mouse click! The reading can be paused, resumed and can be exported to a wave file. In addition Speakonia is able to fetch webpages through an internal http interface and read them aloud for you. You can even have your mails read to you using the "Clipboard Reading" feature.....(free).....

Whenever you have a video playing in Windows Media Player, this color will become transparent no matter what program you are in, and let you see through to the video.....(free).....

Restarts your pc and runs defrag program only, which optimizes defragmentation speed and also it automatically shuts down your pc after completion... So just before going to bed switch it on and in the morning you'll find your hard disk defragged and pc shutdown.....(free).....

If you need a tool that can change your computer's fan speeds, read the temperatures of your motherboard and your hard disk, read voltages and fan speeds and check the status of your hard disk using S.M.A.R.T. or SCSI attributes, then you came to the right place. SpeedFan is the software to go. It is fully configurable and you can create custom events to handle every situation in an automated way. SpeedFan works under Windows 9x, ME, NT, 2000, 2003, XP and Vista. SpeedFan works fine on Vista 64 bit too. The relevant driver is now signed with my digital certificate. And this all costs you absolutely nothing.....(free).....

Do you want to know how fast your DSL or Cable connection really is. SpeedTest was designed to measure effective transfer speeds between two networked computers .....(free).....

Windows Vista is a rather heavy operating system with many neat features, but unfortunately they all come at a price. Right out of the box it requires a pretty hefty system to run (arguably)......(free).....

If you're unhappy with the speed of Vista on a machine where Windows XP used to scream, these tips will help .....(free).....

SpeedFan is a freeware program that monitors voltages, fan speeds and temperatures in computers with hardware monitor chips. SpeedFan can even change the FSB on some hardware (but this should be considered a bonus feature). SpeedFan can even access S.M.A.R.T. info for those hard disks that support this feature and show hard disk temperatures too, if supported. At the lowest level, SpeedFan is an hardware monitor software that can access temperature sensors, but its main feature is that it can control fan speeds (depending on the capabilities of your sensor chip and your hardware) according to the temperatures inside your pc, thus reducing noise and power consumption.....(free).....

These patches contain optimal Registry settings for Cable Modems, DSL or any similar broadband Internet connection. From

The TCP Optimizer is a free Windows program designed to help optimize your Internet connection. Just download and run, no installaion required. The program makes it easy to find the best MaxMTU value, test latency and tweak all the important broadband related registry parameters. The Optimizer can be helpful with tuning any Internet connection type, from dialup to Gigabit+. From

This patch increases Web page loading speed, by doubling the number of possible concurrent open connections. For example, imagine a web page has 20 images and some text - in order for your browser to get all these files, it opens 2 or 4 concurrent connections, depending on the Web server. Increasing the number of open connections allows for faster retrieving of the data. Please note that the patch sets some values outside of the HTML specs. If you decide to install it, backup your Registry first. Changes will take effect after you reboot. Download the patch appropriate for your OS. From

Spell with Flickr is a small program that lets you type in whatever you want, then goes to flickr and grabs pictures for each an every letter! It also allows you to change the images that you see, so you can find better images for your word or phrase! .....(free).....

The SphereXP is a new Windows replacement shell in 3D. Taking the known concept of three-dimensional desktops to its own level. It offers a new way to organize objects on the desktop such a icons and applications. The SPHERE (SphereXP) is a 3-dimensional workspace for Windows. It replaces and extends the regular desktop. It offers a different way to organize elements of the operating system like programms, icons ... Although the app is experimental, the concept can serve as a theory for the future .....(free).....

SplashKiller lets you hide those splash screens that appear when a Windows application is loading.....(free).....

Firefox add-on -- This splits the content area of the browser window as you like .....(free).....

Site devoted to phishing scam news, including a list of the most recent reported schemes. According to the site" Scammers are sending masses of spoof or fake email out in an attempt to acquire eBay, Paypal, AOL, Yahoo, Earthlink, MSN, Microsoft, AT&T, Hotmail, FDIC, MBNA, Citibank, Barclays iBank, Nat West, Bank One, Nationwide, Halifax and Fleet Bank users' identities, passwords, credit card numbers and pins and bank account details to commit fraud".....(free).....

Keeping the data in and the riff-raff out! Spyware on-access scanner.....(free).....

Stop Web Sites from installing Spyware, Sleazeware and Cookies on your PC. SpySites includes a database of over 4,600 known Spy/Sleaze sites and guides you through the simple process of including them in Internet Explorer's Restricted Zone and setting policies to prevent them from performing intrusive acts on your PC. By setting the policies for the Restricted sites zone to a very high level of security, you can be assured that any web sites added to the Restricted sites zone cannot do certain things which could compromise your privacy and security .....(free).....

Application that when it is running it simply monitors system folders for any new exe or dll being added or renamed.....(free).....

SpywareBlaster doesn't scan and clean for spyware - it prevents it from ever being installed. How? By setting a "kill bit" for the CLSIDs of spyware ActiveX controls, it prevents the installation of any of them from a webpage. You can run Internet Explorer with Active-X enabled, but you will never even get a "Yes/No" box popped up, asking you to install a spyware Active-X control (Internet Explorer will never download or run it!). All other Active-X controls or plug-ins will work fine. The SpywareBlaster database contains information on these known spyware Active-X controls. Make sure you run the Check For Updates feature frequently to get the latest database! (And make sure you check the new items to protect your system against them!) As a side benefit, setting this "kill bit" will also prevent the spyware Active-X from running, in many cases, if it is already installed on your system.....(free).....

An anti-virus program scans files before you open them and prevents execution if a virus is detected - SpywareGuard does the same thing, but for spyware.....(free).....

The ranks of spyware and adware expand daily, but some take root more often than others. Here are six of the usual suspects.....(free).....

A wealth of resources to help you fight spyware and adware.....(free).....

SQLBackupAndFTP is a software program that runs scheduled backups of SQL Server or SQL Server Express databases, zips the backups, stores them on a network or on a FTP server, removes old backups, and sends an e-mail confirmation on job's success or failure.....(free).....

sqlDESKTOP can help you organize documents, WEB pages, database queries, multimedia data on CD ROM or DVD, etc..as easily as in an ordinary office environment. With sqlDESKTOP you can place related documents in the same binder even if some are computer files and others INTERNET Web sites or database queries. You can arrange by project, by department or whatever makes sense to you. sqlDESKTOP doesn't tell you how to organize, it lets you do things your own way .....(free).....

Squeezer compresses executable files, which remain runnable, as well as text and HTML files. Good Performance. The compressed files will not flag as virus-infected. Multiple instances of a compressed executable file will not create multiple instances of the code in memory. It doesn't add any extra messages to the compressed files. Free up your HD by squeezing your files .....(free).....

Incredible command line reference for Windows, Linux, OS X, and Oracle.....(free).....

Skin your shutdown dialog boxes without editing system files .....(free).....

Password manager, and login robot. Once installed SSO Plus will store all IDs and passwords you enter. Then you return to your previously visited login screen, you will find SSO Plus has already entered your ID and password, ready for you to logon .....(free).....

StartJob is an utility that lets you start an application with limited available memory. It allows you to simulate how an application would run in a limited memory environment. Another interesting feature is the ability to look how much CPU time an application is using over time. This can be useful to help you optimize your code. .....(free).....

Do you constantly finding yourself using regedit to remove applications from start up? This program is for you. WheresJames Startup Manager runs in your system tray, it enables you to quickly enable/disable programs that start when windows does. It shows you the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE 'Run' and 'RunOnce' keys, the HKEY_CURRENT_USER 'Run' and 'RunOnce' keys, also the Common Startup and User Startup folders. The nice thing is it allows you to 'toggle applications on and off' by clicking them (Hint: Right click items to enable/disable them without the menu dissapearing). You will see a green check beside applications that will start up with windows. A red 'X' means that program is disabled. You don't have to worry about the details on this one, it is a simple to use tool.....(free).....

Start Moving is an odd little program that causes your Start button to start dancing to the right on your taskbar. You can set the speed and the steps involved in the movement. Just click on Start, and it slowly slides to the right on your taskbar. You can click Reset to put it back. The change isn't permanent, as the Start button is right where it should be the next time Windows loads.....(free).....

Can you learn another language in the time it takes for your machine to boot? Do you turn on your PC when you go to bed, so it's finished booting by the time you get home from work the next day? When Windows loads it's Startup file, it attempts to load every program in there at the same time. Therefore if you have quite a lot of programs starting when Windows starts, each program will try and grab CPU time so that it can load. If each program tries to do this at the same time, you soon notice the slow down that occurs, due to your CPU trying to help all the programs to load, and your hard disk accessing multiple files. Startup Delayer allows you to setup how many seconds after Windows has started, to load each program.....(free).....

Startup Inspector for Windows helps the user to manage startup applications. Plus, you can check your startup programs against more than 3,900 known programs in the database to tell you whether a program is necessary to the system or is spyware. Scans all startup programs and provides you with background information on the program. Remove harmful programs like spyware, virus, dialers, and make your system healthier. Remove unnecessary programs like reminders and monitors, and improve your systems performance.....(free).....

There are several programs running on your computer right now doing nothing useful. Just hogging precious memory and CPU cycles. WheresJames Startup Manager will allow you to view the programs that start with Windows and disable or delete them if you like .....(free).....

StatBar is a freeware system status bar which allows you to quickly get an overview of your system's condition (memory, CPU, uptime, and much more). Lots of features and configurations.....(free).....

StationRipper will allow you to record various internet radio stations. It will allow you to get a list of available Shoutcast stations and start recording them, creating a single MP3 file for each song the station plays.....free).....

Disk utility collects numerous disk statistics for your personal computer or network drives. The easy to use tabbed interface provides quick and valuable information on file types, creation dates, file ages, age distribution, file size distribution, wasted space, and more. All data is presented in attractive 3d graphs or in text grids for exact numbers. Works over multiple disk drives.....(free).....

Stealth Web Page Recorder is a simple spy software utility for web page recording. This program will be useful if you want to record e-mail messages of any Web Mail service. Also it can record contents of password protected pages and web pages which use secure HTTPS connection. It is absolutely undetectable after the installation. Stealth Web Page Recorder stores the text of web pages visited and lets you easily review the saved information later. It has convenient user interface similar to the History bar in the Internet Explorer. You can configure program to record all web pages or only user defined. Note: the program works only with Internet Explorer.....(free).....

Steel Run-As helps you in executing audit commands or any kind of application which runs properly when run only with administrator privileges without having to give the user full rights to his machine. For example "Some CD writing" applications run properly only when run in administrator mode or with any other username with those credentials. Steel Run-As lets you give access to the user to run that application with administrator credentials without making him into a administrator equivalent account. Steel Run-As supports file CRC checking. This ensures the credibility of the target program. Misuse of the targeted program is not allowed. Steel Run-As outputs a single executable ".exe" and does not need any installation in the target machine. Steel Run-As also doesn't need any extension through command line.....(free).....

This guide explains how to implement the security measures recommended in the Microsoft Windows XP Security Guide in a small or medium business environment without an Active Directory directory service deployment. These recommendations help ensure that your desktop and laptop systems running Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (SP2) are more secure from the majority of current security threats.....(free).....

StickyFront is an invaluable tool for Win32 based systems which allows you to "stick" a window to the front of other windows. It is suitable for Windows 95 or Windows NT (Win32 v4 or later) and will run on a 486DX2 or better with 16Mb RAM or more. It is currently on alpha release, which means many bits of it don't work yet or properly (especially on Win95). However, instead of it being shareware (as the full release will be) this alpha version is freeware .....(free).....

Control programs that start with Windows .....(free).....

When the Windows Media Player 9 starts, it calls home to update its radio preset list from the Internet. The network administrator may want to restrict this behavior.....(free).....

Utility that reveals file streams with Windows NT 4.0, 2000, XP, 2003 or Vista. Stream Explorer will show you the number of streams in each file as they are listed per folder. When you select a directory entry, Stream Explorer will list all the streams in that entry, and you can see their type, their size and contents. The unnamed stream is shown as . This new version 1.0.3 will show streams in folders as well, with thanks to J?rgen G?rtner for pointing out that folders can also contain streams.....(free).....

With the emergence of file sharing protocols such as Napster, Gnutella, and now Mojonation and Freenet, the average Internet user can download nearly any mp3 he wants in a matter of no time, but many times people don't know what they want. Streamripper allows you to download an entire station of music. Many of these mp3 radio stations only play certain genres, so you can now download an entire collection of goa/trance music, an entire collection of jazz, punk rock, whatever you want.....(free).....

StrokeIt is an advanced mouse gesture recognition engine and command processor. What is a mouse gesture? Mouse gestures are simple symbols that you "draw" on your screen using your mouse. When you perform a mouse gesture that StrokeIt can recognize, it will perform the "action" associated with that gesture. In short, it's a nifty little program that lets you easily control programs by drawing symbols with your mouse.....(free).....

A version control system that is a compelling replacement for CVS in the open source community.....(free).....

Sumatra PDF is a slim, free, open-source PDF viewer for Windows. Why another PDF reader? Sumatra has a minimalistic design. Simplicity has a higher priority than a lot of features. It's small and starts up very fast. It's designed for portable use: it's just one file with no external dependencies so you can easily run it from external USB drive.....(free).....

SUPERAntiSpyware is the most thorough AntiSpyware scanner on the market. Our Multi-Dimensional Scanning and Process Interrogation Technology will detect spyware that other products miss! SUPERAntiSpyware will remove ALL the Spyware, NOT just the easy ones .....(free).....

A rootshell for nt, 2k, or xp. Well, actually a shell that runs in the security context of the nt system authority, which means the user has the right to use task manager to kill running services. Yipee! Idea originally from some MS sample sourcecode from the MSDN, NT only, adapted to work on both 2000 and XP. Whole lotta fun! Note: You already need administrative (ie. debug) privileges to run it. The whole point is that you run a shell in the security context of the NT SYSTEM/AUTHORITY (the context a System service sees) not the context of an Administrator with GUI login. If that doesn't make sense to you, don't use supershell (Go to Downloads).....(free).....

This was the first comprehensive, step-by-step XP tweaking guide on the net. It's over 3 years old and continues to evolve.....(free).....

Lots of media conversion for free. If you need a simple, yet very efficient tool to convert (encode) or play any Multimedia file, without reading manuals or spending long hours training, then SUPER is all you need. It is a Multimedia Encoder and a Multimedia Player, easy-to-use with 1 simple click.....(free).....

Consumer-grade wireless routers -- your standard Linksyses or Belkins -- do their job well enough much of the time. But there are some juicy features offered by high-end commercial routers that just don't come with the home package. We're talking features like quality of service (QoS) management, adjustable transmission power, and support for IPv6. If you need (or just geekily crave) these features, you can shell out cash for a pro-grade router, or you can get them for free by installing new firmware on a cheap home router.....(free).....

A free runas administrator replacement with total encryption.....(free).....

Designed to offer appealing and straightforward interface to files. Presents many innovations to make most common tasks easy to execute. Leverages Windows shell and shell extensions remaining as simple as possible. Go to "Code" .....(free).....

Save the facts, figures, news and research you find on the Web. SurfSaver is a browser add-on which lets you store Web pages directly from your browser into searchable folders. Use SurfSaver to organize and search the information you gather on the Internet. An ideal tool for anyone doing research online.....(free).....

From the Wired How-To Wiki, it's time for the ultimate challenge. How you should arm yourself to survive a zombie apocalypse.....(free).....

The Swiss Army Software is the Mother of All Tiny Applications. SWAZZ gives the best value for your kilobyte: 20+ nice functions embedded in 25 kilobytes. If you need any of the functions below, SWAZZ is the answer. * System Monitor * Tetris Game * Calculator * Temperature Converter * Command Prompt Shortcut * Browser Address Bar * Google Search Bar * Transparent Clock * Live Sunclock Wallpaper * Daylight Zone Simulator * Quick Menu Function * ODBC Ping Tool * Quick SQL Client * Quick Screenshot * Alarm Tool * Thermometer * Mail Notifier * Mail Previewer * LAN Messenger * PopUp Killer for IE * Desktop Painter * Map Services. The program is portable (no installation is needed), non-intrusive (smart user interface -- "miniface"), self-modifying (all the parametres are stored in the program itself) and it does not use the Windows registry .....(free).....

Collection of SWF manipulation and creation utilities .....(free).....

Swiftfox is an optimized build of Mozilla Firefox. Swiftfox has builds for both AMD and Intel processors. The 2.0.0.7 release is based on Firefox 2.0.0.7. The trunk is the most cutting edge of all the builds and is where Firefox 3 is being developed. Branch builds are built from a code base that has been tested much more than the trunk and therefore should be considered to be more stable. Swiftfox 2.0.0.8pre is from the 1.8 branch which is where Mozilla tests security patches and other minor fixes before they release the next Firefox update. If you want your security patches as soon as possible and require a browser built from a stable code base this build is perfect for you.....(free).....

Switzerland is a tool which will will spot IP packets which are forged or modified between clients, inform you, and give you copies of the modified packets. It is for testing networks, ISPs and firewalls, and was developed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Is your ISP interfering with your BitTorrent connections? Cutting off your VOIP calls? Undermining the principles of network neutrality? In order to answer those questions, concerned Internet users need tools to test their Internet connections and gather evidence about ISP interference practices. .....(free).....

SwizzTool allows you to create personal reminders and automated tasks that can play a sound, display a message or launch a program at a specified date/time, weekday or after a countdown has elapsed. From the built in hotkey-editor you can create global hotkeys that can execute programs and alarms, hotkeys can also be set to control the volume among other things. SwizzTool also contains a memo to save notes. From this Memo you can also create new alarms and search on the Internet .....(free).....

A lot of symbols that you can easily copy/paste into your text/document (Go to Utilities).....(free).....

SyncBack is a program that helps you easily back up and synchronise your files to the same drive or a different drive or medium (CDRW, CompactFlash, etc); an FTP server; a Network; or a Zip archive.....(free).....

This utility makes an exact replica of files on a machine via the network to another machine. It was designed for load-sharing situations where all the servers need to have a copy of all the files, but can also be used for other situations, for example to publish files from a development machine to a production machine, or to have a backup server standing by that can immediately take over without first having to restore from a backup .....(free).....

One-Way Directory or File Synchronization Tool .....(free).....

Share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems, each with its own display, without special hardware. It's intended for users with multiple computers on their desk since each system uses its own monitor(s). Redirecting the mouse and keyboard is as simple as moving the mouse off the edge of your screen. Synergy also merges the clipboards of all the systems into one, allowing cut-and-paste between systems. Furthermore, it synchronizes screen savers so they all start and stop together and, if screen locking is enabled, only one screen requires a password to unlock them all.....(free).....

SysExporter utility allows you to grab the data stored in standard list-views, tree-views, list boxes, combo boxes, text-boxes, and WebBrowser/HTML controls from almost any application running on your system, and export it to text, HTML or XML file. Here's some examples for data that you can export with SysExporter: The files list inside archive file (.zip, .rar, and so on) as displayed by WinZip or 7-Zip File Manager. The files list inside a folder. The event log of Windows. The list of emails and contacts in Outlook Express. The Registry values displayed in the right pane of the Registry Editor. The data displayed by SysInternals utilities (Registry Monitor, File Monitor, Process Explorer, and others.).....(free).....

The Sysinternals Troubleshooting Utilities have been rolled up into a single Suite of tools. The Suite is a bundling of the following selected Sysinternals Utilities:, AccessChk, AccessEnum, AdExplorer, AdRestore, Autologon, Autoruns, BgInfo, CacheSet, ClockRes, Contig, Ctrl2Cap, DebugView, DiskExt, DiskMon, DiskView, Disk Usage (DU), EFSDump, FileMon, Handle, Hex2dec, Junction, LDMDump, ListDLLs, LiveKd, LoadOrder, LogonSessions, NewSid, NTFSInfo, PageDefrag, PendMoves, PortMon, ProcessExplorer, Process Monitor, ProcFeatures, PsExec, PsFile, PsGetSid, PsInfo, PsKill, PsList, PsLoggedOn, PsLogList, PsPasswd, PsService, PsShutdown, PsSuspend, RegDelNull, RegJump, RegMon, RootkitRevealer, SDelete, ShareEnum, SigCheck, Streams, Strings, Sync, TCPView, VolumeID, WhoIs, WinObj, ZoomIt.....(free).....

Free syslog tool. It can simulate networking device such as router, firewall and servers to send TCP and UDP syslog message to syslog server. You can use this free tool to evaluate the performance of your syslog server. SysLog Sender is based on internet standard protocol, which is specified by RFC 3164 and RFC 3195 .....(free).....

The System Crash Monitor attempts to reduce the number of times Windows crashes. Of course, it fails miserably, but not before giving the user a laugh. This new version includes a comprehensive help file .....(free).....

SIW is an advanced System Information for Windows tool that gathers detailed information about your system properties and settings and displays it in an extremely comprehensible manner. SIW can create a report file (CSV, HTML, TXT or XML), and is able to run in batch mode (for Asset Inventory Tracking, Computer (Software and Hardware) Inventory, PC Audit, Software Audit, Software License Compliance Management). The system information is divided into few major categories: Software: Operating System, Installed Software and Hotfixes, Processes, Services, Users, Open Files, System Uptime, Installed Codecs, Software Licenses (Product Keys / Serial Numbers / CD Key), Secrets (Password Recovery). Hardware: Motherboard, Sensors, BIOS, CPU, chipset, PCI/AGP, USB and ISA/PnP Devices, Memory, Video Card, Monitor, Disk Drives, CD/DVD Devices, SCSI Devices, S.M.A.R.T., Ports, Printers. Network: Network Cards, Network Shares, currently active Network Connections, Open Ports. Tools: Eureka! (Reveal lost passwords hidden behind asterisks), MAC Address Changer, Monitor Test, Shutdown / Restart. Real-time monitors: CPU, Memory, Page File usage and Network Traffic .....(free).....

System Protect represents an essential supplement of security programs. Extend your Extend your security programs, Prevent accidental file removal. Guard system files, Keep your system stable. Protect personal files, Avoid losing important data. Get deletion attempt alerts, Safeguard protected files/folders. .....(free).....

SystemRescueCd is a Linux system on a bootable CD-ROM for repairing your system and recovering your data after a crash. It aims to provide an easy way to carry out admin tasks on your computer, such as creating and editing the partitions of the hard disk. It contains a lot of system utilities (parted, partimage, fstools, ...) and basic tools (editors, midnight commander, network tools). It is very easy to use: just boot the CDROM. The kernel supports most of the important file systems (ext2/ext3, reiserfs, reiser4, xfs, jfs, vfat, ntfs, iso9660), as well as network filesystems (samba and nfs). .....(free).....

System Snapshot is a program designed to immediately create restore points for the Windows XP System Restore utility .....(free).....

Set or delete system/user environment variables (Go to Utilities).....(free).....

The M$ version of DropBox. (Thx Don_U) "SyncToy 2.1 is a free application that synchronizes files and folders between locations. Typical uses include sharing files, such as photos, with other computers and creating backup copies of files and folders."

A simple countdown timer. "All the timers I tested were too complex for my taste. I decided to write one that was dead simple, so you could run it, type in a time and hit enter. The aim of SnapTimer is to get out of the way and help you be productive. It's fast, lightweight and simple to use, but powerful too."

Sculpting 3D program. "Sculptris wants you to make 3D models. Download it and have a go! I'm sure you will enjoy."

An alternative to the windows file finder that can also find duplicate files. "SearchMyFiles is an alternative to the standard "Search For Files And Folders" module of Windows. It allows you to easily search files in your system by wildcard, by last modified/created/last accessed time, by file attributes, by file content (text or binary search), and by the file size."

Simple check sum validator. "Snap MD5 is a simple utility to validate the MD5 sum of downloaded files."

How to run the SFC when offline. "The System File Checker (sfc.exe) is an useful tool that lets you scan the integrity of Windows system files, and repair corrupt or missing system files. Numerous cases have been resolved thus far by running Sfc.exe with the "scannow" parameter. However, there are situations where in a corrupt or missing system file prevents Windows from booting normally, and running Sfc.exe from Windows isn’t possible. In such cases, Sfc.exe can be run offline using two additional parameters, via the Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE) in Windows 7 and Windows Vista."

Some of the best free alternatives to using iTunes to sync iPod to computer without iTunes

Are you tired of trying to remember all the different User IDs and passwords you need? SecureIT can help. SecureIT is a small utility designed to hold items of sensitive information in a single file for easy retrieval. The data items are encrypted and a password is required to access them. SecureIT has been designed with ease-of-use in mind. It allows for the easy addition and amendment of the data items

Advanced Detection and Removal, Light on System Resources and won't slow down your computer, Repair broken Internet Connections, Desktops, Registry Editing and more with our unique Repair System! Real-Time Protection, Prevent potentially harmful software from installing or re-installing!

Speccy is an advanced System Information tool for your PC. It really will bring up lots of valuable info that other similar tools do not present

SystemRescueCd is a Linux system rescue disk available as a bootable CD-ROM or USB stick for administrating or repairing your system and data after a crash. It aims to provide an easy way to carry out admin tasks on your computer, such as creating and editing the partitions of the hard disk. It comes with a lot of linux software such as system tools (parted, partimage, fstools, ...) and basic tools (editors, midnight commander, network tools). It requires no installation. It can be used on linux servers, linux desktops or windows boxes. The kernel supports the important file systems (ext2/ext3/ext4, reiserfs, reiser4, btrfs, xfs, jfs, vfat, ntfs, iso9660), as well as network filesystems (samba and nfs)

SocketSniff allows you to watch the Windows Sockets activity of the selected process. For each created socket, the following information is displayed: socket handle, socket type, local and remote addresses, local and remote ports, total number of send/receive bytes, and more. You can also watch the content of each send or receive call, in Ascii mode or as Hex Dump

Windows 7 has got a super administrator account which, by default, is disabled. Such account is automatically created when Windows 7 boots up for the first time but, for security reasons, is hidden from view. Turn it on with a simple query in the Command Prompt

Software for transmitting files with security using public key 1024 bit and Rijndael for symmetric encryption

Simple save and restore desktop icon layout for Windows XP x64

ScrubXP cleans temporary files and registry keys resulting from opening files and or using the Internet. It removes IE History, IE Temporary Files, IE Cookies, Documents List from Start Menu, Empties Recycle Bin, Clears Autocomplete Entries, Clears Recent File Lists for Run, Common Dialogs, Recent Documents, Search Assistant, Typed URLs, Paint, Find Computer, Printer Ports, Find Files, Media Player, Previous Tasks, and Real Player (scroll down to find it)

StartupSelector will save or load the Windows configuration data that causes programs to run at system startup. This allows you to easily switch between multiple startup configurations, for a myriad of potential purposes (scroll down to find it)

Scans a given computer for open ports. Reports which service the port is related to and if its open, closed or filtered via a firewall. Useful utility for checking your computer is secure from hacking attempts and only services you want to share are visible to other users via the network

Software to replace the standard Windows Start Menu. The list of menu items is alphabetically sorted, so you can easily find any program or command by its name. Open any location on your PC with a single click. You can create, modify, and reorder items in Start Menu 7. So it's easy to create a list of the most used locations, popular directories, and virtual folders to access them with a single click. here is a special Run button to access seldom used locations without adding them into menu. Start Menu 7 has a customizable Power Buttons panel. With Power Timer feature you can delay any of power management operations

Monitors network connectivy to servers and reports downtime, network connection dropouts and high packet loss. Handy for any network administrator who want to know when servers are offline to minimize downtime. Problems are displays in levels of severity and by the type of problem that has occured. The levels to trigger different severity levels are user defined

Only allow one application to be active. From Skrommel

These are handy. As you know in all Windows Operating Systems there are a lot of shortcuts which help you with your daily tasks. What you don’t know is that there are hidden, or at least little known shortcuts, which involve a sequence of keys that, if individually pressed (meaning that you have to press the keys one at a time), turn off and exit your computer right away

The SIP softphone is simple and easy to use while giving you everything you need to facilitate communication around the office. Audio and video quality is exceptionally good and the program is fully compatible with a number of different SIP servers including MS Office Communications Server and the free OfficeSIP Server

SmartCallMonitor is the new phone monitoring software for TAPI capable hardware like a telephone system or an ISDN card. It automatically tries to match incoming phone calls with data stored in your Microsoft Outlook contacts to provide you with information about the caller (e.g. name, address etc.). The information will be shown in a clearly arranged datasheet. If SmartCallMonitor cannot find matching information about the caller in your MS Outlook contacts, it can use an internet reverse search service to obtain information about the caller. With just one click, you can start a Google search directly from the monitoring software to look for further information about a call (e.g. the company's website). The detailed view shows you all information about the selected entry at a glance. With SmartCallMonitor you always know who is calling. In the integrated journal, you can filter missed calls or specifically search for a contact or a number in the call log. SmartCallMonitor can simplify your daily office routine by monitoring incoming calls, saving information about the caller (e.g. time and date of each call), creating call back reminders and many other features. SmartCallMonitor V1.2 fully functional version is completely free

Increase the life of your solid state drives. With all the advice online for SSD hard drives it can take hours of research and fiddling to properly setup your SSD drive. Now with this little app you can Tweak Windows 2K/XP/Vista & 7 including x64 in seconds. Lets you Tweak the following: * Windows Indexing Service, System Restore, Windows Defrag, Use Large System Cache, Ntfs Memory Usage, Disable 8.3 Filenames, Disable Date Stamping, Disable Boot Tracing, Windows Prefetcher, Windows Vista Superfetch, Windows Services. Thanks gHacks

Based on the command line tool to clone storage devices , Simple HDD Cloner only requires the device letters. After that all files from the source are copied to the destination. Very useful for upgrading primary hard drives without reinstalling everything. Go to downloads and scroll down

Display Color Calibration allows you to calibrate the display or screen color of your computer in order to get an optimal color view, be your computer screen an LCD or a CRT. However, this feature hides a bothering and annoying downside

Smart is a freeware utility which helps you tweak Windows 7 Services. Portable application to customize your Windows services settings, to meet your requirements. With judicious tweaking, it can make your system faster, as you will be disabling services which you do not require Thanks to GO THERE

ShellMenuNew is a small utility that displays the list of all menu items in the 'New' submenu of Windows Explorer. It allows you to easily disable unwanted menu items, so this 'New' submenu will display only the items that you need. Thanks to Lifehacker

If you are a Windows XP user who recently switched to Windows 7 you must have been getting annoyed by the blacking out of the screen every time the User Account Control kicks in. Microsoft calls this dimming the screen. What actually is happening is that the Windows dims the screen to bring the user’s attention to the UAC prompt that has been opened. This happens for instance during software installations and there is no option to continue working with the operating system until action has been taken in the UAC prompt. Most advanced users might not need the extra eye-opener when a program tries to change data on the computer system, especially not during software installations that have been initiated by the user. Windows 7, and Windows Vista as well, provide an option to disable that UAC dims the desktop during prompts. This will still display a notification in the form of a normal window so that it is possible to interact with other elements on the desktop.

Shutdown your PC automatically or remotely from any computer or mobile phone. Switch Off is a lightweight easy-to-use tray-based system utility that can automatically perform various frequently used operations such as shutting down or restarting your computer, disconnecting your current dial-up connection and locking your workstation. It also provides fast access to these operations through the system tray icon. Utility has Web interface that allows you to initiate operations remotely from any computer or mobile (cell) phone with web browser installed. This utility is intended to be used by either a novice or a professional user, because of its intuitive interface and professional features

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Easily make desktop widgets out of any site. Take pieces of your favorite web sites and run them on your desktop. Things like that auction you've got your eye on, your web mail's inbox, or even that search box you're always using. Well, Snippage lets you do just that

Remap those odd button on your keyboard, for example, that email button, or volume control button -- actually make good use of all the extra buttons on your modern keyboard

Help users test if their ports are open with just a few clicks. Tests both TCP & UDP ports

Simple Search-Replace is like a replacement for the Windows containing text option found in the search window. It is extremely fast and allows for the option of replacing that text with different text. There are many features of this free software such as backup support, command line support, case sensitivity, multiple file types, subdirectory support, result printing and saving and more. After searching or replacing the results tab will allow you to open the matched file(s) and view the contents as well as edit them

SpeedFan is a program that monitors voltages, fan speeds and temperatures in computers with hardware monitor chips. SpeedFan can even access S.M.A.R.T. info and show hard disk temperatures. SpeedFan supports SCSI disks too. SpeedFan can even change the FSB on some hardware (but this should be considered a bonus feature). SpeedFan can access digital temperature sensors and can change fan speeds accordingly, thus reducing noise. SpeedFan can find almost any hardware monitor chip connected to the 2-wire SMBus (System Management Bus (trademark belonging to SMIF, Inc.), a subset of the I2C protocol) and works fine with Windows 9x, ME, NT, 2000, 2003, XP and Windows Vista. It works with Windows 64 bit too

Shortcut keys allow you to type a keyboard shortcut that you can press to start a program in Windows. However, there is no easy way to view and manager these shortcut keys. Shortcut Key Explorer will help you manage the list of shortcut keys you have loaded on your computer. Simply run Shortcut Key Explorer and it will automatically load the existing shortcut keys and display them in an easy to read list. From this list you can double-click on any item and edit the properties of the Windows shortcut. This is great for troubleshooting duplicate shortcut keys or shortcut keys you did not even know existed. (Go to utilities)

A mini utility that let you quickly and safely change the registered owner and organization in Windows (the information you see when you run Winver command), Portable and simple to use, tested on Win XP, Win 7

The Signo tool is an impressively complete hotkey manager that can handle pretty much anything you can think of doing with either hotkeys or textkeys and provides a large range of built-in functionalities you can easily leverage to boost your productivity. Thanks to freewaregenius.com

SysProgs site contains various tools & programs that illustrate the use of several low-level development techniques. All tools are provided with the source code and convenient documentation generated using Doxygen. Additionally, you can find several articles related to low-level development and describing some undocumented features of Windows operating systems

Style 7 is a Windows 7 theme generator. It uses the default Microsoft Aero theme as base and generates a new theme using blackbox styles. Blackbox styles are created with a single, simple, human-readable, configuration file. Thousands are also readily available for download on the internet. You will need UxStyle Core or UxTheme patcher to run the Unsigned Themes created by Style7

The command-line Runas utility is handy for launching programs under different accounts, but is not convenient for heavy Explorer users. ShellRunas provides functionality similar to that of Runas to launch programs as a different user via a convenient shell context-menu entry

Signo runs silently in your tray bar and allows you managing multiple hotkeys and textkeys and their association with various actions. Signo intends to support everything you'd want to use hotkeys for and therefore is the most feature full hotkey manager you can find, including a very large range of feature such as action hotkeys, auto-replace textkeys, screen and windows management, screen are capture tool, etc. Go to Tools

ShortcutsMan displays the details about all shortcuts that you have on your desktop and under your start menu. Broken shortcuts (shortcuts that point to file that doesn't exist) are automatically painted with pink color. You select one or more shortcuts, and then delete them, resolve them or save the shortcut's details to HTML/Text/XML file

SetPower harnesses your computer's existing power management capabilities. SetPower allows you to specify when your computer may fall asleep and when it must be awake. Why is this important to do? Because when you control your computer's wake and sleep cycle, you can reduce your power consumption -- and reduce your enery bills, too. SetPower is good for you, and the environment. Consider this: most people do one of two things: 1. they leave their computer on all the time, sucking energy and wasting money. 2. they use the built-in Windows power feature, resulting in a computer that falls asleep at inopportune times. SetPower, on the other hand, lets you leverage your computer's existing power management capabilities so that you can save energy and money, while also ensuring that your computer is ready to go when you need it

SuperCopier replaces Windows explorer file copy and adds many features: Transfer resuming, Copy speed control, No bugs if You copy more than 2GB at once, Copy speed computation, Better copy progress display, A little faster, Copy list editable while copying, Error log, Copy list saving and loading

Secret Data Manager is a personal tool to help computer users keep their private files in encrypted status. It is a great option for anyone who is looking for a powerful and convenient way to protect data from being read, or even stole from the computer

A tiny SSH and SFTP server for Windows. It features SSH2 password-based, interactive and public-key authentication methods and fully supports forwarding and sftp subsystem. Yet its management console makes it extremely easy to configure and deploy, both locally and remotely. Single-user version is free

The Sysinternals Troubleshooting Utilities have been rolled up into a single Suite of tools. This file contains the individual troubleshooting tools and help files. It does not contain non-troubleshooting tools like the BSOD Screen Saver or NotMyFault. The Suite is a bundling of about 75 Sysinternals Utilities

What SuperF4 basically does, is kill the process of the foreground window when you press Ctrl+Alt+F4. You might think, doesn't Alt+F4 do this? Well, it's a bit different. When you press Alt+F4, the program can refuse to quit. Windows essentially only asks the program to quit, and lets it decide for itself what to do (almost always it behaves just as if you would have pressed the × in the upper-right corner)

This application is a powerful data encoder and decoder that has the possibility to encode or decode everything and anything that fits on/in your Hard Disk Drive. You can encode texts, pictures, movies, music, applications ... so on

Shaft is a powerful cleanup utility used to remove unnecessary files like temporary files, links to recent files, cookies, temporary internet files and so on. Shaft gives you the possibility to select the files that are to be deleted or folders that should be cleaned up. Why bother with manual cleanup when you have the possibility to do it automatically using Shaft

Custom Linux, fast & simple. Build an appliance - or your own custom Linux distro - with a few mouse clicks. Customize it, and share it with the world. Even make it a live CD!

This is a freeware screen saver which displays information about your system status while the system is, or seems to be, idle. very useful for servers and and background activity systems

SmillaEnlarger is a small graphical tool to resize, and especially to magnify bitmaps in high quality

ShellMenuView is a small utility that displays the list of static menu items that appear in the context menu when you right-click a file or folder in Windows Explorer, and allows you to easily disable unwanted menu items

Sphider is a lightweight web spider and search engine written in PHP, using MySQL as its back end database. It is a great tool for adding search functionality to your web site or building your custom search engine. Sphider is small, easy to set up and modify, and is used in thousands of websites across the world. Sphider supports all standard search options, but also includes a plethora of advanced features such as word autocompletion, spelling suggestions etc. The sophisticated adminstration interface makes administering the system easy

Replace standard Windows Explorer with SE-Explorer - simple and powerful dual panel file manager with tabbed interface and lots of built-in viewers

Use this add-on to send text selected in Internet Explorer as e-mail. Add-On for Internet Explorer

sanvient is an input support utility. It can vastly improves your productivity when you must cut and paste repetitive text

HTTP Proxy Server with Remote Proxy, User-Agent, Cookie, HTML Tug, Outgoing Header, Incoming Header and Access Log.

PEM stands for Portable Extension manager. It's purpose is to be able to handle file associations without writing any data to the system's registry, making it possible to defaultly open files with programs on a flash drive. Thanks to gHacks

Windows operating system have dozens of special folders that are used for storing application settings and files, storing Internet files, saving temporary files, storing shortcuts to other files, and so on. This utility displays the list of all special folders in your system, and allows you to easily jump to the right folder simply by double-clicking the folder item. You can also save the list of all folder paths into text/html/xml file

Free ebook, the most comprehensive guide to the Windows Registry and the best part - it is searchable. Thanks to instant fundas

A Comparison of Free SSH and SCP Programs for Windows 9x, NT, ME, 2000 and XP

SRWare Iron is a real alternative, based on the Chromium-source with the same features as Chrome - but without the critical privacy concerns. Use the innovative features without worrying about your privacy.

ServerWatch is a Windows application designed to help network administrators keep track of the servers on their networks. ServerWatch is being developed under the OpenSoftware License and will be available free of charge. Currently the system is in Alpha phase of development, the alpha is available for download now, but please kep in mind that this is testing purposes only at the moment and not all features are built yet. For more information about ServerWatch, or its developers, please follow the links on the menu

You might have considered the susceptibility of your wrists to carpal tunnel. You might be trying to prevent your invasive friends and family from using your PC without looking like you have something to hide. You might even be trying to ward off Alzheimer's by intentionally subjecting yourself to the frustration of feeling like you’re five years old again. The Dvorak keyset aids in all of these endeavors, and making the switch is actually far easier than typing with it enabled. For those game to make the switch, here’s how it’s done

ServersMan turns your mobile device into powerful server and network storage. Turn your iPhone/Windows Mobile into your personal web server

Super Fdisk is the free DOS Partition Manager. With Super Fdisk you can quickly and easily create, delete, format partitions in DOS system

The SANS SIFT Workstation is a VMware Appliance that is preconfigured with all the necessary tools to perform a forensic examination. Includes the Autopsy Forensic Browser. The appliance is utilized in the Computer Forensic, Investigation, and Response course offered by SANS. Examine core file system data and metadata structures to increase understanding of the FAT, NTFS, UNIX, LINUX file systems. The popular appliance is now offered as a free download via this site. Free registration is required

Service Tuner is a utility that lets users tweak the start-up state of the background services using some presets. It is also capable of saving the current start-up state of all services, as well as restoring that saved state later time. Lastly users have the options to start/stop, uninstall and change startup state of any service on the fly through the Customize tab. (Scroll down)

Smart NTFS Recovery is a data recovery tool for Windows operating system that supports the NTFS files system. The software easily recovers data from hard disks and any type of storage media - flash drives, USB drives, memory stick, PC card, multimedia card, and secure digital card with NTFS file system. Smart NTFS Recovery can recover any deleted files, including MS Office files, photos, mp3 and zip files, even if the partition table is lost. (Scroll down)

Smereka - extensible personal freeform database and personal information manager. Smereka is a program that allows you to organize your data in an hierarchical, searchable database that is stored in a single file

ScreenStream lets others 'watch' your screen on their computers over the network or the internet. It is the modern equivalent of the overhead projector. When you turn on screen sharing others on your network (or even the internet) can view what is on your screen by typing the link (and optional access code) into their internet browser. They can continue to watch your screen until you turn off screen sharing. One of the main advantages of ScreenStream is that the viewers do not need to install any special software to view your screen. They just open it directly with their normal internet browser. It is also supports optional streaming audio so others can hear what you are saying

SolApplets is a collection of Windows utility programs that run on the Windows Vista, XP or Windows Server. Currently, the following programs are available. SolProcessWatcher, SolServiceWatcher, SolFolderWatcher, SolWebServer, SolWinTree, SolCompoundFileViewer, SolHexViewer, SolZipFileViewer, SolIPAdapterAddressesWatcher, SolTrustVerifier, SolCertSystemStoreViewer,

This is a free Skype recording program which automatically saves all your Skype conversations and conferences. Records are stored in compact and widely used format - mp3 files. This tool records P2P Skype calls, SkypeOut calls, as well as calls to Skype Online number . The program seats in the system tray and monitors skype calls and start the recording automatically when you start conversation. It can record several simultaneous calls (eg. one active while others on hold) in separate files for easy and convenient access. Very simple interface requires virtually no tuning or setup. Just install it, allow access to the Skype client and that's it

Tabbed program launcher. This tool helps finding and launching your favorite programs, web pages, folders, or any type of files in a fast and easy way. Taking up fewer resources as possible, and allowing you to personalize the appearance in many ways, by changing colors, images, transparency, animations, and many otheroptions to make it blend in with your desktop

The StExBar provides many useful commands for your everyday use of Windows explorer. And you can add as many custom commands on your own as you like

SecretDrive is a small, efficient and reliable program to create up to 8 encrypted virtual disks. Virtual disk is protected by one of five modern encryption algorithms: AES, GOST 28174-89, Blowfish, Twofish, CAST 256. Virtual disk looks like usual hard disk, so you can format it, defragment, check, backup and do other operations. It can be located in a file or in the random access memory Hide sensitive data in encrypted virtual drives. 32 bit version is free. Thanks to instant fundas

ShowMyPC provides free and premium tools for Instant Collaboration to all users. Software includes Desktop Sharing, Screen Recording, Remote PC access. Free!! Instant No Installation, No registration, No logins. Desktop and single Application Sharing. Chat and White board, Screen Recording. Built using standard SSH and VNC software.

Solution for the detection, isolation, and removal of the Conficker virus on your network

Sockso is a free, open-source, personal music server for everyone! It runs on your pc and is designed to be as simple as possible so that anyone with a mouse and some mp3s can get their friends listening to their music across the internet in seconds Thanks to Instant Fundas

From Comodo, SecureEmail, the desktop application that automatically secures your email messages so your confidential data cannot be stolen or modified on its way through the Internet. Security you install and forget - SecureEmail will automatically encrypt and sign all outgoing emails and manage the complex certificate exchange procedure. Full integration with major mail clients - Outlook, Outlook Express, Thunderbird, Incredimail and many other POP, SMTP and IMAP based clients. Encrypt to anyone, anytime - innovative one-time 'session' certificates allow you to encrypt email without first exchanging signed mails. Built-in wizard to lets you quickly download and install Comodo email certificates. Available in 32 bit and 64 bit versions

Lets you have a separate disk on your PC which may be locked and unlocked with a password within one second! Moreover, when locked it is invisible in the Windows system

SafeHouse Explorer creates hidden private storage areas on your local hard drive or external media to hold your confidential files. Your files are completely invisible until you enter your password. After you enter your secret password, you access your files using SafeHouse Explorer's familiar drag-and-drop Explorer-like interface. Thanks to Instant Fundas

System Tray Cleaner is a simple tool which helps you quickly and easily remove unwanted items from your Windows system tray. The Windows system tray, also called the SysTray, is the lower-right corner of your screen, near the clock display, where Windows dumps some programs, most of the time programs which load during Windows startup. System Tray Cleaner will list all your system tray icon and identify which programs they belong to. Then, you can choose whether you wish to stop a certain program, remove it from startup (so it doesn't start automatically every time you turn on your computer) or simply uninstall it

Ever try to restore an sql file only to find it is too big to upload. This solves the problem. Very handy

Allow only one instance of a program to run

StartEd Lite lets you modify your Startup configuration and detects more than 150 Trojan Horses. StartEd Lite displays detailed info about Startup Programs and describes the functionality of every System Service so that even novice users are able to manage their startup configuration. A warning message will be displayed when a System Service vital for your computer's stability is about to get disabled

Simpo PDF to Text is a free and easy-to-use PDF to Text, PDF to Txt conversion freeware, it can convert any Adobe PDF files to plain text formats

Seven Remix XP from niwradsoft is a free transformation pack for Windows XP, Windows 2003 Server and Windows Media Center Edition. Like any other transformation pack, Seven Remix XP replaces a great number of system files associated with the GUI of Windows. Files that contain icons, images, animations are extracts of Windows 7 to update your Windows XP interface to that of Windows 7. The installer also applies adjustments in the registry, it installs programs of third, skins and visual extras like sounds, styles, etc. Description thanks to a fabulous site we recently discovered: Instant Fundas

Simple internet tools is a dozen simple yet helpful tools for both the common user and admins.

Simple Static IP is a free program .to help users set their IP address to static with just a few clicks. At times there may be a reason you need to have your IP address set to static. A static IP is an IP address that never changes. By default peoples IP is dynamic which means it can change at any time. When port forwarding you forward to your local IP address, and if your IP changes your port forwarding will no longer work as it is not pointing to your new IP. This is the same for nearly all settings in a router that points to your computer, such as DMZ and logging. So to keep that from happening you need to set your IP to static so it never changes, then you no longer have to worry about your IP changing. (This should be done for computers behind a router) The process to set your IP can be intimidating if you have never done it before, that's why we provide this program to you, to make it simple

SpyMe Tools is very useful in detecting Registry and Disk changes. If any application installs spyware, adware, dlls, programs, files, or any other type of file, picture, or program, etc. or changes the Registry's content, you will be able to see exactly where the modification occurred so you can take measures. It seems like more and more programs are attempting to install spyware, advertisements, or other garbage without your knowledge, but with this software you will know everything that is added or removed. To detect Registry/Disk changes the program will create Dumps of the actual states of Registry/Disk. This means that at any time you can open the Dump file and view the contents of the Registry/Disk just as they were when you've scanned the Registry/Disk. The program can compare two different dump files so you'll see exactly what changed in the Registry/Disk between the two scans. You can also use the program to backup your Registry. The program can restore old states of Registry keys using the data in the Dump files. To prevent other persons from viewing your scanned files you may encrypt them so that a password will be required whenever someone tries to open them. SpyMe Tools also includes a Real time Disk/Registry monitor so you may spot the changes in real time.(Real time Disk monitor works only on NT platform, including Win2k and Win XP.) Thanks to Lifehacker

Standalonestack lets you set up your desktop icons as stacks, in a rectangular formation, or otherwise, and put them anywhere you want on the desktop

Automates the process of port forwarding. Works with web pages and not your router, so safe, with clean, easy gui

Secret send to and context menu items in Windows 7

Many people believe that emptying the Recycle Bin will cause the deleted information to disappear forever. Unfortunately, that's not true. Many file-recovery programs and different forensic techniques exist that can recover information contained in deleted files. That means that those disk drives can still contain confidential or secret data which can be recovered. The U.S. Department of Defense has published their 5220.22M Standard for secure clearing of disk drives. That is to say, taking all of the unallocated space on a disk drive (not to include existing files) and render the contents of those unallocated areas safe from forensic recovery techniques and insure that no confidential information, in deleted files, can ever be recovered. SidesWipe is a simple and straightforward Windows utility that brings this capability to your desktop or server. SidesWipe also supports other more extensive secure drive cleaning methods such as the Guttman method, NSA, UK standard, Canadian RCMP suggested method, as well as a very quick and easy Single Sweep method. All methods are supported. You make the choice

SKTimeStamp is a very simple shell extension which adds a new page to the Explorer properties dialog. On that new page, you can change the file/folder dates and times

After you login to your computer, Screen Lock quietly waits for you to insert your Password Booster or USB flash drive. Now, whenever you remove the device from the USB port, your computer login session is immediately locked. Only the device that was used to lock your computer can be used to unlock you computer. This is the locking device.....(free).....

Create new shell objects in Windows and delete them when you don't need or want them any longer.....(free).....

SSDLife allows you to control how worn your SSDs are in an easy and convenient way, which means you can control how safely and securely your data is stored on them. Free version.....(free).....

System Restore Manager is a freeware portable utility which allows you to completely manage your Windows system restore points and customize its options .....(free).....

Optimize Windows XP, Vista and 7 for SSD Drives With all the advice online for SSD hard drives it can take hours of research and fiddling to properly setup your SSD drive. Now with this little app you can Tweak Windows 2K/XP/Vista & 7 including x64 in seconds.....(free).....

PortScan shows all open ports and additional information like host name, MAC address, HTTP, SMB, FTP, iSCSI, SMTP and SNMP services. Up to 100 threads are used for scaning large ip address ranges. You can search for UPnP enabled devices, Bonjour services, Netgear router, Samsung printer and Freecom network devices. So you can find them even if you don't know the ip address. Ping any computer with 3 standard sized ping packets, with 3 different sizes, each 10 times or ping the computer continuously. .....(free).....

SliderDock is an application launcher that will allow you to easily drag and drop icons to access them later on by double clicking on them. It is a unique dock where you won't have to chase behind you icons to run an application. Just rotate your mouse wheel and let the icons come to you. It will be a nice customization that will add some life to your desktop.....(free).....

Stinger is a standalone utility used to detect and remove specific viruses. It is not a substitute for full anti-virus protection, but rather a tool to assist administrators and users when dealing with an infected system. Stinger utilizes next-generation scan engine technology, including process scanning, digitally signed .DAT files, and scan performance optimizations. It detects and removes threats identified under the "List Viruses" icon in the Stinger application .....(free).....

Sublime Text is a sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose. You will love the slick user interface, extraordinary features and amazing performance. Shareware, Thank you for the report

Social Fixer for Facebook is a free browser extension that improves the Facebook site by eliminating annoyances and adding lots of great enhancements and functionality. It runs in most browsers and installs in just a minute.

SNMP Discoverer is a freeware SNMP walk utility. It walks an agent's MIB in order to get the value of multiple OIDs. The SNMP walk starts at the parent OID provided by you and then continues recursively on its children elements.

StickyPad is an invaluable, easy-to-use tool that lets you place sticky notes on your desktop.

Swish adds support for SFTP to Windows Explorer so you can access your files on another computer securely via SSH. Swish is easy to use because it integrates seamlessly with Windows Explorer so working with remote files feels just like working with the ones on your local computer.

StartW8 is a FREE but powerful tool for Windows 8 users. Do you prefer desktop to modernUI? Would you like to logon directly to desktop? And than use Start menu for running your apps? Then it's right for you. Get Start menu back in Windows 8!

SharpEnviro (or SharpE) is an open source shell replacement system for Microsoft Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7. When using SharpEnviro the default Windows desktop is replaced by a new and more powerful desktop environment. The goal of SharpEnviro is not only to create a user friendly desktop environment which provides many advanced and modern desktop features, but to also create a desktop environment which is easily configurable and which you can customize to your needs. You can decide how your desktop will look like and how it will work adjust your desktop environment to work like you want it to. (BETA - Abandoned?)

Advanced text editor (application with installer and Lister plugin) for programmers, syntax highlighting for lot of languages fully customizable highlighting code folding and much more.

Save energy and money by hibernating and resuming your computer according to configurable rules.

This office suite introduces some new innovative concepts in interface design and user-friendly application interaction. You get instant system access, top class application design and a cleaner desktop to name a few. You also do not even have a need for .NET or even JAVA to be installed. This will save you a lot of hard drive space and precious computer resources.

See your Windows Services on the isolated Session 0 with a click of your mouse, while avoiding the Interactive Services Detection Dialog!

SMPlayer is a free media player for Windows and Linux with built-in codecs that can also play and download Youtube videos. (Watch for Addons when installing)

Send SSL SMTP email silently from command line (CLI), or a batch file using Exchange, Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo! Plus, or a custom server

Free open source, no ads customizeable screen capture and sharing tool. Very complete.

Svchost.exe is the most mysterious Windows process. Svchost.exe is a generic host process name for services that run from dynamic-link libraries (DLLs). The authentic svchost.exe file is located in C:\Windows\System32, but numerous viruses and trojans use the same file and process name to hide their activities. The free Svchost Process Analyzer lists all svchost instances and checks the services they contain.

A Windows command-line tool that can be used to delete files and folders with very long paths (longer than MAX_PATH 260 characters). It supports paths as long as 32767 characters. It works by using extended-length paths and the Unicode versions of the WinApi functions for enumerating and deleting files. In addition, it supports bypassing ACL checks for deleting folders if the user has administrative rights on the drive.

Syncthing is a continuous file synchronization program. It synchronizes files between two or more computers in real time, safely protected from prying eyes. Your data is your data alone and you deserve to choose where it is stored, whether it is shared with some third party, and how it's transmitted over the internet.

Say "hello" to a different messaging experience. An unexpected focus on privacy, combined with all of the features you expect.