General
Tools
7Zip
OS Zip archiver.compress/decompress ZIP 7z GZIP TAR BZIP2 decompress RAR CAB ARJ CPIO RPM DEB SPLIT Most Importatnly you can open RAR files witout need of a cracked WinRAR OS
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File Seeker 0.3
Fast File Search on ur PC due to indexing. Smaller and faster than Copernices Desktop Search and better than Windows native search OS
JS File Split Split big files into smalll files to be fitted on floppy F
Converber Unit convertor. convert 300 unit into one another.F
Pixie
3.1 A smallest color picker for web developer.F
PDF
Read Alternative but fast adobe pdf files reader. much smaller than bloated adobe reader.F
Undisker
1.2 Create ISO images of floppy, CDs and folders. use it wtih Deamon CD emulator C
Deamon 347 CD emulator It emulate CD drive. thus you can load 5 cds as a time without always putting CD
into CD drive. Good for gamers and those who frequantly need CD books for referances like me :). Download undisker to create ISO images F
Desktop Enhancement
Iconoid Automatically hide and display desktop icons , Remove the colored box behind icon text can make it transparent F
IconShop extract icons from any programs or archive. F
iphile "Icon Packager" from StarDock if you know what that is than this iphile is smallest, fastest and cuteset synonome with 'icon packager'.iok, i tell you this is an icon replacment utility. icons given with Windows are boring, less userfriendly, and donot match with our themes. This program let you change all those icons. Features
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- supports file types, desktop icons dddrive and folder icons
- quick drag and drop interface for chhhanging icons
- change a number of icons at once (ussse multiselect)
- register new extensions
- undo changes
- change icons for files with differennnt extensions that are all of the same "File Type"
- see only the file types you wanna seeee
- save icon schemes, which include fillle icons
How to use this application?
These are Few Icons Packages you can use for intoduction basis MoonShine1-0, X-aqua, Idioplatina1-0 More can be find on customize.org or elsewhere
DremPels Make your boring desktop live by making molten images of wallpaper OS
ShellWM It changes windows border and add some customization OS
CustomEyes make windows border like another OS and many other ways. OS
eFX An Older Program to change the windows borders and look. Windows XP themes can be download here. Neither, in developemt nor you will get more themes for it. Some are give at customize.org.
Quotes on Table This will show a nice Quote on your desktop at specified corner. nearly 1000 quotation on various topics. You can create ur own database. I liked this. C
Qlock A free clock which can show differnet times for different Cities. great for people like me, who have friends and relatives living in other countires. Huge database for timezones. it also have a RSS news feeder F
iDaily Diary Freeware
iDailyDiary has been designed around a page-for-a-day handwritten diary. Providing a simple interface that immediately gets you started taking daily notes, creating a journal, putting your thoughts into writing.U can insert graphics, search any notes by key words, popup calendar to select a specific date.
Datas are stored in encrypte form and you can protect your diary with password.Support Auto Save and R to L languages like Persian and Hebrew. You can save Diary as HTML or Rich text format too
NotePad ++
This is a note pad with some enhanced functions. It is not a tool for programming or Web-design only. This program is necessary for everyone, who types and edits the text it is developed as a Windows Notepad replacement. Intuitive, and easy to configure interface; it can beautifuly shows and save colrour code scripts etc , for serious Programmers I ask them to use HTML-Kit. i use this for Replacement of Windows Notepad
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History & Reg Cleaners
RegSeeker
1.45 you can search registry,clean registry,show you installed program, manages start up, clear history. and it backup all registry changes before it finalize it work. F
Ccleaner
v1.17 best history cleaner till date. clean history from everywhere- programs, web hisotry, recent programs used, it can also fix issues, uninstall program, manage startup.
Best thing is it can add new programs as you install them and clear there history automaticaly. It can be setted to clear things at startup andcleaer things silently without showing its workup. Great.F
Dcleaner Another Small System Cleaner Like CCLeaner. Similar feaures with Few Differences F
Recover Deleted files
Drive
Rescue 1.19 Best freeware for Recoveing Deleated files folder recovery. it recover even formated hard disk also. well, atleast I recoverd 80% of my formatted disk with this. F
Restoration Smallest Retoration utility can be use on Fat and NTFS file system too F
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Internet & Email
SuperY!M
Archvie Decoder Read Yahoo messenger archive offline witout need of password. you can read your own and others yahoo IDs message also on that PC without need to knowing third password C
Buddy Spy
2.2.9 Tell you if your friends or any other Yahoo ID is online or not even if they are invisible tell u about their webcam status and chatroom where they are OS
Dawn
v5.2 Help to convert your address book from one format to another. Helpful when u migrate from one email client to another OS
Ad Filter. v1.1.2 This is the best and smallest Ad Block Toolfor Internet Explorer IE till today. It funcitons nearlly similar to FireFox AdBLock Extension. install it. and it will block many ads with predefined rules. If you want to aadd some other ads. right click. you will see a Block this ad menu. click and block it. you can block or create rules by yourself. For eg. on yahoo mail block ad in top bar by right click choose server name as ad.xyz.com/* '*' here means any thing coming from ad.xyz.com will be blocked. offcourse you have to refresh the browser once to see this affect. but it is working efficiantly and block the ADs any time forever. F
Save Flash Plugin This will Install a flash plugin in your IE from where you can save, preview ShockWave File without searching into IE cache, it can also search Firefox cache to save swf files. but the toolbar will only fpund into IE F
NoFlash 2.0 Remove Any Flash from downloading.A very small program residing in tray and blcok Flash before installation
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If you still Use Internet Explorer as your Browser than I recommand you to use Yahoo toolbar with a Popup blocker, AdsFilter, Spybot+Ad-Aware Adware remover and a free firewall(eg kerio/ Zone Alarm) for best and safest Browsing
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System Tools
Stroke
it 9.5 handle windows any program by mouse gesture. So addivtive and useful, i bet u will shift to it forever. OS
MaxFormat
3.5 format the floppies of various capacities in full and can make bootable floppy. it has made my worst damages floppies reusable C
Fast
Folder 7.0 provide some options in right click for copy or move files. F
Send to toys
provide some options in right click for moving files to frequently used folders. You can create as many folders as you want in your right click. F
Glass2K It will make any windows transparent. transparency .evel can be setted for every windows. Small 42KB size, Only for Win 2000,XP and 2003 F
Winroll it will Roll up your Windows to it Title bar only, just like in Mac OS. So tht you can alwys see the windows title bar on desktop, you can roll down by click it again with right click. Only 73KB, All windows, F
Lucid
This is also a small window transparency tool. It is different from Glass2K in that Lucid is different than many other programs of its kind. Most others only allow you to set a window’s transparency level to a static value. Once a window is added to Lucid’s list it is tracked as it is activated and deactivated and its transparency is adjusted accordingly. You can adjust both the active and inactive transparency of each window type individually. Read Help file on how to use it F
Music
Real audio/Vedio to MP3/AVI Converter Can convert any real audio or video into Wav/Mp3 or AVi respectvly. It can convet directly from website online or it can also convert real media files on your hard drive. F
Godfather best name tagger for mp3 files. also support some other formats too. ID1 ID2 there interconversion etc. a lot things. it also has internal player.above all it is freeware
Indexer 1.0 It can index any of your directory. and produce a html list F
mp3lister
4.1 Same as above, but it specificly list mp3 files with some other parameters like size and bit rate also shown F
3GPP to AVI Convertor
It can convert Mobile 3GPP format audio and video into wav, mp3 and AVI file recpectvly. Good for those who wish to convert mobile clips or those who do not have 3GPP players F
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Image Editor
PhotoFiltre 6.2
This is the best image Manipulation Program after Adobe Photoshop and GIMP. It can do most of photoshop work
It have most of the features you see in Photshop. Above them, it is so small in size just 1.2 MB and more stable and faster in working. The toolbar, and icons are similar to photoshop.And its free !!! if we are not a big player in image manipulation
why to pay huge some of money on photoshop.It has 100 filters which can do all the function you will need. The difference between photofilter and photofilter studio is that later support Layers function(similar to photoshop with all its layer features you see there, animated gif and icon saving,
and some other features. Learn more here and install some plugins here photofiltre.com F
PhotoFiltre Studio 7.2.1
As you can read from above this support layer features and do near to Photoshop. But it is commercial(though cheaper than photoshop and much better than other bloated image manipulation). install PhotoFilter from above. after that, WIHTOUT UN-installing it
dwonload this, and run it. Your PHOTOFILTRE will convert into PHOTOFILTRE STUDIO. if you like it buy and support the author for his wonderful afforts.and if you donot want to support it, Still you can enjoy it with the serial herein readme file. or keygen here learn more about it here
Photofiltre Studio.com C
External Links
SharpE OS Best shell replacement for windows 2000 and XP. better than Windows Blinds or objectDock
Mr Postman Can fatch emails from many web based Emails yahoo, rediffmail, hotmail, gmail, indiatimes mails etc
Similar mail fetcher from mail.com, hotmail, yahoo, rediff, email.com, has own read and write client freeware
this is a dictionary for nearly 80 languages of word. it is in english and romanised other languages. install basic program and than istall as many word fiels as u want for 80 languages of world including chinesse, japanese, thai, hindi ,persian, arabic , bangali, tamil etc
Yahoo ! PoPs Fetch yahoo mail directly into your email client say utlook exp[ress or mozilla thunderbird, eudora
Bookmark
Bridge Bookmark manager, can manage ur boookmarks of all the browsers
Bookmark
Manager An OS bookmark managers, can manage bookmarks of all boesers you have
Opera Browser Best fast stable browser. fastetst i can say. have intenral email client and download manager. now it do not show advertiment. so u can bet on it.
Trillian a multi purpose chat client support Ym aol msn and icq.
HTML Kit Best HTMl and other language script writer. just go to this to know it. Small in size. I use this.
PDF
Creator an OS pdf creator an alternative to original Adobe acrobat.
Abi
Word an OS text writer similar to MS WORD in apperance, functioning. best in its this category
GIMP
2.2 An OS alternative to imaging standard of Adobe Photoshop. it can do all what an adobe photoshop can do.
Diskeeper lite
This is the best freeware Defragmentor in fact defragmetor coming with XP is devloped by same company
Free Antivirus
AVG Antivirus Home You can read it on download.com that this is best free antivirus. the defination and program updates are free for home users for lifetime. yes! Life time. i use this one.
Avast Home 4.5 Another free AV home edition. defination are updated for free for 1.5 yrs but you have to register the prgoram every 1.5 y offcourse registration is free. I have tried it and its good too.
Anti Spyware:
with Best Adware removel program. even commerical are less effective than this one. Ad-Aware another best adware removel. you have to use it with spybot for most effective adware and pests removal
Power quest Partition magic
8 no doubt! i have use this and found unbeatable. it do all, partition, reallocation of space, new OS installation. and make backup before it finalize the action. best. but little costly.
5 royailty free wallpaper every day for your desktop. This is from download.com so naturally spywere free, safe. thousands of beautiful wallpaper. It can cycle wallpaper, can give you calendar even you can choose your own folder/ wallpapers. do not use some crapy wallpaper cycler. this is best and hasel free.
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