Freeware: Desktop Utility

	FastFavorites  License: Freeware
	FastFavorites will save you time and give you the flexibility you need to access the critical information you need on a daily basis online. FastFavorites puts your top favorites in an icon right on your taskbar where you can quickly access them. FastFavorites also saves your favorites online so you can retrieve them from any computer simply by downloading and installing a second copy on that machine. You can also create detailed notes about your favorites and have them display automatically when you put your mouse over them. Busy professionals will find this a valuable tool! Author: Hurricane Digital Media| Date: 15-06-2004 | Size: 1410 KB
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	Wallpaper Positioner  License: Freeware
	Tired of 'Centered' or 'Tiled' wallpaper, now with 'Wallpaper Positioner' you can visually place your wallpaper anywhere on the screen and even display only a portion of it. It is a handy utility for managing wallpapers. And with its user-friendly interface, users can easily place wallpaper anywhere on desktop. Wallpaper positioner also provides a set of tools like Centered/Stretched/Tiled wallpaper style, immediate placement of wallpaper at any corner or center of the screen, background color selection etc. The utility is accompanied with comprehensive help for ease of use." Author: NZM Softwares| Date: 19-08-2001 | Size: 2846 KB
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	Visual Trace Route  License: Freeware
	FREE Visual replacement for the standard trace route utility. This software is the fastest way to get the route between your computer and any other computer in the world. This utility can quickly trace a route from your computer to any other device. A utility that traces a packet from your computer to an Internet host, showing how many hops the packet requires to reach the host and how long each hop takes. If you're visiting a Web site and pages are appearing slowly, you can use traceroute to figure out where the longest delays are occurring. Visual Trace Route utility work by sending packets with low time-to-live (TTL) fields. The TTL value specifies how many hops the packet is allowed before it is returned. When a packet can't reach its destination because the TTL value is too low, the last host returns the packet and identifies itself. By sending a series of packets and incrementing the TTL value with each successive packet, traceroute finds out who all the intermediary hosts are. You can start Visual Trace Route from the desktop icon, or from the program group manager of the start menu. Also, you can start Visual Trace Route is from Command Prompt. First, start Command Prompt from the Start/Run menu. Very easy to use interface. Incredible tracing speed. Complete control of tracing parameters. Detailed and complete results of the tracing process. Real time results in text and graphical mode. Complete documentation. Desktop and start menu launching. Command prompt launching. Command prompt launching WITH parameters. It's FREE. Visual Trace Route is easy to use, cool designed, friendly interface, very fast in tracing routes, and it's free. Author: IT Lights Software| Date: 13-03-2005 | Size: 595 KB
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	Lava Lamp  License: Freeware
	Displays a mathmos like Lava lamp on your desktop. It sits on top of your desktop and can be displayed in seven different colours. You can also configure it to run on start up and also links you to sites on the web. You can also send it to a friend. Author: German IT Development| Date: 10-07-2002 | Size: 1280 KB
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	VSFNotes  License: Freeware
	An easy tool to place notes anywhere on the desktop. They always are fixed on the desktop, even if all windows are minimized. Colors and fonts can be set for each note. Author: mn-software| Date: 16-07-2008 | Size: 1243 KB
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	Wallpaper Alterer  License: Freeware
	Tired of your desktop wallpaper? Change it! You think that it’s tiresome to change desktop background constantly? You are wrong! With Wallpaper Alterer changing wallpaper becomes easy as pie. You click the shortcut and your desktop background changes: flowers or beautiful sceneries appear on it, or maybe you’ll see photos of your children or beloved ones or the pictures you took during your last vacation - who knows? Just select the “change wallpaper on Windows startup� checkbox and every time you turn on the computer you will have no idea what your desktop will look like. Isn’t it intriguing? Now it’s so interesting to turn the computer on! Wallpaper Alterer is very small and extremely simple. You will have no errors when you use it, and at the same time, it works quite well. All you have to do is specify a folder containing your favorite pictures when you run the program for the first time. After that, your desktop will never be monotonous and boring. Wallpaper Alterer is a small, easy to use and helpful freeware program, so why not try it now? Author: BegemotSoft| Date: 25-04-2005 | Size: 62 KB
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	Custom Skin Clock  License: Freeware
	Custom Skin Clock is a desktop version of a frame with a favorite photograph you keep on your desktop. Install your favorite pictures, photos of your family, dog, friends, unforgettable moments of your vacation or just a favorite picture on the clock face. The clock with your picture will be located on your desktop without interfering with your work. Custom Skin Clock is a FREE customizable analog clock located on the desktop. This elegant modern clock will make your desktop more interactive. You can easily move the clock on the desktop, adjust the scale, customize the clock face, change the color of clock hands and manage the clock position settings. Author: UpClock Software| Date: 27-01-2008 | Size: 1374 KB
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	HotKeyz  License: Freeware
	Windows Hotkey / Shortcut Creator Using your keyboard will help you to work faster and much more efficiently. HotKeyz is a keyboard utility with hotkey / shortcut control for executing files, folders, Start / Run commands, opening your mail, browsing to a website and logging in and much more ... Launch applications in a Normal, Minimized, Maximized or Hidden state. The Parameter option gives you parameter control when launching another application like the Internet Explorer and surfing to a specific site as parameter. HotKeyz also features default hotkeys for minimizing, maximizing, restoring or closing the active window. Launch your default e-mail window to compose a new e-mail. Control WinAmp without it being focused. Define memo type text and with a hotkey paste your text into your e-mails, documents etc. You can also paste special characters or the current date and time. Open and close your CD-Rom(s). Power off, shutdown, logoff or reboot your PC. Start your screen saver, hide or unhide your desktop, taskbar or any desktop window. Connect to the internet and disconnect your dial-up with a hotkey. Control your windows sound by increasing, decreasing, muting and changing the balance with a hotkey! Randomly change your desktop wallpaper with a hotkey. Open the recycle bin or empty it with a hotkey. Define a username and password to automatically login into your favourite website or program using a hotkey! You can remap most of the keyboard keys to different keys! Record macros and play them back using hotkeys! You can even have a dialog prompt you for confirmation on executing certain hotkeys! This is a great way to learn all your hotkeys or to prevent you from executing the wrong one. The HotKeyz tray icon will change to indicate a key press. HotKeyz supports the WIN, CTRL, ALT, SHIFT modifier keys with most of the other keyboard keys. Author: Magnus Kruger| Date: 03-11-2003 | Size: 962 KB
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	EF Commander Free  License: Freeware
	EF Commander Free for Windows is a file manager for the Windows desktop. If you've ever used and liked Norton Commander, you'll like this dual-windowed program. Multilingual. Author: EFSoftware| Date: 10-12-2007 | Size: 1305 KB
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	AVS Sparks Screensaver  License: Freeware
	Relax with AVS Sparks Screensaver! A magnificent comet tail evoking thoughts about the infinity of the Universe. Get more free AVS Screensavers for your desktop. Developed in 3D, bright, colorful and originally designed, our screensavers will give you a lot of exciting emotions. A special feature makes possible to enrich the screensaver with your own images. Author: Online Media Technologies Ltd., UK| Date: 05-08-2008 | Size: 1464 KB
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	My CharMap  License: Freeware
	CharMap utility with re-sizeable character display and zoom viewer. This utility enhances the default CharMap program that ships with Microsoft Windows. Features re-sizeable window and zoom panel to make viewing characters easier on the eyes. Author: Harold Holmes| Date: 12-12-2003 | Size: 329 KB
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	Ki-BookMark  License: Freeware
	How many times have you wasted a lot of your time searching for a file, folder, application or a favourite URL saved in your computer? How many times have you wanted to stretch the size of your desktop to add a few more shortcuts? If the answer is at least once, then read on. We have good news for you! Developed by Kalavath Infotech using the latest Microsoft .NET technology, Ki-BookMark is a handy desktop organiser. It is a desktop-like window organised into tabs and contains full size icons Author: Kalavath Infotech| Date: 28-01-2003 | Size: 130 KB
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	VidShot Capturer  License: Freeware
	VidShot Capturer created for quick screen capturing. You can use VidShot Capturer for capturing anything you see on your PC desktop and record them to video. You can capture windows, region, the entire desktop and even cursor moving. VidShot Capturer helps you for demonstrating features of your website, for making movie, presentation and any other task requires desktop activity capturing. It is very easy and fast for to use. You just select windows or region or desktop and pull “startâ€� button. More other VidShot Capturer allows to adjust the framesof the video. It has easy to use interface that’s why if you even new to making screen captures you can manage it. Main Features:  Capture Video from desktop  Capture video from Window  Capture wideo from region of your desktop  Automatic Video options  Frame Rate advaned settings  Easy and nice interface Author: Geovid| Date: 09-12-2005 | Size: 1229 KB
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	Onefog Desktop Shooter  License: Freeware
	Your desktop becomes your playground with DesktopShooter. Shoot your e-mail, shoot up your icons. But don’t worry, the desktop distortion is only temporary; press a key and it’s all cleaned up. Different digital distractions bring instant excitement to your computer! Author: Onefog Games| Date: 22-09-2002 | Size: 558 KB
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	Two Notes  License: Freeware
	Two Notes is a handy and easy to use desktop sticky notes program for home and office. It has user-friendly interface. Stick notes on your computer desktop as a visual reminder. The notes stick to the desktop and doesn't prevent your working. With Two Notes program you can change the color of your notes, font, size, signature, style and more. You can create your own note templates too. Try now! Features:  Minimize in title;  Templates of notes;  Hot keys; Author: Softjournal| Date: 01-05-2007 | Size: 224 KB
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	KNOCKS Desktop Diary  License: Freeware
	KNOCKS Desktop Diary is an all in one Desktop Notes, Contacts and Project Planner which gives you unobtrusive, one-click information. The application can be used to efficiently manage and control your daily tasks. Key features: Ability to Configure and Create multiple Notes. Ability to Configure and Create multiple Contacts. Ability to Plan your projects and Resource Allocation and Timelines. Easy to use UI and unobtrusive help . Extremely light-weight, low memory consumption. Author: KNOCKS Solutions| Date: 15-01-2007 | Size: 697 KB
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	Theme Manager  License: Freeware
	Theme Manager is a front end that seamlessly works with your other desktop enhancements to apply skins, themes, icon packages, and suites all from the same user interface. Once you have your desktop just the way you want, you can take a snapshot of your desktop that is saved as a .suite file. Author: Stardock Systems| Date: 15-07-2004 | Size: 1821 KB
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	.NET News On Your Desktop  License: Freeware
	.NET News On Your Desktop is a project developed by Blocks4.NET in order to notify .NET users / developers community about latest .NET components news. News are received from Blocks4.NET web site and displayed to your desktop by using a Channel Definition File and the Windows Active Desktop feature included in Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP and 2003. This is an essential tool for software developers that use custom controls, software components, code generators, and other productivity tools. Author: Blocks4.NET| Date: 31-01-2007 | Size: 348 KB
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	ResChange  License: Freeware
	This command line application can change your desktop width, height, color depth, and refresh rate temporarily or permanently (via command line switches). You can have ResChange run another application in a specific display resolution and return to the previous resolution when the application finishes. The command lines switches let you alter only certain dimensions and choose the best refresh rate (or a specific one). Running reschange.exe without any switches displays usage information. Author: 12noon| Date: 14-10-2004 | Size: 175 KB
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	Mr. Blackwell  License: Freeware
	Mr. Blackwell is a utility that transparently logs key information when a tracked file is run. This data contains: The users login name, The current date, The current time, The file name (and arguments if any). Its purpose is to equip administrators with a simple history mechanism and provide a record of accountability. Author: Michael Sanders| Date: 01-08-2003 | Size: 71 KB
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	Mihov ASCII Master  License: Freeware
	Mihov ASCII Master is a simple but useful utility that shows you ASCII value of the key pressed - both in decimal and hex! Great for software developers! Author: Miha Psenica| Date: 31-10-2000 | Size: 387 KB
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	Laptop Battery Power Monitor  License: Freeware
	Laptop Battery Power Monitor allows you to track the battery power of your laptop. This cool little widget can be dragged across your desktop and placed over any window. To eliminate intrusiveness on your other programs, users can adjust the transparency of the battery. In addition, the battery can be resized to 33%, 50%, or 75% of its original size. If you place your mouse over the battery, your battery's charge status, total hours remaining, and percentage of battery life remaining will be displayed. Author: Duomart.com| Date: 17-08-2006 | Size: 421 KB
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	DesktopDeco  License: Freeware
	Decorate your desktop with lots of nice christmas objects. DestopDeco 1.0 - Christmas edition is freeware and very easy to install and use. Don't just decorate your house, decorate your pc desktop too! Author: easytornado.com| Date: 17-11-2007 | Size: 833 KB
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	Virtual Desktop  License: Freeware
	Too many open windows on your desktop at a time? Virtual Desktop will create new desktops for you and let you to switch between desks and windows quick and easy. Virtual Desktop is built as a service and requires only 2MB ram memory to work. Author: Free Soft| Date: 1-42-2004 | Size: 241 KB
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	SupportSmith Free  License: Freeware
	SupportSmith is an integrated platform that provides Remote Desktop access and Live Customer Support, establishing secure SSH/2 AES 128-bit encrypted connections between computers, passing through NATs, firewalls and proxies. SupportSmith offers a suite of support tools to allow for the best interaction with the client and internal users, such as chat, file transfer and remote control. SupportSmith also complements the functionality of Microsoft Remote Desktop and Microsoft Remote Assistance, allowing them to quickly and safely establish the connection between computers located behind firewalls and NAT routers. This will save consultants, system administrators and technical support providers time and money in training and development. SupportSmith gives you: * MS Remote Desktop * Desktop Sharing * Presentation facility * Live Customer Support * File Transfer * Remote Shell * Chat It also: * enhances Microsoft Remote Desktop, Microsoft Remote Assistance software. * doesn't require network configurations. * provides unparalleled security. Free for Personal Use Author: Cybele Software Inc.| Date: -41-2008 | Size: 4486 KB
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	ExeDesk, Professional Edition  License: Freeware
	The ExeDesk is a skinable (theme enabled) virtual desktop manager that replaces standard Windows desktop. There is up to nine desktops, each with its own user-defined content. Windows opened on each desktop can be simply moved to other desktop using drag & drop (or can be made sticky and thus visible on all desktops). The program features multiple object types (icons, buttons, frames, text,...), menus, tool windows and more. The program is fully customizable: User can select different color and wallpaper for each desktop, assign hotkeys to desktops, select from many types of objects to represent particular application (or file or WWW) shortcut. The program supports drag & drop and is easy to use. Professional edition only: Theme creation/editing, desktop password protection, screen resolution per desktop , better color control. Author: Pitrinec Software| Date: 28-07-2004 | Size: 3252 KB
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	SecureZIP Express for Desktop  License: Freeware
	SecureZIP Express is the industry-leading security and compression utility that zips and unzips files, greatly reducing transmission times and storage requirements, while securely protecting data in transit and at rest with passphrase and digital certificate based encryption. Author: PKWARE Inc| Date: 12-08-2008 | Size: 14028 KB
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	CarbonFolder  License: Freeware
	CarbonFolder is a small and extremely simple in use utility for synchronization of files in local folders and folders in local network. For instance, it lets you perform fast synchronization of files on your desktop PC and a notebook in the local network. There is no doubt that the synchronization of data is quite an exhausting process, especially when it is performed manually. CarbonFolder allows you to automate this process without any efforts. For your convenience, any newly created task can be saved for the next launch. The synchronization of files with CarbonFolder is easy as a pie: all the user has to do is to start the program and follow the instructions of the wizard. The full process takes just 5 steps. Firstly, the utility offers you to create a new project or open an existing one. Secondly, source and destination folders should be selected. Thirdly, the synchronization mode should be specified. It can be done in two ways: bidirectional or unidirectional. Besides, it is possible to make an exact copy of folder 1 in folder 2, include subfolders or use advanced options like including or excluding particular files from synchronization. After that, the user should verify synchronization parameters, click the “Synchronize Folders� button and the task is completed. Finally, the program asks if the user wants to save the task or not. The best thing about CarbonFolder is its total simplicity and ease of use. The program has a simple interface designed as a step-by-step wizard, which is very common among Windows applications and is clear to any user. It takes you just a minute and a few clicks to synchronize data. CarbonFolder supports Microsoft Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista. Author: NeoWise Software| Date: 11-03-2008 | Size: 552 KB
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	Quick Convert  License: Freeware
	A new kind of conversion utility.Perform hundreds of different conversions without having to re-key each value. Author: RWSoftware| Date: 10-11-2001 | Size: 1012 KB
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	eXibition Wallpaper Manager  License: Freeware
	Add a little pizzaz to your desktop with eXibition Software's Wallpaper Manager. Now you can choose images from anywhere on your hard drive to automatically rotate on your Windows desktop. Show off pictures of the kids, rememeber that wonderful vacation, avoid the same ole same ole screen. Author: eXibition Software| Date: 31-12-2004 | Size: 3374 KB
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