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Optimization Windows Disk and Registry with FCleaner Portable 1.3.1.621

randi — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 03:53:22 +0000

FCleaner Portable is a fully portable version of FTweak’s FCleaner. It removes unused files and invalid registry entries that are eating up your disk space and slowing your system down, tweaks your system and allows your Windows to run faster. FCleaner Portable can also protect your privacy such as Internet History, the Cookies that websites leave behind. You can erase all the traces of your online activities in just one click with the help of FCleaner Portable.

FCleaner Portable not only has an Uninstall button but also Repair, Update, Support, About, and Remove Entry controls and a filter entry field that let us type in a program’s first few letters to filter the application list. It also shows the path of each individual uninstaller application, a welcome design choice.

The Startup Manager let us disable or remove entries; the Tools tab gave quick access to the Windows Security Center, System Restore tool, Task Scheduler, System Information console, and the Command Line interface. Under Options, we could select our browser from a drop-down list, view all its cookies, and select those we wanted to keep, and FCleaner would zap all the others the next time we ran it.

Additional Features:

Uninstaller A full featured ´Uninstaller´ for you to uninstall, repair and update softwares
Startup Manager With the help of ´Startup Manager´ you can enable or disable the applications which run when Windows startup

New in version 1.3.1.621 :

New feature ´Clean up deleted items from Windows Recycle Bin according to days automatically´
New feature to show detailed analyzing/cleaning report of Windows Recycle Bin
Improved the cleaners for Windows Recycle Bin
Add new entries ´lbl_RecycleBin´, ´lbl_RecycleBin2´ and ´msg_RecycleBinEx´ to language file
Some other small tweaks

The Custom Cleaner is especially interesting. It let us designate a specific location and file types to clean, and even designate file types to exclude, via a simple wizard. One neat little extra is the small but detailed disk information pop-up that appears when you hover the cursor over the program’s system tray icon. With a robust but safe cleaner, uninstaller, and other useful tools, FCleaner Portable is a great tool to have in your keychain drive or PC toolkit, and it’s up to daily duty, too.

Smart Defrag 1.5 : Boost Your PC Perform with Free Defrag Tool

randi — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 07:46:02 +0000

Smart Defrag is a tool that allows you to schedule and perform defragmentation operations on your hard disks. This can improve performance of drives, allowing files to be accessed more quickly. Disk fragmentation is generally main cause of slow and unstable computer performance. Smart Defrag helps defragment your hard drive most efficiently.

Smart Defrag not only defragments computer deeply but optimizes disk performance. With “Install it and forget it” feature, Smart Defrag works automatically and quietly in the background on your PC, keeping your hard disk running at its speediest. Slow down, freeze-ups and crashes will be a thing of the past.

The application has four main sections: Defrag Now, Auto Defrag, Schedule and Options. In the first, Smart Defrag allows you to choose a drive to defragment and what type of defrag you want. While defragmenting, Smart Defrag can also optimize your drive to further improve its performance, although this process takes longer. Turning on Auto Defrag means Smart Defrag will reorganize your drives whenever the system is idle. It’s a neat solution, as doing a full defrag can be a lengthy and resource-heavy process. Auto Defrag means you won’t be disturbed.

Features include:

Easy 2 Use : Install it and forget it. The intuitive interface makes Smart Defrag the ideal utility for complete dummies.
Always-on Working
Smart Defrag works automatically and quietly in the background, constantly keeps your computer fragment-free.
Super Efficient Defragmentation : No more long time waiting, Smart Defrag has the fastest defragment engine in the world and finishes the job just in minuts.

Optimize File System : Not just simple defragment, Smart Defrag also streamlines the file system and makes your computer run at the top speed.

Overall, if you would like a handy defragger with options for scheduling and more, this is a great defragger for both novices and more experienced users.

Optimize PC RAM with FreeRAM XP Pro

randi — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 04:29:07 +0000

FreeRAM XP Pro offers many options and much customizability. Some of the features include the option to automatically monitor and free up memory; tray support; fast, threaded freeing with Stop option; CPU, memory load, system resources, and virtual memory monitors; easy-to-use, sleek GUI; memory reporting and diagnostic logging; an AutoFree option for optimum performance and ease of use; and real-time memory information. FreeRAM XP Pro also uses a very fast memory allocation algorithm, allowing it to work quickly with less intrusion on your productivity.

Features :

Automatic, real-time memory monitoring and optimization
Fast, threaded memory freeing with stop option
AutoFree option intelligently optimizes RAM without sacrificing performance
System metric and performance monitors
Advanced tray support
Memory reporting and diagnostic logging
Simple, attractive interface
RAM-cuts (RAM-freeing Windows shortcuts)
Customizable Windows hotkey support
Access to Windows memory-related tweaks that could enhance system performance (new in 1.50)
Process memory usage reporting (new in 1.50)
Unique memory compression technology directly reduces applications’ “working set” memory requirements instantly and without swap file usage
More options and customizability

Even if you’re not a RAM whiz, you can still easily free up RAM on your running system? By selecting AutoFree mode and then ‘go,’ FreeRAM XP Pro can automatically optimize your system, balancing levels between your memory cache and the computer’s speed. Those with a little more RAM know-how can specify the amount they’d like freed in the program’s extensive settings menu. Remember that attempting to free up more RAM than your system can handle will subsequently slow it down. Reporting options, a slew of memory monitoring tools, and the ability to place a preset of your memory settings to the desktop are reasons to try FreeRAM XP Pro.

EventSentry Light 2.91 Build 23

anti — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 08:40:41 +0000

EventSentry Light 2.91 Build 23 is a System Monitor product from netikus.net, get 5 Stars SoftSea Rating, EventSentry Light enables system administrators to have eventlog messages sent by email. The free version allows you to specify one filter criteria, to limit notification to selected (or all) events, based on EventID, category and keywords. You have the choice of text or HTML emails, set time and day restrictions and more. An outstanding tool for EventLog monitoring, the free verson will do outstanding for most small networks.

EventSentry Light Features:
1. Management Console:
Installs the console that is used to configure your EventSentry installation
2. Autorun:
Automatically launches the management console in the tray area upon login
3. Agent MSI Template:
Installs a template that can be used to deploy the EventSentry agent using Active Directory or other program deployment methods

4. Monitoring Agent:
This is installs the main monitoring component that monitors Windows-based machines
5. Heartbeat Monitoring Agent:
Installs the central heartbeat agent that ensures that remote devices (including routers and switches) are up and running. This is usually only installed on one host in your network.

6. Widgets:
Installs desktop widgets that display a performance summary. Requires that the web reports are installed on your network.
7. Web Reports:
Installs the ASP files required to run the web reports.
8. Setup IIS
Configures a virtual “EventSentry” directory on the local IIS installation. If IIS is not installed locally then setup needs to be run again on the host that has IIS installed.
9. Setup MSSQL Database:
Creates and initializes the EventSentry database on a local or remote Microsoft SQL Server.
10. Setup MySQL Database:
Creates and initializes the EventSentry database on a local or remote MySQL SQL Server.
11. Install MS Access Database:
Installs a local Access database. The access database is only recommended for testing or very small setups. SoftSea.com had fully tested, reviewed and uploaded the install files, EventSentry Light does not contain any adware or spyware, the latest version is 2.91 Build 23, you can download this system monitor software (24.37 MB) from special server of SoftSea.com. The license of this antivirus & security software is Freeware, you can free download and free use this system monitor software.

EventSentry Light works like a central filter to extract important information from all the event logs in your network. It collects the data, extracts the information that is relevant to you, and notifies you about them. The data is collected by the EventSentry agent that can be easily deployed using the management console. The agent uses filters where you can specify which Windows events are of interest you.

These filters are grouped in packages that can be assigned to computers individually or to computer groups. One limitation of the free version is that you can only work with one package with a maximum of four filters.

Once the data is collected, the information can be forwarded to you as e-mail or as pop-up messages on your desktop, Jabber, or pager. The light version only supports these four notification methods. Note that the full version supports 15 different notification types.

Bill2s Process Manager 3.4.1.3 – Free Processes Monitoring and Manager tools

Free Software — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 05:25:15 +0000

Bill2,sProcess Manager is a free tools that enables you to create rules to indicate which application process should become the priority and carried out, and also which processor or cores it is able to use, furthermore, these rules are safeguarded automatically, and observed in trasparent way when a process that concerned is detected. This software will help you to manage, rule, and memorize the priority and affinity of the carried out processes. You will be able to manage the plays posing proble with the multicores processor, and only throw one processeor without worrying about the management.

Requires : .NET Framework 2.0

What´s New in version 3.4.1.3:

Added Russian translation
Fixed handling rules: the box “Consider the full path” was not properly taken into account when opening the window to add / edit rule
Fixed rare crash when initializing graphics performance
Fixed various crash if possible (When access to the stats, when you kill certain processes, …)
Improved Statistics refresh when window was minimized
When selecting multiple processes to kill, some were not taken into account, if a process had not manageable in the selection
The systray icon should not disappear without reason
Change management performance graphs, to improve synchronization
Editing flags

Daphne – Monitoring and controlling processes that runs on your windows

Free Software — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:44:20 +0000

Daphne is a free small software use for stopping, controlling, and debugging processes that run on windows, you are able to ended a process by dragging your mouse pointor over the windows and right click in the process in the main process list or even by just typing its name with a “kill all by name” command line. You can also set any window to be always on top, etc

The main window displays a list of currently running process with detailed information about:

* Process ID
* Process name
* Full path (and arguments)
* Priority
* Class (Process / Service)
* Current memory usage
* Peek memory usage
* Current swap usage
* Peek swpa usage
* Number of threads

You can access extra information about a process by double clicking the process in the list:

* Process creation time
* Process kernel user time
* Process kernel mode time
* Windows hierarchy tree
* Thread list
* Full path module list
* Process environment variables

Features:
*Upgraded multidesktop features such as use up to four windows desktops using windows key + F5 to F8
*Show installed software on a list, the list is accessible via tray icon meny
*Able to check process hierarchy tree
* Parent process name an PID at process’ properties.
* Now you can make configuration portable using INI file instead of registry base configuration.
* Support for DRK’s process data base information search and contribution.
* Hide application tool: drop the target over the application’s window you want to hide. Later, you can restore the application from Daphne menu.
* Hide application, makes an application disappear but keeps it running to get more desktop space.
* Find process window tool: identify the process which owns the targeted window.
* Traps: you can set up traps to be applied to any process being created.
* Detailed process list, including full path and arguments.
* Per process detail including: Windows tree, thread list, modules, enviroment variables.
* Using the windows tree you can: Show, hide, set always on top on or off, set focus, et cetera to any give window.
* Kill all by name: Kill all process using a given name.
* Kill menu: Customizable menu, each menu item has a process list to kill upon activation.
* Process list highlighting with colors for custom, system and high CPU-consumption processes.
* Control inspector window for revealing hidden passwords.
* Drag and drop tool for killing, setting alpha, enabling controls and putting windows always on top.
* “Hide Java VM from command line” option in advanced tab makes Daphne strip the path to the default Java VM in full path mode
*Multi Language

Whats Running 3.0 Beta – Control processes and services in your OS

Free Software — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:28:47 +0000

Whats Running is a free tools for monitoring your os (work for windows 2K/XP/2003), it is exploring processes, services, modules, Network, drivers and many more through a simple application to find out important information such as modules that run on a process, it is also controling your system by start and stop services and processes.

What’s New in version 3.0 Beta:
* Supports Vista and Windows 7
* Supports 64-bit processes
* MD5 and SHA1 hashes
* Graphs
* Various bug fixes

SIW – Give detailed information of your system

Free Software — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:23:14 +0000

SIW is a free system information tools for windows made by Gabriel Topala, SIW gathering detail information about your system properties and settings. It will including detailed information about your CPU, TCP/IP, memory, hardware, users, network shares, and more, also monitoring your CPU, Memory and your network traffic. SIW also displaying currently active network connections, installed codes, and many more. SIW didnt require installation

Supported Operating Systems: Windows 98 / Me / NT4 / 2000 / XP / Server 2003 / Media Center / Tablet PC / Windows 2003 Server R2 / Vista / Windows Server 2008 / Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2.

What’s New in version 2009-10-22:
* Windows 7 Compatible
* PortableApps Version
* DirectX detection on Win7
* Correct Splash Screen size if DPI != 96
* Scheduled Tasks for Vista and Windows 7
* Tools –> Hibernate Enable/Disable for Windows 7
* Fixed: CPU and Memory Usage
* Fixed: Installation Time
* Fixed: Wrong menu
* Fixed: Exception c0000096 when Sony Vegas 7 is installed on Vista 32
* Fixed: Empty messages in Event Viewer
* Minor improvements and bug fixes.

Anvir Task Manager Free – Complete control for your computer

Free Software — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:32:53 +0000

Task Manager Free is a free tools for user to take a full control of their computer, it gives user detailed information about every process and application that running on the windows startup (including hidden application)

Advanced startup manager gave you full control of you windows start up
* Get all list of applications that run Windows startup including all hidden applications.
* Get all additional information about startup applications.
* Disable/enable, add/delete, edit startup entries.
* Stop or run once again startup application.

Startup guard functionality:
* Alert you whenever any new application adds itself to startup.
* Forbid some applications to be added to startup.
* See alert when Internet Explorer home page was changed.

Process manager allows you to:
* Get full information about all processes: CPU and memory usage, executable name with full path, priority, work time, user name.
* Get executable file properties, icon and version information.
* Stop many processes with one click.
* Change process priorities.

Tray icons allows you to:
* Get current information about CPU usage including list of most active programs.
* Get current information about HDD usage. Protection against viruses includes:
* Viruses Detection and destruction
* Virus database update.
* Minimum usage of system resources.

Perfect Utilities 2.0 – A complete solution for your PC maintenance

Free Software — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 03:06:03 +0000

Perfect Utilities is a free tools for optimizing your PC, it is combine more than 20 tools in a bundle for cleaning, optimizing, and speeding up your system performance. It is also offers an attractive an friendly user interface which organizes all tasks into several categories and provides graphical statistic whenever possible.

The tools include: Junk File Cleaner, Registry Cleaner, Disk Cleaner, Memory Optimizer, System Information, Registry Backup Tool, File Encryption Tool, Safe Uninstaller, Duplicate File Finder, File Shredder, File Recovery Tool, Disk Defragment Tool and much more.

Perfect Utilities also includes an Internet Tracks Eraser with Cookie Manager and Secure Deletion. Overall, a great bundle that offers a wide range of system tools with extra benefits which are not easy to find.

Perfect Utilities makes your Windows to run faster, more efficiently and gives you more hard disk space.

The best part is that it´s Auto-Update supported, Fast, Security and Free!