IMPORTANT: most files (apart from VERY
small, or hard to find ones) are marked as (external). That means when
you click the link, instead of starting the download, a popup will open, with
the external webpage where you can find the file at. Either you live with
it and start downloading, or you read further to see why I did this and to
find answers to some of the answers that may be popping inside your head.
1) Software authors/big software providers deserve visits to their
webpages
2) Visiting the software homepage/main distribution channel, you will
be sure you will find the latest version
3) Free webhost (why do you think I am referring to XOOM? I never speaked
about it...) are FUX0RING PISSING and delete accounts because you host 50+MB
worth of FREEWARE, and you also happen to receive 500+ daily visitors as a
lucky chance
4) It isn't pointless to have such external download system from inside
my pages, since even if the files are not materially here, you may be looking
for a software needed for a guide published on this site, and you could also
notice "that other software you may need but you didn't know it existed"
Great couple of tools to create a PDF file (you know... the ones you read with Adobe Acrobat Reader...) from every kind of document you can print. Follow instructions in HowTo's section on how to do this.
Small and effective tool from ZDLabs to search the Windows' registry for a key and display all of the occurencies in one panel, instead of pressing F3 till the last one. Then you can open Regedit on the key you want to edit, simply pressing a button in Registry Detective.
Instead of accessing the DirectX properties from the DxDiag.exe file, located you never know where, just uncompress the .CPL file in this ZIP to your Windows\System folder, and then look at the Control Panel
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Not for many, but someone may find useful this utility. I myself have it installed, and never used it, but you never know
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Thought for Windows 98 and ME, you can manage your keyboard special key bindings, and see how much RAM/CPU power is using each program (this is a reduced version, I actually left only these two utilities in the ZIP, since they were the only ones I used; if you look for the complete version, search for "kernel toys download" at www.google.com).
GREAT free tool (actually requires a reg code for "full registration", not needed tho; you'd get the opportunity to download the latest version, which supports batch conversions and other things); I use it to rename MP3 files, just a few settings, and the game's done.
CRC (Cyclic Redundancy Check) tool, lets you create a check file (extension .SFV, "Simple File Verification") for a series of files, so another user can check if these files are integer or corrupt after he downloads them (actually it is more useful when YOU need to check the integrity of a download, if the downloaded file is provided with its CRC table -- that is a .SFV file).
Run it from time to time when you need to remove from the Windows' Registry those useless lines, which a crap uninstaller or a even crapper installer left there. I runned it right now, 445 invalid entries
You may need to get a screenshot of a Windows program, of a funny error message, or anyway of a document view, to publish it, or to archive it exactly as you saw it; ScreenRip32 is the program for you: gets either a shot of the whole screen, of a single window, of a sigle field (like, the text field of Word or the OK button of a dialog box), or even of an area whose borderyou drag with the mouse (I used this utility to take all the screenshots you see in the HowTo's/IRC pages). Then you can save in BMP, GIF, JPEG or even as an icon (.ICO)!
Simplicity made application: does what it needs to do, and perfectly; it splits a file in several pieces, either of the size you need, or of the percentage of the whole size you want; it can create all the segments, or, for example, only the 4th segment of 1,635,246 bytes from a 10MB file. It can make as well a batch file to rebuilt the whole data in one command. And it's really small, too.
A must for Windows users, both 98/ME ones and 2k pro's. You can refresh the icons when they get messed up (quite often), disable the Auto Insert Notification for the CD Drive (this is the only way to do this under Win2k), choose to clean the "New" submenu of the Contextual Menu, and much more.
-- wow! If you were thinking about trying WinFax Pro or other commercial tools to send faxes via PC, try this first, and maybe you won't change it.. it misses nothing to be a complete software for fax management.
Low-level tool to modify the resources in 32bit-standard files (that is, you can export Icons, Bitmaps, Text, Cursors, or change them as you want). Advanced users only.