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PersonalReminder is a very small but handy reminder tool that remains in the system tray. It handles daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, yearly and one-time reminders. When a reminder is due, you can choose to either play a sound, or display the reminder.

TYPSoft FTP Server is a fast and simply ftp server with support to for virtual file system, download/upload resume, IP restriction and access logs.

BruteBenchmark checks the performance of your CPU, video card and hard disk. It computes a score for each quickly, and you can use it to compare against other entries in the database.

MicroWav is an extremely small WAV player with no user interface. You associate WAV files to it, so that when you double-click on any WAV file, it plays almost immediately with no user interaction required.

PDFproducer converts plain text into PDF documents. It does not require Acrobat to be installed on the system, since it does not uses any component of Acrobat to produce PDF files. You have a choice of 3 page sizes, different orientation as well as up to 3 fonts.

Site offline, linking to archive.org

Media Tagger is an MP3 tag editor that supports synchronization between ID3v1 with ID3v2 tags, renaming the files according to the tag or vice versa, creating a WinAMP playlist, or exporting to a CSV or HTML file listing. It also supports tagging via the FreeDB database.

The application website appears to be down -- link changed to Wayback Machine -- so I am making the most recent version available for direct download.

Virtual Drives Manager is a tool for defining virtual drives in your filesystem. Virtual drives are symbolic links that points to existing directories on your filesystem. This is essentially a graphical version of subst.exe.

Note: This application periodically tries to contact www.appcontrols.com. If you are using a personal firewall, you can simply block it from accessing the network. But if you are really fussy about such things, then you might not want to use the program at all.

InstallSpy tracks changes to the registry and file system, and also record all shell notification events (e.g. media inserted), when a program is installed, uninstalled, or run. This can warn you of programs trying to install new services, programs that are set to run on reboot, changes to your home page, etc.

Official site no longer hosts anything about InstallSpy. Linking to Softpedia.

eXpress CheckSum Calculator is great for verifying the integrity of files downloaded from the Internet. Similar utilities install new shell menus and/or tabs, which I dislike, because experience have shown that badly written shell utilities will make Windows Explorer less stable. Why sacrifice system stability when you can use small, simple utilities like these instead?