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Winamp is an customizable media player considered the grand-daddy of MP3 players. The program plays most common formats, and includes an equalizer, replay gain, and hotkeys. Includes strong support for thousands of different skins and plug-ins.

Longman English Dictionary Browser displays search results from Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Online for user’s selected keywords with the key combination Ctrl+Shift+D.

Note that while the program will run slow initially, the program gradually builds up a cache of various different parts of speech into one. Once this is finished, the program should have very little delay.

Written in AutoHotKey.

Flashnote is a quick notes manager for saving and organizing notes in a hierarchical tree structure. It supports word wrap, URL detection, search inside notes and global search, multiple databases, database back-up, restore and synchronization, export of notes, database encryption (AES-256) and more.

PeaExtractor is a easy, minimalistic tool for unpacking almost any compressed file format. Features a search tool, progress bar and drag-and-drop functionality. The program can unpack over 180 formats including encrypted or multi-volume archives (usually a series like .000, .001 or .r01, .z01...) as well as standard formats like 7z, rar, tar, zip, zipx, bzip2, cab, iso etc.

The program aims to function as a simple, accessible alternative to file manager-like interfaces used by WinRAR, WinZip and 7-Zip. Cross-platform (Linux, BSD) and developed by the author of PeaZip.

NOTE: Open ACE files with additional steps. The download also includes pea.exe, containing other tools including checksums, secure delete, file lists and more.

MyUninstaller is an alternative utility to the standard Add/Remove Software control panel applet. It displays the list of all installed application, and allows you to uninstall an application, delete an uninstall entry, and save the list of all installed applications into a text file or HTML file. It also provides additional information for most installed applications that the standard applet does not display: product name, company, version, uninstall string, installation folder etc.

SigcheckGUI is a system and security analysis tool for understanding files and processes. The program shows a variety of file data including signing source, 32/64-bit status, version, publisher, and more. Security options include VirusTotal analysis and file hashing (MD5, SHA1, and SHA256). The program can even run on all active processes.

The program can export results to spreadsheet (CSV) or copied to the clipboard.

SigcheckGUI is a front-end for Sigcheck from Sysinternals.

HakuNeko is a simple manga downloader for selected online manga reader websites. Works with Mangafox.me and Mangareader.net, then allows filtering based on title.

Client also available for GNU/Linux.

PassMark DiskCheckup is a disk diagnostic tool that monitors the disk drive for possible long term drive failure indicators via SMART sensors. This includes 'Spin Up Time', number of start/stops, number of hours powered on, and temperature all displayed with the threshold value for that attribute. Users can evaluate drive reliability by observing if the value is close to or below the threshold.

It is recommended that system drives at threshold be replaced or shifted to backup / redundant data storage.

ArtSage is a lightweight image viewer that displays the image files in a folder tree. The program includes a slideshow, layout, collage, favorites, and transitions. It can rotate the view, find file names in a series, rename, and more. Format support includes BMP, EMF, GIF, ICO, JPG, PNG and TIF files.

The program can even create an automated slideshow, where the EXE is placed together with all the images for display from storage media (CD, USB memory stick etc.). Launching the EXE will immediately display the images in slideshow mode.

NOTE: site offline, linking to softpedia and archive.org

IP Shifter allows you to switch your IP address parameters (e.g. IP address, Subnet mask, Gateway, DNS, Proxy) if you work dynamically at several locations in the network (due to business), or you need to use your computer in more than one network.

MyEventViewer is intended as an improved alternative to the standard Windows event viewer. The program allows the viewing of multiple event logs combined into one list, as well as the event description and data in the main window.  The program lets you easily select multiple event items and then save them to HTML/Text/XML file, or copy them to the clipboard (Ctrl+C) and paste them into Excel.

Vista+ users are encouraged to use the updated FullEventLogView utility.

Mp3splt-gtk is a utility to split MP3, OGG, and native FLAC files without any change in quality. The program is useful to split albums into tracks, or cut silence or unnecessary audio data, or make audio files easier to transfer.

Mp3splt-gtk Portable is is a portable version of the program. Alternatively, X-Mp3splt is also available.

File Blender is a simple drag-and-drop file media file conversion tool to quickly and simply change basic aspects of files including format, with basic quality and effects that average users will need for daily use. Can modify a long list of image, audio, and video formats, as well as split/combine PDF/TIFF files.

The program even includes optional encryption component and options to cleanup/obfuscate CSS, HTML, and JavaScript.

Pictus is a fast, lightweight image viewer featuring an uncluttered interface and a variety of customisable settings. Image scaling, navigation, zoom and pan options can be adjusted, in addition to mouse actions and basic in-viewer image rotation and contrast adjustment.

Supports the most common image formats: BMP, GIF (incl. animated), JPG, PCX, PNG, PSD (Adobe Photoshop), PSP (Corel Paint Shop Pro), TGA, TIFF, WBMP, WEBP (static only) and XYZ. 64-bit version available.

Note: Program is no longer developed.

Mcool is a minimalistic audio player with a transparent, plain text interface, light media library support, lyrics, and visualization.

The developer offers a separate download for Visualization Plug-in and Mcool Wallpapers. Download, extract and place the Vis plug-in in \mcool1\plugins\ folder and the wallpapers of your choosing in \mcool1\plugins\wallpaper folder. (Thanks smaragdus).

Powered by Bass and BassVis.

DiskSmartView is a small utility that retrieves useful insights on the health of your drives. The program uses standard diagnostic data from the "S.M.A.R.T," or Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology data drawn from IDE/SATA disks. This includes the model/firmware/serial number, cylinders/heads, power-on hours (POH), internal temperature, disk errors rate, and more.

This data can help you determine if there are any significant problems with your drive and whether it may be nearing end-of-life.

RawReg allows edition of offline registry hives. It can be used (for example) to edit BCD hives, NTUSER, software and many other registry hives found in versions after Windows 2000, including those created by the security tool Sandboxie. Information is provided on the physical offset position of each registry key on the hive file, useful for debugging a registry hive with the aid of an hexadecimal editor.

The program can browse the registry, change value data, edit value titles, and show a map with information on the data in each area.

Visual Family Tree Maker is a genealogy software to record, organize, print, search and share your family history.

Anuran is simple text logging program that lets you make quick text notes for later reference. By default, the program prompts the user every 30 minutes or you can click on the taskbar icon to get a text box prompt. Later, launch AnuVu.exe or (right-click and choose AnuVu) to view a list of notes in a customizable view. These notes can be exported to text or CSV files that can be opened in spreadsheet programs like Excel or LibreOffice Calc.

Includes customizable hot-keys.

MD5Checker is a fast and lightweight tool to calculate and verify MD5 files hashes of multiple files and folders. Calculated MD5 File hashes can be saved and loaded to/from files.

Note that a separate download is available from the website for Win9x/Me.

Folders Popup lets you move easily between frequently used folders within save dialogs. Click the middle mouse button to access your favorite folders within the menu.

A 64-bit version is included in the download.

Folder2Iso provides a quick and easy way of creating an ISO image from a given folder (and subfolders). The ISO image can then be written to CD using any CD burner that supports ISO images.

Clipjump captures changes in the system clipboard in multiple clipboards. Then just one key (Ctrl+V by default) provides controls for pasting, editing, or exporting. The program supports a variety of customizations, plugins, and scripting. The program can create custom pasting formats, copy file data, and copy file paths onto the clipboard.

Functional on 64-bit systems, the program is Multilingual and written using AutoHotkey.

MD5 Checksum Tool is a drag-and-drop hash checking tool that can generate a file checksum to analyze if a file has changed, usually to affirm it's legitimate and uncorrupted. The program can scan a folder and subfolders (recursively), as well as provide a report of all files, their size, and checksums. Supports very large files (4GB+) and includes a progress bar to estimate remaining time.

The program will allow the comparison of two files with their respective checksums and supports MD5, SHA1, SHA256, SHA384 and SHA512 checksums.

A 64-bit version is available (within the x64 folder).

Directory Compare is an utility to help you keep copies of your important directories (documents, programs under development and so on) in a backup harddisk or any other storage system (like 100Mb diskettes). The backup may be made automatically (in unattended mode) or by using a friendly user interface.

Textreme is a tool for "text remodelling", allowing you to change text and modify its appearance by delete blanks or moving/insert words. Great for updating text files with lots of minor changes that would be manually tedious, the program offers a variety of string-based functions (deleting sections, inserting into a specific place, switching bits around, etc.) for text files.

There are currently nine different actions that can be performed in various ways, and actions can be cascaded in so that many changes can be made in a single pass.

Tip: Use "TextEditor="dummy\..\..\PathToYourEditor.exe" to specify an editor with relative path in Textreme.ini.

SoftPerfect WiFi Guard is a tool for keeping a small WiFi network secure, indicating if your network is in use by an unwelcome connection. It's a specialized network scanner that runs through your network at set intervals and reports immediately if it finds any new connected devices that could belong to an intruder.

A 64-bit version is available (within the folder) and cross-platform (Mac, Linux).

NOTE: The latest version of this program displays only 5 devices (thanks olliebean). Please post in forums if you have a mirror of the previous version.

AltDrag is a lightweight program for moving and resizing windows. Simply hold down the Alt key and then click and drag any window near the sides of your screen to see available resize options. Besides just moving windows, you can resize, maximize and close them too.

See the website About page for usage tips.

Supports 64-bit systems.

RClipStep is a clipboard manager emphasizing ease of use with a simple approach to cycling through stored clipboard items: when you paste Ctrl-V to paste, you can hold Ctrl and press V / C repeatedly to browse backward / forward through the clipboard entries.

The program also features multiple queues and can store clips to disk, convert clips to plain text, convert to upper/lower case, and paste clips into programs that don't use clipboard like window console (cmd.exe).

A 64-bit version is available (within the folder). Written in AutoIt

DBC Task Manager provides a tabbed interface for usage statistics and system management. Views can be customized, minimized, and tweaked to user needs. The program shows a histogram of CPU, memory, disk, and network activity, as well as an interface for services and startup programs.

The program is similar to Windows 8 task manager, but can run on Windows 7. A 64-bit version is available (within the folder).

NOTE: Main site offline, linking to Softpedia mirror.

Office Image Extraction Wizard allows you to easily extract images from many productivity programs and ebook formats, saving them as normal picture files on your hard drive. Images are extracted in their original format without additional processing or re-compression.

Supports MS Office, LibreOffice/OpenOffice, Apple iWorks, Flash, ePub, CHM and more.

Functional in 64-bit.

i2pdf (image to pdf) is a fast and compact application built to create PDF documents from a collection of images, typically scanned from a paper source or in form of digital photographs. i2pdf allows control over the final quality and size of the images stored inside the PDF. Supports JPG, PNG, BMP, GIF and TIFF file formats.

Note multi page / multi-frame formats are not supported (for example, multi-page TIFFs or animated GIFs). Additionally, transparency data is not preserved whether a PNG or GIF file.

NOTE: The i2pdf homepage is gone -- linking to Archive.org and Softpedia.

Numculator is an always-at-hand, fast, and customizable calculator that can be activated via the NumLock key (to use numeric keypad) or by another hot key. It appears on screen when you want to calculate something easily and don't want to search for and run a program.

Supports a history of operations, skins, font and size customizations, different formatting of numbers, pasting result to documents, and more.

Note: Website is down - linking to Softpedia.

Primg is a simple photo/image print utility with three printing methods for thumbnail, single, and multiple fixed form.

64bit Checker shows the status of a machine as running a 32 or 64-bit version of Windows, as well as other key system information. The program can speed the process of answering this critical question where other system diagnostic programs will take time to sift through.

PortAL is lightweight launcher based on hotkeys, menus, and system tray icons. Note that all of PortAL configuration is based on a single XML file which contains the list and the organization of applications.

Vieas is an image viewer and converter with combination of two window forms. Can crop, resize, rotate, expand canvas, mirror, flip, and more. Color options include adjusting brightness/contrast, balancing color, applying filters and replacing colors. Views available include slideshow, fullscreen, histogram, and color count, as well as multi-monitor support.

MazeBuilder is a maze generator. Possibly useful if you have to give a visual example of algorithms. MazeBuilder can also be used as a game.

SendTo-Convert is a quick and easy image converter to start from "Send To" menu or by drag-and-drop. The program can also shrink images for ease of transfer and convert to a variety of formats including JPEG, JPEG lossless, PNG, GIF, and BMP.

Trimto is an image editor to crop, resize, and save in one operation. The program focuses on standard-sizing and a set aspect ratio. Optionally, "Sharpen Edge" and "Auto Correction" can be processed simultaneously. Useful for quickly reducing the size of photos with unnecessary borders or lots of activity on the periphery (e.g. distractions like flags, crowds, power-lines, etc.).

Includes sizing presets and output size details to file name. Input and output formats include PNG, JPG, TIFF, GIF, and BMP.

Unifie is an image viewer with an optional dual-viewing surface to list or compare two directories. An image is previewed quickly in popup window by clicking a thumbnail. Supports EXIF data viewing (camera used, date, location data, etc), can easily open in a any of a customizable list of external graphics viewer/editors. Can filter/view files by name, filetype, size, and modified dates.

STDU (Scientific and Technical Documentation Utility) Viewer is intended to combine a variety of document, text, and graphics format viewers into one. The program includes a modern tabbed interface, search, rotate, thumbnail view, etc. The program can also export pages to an image file, create bookmarks, and more.

Primarily supporting formats used (as the program name suggests) for scientific/technical docs (TIFF, PDF, DjVu, XPS, and JBIG2), the program also supports a variety of others including FB2, Comic Book Archive (CBR or CBZ), TCR, PalmDoc(PDB), MOBI, AZW, EPub, DCX and both standard and specialized image formats (PCX, WMF, EMF, PSD).

Jcropper is an image converter for lossless JPEG cropping with options for fixed aspect ratio, grayscale/progressive conversion, copy markers, etc.

VarieDrop quickly generate multiple-size-images in one operation. The process is started from the drag-and-drop or "Sent To" menu. (Multiple file input is supported.) Includes the ability to save to a subfolder, append the file name, and resize according to maximum width/height or both.

Great for generating thumbnails, decreasing size/quality, or changing formats. Note that file quality settings are available for JPEG only.

QClip is a queue-based clipboard extender. Every time you copy an item from any application, it automatically gets pushed into QClip's queue. You can then pop stuff off via hotkeys, or via a popup menu.

Note: Homepage is gone, linking to Archive.org.

Tinuous is an image converter for batch-processing multiple image files, including GIF, BMP, PNG, TIFF and JPEG. Transformations include shrink, rotation, correction, sharpen, brightness, output file name setting, etc. Many changes to JPEG files are "lossless", or not involving any quality loss and various metadata options are also available.

Includes a preview function.

HiddeX is an easy-to-use privacy or window clutter tool that enables quickly hiding any window or program (browser, game, player, etc.) with one click or hotkey. The program instantly hides specified windows from your desktop and taskbar without closing them. Click once to hide and once more to restore all hidden windows.

Programs selected that normally appear in the system tray are also hidden, and audio is muted.

Calculatormatik is a math tool that includes a broad variety of calculators and converters from common to unusual. Some examples include angle converter, area calculator/converter, binary to number, body mass index, body Surface area, numbers to Roman, numbers to string, Ohm's Law, volume/weight, water consumption, and many more.

Other tools include a random password generator, hex-to-ascii converter, and a stopwatch.

Registry Commander is designed to replace Windows RegEdit. It supports all 12 data types in the registry, defined in the "winnt.h" header file. The advanced search feature allows you to search part or all of the registry by keyword, size or data type. You can bookmark keys or values so that they can be accessed more quickly. You can also change the data type of a value without affecting its content.