Top 10 Freeware - January 2007

Top 10 Freeware
(January 2007)

Programs listed alphabetically

Comodo Firewall Pro
Version 2.4.16.174, release date: January 19, 2007
FREE Comodo Firewall Pro - Secure your system against internal attacks such as Trojan viruses / malicious software and external attacks by hackers. With a user-friendly single click interface you can allow or block access to the Internet offering complete immunity to attacks and total protection of your personal information. Real time traffic monitoring enables you to react instantly to threats and identify bandwidth bottlenecks. Silent Security Technology means no needless alerts with out-of-the-box protection against hackers, Trojans and other unknown threats. Comodo Firewall Pro is the powerful and effective, easy to manage barrier that keeps hackers out and personal information in. Comodo Firewall Pro helps you connect in a secure way to the internet and global networks.
OS: Windows 2000/XP.
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Converber
Version 1.5.0, release date: January 24, 2007
Converber is a unit converter. It is a powerful software utility that will help make easy conversions between 1173 various units of measure in 32 categories. Converber converts everything from length and force to flow and temperature.
Features:
- Gives immediate access to all categories or single category
- Favorites menu to bookmark your frequently-used conversions
- New! Currency rates...updated daily
- Quickly search the unit list and immediately see results
- Step backwards or forwards through the most recently used conversions
- Single or multiple preference file(s) for different users
- Shows either common units or ALL units
- Converts as you type, so no convert button is required
- Includes equation editor to add your own custom units
- Allows you to select/unselect the conversion file(s)
- Can change the number of significant digits of the output
- Option to select decimal-point precision
- Option to select scientific notation only
- Inverts selected units with the quick swap feature
- Displays the category to give further information
- Converts left-to-right OR right-to-left
- Runs stand-alone using no dll files or registry settings
- Remembers last window position and size (if desired)
- Offset correction for meter value compensation
- Comes with extensive help file
- Supports transparency (Windows 2000, XP only)
- Supports a multi-language user interface
- And more...
Screenshot | Download (223 kB)

List² (ListSquared)
Version 1.4, release date: January 24, 2007
List² (ListSquared) is a small program for creating lists or tables.
Features include:
- the ability to rename, insert, and delete columns
- insert and delete rows
- find and replace
- clipboard cut,copy,paste to and from cells
- export to html
- import or export tab-delimited text
- printing with print preview
Bear in mind, List² is not a spreadsheet, and it is most definitely not Excel®. It is intended for simple lists and tables -- nothing more.
Screenshot | Download (31 kB)

Locate32
Version 3.0.7.1060, release date: January 6, 2007
This program saves names of all files in your hard drives to file database. After that you can locate files. Very fast. This program works like updatedb and locate in Unix systems. Win32 based locating program also included.
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Pixcavator
Version 2.1, release date: January 19, 2007
Pixcavator is a new kind of image analysis software. It does not assume anything about what is or is not important in the image. That's for the user to decide. The goal is lossless analysis - there is no loss of information, no approximation, and no round-up errors. Pixcavator first captures (and counts) all objects in the image and then simplifies it by removing objects indicated by the user. The output is completely context independent.

SoftPerfect Network Scanner
Version 3.2, release date: January 30, 2007
SoftPerfect Network Scanner is a free multi-threaded IP, NetBIOS and SNMP scanner with a modern interface and several advanced features. It is intended for both system administrators and general users who are interested in computer security. The program pings computers, scans for listening TCP ports and displays which types of resources are shared on the network (including system and hidden).
In addition, it allows you to mount shared folders as network drives, browse them using Windows Explorer, filter the results list and more. SoftPerfect Network Scanner can also check for a user-defined port and report back if one is open. It can also resolve host names and auto-detect your local and external IP range. It supports remote shutdown and Wake-On-LAN.
FEATURES:
- Pings computers.
- Detects hardware (MAC) addresses even across routers.
- Detects hidden shared resources (normally invisible on the network) and write accessible shares.
- Scans for listening TCP ports and SNMP services.
- You can mount and explore network resources.
- Doesn't require administrative privileges.
- Supports Wake-On-LAN and remote shutdown.
Screenshot | Download (615 kB)

StartRight
Version 1.3.4, release date: January 29, 2007
StartRight will manage the execution of programs that are automatically started by the operating system at logon time. Instead of executing many programs at once (causing your OS to spit and sputter and attack your hard drive), StartRight will give the OS time to execute the program before running the next program. The OS should become much more responsive almost imediately after logon.
Those of you that have a dozen system tray programs (and you know who you are), might want to give this a try.
Features:
- program executing ordering
- custom delays
- Auto-Tune delays based on CPU usage (optional)
- new item notification (optional)
- automatically disable all new programs (optional)
- pause or stop program execution (optional)
Requirements- A Windows OS and Admin Rights.
Screenshot | Download (436 kB)

Windows Registry Recovery
Version 1.3.0.0 , release date: January 12, 2007
This application allows to read files containing Windows 9x,NT,2K,XP,2K3 registry hives. It extracts many useful information about configuration and windows installation settings of host machine.
Registry hive can be exported into REGEDIT4 format.
Every topic data can be saved to CSV.
It's designed in Multiple Document Interface.
Here are described individual explorers:
- File Information - In this explorer you can see basic file properties and checksums.
- Security Record Explorer - Displays all security records used in registry. Usage counter, owner SID, group SID, list of affected keys and list of SACL and DACL is displayed for every record with flags and permissions enumerated. This explorer is available only for NT based system registry hives.
- SAM - Displays Machine SID and part of SYSKEY. Enumerates local user and group accounts and some of their properties. This explorer is available only for NT based system registry SAM hive.
- Windows Instalation - Displays Windows name, ID and key, install date and user registration info. Enumerates installed software with descriptions and install date and list of installed hotfixes wih description. This explorer is available only SOFTWARE registry hive (Product ID and key are extracted in SYSTEM hive too).
- Control Set - Displays all configured devices that worked on host machine. They are displayed in "like Device Manager" tree with some properties. This explorer is available for SYSTEM registry hive.
- User Data - Displays user and machine name and tree based Start menu for selected USER hive. This explorer is available for USER registry hive.
- Startup Applications - Enumerates applications that are registered to be run after startup. This explorer is available for SOFTWARE registry hive.
- Services and Drivers - Enumerates all installed services and drivers with properties. This explorer is available only for NT based system registry SYSTEM hive.
- Network Configuration - Displays all installed network clients, protocols and services. Enumerates all defined network connections with its TCP/IP configuration. This explorer is available only for NT based system registry SYSTEM hive.
- Environment - Displays all environment variables. This explorer is available only for NT based system registry SYSTEM hive.
- Shell Folders - Displays shell folders (folders known to system). This explorer is available only for NT based system registry SYSTEM hive.
- Raw Data - This explorer displays whole registry in known tree format. Contains powerful searching and data interpreter.
Screenshot | Download (627 kB)

WinSnap
Version 1.1.10 (last freeware version), release date: January 30, 2007
WinSnap (Windows Snapshot Maker) is a small enhancement utility for taking and editing screenshots. It automates all manual work and handle technical issues that previously you might perform only with Photoshop or other image editors. Initially, WinSnap was designed simply to take snapshots of non-rectangular windows, such as windows with XP visual styles, skinned media players, etc. Now it is supplemented with professional smoothing shadows, coloring effects, canvas transformations, ability to automatically save images in various image formats and more. WinSnap can help you easily make small thumbnail previews and full-sized screenshots for your web blog and home page, visualize technical and educational materials, send reduced-size images through e-mail. You will perform professional screenshots immediatelly with one click!
Screenshot | Download (343 kB)

XP Syspad
Version 7.8, release date: January 15, 2007
XP SysPad is a launcher which makes access to Windows system utilities its specialty. All of the prime Windows system info and utilities such as the individual control panel applets, as well as the "hidden" applications in Windows, can be launched with the click of one button, which makes it easier than hunting around the explorer pane or waiting for menus to fold out. Plus, you can easily access a host of other valuable functions, such as recover Windows 2000/XP Product Key, get your IP address, execute web queries, identify and kill any running process, launch any program, search files, and more. For convenience, it also can minimize itself to the system tray. It launches over 250 functions in all!
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