Top 10 Freeware - January 2010

Top 10 Freeware
(January 2010)

Programs listed alphabetically

AutoIt
Version 3.3.4.0, release date: January 15, 2010
AutoIt v3 is a freeware BASIC-like scripting language designed for automating the Windows GUI and general scripting. It uses a combination of simulated keystrokes, mouse movement and window/control manipulation in order to automate tasks in a way not possible or reliable with other languages (e.g. VBScript and SendKeys). AutoIt is also very small, self-contained and will run on all versions of Windows out-of-the-box with no annoying 'runtimes' required!
AutoIt is fully Unicode aware and also includes x64 versions of all the main components!
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DesktopOK
Version 1.85, release date: January 28, 2010
Save and restore the positions of icons.
DesktopOK is a small but effective solution for user that have to change the screen resolution often.
Features:
- Save your dearest icon locations for each screen resolution.
- Each user can then have his own arrangement.
- Minimises to tray area for easy access.
- Launch at Windows startup.
- Autosave
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Krento
Version 1.1, release date: January 29, 2010
With Krento you can launch your programs or open web pages from a circular 3D dock. You can save and load your docks, having more than one application set available.
Drag and drop your files, folders, and shortcuts onto one of the Krento stones. The stone can be a shortcut or even a mini-application (widget)
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Paint.NET
Version 3.5.2, release date: January 4, 2010
Paint.NET is image and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers.
Paint.NET has many of the powerful features that expensive commercial applications have, including the ability to use layers.
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PDF-XChange Viewer
Version 2.045, release date: January 20, 2010
PDF-XChange Viewer is a pdf viewer application.
Those wishing to view PDF files on their Windows PC's now have a choice when it comes to Viewing PDF files - the PDF-XChange Viewer is smaller, faster and more feature rich than the Adobe Reader which has until now been the Reader of choice for PDF files - we think that's about to change!
The PDF-XChange Viewer offers all the feature's you would expect such as support of all PDF file formats.
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PeaZip
Version 2.9.1, release date: January 26, 2010
Cross-platform file and archive manager. Features volume spanning, compression, authenticated encryption. Supports 7Z, 7-Zip sfx, ACE, ARJ, BZ2, CAB, CHM, CPIO, DEB, GZ, ISO, JAR, LHA/LZH, NSIS, OOo, PAQ/LPAQ, PEA, QUAD, RAR, RPM, split, TAR, Z, ZIP.
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Process Hacker
Version 1.11, release date: January 23, 2010
Process Hacker is a free and open source process viewer and memory editor with unique features such as powerful process termination and a Regex memory searcher. It can show services, processes and their threads, modules, handles and memory regions.
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Q-Dir
Version 4.00, release date: January 30, 2010
Q-Dir makes your files and folder easy to manage.
Fast and easy access, with an amazing Quadro-View technique.
You don't have to renounce the usual, Drag and Drop, all Views, and other functions of your system.
No! Q-Dir gives you other nice functions, that make you happy.
One can save many hand moves and also time!
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TMonitor
Version 1.02, release date: January 15, 2010
TMonitor is aimed to display the active clock of each individual core of Intel Core 2 and Core i3/i5/i7, as well as AMD K10 processors.
A very high refresh rate (20 times per second) allows to visualize the smallest clock variation in real time. TMonitor is able to detect mechanism such as Intel Turbo boost, and therefore allows to clearly visualize its effect as the processor is working.
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UltraDefrag
Version 4.0, release date: January 30, 2010
UltraDefrag is a powerful disk defragmentation tool for Windows. It is the first open source defragmenter with full support of system locked files defragmentation. Actually all files including registry hives and paging file can be processed by UltraDefrag during the Windows boot process.
Also one of the primary goals of the UltraDefrag design is doing the job as fast as possible.
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