XP Tweak Mechanic is the best tools designed to improve the performance of your windows XP operating system by speeding up the startup process and making the process of shutdown faster. This powerful software includes a lot of features such as internet speed booster, mouse smart-up, faster boot, faster shutdown, improve menu speed, improved defrag support, cleanup, auto end tasks feature and scanning of protected files.

Microsoft Windows XP is a very popular, well established operating system and is currently the best operating system to use on a home or office PC. It gives a stable, fast, secure platform for desktop computing. XP Tweak Mechanic will not only help you make the best use of your Windows XP operating system but will also help you secure Windows XP.

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This free typing tutor teaches you how to touch-type. Once you can touch-type you will not need to look at the keyboard to find the letters you want to type.

VSO-Inspector is a free add-on to report various information about your hardware configuration.

Using VSO Inspector, you can easily check the listed cd and dvd readers and writers connected to your PC, check the firmware used.

The details about the media used and the speed supported by a given writer with this media. Also you can scan a burnt media for read errors and be confident about the readibility of your fresh backup.

Detect and list the features of your CD/DVD writers:
Supported formats
Region details
Firmware versions
Buffer size
Region Code
Read modes
Write modes

Detect and list information about the inserted media:
Media type
Capacity
Media ID (manufacturer and/or model)
Number of layers
Supported speeds (with current writer)

Media Analysis
Sector reading
Definition of the area to check
Definition of the read direction (as medias are mostly weak at the end of the recording zone, starting from the end is a good idea for a quick quality indication)

BGEye will render system info as the desktop wallpaper. The information is rendered as a variable array of elements, together with icons, onto a pre-defined background, before being saved as a bitmap and temporarily set as the wallpaper.

BGEye renders a new wallpaper every 60 seconds (or less).

BGEye optionally renders
· Title Text.
· UserName.
· Local Date and Time (*Always included*).
· ‘Day Of Year’.
· ‘Percent Of Year’.
· ComputerName.
· Computer Uptime.
· Accumulator (Days, Hours and Minutes).
· CPU(s) (Clock Speed (MHz), Model, Manufacturer etc).
· Graphics Devices (Model, Manufacturer etc).
· Audio Devices (Model, Manufacturer etc).
· Network Devices (Model, Manufacturer etc).
· USB Device(s).
· Processes (Total and Maximum).
· RAM (Total, Load and Maximum Load (Load including Page File)).
· Registry (Size and Size Limit).
· Local Disk Drives (Type, Size and Load).
· Remote (Networked) Disk Drives (Type, Size and Load).

AssessTree scans disk (disc) drives for large folders (directories) and generates reports based on the gathered data.

Will work with any local or network (mapped or UNC) drive or folder.

AssessTree can be used to find folders (or users) that are using a lot of disk space.

Here are some key features of “AssessTree”:

· Data sortable on Folder Name, Branch Size or Node Size.
· Options to restrict listed/report folders to a Size and/or Depth Limit.
· Stand-alone executable.
· Includes self-referencing link creation/deletion code.

RivaTuner is the most powerful tweaking utility for NVIDIA display adapters running under Windows 98 / Windows 98 SE / Windows ME / Windows 2000 and Windows XP. The purpose of this utility is to give you access to all the undocumented features of the Detonator drivers. RivaTuner is a very useful video tweak utility.

All versions of the Detonator drivers have a lot of undocumented registry entries. Some of them don’t affect anything, but there are some that are very useful. In general, they cannot give you big performance boost but they can improve image quality and solve some compatibility problems.

Shareaza is a Gnutella file sharing program, allowing you to find and share audio, video, images, books, software and more on the net’s coolest peer-to-peer network.

It supports the latest Gnutella Technologies, including Swarm Downloading, Upload Queuing, Partial File Sharing, Ultrapeers, Metadata, File Hashing, and more.

The program offers an attractive, easy to use interface with customizable skins and modern menus and dialogs.

ClrMamePro is a so-called ROM-manager. If you use M.A.M.E. you know the problem. With every new release a lot has been changed. New gamesets have been added, some have been removed, etc. ClrMamePro helps you to keep your ROM collection up-to-date.

Here is a small list of what ClrMamePro can do:

* finding missing games, roms, samples
* find and rename wrong named roms, samples
* find and resize wrong sized roms
* find wrong checksums (bad dumps, etc.)
* find and remove unneeded files
* merge and unmerge roms
* rebuilding gamesets
* add new sets

GreenBrowser is a multiple windows browser based on IE with other powerful features.

Such as: - Quick Key, Collector, Mouse Gesture, Mouse Drag, Ad Filter, Search Engine, Page Back Color, Toolbar Skin, Proxy, Tab Bar, Auto Scroll, Auto Save, Auto Fill Form, Start Mode, Auto Hide Bar, Mouse Drag Drop…

You can search something direct in browser: news, mp3, hardware, software, stock and so on. You also can add your search engine to engine list.In search bar, you can search keyword by search engine, highlight keyword, find keyword in page. Search bar can save your keyword in a list.

Put the Microsoft Outlook calendar right on your desktop so that it´s visible and useable all the time without actually having to open Outlook.

Features:

* Places fully functional Microsoft Outlook Calendar on your Desktop.
* The Oulook Calendar is pinned to your desktop so that no windows can get stuck behind it.
* The Calendar´s position, size and opacity are all adjustable via a very intuitive GUI.
* A tray Icon is provided to get to the preferences or close the application if desired.