UPX is a free, portable, extendable, high-performance executable packer for several different executable formats. It achieves an excellent compression ratio and offers very fast decompression. Your executables suffer no memory overhead or other drawbacks because of in-place decompression.

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IcoFX is a freeware icon editor. Create easily icons with transparency for Windows XP and Windows Vista.

In the integrated workspace you can easily preview, save, change your icons. You can convert your favorite images into icons, or icons to images. With the help of many tools and more than 40 effects icon creation is made easy. It offers powerful tools like Brighten, Darken, Blur and Sharpen for retouching your icons in minutes.

Features:

* Support for Vista icon with PNG compression
* Create icons for Windows 98 / ME / 2000 / XP / Vista
* Support for transparency (alpha channel)
* More than 40 effects + custom filter
* Resolutions up to 256×256
* Data types: 2, 16, 256, True Color, True Color + Alpha
* Extract icons from 32 bit exe and dll
* Import and export images
* Transparent, Brighten/Darken, Blur/Sharpen tools

MP4 Video Player is an very lightweight media player which is very easy to use. It comes with a large collection of essential media codecs, enabling users to playback most common media/movies types as of today, such as: MP4, AVI, XviD, DivX, OGG, MP3, AC3, MKV.

Both video and audio codecs are included, however, the user can choose exactly what codecs to install and even choose to not install any at all.

HD Tune is a hard disk utility which has the following functions:

* Benchmark: measures the raw performance
* Transfer Rate
* Access Time
* CPU Usage
* Burst Rate
* Hard Disk information which includes firmware version, serial number, disk capacity, buffer size, transfer mode
* Hard Disk Health
* S.M.A.R.T. Information (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology)
* Temperature
* Power On Time
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* Copy screenshot to clipboard

PC Wizard 2006 is a powerful utility designed especially for detection of hardware, but also some more analysis. It´s able to identify a large scale of system components and supports the latest technologies and standards. This tool is periodically updated (usually once per month) in order to provide most accurate results.

PC Wizard 2005 is also an utility designed to analyze and benchmark your computer system. It can analyze and benchmark many kinds of hardware, such as CPU performance, Cache performance, RAM performance, Hard Disk performance, CD/DVD-ROM performance, Removable/FLASH Media performance, Video performance, MP3 compression performance.