UltraWipe 1.51

Free, UltraWipe is a utility that enables complete removal of sensitive data from the hard drive by overwriting it several times with carefully selected patterns while protecting your privacy and recovering disk space at the same time. You can quickly select common file types like browser cache, temp files and others - but also add your custom entries as well. The program comes with an "Urgent Wipe" features that enables a "panic button" which will instantly delete a user defined range of files by either pressing the tray icon or a keyboard shortcut. UltraWipe includes a scheduler which can use to automate the wiping process. In addition to cleaning up the browsers cache, cookies, history, recent document list and custom entries, UltraWipe can also wipe free space, DRAM and much more! Operating Systems 98/NT/ME/2000

SpywareBlaster 3.4

Free, SpywareBlaster doesn`t scan and clean for so-called spyware, but prevents it from being installed in the first place. It achieves this by disabling the CLSIDs of popular spyware ActiveX controls, and also prevents the installation of any of them via a webpage. This allows you to run Internet Explorer with Active-X enabled, but it will never download or even prompt you for any of the known ActiveX controls. All other Active-X controls or plug-ins will work fine. The SpywareBlaster database contains information on these known spyware Active-X controls and can be updated with the click of a button. The application windows displays a list of all controls that it is able to detect (this is not a list of what was found on your computer). The program cannot detect if you have any of the known objects already installed, but if you do, they will be disabled. The program also allows you to take a snapshot of your computer (certain settings) in its clean state and later revert many changes made by spyware and browser hijackers. Operating Systems 98/ME/NT/2000/XP

English2metric 1.0

Free, English2metric is an easy -to-use unit converter to convert between imperial and metric units, including miles/km, gallons/liters, Celsius/Fahrenheit, feet/meters and more. The program supports fractions, allowing you for example to convert values like 1 3/4 or 2.5. You can customize the available conversion units, and also copy a list of all recent conversion. Operating Systems; 98/ME/2000/XP

Free IP Address and Browser Check

If you need to know what your IP address is, or want to find out some information about what kind of browser your using - just go to this address and you'll have all the information you need. Even find out if your java is working or not!

AbiWord

AbiWord is a free word processing program similar to Microsoft® Word. It is suitable for typing papers, letters, reports, memos, and so forth. Our latest stable release is version 2.2.7. It's available for a number of languages and operating systems. AbiWord is GNU Free Software software, which means that you will always have the freedom to use it, make copies of it, and improve it. You are encouraged to make use of these freedoms and share the program with your family and friends! (This is a very nice alternative to Microsoft Word, and I am currently using this program because my MS Word started acted screwy. Abi Word is performing very well, and it looks almost like MS Word. It's very easy to operate and I think most users will be very happy with this application).

Force Delete

Free, Have you ever tried to delete a file or folder, only to get a Windows error message saying no can do? Maybe you're having a bad hair day, but more likely the file is being used by a program. Try downloading ForceDel, a utility that works with all Windows versions to force delete the stubborn file. The program runs from a DOS command window (click Start, Run, and type "cmd"). Enter forcedel filename to give the file the boot for good. Operating System(s):Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows 9.x

PC Inspector File Recovery v4.x

Free, Depending on how your files were lost, it may be hard to recover them. This data recovery program recovers lost files and finds partitions automatically, even when the boot sector of your machine has become damaged or erased. Even when a file's header entry is no longer available, PC Inspector File Recovery can recover the file. The program lets you save recovered files on network drives. It recovers files with the original time and date stamp, so maybe it'll be like nothing ever happened. Operating System(s):Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows 9.x

EasyCleaner

Free, EasyCleaner is a small program which searches Windows' registry for entries that are pointing nowhere. EasyCleaner also lets you delete all kinds of unnecessary files like temps, backups etc. You can search for duplicate files and you can view some intresting info about your disk space usage! You are also able to manage startup programs, invalid shortcuts and add/remove software list. System requirements: 486, 8mb RAM, Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP

NukeNabber

Free, NukeNabber sets itself up to listen on TCP and UDP ports commonly attacked over the internet. A total of 50 ports can be monitored simultaneously. ICMP dest_unreach attacks are now logged. It is designed to give you the information you need in order to trace an attacker including a method of finding an attacker's nickname on IRC (mIRC, VIRC and PIRCH clients are supported). 767 Kb (Win All)

DCOMbobulator

Free, Ever since Windows 98, a powerful, but unnecessary and rarely used facility known as DCOM (Distributed Component Object Model) has been an integral part of Windows. The DCOMbobulator checks the effectiveness of Microsoft's security patches and allows the user to increase the security of their system by simply turning DCOM off. The strange history of DCOM Many years ago, Microsoft began modularizing Windows and their Windows applications by breaking them into functional components with well-defined, "version safe" interfaces. The idea was to allow pieces of Windows and applications to inter-operate. The first name given to this effort was "OLE", which stood for Object Linking and Embedding. OLE suffered nearly terminal birthing pains and developed a reputation for being a bad idea. Undaunted, Microsoft renamed it COM for "Component Object Model". This was still the same old OLE, but Microsoft appeared to hope no one would notice. COM fared somewhat better, but it wasn't until Microsoft gave it the sexy name "ActiveX", and built it into virtually everything, that developers finally gave up trying not to use it. What does all this have to do with you? Asolutely nothing . . . and that's the point. Somewhere along the bumpy road from OLE through COM to ActiveX Microsoft's industry competitors began working on a distributed object system called CORBA. Microsoft's object system was not distributed, but as we know, if anyone else has one, Microsoft does too. So Microsoft looked around and quickly stuck a "D" (for Distributed) in front of COM to create their Distributed Component Object Model - DCOM. Then they crammed it into every version of Windows from Win98 on (even though no one needed it, wanted it, or was using it), so that they could say Windows already had a distributed component system built in. What does DCOM do for you? Well let's see . . . it attracts Internet worms and permits your system to be remotely compromised by malicious hackers. Other than that, it's of absolutely no use other than for Microsoft's "We have That Too" chart. There may be some custom corporate application developers who managed to make some use for it, but mostly no one ever has. Nonetheless, it's there in Windows so that the competitors' CORBA isn't. 29 Kb (Win All)

Polyglot 3000 1.7

Free, Polyglot 3000 can automatically identify the language used in a text, phrase, or even a single word. Just paste or type the text into the provided field, or load a text file, and the program will identify it from a database of over 400 languages that it can recognize. Worked well with the languages we tested. Operating Systems: 98/ME/NT/2000/XP

Foxit Reader 1.3

Foxit Reader is a free reader for PDF (eBook) documents. You can view and print PDF documents with it. Foxit Reader is small (the download size less than 1MB), so you can download it quickly. It doesn't need any lengthy installation, so you can start to run it as soon as you can download it. Foxit Reader starts up immediately, and is extremely easy to use.  Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP/2003.