WinUtilities Free Edition 12.01

A collection of tools to optimize your system performance

WinUtilities Free Edition is a collection of tools to optimize your system performance and to remove unneeded files and internet tracks. WinUtilities Free Edition allows you to delete your application and internet history, find and remove invalid registry entries, manage your cookies and more.

WinUtilities Free Edition all in one cleaners and optimizers suite is an award winning collection of tools to optimize and speedup your system performance. You can control startup programs that load automatically with windows, find duplicate files, fix broken shortcuts and uninstall software. Other features include secure file deletion, shred recycle bin, privacy protector and more.

WinUtilities Free Edition can make your Windows operating system faster, more comfortable and more secure with just a few mouse clicks. And all configuration changes are completely safe, because all changes are monitored by WinUtilities RescueCenter and can be undone at any time.

Here are some key features of "WinUtilities Free Edition":

Disk Defrag:
· Defragment your disks and improve computer performance and stability

File Undelete:
· Recovers deleted files on NTFS and FAT volumes.

Disk Cleaner:
· Cleans disks from information that clogs your system and reduces the performance of your computer.

Registry Cleaner:
· Scans the Windows registry and finds incorrect or obsolete information in the Windows Registry.

Startup Cleaner:
· Helps you to easily manage program execution at windows startup.

History Cleaner:
· Erases all traces of activity on your computer, save spaces and protect your privacy.

File Splitter:
· Splits any type of file into smaller pieces and rejoin them to the original file.

File Shredder:
· Erases files and make sure that no data thief can get his hands on your sensitive data.

EXE Protector:
· Protects any Windows executable file with a secure password.

Memory Optimizer:
· Optimizes the Memory Management of Windows. No special configuration is needed, Memory Optimizer will auto configure itself.

Duplicate Files Finder:
· Helps you to free disk space by finding and removing duplicate files from your system.

Shortcuts Fixer:
· Provides you with an easy way to address the invalid shortcuts and reports back to you so that you can remove it from your system.

Process Manager:
· Allows you to check your system's performance and manage the running processes.

Uninstall Manager:
· Manages the programs installed on your system and uninstall unneeded software.

System Information:
· Shows you the detailed information for your computer hardware and software.

Registry Backup&Restore:
· Back up and restore the Windows Registry.

Registry Search:
· Searchs the Windows Registry by a specific wildcard. then you can delete or export them.

BHO Remover:
· Manages the BHOs that are currently installed.

Auto Shutdown:
· Schedules your computer for log off, stand by, hibernate, or shutdown at a specific time.

Windows Tools:
· Provides you an easy way to launch the utilities build in Windows.

System Control:
· Organizes and manage your Windows Settings

Requirements:

· Graphics mode 800x600 with 16-bit colors
· 20 MB free hard disk space at least
· Intel Pentium or AMD K5 processor with 133 MHz
· 32 MB RAM

Limitations:

· Task scheduling is not available

What's New in This Release:

· Added more languages
· Updated database
· Bugs fixed
· Improved 1-Click maintenance

Users are advised to pay attention while installing this ad-supported application:

· Offers to change the homepage for web browsers installed in the system
· Offers to change the default search engine for web browsers installed in the system
· Offers to install ASK Toolbar that the program does not require to fully function

Program Information

 Developer: YL Software

Price and Added Date

Ad-supported / $0. 22-10-2015

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PeaZip 5.8.0

Free file archiver that supports: 001 (raw file split/join), 7z, 7zip sfx, Bzip2, Gzip, Pea, Tar, Z, Zip

PeaZip is an archiver tool that supports its native Pea archive format (featuring compression, split volumes, and flexible encryption and integrity check schemes) and other mainstream formats, with special focus on handling open formats.

Full support: 7Z, 7-Zip sfx, Bzip2, Gzip, PEA, split TAR and ZIP.

Browse/test/extract-only support for ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, DEB, ISO, LZH, NSIS installers, OOo files, RAR, RPM, Z.

PeaZip's UI aims giving aid to the user to: edit, save and restore layout of archives (input files and folders list) to speed up definition of archiving and backup operations; save job definition, as plain text, to be used in scripts or for learning purpose; have a detailed job log after each operation.

The interface is fully skinnable (skins can be customised and saved as plain text to be re-edited as freely as possible) and uses customisable transparency.

PeaZip doesn't need to be installed/unistalled, it can run from any path (even remote; a writeable path is recommended), however Windows version is released both as a standalone binary and as a fully automated installer/uninstaller package, allowing tight system integration to use PeaZip right from Explorer.

PeaZip fundamentally acts as a graphic frontend for Pea executable (graphical) from the same Author and for Igor Pavlov's 7za executable(Myspace's 7z POSIX port under Linux), that can run in console mode or through a graphical wrapper.
Here are some key features of "PeaZip":

· Easy to use GUI, supports Drag&Drop and integrates in system's context menu
· All in one tool to work with all most popular archive formats: extract, compress, convert, encrypt, secure deletion, save backup scripts...
· Great speed, high compression ratio, superior stability and security using proven 7-Zip Open Source technology
· Run in all Windows versions, from 9x to 7, and features 64 bit version for better performances on 64 bit systems, moreover features a portable version that does not need to be installed and can run from USB drives, and Linux versions with the same GUI

What's New in This Release:
· 171 file extensions supported: added explicit support for Open Packaging Conventions file formats (Windows 8 .appx, AutoCAD .dwfx, .xps, etc)
· Fixed: it is now possible to disable multithreading for 7z backend
· New high resolution Windows icon for the application
· Updated Spanish, and Galician translations

Program Information

 Developer: Giorgio Tani

Price and Added Date

Freeware .13-10-2015

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Dictionary .NET 7.8.5750.1

A tiny, easy and smart multilingual dictionary and translation

Dictionary .NET translates from / to 66 languages using Google's services: · Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani · Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Bulgarian · Catalan, Chinese-simp, Chinese-trad, Croatian, Czech · Danish, Dutch · English, Estonian · Filipino, Finnish, French · Galician, Georgian, German, Gujarati, Greek · Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian · Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian · Japanese · Kannada, Korean · Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian · Macedonian, Malay, Malayalam, Maltese, Marathi · Norwegian · Persian, Polish, Portuguese · Romanian, Russian · Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish · Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish · Ukrainian, Urdu · Vietnamese · Welsh · Yiddish Integrates Google and Bing Dictionary, Translate, Search, Suggest 4-in-1 without installing them. Auto-detect any languages > Dictionary > Translate > Search with just One-Click or a Hotkey. A standalone tool that does not require installation. Furthermore, Dictionary .NET is standalone, meaning that you will not need to install it on your computer. Here are some key features of "Dictionary .NET": Smart translation Translate selected text with a hotkey Single click without selected text Full-Text translation Text suggestions Translate a web page Translate document Wikipedia search Multilingual list Requirements: .NET Framework 4.0 or higher What's New in This Release:  Upd: Keyboard Enable function ( Keyboard Activation : improvements enable the ability to provide better compatibility processing (5320) Add: source and destination language switching (Swap 'from' and 'to' languages): adding shortcuts processing (Ctrl + Tab) (5320) Upd: Google-related changes with the update process (5320) Upd: cancel the execution translate directly after processing the input paste (5320) Add: New keyboard enabled features ( Keyboard Activation : Default Alt + Q) (5319) Upd: optimization mouse function is enabled (Mouse Activation) (5319) Upd: remove the window is minimized after the prompt message (5319) Add: increase manually set the Proxy server function (5311) Add: Bilingual text suggestions ( Bilingual Suggestion ): increase spell check ( Check Spelling ) (5311) Add: Updated Yandex multi-language dictionary ( Yandex Dictionary * ): Add 2 source and destination (be-be, uk-uk) language combinations dictionary lookup (36 -> 38): Accumulated support to 38 ...

Program Information

 Developer: fish

Price and Added Date

Freeware .30-09-2015

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BurnAware Free 8.4

A lightweight, extremely powerful and easy to use burning tool

BurnAware is the ultimate disc burning software. The BurnAware Free application was designed for users with basic disc burning needs as backup, creating data, audio, video discs and burning disc images.

Free, easy to set up and maintain, it enables you to save your files to disc quickly, provides more flexible interface to help you complete your burning tasks much faster.

NOTE:BurnAware Free is intended for personal, home use only.

Here are some key features of "BurnAware Free":

· Burn Data, Bootable and Multisession discs
· Burn Audio, Video and MP3 discs
· Create and burn ISO/CUE/BIN images
· Copy discs to ISO images
· Erase rewritable discs

Supports:
· All media types (CD/DVD/Blu-ray Disc) including Double Layer
· All current hardware interfaces (IDE/SCSI/USB/1394/SATA) including AHCI
· UDF/ISO9660/Joliet file systems (any combination)
· On-the-fly writing (no staging to hard drive first)
· Verification of written files
· Multisession DVD-RW/DVD+RW
· Unicode CD-Text (tracks and disc)

What's New in This Release:

New Features:
· Home Edition has been renamed to the Premium.
· New menu to switch the size of the Main Screen.
· New tool to check the disc for the read errors.
· Drop-down list with the paths of previously opened folders.
· Option to specify the cache size.
· Support for importing multi-extent and UDF embedded files.
· 800MB CD option in the Disc Type drop-down list.
· Log window in the Copy Disc tool and the Copy to Image tool.

Improvements:
· Burning engine has been updated.
· User manual has been rewritten from scratch.
· All the burning elements grouped at the bottom of the form.
· Lock device for exclusive access during the burning process while using SPTI.
· Optimized data transfer and buffering during the burning process.

Fixes:
· Resolved the problem that might cause read error in the produced disc images.
· Resolved the problem that might cause write error at the end of the burning process on DVD-R/-RW.
· Resolved the problem with ejecting a disc after the burning process.
· Fixed th...

Users are advised to pay attention while installing this ad-supported application:

· Offers to change the homepage for web browsers installed in the system
· Offers to change the default search engine for web browsers installed in the system
· Offers to download or install software or components (such as browser toolbars) that the program does not require to fully function

Program Information

 Developer: BurnAware Technologies

Price and Added Date

Freeware .10-09-2015

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DriverPack Solution 15.8

Automates the process of finding and installing drivers

DriverPack Solution is a program designed to help you easily find and automatically install drivers for your computer.

DriverPack Solution simplifies the process of reinstalling Windows on any computer. No more problems with searching andinstalling drivers. Everything can be done with a couple of mouse clicks.

Here are some key features of "DriverPack Solution":

Automated driver installation:
· The program installs all required drivers to any computer in just about 5 minutes.

Saves Time and money:
· No more wasting time on looking for drivers; all required drivers will be installed with only a few clicks.

Any driver for any computer:
· All drivers on a single DVD! Simplifies downloading new drivers from the Internet.

Drivers update capability:
· Updates previously installed drivers to their latest versions.

What's New in This Release:

· In the new version you are waiting for not only the most relevant and recent drivers, but also feature integrated diagnostic computer! Now, with DriverPack Solution 12, you can always evaluate the condition of all key indicators of your PC! A feature backups will help minimize the risks when upgrading older versions of drivers.

Program Information

 Developer: DriverPack Solution

Price and Added Date

Freeware .18-08-2015

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Balabolka 2.11.0.584

A Text-To-Speech program

Balabolka is a Text-To-Speech software application. All computer voices installed on your system are available to Balabolka. The on-screen text can be saved as a WAV, MP3, MP4, OGG or WMA file.

The program can read the clipboard content, view the text from DOC, EPUB, FB2, HTML, ODT, PDF and RTF files, customize font and background colour, control reading from the system tray or by the global hotkeys.

The program uses various versions of Microsoft Speech API (SAPI); it allows to alter a voice's parameters, including rate and pitch. The user can apply a special substitution list to improve the quality of the voice's articulation. This feature is useful when you want to change the spelling of words. The rules for the pronunciation correction use the syntax of regular expressions.

Balabolka can save the synchronized text in external LRC files or in MP3 tags inside the audio files. When an audio file is played with players on a computer or on modern digital audio players, the text is displayed synchronously (at the same way, as lyrics for songs).

What's New in This Release:

· Fixed the text extracting for EPUB and PDF files.

Program Information

 Developer: Ilya Morozov

Price and Added Date

Freeware .21-07-2015

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Driver Booster 2.3.1.1

An efficient and reliable utility that allows you to easily scan, find, update and tweak all the device drivers found on your computer

Outdated drivers may affect your PC performance and lead to system crashes. Driver Booster scans and identifies outdated drivers automatically, then downloads and installs the right update for you with just one click, saving you time. Once the updates have been installed, you will be prompted to perform a system reboot so that the changes can take effect. Moreover, it's specially designed to tweak drivers for best gaming performance. It's the right tool to protect your PC from hardware failures, conflicts, and system crashes. Requirements: Internet connection What's New in This Release: Brand-new user interface - Simple, Concise, and Easy for Smoother User Experience Game drivers database - Support numerous game drivers to better serve gamers Online database update - Adopt online database update method to ensure drivers are always the latest Smart Installation Mode - Enjoy gaming or other full screen tasks better without any interruption Faster driver download speed - Both PRO and FREE version users can benefit from this feature Small size VS big space - Save more valuable space with small program setup file and sharply reduced driver installation packages Driver roll back feature - Easily restore drivers to previous version once unexpected happens Enhanced Rescue Center - Stronger restore options to maximumly ensure your computer's security once unexpected happens Users are advised to pay attention while installing this ad-supported application: Offers to change the homepage for web browsers installed in the system Offers to change the default search engine for web browsers installed in the system Offers to download or install software or components (such as browser toolbars) that the program does not require to fully function

Program Information

 Developer: IObit

Price and Added Date

Freeware .05-07-2015

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Remote Utilities Free Edition 6.3.0.4

Remote desktop software for secure remote access to remote PCs

Remote Utilities Free Edition is a handy and reliable application designed to enable you to control remotely another workstation.

Remote Utilities Free Edition features a variety of remote control utilities, such as: task manager, file transfer, remote launch, chat and remote camera.

What's New in This Release:

· Fixed: A bug with cascade authorization when using "Connect through Host" feature.
· Fixed: A bug that caused the GMS server IP/DNS address to be erased during remote Host upgrade.
· Fixed: A bug in the File Transfer mode when connecting to older versions of Host.
· Improved: Significantly improved and optimized XML parsing mechanism of the address book.
· Improved: Updated Viewer interface.
· Minor fixes and improvements.
Added: Free license for business use for 10 remote PCs.

Program Information

 Developer: Usoris Corporation

Price and Added Date

Freeware .23-06-2015

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CDRoller 10.2.95

Recovers files from CD, DVD and Blu-ray discs that Windows cannot see properly.

CDRoller is a handy and reliable software for CD and DVD data recovery with support of Blu-ray discs (BD, HD DVD) and flash memory cards.

Furthermore, you can also rely on CDRoller to burn your discs or to erase the ones you no longer need.

Here are some key features of "CDRoller":

· Effectively retrieves the lost data from the discs created by "drag and drop" CD/DVD/BD writing software, such as well-known Sonic (Roxio, Adaptec) and Ahead Nero software packages, CeQuadrat's PacketCD, DLA, B's CLiP and others.

· Reads unfinalized ("open", "left as-is") CDs and DVDs, including the discs with Microsoft's Live File system.

· Recovers DVD movies and photos, created by a wide set of standalone devices that record directly onto disks: Hitachi, Canon, Panasonic, Samsung and Sony DVD camcorders as well as standalone video recorders.

· Splits the recovered VOB or VRO video files into a several clips (scenes), automatically converting a "raw" DVD-video into generic MPEG files without loss of quality. Specially tested on the discs, recorded by Hitachi DVD camcorders.

· Burns a new DVD with recovered video that can be played back in the most DVD players.

· Recovers CD data written by Sony Mavica CD digital cameras.

· Retrieves the lost pictures, video and other types of files from flash memory cards, such as SmartMedia, Memory Stick, CompactFlash, xD Picture Card and other flash memory drives.

· Includes a fault-tolerant UDF Reader. Provides direct access to UDF discs, including CDs and DVDs written by old versions of Roxio (Adaptec) DirectCD and Drag-To-Disk. Finds and retrieves accidently deleted files, files located in the corrupted folders, files on incorrectly closed disks, etc.

· "On-the-fly" unpacks the files initially compressed by Roxio (Adaptec) DirectCD.

· Retrieves back up files from the discs recorded in several stages (multisession discs).

· Includes a built-in CD/DVD/BD data burner. There is no need to run third-party CD/DVD/BD mastering software if you wish to burn a new DVD-video disc or backup your files and folders immediately after recovery. The "Burn" option is integrated into a common shell. Just write a new disc with recovered data shortly, without leaving CDRoller!

· Erases CD, DVD and BD re-writable media. Supports quick and full erase methods.

· Examines disc sectors at low level. Displays the sector content in text, binary, hexadecimal or unicode mode. It also scans all sectors of a disc (selected track or file) for particular data. Recommended for engineering purposes and also for law enforcement and forensic investigators.

· Identifies the lost files on ISO/Joliet discs with the damaged file system (volume descriptors, path tables and directories), using the raw data only.

· Rescues the data from scratched, damaged or defective discs.

· Provides direct access to hardware, bypassing the Windows File System. Looks for the lost tracks (sessions) every time when you insert a new disc into the drive. Supports SCSI Pass Through Direct (SPTD) layer as alternative method under Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/7.

· Creates and uses an own image file to manage disc sectors.

· Digitally extracts audio tracks into a wide set of wave formats.

· Tests disc readability.

· Extracts ISO Image file. Burns ISO Image file to a new disc.

· Catalogs files and folders into CD/DVD library.

· All features are integrated into a common and easy-to-use intuitive shell.

Requirements:

· Intel Pentium or compatible CPU,
· 256 MB of RAM,
· 12 MB free hard disk space for program installation and some additional space for CD/DVD images,
· CD/DVD/Blu-ray drive(s).

Limitations:

· Will only test if your files are readable or not, but will not save the files to the destination folder
· 'Split Video' function is disabled
· 14 days trial period

What's New in This Release:

· Flash Data Recovery significantly updated. Added expected support of NTFS file system. It's also useful if you intend to find the deleted files on external hard disk drives.
· Examine Sectors updated. If you use CDRoller for engineering purposes, you will find useful to add hexadecimal (HEX) strings for search of the required data.
· Forced scan updated. Added support of DVD-RWs created by Panasonic AVCHD camcorders.
· Minor bugs fixed.

Program Information

 Developer: CDRoller Soft Co Ltd

Price and Added Date

Trial / USD 39.0. 23-06-2015

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PowerISO 6.3

Create, edit, extract, convert, compress, encrypt, mount CD/DVD image file

PowerISO was developed to be a powerful CD/DVD image file processing tool, which allows you to open, extract, create, edit, compress, encrypt, split and convert ISO files, and mount these files with internal virtual drive.

PowerISO can process almost all CD-ROM image files including ISO and BIN. It can be used easily, which support shell integration, context menu, drag and drop, clipboard copy paste.

Here are some key features of "PowerISO":

Create ISO File:
· Create ISO file or BIN CUE file from hard disc files.
· Create ISO file or BIN CUE file from CD / DVD / BD disc.

Create bootable ISO image file.
· Detect various CD / DVD / BD image files automatically.
· Support ISO9660, Joliet and UDF file system.
· Support unicode file name.
· Optimize file layout to save disc space.

Edit ISO File:
· Add files to ISO file.
· Delete files in ISO file.
· Rename files in ISO file.
· Modify file's date time in ISO file.
· Add boot information to ISO file to make bootable ISO image file.

Extract ISO File:
· Support ISO file and other popular disc image file, such as BIN / CUE, DAA, UIF, DMG, MDF / MDS, ASHDISC, BWI / B5I, LCD, IMG, CDI, CIF, P01, PDI, NRG, NCD, PXI, GI, FCD, VCD, C2D, BIF and so on.
· Support multi-session disc image file.
· Extract files from ISO file.
· View and run files contained in the ISO file.

Burn ISO File:
· Burn ISO file and other image file to CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD-RAM, DVD-R DL, DVD+R DL, BD-R, BD-R DL, BD-RE, BD-RE DL.
· Burn Apple DMG files directly to CD / DVD / BD discs.
· Burn files and folders to CD / DVD / BD discs on the fly.
· Burn Audio CD from MP3, WMA, APE, FLAC, WAV, or BIN files.
· Burn Video image file to CD / DVD disc.
· Support two erasing modes for rewritable discs: Full Erasing and Quick Erasing.

Mount ISO File:
· Mount ISO file and other popular image file as virtual drive.
· Support up to 23 virtual drives.

Make Audio Disc:
· Create standard Audio CD.
· Create mixed mode CD.
· Support Audio CD-TEXT.
· Burn mp3, wma, wav, flac and ape files to CD.
· Burn bin / cue, mp3 / cue, wma / cue, wav / cue, flac / cue and ape / cue audio image files to CD.
· Edit existing Audio CD image files.
· Support Playing Audio Tracks within Audio CD image file.

Audio CD ripper:
· Rip audio CD to mp3, wma, wav, flac and ape files.
· Rip audio CD to bin / cue, mp3 / cue, wma / cue, wav / cue, flac / cue and ape / cue audio image files.

ISO and BIN Converter:
· Convert ISO to BIN.
· Convert BIN to ISO.
· Convert Apple DMG files to ISO file.
· Convert all popular images files to ISO file.
· Convert all popular images files to BIN file.

Open / Extract /Edit disk image file:
· Support all popular virtual disc image files, such as VMWare Virtual Disc Images(*.vmdk), VirtualBox Virtual Disc Images(*.vdi), Virtual PC Virtual Disc Images(*.vdi).
· Support all floppy disk image files, such as BIF, FLP, DSK, BFI, BWI, BIN, IMG and so on.
· Support disc image files with FAT12, FAT, FAT32, NTFS and ext2, ext3 partitions.

Create Bootable USB drive:
· Create bootable USB drive for Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7.
· Support USB-FDD, USB-ZIP, and USB-HDD.

Supported CD/DVD disc image types:
· ISO (Generic CD images)
· BIN/CUE
· BIN (CDRWin)
· IMA/IMG (Generic disk images)
· CIF (Easy CD Creator)
· NRG (Nero - Burning ROM)
· IMG/CCD (CloneCD)
· MDF/MDS (Alcohol120%)
· VCD (Farstone Virtual Drive)
· VaporCD (Noum Vapor CDROM)
· P01/MD1/XA (Gear)
· VDI (Virtuo CD Manager)
· C2D (WinOnCD)
· BWI/BWT (BlinkWrite)
· CDI (DiscJuggler)
· TAO/DAO (Duplicator)
· PDI (Instant Copy)
· DMG (APPLE Disk Image)

Supported CD/DVD file systems:
· Standard ISO-9660
· Joliet ISO extension (CDs under Windows 95 and higher)
· RockRidge ISO extension (CDs under FreeBSD, Linux)
· El Torito extension (bootable CDs)
· Univeral Disk Format (UDF)
· XBOX DVD Format
· APPLE HFS
· APPLE HFS+

Easy and friendly interface:
· Support drag and drop.
· Support clipboard copy and paste.
· Support multiple languages.

Requirements:

· Note: The internal virtual drive needs Windows2000/XP/2003 or above
· Intel Pentium 166MHz or above
· 64MB memory
· At least 10MB hard disk space

Limitations:

· Can only create or edit the image file which does not exceed the size of 300M
· Nag screen

What's New in This Release:

• Support multisession burning.
• Support creating file checksum(md5 and crc32).
• PowerISO x64 is released.

Users are advised to pay attention while installing this ad-supported application:

· Offers to change the homepage for web browsers installed in the system
· Offers to change the default search engine for web browsers installed in the system
· Offers to download or install software or components (AVG Security Toolbar) that the program does not require to fully function

Program Information

 Developer: PowerISO Computing Inc

Price and Added Date

Ad-supported / $23.95 USD.15-06-2015

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