Easily and Safely Optimize Vista by Disabling Unnecessary Windows Vista Services

January 5th, 2010

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Vista Services Optimizer is an open source Windows tweaking utility that can improve your Windows Vista and Windows 7 performance and security with a simple mouse click, by tweaking Windows services in an automatic and very safe way according to the way you use your computer and which software and hardware you use.
It also enables you to control and tweak Windows services manually in an advanced way for experienced people who need more control.

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Krento : Modern 3D Desktop application launcher

January 3rd, 2010

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Most users feel that Application launcher is the most essential Application for them to install. Application launcher can save our desktop space and assist us in boosting our productivity.

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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Keyboard LED as Indicator for Windows Incoming and Outgoing Network Packets

December 29th, 2009

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Network Lights is a Windows program, which blinks keyboard LEDs (Light Emitting Diode) indicating outgoing and incoming network packets on network interface, similar to the cable modem send/receive signal.
Network Lights lets you monitor network activity (upload/download) from your keyboard ScrollLock and NumLock indicators. Each LED will flicker when network traffic is detected.

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See any MP3 file’s TAG contents without opening it in a MP3 player

December 26th, 2009

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MP3 Hint is an InfoTip Shell Extension. After installation, hovering the mouse cursor above any MP3 file icon will display a hint which will contain information extracted from the TAG of this MP3 file. You’ll see title, artist, album, year, comment, genre and track number. Also this hint will contain two additional handy information extracted from the MP3 file: song’s bitrate and duration.

Hide Windows Drives with NoDrives Manager

December 24th, 2009

nodrivesHave a drive you’d like to keep hidden? No Drives Manager removes drives from the Windows Explorer, so casual users can’t see what you’re aiming to keep private.

NoDrives Manager lets you hide drives from Windows Explorer. The drive is still accessible to Windows, technically, and you could access it from the run dialogue or from the command line, but it won’t appear to non-invasive users on your machine.

While many people would discount this as a tool only suited for a lame attempt at hiding your porn stash, It can be used to view the drives which are really in use. This would be handy to hide/protect secondary drives or any external drives which you use to backup data and keep them safe from being tinkered by casual users.