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| ACCUTE
Y2K Year 2000 Super Test for Win 95 and 98 ACCUTE Y2K Super Test performs a very comprehensive set of Y2K tests on a PC's hardware and BIOS. PASS/FAIL results are clearly reported on screen along with fix recommendations if necessary. A total of 267 individual checks are performed in 7 test groups. The test groups include year and century rollover, leap year logic, Y2K date retention, century rollover after reboot/power-off, leap year logic after reboot/power-off, Y2K date retention after reboot/power-off, and hardware type. This is more comprehensive than many other Y2K test programs. (v1.00a, 02/22/99, 761KB, FREE ) |
| Clean
Tray Clean Tray is a Windows95/98 utility to view and delete those system tray programs that run when your PC boots up. It also will back up all registry keys before deletion. (v1.0, 04/29/99, 230KB, FREE ) |
| DriveAwake DriveAwake stops the annoying spin-down of removable media or hard drive. Some drives spin down to save energy. This spin-down, and the spin back up, can take several minutes. DriveAwake stops this spin-down and allows you to work uninterrupted. The program tucks quietly away into your System Tray near the clock on your taskbar. (v2.0, 04/08/99, 1490KB, FREE ) |
| Kill
Docs Sits in your System Tray (by the Clock) and clears your Documents menu when double clicked, or at preset timed intervals. (v1.03, 04/15/98, 10KB, FREE ) |
| LifeSaver
3.30 A Windows 95 configuration file backup and restore utility which can be used to recover from problems due to corrupt configuration files or changes to configuration files which can not be undone. The Standard features provide a fully functional copy of LifeSaver which never expires and is free. (v3.30, 08/16/97, 1500KB,FREE) |
| More
Properties 2.03 More Properties enables customizing of features in Windows 95/NT that were not included in the standard interface. Some of the settings found in the program: Window Animation; Menu Show Delay; Rename the Recycle Bin; Change Windows 95 license information; Adjust/optimize Maximum; Transmission Unit (MTU); Explorer save settings on exit; Hide Desktop icons; Hide Network Neighborhood; Activate smooth scrolling; Add useful items to context menus in Explorer; Clear histories at startup; AutoRun for various drive types; Windows help colors; Drives in My Computer; Smooth scrolling; Add, edit and remove; Add/Remove Programs entries; Add, edit and remove Run entries; Edit Tip of the Day entries; Change shell icons, including; Shortcut, Explorer and Start; Menu icons; Add/remove/rename shell folders to/from Desktop and My Computer. (v2.03, 03/03/99, 351KB, FREE ) |
| My
Saver98 Features: My Saver98 saves system files on a scheduled day, day of a week, day of month; My Saver98 has autostart capabilities with command line option /A, so your system files will be saved every start of windows(if you wish); All saved system files can be restored; All saved files can automatically be deleted after 'X'-days; If windows fails to start, but you can gain access to your hard-disk, you can manually restore system files from the mysaver-directory; choose between german/english version. (v1.00.28, 11/13/98, 920KB, FREE ) |
| Norton
CrashGuard 3.0 Protect your work! Catch those General Protection Faults before they crash your system. Allows you to unfreeze any "frozen" applications and save your work before re-booting. (v3.0, 02/01/98, 11900KB, FREE ) |
| PC
Off This program schedules your PC's shutdown and performs it according to your wish. As its user you only have to set the desired shutdown time and date. (v2.0, 12/05/98, 176KB, FREE ) |
| Pid
Manager "Pid Manager is a full-featured, highly configurable utility that allows you to manipulate and change all processes and tasks in Windows 95/98/NT. You can remove all unused processes or programs, which allows you more memory for work. When your computer is" (v1, 08/03/98, 151KB, FREE ) |
| Pointer2000 "This utility monitors system and registry activity. It finds files and duplicates, and saves and reinstates from system crash. Needs Vb5 Runtime. No OCX or VBX are used. Italian and English versions available. English help file not yet available. Featu" (v5, 08/03/98, 82KB, FREE ) |
| Quick-Tray
Shutdown This freeware program places a RED arrow icon in the taskbar tray. Just double-click on the icon in the taskbar tray and the computer will bypass all menus, close your programs and safely shutdown your computer right away! It's that simple. (v1.0, 05/03/99, 207KB, FREE ) |
| Ram
Booster As we all know(?) the big problem of Win95 is the stupid way to use memory. RAM is filled little by little by stuff that is practically never needed. This means that Win95 needs to be booted every now and then to work properly without loss of speed and lock ups. The reasons to cause this are programs to quit due to error, without freeing the memory, large .dll-files and caching. (When a file is cached Win95 still holds it a long time in RAM after the actual operation that needed cache is terminated) I searched the Internet to find a FREE program to fix this, but with no success, I found only commercial applications, so there obviously is a need for this kind of program. How does this Program work: To put it simple : first the program allocates a desired amount of RAM, fills it with dummy data and then frees the memory. (The area needs to be filled, we all know Win95 sometimes is very stupid, but it seems clever enough to know that RAM is only allocated but not used) If it does not free enough memory first time, you can try several times, usually it works. (In my tests value 64 (same as total RAM in my machine) has given me 48Mb free RAM, and the start situation was zero Mb after hard surfing and WinAmp-playing.) Still I recommend you to use a value that is about half of your total RAM. (Added April 8th, 1999 : I have had some of my friends as betatesters and biggest surprise so far is that this program seems to be very useful for Win98-users as well. For me personally, that IS a surprise, i always thought win98 uses memory more clever way than win95) (v1.0000, 04/08/99, 160KB, FREE ) |
| Ranish
Partition Manager Save and restore MBR; Create and delete partitions; View hard disks' IDE information; Format and resize FAT-16 and FAT-32 file systems; Comes with Advanced Boot Managers. Advanced Boot Manager: Boot menu with password protection; Automatic partition hide and unhide; Boot any OS from the second hard drive; Create up to 31 primary partitions on a single hard drive; Detect presence of the boot viruses in memory. FAT-16 boot sector code replacement: Boot MS-DOS from partitions above 2G; Dual boot MS-DOS and Windows 95 OSR2; Once installed, it can be used with any boot manager. (v2.38, 10/01/98, 80KB, FREE ) |
| Registry
Key Backup This is little utility to help you to back up your registry keys. This is not just another "repair tool" that copies your registry files to a floppy disk ;-). It allows you to select a key or more and save it to a *.reg file, so you can restore it later by double-clicking on this file. For example you may need to store your Outlook Express settings, then you need to go to the registry key SOFTWAREMicrosoftOutlook Express with Windows Registry Editor and export this branch into a disk file (*.reg). Since settings are below both HKEY_CURRENT_USER and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE keys, you need to scroll worth and back and this is not very funny to do (every day:) But with this program you can make a list of items that should be saved with a click of mouse. You can have many entries (each entry will be saved into a seperate *.reg file) and each entry can contain any number of registry keys to save. Just run the program to see what is it all about. (v1.1.0, 12/22/98, 226KB, FREE ) |
| Regmon Regmon is a Registry spying utility that watches and displays information on system-wide registry accesses as they are occurring. This new version allows the logs that are displayed to be saved to a text file for later viewing or processing. Windows NT version is available. (v3.62, 11/16/98, 32KB, FREE ) |
| Regrun In Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows NT, programs are unexpectedly started, though they are not present in a startup folder or in win.ini. Where do the programs hide? They could be: 1.System utilities. 2.Any user programs. 3.Trojan programs. Example: Back Orifice, Back Door etc. Whence are they started? From the Windows system registry. It is difficult to reach each of them and see the contents using Regedit. Therefore there was a program made called RegRun. It shows in one window the contents of all the interesting keys. See more details ... (v1.50, 02/19/99, 230KB, FREE ) |
| RevIt
1.1 Windows 95 has a set of 'hidden' programs and logs for the power user. RevIt gives you easy access to them by just the press of a button. You will be able to get your fingers on: The Registry Editor, The System Files Editor, Make win3.x programs compatible with Win95, The tip of the day, The File Manager, The Program Manager, The Task Manager (new in RevIt V1.1), The OLE Packager, The Boot log, The Detected Hardware log, The Setup Log, The Scandisk Log. (v1.1, 08/25/97, 23KB, FREE ) |
| Shutdown
Utility The Shutdown utility is a small app which replaces the standard Windows95 shutdown procedure on the start menu. Once it is opened, it automatically shuts down the computer after 5 seconds if no other command is given. The computer may be shut down, restarted, restarted in MS-DOS, all applications may be closed and one may log on as another user or the computer may be powered down. It is also possible to let Shutdown do it's work with force, which means that it will not wait for other applications to finish before Windows get closed. Totally, the computer may be shut down in 9 different ways, then, because it is not possible to force a shutdown to MS-DOS modus. (v3.0, 04/09/98, 301KB, FREE ) |
| ShutUp
1.0 ShutUp lets you automate clean-up tasks before shutdown. It can clean out selected history lists, eject CDs, delete the files in your TEMP directory, and run the programs you specify before shutting down your computer. It also lets you schedule reminders every day, one day a week, one day a month, or for a specific date any time in the future. (v1.0, 08/16/97, 174KB, FREE ) |
| Startup
CPL Startup Control Panel is a control panel applet that enables you to easily configure which programs run when your computer starts. It's simple to use, very small, and won't burden your system. (v1.0, 03/03/99, 37KB, FREE ) |
| StartUp
Manager 1.2.1 StartUp Manager lets you control what you want to load when Windows starts without having to edit the registry. You can add to or delete from the list of applications that run at Startup. Includes an option to set the order in which you want the programs loaded. One user reported a problem using this product and suggested backing up the registry before trying it. (v1.2.1, 05/01/98, 216KB, FREE ) |
| StatBar
97 StatBar 97 is a handy utility to monitor free system resources, free disk drive space, launch applications and shutdown or reboot your PC. Download the online help file too. (11 Jul 97, 17.1KB) (v2.02.0032, 07/11/97, 2190KB, FREE ) |
| StrikeOut
& BackOff Scan & remove back orifice and netbus from your computer right now!! (v1.0, 02/18/99, 274KB, FREE ) |
| System
Prepare System Prepare is a unique and useful utility that will appeal to gamers and hogware users alike. If you are tired of closing apps, changing screen colors and resolution, running video overclocking utilities, running your memory defragger just to play a system hogging game then System Prepare is your answer. When your hogware has finished running or your game is completed System Prepare returns your settings to normal, all without taking memory away from your system. (v1.01, 04/11/99, 2123KB, FREE) |
| System
Shutdown This program allows you to Shutdown, Reboot, Close all applications and login as a different user, and on some systems, Power off. (v1.3, 06/14/97, 984KB, FREE ) |
| Test-Run
by BB Test-Run is designed to protect your computer from the hazards associated with testing new software. Through the use of DOS batch files, it creates a copy of your Registry to use for testing purposes. Just double-click the Switch icon to toggle between the test Registry and the real one. Switching Registries reboots to a DOS prompt, switches the files, and reloads Windows. The test Registry is accompanied by special test-mode wallpaper, so you won't lose track of which Registry is which. When you're done with your testing, just switch back, and all is as it was before you installed the test program. Test-Run is easy to use and affords a great layer of protection for your Registry. Excellent documentation is included. |
| Tray
Shutdown Tray Shutdown enables you to Log Off, Shutdown, Restart, Force Shutdown, and Power Off (Shutdown system and then turn off PC) with a single or double click on your system tray. It can automatically run when Windows starts and all setting will save to the registry to improve speed. (v1.01 Beta, 01/12/99, 138KB, FREE ) |
| Trend
HouseCall HouseCall is Trend Micro’s free virus scanning service - the only online scanning service available to all Webusers. There is nothing to install; HouseCall scans for and cleans viruses over the Web through ActiveX and Java technology. (v2.0, 04/10/98, 0KB, FREE ) |
| V-Shield V-Shield from McAfee, runs continuously on your system and scans for viruses every time you run an executable, copy a file, or access a floppy. (v, 02/01/98, 0KB, FREE ) |
| WinExit WinExit is a small Win95 and WinNT program to shut down, reboot or logoff windows only using a single hotkey or the mouse. Once started, it places an icon in your system tray. From here you can double click left to shut down the system or click right to reboot or logoff the system. Or you can use a hotkey. WinExits defines one hotkey for each of the tree functions: Shut down, reboot and log off. (v1.1b, 10/16/97, 21KB, FREE ) |
| WinStartup WinStartup lets you add or remove programs that are executed upon startup of Windows95. Great for launching any of my programs. Completely hidden from the Start Menu - Startup Group. Also has command line support. Features: Add or Remove entries; Support command line options; Undetectable. (v1.00, 09/28/98, 161KB, FREE ) |
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