CCleaner - The Best Freeware Cleaner and Utility

CC Cleaner is the most popular freeware cleaner globally with over 1 billion downloads since its launch. CCleaner is a quick and easy to use program which makes your computer faster, more secure and more reliable. CCleaner removes cookies, temporary files and various other unused data that clogs up your operating system. This frees up valuable hard disk space allowing your system to run faster. Removing this data also protects your anonymity meaning you can browse online more securely. The built in Registry Cleaner fixes errors and broken settings to make your computer more stable. The simple, intuitive UI and rapid but powerful cleaning make CCleaner a favourite among novices and techies alike. Professional, Network, Business and Technician Editions of CCleaner are also available for serious users.

Makes Your Computer Faster

Browsing the internet your computer picks up a whole host of unnecessary files, cookies and history. The same thing happens when you run most programs on your computer – lots of temporary files and settings are saved. CCleaner removes these unused files and settings to free up valuable hard drive space, enabling your system to run faster. The default settings only focus on typical junk files and locations so you’re unlikely to lose important information unless you alter these. A Startup Cleaner also helps you to identify and remove unused programs running in the background when you start your computer. This makes the startup time shorter and puts less strain on your hard drive throughout use. You can read more about startup support here.

Secure Web Browsing

Advertisers and websites track your behaviour online with cookies. Saved passwords, cached data and internet histories make your identity less secure. CCleaner removes these files to make your browsing experience confidential, meaning you are less likely to suffer from identity theft and/or online fraud. The military grade Drive Wiper ensures any data you want to be permanently deleted, stays deleted.

Fixes System Errors and Reduces Crashes

If you notice lots of system freezes, error messages and often experience crashes, the chances are your registry become cluttered with unused files and broken settings. CCleaner’s fully featured Registry Cleaner identifies these issues and fixes them. The registry analysis takes seconds and cleaning just a little bit longer. Prompts advise you when to save backups to avoid losing important data.

Cleaning

CCleaner Tools and Options tabs allow you to customise cleaning options to fit your needs. If you are not a savvy user, you might want to stick with the safe default settings. Advanced users can uninstall unwanted programs, select which cookies to save, customise cleaning settings and setup system monitoring.

Conclusion

CCleaner has earned its position at the top of the freeware cleaners offering the sort of features premium programs struggle to compete with. The clean, intuitive UI makes it one of the easiest programs to use, but don’t let its size and simplicity fool you. This is a powerful utility for improving your computers performance. Piriform’s regular update process means CCleaner is constantly improving and its popularity will continue to grow.

Jarte

Jarte is a compact, free word processor whose unique interface will make you feel like you are piloting a swift, nimble yacht by comparison. Although Jarte doesn't look anything like the office word processor you are used to, it can handle your word processing tasks with aplomb. If this sounds like the kind of word processor you are looking for then maybe you owe it to yourself to give Jarte a try.

Opens files with file extension RTF, file extension DOC, and file extension DOCX (new default format in Word 2007).

It's fully compatible with Windows Vista.

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Advanced Renamer

Advanced Renamer is freeware program for renaming multiple files or folders at once. It can use several different methods for calculating the new name including multimedia tools for sound and picture files.
Advanced Renamer makes it easy to set up an advanced batch job using multiple methods on a large amount of files. The eight different methods make it possible for you to change the names, attributes and timestamps of files in one go.
With Advanced Renamer you can construct new file names by adding, removing, replacing, changing case, or giving the file a brand new name based on known information about the file.

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Quick Startup

This simple utility is basically a gussied-up version of the Startup tab in Windows' MSConfig utility. Like its Windows counterpart, Quick Startup lets you control which programs launch on Windows start-up. The straightforward interface displays a list of programs that run when you fire up your PC. By clicking the check box next to each item, you can quickly enable or disable any process from launching. That's about all this little tool can do. Quick Startup links to the Windows Scheduled Tasks and Local Services tools, but it can't control them directly. It can't even advise you whether to delete or keep a start-up entry. Extreme technophobes might get some use out of Quick Startup (it is free), but most people in the know will do just as well with MSConfig.

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AMP Font Viewer 3.81

This program is an easy to use but powerful font manager, which allows getting a quick overview of both installed and non installed fonts. It can install and uninstall fonts, and organize them in categories. Some of its features are:

* Supports TrueType and OpenType fonts (Windows 2000/XP required for PostScript OpenType fonts)
* Supports Type1 fonts (Windows 2000/XP required)
* Installation of fonts from a folder (one by one or from a list).
* Installation of fonts temporally (until the program is closed).
* Deletion of installed fonts.
* List of all installed fonts with several display options.
* List of the fonts from a folder with several display options.
* Several options for organizing fonts in categories and managing them.
* It can print a list of all or some of the installed fonts with an example of each font.
* Scratchpad area for testing the look of any font (installed or from a folder).
* Dual English/Spanish version.

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Free PDF to Word Doc Converter

The program can extract text, images, shapes from PDF file to Word Doc file and preserve the layout. It can convert all the pages, or any pages range of the PDF file.
Features:
- Convert PDF to Word and preserve the original layout of your PDF in an editable Word Document.
- Extract text labels, graphics, shapes from PDF file into Word Doc file.
- Convert all the pages, or partial pages of PDF file to Word file.
- Support Adobe PDF 1.0 - 1.6 formats.
- Can automatically open the output Doc file when the conversion is done.
- Several PDF to Word conversion options are available for a better result.
- Convert in a high speed.

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FastStone Capture

FastStone Capture 5.3 is a powerful, flexible and intuitive screen-capture utility. It allows you to capture anything on the screen including windows, objects, full screen, rectangle regions, freehand-selected regions and scrolling windows/web pages. It has innovative features such as a floating Capture Panel, hotkeys, resizing, cropping, text annotation, printing, e-mailing and many more.

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MouseShade

MouseShade is an essential tool for everyone doing presentations or demos. If turned on, it dims the screen and puts a spotlight on the area around the mouse pointer, easily guiding the audiences attention to an area of interest. The shape of the spotlight, the colour of the shade and the opacity of the shade can all be varied by accessing the pop up menu available from the icon in the Taskbar, simply by right clicking.
All options set are saved when the application closes, ready for the next time you use it. When in use, the shade can be minimised, giving a clear view of the whole screen, and can then be reactivated when you need to highlight a specific part of the screen by clicking the Show option on the menu.

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AntiFreeze

AntiFreeze is an emergency task manager for unresponsive or hanging systems. It is a utility with a very small footprint, sitting in your tray and waiting for you to press the hotkey combination (ALT+CTRL+WIN+HOME by default). You should use it only in emergency situations, consider it an alternative for the reset button.
AntiFreeze is free for non-commercial use only.

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Advanced Process Termination

Advanced Process Termination is a simple but powerful utility that provides nine (9) different process termination techniques - all at the click of a button. Process Guard also has powerful anti-hook capabilities to prevent other programs from hooking critical functions (something often done by trojans to prevent their processes from being seen or terminated). In addition to process termination, APT also allows you to Suspend and Resume processes, and also serves as a useful process list utility.

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Returnil Virtual System Personal Edition

The Returnil Virtual System Personal Edition is a powerful virtualization technology that completely mirrors your actual computer setup and it can create a virtual storage disk within your PC where you can save documents, data, and files while using the System Protection feature.
Returnil Virtual System's protection concept is very easy to understand. It provides a simple, effective, and smart way to prevent unwanted or malicious changes from being made to your supported Windows® Operating System and the drive where Windows® is installed. You operate your system in a virtual environment, so anything you do will happen in the virtual environment, not in the real PC. If your computer is attacked or gets infected with Malware, all you need to do is simply reboot the PC to erase all changes. Once restarted, your system will be restored to the original state, as if nothing ever happened! Meanwhile, Returnil Virtual System can create a virtual storage disk for you; the purpose of this partition is to provide a place for you to save your data when the Virtual System Protection mode is turned ON, and you can customize the size of this disk to meet your individual requirements.
When the Virtual System Protection is OFF, you can install or remove programs, save documents within the Windows® disk drive, install security upgrades and software patches, alter configurations, and update user accounts. All changes made will remain following a restart of the computer.
The Returnil Virtual System is designed to take the risk and worry out of exposing your computer to all types of software, downloads, websites, or anything else that might have adverse effects on your computer or infect it with harmful viruses, spyware and other malicious programs. Once you restart your system it will revert back to its original state and all changes to your primary partition will disappear.
All of this without sacrificing computer performance or usability while helping to reduce technical support intervention and the need for routine maintenance. By cloning your system in memory rather than on your hard disk, the Returnil Virtual System offers better speed and reliability than other virtualization solutions.
Features:
- Keeps your System Partition safe when browsing the Internet
- Viruses, Trojans, Worms, Adware, Spyware, and unwanted content disappear with a simple reboot
- Enforces settings and protects your internet privacy
- Helps reduce overall disk wear by using memory rather than HDD cloning technology
- Saves you time, money, and lost hair by maintaining or improving peak computer performance
- Reduces or eliminates the need for routine disk de-fragmentation of your system partition
- Your spam filter is strong, but not infallible - Returnil will eliminate the consequences of opening infected e-mail and/or attachments
- Leaves absolutely no traces of computer activities
- Eliminates all activities even if your computer is powered-off or crashes
- Eliminates the danger of evaluating new software that does not require a reboot to install
- Offers stronger, simpler and smarter protection for your PC
- Seamless integration with supported Windows Operating Systems
- Easy to use, simple to configure, and the one tool in your arsenal that will be there to save the day when all else fails!
Languages: English, Chinese-simplified, German, Brazilian, Portuguese, Spanish, Finnish, French, and Italian.
Subscription: Free with product registration for Home users on a single computer!

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FileLister

FileLister creates a text file containing a list of files located in sub-folders of a parent folder. You can select how many levels of sub-folders you want to search. For example, if you select c:\parent and tell FileLister to scan folders one level deep, it will will create a list of all the files in c:\parent\child1\, c:\parent\child2\, c:\parent\child3\, etc. Filelister can be directed to include only those files that are in subdirectories one, two or three levels deep, or all levels beneath the selected directory. FileLister can search for all files, image files, any user selected type.

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Text Mining Tool

Text Mining Tool is a freeware program for extraction of text from files of the next types: pdf, doc, rtf, chm, html without need to have installed any other programs like Word, Arcrobat, etc.
Its comfortable and easy usage is defined by the following key features:
- No payment or license restrictions. Tool is absolutely free.
- Mines text from PDF, DOC, RTF, CHM, HTML files.
- User-friendly interface with hotkeys available.
- Console tool minetext is included.

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Auslogics Registry Defrag

Auslogics Registry Defrag is an extremely useful program to keep your registry as compact as possible. As a result of keeping the registry defragmented and as small as possible, your computer performance will be much improved.
Features:
System Optimization
Microsoft Windows and various program access the registry a few hundred times a second. By keeping your registry optimized you improve your computer performance.
Complete Registry Defragmentation
Data is frequently removed from the registry, but the allocated space remains. The program will scan through the registry to remove this space, reducing the size of the registry.
Ease of Use
Registry Defrag is incredibly easy to use even for a novice user. The program provides stunning visual representation of the fragmented areas in your registry.
Detailed Reports
Upon defragmenting the registry on your computer, the program prepares an HTML report with comprehensive details about registry defragmentation process.

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mEdit

This text editor allows combining several documents (worksheets) as a file (workbook). One can switch between the worksheets via tabs on the workbook. Equipped with many general text editor functions, this software provides editing options, including: copy, cut, and paste; and text formatting features; as well as find and replace tools. Useful additional information (meta data) can also be stored with the workbook. Meta data--information such as when the worksheet was created, edited or last viewed; how many times the worksheet was edited; and label and comment attributes--can be set for each worksheet. Moreover, this software can create new meta data or delete unnecessary meta data. One can also find worksheets matching specific meta data. The worksheets can be displayed in tab, column, or list style. In tab style, there are tabs at the lower part of the screen that allow switching between worksheets. In column style, a screen is divided into two, with the name of worksheets on the left-hand-side, and text editing area on the right. In list style, a screen is also divided into two, but the name of worksheets and the list of meta data is displayed at the top of the page, while the text editing area is located at the bottom. All three styles allow one to easily shift the order of the worksheets on the screen; one can also delete or copy worksheets as needed.

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TinyPDF

Use any printable document to create professional quality PDF files totally free, with no need of Acrobat or GhostScript. TinyPDF features: No adware, No spyware, No malware, No watermarks, No popup - no catch! Completely FREE PDF Converter and Creator - not just a demo or trial version; Print to PDF from virtually any Windows application; No GhostScript or any 3rd-party software needed; High-quality, easy to use PDF creator; Append & Merge PDF files after conversion. (FREE PDF Merge Plug-in is required); Large paper size support for desktop publisher and CAD engineers; JPEG compression and Bicubic downsampling to produce smaller PDF files; Automatic font embedding for characters in all languages; Support Citrix and Microsoft terminal server environment; Uninstaller included; Now supports 32-bit Windows Vista; FREE for personal and commercial use!

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TxtPrint

TxtPrint is a small application designed mainly for one purpose: Printing out text files. By numerous settings, you will have precise control over the output. TxtPrint can be used to print all kinds of text files, but I think programmers printing out source code will appreciate the features most. The main advantage with TxtPrint compared to standard text editors is the ability to divide the page in several columns and rows. This is very useful for saving paper and getting more text on a single paper. An additional feature is to handle files with different file extensions differently. You can for example define that files with a certain file extension always should be printed using a predefined tab spacing.

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DriveTime

DriveTime sits happily on your task bar, and tells you how much time is left on a harddisk, but in human terms like minutes and hours, not bytes and megs. Sample rate, bit depth, and channels can all be customized to make the display as accurate as possible. To exit, just right click on it, and select 'Exit', but I don't think you'll ever want to.

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EasyTxt ..

Do you face the problem of having to type the same phrases over and over again?
EasyTxt is a program that help you to save time in typing commonly used phrases. It allows you to store and organize commonly used phrases and retrieving them in the form of a menu using a shortcut key. The menu can be selected using the mouse or shortcut key, allowing friendlier access without the need to move away from the keyboard. It does not use the clipboard so you can still copy and paste text the usual way. Macros can be used in the stored text simulate the pressing of various keys such as Enter and arrow keys.

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Attribute Changer ..

Attribute Changer is a power user tool to change all kind of file and folder attributes, date, time and even NTFS compression.
Basic features include changing file and folder attributes within en masse. A really useful feature is the compression/decompression of files stored on the Windows NT/2000 and XP NTFS file system. Furthermore, date and time on files and folders can be partially changed. In this case, you can advise Attribute Changer not to change the whole object data, but only parts such as day, month, year, seconds, minutes or hours. The progress can be monitored in realtime on the 'Activity and Results' tab.

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