Useful Free Windows Programs Under 2MB Belarc Advisor Builds a detailed profile of your installed software and hardware and displays the results in your Web browser. ShowIP Shows ones Private and Public IP address and alerts you of changes. Folder2MyPC With this utility you can add any folders or program shortcut to " My computer " and "Control panel" Hamachi Hamachi is a zero-configuration virtual private networking (VPN) application. Alarm Nice free Alarm clock with mp3 support TrayIt! Minimize anything each application which applies TrayIt! creates a small icon in the System Tray. HiderPx Allows one to reopen a window of any process in the background which "vanished" from the taskbar. NetStat Live TCP/IP protocol monitor which can be used to see your exact throughput on both incoming and outgoing data MaxMem Realtime physical memory management program that automatically ensures that you always have as much physical memory available as possible. CacheBooster CacheBooster allows you to tweak your harddisk caching to help achieve the best possible performance from your system. Win95/98 ONLY TuneXP Windows Tweaking software. CCleaner Removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space and cleans traces of your online activities. HijackThis A general homepage hijackers detector and remover. PuTTY PuTTY is a free implementation of Telnet and SSH for Win32 and Unix. Unlocker Unlocker lets one delete/rename/move a file that is locked by Windows for whatever reason. µTorrent A very tiny Bittorrent client and a very powerfull Bittorrent client. RootkitRevealer RootkitRevealer is an advanced rootkit detection utility nlite nLite is a tool for permanent Windows components removal and pre-installation Windows setup. Citrus Alarm Clock Citrus is a software alarm clock which can use your existing Media Player. TerraIM TerraIM is a free, lightweight, cross-platform AOL Instant Messenger client. The Wonderful Icon Minimize programs onto the taskbar tray instead of just onto the taskbar and much more. Sizer Resize any window to an exact, predefined size. Foxit Reader Free reader for PDF (Portable Document Format) documents. IrfanView Very fast, small, compact and innovative graphic viewer for Windows
My favorite: Sysinternals' Autoruns http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Autoruns.html This utility, which has the most comprehensive knowledge of auto-starting locations of any startup monitor, shows you what programs are configured to run during system bootup or login, and shows you the entries in the order Windows processes them. These programs include ones in your startup folder, Run, RunOnce, and other Registry keys. You can configure Autoruns to show other locations, including Explorer shell extensions, toolbars, browser helper objects, Winlogon notifications, auto-start services, and much more. Autoruns goes way beyond the MSConfig utility bundled with Windows Me and XP.
PC MAg published by Ziff davis has monthly utilities used to be free to download. they are free to use. my fave is "start up cop" and "properties Plus." PPlus alows u to change the explorer properties of files, date created and multi files at once
