Freeware I Like

SparkleXP

rockin4459 — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 20:35:03 +0000

“SparkleXP is an application designed to tweak Windows XP and improve its performance,
it helps freeing up computer resources resulting in a faster and responsive computer.
This tool creates a second Hardware Profile and a correlative new User to get a lightweight desktop.
You can choose to boot into your regular or SparkleXP configuration at startup.
Play your core!” There is also a vista version in beta.

http://www.sparklexp.com/

Share two monitores with one mouse and keyboard

rockin4459 — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:17:50 +0000

“Synergy lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems, each with its own display, without special hardware. It’s intended for users with multiple computers on their desk since each system uses its own monitor(s).

Redirecting the mouse and keyboard is as simple as moving the mouse off the edge of your screen. Synergy also merges the clipboards of all the systems into one, allowing cut-and-paste between systems. Furthermore, it synchronizes screen savers so they all start and stop together and, if screen locking is enabled, only one screen requires a password to unlock them all. Learn more about how it works.”

System Requirements

Microsoft Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me (the Windows 95 family)
Microsoft Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP (the Windows NT family)
Mac OS X 10.2 or higher
Unix
- X Windows version 11 revision 4 or up
- XTEST extension
  (use “xdpyinfo | grep XTEST” to check for XTEST)

Returnil Virtual System Personal Edition

rockin4459 — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:57:58 +0000

“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.

Subscription: Free with product registration for Home users on a single computer
Platforms: Windows XP/ Windows Server 2003/ Windows Vista 32-bit
Download Size: 1.7 MB
Languages: English, Chinese-simplified, German, Brazilian, Portuguese, Spanish, Finnish, French, and Italian
Delivery: Electronic download

Download page

Booting into safe mode.

rockin4459 — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 02:30:32 +0000

Booting into safe mode can be so tiresome, and sometimes hit and miss with the timing of the F8 key at start up. Well not any more with Bootsafe. “BootSafe takes the hassle out of rebooting in Safe Mode or back to Normal mode. BootSafe is 100% free and contains no adware, spyware or malware! No more fighting with the F8 key or MSCONFIG!”. This little application has saved me a lot of time.

Supports booting into Safe Mode
(Minimal, Networking and Repair)
Easily boot back to Normal mode
Supports Windows 98, 98SE, ME, 2000 and XP
No installation required, no setup, just download and run – it’s that simple!
Simple to use, fast to download and FREE!