Click here to go to a page to download or
update Microsoft's Java Virtual Machine.
You can install 5.00.3810 here.
XP WPA WGA Registry Fix: Click to add this to the registry before installing a Windows product failing the product activation.
Ashampoo Burning Studio 6 Free
Magnifying Glass: A handy tool that can minimize to the tray, ready to bring up to magnify anything on the screen. Stays on top until minimized.
VideoLan VLC Media Player ver. 0.9.9: A player that plays about any media.
ChromaFax: Allows faxing in color from a computer to color fax machines.
RealPlayer Basic 8: The tried and true basic player.
NISTime v1.3: Keeps your computer clock in sync by the Internet.
NISTime v3.15: Newer version with a few more
options, but a larger window to include these options.
If these options are not necessary, version 1.3 works just fine.
Waterfall 1.23: Monitors CPU demand and allows cooling.
CloseIEx: Adds options to the Internet Explorer toolbar to close All windows or all Others.
RealVNC: 3.3.7: Remote Computer Server and Viewer for Win9x, 2000 over port 5900. FAQ
EasyCleaner 2.0 Version 2.0.5.338 by www.toniarts.com: Registry Cleaner
EasyCleaner 2.0 Version 2.0.6.380 by www.toniarts.com: Registry Cleaner
PowerTools 1.1: Registry Cleaner that doesn't need the date changed to run. Version 1.3 is a later version, and it's not a big problem to change the year to 2003 before opening the program. Read below.
PowerTools 1.3: Registry Cleaner and other tools. Download 1.3 from this page for the last freeware version. Change your date to Year 2003 to open the program ... and then change your date back to the current year before actually using the program. Visit www.jv16.org or www.macecraft.com for newer versions for purchase.
SpyBot 1.2 by www.security.kolla.de: Spyware / Adware Cleaner.
SpyBot 1.3 by www.security.kolla.de: Spyware / Adware Cleaner.
SpyBot 1.4 by www.security.kolla.de: Spyware / Adware Cleaner.
Ad-Aware 6 Build 181 by www.lavasoftusa.com: Spyware / Adware Cleaner.
Ad-Aware SE Build 1.05 by
www.lavasoftusa.com:
Free version newer than 6- 181
SE Build 1.06r1 - also free
SpyWare Blaster 3.2 by http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html: Uses no resources. Prevents SpyWare.
Show Desktop: This icon appears at the bottom-left by the Start button. It takes you to your Desktop with a single click. Save the file to C:\Documents and Settings\"username"\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch.
CWShredder v2.12.0: Removes most entries of the hijacker, Cool Web Search. Read more about it here.
OmegaKillerSM v1.2: Removes omegasearch.com and its variants. Read more about it here.
HijackThis v1.98.2: Utility that lists certain Registry keys that may reveal hijacked browsers and search engines. Read more about it here.
Starter: View and manage all tasks running in the background including those "hidden" and not shown by Ctrl/Alt/Del.
Process Explorer: Another great Task Manager, Process Viewer. Read more about it here.
StartUpControl by www.mlin.net: Puts a StartUp manager and viewer in the Control Panel.
StartUp Monitor by www.mlin.net: Runs hidden in the background until some program or installation tries to write to your StartUp configuration. Then a pop-up warns you and asks if you want to allow the change.
StartUp-Mechanic by www.startupmechanic.com Another StartUp utility that also contains a database to describe many of the StartUp items.
ZoneAlarm: www.zonealarm.com
ClearTweak v2.5: http://www.ioisland.com This allows you to change the contrast setting of the ClearType setting for Windows XP. ClearType is designed to enhance LCD displays. It may appear slightly blurry on standard desktop monitors.
PhaserPort: Network Utility for Xerox / Tektronix Color Laser Printers.
SISoftware Sandra (Max3 - Win 32 X86 2003.7.9.73): Gives detailed system information.
Internet Explorer Web Accessories: Contains additional features such as Zoom for pictures. Read more.
Mailto Obfuscator: This program will obfuscate or encrypt an email address on a web page to try to fool spam-bots. The address looks and functions correctly on the page where viewed, but is obfuscated in the code or HTML.
Advanced SMTP Server Ver. 1.9: Lets you send emails and mass mailings directly from your computer without using your ISP or another mail server. See the included ReadMe.txt file.
NaviScope 8.70: Browser Accelerator
PowerPoint 2003 Viewer: To view PowerPoint files created by PowerPoint 97 or later. Microsoft's page here.
Office Web Components: To view and interact online with Excel Spreadsheets created with Office XP, Excel 2002.
Security Update for Above Web Components: Microsoft Security Update
WebReaper 9.8: WebReaper is web crawler or spider, which can work its way through a website, downloading pages, pictures and objects that it finds so that they can be viewed locally, without needing to be connected to the internet. The sites can be saved locally as a fully-browsable website which can be viewed with any browser (such as Internet Explorer, Netscape, Opera, etc), or they can be saved into the Internet Explorer cache and viewed using IE's offline mode as if the you'd surfed the sites 'by hand'. www.webreaper.net
Web Position Gold: Want to increase your Web Site Traffic? WebPosition Gold makes it easy to monitor your search positions & to improve your rankings! Don't be buried in last place, move up to first place!
To remove the WGA icon and popup:
The wgatray.exe process makes the check for genuine windows software. You can
disable WGA by removing the execute bit on WgaLogon.dll. That way, winlogon
can't call it as a notification package at boot, and since WgaLogon is
responsible for running and maintaining WgaTray.exe, no more tray popups either.
To change the execute bit of Windows\system32\WgaLogon.dll, first turn off
Simple File Sharing. Now right click the file in Windows Explorer or My
Computer, choose Properties, and open the Security Tab. This option is only
available in NTFS. Hit the Advanced button, uncheck the Inherit box at the
bottom, hit the Copy button, then hit OK. Go through each listed user/group and
remove the "Read & Execute" permission for that file, leaving the "Read"
permission as-is.
Hit OK to apply the permission changes and close the file properties dialog.
Restart the machine. You can now turn "Use simple file sharing" back on, if you
want.