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If you think Process Monitor is just a more complete alternative to the standard Windows task manager, you’re wrong. This is a exhaustive control tool, mainly intended for system administrators, which tracks all the activity in Windows file system and Registry in real time.

So when you run it (no installation required, but it does ask for administrator rights) you’ll get a constantly increasing list with all the processes taken place in your computer in real time. In fact, there’s so much information to absorb that it makes you feel a bit lost.

Process Monitor includes many tools to manage this list: filters, a nice search tool, extended information about each process and many more. As I said, it’s definitely a tool for advanced users.

Download Process Monitor 2.7 in Softonic

Download Wise Registry Cleaner 4.82 in Softonic

Cyberdefender provides advanced solutions in the Internet security market. Cyberdefender solutions help fight and prevent identity theft, unwanted advertisements, Internet viruses, spyware and other similar security threats CyberDefender’s Internet security technology offers the earliest possible detection and most aggressive defense against Internet security attacks.
CyberDefender is the only Internet security software company to combat [...]

If you have private information that needs deleting, you shouldn’t make do with just the Recycle Bin. You need to make more of an effort to ensure that your confidential details stay confidential.

Moo0 FileShredder is a handy program that does just that. The application opens a small interface that can be expanded to see the precise details of each deletion method. There is also a blank area, which is where you drag your unwanted files to. You chose from one of the four levels of deletion – from Shred Once to Vaporize – and drag over your file. Bear in mind that dragging it into Moo0 FileShredder is all you need to do in order to delete it forever, so make really sure that you’ve picked the right file!

Moo0 FileShredder hasn’t got many options, but the ones it does have are quite useful. You can set the program to close by simply clicking the middle mouse button, or expand or reduce the window by right-clicking. Moo0 FileShredder is also available in a variety of languages, and leaves a relatively small footprint on your machine. If you need to delete confidential files on a regular basis, it’s a very good bet.

Moo0 FileShredder – a slick program that does what it says on the tin.

Download Moo0 FileShredder 1.06 in Softonic

Want to finally create that website you’ve been thinking about? Don’t worry you don’t actually need to be an expert designer or programmer to build your own. Applications like RapidWeaver make it easy to create and publish websites.

RapidWeaver offers a very clean GUI from which you can easily pick out what elements to create for your website such as a movie album, contact form or styled text. The application comes with 40 different themes, and you can easily find hundreds more created by users from the developer site. Just click on one of the themes from the bottom half of the interface to select it. If you have some coding knowledge you can also work with the xhtml and css to tweak themes to your liking. The application also includes its very own open RapidWeaver Sandwich file format so you can work on your website outside of the program.

Publishing is really simple in RapidWeaver. Once your page is saved, just enter the login details for your FTP or .Mac account and pres publish. Thanks to the preview button at the top left you can also check how your pages will look in a browser before publishing.

Although you can work with the PHP, XHTML and CSS some more advanced users might find it too basic.

However, thanks to a clean interface, lots of themes and easy publishing, RapidWeaver makes it easy for anyone to have their own website online in minutes.

Download RapidWeaver 4.3 in Softonic

Do you want to open or print a Microsoft Word document, but don’t have the program installed? With Word Reader, you have a free, lightweight program that will open and print documents in seconds.

Ideal for netbooks, or anyone who doesn’t want Microsoft Word installed. Not everyone uses word processors, after all. You can’t edit documents at all, but Word Reader opens files mostly without problems, and opens faster than a big word processor too. There are few options, like background color and font size, but little else.

Word reader’s only big problem seems to be a bug with the full screen view – it often crashes when you try to exit. Printing is as simple as it could be, and clicking the highlight button means you can save anything in the document to your clipboard, to use however you want. Most documents open fine in Word Reader, but there are occasional formatting problems, which aren’t a problem if you only want to read something, though if you want to print it is annoying.

Word Reader isn’t perfect, but works well as a quick way to open up Word documents

Download Word Reader 5.2 in Softonic

PeaZip is a handy compressing and decompressing tool with a plain interface and support for more than 25 different formats.

PeaZip is a bit confusing. It seems to be quite easy to use at first sight, but its simple interface doesn’t look like any other compressor you’ve ever seen before. The toolbar and menus are not very intuitive, but nothing you can’t get over with just a little practice.

The best thing about PeaZip is that it’s perfectly embedded in Windows File Explorer. You can even select which program commands show up in context menus and therefore create a perfect toolbox to suit your needs.

PeaZip supports all major formats, performs checksum integrity tests and is thoroughly documented. On the downside, there’s one feature you’ll miss: the ability to create RAR files.

With PeaZip you can compress and uncompress files in a variety of formats, though its interface may take you a while to master.

Download PeaZip 2.7.0 in Softonic

Download Accelerator Plus (DAP) is a download manager that increases download speeds by up to 300 percent. DAP searches for mirror sites that will most effectively serve your downloads, and features multi-server connections to for optimal utilization of dial-up or broadband connections.
DAP also automatically recovers from shutdowns, lost connections, and other errors. DAP is fully [...]

Ask anyone who’s used a Mac for a long period of time and they’ll tell you that Cocktail still remains one of the best all round admin tools out there.

Cocktail can do all your essential maintenance tasks from clearing your cache to controlling sleep times. There’s nothing new in Cocktail that you can’t do in Terminal but Cocktail makes it so much easier through its GUI. Many of it’s functions and tweaks will remain a mystery to basic users though – options such as whether to switch on or switch of journaling and the network options are aimed more at power users.

Nevertheless, for those that want more control over how their dock works, their startup sequence and other OS interface related issues, Cocktail gives you immense control. The Interface options are perhaps the most useful allowing you to select a range of different features such as Finder, Safari and Mail and tweak them to your own liking.

Some users will complain that what Cocktail does for a modest fee, other apps do for nothing but as an all round system maintenance tool, especially for power users, it’s one of the best out there.

Download Cocktail 4.5.1 in Softonic

If you haven’t installed Flip4Mac WMV on your Mac yet then how on earth have you survived without it?

Flip4Mac WMV is an essential collection of QuickTime components that allow you to play, import, and export Windows Media video and audio files on your Mac using your favorite QuickTime-based applications. Yes, like it or not, there’s no escaping Windows media content even if you have a Mac and Flip4Mac WMV is your best bet of viewing it.

Flip4Mac WMV plug-ins can be used with most QuickTime based applications, including QuickTime Player, iMovie, Final Cut Pro and more. For instance, this enables you to watch Windows Media using QuickTime player, play Windows Media using Safari Web Browser and import Windows Media for edit or conversion to other QuickTime formats. Unfortunately however, iMovie 08 and iMovie 09 are not currently supported.

Flip4Mac WMV is a virtually essential component for any Mac user who needs to watch Windows Media related content.

Download Flip4Mac WMV 2.3.0.11 Beta in Softonic

Joliclud is an Open Source, Linux-based OS designed specifically for netbook. Jolicloud combines an optimized version of Linux kernel with an innovative and cool interface.
This new OS can be installed in less than 15 minutes alongside your old Windows and all your data will be perfectly safe. Jolicloud allows users keep their data [...]

Undelete Plus is a quick and effective way to restore accidentally deleted files. It can also recover files thathave been emptied from the Recycle Bin, permanently deleted files within Windows using the Shift + Delete.
Undelete Plus works under Win 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista operating systems and is FREE Software for general non-commercial use. Undelete + is available [...]

If you’re a frequent traveler then keeping track of time zones or changing your clock manually is both inconvenient and a bit risky, especially if you set it wrong, aren’t aware if daylight saving rules apply etc.

If you’re a Firefox user, FoxClocks is an extension for Firefox, Thunderbird and Sunbird that displays world times in your statusbar or toolbar. You can customise it in any way you like such as by making clocks for specific regions turn green when it’s a sociable time to call people in that region. You can browse time zones by country, region or city but the important thing is to enable automatic updates which will ensure that you’ll always have the right time.

If you don’t like the format of the time in the statusbar, change it: choose from a set of useful standard formats, or create your own – custom formats are easy to create and very flexible. Probably the coolest feature of FoxClocks is the option to use Google Earth to take you to any location in its database (which however doesn’t cover every conceivable country in the World), right-click on it and it will open the location in Google Earth.

FoxClocks is a useful tool for anyone who travels a lot or simply wants to improve their geographical knowledge.

Download FoxClocks 2.5.35 in Softonic

Ccleaner is a freeware utility system optimization and privacy tool. Ccleaner will take care of a few of the important maintenance tasks that every computer user should carry out as regularly as possible to keep their systems in top shape.
CCleaner cleans any unnecessary and temporary files from your hard-drive and allowing Windows to run faster. [...]

MyDefrag is fully functional backup utility to make your harddisk faster. It Works for Windows 2000, 2003, XP, Vista, 2008, and for X64. This powerful degragmenter is fast, low overhead, with many optimization strategies, can handle floppies, USB disks, memory sticks, and anything else that looks like [...]