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Defraggler is one of the best desfragmentation programs out there. The software allows you to defrag your entire hard drive, or individual files – unique in the industry. This compact and portable supports Windows applicationNTFS and FAT32 file systems. Defraggler is a easy way to improve your computer perfomance; and it’s free
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InfraRecorder is an easy to use CD and DVD burner application. It supports virtually all different formats including rewritable disc, multi-session disc and dual-layer DVDs. Also audio CDs can be created with just a few simple drag’n drops in InfraRecorder.
Other important features include disc copying, audio cd ripping and ISO generation and burning (image [...]

Paint.NET is a free, powerful image editing software that uses a tabbed document interface. The tabs display a live thumbnail of the image instead of a text description. This makes navigation very simple and fast.  Paint.NET to start up quickly and be responsive to every mouse click.
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Nero 9 Lite, a free basic version of the burning software is available for Free Download.  Nero 9 offers you the chance to enjoy Nero’s world-renowned data disc burning and copying features for an unlimited time, for free.
Nero 9 lite includes  basic data burning and copying capabilities for your CDs and DVDs.
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Have you felt helpless on finding the device drivers when they are corrupted or after re-installing your operating system? You are not accessible to printer, scanner, USB device, DVD player or new devices, getting warning messages that the computer does not recognize the devices. What’s worse, you are troubled with the blue screen, system crashing [...]

Blue screens of death are a bit frightening, because they usually appear without prior notice and most importantly, because it’s hard to know what they really mean.

With BlueScreenView that last issue can be easily solved. This little app recovers the dump file created by any blue screen of death you’ve had lately and displays is again, so that you can look into the error message and look for possible solutions on Google.

BlueScreenView doesn’t require installation and is pretty straightforward – which is good, since it doesn’t include any documentation. The program can display the saved dump files as drivers list or just as the original blue screen, and also generate a report in HTML with all the info displayed on the interface.

If you’re getting frequent blue screens of death, BlueScreenView can help you find the solution by displaying those error messages on a more user-friendly interface.

Download BlueScreenView 1.11 in Softonic

Download Sharepod 3.9.4 Preview 7 in Softonic

Sometimes having a simple tool that’s specifically designed for a certain function is better than dealing with a massive application.

The guys over at Nirsoft have specialized in creating simple tools like this, and have managed to produce a impressive collection of standalone, highly efficient tools that get straight to the point and can help you solve many different tasks. The only problem is that up until now, you had to manually choose the ones you wanted to download right on the developer’s website.

Luckily you can now use NirSoft Installer, a special tool that shows the list of all available Nirsoft apps and lets you choose which ones you want to download and install. The program includes several ready-made filters – like the possibility of installing only Windows 95/98 programs only – but also lets you create a custom selection.

Once you have chosen a few apps, NirSoft Installer will take care of the job. The only drawback to this handy utility is the lack of data about the NirSoft tools: either you already know them, or you’ll have to check the developer’s site for more information about what each individual tool does.

If you’re a fan of NirSoft utilities, you’ll love this piece of software: an automatic installer for your favorite NirSoft tools.

Download NirSoft Installer 1.32 in Softonic

As far as free PDF converters go, doPDF is one of the best out there saving you tons of cash on Adobe’s patented version and whatsmore, doing it in half the time.

The program is remarkably simple to use. Just open a document in Microsoft Word, WordPad, NotePad or practically any other text editing software, choose Print and select doPDF. The program asks you where to save the PDF file and when finished, the PDF file will be automatically opened in your default PDF viewer. This process takes less than a minute and you’ll be amazed at how accurate the PDF is. Occasionally, it can suffer with unusually formatted text and images and so they won’t come-out exactly as you want but this can be remedied.

Unfortunately, there’s also no option to print large web pages (such as long news articles or forum pages) without dividing it into separate pages so you’ll end up with lines dividing the article up throughout your PDF documents. The other slight downside is that it seems the PDF files it creates can be rather large although if you ZIP them up, this is not much of an issue.

An excellent PDF converter that’s fast, easy to use and serves as more than an adequate replacement for Adobe’s software.

Download doPDF 6.3.309 in Softonic

We should all avoid printing web pages unless it’s absolutely necessary. But if you do have to print one, use Printee and try at least to save paper and ink.

Printee is an Internet Explorer plug-in that adds a new button to the browser’s interface and displays a new toolbar when you click it. This toolbar lets you remove certain elements from the web page you’re about to print – images, banners, superfluous text – that you don’t really need to print and would only waste paper and ink.

The buttons included in Printee let you remove the background, get rid of all the images on the page, change text size, adjust the page’s width and choose between different page styles. Also, if you click the ‘Mode’ button, you can manually select which elements of the page you want to keep, and which ones you want to get rid of.

Before actually sending the job to your printer, Printee lets you preview the page so that you get an idea of how it’ll look – and how much paper and ink you’re saving!

Printee is a nice browser plug-in that lets you save paper and ink by printing only those areas on a web page that are relevant. Too bad it only works with Internet Explorer.

Download Printee 1.6.0.1 (Internet Explorer) in Softonic

If Windows already features a tool to uninstall programs, why should you install a third-party tool for that same purpose? Easy: because with some of them, like KUninstall, you get extra features the Windows default uninstaller doesn’t include.

After extracting the program anywhere on your hard drive, KUninstall scans the system and displays a list with all installed applications. A right-click on any of these entries will reveal a context menu from which you can uninstall the selected app and view detailed information about it, among other options.

Another nice feature in KUninstall is the ability to identify any running process and perform different tasks with it. Simply drag the crosshair icon on top of any window or app and KUninstall will display a message with the process’s complete path and buttons to uninstall, locate or kill the process.

Besides not requiring installation, KUninstall is also much faster than the Windows default uninstaller and, as you can see, includes interesting functions that make it well worth a try.

With KUninstall you can not only remove unwanted apps from your system, but also obtain more information about them.

Download KUninstall 0.3 in Softonic

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

iTunes has become one of the most widely spread music managers today. The release of the iPhone and the new iPod models has only contributed to increase this popularity, thanks to the seamless synchronization of contents between the computer and your device.

Now with iTunes 9, Apple continues to develop and improve this music software masterpiece with fresh new features that enable users to make the most of their multimedia library.

Managing your iTunes library is a piece of cake. You can view extended information about each track, edit their tags and rate them. Also, iTunes lets you comfortably browse through your library with the amazing Cover Flow system or the newly implemented grid view, which displays cover artwork sorted by album, artist, genre or composer. And for those of you who work in a LAN environment, the great news is that you can share your music libraries with your network mates. If your family at home all have iTunes, you can activate Home Sharing, which allows you to combine your libraries, and keep them all up to date with new purchases and added music.

One thing I particularly like of iTunes as music manager is its ability to create playlists. The Smart Playlist tool enables you to create almost any kind of playlist based on just about any criteria you set: artist, genre, date added, star rating or even the number of times you’ve played each song. Another great playlist is the so called Party Shuffle, which comes in very handy when you invite some friends over to your place. You can then leave iTunes working as a DJ and play music on its own, but if you drop by the PC at any time, you can freely add more songs to the list or rearrange them in any way.

Regarding playlists, iTunes 8 includes now an exciting new feature called Genius. Just like other popular music sharing tools, Genius learns from the tracks you play on iTunes and recommends you similar songs, either from your own library or from the iTunes Store. In this way you can easily build thematic playlists by grouping similar songs, and also meet new bands you may not know about. The only drawback is that Genius needs to gather information about your music library and send it over to Apple in order to work, something that privacy freaks won’t be happy about.

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However, if there’s something where iTunes is not perfect yet, that’s the player function. You may disagree here, but I think the iTunes player falls too short, especially when compared to its music manager side. It does have some interesting features, like the Smart shuffle function and crossfading playback, but I still find it too simple. I also missed the ability to control the player from anywhere with global hotkeys, which is great if you listen to music while you’re working on the PC with other apps. Fortunately there are some plug-ins that cover this need.

In all, despite these slight flaws, iTunes is probably the best choice to manage your music collection – and that includes Windows users.

Download iTunes 9.0.1 in Softonic

Stealing the crown from WinZip, the previously undisputed king of file compression apps, WinRAR is a must-have in any modern-day PC toolkit. The application not only includes support for extracting virtually any kind of file compression format, it also boasts a no-nonsense approach to reducing file sizes.

Some will argue that the application isn’t as quick as WinZip at compressing files. However, for the small lag in time difference, you end up with a significantly smaller archived file at the end of the process with WinRAR. What’s more, the application allows you to save files into both ZIP and RAR formats, with a multitude of options for speeding up compression times, or reducing file sizes at the expense of a few more seconds.

Although many newcomers might be put off by the sheer range of features and settings within the program, the interface doesn’t take long to get accustomed to, and if you’re still really stuck there’s a simple wizard-based system that walks you through the process of extracting or compressing. All this adds up to make WinRAR a dependable utility that performs better than any other tool in its class.

Boasting more compression options, higher compression rates and smaller file sizes than WinZip, WinRAR is now the undisputed market leader in file compression.

Download WinRAR 3.90 in Softonic

Printing CD and DVD covers can be a bit tricky: you need to calculate sizes, margins and proportions properly if you want them to come out right and fit the correspondent case.

Luckily you can now count on NodeSoft Cover Printer to help you with this task. This little application makes cover printer much easier by providing you with the necessary templates, print preview and even crop marks and lines so that you achieve a perfect result.

NodeSoft Cover Printer doesn’t require installation and is very easy to use. The program includes templates for CD and DVD with a few possible variations, and can extract front and back images from full covers automatically.

Bear in mind though that NodeSoft Cover Printer doesn’t actually include any covers, nor does it let you download them from the Internet; you’ll have to do that on your web browser by yourself.

NodeSoft Cover Printer helps you print the perfect covers for your CD and DVD.

Download NodeSoft Cover Printer 1.0.0.1 in Softonic