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The Last Password You’ll Have to Remember! LastPass brings all of your usernames and passwords together in one secure place, allows you to autologin to your favorite sites, makes shipping and billing forms a breeze to fill out and helps you manage your digital life.
Create Your Account for free!  – You can also subscribe to LastPass Premium for only $12 a year!


PDF-XChange Viewer FREE version – Those Wishing to View/Modify or perform simple editing of PDF files on their Windows PC’s now have a FREE alternative ! The PDF-XChange Viewer is smaller, faster and more feature rich than any other FREE PDF Reader/Viewer available. This version also allows users to try the extended functionality offered by the PDF-XChange Viewer ‘PRO’ in evaluation mode – for free.  Export PDF pages or entire files to any one of the supported Image formats including BMP, JPEG, TIFF, PNG and many more …
Note: For easiest install download


MediaMonkey – Is your music library a mess? Missing Album Art and other information? Scattered across various locations? Full of duplicates? Get MediaMonkey and get organized.


EASEUS Partition Master Home Edition is a FREE ALL-IN-ONE partition solution and disk management utility. It allows you to extend partition (especially for system drive), manage disk space easily, settle low disk space problem under Windows 2000/XP/Vista/Windows 7


Image your hard drive after a new install or before it fails, use Drive Snapshot. It’ll make an image of your drive and make it bootable. Then you can just restore that image right to your hard drive.


• If you have unintentionally deleted or formatted pictures, videos or sound files on your data carrier (memory card) or have pulled it out during a write operation, no matter – PC INSPECTOR™ smart recovery the software with which you can recover your holiday pictures in seconds after unintentional deletion or a system error. PC INSPECTOR™ File Recovery 4.x is so-called FREEWARE. This means that the software does not cost you a single penny.


HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows.


Download AUTORUNS, and run it, it’ll tell you what’s trying to run on startup.


Recuva (pronounced “recover”) is a freeware Windows utility to restore files that have been accidentally deleted from your computer.
Recuva comes in a portable version with no installer required.


Wizmo is an extremely useful “Windows Gizmo” I think it’s most usefull function for GorvesCG members is Wanlock. It disables and reinables “wireless zero config” service
Windows’ “Wireless Zero Configuration” service periodically drops and restarts wireless connections in a misguides attempt to check for a “better” access point to connect with. Wizmo’s “wanlock” command simply stops this service to prevent this annoying behavior. Once your machine is connected wirelessly, give the “wizmo wanlock” to “lock” Windows to the current access point and prevent those annoying disconnections.


Free Office Suite
The product is a multi-platform office productivity suite. It includes the key desktop applications, such as a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation manager, and drawing program, with a user interface and feature set similar to other office suites. Sophisticated and flexible, OpenOffice.org also works transparently with a variety of file formats, including those of Microsoft Office, and the vendor-neutral OpenDocument standard from OASIS.


Good hard drive cleaner Wants to get rid of old computer – Cannot do secure erase within Windows. Download Darik’s Boot and Nuke – Load on CD, floppy, or USB drive. Will erase to military specs


Tux Paint is a free, award-winning drawing program for children ages 3 to 12 (for example, preschool and K-6). It combines an easy-to-use interface, fun sound effects, and an encouraging cartoon mascot who guides children as they use the program.


The Sysinternals web site was created in 1996 by Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell to host their advanced system utilities and technical information. Whether you’re an IT Pro or a developer, you’ll find Sysinternals utilities to help you manage, troubleshoot and diagnose your Windows systems and applications.

 

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