CachemanXP is a Windows tuneup utility designed to improve the speed and stability of your computer by optimizing several caches, recovering RAM and fine tuning a number of system settings. Oneclick-Optimization makes it suitable for novice and intermediate users yet it is also powerful and versatile enough for computer experts. Backups of settings ensure that all user modifications can be reversed with a single click.

-- CachemanXP requires Windows 2000/2003 or XP/XP64 to run, uses minimal resources and virtually no CPU time. The help file includes a screenshot based system performance guide. CachemanXP is the successor of Cacheman.

Unlike other tuneup utilities, CachemanXP runs as a system service, minimizing resource usage and tweaking Windows at system-level.


-- CachemanXP will backup your system settings (so you can always revert any changes!). The Auto-Optimize feature will examine your system and tweak it for best performance. With one click of a button! From version 1.60 on Auto-Optimize tweaks also the DNS Cache for improved Network and Internet performance.




System Tweaks

CachemanXP allows you to tweak a number of system settings.

Here is an example of a system tweak:
Most Windows users know and dread this Automatic Updates dialog.
In the middle of your work or entertainment session Windows can display this dialog. Since you want to go on with your work, you click on Restart later.
But Windows will not leave you alone. The dialog will reappear every 5 minutes, no matter what. It gets even worse, it will stay on top of all other programs, in some cases even in front of a movie you are watching.
If you use CachemanXP to tweak your system, you can prevent this dialog from showing up and restart your system when you are done with your work.

The tweak lets you only decide when to restart your system, the updates will still be installed!

With two clicks in CachemanXP you can get rid of this dialog for ever.

Go to the Tweaks tab.

And turn on these two check boxes.

Process List functions

-- CachemanXP displays a list of loaded Windows processes (Applications and System Services) along with detailed information including RAM usage.
-- If a process consumes more than 10% CPU Time the process name is displayed in blue color, if a process consumes more than 30% of CPU Time the process name is displayed in red.
-- You can sort the process list by clicking on any of the column headers. You can also change the display order by drag and dropping column headers.
-- If you doubleclick on a process with a window. CachemanXP will bring the window to front.
-- The most important CachemanXP process feature is Kill Process.

What is this function for?

From time to time a Windows program can crash and become non responding. It completely stops to react to user input. In bad cases it can slow down your whole system and even stop other programs from working.
When this happens, you usually show the Task Manager and try to end it.

> Show window: brings the main window of the selected process to front
> Open folder: opens the folder of the process executable with Explorer
> Lower RAM usage: temporarily moves the selected process from RAM to Paging File
> End Process: closes the main window of the selected application (normal exit)
> Kill Process: eliminates the selected process from memory, use only on crashed applications or processes without a window
> Set Priority: sets the level of CPU Priority of the selected process, processes with higher Priority will get more CPU time and run faster, but slow down reaction time of other processes

RAM-Recovery

>> How does it work?
RAM-Recovery functionality is already included in Windows. You may ask yourself why there are so many programs that offer this feature. There is no magic behind this function. Inactive or crashed programs are simply moved from your physical memory (RAM) to a space on your Hard Drive called the Paging File (=Swap File).

>> If Windows does recover RAM already, why bother?
As an example imagine a computer with 1024 MBytes of RAM. After booting up you have 700 MBytes free RAM left. You launch several larger applications, work with them and free RAM goes constantly down. After hours there is only 50 MBytes of free memory left. Then you start loading a data file that needs 80 MBytes of RAM. Now the Windows RAM recovery feature becomes active, programs that have not been used for a longer time are moved out to the Paging File in order to make room for 80 MBytes of data. This process consumes both CPU time and causes disk activity - it creates a slow down. Preferably you would like to work with the data immediately, not wait until Windows makes room for it. Instead your cursor becomes a hourglass and you have to wait.

>> What does CachemanXP differently?
CachemanXP will not wait with the recovery until your system runs completely out of RAM. You can configure at which state (below value) CachemanXP should perform the recovery process. The postpone recovery on high system activity option ensures that no recovery happens if you are working on an important task and do not want to be disturbed. CachemanXP will wait until the job is done and perform the recovery thereafter. Since the recovery happens earlier as usual your system will have enough RAM available a much longer time.

>> How does this CachemanXP feature differ from RAM-Recovery in other programs?
Almost all RAM-Recovery programs do more harm than good.
It makes no sense to recover memory from programs if there is still free RAM available. You computer memory SHOULD be used to the maximum extend.

Other Ram-Utilities recover very frequently (constant disk activity). Too much data gets moved to the Paging File (so when the user switches programs there are major slow downs) and often the recovery is executed at a time when the user does something important and CPU consuming, slowing down all system operations.
CachemanXP ensures that..

-- no recovery happens if the system has still a lot of free RAM left (below setting)
-- long pauses between recovery operations (pause setting)
-- the recovery will be postponed if CPU intensive applications (like video editing software or a fullscreen game) are working
-- active programs are not moved to the Paging File

Tray Icons

-- The Tray Icons belong to the CachemanXP system service (CachemanXP.exe). The service uses minimal resources (usually around 1 MByte) and virtually no CPU time.
-- The main purposes of this system service are to control the File Cache, recover RAM and display system information (configurable in the Options tab). Since it is a system service it works also if no user is logged in.
-- If you double click one of the Icons, the service will launch the CachemanXP settings window (which is an independent application that communicates with the service).

Download : CachemanXP v1.6.0.12 (1.47MB)

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Audiobook Recorder is easy to use text to audiobook (MP3) converting software. Also it can read any text using different human voices. The only text-to-speech software with unique 'Smart Pause' feature that dramatically improves reading quality.

-- Aloud text reading with different voices and languages.
-- Converting text to audio files (*.WAV, *.MP3) with high speed.
-- 'Smart Pause' unique feature can detect situation when pause is required, but no punctuation mark exists between words (e.g. in Contents).
-- Adjustable speech parameters: speed and volume.
-- Opens MS Word (.DOC), hypertext (.HTML) and plain text (.TXT) files.
-- Opens big-sized files.
-- Speakable text size almost unlimited.


Download : AudioBook Recorder v1.5.0.11 (2.52MB)

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TextPad® 5.1 is a powerful, general purpose editor for plain text files. Easy to use, with all the features a power user requires.

-- TextPad® is designed to provide the power and functionality to satisfy the most demanding text editing requirements. It can edit files up to the limits of virtual memory, and it will work with the 32-bit and 64-bit editions of Windows® 2000, Server 2003, XP and Vista.

-- TextPad® has been implemented according to the Windows XP user interface guidelines, so great attention has been paid to making it easy for both beginners and experienced users. In-context help is available for all commands, and in-context menus pop-up with the right mouse button. The Windows multiple document interface allows multiple files to be edited simultaneously, with up to 2 views on each file. Text can be dragged and dropped between files.


In addition to the usual cut and paste capabilities, you can correct the most common typing errors with commands to change case, and transpose words, characters and lines. Other commands let you indent blocks of text, split or join lines, and insert whole files. Any change can be undone or redone, right back to the first one made. Visible bookmarks can be put on lines, and edit commands can be applied to lines with bookmarks.

> Frequently used combinations of commands can be saved as keystroke macros, and the spelling checker has dictionaries for 10 languages.
> It also has a customizable tools menu, and integral file compare and search commands, with hypertext jumps from the matched text to the corresponding line in the source file (ideal for integrating compilers).




Features

-- Huge files can be edited, up to the limits of virtual memory. See Specifications for the actual limits.
-- Supports Universal Naming Convention (UNC) style names, and long file names with spaces.
-- CUA compliant keyboard commands.
-- English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese and Spanish user interfaces.
-- A spelling checker with dictionaries in 10 languages.
-- Multiple files can be simultaneously edited, with up to 2 views per file.
-- Warm Start feature lets you restart exactly where you left off.
-- In addition to the usual cut, copy and paste capabilities, selected text can be case shifted and block indented, and characters, words and lines can be transposed. Cut and copied text can be appended to the clipboard, as well as replacing its contents.
-- Text can be automatically word-wrapped at the margin, or at a specified column, if it does not fit on a line. In this mode, text can be split into separate lines where wrapping occurs, or lines can be intelligently joined, preserving paragraphs.
-- OLE2 drag and drop editing for copying and moving text between documents.
-- Unlimited undo/redo capability. The undo buffer can be optionally cleared when a file is saved, or by using the Mark Clean command.
-- Block (column) selection mode, and visible display of tabs and spaces.
-- A keystroke macro recorder, with up to 16 active macros.
-- Sorting, using up to 3 keys.
-- Text can be automatically aligned and indented, relative to the previous line, to aid block indentation.
-- The right mouse button pops up an in-context menu.
-- The cursor can be constrained to the text, or can be positioned freely in the document view.
-- Toolbar with fly-by usage hints, and an active status bar.
-- A powerful search/replace engine using UNIX-style regular expressions, with the power of editor macros. Sets of files in a directory tree can be searched, and text can be replaced in all open documents at once.
-- Visible bookmarks can be placed on individual lines, and on all occurrences of a search pattern. Bookmarked lines can be cut, copied or deleted.
-- A built in file manager for fast file copying, renaming, deleting etc.
-- Print previewing, and printing with customizable headers/footers and page breaks.
-- Viewer for binary files using a hexadecimal display format.
-- Built in file comparison utility, and up to 16 user-defined tools with argument macros.
-- Hypertext links from file search and user tool output to the relevant source line.
-- DDE interface to other tools, such as MS Visual C++. The editor detects when an open file has been modified by another tool, and prompts you to reopen it.

Specifications
TextPad 5 is supported on Windows 2000 (SP4), Server 2003, and the 32-bit and 64-bit editions of XP and Vista.
TextPad 4 is supported on Windows 95, 98, 2000 (SP4), Server 2003, and 32-bit editions of XP.
The Japanese edition requires a Japanese edition of MS Windows, with the Japanese locale installed.
Conforms to the Microsoft Windows Guidelines for Accessible Software Design recommendations.
It can handle file sizes up to the largest contiguous chunk of virtual memory.
The number of concurrent edits is limited by available Windows resources.
Supports Universal Naming Convention (UNC) style, and long file names with spaces.
16-bit Unicode, UTF-8 and 8-bit text files with single and double byte characters can be edited.
DOS, UNIX, Macintosh, Netscape and mixed end of line characters are supported.
Text can be in either the ANSI (Windows) or OEM (DOS) code sets.
Each document has a single MDI window with up to 4 views.
The full range of fonts installed in MS Windows are supported.
Up to 32 tab stops can be defined, along with a default tab spacing, and an indent size.
Up to 16 (user configurable) most recently used files are listed on the File menu.
Up to 64 user-defined commands can be added to the Tools menu.
Up to 64 keystroke macros can be added to the Macros menu.

Download : TextPad v5.10 (2.39MB)
Mirror : TextPad v5.10 (2.39MB)

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PowerCmd is a modern and sleek Windows Command Prompt Replacement that allows you to run multiple consoles within a single tabbed window. You can easily organize console windows, use Windows style text editing behavior, auto-save logs, highlight keywords, configure font and colors, customize a toolbar for frequently used commands or tools, shift to a very nice full screen mode, and get much more functionalities.
With much more powerful user interface than Windows Command Prompt, PowerCmd makes the console convenient and friendly.


Features:

Organize command line windows

Main view is split with specified layouts. Each view represents a tabbed control, which organize multiple command line windows with associated tabs. The whole main window can be minimized to a system tray icon (in the notification area of the taskbar).
PowerCmd allows you to view command line windows in a very nice full screen mode.

Integrate to Shell (Command Prompt Here)

PowerCmd adds a "PowerCmd" context menu option on file system folders, giving you a quick way to open a command prompt window pointing at the selected folder from Explorer right click context menu. A new instance of PowerCmd will be created to carry the tabbed prompt window. If you don't allow mulitple instances, the new command prompt window will be a tab in exisiting PowerCmd instance.

Enhanced Windows style text editing behavior

PowerCmd supports standard generic text editing behavior. You can cut, copy and paste using the conventional Windows shortcuts, drag and drop text within PowerCmd. (the left part on the left screenshot)
PowerCmd still supports traditional column selection mode of the prompt window when ALT key pressed. (the right part on the left screenshot)

Filtered command prompt history

You can use the up and down arrows to recall commands from history buffer. F7 and F8, the undocumented command prompt tips, are better if you want to re-execute a particular command. F7 brings up a history window with numbers, a command can be selected by the arrow keys and then executed by pressing Enter or mouse double click. Ctrl+Enter or Ctrl + double click puts the command to current command line but not executes it. F8 brings up the history window with filter. The listed commands are all start with the filter.

Auto Save Logs

To help prevent loss of your work, PowerCmd allows you to save the output of consoles automatically. This capability doesn't impact your interactive operations on consoles, but can protect your data if console or your computer unexpectedly quits, and can provide you the history logs of consoles conveniently.

Highlight keywords on a console and Word Find Buttons

PowerCmd search toolbar puts a search box for consoles, making it easier than ever to find anything you want on a console.

Quick Launch Toolbar

PowerCmd allows you to customize a toolbar for quick launching applications, batch scripts and command prompt commands, which can be launched to current console, start a new one or even not in a console.
With shortcut key you can quickly input an command, e.g. to get your ip address within current console.

Watch Command Prompt Environment Variables

Environment variables have long been used in computer operating systems. To display environment variables, check "Watch Environment Variables" under "view" menu. PowerCmd allows you to change environment variables from the watch window directly.
From the header context menu, you can "Refresh" current variables, or save all environment variables and reload them later.
You may be able to find undocumented environment variables that you never see them before, such as "=U:" on the left image. "=U:" is the working directory of volume U if you have ever changed the working directory of that volume.

Auto Completion

AutoCompletion makes files under current directory easily accessible. You can display a list of files using TAB key. The system icon for files is displayed before the file names. When a file name from the list is selected, you can press TAB or ENTER to insert that file name into your command line. You can also input "", "..", or blackslash, and easily seek files or directories on other folders.
PowerCmd has a econdary autocompletion list: the history parameters list for each command. User will be able to switch between the first and secondary level of lists by pressing CTRL key.

Configurable

- Set start directory
- View/Hide line numbers
- Enable/Disable word wrap
- Rule for log file name when enable auto-save
- Behavior of triggering Auto-Completion
- Customized behavior when double clicking on tab (start, exit and etc.)
- Set font face and size, font color and background color
- Automatically outlining according to your settings
- Allow/Disallow multiple instances
- Set transparency

Download : PowerCmd 1.6.0112 (1.85MB)

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Universal Viewer (ATViewer) is an advanced file viewer with wide range of formats supported. Implemented view modes and corresponding file formats are:
>> Text, Binary, Hex, Unicode: any files, of unlimited size (even 4Gb+ sizes are allowed)
RTF/UTF-8: RTF and UTF-8 encoded texts
Image: all general graphics formats: BMP JPG GIF PNG TGA TIFF... plus all formats supported by IrfanView/XnView external viewers
Multimedia: all formats supported by MS Windows Media Player: AVI MPG WMV MP3...
Internet: all formats supported by MS Internet Explorer: HTML XML DOC XLS...
Plugins: all formats supported by Total Commander Lister plugins

Application is fully Unicode-compatible and can be integrated into Windows Explorer's context menu, so there is no problem to call it from anywhere in Explorer: right-click a file and select the "Universal Viewer" item. It can also be integrated into other popular file managers.


Generally, Universal Viewer is an application similar to Total Commander Lister. But, comparing to Lister, it has some major advantages:

> Full support for Unicode filenames
> Built-in functions of several popular plugins: images/multimedia/web-pages view
> Toolbar, status bar, other interface improvements
> Auto-reloading of file on changing, "Follow tail" option
> Combined Unicode/Hex mode (call Unicode mode twice)
> More modern RegEx search library

In the Lister plugins section you will find the list of rather good Lister plugins to use in conjunction with UV. These plugins are developed by 3rd parties and are not included into UV installation.

System requirements:
Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP/Vista
Additional requirements: MS Internet Explorer 4.0+

Download : Universal Viewer Pro v3.0.0.0

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Macromedia Shockwave Player lets you enjoy multimedia games, learning applications, and product demonstrations on the Web using exciting new 3D technology.

Download : Adobe Shockwave Player 10.3.0.024 (5.44 MB)

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AnyDVD is a driver, which unprotects DVD-Movies automatically in the background. This DVD appears unprotected and region code free for all applications and the Windows operating system as well. With AnyDVD's help copy tools like CloneDVD, Pinnacle Instant Copy, InterVideo DVD-Copy, etc. are able to copy CSS protected Movies. With the help of AnyDVD you can watch movies with non matching region codes with every DVD Player Software you like! AnyDVD decrypts not just DVDs: AnyDVD allows you also to play, copy and rip protected Audio CDs! But AnyDVD does much more, of course. For example, it is possible to control the rotational speed of your DVD drive, so you can watch DVDs on your PC with far less noise!


Download : AnyDVD & AnyDVD HD v6.3.1.3 Beta

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Kaspersky Lab represents a new generation platform for creating applications specifically designated for complex protection of personal computers and workstations.

Download : Kaspersky Anti-Virus 8.0.0.204 Beta (23.8 MB)
Download : Kaspersky Internet Security 8.0.0.204 Beta (26.8 MB)

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