UK's Kalender V2.1.5

UK's Kalender is a personal calendar that sits in the system tray and reminds you of upcoming events or deadlines. Events can be displayed in weekly, fortnightly, monthly or yearly view. They can also be organized into different categories with their own settings. Documents or programs can be attached to an event so that they are automatically launched when the event fires. Remarkably it allows to share the calendar in a network (Multiuser).

Writes settings to: Application folder

How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch the program by double-clicking on Kalender.exe.

License: Freeware

System Requirements: Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP

THG Task Assignment Manager V1.0

THG Task Assignment Manager is an invaluable utility that allows you to assign processor affinity to currently open applications and, more importantly, create profiles that will automatically set processor affinities for you in the future. Note that you must have this program running for the affinity to be set. This application is an absolute must for anyone with dual-core or quad-core systems, especially those who enjoy games that suffer without a proper affinity setting.

Writes settings to: Application Folder

How to extract: Download the zip package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch the program by double-clicking TaskAssign.exe.

License: Freeware

System Requirements: Win2K / WinXP / Vista

foobar2000 V0.9.5

Foobar2000 is an audio player with low memory footprint and native support for several popular audio formats, including MP1, MP2, MP3, MP4, MPC, AAC, OGG, WAV, AIFF, AU, SND, CDDA etc. It has built-in tagging functions and ReplayGain support. The playlist display and keyboard shortcuts are both highly customizable.

Note: V0.9.5 no longer supports Win2k, so make sure you take this into account when deciding whether to update to the latest version.

Writes settings to: Application folder

How to extract: Download the installer and install to the default folder. Then copy all files (except uninstall.exe and user_profiles_enabled)to a folder of your choice. Finally, uninstall the program. Launch foobar2000.exe.

Stealth: Yes

Path portability: Requires manual entry of relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc)

Unicode support: Yes

License: Freeware

System Requirements: WinXP / Vista

Free Audio Extractor V1.1.8

AoA Audio Extractor allows you to extract audio/sound or background music from video files. It supports extraction from AVI, MPEG, MPG, FLV (Flash Video), DAT, WMV, MOV, MP4, 3GP video files and exporting the audio as MP3, WAV and AC3 audio files. It can also be used to save any portion of the audio of a video file.

Writes settings to: Application folder

How to extract: Download the installer and extract to a folder of your choice. The application files are located in the {app} subfolder. Launch AoAAudioExtractor.exe.

Stealth: No

Unicode support: No

License: Freeware

System Requirements: Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista

Sylpheed V2.4.8

Sylpheed is a fast email and news client, with support for SMTP, POP3, IMAP4 and NNTP. It handles multiple mail accounts, threaded display, junk mail filtering, Security options (GnuPG, SSL/TLSv1), GPG integration, search, etc.

Writes settings to: Application folder

How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Create an empty subfolder called profile in that folder, and launch the program using "sylpheed.exe --configdir profile".

Stealth: Yes

Unicode support: Yes

License: Freeware/Open Source

System Requirements: Win2K / WinXP / Vista

IECookiesView V1.71

IECookiesView is a small utility that displays the details of all cookies that Internet Explorer stores on your computer, view and search through them, deleting the unwanted cookies etc.

Writes settings to: Windows registry. I am accepting this as portable because it can be used to quickly locate and remove unwanted cookies in a crunch. Be warned that all UI settings are written to the registry, so any UI configuration you make is reset when you run the app on a different machine.

How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch iecv.exe.

Stealth: No

License: Freeware

System Requirements: Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP

RegScanner V1.61

RegScanner scans the Windows registry for values that match a specific search criteria and displays them in one single list for editing and viewing. No longer do you have to press F3 indefinitely to locate the right value. The list can also be exported into a .REG file that can be used in RegEdit.

Writes settings to: Application folder

How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch RegScanner.exe.

Stealth: Yes

License: Freeware

System Requirements: Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP

KMPlayer V2.9.3

KMPlayer is a audio/video player that supports a wide range of file formats, including AVI, MKV, MPEG, OGM, MP4, ASF etc. without any additional codecs installed. It also has full VCD/DVD playback functionality. In addition, it is able to play incomplete/damaged AVI files, or media files that are locked while downloading or sharing.

Writes settings to: Application folder

Dependencies: DirectX V9

How to extract: Download the self-extracting EXE and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch KMPlayer.exe. Then bring up the "Preferences" window, click on "General", and check "Store Settings to KMPcfg.ini". Alternatively, before running the program, create a file called KMPCfg.ini in the EXE folder with these lines of text:

[\Software\KMPlayer\KMP2.0\OptionArea]
ConfigUseIni=int:1

Stealth: No

Unicode support: Yes

License: Freeware

System Requirements: Win2K / WinXP

cdrtools Frontend V1.3

cdrtools Frontend is a GUI frontend for the command-line based cdrtools for authoring CDs. It supports the creation of data, audio and video CD (including data and video DVD).

Writes settings to: Application folder

How to extract: Download the self-extracting cdrtfe portable package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch cdrtfe.exe.

Stealth: Yes

Unicode support: No

License: Freeware/Open Source

System Requirements: Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP

DPWipe V1.0.4

DPWipe is a tiny drag-and-drop secure wiper for files and folders. It supports the following wiping methods: normal delete (not secure); single overwrite; DoD wipe (US Department of Defense 5220.22 compliant wiping); Gutmann's method (35-pass wiping).

Writes settings to: None

How to extract: Download the installer and extract to a folder of your choice. Delete $PLUGINSDIR and [NSIS].nsi. Launch DPWIPER.exe.

Stealth: Yes

Unicode support: No

License: Freeware

System Requirements: Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP