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

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

RegASSASSIN V1.03

RegASSASSIN helps remove stubborn registry keys by automatically resetting the key's permissions and then deleting it.

Writes settings to: Windows registry. On first run, it asks you to accept the license and writes a flag in the registry. I am assuming you are not going to run this on a daily basis, but only during rare moments, so I am accepting it as portable.

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

Stealth: No

License: Freeware

System Requirements: Win2K / WinXP / Vista

TCPView V2.53

TCPView gives a detailed listing of all TCP and UDP endpoints on your system, including the local and remote addresses and state of TCP connections. On Windows NT, 2000 and XP TCPView also reports the name of the process that owns the endpoint. TCPView provides a more informative and conveniently presented subset of the Netstat program that ships with Windows.

Writes settings to: Windows registry

How to extract: Download the ZIP file and extract to any folder of your choice. Launch Tcpview.exe.

Stealth: No

License: Freeware

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

Autoruns V9.02

Autoruns shows you which programs are configured to run during system bootup or login, and shows you the entries in the order Windows processes them. These programs include ones in your startup folder, Run, RunOnce, and other Registry keys. You can configure Autoruns to show other locations, including Explorer shell extensions, toolbars, browser helper objects, Winlogon notifications, auto-start services, and much more. Autoruns goes way beyond the MSConfig utility bundled with Windows Me and XP.

Writes settings to: Windows registry

How to extract: Download the ZIP file and extract all files except autorunsc.exe to a folder of your choice. Launch autoruns.exe.

Stealth: No

Unicode support: No

License: Freeware

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

Xpadder V2008.1

Xpadder assigns keystrokes to your gamepad, giving you the ability to use your gamepad with any application you want (including older games with poor or no gamepad support such as DOS games). It also supports multiple gamepads, so playing multiplayer games with individual gamepads is a breeze. Combine this program's powerful features with its intuitive design and the result is an application that no one owning a gamepad should be without.

Writes settings to: Application folder, though some editing of the .ini file is necessary for complete portability.

How to extract: Download the zip package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch the program by double-clicking XPadder.exe. Run the application and close it, then edit the Xpadder.ini file located in the application's folder and replace all paths with relative equivalents. This will also be necessary if new controllers are added, as recent controllers and multiple controllers will be saved with absolute paths. Hopefully in a future version relative paths can be an optional default.

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

License: Free for personal use

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

eToolz V3.2.2

eToolz includes some of the most important networking tools like NS-Lookup, Ping, TraceRoute and Whois. It allows also to check E-mail addresses (MX-Server) and to search/convert domain names showing DNS entries (A, PTR, NS, SOA). eToolz supports also international domain names.

Note: the application starts in German, but you can immediately focus the "Sprache / Language" option in the window.

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Writes settings to: Application folder

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

Stealth: Yes

License: Freeware

System Requirements: Win2K / WinXP

CurrPorts V1.32

CurrPorts displays the list of all currently opened TCP/IP and UDP ports on your local computer. For each port in the list, information about the process that opened the port is also displayed, including the process name, full path of the process, version information of the process (product name, file description, and so on), the time that the process was created, and the user that created it.

In addition, CurrPorts allows you to close unwanted TCP connections, kill the process that opened the ports, and save the TCP/UDP ports information to HTML file , XML file, or to tab-delimited text file.

CurrPorts also automatically mark with pink color suspicious TCP/UDP ports owned by unidentified applications (Applications without version information and icons).

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Writes settings to: Application folder

How to extract: Download the full version ZIP package and extract to any folder of your choice. Launch the program by double-clicking on cports.exe.

Stealth: Yes

License: Freeware

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

PC Decrapifier V1.8.8

PC Decrapifier helps you remove many of the common trialware and crapware found on many of the PCs from big name OEMs. you may select exactly which items to be removed.

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Writes settings to: None. It may create a working file C:\pc-decrap-reg.txt, which you can delete after running the program.

How to extract: Download PC-Decrapifier-1.8.8.exe and launch.

Stealth: No

License: Free for personal use

System Requirements: WinXP / Vista

JoyToKey V3.7.4

JoyToKey is a keyboard and mouse input emulator for gamepads. Or, in other words, it allows you to bind keyboard keystrokes and mouse movements/clicks to your gamepad buttons. This is extremely useful for games that do not support gamepads as well as using your gamepad to control various other functions such as internet browsing, controlling media players and so on.

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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 JoyToKey.exe.

License: Freeware

System Requirements: Win2K / WinXP