Bob Helmer

Booting Windows From A Usb Drive According to the author, "Microsoft denies that booting Windows off a USB drive works To put a long story short, this is exactly what I do now. However, it took me significant time to figure out all the painful ... little problems, and I was not fully happy with the current official guide by Dietmar (no pun, he was the first to make ANYthing public). I wanted an easy guide that allows creating a modified version of the Windows XP CD, for painless and transparent installation to as many systems as you want. This page is the result of my work. Have fun! http://www. ... (view more)

Mem Test MemTest is a RAM reliability tester that runs under Windows. It evaluates the ability of your computer's memory to store and retrieve data accurately. A correctly functioning computer should be able to do both these tasks with 100% accuracy ... day in and day out. A computer that fails these tests, perhaps because of old hardware, damaged hardware, or poorly configured hardware, will be less stable and crash more often. Even worse, it will become even less stable over time as corrupted data is written to your hard disk. By running MemTest you can ensure that your computer's RAM is ... (view more)

Dk Ruler DKRuler is a sizable drag and drop horizontal, vertical and translucent ruler for your computer's desktop. DKRuler stays on top of all applications and file system windows. http://www.dkpcode.com/ Emavi EmAvi is software to edit the frames ... of AVI animation files. Text, shapes and lines can be added to the frames of the animation. The thickness of lines can be changed and shapes can be filled with color. The font and color of text can be changed as well as the color of shapes. EmAvi can be used to conveniently add text, such as a company's URL and/or copyright to AVI animation files. ... (view more)

Shortcutting Syntax Some system shortcuts you might want to put on your desktop. Plus an enhanced run box, Control panel items, and other matters that can be created using shortcuts. Thanks to our friends at . ... http://www.virtualplastic.net/html/misc_cut.html#5 Auto Screen Recorder Great screen recorder solution to record screen to a video or Flash file, so you can record screen, set schedule, auto-scale videos. http://www.wisdom-soft.com/products/autoscreenrecorder.htm (view more)

Visual Task Tips Visual Task Tips is a lightweight shell enhancement utility. It provides thumbnail preview image for each task in the Windows Taskbar, like in the upcoming Microsoft Windows Vista. NOTE: Windows XP required to run Visual Task Tips. ... http://www.visualtasktips.com/ Sys Runner Access almost every system or hidden Windows application, and create shortcuts on your desktop with a simple right mouse-click. http://users.spark.net.gr/~stamatb/freesoft/sysrunner.htm (view more)

Unname Unname removes the name of a file, leaving only the extension. Since Windows hides certain extensions (namely LNK and URL), removing the name of such a file would leave it nameless, or unnamed. This is ideal for completely hiding the filename ... of a shortcut on the desktop. http://www3.telus.net/_/ Unix-Haters Handbook The best of the 'Unix Haters' online mailing list. A hoot! Full text is available of this classic book. http://research.microsoft.com/~daniel/unix-haters.html (view more)

Registry Wizard Scan windows registry for critical and non critical errors. Fix found Registry Errors. Delete useless registry keys and those containing errors. Restore registry keys and values from backup file. ... http://geocities.com/sergey.tikhomirov/regwiz.html Futurix Tools FuturixTools is a collection of small utilities for Windows users. The tools are useful for batch scripts or for making quick shortcuts in the start menu. Included tools: Turn Off Display: Puts primary monitor in stand-by mode. Clean Windows MRU: Empties Windows recent documents list. Launch Screensaver: Starts ... (view more)

Audit Isx AuditISX is a Microsoft Windows based computer auditing tool, which collects data about your PC's and Servers on your network. It uses the Windows WMI and registry to collect, then store data in a database or file format. You can collect ... data from all your Microsoft based Operating System machines on your network. http://www.krolrules.com/ X-Vcd Player Allows you to playback VCD disks on your computer (including those created by DVD PixPlay). Support is included for multiple video tracks, zooming and full-size display. X-VCD Player is very easy to use and plays VCD, SVCD, XVCD, ... (view more)

Windows Defender Microsoft Windows Defender (Beta 2) is a free program that helps you stay productive by protecting your computer against pop-ups, slow performance and security threats caused by Spyware and other potentially unwanted software. Note ... that this software is still in the Beta Stage and may produce false positives! In other words: don't completely rely on it for "the truth". http://www.microsoft.com Handy File Tool Handy File Tool (HFT) is a very fast and simple file manager. It has some internal utilities such as Renamer, Replacer and Finder. HFT has utilities necessary ... (view more)

Dm2 Minimizes windows to floating icons, freeing both task bar and tray bar space. Moreover, DM2 can manipulate windows in various ways: minimize to tray, make them standing always on-top over all other windows, roll to caption, resize, align to ... screen borders, hide, set the opacity etc. DM2 also helps with Open/Save dialog boxes, by providing user-defined menu with favorites and recent files and folders. Plenty of options. http://dm2.sourceforge.net/index.html Photo Shape PhotoShape rotates your photos in three dimensional ways. Simple to use, gives you all parameters you need to give your ... (view more)