System Explorer is tool for accessing Windows OS internals. It can also be used as a Task Manager replacement with detailed information about processes, startup entries, explorer/IE addons, uninstallers, services, drivers, connections, opened files etc. It has a registry/file snapshot feature so that changes to the system can be computed and displayed in tree view or text list format.

Remove Fake Antivirus is, as the name suggests, used to remove antivirus progams from unknown or new antivirus companies, which tend to be viruses or trojans.

DVDStyler is a DVD authoring system. You can add background, create menus, add text/images/buttons, import MPEG video files and create chapters for each movie. DVDStyler Portable is a portable wrapper for DVDStyler that redirects settings stored in the registry to an INI file.

Q-Dir is a quad-pane file explorer that is capable of displaying 4 Explorer panes simultaneously. It supports favorites, file/color filtering, export to XLS/CSV/TXT/HTML, screen magnifier, quick preview etc.

Miranda IM is a multi-protocol instant messenger client. By default, it supports AIM, ICQ, IRC, MSN and Jabber. But it has a powerful plugin system where it can be extended to support almost any other protocol you can throw at it, include Yahoo, Gadu-Gadu, Netsend, Skype etc. The plugin system is not limited to protocol support. You can find plugins for almost anything you can think of, including RSS feed reader, weather alert, world clock, etc.

You may also like to check out Miranda IM Portable for a portable package of Miranda IM that is optimized for USB memory sticks.

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 (SSL/TLSv1), search, etc.

Coollector Portable Movie Database comes with an encyclopedia of movies & series, combined with a database of existing videos.

PDF-XChange Viewer is a PDF viewer with the ability to display multiple PDF documents within a tabbed interface. It allows you to add comments/annotations to any PDF file, apply custom stamps from any image/PDF file/Windows clipboard, mark-up pages with text and objects, type directly on any PDF page in "Typewriter" mode. It also supports exporting PDF pages to BMP/JPEG/TIFF/PNG etc., or extract text from a PDF page/file. Additional features include capturing the document with the snapshot tool, rotating and saving a document etc.

Note: The free version of PDF-XChange Viewer is missing some features of its commercial siblings, but is otherwise fully functional and totally free for both private and commercial use.

TagScanner is a multifunction program for organizing and managing your music collection. It can edit tags of most audio formats, rename files based on the tag information, generate tag information from filenames, and perform any transformations of the text from tags and filenames. Also you may get album info via online databases like freedb or Amazon. Supports ID3v1, ID3v2, Vorbis comments, APEv2, WindowsMedia and MP4(iTunes) tags. Powerful TAG editor with batch functions and special features. Playlist maker with ability to export playlists to HTML or Excel. Built-in player.

SmartSniff allows you to capture TCP/IP packets that pass through your network adapter, and view the captured data as sequence of conversations between clients and servers. You can view the TCP/IP conversations in ASCII mode (for text-based protocols, like HTTP, SMTP, POP3 and FTP.) or as hex dump. (for non text-based protocols, like DNS).

On Win2K/XP, SmartSniff is able to capture TCP/IP packets using raw sockets. This method has some limitations and problems, but it does not require the installation of a separate capture driver.

A better way to capture TCP/IP packets is to install the open-source WinPcap capture driver. This works on Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003, and functions better than the "raw sockets" method.

ImgBurn writes most types of CD/DVD image files to physical media. It supports the latest writers (including booktype/bitsetting on many of the major ones such as BenQ, LiteOn, NEC, Plextor, Sony etc.) You can also ImgBurn to erase/format your rewritable media.

AppRemover supports a thorough uninstallation of hundreds of Antivirus and AntiSpyware Applications. The complete support charts are listed and updated with each new release.

Supported Antivirus and AntiSpyware Applications.

Akelpad is a plain text editor designed to be small and fast. Unicode support, both single-document and tabbed interfaces, unlimited file size and multi-level undo are just a few of the many features this editor offers.

�Torrent (or uTorrent) is a small BitTorrent client that uses very little system resources. It supports multiple simultaneous downloads, smart bandwidth usage, file level priorities, configurable bandwidth scheduling, global/per-torrent upload/download rate limiting etc.

CrystalDiskInfo monitors HDD/SSD health status and temperature, and does all the usual monitoring/graphing of S.M.A.R.T. information. It also tells you how many times the hard disk has been turned on and how many hours.

Win in a Box is a program quite similar to XP Syspad or Hidden XP. It gives access to many settings and applications under Windows XP.

XMedia Recode is an audio/video converter. It converts most audio/video formats such as 3GP, DVD, AVI, MP4, WMV, ASF, etc. so that they can be played on popular mobiles devices/PDA such as iPod, iPhone, Samsung, SonyEricsson, Zune, PSP, Blackberry, LG, etc.

Note that the website is in German, but the application supports English.

KidSafe is a computer-locking application designed to keep young children from messing anything up. Ever had your desktop icons scrambled or your Word document deleted by a little kid? KidSafe's for you.

SIV (System Information Viewer) displays lots of OS, network and hardware-related information, including CPU, PCI, PCMCIA, USB, sensors etc.

Mp3tag is an editor for metadata of common audio formats (eg. ID3, Vorbis Comments, APE, MP4, TAK Loseless). It can rename files based on the tag information, replace characters or words from tags and filenames, import/export tag information, create playlists and more. The program supports online freedb database lookups for selected files, allowing you to automatically gather proper tag information for select files or CDs.

MyEventViewer is a simple alternative to the standard event viewer of Windows. As opposed to Windows event viewer, MyEventViewer allows you to watch multiple event logs in one list, as well as the event description and data are displayed in the main window, instead of opening a new one. Also, with MyEventViewer you can easily select multiple event items and then save them to HTML/Text/XML file, or copy them to the clipboard (Ctrl+C) and then paste them into Excel.

Note:

The event viewer of Windows Vista displays more event details than MyEventViewer.

Rapid Environment Editor (RapidEE) is an environment variables editor. It includes an easy to use GUI and replaces the small and inconvenient Windows edit box, located in the System Information section.

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

Foxit Reader is a small and fast PDF viewer that is compatible with PDF Standard 1.7. It includes Javascript support, interactive form filler, annotation tools and built-in text converter. Foxit Reader Portable is a portable wrapper for Foxit Reader.

Note: A recent official version (3.0) saves settings to both the application folder and the registry without using a separate launcher.

An extremly small, very fast and easy to use media cataloging tool. You can use it to index files stored on removable media (CD's, DVD's or even diskettes), hard disks or net drives, and create searchable catalogs that can be used without having access to original media. Searching capabilities are based on file name, date and size. Additional features include filtering options, search duplicates or singles, customizable date format, etc. Found files can be opened (executed) or deleted directly, if they are present. Drag&drop support. Directory trees, MP3 album/song lists can be printed, disk space usage can be investigated. Single file executable, no install needed.

ArcThemALL! is a multi-compressor of files and folders with UPX, MPRESS, ZIP and 7Z formats. It includes an intelligent UPX compression mode, the support to self-extracting archive creation, the encryption/decryption of archives, the extraction of several archive formats (7Z, ARJ, BZIP2, CAB, CHM, CPIO, DEB, DMG, GZIP, HFS, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MSI, NSIS, RAR, RPM, TAR, UDF, UPX, WIM, XAR, Z and ZIP) and much more.

DropIt is creates a floating image on your desktop for users to drag-and-drop files on to and move or copy to folders of your choice. Users have an enormous amount of flexibility, but must set up pattern rules for each file type or folder and its corresponding destination. Options are available to overwrite, skip, or rename file names that already exist at a given destination. Users can also set up and change between multiple settings profiles for different locations/needs.

Universal Viewer Free (formally ATViewer) is a file viewer that supports many different formats like text, binary, rtf, images, videos, audio, etc. One nice feature is that it can open large text files very quickly without eating memory. One downside is that there is no editing of these files, but useful if you have to go through large log files.

HWiNFO32 is a professional hardware information and diagnostic tool supporting latest components, industry technologies and standards.

Main features:
* Comprehensive hardware information
* System health monitoring (Thermal, Voltage, Fan, Power)
* Basic benchmarks
* Text, CSV, XML, HTML, MHTML report formats

32-bit (IA-32) and 64-bit (x64, IA-64) platforms available.

Floola is a standalone application to manage your iPod (iTunes 7.3 and below) or your Motorola mobile phone (any model supporting iTunes). It is a cross-platform program which runs directly from your iPod. Floola supports all most common used iPod features including podcasts, smart playlists, notifications, search lost/duplicate files, videos, HTML list export, etc. The program is also able to fix iPod if another software messed it up.