Hide Windows solves the problem of your cluttering taskbar. Go to the window [which you want to hide], and press the HotKey combination to instantly hide the window. This will hide the window from the desktop and taskbar. You can easily restore the hidden windows by right clicking icon of Hide Windows in system tray. This makes your taskbar clutter-free.

The software is 100% free for any kind of usage including redistribution. For more information, visit Hide Windows´s website.

Salient Features:

• Hides windows temporarily.
• Customizable Hot-Key support.
• Option to automatically load at startup.
• Very light on system.
• Small in size.
• Includes Uninstaller.

XP Auto Tuneup Basic is a small yet powerful and very simple DOS script that uses your XP functions to automatically give your computer a routine tuneup then shutdown your computer for the evening. No more sitting around for hours to tuneup our computers, we all hate to do this. Just click one button before you go to bed or leave the office and walk away. Basic and Plus are both included in the download, you use the one you choose. XP Auto Tuneup Basic will do the rest.

PhraseExpress Autotext organizes frequently used text phrases and allows pasting them into any Windows application in a snap. Ideal for your letter templates, signatures, addresses, bank account information and for internet chat phrases. The phrases can be accessed from a taskbar pop-up menu, via keyboard shortcuts or by typing short keywords which are expanded while you type.E.g. typing "kr" automatically turns into "Kind regards".

PhraseExpress ist very easy to use. A phrase is pasted with a single mouse click. New phrases can be added to PhraseExpress via the Windows clipboard in seconds. The typing utility also support customizable counter variables for automatic order numbers or support tickets, etc.

Additionally, PhraseExpress automates your daily procedures, like logging into web accounts, e.g Ebay auction platform, Hotmail, etc. Powerful macro functions launches programs and performs programmable actions in a snap.

PhraseExpress is also great for Laptop or Tablet PC with small or any keyboard on board. This keyboard macro utility is fully-functional free for private users - The optional Network Edition provides the PhraseExpress in a company network.

What's New in version 5.1.29:

• Help-button did not open help.
• Improved XML parsing error handling.
• Added short internal delay for the #focus macro to increase reliability.

Longhorn Transformation Pack will transform your Windows XP (including XP2) into the upcoming Longhorn (the new Windows edition from Microsoft).

The nice magnifier, moves together with the cursor, in settings it is possible to replace the cursor with a magnifier. It is good for editing pixel in the graphic editors, and it is simple for examining small-sized details.

The nice magnifier, moves together with the cursor, in settings it is possible to replace the cursor with a magnifier. It is good for editing pixel in the graphic editors, and it is simple for examining small-sized details.

This is a small program that drives the mosquitoes away from your computer and the room where its located. It produces a sound which is inaudible to humans, but animals and insects can hear it. This sound produces an undesirable effect on the mosquitoes and other pests thus restraining them from the area.

AlphaClock is an tiny clock utility with miniature, but very nice and sharp LCD-style digital watch display. It allows to choose any colors for display background and digits, or use any predefined color scheme.

AlphaClock can display local system time or UTC (Coordinated Universal Time). Written completely on pure WinAPI, AlphaClock will occupy a very small amount of system resources.

Customize your keyboard, joystick, and mouse with an open source scripting language that is backward compatible with AutoIt v2. It includes a quick-start tutorial, an automatic script writer (macro recorder) that records your keystrokes and mouse clicks, and a comprehensive help file.

In addition to its automation features described below, AutoHotkey excels at hotkeys, able to make almost *any* mouse/joystick button, keyboard key, or combination into a hotkey. It can also individually disable or override Windows´ own shortcut keys, such as Win+E and Win+R. It may also help alleviate RSI; for example, it can create substitutes for Alt-Tab using keys, mouse wheel, or buttons.

MAJOR AUTOMATION FEATURES

• Define abbreviations that expand as you type them (auto-replace).
• Create custom GUI windows and menu bars.
• Retrieve or change the volume, mute, and other settings of any soundcard.
• Remap keys and mouse/joystick buttons.
• Send keystrokes and mouse clicks to any window (without needing to activate it).
• Launch programs, shortcuts, URLs, and documents.
• Activate, hide, close, or resize any window.
• Make a window transparent and/or always-on-top.
• Change the priority of a process or close it.
• Create custom tray icon menus and popup menus.
• Use a joystick as a mouse.
• Monitor your system (e.g. close unwanted windows the moment they appear).
• Automate game actions by detecting pixel colors.
• Retrieve and change the clipboard´s contents, even if it contains files copied from the Explorer.
• Perform any operation upon a set of files and folders that match a wildcard pattern.
• Read, write, and parse text files more easily than in most other languages.
• Work with the registry and INI files using the included interface commands.
• Display simple tooltips and balloon tips.
• Display dialog boxes to interact with the user.
• Convert any script into an EXE that can be run on any computer.

MacroMaker allows the user to build macros and assign them to hotkeys to automate tasks. The user can build a macro to simulate a series of keystrokes, execute built in functions or play back a previous recording with just a keystroke. With the copy and paste functions available you can feasibly have a clipboard, which can store text only, assigned to every key on the keyboard amongst other prebuilt functions. Changes: - Several minor bug fixes. - Better editing capabilites. - Relative mouse coordinates in the MOVE MOUSE POINTER. This way no matter where a window is moved on the screen the mouse will still move to the appropriate location in the window the user is working in. - Added the Windows and Scroll keys on the virtual keyboard. - Save As option so you can use an existing macro as a starting point when creating a new macro. - SEND KEYS command so you can easily type the characters you want to push into the keyboard buffer instead of using the virtual keyboard. For complex key strokes you will still need to use the virtual keyboard, i.e. Ctrl-C and such. - DATE and TIME commands allow you to format the way they look.

XPHAI provides access the those hidden and powerful applications that are built into Microsoft Windows XP.

Access to programs that allow; Registry Modification, System Troubleshooting and configuration, Graphics Control, Messaging, Synchronisation, Optimization, Communication Control, Encryption, File Management and so much more.

24 Utilities in all.

Requires Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 or above.

YKill gives you information about all top-level windows that are running in the background.

With YKill, you can close and kill windows instantly and if you´re not sure which window is the problem, you can scan all tracked windows in search for the stuck ("Frozen") window. YKill can also help you in case of emergency: With YKill, you can run applications and shutdown your system directly from the menu. You can also choose which windows will be tracked, using a predefined a style or your own custom style.

YKill also features a complete help system that can be used whenever you´re not sure what to do.

Calc98 is a pocket calculator simulator program for the Microsoft Windows operating system. It is a replacement for the calculator program which is
included with the operating system, with many additional features and greater flexibility. 

Features:

• Especially designed for scientific and engineering users
• Includes a wide range of units conversions and scientific functions
• Statistics, financial and time functions, including a stopwatch

Downloadable database of conversions and constants for use with Calc98 is available at the website.

Capture .NET is an exquisite, powerful and multifunctional desktop utility.

Includes many helpful tools:

• Capture Screen
• Capture Color
• Screen Calender
• Screen Clock
• Screen Ruler
• Backup Expert
• Converter
• CountDown/Up Timer
• Degree measure
• File Shredder
• Font Manager
• Lunar Phases
• Post It
• Privacy eraser
• Quick Launch
• Reveal password
• System Info
• Time Synchronization
• Windows Spy
• World Clock
• ... and much more.

All-In-One, Multlanguage, Simple and Standalone (no install).
Based on .NET Framework 1.1, Compatible with .NET 1.1/2.0/3.0/3.5

* Requires: .NET Framework 1.1 or Higher to be installed

Annoyed by edit fields without history drop-down, so you have to re-type every time you open a dialog box?

EditHistory is a program that "converts" regular edit fields into combo boxes and adds a list of your most recently used folders or accessed documents to your Open/Save boxes, so you don´t have to search all over the place for them. You can easily pick up a file you´ve been using a week or month ago!

It also remembers what you typed into other edit boxes, and places that information in drop-down lists that let you easily choose files and commands you´ve issued before. Parameters for each edit field can be changed. You can control what is stored and how it is organized. It can be trained for specific programs, and can be configured to not come up with other programs.

This new version of the program has a resizable main window, an English/French interface, also the possibility to check for an update from the Web site.

ClocX is a truly beautiful analog clock enhancement for your desktop. You can choose from a wide variety of styles, all of them high quality and very attractive. You can also use it to run one-time or recurring alarms, that can play a sound file, launch a message box or run an application of your choice.

In addition, the program offers features like antialiasing, transparency, click through, calendar display, customizable priority and more. You can change and configure the backgrounds. Not only can you make ClocX transparent, you can choose from 256 levels of transparency. If you never thought, you'd need a desktop clock, ClocX may change your mind.

Additional background images are also available at the developer's website.

Download the Stable version. ClocX v1.4.

XP SysPad is a launcher which makes access to Windows system utilities its specialty. All of the prime Windows system info and utilities such as the individual control panel applets, as well as the "hidden" applications in Windows, can be launched with the click of one button, which makes it easier than hunting around the explorer pane or waiting for menus to fold out.

Plus, you can easily access a host of other valuable functions, such as recover Windows 2000/XP Product Key, get your IP address, execute web queries, identify and kill any running process, launch any program, search files, and more. For convenience, it also can minimize itself to the system tray. It launches over 250 functions in all!

XNeat is taskbar utility in the must have list. XNeat gives you full control by extending Windows´ features.

Features:

• Stay On Top: Always On Top windows will never be overlapped by other windows.
• Show/Hide System Tray Icon found beside windows´ system clock.
• Show/Hide Windows on your desktop
• TaskBar Utility [Manager-Sorter]: Arrange taskbar´s items
• Send To Tray so you can free up more space on your desktop

What´s New in this version:

• Setting Window´s Thread Priority has been added to the title bar context menu