NirLauncher is a package of more than 100 portable freeware utilities for Windows, all of them developed for NirSoft Web site during the last few years. It combines a lot of wonderful features that continue to make it one of the best freeware programs that can be downloaded. NirLauncher works on any version of Windows, starting from Windows 2000 and up to Windows 7.

NirLauncher has a lot of advanced features that include the following; it can be used from USB flash drive without need of any installation, all the utilities in the package are completely freeware, without any Spyware/Adware/Malware, the package includes variety of tools that you may need for your daily computer use, including utilities to recover lost passwords, to monitor your network, to view and extract cookies, cache, and other information stored by your Web browser, to search files in your system, every utility in the package, you can easily run it, view the help file, or jump to the Web page of the utility, when using it from USB flash drive, the configuration of every utility is saved into .cfg file on the flash drive, on x64 systems, NirLauncher automatically run the x64 version of the utility, when there is a separated x64 version, and a host of others.

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Fast DVD Ripper is a program that will help you rip and convert any DVD smoothly without limit into various video/audio formats compatible with specific mobile or play console. With Fast DVD Ripper, you can easy share your DVD movies on iPod, iPad/iPad2, iTouch, iPhone, PSP, iRiver, ARCHOS, Wii, PS, Xbox360, and more Portable Media Players (PMP), and many more. You can also rip and convert DVD movies within outstanding quality and speed.

Fast DVD Ripper is lightweight, and is easily customizable even for the newbie who doesn’t have any experience. Some of its key features include the following; rip any DVD movie directly without install any third-party control, rip DVD movies to all popular formats HD videos or SD videos, rip DVD movies to play well on iPod, iPad, iPad2, iPhone, iTouch, PSP, PS3, Xbox360, Android Phone, any HD video player, etc, output AVI, MKV formats supports Dolby/surround 5.1 in DTS, AC3, audio tracks and subtitles are selectable(You can select audio track and subtitle language for the output video on the premise that the Blu-ray supports this language.), rip main video or segments of DVD Movies(You can view DVD movie as consecutive titles so that you can convert them in batches. You also can rename the titles for your requirements. This function will keep the converted movies as integrated and consecutive as original ones.), etc.

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WinContig is an easy-to-use stand-alone defragmentation tool that doesn’t create any installation directories or Registry entries on your computer. The purpose of this program is to quickly defrag files without the need to defrag the whole disk. Its defragmentation and analysis engine is based on the standard Microsoft defragmentation API. In addition, it allows you to group files into profiles, and also it accepts a number of optional command-line switches that you can use to control how the program operates.

WinContig is a standalone executable, and it doesn’t require any installation process or additional DLLs. In order to start using it, just extract the contents of the ZIP archive to any folder you like, and run it. The program is an application designed to run on Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Seven operating systems.

WinContig may not have all the features included in a few other highly rated programs out there, but surely it is not a bad program. However, it remains a great program because it can defrag any directory of your choice instead of an entire partition. Version 1.05.02 is certainly an improvement on previous ones, and you can download and use it for free since it’s a freeware.

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SpywareBlaster is a security application that is not built to scan and clean for spyware; however, it prevents it from ever being installed. By setting a “kill bit” for spyware ActiveX controls, the program can prevent the installation of any spyware ActiveX controls from a webpage. It does this while not interfering with “friendly” ActiveX controls – so your browser can work correctly and you can have peace of mind. With SpywareBlaster, you won’t get any more annoying “Yes/No” boxes popped up, asking you to install a spyware ActiveX control. In fact, Internet Explorer will never even download or run the spyware ActiveX control. In addition, it can prevent many of these spyware ActiveX controls from running, even if they are already installed on your system.

Though, a lot of a couple of individuals and groups may frown at this program because it is freeware; the truth is it is a bit reliable compared to a few other programs out there. However, you do have a chance to choose between the home version, which is free, and the enterprise version, which costs some money. In case you decided on downloading the freeware or home version; then you can look forward to a program that is not only powerful, but able to perform a lot of tasks. SpywareBlaster is able to protect your system against spyware, adware, browser hijackers, dialers, and other potentially dangerous programs.

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G-Lock Email Processor is a powerful program built to automatically process and parse incoming Internet email such as bounced/undeliverable messages, subscribe/unsubscribe requests, and a host of others. The application is easy to use and provides a wide range of features that enable you to process email you receive, automatically extract data and perform other actions based on the message content. Email Processor can work with multiple POP3 internet mailboxes, filter incoming messages by different conditions, and extract any data from the message body and message header and save it to a file of user definable format.

G-Lock Email Processor also enables you to send a text or HTML message to your recipients as well as forward the message you received to another email address. The program can be easily set up to automatically perform various operations with a selected database including; insert data into a database, delete data from a database, update a database or extract fields from a database. In addition, and also allows you to execute MS Windows Script (VBScript and JScript) when processing incoming messages.

G-Lock Email Processor includes a few new changes including some minor bug changes such as fixing of System Error Code: 126 the specified module could not be found.” error during the program installation on the computers with the User Account Control (UAC) enabled.

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Web Link Captor takes a list of plain-text items, and builds an output document containing a list of URL-linked results based on web searches for the items. It is a way to quickly build a clickable list of items from just their names, suitable for posting on your blog or a forum, etc. Donationware donations requested but not required. Web Link Captor has a friendly GUI that lets you build flexible sets of processing steps to parse plain-text input lists and perform search and output functions. You can also save and load projects and script configurations for easy re-use.

Web Link Captor has a lot of key features that include the following; the included backend scripts are in Python (but other languages can be used), uses caching to avoid repeating web searches unnecessarily, comes with output formatters for HTML, BBCode, Markdown/Wikipedia, with searching engines for Google, and Bing/Opensearch (which can handle Amazon, Wikipedia, and many others), flexible scoring system lets you interactively or programmatically tweak your results to get the best list of links, comes with searching engines for Google, and Bing/OpenSearch (which can handle Amazon, Wikipedia, and many others), uses a set of standalone utility scripts that can be run without the windows front end GUI, and can be easily modified and expanded, etc.

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SSDlife is a small and intuitive SSD diagnostic tool that helps users obtain comprehensive information about their SSD drives and take timely action if any problems are detected. If you take SSD’s seriously and have replaced hard drives with SSD units, don’t forget that their life expectancy is considerably shorter than that of regular hard drives. So if you want to know the approximate time frame for the swap, this is the program that is a perfect choice. SSDlife also includes a few changes such as; support for AData S596, Corsair Force, Force GT, Performance Pro, Plextor PX-M2P, PX-M3S, SanDisk P4, fixed support for MacBook Air, web-report function is temporarily disabled, etc.

Each tab displays the name and logo of the drive manufacturer, the size of the drive and the amount of free disk space. You can also see the total time the drive has been working in the system, the number of device starts, its total throughput, as well as other drive-related information. Users of SSDlife can see a health bar that visually represents the state of the SSD drive and its calculated lifetime. SMART parameters and the drive health bar can be refreshed by clicking the corresponding button. The program also has a pro version that has more features than the freeware version.

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inSSIDer is an award-winning free Wi-Fi network scanner for Windows Vista and Windows XP. The publishers built this program simply because NetStumbler doesn’t work well with Vista and 64-bit XP. inSSIDer is an open-source Wi-Fi network scanner designed for current generation of Windows operating systems. inSSIDer has undergone a lot of improvements since it was first introduced. Some of the latest changes made to this version include the following; fixing of Spelling error on Network Type Drop down, fixing of 2.0 and 2.1.0 upgrade process, fixing of issue with some SSID’s with the same name displaying only one instance, fixing of method not found (‘Int32 System.Threading), fixing of Spelling error on Network Type Drop down, fixing of 2.0 and 2.1.0 upgrade process, fixing of issue with some SSID’s with the same name displaying only one instance.

inSSIDer enables you to do a lot of things that include the following; inspect your Wi-Fi and surrounding networks, scan and filter hundreds of nearby access points, troubleshoot access points and clogged Wi-Fi channels, highlight access points for areas with high Wi-Fi concentration, track the strength of received signals in dBm over time, sort results by MAC Address, SSID, Channel, RSSI, Time Last Seen, export Wi-Fi and GPS data to a KML file in Google Earth, and many more.

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i-Sound WMA/MP3 Sound Recorder Professional is a audio recording and real-time MP3-compression software. The program gives you the option to record sound from any internal or external source directly to MP3 format. I-Sound WMA/MP3 Sound Recorder is also very easy to use; and all you need to do is to configure the sound card and press “Start” button.

i-Sound WMA MP3 Recorder is also built with features to help turn your computer into complete home recording studio. You can capture streaming audio into MP3, OGG, WMA, APE, WAV format sound file directly without costing any other disk space. I-Sound WMA/MP3 Sound Recorder Professional also comes with built-in scheduler that allows you to record streaming audio from specified URL at predefined time. VOX system automatically monitors the input source and activates streaming recording when the input volume reaches a specified level. The recording automatically stops once the audio level drops below a specified threshold.

i-Sound WMA/MP3 Sound Recorder Professional includes a number of features such as the following; convert cassette to MP3 or Vinyl to MP3, record radio with built-in scheduler, record Skype calls, (both sides), record MIDI protected MP4, WMA, and AAC files to MP3, record all what you hear, and voice activated sound recorder.

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Workbook Compare is an application that lets you compare any two Excel workbooks in just a few clicks, or limit the comparison to specific worksheets. You can also see your differences in an Excel report. This is an essential Excel utility for analysts, auditors, project managers, Excel developers, and everyone who needs to compare one spreadsheet to another. Workbook Compare is used by businesses, organizations, government agencies and universities around the world. For 15 days you can try out this program; and thereafter choose to go for the license that costs just $100.

Workbook Compare enables you to automatically map worksheets, automatically locate headers and maps columns based on header values, and customize any worksheet or column mapping with an intuitive user-interface. Other features of this program include the following; set unique keys to columns to treat worksheets like database tables, create projects to make repeated comparisons a breeze, highlight differences to make them easy to spot, compare formulas as either formulas or values, case-sensitive text option, assign a variance allowance to ignore tiny differences, includes “Table Compare” for simple table comparisons, choose from several difference report layouts, compare formulas as formulas (A1 or R1C1) or values, and a host of others.

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