One problem many of us never take note of as we use our computers everyday is how the speed gradually reduces. When we install and latter uninstall some programs on our systems, it affects the speed; causing a lot of fragmentation and sometimes leading to registry errors. These errors must be fixed, and our system defragmented to enhance the speed, and bring it back to optimal level in terms of speed.

Registry Life is a freeware program with different features that can be used to speed up your system, and fix different registry errors, compression and defragmentation of the registry for better performances. One of the features of this cleaner is the registry cleanup, which can be used to search and repair a lot of registry problems plaguing your computer system. Registry Life works a bit different from other programs because it performs a registry optimization on system startup. You can set the defragmentation and compression in automatic mode in order for registry optimization to be performed at specific time.

Latest changes to version 1.26 include; you no longer need to close the program to install a new version, it closes automatically, and updates are now easier than it was in older versions.

However, it is advisable to have a fair knowledge of how to use a program like this to perform a cleanup in order not to mess your system up.

Want to check it out? Visit RegistryLife.

Archivarius 3000 is a program built with lots of features to help you search and email on computer, local network and removable drives. Documents can be searched by keyword or simply by using query language, just as it is done on most internet search engines. The program provides full-text documents in eighteen different languages; this takes place while searching.

Even when document is not physically accessible, Archivarius 3000 will find it by keywords and determine which disk is the required file located on. The program has a query builder that allows one to organize complicated query without any special knowledge. The Search Wizard is also able to find documents by size, date and type in only a few steps.

Archivarius 3000 has a Quick View function that allows speeding up of documents overview with highlighting query words, finding and printing needed fragments, even when documents are not physically accessible. However, found documents can be exported to text file or sent as an email.

Some of the latest changes made to Archivarius 3000 include; support for AIX file system, support for Sun Raster images, support for Quattro Pro spreadsheets, and some other minor changes.

Archivarius 3000 is a shareware, but has a 30 days trial period.

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Freemake Video Downloader is a handy and easy-to-use free video downloader that can be used to download videos from Youtube and many other video sharing websites around the world. Some of the video portals supported by Freemake Video Downloader 2.0.1 include: Facebook, Vimeo, MetaCafe, and many more.

Freemake Video Downloader 2.0.1 works with the .NET Framework 4.0 client profile, and comes with an uninstaller. Among the latest changes or addition to this version include; additions of support for full episodes download from Hulu, ComedyCentral, SouthPparkStudios, and the DailyShow. Addition of support for YouTube RTMP-based videos download, convert to AVI, MKV, MP3, iPod, PSP, and Android, and support for over 40 sites.

Other features that have been a part of Freemake Video Downloader before this version and are also a part of version 2.0.1 include: extract lossless Audio; fast download speed; Youtube downloader and converter; HD and 4K Video downloader; Facebook video downloader; download friends’ private videos; free video downloader; etc.

This is definitely a great program with a lot of wonderful free features that is a delight to have on your system. Though, it is a freeware program; Freemake Video Downloader has so many features to make you stick with it.

Want to check it out? Visit Freemake.com.

BootRacer is a Windows boot speed meter, which helps to race your Windows boot. BootRacer allows you have a say in the speed of your Windows; especially because you can speed up the speed if the information from the meter is not impressive enough. BootRacer is a bit easy to understand and to use, and new users who have very little understanding of how things like these works can still manage to understand some of its features. Its strength lies in its ability to detect the time to user logon and the full computer boot time as well. The program also has the capacity to calculate the best boot time and write the results to the Windows event log.

Some of its new features include the following: new method of calculating “time to desktop”; user login/logoff detection, also supporting user switching; running under administrator account; new history report with ability exporting to the HTML, DOC, Excel, CSV formats; measure the user logon waiting time (logon timeout) under Windows Vista/Seven; and a few others.

BootRacer is free for non commercial use. Once you install this application on your computer, click on the start button as soon as the main window appears, then restart your computer.

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AlbumMe is a program that can be used to create photo slideshows from your digital photos, complete with ready-to-use animated templates, stunning transition effects, text captions, music, and so much more. With AlbumMe installed on your system, you can publish your slideshows in local disk, send as email to your friends or embed your favorite published flash into your blog or any other webpage in order to show off. Some of the other things you can do with this software include; animated flash photo album, flash slideshows with transition effects, thumbnail flash photo gallery, photo screensaver, and slideshow on the internet.

Some of the major features included in this version include: share photo album online; select from more than 70 transition effects to make your flash slideshow look stunning; add up to over 500 images in a single photo album; support wav, mp3, wma format audio as a background music, publish as flash movie, EXE, screensaver and video files, decorate your slideshows with text effects, clip art, and funny sound, and over 70 animated templates with preloader, photo frames, and control buttons.

AlbumMe is a shareware and has a 30 days trial period. However, for a complete download and unlimited use; users can have it for $39.95 per download. Not too difficult to understand, but requires a little time to catch up with some of its features all the same.

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Renoise for windows is a shareware program that features full ReWire support, FX and instrument VST/AU plug-in support, automation plug-in delay compensation, multi-core load balancing MIDI I/O, audio recording, flexible audio output, graphical and numerical parameter automation, and modular routing among others. Renoise also comes in other versions for besides the Windows operating system. These include the Linux and the Mac operating systems.

Renoise for Windows draws its strength basically from mod trackers; which are usually characterized by displaying and editing music in grid known as pattern that can be easily understood. These patterns bear similarities with sheet music; this time around, they are displayed in alphanumerically fashion instead of musical notation. The program lacks nothing in quality features that will enable you enjoy installing it on your system.

Renoise for Windows helps you to create loops, beats and melodies efficiently one step after the other. This is a one-stop expandable Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) with a twist that is a bit different from other versions earlier released by the publishers. At $79.00 per download; Renoise appears to be a bit on the high side. However, the features and minor bug fixes make this version worth the price placed on it.

Want to check it out? Visit Renoise.

SBMAV Disc Cleaner is an hard disk cleaner for Windows operating system that can safely clean and delete unwanted files from your disk. The program has been designed to clean hard drive of different kinds of trash with little or no relevance, which are responsible for cluttering your hard disk, and slowing down your system. SBMAV is a user-defined tool that can be used to search for and delete all temporary files including folders from your computer (and files left behind after uninstalling a particular program from your computer).

Other features included in this tool include; ability to delete unwanted cookies from your computer, find and remove all duplicate files taking up space on your computer system, uninstall software, work with user-files, detect and delete old backup copies and documents, perform searches for file duplicates using different parameters, detect and delete files you no longer need on your computer.

The problem with most computers is that they get slower and perform less than the normal speed as we continue to use them everyday. This can be attributed to junks and cookies that clutter the hard disk as we continue to download install and uninstall programs on the system. SBMAV Disk Cleaner is one of such programs built to handle such clutters and free your computer hard drive from many unwanted files that take up space on the system.

This program comes with a 30 days trial that enables you verify some of its features before going for an unlimited version.

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This is definitely a jumbo price program, but with so many wonderful features to go with it. TwistedBrush Pro Studio has a very powerful brush engine, and is a bit easy for those already used to photography. The program has an amazing number of brushes; coupled with regular features loved by different artistes and photographers. Some of these features include the following; layers, photo cloning, tracing, masks, script recording, scripts to AVI, realistic media, particles, filters, masks, drawing tablet support, brush shapes, textures, integrated scanner support, image brushes, drawing guides, patterns, and a lot more.

TwistedBrush Pro Studio is a bit clumsy; perhaps due to its over five thousand (5,000) brushes and features. Virtually every artist would love this program because of its features and brushes, which simplifies their works, and brings out the beauty in each task. TwistedBrush Pro Studio is compatible with Adobe plug-in, integrated scanner support, image brushes, drawing guides, reference image views, dirty brushes, scratch layer, dynamic palettes, script recording, and many more.

TwistedBrush is a shareware program, and can be downloaded for $119.00 per copy. The downside to this program is that the trial period is a bit too short, considering the incredible amount of features it carries. On the whole, it is a wonderful program, and professional artists in particular are going to love it.

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SoftPerfect Network Scanner is a multi-threaded IP and NetBIOS scanner that can be used by both a system administrator and users who have interest in computer security. SoftPerfect Network Scanner pings computers, scans for listening TCP ports and shows what type of resources are being shared on a network; and this includes system and hidden. With this program, you can mount shared resources that are found by SoftPerfect Network Scanner as network drives. All you need to do is to simply browse them by using Windows Explorer and the likes of it.

Among the very latest changes made to SoftPerfect Network Scanner 5.1.0 include the following: addition of auto-open the most recent file option; addition of noncontiguous IP address range mode; addition of monitor vendor, model and serial number retrieval; shared resources are no longer automatically exported unless specified explicitly with the /cols switch; and others.

Among the old features SoftPerfect Network Scanner is well-known for include: detects hardware MAC-addresses, even across routers; detects your internal and external IP address; ability to launch third party applications; supports Wake-On-LAN, remote shutdown and sending network messages; scans for listening TCP ports, some UDP and SNMP services; and many more.

This is an outstanding freeware program with extra features to give out better performances than other freeware programs in its category.

Want to check it out? Visit Softperfect.

FlashFXP is a popular FTP and FXP Client that has a lot of built-in features for your delight. The program has an intuitive user-interface, which makes it even easier to become familiar with. You can use the FTP protocol to transfer files from a remote server to your computer; and if you like, to another remote server of your choice.

With FlashFXP, you can easily update your website, download files from the server of your organization, and probably download files straight from the internet; of course, downloading files from these places have always been a big challenge to a lot of people. You can enjoy a great feature that enables you to resume any incomplete downloads, another feature that lets you synchronize directories, schedule multiple tasks, and do so many other things.

FlashFXP also allows you to publish and maintain your website, upload and download files; which include documents, videos, photos, and music. You can also transfer or backup local and remote files; including server to server FTP transfers. You can share files with all your friends who have the FTP server with a lot of ease.

FlashFXP 4.0.0 Build 1513 Final comes in seventeen different languages, which include; English, French, German, Italian, Hungarian, and many others. The program is a shareware, and allows for a 30 days trial period.

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