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nLite allows you to customize your installation of Windows XP, Windows 2000, or Windows 2003. You can integrate service packs and hotfixes from Microsoft directly into your windows distribution files without having to re-download and install them every time you need to re-install windows.

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04 May 08

Premium Booster software to diagnose, cure and optimize your system / Repair, Fix, Clean your Windows

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02 May 08

Reinstall Windows and outfit your system with all freeware programs | freewaregenius.com

How to never use a paid program again (aside from Windows).

53 essential freeware programs that can take care of the majority of your computing needs.

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preserve your data when you want to wipe your system clean
Unstoppable copier makes the process of moving large numbers of files easy because you can set it up and leave and be certain that the copying process will not be interrupted by pointless Windows dialogs
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- DriverMax will backup all of your drivers locally and can optionally restore them for you.
- keep a record of all the product keys for the Microsoft products that are on my system, including Windows XP and Office
- installed the Microsoft .NET framework and the latest Java RTE
- DriveImage XML: used this program to create an image of my freshly clean installed hard drive
- Spyware Terminator: provides very good real-time protection against spyware/malware. For system scans it also integrates the open source ClamAV virus killer, which it also auto updates.
- According to Matousec.com’s latest firewall ratings, Comodo gets the highest overall firewall score as well as the highest anti-leak protection
- In general I do not like to have any of my data stored in the primary (C:) partition, and I use this program to switch many of Windows’ special folders (i.e. My Documents, My Pictures, My Music, My Favorites, and the Desktop itself) from their default locations to a new location on the secondary partition. Having no data on the primary partition means that I can create images of my hard drive with DriveImage XML (#7 above) and restore them at will at any point without having to worry about lost data.
- Forcevision Image Viewer: this is a very competent and straightforward free image viewer.
- (Another good alternative: Faststone Image Viewer)
- CDBurnerXP 4: is the free program I use to burn CDs and DVDs; it is a full featured CD/DVD burning program that can burn audio CDs, copy CDs/DVDs, burn/convert ISOs images, and handle a large variety of formats (including Double layer DVDs, Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs).
- JKDefrag has recently been tested and found to be the best amongst x different defragmentation programs
- Shock Sticker: a really nice desktop ’sticky notes’ program that provides rich text editing and minimizing notes to floating icon (which is why I like it).
- GOM Media Player: a fantastic player that plays DVDs as well as video formats, including Real Media, Quicktime, DivX, Xvid and FLV. Whats is really nice about this program is that it is self-contained and uses all internal codecs
- CodecInstaller, an excellent program that can identify, download, and install the codecs needed to play any media file (regardless of the player you are using)
- MP3gain: this program can analyze a group of MP3s and determine the average volume for each, and then raise and/or lower the volume of the files in order to “normalize” them (such that volume differences that might occur when one song transitions to another largely disappear). The cool thing is that it does this without re-encoding the files and its intervention is reversible.
- Local Website Archive: is a program that saves individual webpages locally on your hard drive
- Revo Uninstaller: my uninstaller of choice, Revo Uninstaller will uninstall a program and then look for any files and/or registry entries that were left behind by the program’s uninstaller
- ZSoft Uninstaller; this one will not uninstall programs as thoroughly as Revo does, but on the other hand will not erroneously remove registry entries or files that should be left alone.
- Revo Uninstaller (#39 above) provides a built in startup programs manager as well.
- PDF-XChange Viewer: a very nice PDF reader that allows for form filling as well as annotation and adding notes.
- Flashfolder: an explorer extension that adds user-defined favorites folders (and recent folders) to Windows’ open/save dialogs.
- JOCR: can snap any area of the screen (or simply load an image) and provide instant (and excellent) optical character recognition.
- now that I have my system decked out with all the software that I use, I create another image with DriveImage XML so that I have 2 images; one that contains Windows XP clean installed with drivers, and one with all the software that I use.
- Autoruns
- Gadwin PrintScreen
- NetMeter from mMetal MAchine http://www.metal-machine.de/readerror/index.php?PHPSESSID=d28a0a3faf0a256097b5aa331ebfa981&action=tpmod;dl=get14
  
  > Network Bandwidth meter, great to read real download and upload speed.
- SIW: System information for Windows, a standalone program to make a full inventory of your HW:
  
  http://www.gtopala.com/
- The first thing you should install is InstallPad (http://www.installpad.com/). Then you can use it to install the rest.
- The first thing I would recommend to anyone who was going to re-install Windows is to first create an installation disk with the latest service pack and any additional hot fixes integrated into it. You can do this manually (msfn.org has a guide at http://unattended.msfn.org/unattended.xp/view/web/2/) or use a program such as nLite (nliteos.com) or XP-ISO-Builder (http://www.winfuture.de/xpisobuilder3_en), or some combination

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Downloading the latest versions of your favorite programs is a tiring task, especially on a fresh installation of Windows. Navigating through the mess of websites and download links is frustrating, waiting for the installers to download is boring, and running each one separately is annoying.

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22 Apr 08

Solutions Superguide: 529 Tips for Better Computing

Not 25 or 50 or 100, but 529 !

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• Two accounts, two windows

You can't open two instances of some Web-based mail accounts in two IE windows; logging in to one logs out the other. To get around this, launch Windows Explorer, select Tools | Folder Options from the menu, click the View tab, and check the box titled Launch folder windows in a separate process.
• Combine toolbars

Customize and consolidate toolbars: Right-click next to the Help menu, select Customize, and drag buttons where you want—even next to the menus or bookmarks. With the Customize Toolbar box open, drag buttons between menus. The Toolbar Buttons add-on (grab it from mozilla.org) provides even more options.
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- • Use true address auto fill
  
  Firefox's browsing history appears in a drop-down menu as you type a URL, and the browser can finish entering the address for you based on this history—just as in IE. Surf to about:config in the address bar, and find browser.urlbar.autoFill. Double-click on it to set the value to true, and restart the app. Double-click on it again to restore the old drop-down menu selection.
- • Recover leaked memory
  
  Firefox isn't great with returning memory. This work-around reduces its memory use when minimized in XP, which is better than nothing: Go to about:config, and right-click the page to select New, then Boolean. Enter config.trim_on_minimize, press Enter, then select True and press Enter. Restart Firefox. If you launch Task Manager, you should see memory use drop when you minimize the browser.
- • Use old add-ons in Firefox 3
  
  If you upgrade to the Firefox 3 beta, and have extensions or add-ons that don't work, go to about:config; right-click a blank spot; select New, then Boolean; name the value extensions.checkCompatibility; and set the value to false. Then name another Boolean: extensions.checkUpdateSecurity, also set to false. Then restart. This makes Firefox stop checking add-ons to see if they're rated only for Version 2.0.

21 Apr 08

SUPER © .

SUPER © "The Player" surpasses any known player by supporting just
any Multimedia file format. SUPER © plays files that cannot be played with
WMP or even MPC and VLC the advanced Libavcodec based players.
SUPER © also plays and saves Internet Media Streams of different
protocols ( mms:// rtsp:// http://)

SUPER © "The Encoder" is the fastest and simplest tool to encode full
length movies to any other format without any time or function limitation.

NO trial or evaluation version of SUPER © but one unique
Free to download and Free to use fully working version.

SUPER © does NOT require any additional external codec to
be installed, absolutely nothing. Necessary codecs are built in!

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