K-Meleon - The Browser You Control

K-Meleon - The Browser You Control

This lean, mean browser opens Web sites lightning fast.

Most of the world is familiar with the Open Source browser Firefox. But Firefox isn't the only Open Source browser out there, and as K-Meleon shows, it's not the leanest, either.

When Firefox was released, one of the benefits it touted was that it didn't consume nearly as much memory as Internet Explorer. But those days are gone, with many people complaining about Firefox memory leaks.

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File Shredder 1.20

File Shredder

Completely shred files so that they can't be recovered.
Delete a file and it's gone from your PC, right? Wrong.

Even when you delete it and then remove it from your Recycle Bin, it can be re-created, using special software.

To protect your privacy, when you delete a file, you'd like it to stay deleted. That's what this freebie does. It rewrites any file or folder with a random series of binary data --- and does it multiple times.

You have a choice of five different shredding algorithms. It's as easy a program to use as you can imagine. Just choose your files, tell the program to shred them, and they'll be gone forever.

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CCleaner 1.39

CCleaner is a freeware system optimization and privacy tool. It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history. But the best part is that it's fast (normally taking less than a second to run) and contains NO Spyware or Adware! :)

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Photozig Albums Express

Create albums from your photo collection, edit photos, and share them with others, via the Web or CD.

If you've got lots of photos you'll appreciate this freebie, which organizes your pictures, along with short videos and songs, into albums. You'll be able to create multiple albums, organized in any way you want, easily search and browse for photos with tools such as keyword search and filters.

You'll also find photo editing tools built in, such as red-eye fix, resizing and cropping, changing the contrast and brightness, and so on. There's even a full set of tools for sharing photos, including burning them to CD, and sharing them on the Web, or easily sending them via email.

One of the program's nicer features is its customizable interface. Select either beginner, intermediate, or advanced, and the interface changes. At a beginner level, it's all graphically based; intermediate and advanced offer the ability to browse via a Windows Explorer-like interface, and to see hidden files and folders.

License Type: Free
Price: Free
Operating Systems: Windows XP, Windows Vista
File Size: 8400KB

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ImgBurn v2.3.2.0

If you need to back up CDs or DVDs, or made CDs or DVDs from .ISO files, you won't find a simpler program than this.

Looking to copy a homemade DVD? That's just one of the many tasks you can accomplish with ImgBurn. It's a combination disk-burner and disk-reader that's about a simple a program as you'll find, but will tackle pretty much whatever disk-burning task you throw at it.

How's this for simple: Put a CD or DVD in your drive, and select Mode --> Read, and the program reads the disc. Then click the Read button, and it will create an .ISO image file on your PC, which is an image of the disc. To burn that image to a CD or DVD, you only need to click a few buttons.

Even if you don't need to back up CDs or DVDs, you'll find the program useful, because some programs are distributed as .ISO files which need to be burned before they could be used. For example, beta versions of Windows Vista were commonly made available online as .ISO files.

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PC Clean 1.3

PC Clean blocks out and cleans your computer of potentially hazardous phishing software, adware, and spyware. That distributes adult-themed or other undesirable material to the user. Because PC Clean is a completely free product you can use it at home, at school, or at work. Feel the freedom of safe computing with a single click.

File size 3.55MB
Limitations No limitations
License Free

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Advanced WindowsCare

Anti-spyware, a Registry cleaner, privacy cleaner, PC optimizer?this all-in-one tool includes more as well.

This all-in-one tool combines anti-spyware, a Registry cleaner, a privacy sweep to delete your surfing traces, a system analysis tool, and more, combined into package.

It's exceedingly simple to use; run the program, then choose which feature you want to use, and it goes about its work. There's too much here to go into detail about it all, but each module is surprisingly fully featured, something you wouldn't expect in an all-in-one tool.

Note that you may get confused when you first start the program. Click the Start button at the bottom of the screen. If you instead click any of the links, such as "Computer Type," you'll be told that the feature isn't available in the free edition.

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