Geekbench provides a comprehensive set of benchmarks engineered to quickly and accurately measure processor and memory performance. Designed to make benchmarks easy to run and easy to understand, Geekbench takes the guesswork out of producing robust and reliable benchmark results.

Multicore

Whether you’re running Geekbench on a single-core Pentium, a quad-core Mac Pro, or a sixteen-core Sun server, Geekbench is able to measure the performance of all the processor cores in your system. Every processor benchmark is multi-threaded and multi-core aware to show you the true potential of your computer.

64 Bit

Geekbench bridges the generation gap between 32 bit and 64 bit computing by providing both 32-bit and 64-bit versions. Find out how fast your current 32-bit applications run today, and how fast your future 64-bit applications will run tomorrow.

Rosetta

Use Geekbench to help you with the transition from PowerPC to Intel on Mac OS X. Run the Rosetta version on your Intel-based Mac to figure out how fast it runs PowerPC applications to figure out if it’s worth upgrading to Universal applications.

Cross Platform

Compare apples and oranges. Or Macs and PCs. Geekbench is available for a variety of platforms enabling you to benchmark different computers running different operating systems: Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Solaris.

One-Click Benchmark

Don’t spend your time configuring options or changing settings while wondering how other folks ran Geekbench. With just one click you can start benchmarking your system with the same tests and parameters as every other Geekbench user.

Geekbench Result Browser

Share your Geekbench results with other users by uploading your results to the Geekbench Result Browser. Let other users see how fast (or slow) your computer can go. Create an account and track all of your Geekbench results in one easy-to-use location.

Download: Geekbench 2.1.5

Speccy is an advanced System Information tool for your PC.

What’s in your computer? If you’re like most of us, you can probably name the processor (Intel or AMD, Celeron or Pentium), maybe how much RAM it has, and maybe how big the hard drive is.

When you go to a computer store and see all the bright shiny PCs laid out next to each other, most will have tags or stickers indicating the:

 · Processor brand and model
 · Hard drive size and speed
 · Amount of memory (RAM)
 · Graphics card
 · Operating system

Two or three years later, when it comes time to upgrade your computer, that tag or sticker may be long gone. Speccy was designed as a free electronic “what’s inside” sticker for your PC.

Isn’t this information in Windows?

Yes and no. Some of the basic information can be found by right-clicking My Computer and then clicking Properties. The General tab lists some statistics, and the Device Manager on the Hardware tab lists all of the hardware you’ve got installed. But it misses out lots of information that you need.

Speccy will give you detailed statistics on every piece of hardware in your computer. Including CPU, Motherboard, RAM, Graphics Cards, Hard Disks, Optical Drives, Audio support. Additionally Speccy adds the temperatures of your different components, so you can easily see if there’s a problem!

Why do I need Speccy?

At first glance, Speccy may seem like an application for system administrators and power users. It certainly is, but Speccy can also help normal users, in everyday computing life.

If you need to add more memory to your system, for example, you can check how many memory slots your computer has and what memory’s already installed. Then you can go out and buy the right type of memory to add on or replace what you’ve already got.

If you’re going to be selling your PC, you can use Speccy to quickly list out the components. Or, if you’re buying a PC, you can use Speccy to check that the computer has what the label says it has.

Also, Speccy comes in handy for support. If you’re on the phone with technical support and they want to know what video card you have installed, there’s no need to hunt around Windows. Speccy has all the information on one easy-to-understand screen.

Compatible with Microsoft Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7.

Download: Speccy 1.00.125 Beta

Effective application removal.

AppRemover enables you to thoroughly uninstall security applications such as antivirus and antispyware from your computer.

AppRemover is tested spyware-free using Filterbit.

Supported Operating Systems:

Windows 2000, 2003, XP (32 / 64 bit), Vista (32 / 64 bit), 2008, Windows 7 (32 / 64 bit).

Download: AppRemover 2.2.1.1

The Parted Magic OS employs core programs of GParted and Parted to handle partitioning tasks with ease, while featuring other useful programs (e.g. Partition Image, TestDisk, fdisk, sfdisk, dd, and ddrescue) and an excellent set of documentation to benefit the user. An extensive collection of fileystem tools are also included, as Parted Magic supports the following: ext2, ext3, ext4, fat16, fat32, hfs, hfs+, jfs, linux-swap, ntfs, reiserfs, reiser4, and xfs.

Parted Magic requires at least a i586 processor and 256MB of RAM to operate or 128MB in “Live” mode.

Features

· Format internal and external hard drives.
· Move, copy, create, delete, expand and shrink hard drive partitions.
· Clone your hard drive, to create a full backup.
· Test hard drives for impending failure.
· Test memory for bad sectors.
· Benchmark your computer for a performace rating.
· Securely erase your entire hard drive, wiping it clean from all data.
· Gives access to non-booting systems allowing you to rescue important data.
· Runs from the CD, no install required.

Download: Parted Magic 4.8

Download: Parted Magic 4.9

UltraDefrag is a powerful disk defragmentation tool for Windows. It is the first open source defragmenter with full support of system locked files defragmentation. Actually all files including registry hives and paging file can be processed by UltraDefrag during the Windows boot process.

Also one of the primary goals of the UltraDefrag design is doing the job as fast as possible.

UltraDefrag is fully compatible with Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7 and all of the 64-bit editions of Windows.

Download: UltraDefrag 4.2.0 RC4

ID3 renamer to rename a large number of files in a directory accordingly to their ID3 description and a given “formula” (e.g. (%Track) %Artist – %Title). Do you have loads of MP3 files in a directory and need to write a single common piece of information into them (e.g. the interpret or the album name)? You can type it in there manually, but this won’t make you very cheerful if the amount of files is large. And what about the diacritics removal – e.g. for an MP3 player? Using ID3 renamer, everything is a matter of a few mouse clicks.

Main features.

It runs under any Windows version.

Download: ID3 renamer 3.0.3 | ID3 renamer Beta

TagScanner is a multifunction program to organize large music collections. It can edit tags of several progressive audio formats, rename files based on the tag information, generate tag information from filenames. Also you may get album info via internet music database freedb.org. Supports ID3v1, ID3v2, Vorbis comments and APEv2 tags. Worksheets technology. Powerful TAG editor with batch functions and special features. Playlist maker with ability to export playlists to HTML or Excel. Built-in player.Very useful interface.

Features

· Rename files based on the tag information
· Advanced multiple files TAG editor
· Supports MP3, OGG, Musepack, Monkey’s Audio, FLAC, AAC, OptimFROG, SPEEX, WavePack files
· Supports ID3 1.0 / 1.1 / 2.2 / 2.3 / 2.4 tags, APE v1 and v2 tags, Vorbis Comments
· Supports for ID3v2 Lyrics and Attached pictures
· TAGs generation from folder/filename
· TAGs versions conversions
· TAGs case conversions
· Import tag information from an online database (freedb)
· Manual text-search for information in freedb
· Worksheets technology
· Recursive subfolders support
· Powerful Playlists editor
· Write extended playlists like Winamp or Sonique
· Playlists export to HTML, Excel and CSV(e.g. for MySQL)

System requirements: Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008/Windows 7

Download: TagScanner 5.1.559

Wise Disk Cleaner is a user friendly, fast and easy to use application developed to free up disk space by deleting junk files that are no longer used by any software on your system. Even the least experienced user can easily remove junk files with this tool.

Wise Disk Cleaner is Free.

Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP/XP-x64/2003/Vista/Vista-x64/2008 Server/Windows7/Windows7-x64

Download: Wise Disk Cleaner 5.2

The Cleaner v5 is a program designed to keep your computer and data safe from trojans, worms, rootkits, keyloggers, spyware, adware and all manner of malware.

The Cleaner is available in a free for personal use version or to purchase for only $19.95 + a $4.95 monthly subscription.

Works with Windows 2000/XP/Vista/Windows7
100% Adware/Spyware/Virus Free

Download: The Cleaner 2011 7.1.0.3403

TweakNow PowerPack is a fully-integrated suite of utilities that let you fine-tune every aspect of your computer’s operating system and Web browser. The RAM Idle program manages the free memory that is available to run Windows programs. It prevents performance from degrading as you swap files and programs in and out of memory. The AutoShutdown program lets you suspend, hibernate, or shut down your computer after a specified period of time. In addition to saving resources, this program keeps your system more secure by making it unavailable to unauthorized people. The CD AutoRun is an extension of Windows’ CD and DVD autorun features, giving you additional options for starting programs or listening to music.

The Virtual Desktop program lets you run as many as four custom-designed desktop configurations simultaneously, allowing you to tailor your computer screen to your mood and your work requirements. The suite gives you a complete picture of all aspects of your computer’s hardware, including detailed information about your motherboard, processor, video card, memory, hard disk and network.

OS: Windows Windows 7/Vista/XP, License: Freeware.

Download: TweakNow PowerPack 2009 2.0.0

During the normal operation of a Windows system, registry data is constantly being written to and removed from the registry. Over time this data becomes scattered within the registry file and when information is deleted from the registry holes are left which fragment the data within the registry. Registry compacting optimizes your registry by removing gaps and wasted space, thus improves the whole system performance.

It’s a freeware and completely free to use. Just enjoy it.

System Requirement: Windows 7 (x86 and x64), Vista (x86 and x64), XP, Windows Server 2008/2003/2000, Windows ME and 98

Download: Free Registry Defrag/Compact 3.0

RJ TextEd is a web development tool and a Unicode text editor with features like syntax highlighting, advanced column mode and text folding.

Features

• Auto completion: Works with tags and classes.
• Code folding: Fold collapsible text blocks for easier editing.
• ASCII and binary files: The editor handles these as well.
• Html tag wizards: There are several included for creating tables, frames…
• CSS editor: Is included as well.
• FTP client: Helps you manage your site and synchronize your local and remote files.
• Sidebar: With explorers, text clip manager, project manager…
• Convertion: The editor can convert between code pages, Unicode formats and text formats. Windows, Unix/Linux and Macintosh uses different text format (different line feeds).
• UTF-8: This format is sometimes used without a BOM to identify the file type. RJ TextEd handles these to.
• Html validation: Validate, format and repair your html code using wizards.
• Tools: There are several tools installed like the syntax editor, charmap utility…
• Portable.

The program has been tested in windows 98/Me/2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008/Windows 7.

You can use the portable version from portable devices like a USB memory.

Download: RJ TextEd 6.10

Free Internet Window Washer is a free internet tracks eraser and privacy cleaner software. As you work on your computer and browse the Internet, you leave behind traces of your activity. The Windows built-in functions will not protect you, most of the tracks can not be erased with them. Therefore, anyone else can see what you have been doing on your computer. Furthermore, much of your activity information takes up valuable disk space, and recovering this space can be very beneficial.

With a simple click Free Internet Window Washer securely erase your internet tracks, computer activities and programs history information stored in many hidden files on your computer. It also provides you option to clean the data from your PC more securely so that they could not be recovered.

Free Internet Window Washer allows you to erase Window’s temp folders, run history, search history, open/save history, recent documents, your browser’s cache, cookies, history, visited URLs, typed URLs, autocomplete memory, index.dat files, and much more. You can also easily erase the tracks of up to 100 popular applications.

100% Spyware FREE, NO Spyware, Adware or Viruses.

Platform: Windows Windows 9x/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista/7

Download: Eusing Free Internet Window Washer 2.8

AM-DeadLink detects dead links and duplicates in your Browser Bookmarks. If a Bookmark has become unavailable you can verify it in the internal preview and delete it from your Browser. Additionally you can download FavIcons for all your Favorites and Bookmarks.

AM-Deadlink works with Internet Explorer, Opera, Mozilla and Firefox.

AM-DeadLink is Freeware!

System: Windows 2000, XP, Vista, 7, Server 2003/2008

Download: AM-DeadLink 4.0 | AM-DeadLink 4.1 Beta 2

Cobian Backup is a multi-threaded program that can be used to schedule and backup your files and directories from their original location to other directories/drives in the same computer or other computer in your network. FTP backup is also supported in both directions (download and upload).

Cobian Backup exists in two different versions: application and service. The program uses very few resources and can be running on the background on your system, checking your backup schedule and executing your backups when necessary.

Cobian Backup is not an usual backup application: it only copies your files and folders in original or compressed mode to other destination, creating a security copy as a result. So Cobian Backup can be better described as a “Scheduler for security copies”. Cobian Backup supports several methods of compression and strong encryption.

For Windows XP, 2003, Vista, 2008, 7.

Download: Cobian Backup 10.0.0.519 Beta

EraseTemp is a utility that automatically deletes old temporary files from your computer.

If you just run the application it deletes everything older than one day in the Temp folder(s).
EraseTemp looks in you personal Temp folder in Documents and Settings and the Temp folder in the Windows folder.
It also removes old dump files by default.
You can also use EraseTemp to delete old files, any number of days old, in any folder.

The tool is completely free!

Requires Microsoft .net framework 2.0.

Download: EraseTemp 3.4.6.2

SSE Setup is a full-featured program installer/uninstaller for both 32-bit and 64-bit programs.

SSE Setup does almost everything that most people want in an installer. And it is SIMPLE and it is EASY. SSE Setup’s approach is quite different from most other installers. It is designed for you to quickly and easily turn out a solid, powerful, small-size installation package for any program. Besides all the standard basics, its built-in multi-language support (no external .DLL’s here…), easy upgrade and patch support (including a full internet update solution), and more make SSE Setup a logical choice for your project.

SSE Setup is FREE for all non-commercial use and only a small fee for commercial use.

Works on Windows 7,Vista,2008,XP,2003,2000,ME,NT4,98,95. Installs both 32-bit and 64-bit programs

Download: SSE Setup 6.0

Process Lasso is a unique new technology that will, amongst other things, improve your PC’s responsiveness and stability. Windows, by design, allows programs to monopolize your CPU without restraint — leading to freezes and hangs. Process Lasso’s ProBalance (Process Balance) technology intelligently adjusts the priority of running programs so that badly behaved or overly active processes won’t interfere with your ability to use the computer!

Process Lasso also offers an assortment of ways to take full control of how your CPUs are allocated to running programs. You can choose at what priority processes should run, and which CPUs should be assigned to them. You can also disallow certain programs from running, log all programs run, keep programs running, and SO much more.

Once you install Process Lasso, it’ll just start working. More advanced users can tweak the configuration, but you needn’t touch anything to have it instantly improve your system responsiveness and prevent stalls in high load situations.

For network admins, Proces Lasso works wonderfully on Terminal Servers and in multi-user environments. We have many clients that have been using Process Lasso on their Terminal Servers for years.

Best of all, Process Lasso is written in native C++, not .NET. This means it consumes very few system resources – considerably less than any similar software.

Process Lasso runs on all editions of Windows 2000, XP, 2003, 2008, Vista, and Windows 7.

Download: Process Lasso 3.82.2

BleachBit quickly frees disk space, removes hidden junk, and easily guards your privacy. Erase cache, delete cookies, clear Internet history, remove unused localizations, shred logs, and delete temporary files. Designed for Linux and Windows systems, it wipes clean 70 applications including Firefox, Internet Explorer, Flash, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari, Adobe Reader, APT, and more.

Beyond simply deleting files, BleachBit includes advanced features such as shredding files to prevent recovery, wiping free disk space to hide traces of files deleted by other applications, and vacuuming Firefox to make it faster.

Download: BleachBit 0.7.3 for Windows

Download: BleachBit Portable 0.7.3

Download: BleachBit 0.7.3 for Linux

Disk fragmentation leads to system slowdowns, PC crashes, slow startup and shutdown and sometimes to system failures. Auslogics Disk Defrag was designed to remedy system sluggishness and crashes caused by disk fragmentation. It is optimized to work with today’s modern hard disks. Auslogics Disk Defrag is extremely simple to use, does not require any analysis phase and is faster than most of the other disk defragmentation software. It will help you get the maximum performance out of your expensive hardware investments. And, what’s most important, it’s absolutely free.

· Improve computer performance and stability
· Increase your productivity – no more waiting for files to open
· Defragment disks in only a few minutes
· Useful disk fragmentation map and detailed fragmentation report
· Supported Windows Versions: 7/Vista/2008/XP/2000/2003 (32-bit and 64-bit supported)

Download: Auslogics Disk Defrag 3.1.3.100

JaBack – Automated Data Backup Software. Improve your productivity!

Backup software designed to automate all your backup, synchronization, and archiving tasks.

· Easy to use: no programming and scripting required, graphical interface
· Powerful, versatile, reliable and free
· Run more than 1000+ tasks a day

Features

· Automate Backups of your important files and folders. The backup set is created in standard ZIP format. This allows flexibility in restoring the data using any zip software to unzip the backup set.
· Transfer your backup set to a remote location via Ftp or Email it to your mail server.
· Scheduler software is very easy to use, yet has very powerful scheduling, tasking and automation capabilities.
· Email Notification of task failure based on task exit code.
· Local directory monitor allows you to backup data when a file/folder change is detected.
· Zip files and directories using wildcards on schedule. Can append date/time to filename for archive purposes.
· Copy files and directories using wildcards on schedule. Can append date/time to filename for archive purposes.

Windows, Mac OS X

Download: JaBack 8.36