File Size
2.55MB (Shareware)

Description
Total Commander is a file manager for Windows similar to well-known DOS file manager.

Total Commander can handle archives (ZIP/ARJ/LHA/RAR/UC2/TAR/GZ/CAB/ACE) like subdirectories. It also has an internal ZIP-compatible packer. The search function allows to search for files inside archives, even for text.

Main features:

• Two file windows side by side
• Multiple language support
• Enhanced search function
• Compare files (now with editor) / synchronize directories
• Quick View panel with bitmap display
• ZIP, ARJ, LZH, RAR, UC2, TAR, GZ, CAB, ACE archive handling + plugins
• Built-in FTP client with FXP (server to server) and HTTP proxy support
• Parallel port link, multi-rename tool
• Tabbed interface, regular expressions, history+favorites buttons
• Thumbnails view, custom columns, enhanced search

File Size
4.24MB (Freeware)

Description
Rainlendar is a customizable calendar that displays the current month. It is a very lightweight application that doesn’t use much system resources or take much space on your desktop.

• Small and lightweight
• Different type events can have different appearence
• Supports Windows transparency
• Synchronizes events between several clients
• Localized for multiple languages
• Shows an alarm when an event is due
• Supports iCal files.
• Shows Outlook’s appointments
• Includes a todo-list
• Works also as Litestep plugin
• Displays the current date in tray icon
• Can stick to the desktop (i.e. doesn’t hide with Show Desktop)
• Hotkeys for quick access
• Easy skinning with an UI

Version 2 adds Outlook and network calendar support.

File Size
21.21MB (Freeware)

Description
Evernote allows you to easily capture information in any environment using whatever device or platform you find most convenient, and makes this information accessible and searchable at any time, from anywhere.

Stop forgetting things. Capture everything now so you will be able to find it all later.

• Tasks and to-dos
• Notes and research
• Web pages
• Whiteboards
• Business cards
• Scribbles
• Snapshots
• Wine labels

And then find them all any time across all the computers and devices you use.

File Size
386KB (Freeware)

Description
If you are not familiar with the Alt-Tab task switcher in Windows, it’s a keyboard short-cut (hot-key) to enable fast switching between applications/windows. This feature has been in Windows since Windows 3.0 and is largely unchanged since Windows ‘95!

Alt-Tab Thingy is a replacement to add brand new features to help you switch tasks faster and more efficiently than ever before!

• Use the cursor keys to make your selection
• Use the mouse as well as the keyboard
• System tray icon
• Drag and Resize windows by clicking anywhere on thewindow
• Window preview
• Can be disabled (handy for games players)
• Settings window for enabling/disabling features
• Informative tooltips
• Ghost windows!
• Auto Off feature (user controlled variable timer)
• Allows minimizing of windows to the system tray
• Monitors windows for change of caption/z-order/deadtray icons etc…
• Display resolution selector
• Icon/List view
• Variable preview size
• Mouse wheel support
• Automatically minimizes or closes Explorer windows

File Size
1.90MB (Freeware)

Description
Google Desktop gives you easy access to information on your computer and from the web. It’s a desktop search application that provides full text search over your email, computer files, music, photos, chats and web pages that you’ve viewed. By making your computer searchable, Google Desktop puts your information easily within your reach and frees you from having to manually organize your files, emails and bookmarks. It makes searching your computer as easy as searching the web with Google.

Google Desktop doesn’t just help you search your computer; it also helps you gather new information from the web with Sidebar, a new desktop feature that shows you your new email, weather and stock information, personalized news and RSS/Atom feeds, and more. Sidebar is personalized automatically, without any manual configuration required (though you can certainly make your own customizations if you want to).

File Size
3.87MB (Open Source)

Description
Launchy is a free windows utility designed to help you forget about your start menu, the icons on your desktop, and even your file manager.

Launchy indexes the programs in your start menu and can launch your documents, project files, folders, and bookmarks with just a few keystrokes!

Once Launchy has been started, it hides in the background. You bring it forward by holding the alt key and tapping the space key. You then type in a few keys of the program you are searching for and hit enter once it has been found. You can also make Launchy dissappear again by hitting escape or alt+space.

Launchy is developed to run on XP, however you can try downloading the gdiplus.dll and unzipping it into your Launchy directory to get it to run with Win2000.

File Size
23MB (Freeware)

Description
ObjectDock is a program that enables users to add a “dock” to their Windows desktop that contains short-cuts, running tasks, and “docklets”. It is highly configurable, easy to use, and very useful.

New in this version:

• New included Search docklet that can search Google, MSN, Yahoo, or elsewhere.
• Improved system tray support in Plus version.
• New languages supported
• Fixes to the per tray icon feature and sysstats integration
• Better Unicode support
• New “/settingsfolder” switch
• Separators supported in tabbed docks
• Zooming icons in tabbed docks

ObjectDock is freeware. A plus version is also available that adds tabs, system tray support, task grouping, and hotspot support.

File Size
6.16MB (Freeware)

Description
RocketDock is a smoothly animated, alpha-blended application launcher that is similar to ObjectDock. RocketDock renders quickly like MobyDock, has the visual sharpness of Y’z Dock, and the stability that neither seem to possess.

It is compatible with every dock skin format we are aware of. In fact, if you have a skin that doesn’t load properly, send it to us, along with a screenshot of what it should look like and we’ll see what we can do about integrating the format… Features:

• Compatible with Y’z Dock, Mobydock, and ObjectDock skins
• Basic ObjectDock Docklet support
• Unicode compliant
• Simple drag-n-drop interface
• True multi-monitor support
• Supports alpha-blended PNG icons
• Items zoom on mouse over
• Auto-hide
• Popup on mouse over
• Layering options
• Fully customizable
• Runs great on slower computers
• Supports many languages and can easily be translated
• And best of all….it’s FREE

File Size
5.31MB (Freeware)

Description
Samurize is the popular advanced system monitoring and desktop enhancement engine for Windows. IT professionals, overclockers, gamers and desktop modders alike use Samurize for system information, weather reports, news headlines and much much more.

Samurize’s features include:

• an unrivaled set of built-in meters (Disk utilization, CPU usage, network traffic, system temperatures…)
• ultimate customizing and skinning possibilities with no programming knowledge required
• monitoring your own computer or others over a network
• tiny memory footprint and CPU usage
• the first system monitoring tool with a true WYSIWYG editor
• full extensibility via scripts and plugins with a powerful plugin SDK/API
• minimal software requirements (no .NET or Service Packs necessary)
• multimonitor support
• many usage options (desktop, taskbar and clock clients, server outputting to XML or image formats, screensaver)

File Size
394KB (Open Source)

Description
TaskSwitchXP is an advanced task management utility that picks up where the standard Windows Alt+Tab switcher leaves off. It provides the same functionality, and adds visual styles to the dialog and also enhances it by displaying thumbnail preview of the application that will be switched to.

TaskSwitchXP also has a powerful process and window management capability that allows you quickly to close/minimize applications and their groups. The unique capabilities of TaskSwitchXP make it useful for tracking down multitudinous windows, and provide insight into the way Windows and applications work.

• Small and FAST!
• Designed for Windows XP, based on XP Visual Styles
• Window snapshots as thumbnail preview
• Task management capability
• Highly configurable
• Full mouse and keyboard control
• Multilingual user interface
• Full source code available!!!