Hiren's Boot CD is a boot CD containing various diagnostic programs such as partitioning agents, system performance benchmarks, disk cloning and imaging tools, data recovery tools, MBR tools, BIOS tools, and many others for fixing various computer problems. It is a Bootable CD; thus, it can be useful even if the primary operating system cannot be booted. Hiren's Boot CD has an extensive list of software. Utilities with similar functionality on the CD are grouped together and seem redundant; however, they present choices through UI differences.

Microsoft Windows may have got more advanced but the need for effective maintenance is greater than ever. If you don’t houseclean your computer system regularly the digital garbage that collects over time makes it slower and can even cause inexplicable errors – usually when you need them least.

With the reliability of 11 years of experience, Ashampoo WinOptimizer 6 makes Windows maintenance fast and easy – and it works for Windows XP just as well as it does for Vista. It keeps your Windows computer running as fast and smoothly as on the first day you bought it.

In addition to efficient Windows maintenance you also get a whole suite of powerful, easy-to-use tools that enable you to configure and tune your Windows computer so that it works exactly the way you want it to.

The WinOptimizer Toolbox

AntiSpy Module New!

Context Menu Manager New!

Hard Disk Defragmenter New Version!

One-Click Optimizer Improved

Drive Cleaner Improved

Alcohol brings new meaning to the word multimedia! It is without a doubt a leader in its class, bringing the ability to emulate and record CDs and DVDs together into one amazingly easy to use software program.

Using the latest technology the program is constantly being developed and improved to add in new features allowing it to maintain its position as a leading software package.

Changes in version 1.9.8.7117, 2008-11-23:

- NEW A.C.I.D Wizard "Alcohol Cloaking Initiative for DRM"

- NEW Add Context Menu in explorer for burning image file

- NEW Improved Dumping/Burning engine more stability and speed

- NEW Latest SPTD layer version

- FIX Problem with some Drives Not showing correct manufacture ID of blank discs.

- FIX The incorrect 'Processor Info' display on some Operating systems, especially for Core 2 Dual new processors

- FIX addressed some blacklisting problems

- FIX Bugs reported by some users

- UPDATE Some language files

- UPDATE Devsupp additional support for more drives

Imagine being able to store your most used CDs as images on your computer and then just call them up at the click of a button and run them at 200X the speed of some CD drives when you need them without requiring the CD itself. How about being able to make a backup of that CD on to another CD either using the CD itself or just using the image you've made of it. This is what Alcohol allows you to do and much more.

DAEMON Tools Pro - is professional version of DAEMON Tools, which is the worldwide most popular application for CD/DVD multimedia emulation and proven and tested by tens of millions users throughout the whole world. DAEMON Tools Pro is now capable to make CD/DVD images. You can protect your virtual CD/DVDs with a password.

- Want to avoid risk of scratching or losing your favorite computer games CD/DVD discs?

- Want to load and play your games faster?

DAEMON Tools Pro converts your computer games CD/DVD discs into "virtual discs" or so called 'disc image' files, which run directly on your hard drive. This protects original CD/DVD discs from loss, theft, and damage, plus a virtual disc has much better access rates than a physical CD/DVD disc in a physical CD/DVD ROM drive because the reading speed of a virtual CD/DVD-ROM is 200x faster compared to normal CD/DVD drive.

No more CD/DVD drive noise. DAEMON Tools enabling you to use your CD/DVD images as if they were already burned to CD/DVD. With DAEMON Tools Pro you would receive up to 32 virtual drives that behave just like the "real" physical CD/DVD drives.

DAEMON Tools Pro works under Windows 2000/XP/Vista with all types of CD/DVDROM drives (IDE/SCSI/USB/IEEE1394) and supports nearly any CD/DVD media type.

Super Utilities - Make your computer run faster, safer, with greater privacy and security. With only a few minutes of tweaking, Super Utilities will optimize the performance of your computer, corrects problems and helps you to customize your system to suit your needs.

Super Utilities (for Windows9x/ME/NT/XP/2000/2003) is a collection of tools to fix, speed up, and maintain your PC! These utilities include Disk Cleaner, Registry Cleaner, Uninstall Plus, StartUp Manager, Folder Guard, Tracks Washer, Driver Backup, Auto Shutdown, Windows Manager and Process Manager. With a cool and user-friendly interface makes it easy for anyone to use Super Utilities.

Active@ UNDELETE - Data Recovery v.7.0

file undelete and data recovery program for NTFS & FAT32 / FAT volumes.

Active@ UNDELETE - Data Recovery is a powerful data recovery software that helps you to recover deleted files, lost and formatted data from hard drives, floppy disks, basic and dynamic volumes, hardware or software RAID.

Software supports: NTFS, FAT32, FAT16, NTFS5, NTFS+EFS file systems and works under all Windows family operating systems: Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows 2003 Server, Windows XP and Windows VISTA.

Besides hard disk drives program supports recovery from removable devices like Secure Digital, Compact Flash, SmartMedia, SONY Memory Stick, ZIP drives, USB Hard drives etc ...

Active@ UNDELETE Professional package contains a CD/DVD ISO image that you can burn to get a bootable CD, DVD or USB Flash with a lightweight version of Windows Vista © running in RAM (WinPE 2.0).

It is the only way to recover your data in the case that your system is not bootable and you cannot attach the damaged Hard Disk Drive to another computer. After booting from the CD/DVD you will see a Windows environment with Networking, so you can either just recover your data (copy files to a USB drive or Network drive). Many other useful utilities are included besides data recovery utilities: Web Browser, File Manager (similar to Window Explorer), Terminal Client, Partition Manager, Notepad, Task Manager, Command Prompt, Network Drive Mapper, etc...

Active@ UNDELETE Enterprise package includes all features of Professional package as well as RAID and Network functions.

Elaborately designed for multi-level game players, GAME-CLONER enables you to play various kinds of games, PC games or TV games, CD games or DVD games, whatever they are!

Features:

1. Easy-to-use! Just one click, and you will get what you want.

2. The truly unique cloning software worldwide supporting Dual Layer 8.5GB DVD games.

3. 100% Perfect 1:1 DVD copying.

4. Supporting most DVD game players.

5. High-speed burning! 7 minutes to burn a CD and 15 minutes to burn a DVD.

6. Supporting a variety of burners!

7. Powerful virtual drive in GAME-CLONER, which makes playing games more convenient and more games available and, above all, your own DVD-ROM greatly saved.

Talisman Desktop" (Talisman) is a desktop alternative and shell-replacement for Windows 9x/ME and NT/2000/XP, capable of transforming your desktop into an interface organized as you like. The program's basic purpose: Launch other applications in a new interface, instead of the standard Windows desktop. But the opportunities presented by "Talisman" are much broader. The program does not limit your computer fantasies - draw anything you like and arrange it as your imagination tells you to. When you get tired of looking at the same screen - change it all over again. If you are in a good mood - throw flowers and favorite photos on the screen. If you're not feeling so bright - leave the black screen with lonely Norton Commander or winking Bill Gates. Create invisible buttons - they will open those places and the pictures, known only to you. Construct galleries of the best pictures and photos. Simply create your own little world, created by and for you, instead of staring at the same lines of icons on your desktop, year after year.

With the help of "Talisman" you can create your own interface or use one of the hundreds ready themes that are available in our collections and in the internet. Interface (theme) is a set of screens, forms, "rooms" and objects. All these objects are interactive and respond to movements or clicks of the mouse.

Talisman Desktop also allows to create:

- Presentation interfaces for Exhibitions, Shows, Advertisement, etc.

- Protected interfaces for Game Clubs, Information Kiosks, Museums, Libraries and other organizations.

- Protected interfaces for Hotels, Schools, Universities and other organizations where the limited set of accessible programs is necessary.

- Children's interfaces.

- HTPC (Home Theater PC), Media Center interfaces.

- Car PC interfaces (built-in car computers).

- Desktop Panels. Desktop Panels covers only a part of desktop. They allow to add Talisman functionality to your standard Windows workspace. Examples

- Tablet PC, touch-screen interfaces.

- Interfaces for companies.

- Other non-standard and protected interfaces for Windows-based computers.

Generally speaking, Zip or Rar files that we download from Internet need to be decompressed before we can actually use them. This decompression process goes like this: First, you need double-click this archive, then an associated decompresses will open its file list in a window. Now, if you double-click one of the files on the list, it seems that the file is opened automatically, in the fact, all the files on the list have been decompressed to a temp folder in advance before it's opened. This whole decompression process usually takes a lot of time, especially for an age that archives go larger and larger.

For instance, decompressing an archive larger than 1G often takes you 10 minutes or more depending on your computer's capability, but now if you have got WinMount at hand, you don't need to tolerate the boring moment spent on decompressing. Just right-click on the archive, select "Mount to a new drive " menu item, a few seconds later, the operating system will notify you that a new device has been found and a new drive is created and ready to work. If you open it, you can see that all the files inside the archive are ready for your use.

Some users reported that WinMount takes up too much memory, our answer to it is, this issue is not about winmount itself but your improper understanding. When a ZIP or RAR file is mounted on a virtual drive, WinMount just consumes a little bit memory, but it does consume a little bit more in the case that there is a very large file in the archive because WinMount needs some more memory to create INDEX and CACHE to promote performance. As to mounting ISO or BIN, WinMount consumes far less memory.

The Bat! is an e-mail application that features support for multiple POP accounts, true multithreading, MIME and UUencode standards, message notification, PGP support, APOP authorization, message sorting, message templates, minimization to the system tray, and multimedia support.

Features :

- Mail Filtering

You wish to toss messages from your friends into special folders, send automatic replies to people from other departments, mark messages from your dear ones with special colours...

Press Ctrl+Shift+F to quickly create a new filter based on the current message and define its functionality.

- Templates

A sales manager should send personalised price lists and promotional material to her/his company partners.

Just create Quick Templates by pressing Ctrl+Shift+Q, type the handle of the template you need and press Ctrl+Space - The Bat! will promptly insert text, attach files and make the message ready to send.

- Virtual Folders

A technical supporter should find all messages from/to a particular person for a specific time period.

Press F7, specify your search criteria and folders to look in, start...

To keep search results all together for further references, create a Virtual Folder.

- Spam filtering

Every day, you have to go through endless lists of messages from somebody who wants to sell you something you don't need? You want to read messages only from people you need and do not waste your time reading all those ads?

Just add BayesIt! anti-spam plug-in to The Bat!, feed it with examples of spam you receive and relax - BayesIt! filters our virtually all unwanted mail while messages you need get through