_APC Peter Blaise 703-845-1556 Software Tools Page

    On this page I offer a list of software resources and links that I use to enhance and tune my own and my customer's computers. Like safety belts in a car, these tools did not come with the original MS Microsoft OS Operating System, though Microsoft is trying to catch up.

    Feel free to try these on your own, and ask me questions, or contact the original suppliers for help.  Note that, like a screwdriver used top open a can of paint, the features and benefits possible with this software - the specific reasons I use these software tools - may not be obvious or even explicitly expressed by the original authors.

    Click on a title below to go to information of tie software, or just scroll down for an extended sort-of alphabetical listing. Some software is known by the company, and some by the software title itself, so the list is not perfectly alphabetical.

Ad Aware by LavaSoft spyware cleaner
    http://www.lavasoft.de/support/download/
Ad Subtract by InterMute ad and popup filter
    http://www.adsubtract.com/
Adobe Acrobat Reader PDF document reader
    http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
AVG AntiVirus Free
    http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php
Belarc Advisor hardware/software inventory
    http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html
Big Fix enhanced updater for Microsoft Windows/Office
    http://help.bigfix.com/
CompuPic Pro image file management
    http://www.compupic.com
D4Time Dimension 4 time check
    http://www.thinkman.com/dimension4/download.htm
Dreamweaver by Adobe (was Macromedia) web page builder
    http://www.macromedia.com/software/dreamweaver/
(was Drive Copy now) Symantec Norton Ghost
    http://www.drivecopy.com/sabu/ghost/ghost_personal/
Easy CD Creator by Sonic (was Adaptec/Roxio)
    http://www.easycdcreator.com/
Essential Net Tools by Tamos TCP/IP NetBIOS scanner
    http://www.tamos.com/products/nettools/
Flash, Shockwave and Authorware by Adobe (was Macromedia) web media players
    http://www.macromedia.com/downloads/
Font Smart by HP Hewlett Packard
    http://search.hp.com/query.html?col=alldocs&charset=iso-8859-1&hpvc=US+-+main&la=en&qt=fontsmart&qs=&st=1&nh=10&lk=1&rf=0&uf=0
Google Browser Toolbar for pre XP popup blocker
    http://toolbar.google.com/?promo=mor-tb-en
Google Desktop Search XP/W2K PC document search
    http://desktop.google.com/?promo=mp-gds-v1-1
GRC.com Free Stuff by Gibson Research anti Microsoft security hole filler
    http://grc.com/
IE AntiSpy Ads web host file filter
    https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/ehowes/www/resource.htm
IrfanView graphics file control
    http://www.irfanview.com/
JV Registry Cleaner
    http://www.jv16.org/
    http://www.macecraft.com/downloads/
LapLink DOS smart 8.3 file transfer, now up to v5
    http://www.laplink.com/products/LLV/overview.asp
MailFrontier Matador spam filter for Microsoft Outlook
    http://www.mailfrontier.com/products_matador.html
Clean Memory
    http://wwwperso.hol.fr/~alca06/
Merjin CWShredder and HijackThis spyware cleaners
    http://www.merjin.org/
    http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html
    http://www.intermute.com/spysubtract/cwshredder_download.html
Microsoft Tweak User Interface
    http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx
    http://www.microsoft.com/ntworkstation/downloads/powertoys/networking/nttweakui.asp
Microsoft Visual Basic, DirectX, MDAC Updates
    http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/
Microsoft Windows 2000 Pro
    http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/default.asp
Microsoft Windows 98 SE Second Edition
    http://www.microsoft.com/windows98/default.asp
Microsoft Windows/Office Updates
    http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/
Monitor Calibration Wizard
    http://www.hex2bit.com/products/product_mcw.asp
Mozilla Firebird/Firefox and Thunderbird safe browser and email manager
    http://www.getfirefox.com/
  http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/
MrBIOS.com PC hardware updates
    http://www.mrbios.com/
Norton Symantec AntiVirus and Utilities
    http://www.symantec.com/smallbiz/sys_pr/
OmniPage Pro OCR Optical Character Recognition
    http://www.scansoft.com/omnipage/
Partition Magic
    http://sea.symantec.com/content/product.cfm?productid=1
pcAnywhere by Norton/Symantec remote PC control
    http://sea.symantec.com/content/product.cfm?productid=16
PCTools DOS utilities (was Central Point, acquired by Symantec)
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Photoshop by Adobe Systems image file control
    http://www.photoshop.com/
PKZip DOS file compression
    http://www.pkzip.com/downloads/
PowerStrip by EnTech Taiwan video card inspector
    http://www.entechtaiwan.net/util/ps.shtm
QEMM MFT DOS by Quarterdeck system inspector (acquired by Symantec)
    http://www.quarterdeck.com/
QuickGamma and Quick Monitor Profile by Quickgamma.com
    http://www.quickgamma.de/indexen.html
    http://quickgamma.de/QuickMonitorProfile/indexen.html
Quicktime by Apple Computer web movie player
    http://www.quicktime.exe/
QuickView Plus by InSO file viewer and unZiper (now by Avantstar.com)
    http://www.avantstar.com/stellent/intradoc-cgi/idc_cgi_isapi.dll?IdcService=SS_GET_PAGE&ssDocName=QuickViewPlusOverview
RegClean by Microsoft
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Registry Tools by various companies
    http://www.rosecitysoftware.com/reg1aid/
    http://www.rosecitysoftware.com/RegistryCompressor/
    https://www.pctools.com/
Slam rebooter
    http://www.sinnercomputing.com/SlamDL.htm
SpinRite by Steve Gibson GRC.com hard drive and floppy recovery
    http://www.spinrite.com/
Spybot Search and Destroy by Patrick M. Kolla
    http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html
SpySubtract by InterMute
    http://www.intermute.com/products/spysubtract.html
Spyware Blaster
    http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/sbdownload.html
SpywareWarrior.com antispyware information
    http://www.spywarewarrior.com/rogue_anti-spyware.htm
TClockEx Tray Clock date and time and memory use display
    http://www.rcis.co.za/dale/tclockex/
Toggler KeyLock State for W2K/XP
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Utilities for DOS and Windows
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Weatherbug by AWS outdoors temperature display
    http://www.weatherbug.com/
Word Perfect for DOS and Windows document editor and management
    http://www.wordperfect.com/
WWIP Watch WAN IP Address for pcAnywhere
    http://www.emc3.us/emc3ware/
XTeq XSetup registry tuner
    http://x-setup.net/downloads/home.asp?lang=EN
Yahoo POPs email access
    http://yahoopops.sourceforge.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=Downloads&file=index&req=viewsdownload&sid=2
... more ...
    http://briefcase.yahoo.com/peterblaise/