AutoHotKey: Adds Media Keys To My Keyboard!

I have been using the small 14 inch ultra-book or laptop for all these whiles for all work and play. Until recently I have an idea to connect it to an external monitor, I finally realised how SMALL 14 is! I then also bought an external keyboard to make my laptop to 'look and feel' like a desktop system; it was an easy task to choose one keyboard for me........until I got home and asked myself: "where are those media keys for volume and playlist controls?!".

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GeekUninstaller: Removes The Toughest Programs!

These days, most people have numerous applications installed in their system, no matter useful or not. This results in performance degradation as most programs include itself in startup item or additional services in the background. To maintain a good computer performance over time, unnecessary programs and applications should be removed, along with their registry items plus created files folders.

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Complete Internet Repair: Fixes All Internet Connection Issues!

How often do you encounter network issue on your computer? Fortunately mine has been working great, but not my sister's. One day her computer can run just fine, but losing connection or got unidentified network the next day. Restarting adapter did not solve the issue, neither does Windows built-in troubleshooter.

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Torch: Chromium-based Browser With Torrent Downloader!

As Chromium, the core of Google Chrome which is an open-source project is becoming more prominent, there are more parties trying to get theirs hand on a new product using the same source code. Few successful examples are SRWare Iron, Comodo Dragon and Maxthon. All these browsers either add in more features, or implement a better privacy and security environment.

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Spotflux: Not Just An Ordinary Virtual Private Network!

No matter if you to stay annonymouse on Internet, or need a secure connection in a hotspot, proxy or virtual private network is your best bet. Though, most VPN services are not free or with certain limitations like SecurityKiss with 300MB data per day, or some with speed capping.

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Allmyapps: Downloads, Updates And Synchronizes Programs!

Keeping track of available updates or patches for all installed software in a system is not an easy job. Even most programs have automatic checking of updates, downloading each is cumbersome. A good option to get everything done at one time is achievable via my previously posted FileREX Update Checker or Ninite.

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AppAdmin: Blocks Programs From Being Accessed!

Protecting a file from unauthorized user especially on a shared computer is fairly easy with either encryption or with different user account. But how do you block access to a specific program? If you have kids, I believe you would love to temporarily lockdown Messenger to stop them from chatting the whole day, or torrenting without your permission.

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Eraser: Shreds and Destroys Data Permanently!

Want to permanently get rid of a sensitive file or data? You move it into recycle bin, empty it and sit back, thinking no one else can reach it anymore. Think again, files removed from recycle bin don't actually get vanished forever, but rather are their index got removed. Simply get a copy of recovery software like Recuva and see it for yourself.

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Media Cope: A Rounded-Up Media Converter!

Albeit not all of us are pro in video or audio editing, I bet there must be at least a media converter in everyone's computer either for school assignment, or simply editing a video for a friend's birthday. Looking for a good one from Internet, you could find a list long of audio or video cutters, editors, players, image editor; and most of us end up installing not just one.

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Recuva: Restores Deleted Files From Recycle Bin!

Imagine you have a really messy computer and decided to give it a thorough maintenance. Few days later you are looking for a work file and snap, you have actually accidentally deleted and removed it from recycle bin! Before you start to redo another copy, chill and try some file recovery software which could hopefully help.

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Free Opener: Opens All Files With One Software!

Although Windows incorporated software to view and edit most common file extensions, we will still need additional software like Codec pack for AVI files, Pdf readers and Office for spreadsheet document. Everytime after reformatting a computer, I got to install different software for specific purpose. More frustrating, the computers in most universities has no sufficient programs installed, and admin right is required to manually install.

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K-Lite Codec Pack: Plays All Video And Audio Formats!

"Why Windows Media Player can't play this file?" This question is no bizzare to many when a person wishes to play .avi .mov or .flv videos using the default Windows Media Player. The answer to this popular question is due to the missing audio and video codec. Of course, some would recommend an alternative players like VLC Player or UMPlayer which has included extra codecs in the program itself. Howbeit, I am still sticking to WMP 12 that suits my taste best.

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SRWare Updater: Automatically Updates Iron Browser!

From personal computer to university to workplace, I can see the default browser of most still goes to Google Chrome. Indeed this browser is perfect from speed of rendering to the simplicity, but many are unaware of the tracking features built-in. While these tracking actually will not do much harm to users, many privacy-conscious people like myself will prefer SRWare Iron, which uses the open-source Chromium source code.

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MailAnyoneAnywhere: Sends Email With No Login Required!

Have you ever come to a situation where you need to send an email to someone but the computer cannot be totally trusted? While it is always unwise to login to any accounts from a doubtful source, sometimes it simply can't be helped when we need to send something out! Unfortunately, my account got hacked once after using it in university lab, which I believe it was a keylogger.

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Peerblock: Blocks Connections Of Internet Trackers!

Internet is indeed the best place to get any files and information. Apart from the standard HTTP or FTP download, P2P or torrenting remains the top channel for files sharing. Howbeit, everything we do over the Internet is tracked. Sounds scary? Deal with it! Numerous software and approaches have been introduced, like utorrent has built-in feature, but they won't be effortless to use for a novice.

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MaxMax: Uncovers Part Of Desktop When In Maximized!

Do you use Windows 7 sidebar or gadgets? Whenever I need to access them, I must first minimize other applications and go to the desktop, troublesome. Even worse, some gadgets display are buggy when they always show on top and don't go off when other application is maximized.

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Belarc Advisor: Gathers All System Information!

On browsing the web to look for product keys recovery tool, I stumbled upon Belarc Advisor, the free PC Audit besides the well-known ProduKey. This tool doesn't just recovers product key, it builds a very detailed profile from a computer for everything you can list out, even those you can't.

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ProduKey: Recovers Microsoft Product Keys!

How often do you keep a copy of Windows product keys after installing, and you need them one day to reformat computer but simply cannot find it back? Even it is always recommended to jot down all software product keys, don't get intimidated too fast if you really lost them as they're actually stored in your hard disk!

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Toolwiz Time Freeze: Securely Prevents Unwanted Changes!

Everytime I see an interesting software, I want to test it. However not all software are well-developed and many have bugs which can cause damage to my system. Usually I use a virtual machine, but Toolwiz Time Freeze is another method whenever I feel lazy to turn on virtual machine that uses more system resources.

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Toolbar Cleaner: Removes Browsers Toolbars and Helper Objects!

These days, whenever you install a software either a freeware or paid, there will be extra options to install some toolbars or extra sponsored programs, and many times these options are checked by default. Inexperienced users often got "tricked" and have numerous junks installed alongside what they actually wanted.

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