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Date

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Description

Rescue 911 2.0 2/02/99 268 K Have you ever had your system crash? Ever had to reformat your hard drive? Use Rescue 911 to back up your registry and important system files, then save your system after trouble strikes. With Automatic Backup, Rescue 911 backs up your system files each time you start your computer. Restoring files is as easy as pushing a button. Manual backups go to a separate directory from Automatic backups and remain unchanged through restarts. If Windows won't start, just turn off the computer, pop in the Rescue Diskette, and turn the computer on again. The diskette boots into a menu with the option to restore from Automatic or Manual Backup. Enter your choice and Rescue 911 does the rest!
Shareware - $12.50
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Complete Cleanup Software

3.97

1/19/99

975 K

Complete Cleanup cleans up a variety of internet and non-internet files on your computer. It displays your file statistics and removes all internet cookies, cache files, history files, and location URL's for Internet Explorer, Netscape, or AOL. This also cleans up your "recent documents" list, along with leftover temp files, excess index files, previous file "run history", and previous file "find history". You can also enter any of your own personal cleanups which you would like to add to the cleanup list (if you choose).
Shareware - $29.95
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INF-Tool 4.36as 1/22/99 963 K INF-Tool generates very small installation scripts (only 1-3 KB!) in the .INF format, which can fully be handled by Windows95/NT , thus making huge-sized and expensive installation software obsolete.
Shareware - $19
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Cacheman 3.51 1/16/99 137 K Cacheman is a GUI based tool used to optimize the cache settings and change the mentioned INI file. The result is a much better system performance on most systems, due to the reduced use of the swap file.
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EnviroPro 1.10 1/17/99 1.7 M EnviroPro allows the user to create environment variable 'profiles' for software on their system, permitting for the use of different environment variable settings (ie. PATH, COMSPEC) with each application.
Shareware - $12
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SmartStart 1.26 1/14/99 847 K Gain control of your Windows Startup. SmartStart allows users to add and remove programs, located in the Registry, Startup folder and Win.ini file, that load during startup. SmartStart includes support for Drag-N-Drop, Clipboard functions (Cut/Copy/Paste), and a feature called SmartBin which saves deleted items for future restoration.
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Window Washer 2.5 1/11/99 1137 K Window Washer is a very useful program for cleaning up the history of your activities on a computer so your computer privacy can be maintained (cover your tracks!). Cleaning up the history of your activities can be a tedious chore of manually removing each history file or entry. If privacy and disk space are to be maintained, this process must be performed every time you use your computer. Window Washer can automate this process for you! Window Washer will automatically run in the background and clean up whatever tracks you want removed, whenever you want. You can have Window Washer automatically clean your files either when Windows is started or shutdown, as well as schedule timed cleanings.
Shareware - $29.95
More Information - Window Washer Home Page
Tweaking Toolbox for Windows 1.10 1/10/99 213 K Tweaking Toolbox for Windows (TTW) is a utility that helps you to customise your Windows 95/98 interface, by configuring and personalising its look and feel. The easy to use interface lets you configure dozens of hidden Windows 95/98 settings from the Start Menu, Desktop, MS-DOS prompt, Internet Explorer, Outlook Express and many more.
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RegRepair 2000 3.3 1/3/99 859 K RegRepair 2000 will fix all your IOS ERRORS. Fix conflicts and more. IOS errors are the messages you get at bootup, the failed to load files in the bootlog, and the corrupted font files that cause you to get locked out of Windows
Shareware - $29.95
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WinBoost 98 1.23 12/17/98 1187 K WinBoost 98 is a special utility that helping you to boost Windows 98/95 performance and productivity, by configuring and personalizing its look-and-feel. Using easy to use graphical user interface you can configure hundreds of Windows 98/95's hidden settings. For example, adjust CD-ROM cache up to 32x speed, optimize your internet connection (by maximizing MaxMTU and TTL settings), optimize your multimedia applications, change IE and OE logo animation (template available), rename and hide all of Start Menu items such as Start button, Run menu, etc.
Shareware - $15
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ADing FreeRAM 1.02 12/30/98 151 K ADing FreeRAM increase your system performance on-demand or automatically by: -Increasing the amount of RAM available -Recovering memory leaks  -Defragmenting your physical RAM and more
Shareware - $9.95
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MotherBoard Monitor 3.82 12/30/98 1409 K MotherBoard Monitor is a Freeware program, which will try to access one or more of the following chips: LM78, LM79, WinBond W83781D and in some cases the LM75 on your motherboard and will try to provide you with information about your motherboard's temperature, voltages, fan speeds and CPU temperature. It can shut down, force shutdown (or enter Standby-Mode under Windows 9x), in conjunction with ShutDown NOW!, unattended on modern mainboards, if one of the built-in sensors signals, that your motherboard or CPU is getting too hot! "MotherBoard Monitor" needs less RAM and resources than other, commercial software.
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StepUp'98 4.08b 12/29/98 528 K Award-winning Windows shell extender; a set of useful utilities which make working with Windows easier and faster: StepUp Menu, Folder Navigator, Menu Designer, File Handler, StepUp Control Panel, handy taskbar icons: MicroDesk, Fast Exit, AutoRun CD, and more.
Shareware - $29.95
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Cool Info 99 2.5a 1/3/99 3926 K Displays just about everything about your computer you could possibly want to know in a graphical interface. Nothing is left unknown about drives, files, memory, mobile systems, network, fonts, printers, keyboards, mice, monitors, video adapters, CPU's, and more.
Shareware - $19.95
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Shutdown Now 3.55 12/21/98 1020 K ShutDown Now is the new small and handy whiz kid of utilities developed for everybody. This 32-bit utility  makes it easier and quicker to get out of Windows. safely with a double-click.
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Window Cleaner 1.0 12/3/98 2.3 M Window Cleaner cleans unwanted files to save diskspace and covers your tracks by deleting history and cached files.
Shareware - $34.95 - 15 day evaluation period
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ERS98, Emergency Recovery System 8.54.30 11/19/98 2.64 M Recover gracefully from a system crash with ERS. ERS does backup on Win95/98 system files and registry. Should Win95/98 registry or other System files get corrupted, backups will then be available to restore from. Extra features, compression, auto backup, daily and weekly rotary backup, Win95/98 Vital and Startup files backup, complete backup to the Windows and Windows\System files.
Shareware - $25 - 30 runs free trial
More Information - ERS98 Home Page
StartEd 3.65 10/20/98 861 K StartEd allows you to take a peek at what's currently going on during the boot operations, and places the power to Edit, Delete and even Add to the existing entries at your fingertips.
Shareware - $15
More Information - StartEd Home Page
NameEdit 1.2 9/29/98 128 K NameEdit is a simple utility for editing the user and company names that a particular copy of Windows 95 or 98 is licensed to. Freeware.
More Information - NameEdit Home Page
Stat Bar 2.2.23 9/23/98 2.19 M StatBar is a utility to view free system resources and drive space, as well as an application launcher. It can also shutdown, logoff or reboot your PC with a single mouse click.
Freeware
More Information - Stat Bar Home Page
Drive Emulator 1.5 8/19/98 60 K Creates a virtual drive for multi-purpose use. Eg. Copy an entire CD-Rom to your hard disk and then create a virtual drive letter for it.
More Information - Drive Emulator Home Page
DateTime 1.2 8/17/98 300 K DateTime is a useful freeware Windows 95/98/NT utility that allows computer users with an Internet connection to accurately set their system date and time. It's easy to use and fast. With just a few clicks of your mouse you can fetch the current date and time from an Internet Date/Time host.
More Information - DateTime Home Page
Q-Recovery 98 1.26 8/1/98 2.23 M Q-Recovery 98 Professional is a utility that allows you to save your system's configuration. In the event of a disaster, you can restore one of your previously saved configurations (or a part of it). The DOS-Restore Module lets you restore your system files also when Windows 95 fails to start.
Shareware - $15
More Information - Hyper!-Q Home Page
Picture Taker
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1.52 7/13/98 1.54 M PictureTaker Enterprise Edition offers award-winning software distribution and repair for Windows 95, 98, NT 4 and 5. Updating, adding, deleting and fixing software can be done over any network including the Internet. PictureTaker makes desktop software management in a heterogeneous environment an automated, fast and controlled process.
More Information - Picture Taker Home Page
Waste Whacker 3.12 7/14/98 1.06 M Waste Whacker automates the process of removing unwanted files from your hard drives. These files can be backup files created by many applications, temp files not removed by Windows or other programs, files with a zero-byte size, old Internet cache files, plus many others.
Shareware - $15 - 60 day evaluation period
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Uninstall Manager 2.60 6/26/98 424 K The best way to check all new additions to your system without installation monitoring. Getting files off of your system is a lot harder than installing them. Now you can completely remove unwanted software from your system.
Shareware - $10
More Information - Uninstall Manager Home Page
UnInstaller Deluxe 5.0 6/3/98 4.7 M UnInstaller reclaims disk space safely and easily by removing junk files, Internet cache files, Windows 3.1 programs, and old software that Windows 95 cannot! UnInstaller will never delete critical system files, making it the safest way to retrieve disk space! Deluxe includes full virus protection!
Shareware - $49.95
More Information - UnInstaller DeluxeHome Page
LaunchPad Event Scheduler

2.87

9/17/98 882 K A powerful and feature rich tool for scheduling unattended tasks. Now with New! additional scheduling options. LaunchPad offers a wide variety of options. Supports direct DOS commands, DDE monitoring, DDE command scripts, Sendkey macros, Network capable and multiple schedule files.
Shareware - $29.95
More Information - LaunchPad Home Page
XControl 4.0 5/28/98 1.8 M Provides users with access to over a hundred hidden Win95 settings without delving into the registry.
More Information - XControl Home Page
WinRescue98 3.04 4/27/98 682 K Backs up Thirteen different files, the Start Menu, the Desktop, Favorites,and Recent items, plus any additional files that you specify.
Shareware - $19.95
More Information - WinRescue98 Home Page
RegiSet 1.1 5/16/98 1.88 M RegiSet is a shareware program designed for Windows NT 4.0 that allows administrators to change many useful registry settings through a safe and user friendly environment.
Shareware - $34
More Information - RegiSet Home Page
WinRescue 95 8.04 4/25/98 914 K Windows95 program that backs up and restores the Registry and other configuration files of Windows95. Win Rescue 95 compresses files, regularly prompts for backup, has changeable directories, backs up current or previous registry, backs up to diskette.
More Information - WinRescue Home Page
TidyDisk 2.0a 4/19/98 597 K TidyDisk 2.0a is a handy utility for cleaning unwanted and unnecessary files off your hard disk. It can clean temporary files, Internet cache files, and any other files you want removed. TidyDisk can be configured to remove exactly the files you want deleted.
Shareware - $19.95
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TweakEzy 1.52 4/22/98 190 K Ideal for anyone in charge of one or more Win95 PCs or NT servers who cannot be bothered with setting up Internet-based time synchronization to keep the system clock(s) from drifting.
Shareware - $19.95
More Information - TweakEzy Home Page
Set Me Up 98 3.5 4/9/98 23 K The ultimate Windows configuration tool - get the most from your computer  with system configuration editor featuring over 70 runtime enhancements, settings and tools in 10 categories covering new IE4 Shell Tweaks, System Startup,Startup/Shut Down screens,System Maintenance,Explorer,Application Sounds,Internet support directory, File Maintenance,Windows Tools, Logons, Workstation Security and Recovery.
Shareware - $24
More Information - Set Me Up Home Page
PrimeOut 1.3 2/11/98 634 K PrimeOut is a 32-bit program which allows you to easily shutdown, logoff or restart Windows 95 or NT with just one click of the mouse. PrimeOut also displays the day, date and time. Additional features include auto-shutdown or restart at user specified time.
Shareware - $20
More Information - PrimeOut Home Page
WinSafe95 4.5.02 2/6/98 660 K WinSafe 95 saves all vital information and restores your system back to operating condition when you find yourself in Safe Mode or a crash. It also gives you quick access to all the files and utilities that you need to recover. 
Shareware - $29.95
More Information - WinSafe95 Home Page
RegClean 4.1a 12/31/97 771 K Microsoft's RegClean analyzes Windows Registry keys stored in a common location in the Windows Registry. It finds keys that contain erroneous values, and after recording those entries in the Undo.Reg file, it removes them from the Windows Registry.
More Properties
With Runtime Libraries
2.03 12/1/97 1744 K More Properties enables customizing of features in Windows 95/NT that were not included in the standard interface.
More Information - More Properties Home Page
Power Boot
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Version 2.1

.99 11/2/97 20 K Power Boot is a boot utility that allows you to select which Operating System you want to boot from. If you want to install more than one Operating System in your PC, you will want to install them in different partitions so that each Operating System runs in its native environment.
More Information - Power Boot Home Page
Clone Master 2.19 8/29/97 1448 K Clone Master will clean your hard drive of duplicate files that are just wasting space. It searches for TRUE duplicate files (byte for byte), same-name files and zero-length files and bring them to your attention. It include Smart Delete, Rename, Save as. and other functions. Clone Master identifies duplicates based on name, byte size, data, and so on. Also there is a security feature that you can enable to leave your windows directory alone. That is, Clone Master will not process any files and subdirectories within your Windows folder.
Shareware - $29.95
More Information - Softbyte Labs
WinTune 97
for Windows95

WinTune97
for NT

1.0 6/16/97 1.0 M

1.5 M

Wintune97 examines your system's performance by testing the CPU, video, disk and memory components. It analyzes the results and lets you know how to get the best out of your system. Wintune 95 can also detect common Windows 95 configuration problems and give you specific instructions for fixing them.
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Registry Search and Replace 2.10 4/13/97 670 K Registry Search & Replace helps to automate the frequent maintenance of the Windows NT and Windows 95 registration databases
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WinHacker 95 2.0 3/27/97 1.06 MB Program to allow you to change many Windows95 default settings.
Shareware - $17.95
More Information - Wedge Software
Win-eXpose-Registry 1.00 10/15/96 1153 K Examine in real-time any application's Registry operations.
Shareware - $29
More Information - Win-eXpose-Registry Home Page