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Inno Setup is a free installer for Windows programs. First introduced in 1997, Inno Setup today rivals and even surpasses many commercial installers in feature set and stability.

Key features:

* Support for all versions of Windows in use today: Vista, XP, 2003, 2000, Me, 98, 95, and NT 4.0. (No service packs are required.)
* Extensive support for installation of 64-bit applications on the 64-bit editions of Windows Vista, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003. Both the x64 and Itanium architectures are supported. (On the Itanium architecture, Service Pack 1 is required to install in 64-bit mode.)
* Supports creation of a single EXE to install your program for easy online distribution. Disk spanning is also supported.

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The installation builder is a simple SDI application with a tabbed form where you can enter all the information needed by the setup program. For example: add files, assign shortcuts and other setup specific variables.
You can also use the wizard that will guide you through the necessary steps of creating a setup program for your software product.

The application has 4 tab-pages:
> General, where you can enter application name, company name and so on.
> Files, this is where you specify all files, which need to be distributed.
> Shortcuts, specify shortcuts in the program folder (start menu).
> Output, the final step where you enter the output directory.

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This program is a system tray utility packed with features :

• a launcher for your favorite applications, documents, folders or URL's.
• create systemwide hotkeys that can simulate any set of keystrokes.
• hotkey macro language for extra functionality (eg : screenshots)
• extra built-in tools : Character map, Colorpicker, Screen Magnifier,...

Features
- Popup menu with links to Programs, Documents, Websites, Directories
- Very simple and intuitive interface
- Easy to understand macro language (no programming skills required)
- Small/Large icons
- Uses very little resources
- Easy Setup (with uninstall support)
- No extra DLL's required

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Find and Run Robot is a program for keyboard maniacs - it helps you rapidly find programs or documents from within the depths of the start menu (or other directories).

One keypress launches the utility - then just start typing the first letters of the application you want to launch. As you type the best matches are shown - just hit the number to launch the associated program.

NOTABLE FEATURES

* Fully customizable search paths (search your entire hard disk for files as well as apps)
* Fast incremental searches, with memorized search history helps you find the files you need quickly.
* Completely customizable heuristic scoring metrics - tune the program to search the way you think.
* Add your own custom alias groups.

Tray Tools 2000 allows you to place up to 24 program icons in the Taskbar Tray. Program icons that you place there can be launched by simply clicking your mouse on them.

To add new programs or modify existing items click your mouse on the small red toolbox icon displayed in the tray. You can also modify an existing program icon by right-clicking on it directly from the Taskbar Tray.

Folder2Iso creates an iso from any kind of folder (with the subfolders). It's a GUI of mkisofs. No need of installation, really small exe.

MagicDisc is freeware. It is very helpful utility designed for creating and managing virtual CD drives and CD/DVD discs. For anyone who deals with CD-based programs – it is a MUST.

MagicDisc allows you to use almost all CD/DVD image without burning them onto CD or DVD in order to easily access your favorite games, music, or software programs ---- It works like a real CD/DVD-ROM: You can run programs, play games, or listen to music from your virtual CD-ROM. Allowing you to run your game images at over 200x faster than from a conventional CD/DVD-ROM. MagicDisc is a powerful utility that uses a unique combination of options to ensure a perfect back-up every time.

AutoRuns offers the most comprehensive knowledge of auto-starting locations of any startup monitor, shows you what programs are configured to run during system bootup or login, and shows you the entries in the order Windows processes them. These programs include ones in your startup folder, Run, RunOnce, and other Registry keys. You can configure Autoruns to show other locations, including Explorer shell extensions, toolbars, browser helper objects, Winlogon notifications, auto-start services, and much more. Autoruns goes way beyond the MSConfig utility bundled with Windows Me and XP.

AutoHotkey is an indispensable utility that gives you the power to automate almost anything by sending keystrokes and mouse clicks. Virtually any key, button, or combination can become a hotkey. Just a few examples are: Expand abbreviations as you type them. For example, typing "btw" can automatically produce "by the way". Create custom data entry forms, user interfaces, and menu bars. Remap keys and buttons on your keyboard, joystick, and mouse.

AutoHotkey unleashes the full potential of your keyboard, joystick, and mouse. For example, in addition to the typical Control, Alt, and Shift modifiers, you can use the Windows key and the Capslock key as modifiers. In fact, you can make any key or mouse button act as a modifier.

Rearrange the buttons on your Windows taskbar by dragging and dropping them. Allows you to rearrange your system tray icons by dragging and dropping as well (with use of a hotkey).

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With Speed Typing, you can type frequently used text such as such as signatures, email addresses, frequently used sentences, URLs, phone numbers, etc. quickly and easily.

You just type a word, and Speed Typing will automatically replace it with a line or a paragraph. Quick acces to the last 15 clipboard items via its System Tray icon.

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PhraseExpress organizes your frequently used text snippets and allows pasting them into any application. The AutoText feature expands short keywords into full phrases. Typing 'btw' expands to 'by the way' while you type or enter 'calc' to launch the Windows Calculator. PhraseExpress minimizes typing errors. with global autocorrect!

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ArsClip is a FREE (freeware) utility for the windows clipboard. ArsClip monitors the clipboard and keeps track of the entries. Press a configurable hotkey and select an item (or items) to quickly paste into a program.

Features:

- Multiple permanent items groups
- Picture, RichText, File Copy, Unicode, HTML support
- Keypress emulation
- Form Mode for pasting multiple fields
- Highly configurable

CLCL is a freeware clipboard caching utility. All clipboard formats are supported. Template can be registered. Pop-up menu is displayed by custom hotkey. Customizable menu. Function is extensible with plug-ins.

HD Tune is a hard disk utility which has the following functions: Benchmark: measures the raw performance. Hard Disk information which includes partition information, supported features, firmware version, serial number, disk capacity, buffer size, transfer mode. Hard Disk Health. Error scan. Temperature display, and more.

A powerful tool for finding and launching your favorite programs, web pages, folders or any type of files quickly and easily.

sTabLauncher uses very little resources and enables you to personalize its appearance in many ways. You can customize colors, images, transparency, animations, and many other options to make it blend in with your desktop.

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ObjectDock™ is a program that enables users to organize their shortcuts, programs and running tasks into an attractive and fun animated Dock.

By allowing users to have more control over how they organize their desktop, users can take control of their desktop icons and shortcuts to have them be available when where and how they need them. This, all with the unique style and top-rate performance that ObjectDock is known to deliver!

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ReplaceEm is essentially a text search-and-replace program. However, unlike the search-replace functionality of a standard text editor, ReplaceEm is designed to operate on multiple files at once. And you need not only perform one search-replace operation per file -- you can setup a list of operations to perform. If different groups of files need to have different operations performed on them, this is no problem either. You can also specify a backup file for each file processed just incase the replace operation didn’t do exactly what you wanted.

Allway Sync uses innovative synchronization algorithms to synchronize your data between desktop PCs, laptops, USB drives and more. Allway Sync combines bulletproof reliability with an extremely easy-to-use interface.

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Cobian Backup is a multi-threaded program that can be used to schedule and backup your files and directories from their original location to other directories/drives in the same computer or other computer in your network. FTP backup is also supported in both directions (download and upload).

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Rename Master is a FREE utility for renaming large groups of files with a few clicks. Anyone that has worked with websites, file archives, or collections of music, videos, or pictures has probably spent way too much time renaming hundreds of files.

This utility will add, remove, or replace parts of the filename with ease and also supports renaming via file properties, MP3 tags, JPEG JFIF and EXIF tags. Batch renaming that's simple to use, yet still very powerful.

Features:
- Intelligent number sorting
- JPEG/MP3 tag support and many more Meta-Variables
- Auto-Preview support
- "Scipts" to save commonly used renaming options
- [*] and [?] command prompt style wildcards for replacing and remove options

Batch file renamer with many options. Batch rename hundreds of files and directories in single click! 11 powerful automation tools. Especially useful for handling large archives, such as music and image collections.

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CubicExplorer is a file manager/browser software application. It's designed to be easy to use, yet powerful enough to handle multiple directories at the same time. It features tabbed browsing, and has a built-in text editor which has highlighters for many different file types.

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Open all kinds of archives. Allows you to work with 22 encode and encryption formats and 44 archive extensions. Including the popular 7z format.

Run automated backups and other operations using the powerful aks and akp scripts. Advanced file list support, including the highlighting of files that match the user defined filter. Thumbnail support to display all pictures in the archive.

Drag and drop files and directories from file list to explorer to extract or add. Context menu support to provide operations directly from the menu, without having to start the main program.

Allows you to add archive bookmarks which perform like your browser bookmarks. You can organize your bookmarks into folders. Many other tools!

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ZipGenius is the absolutely free software for Windows® that lets you compress files to almost any kind of archive. ZipGenius supports more than 20 compressed archive formats, including CD/DVD-ROM image files in ISO9660 standard.

This is the file compression suite you were searching for: it is free and easy to use, plus it supports more than 20 formats of compressed archives, including RAR, ARJ, ACE, CAB, SQX, OpenOffice.org documents and the excellent 7-zip.

ZipGenius now can precompress executable files going to be added to a ZIP archive through the UPX compressor.