Assorted Goodies

Last updated 26-April-2010

A Really Small App 2.0    1.3Mb   (1-Feb-2010)
A fun and free Really Small App showing Running Tasks, Current Startups, CPU and Memory utilization graphs, the number of running processes, and the number of connections to your PC from remote computers (e.g. Trojan viruses, Spyware).  It is also a great default printer changer utility accessible directly from the System Tray with one click of the mouse.

AriTech ASCII Table 1.40    306K   (6-February-2002)
Every programmer or systems person has needed an ASCII table at some stage or other – yet, ASCII tables, which should be part of all operating systems, are so difficult to get hold of.  This brilliant tool from Indonesia fills this gap and enables you to view ASCII codes on-screen or print a comprehensive ASCII table.  Free.

Bootlog Analyzer 1.23    278K
Cannot start Windows 95/98.  It keeps hanging while loading, yet it will load into Safe Mode without problem.  It could be buggy drivers which fail to load, or faulty hardware which causes a particular driver to fail.  Whatever it is, you have no way of knowing for certain.  This is where Bootlog Analyzer could be your saviour.  Press and hold F8 when you start your PC and choose the option that creates the BOOTLOG.TXT file.  Then, after your PC has hung yet again, reboot into Safe Mode and use Bootlog Analyzer to analyze your log file so that you can see what exactly is happening when Windows is trying to boot into Normal Mode.  Bootlog Analyzer can sort load events in many different ways, by the time of the event, by loading duration, by event type, by failed events, or by events that experienced delays.  A very useful troubleshooting tool.  Free.

CMOS Password 4.3    141K   (23-August-2003)
Lost your BIOS password, and you need to get into the BIOS setup to make a few changes?  End-user cannot remember where they kept their PC's documentation?  No problem, download this excellent free utility from Christophe Grenier and just type  CMOSPWD  or  CMOSPWD_NT  (under NT)  to retrieve that lost password.  Take the time to read the README.TXT file, you'll learn a few interesting facts!

Convert 4.10    195K
The ultimate conversion calculator from Joshua Madison.  Think of any type of measurement you wish to convert (feet, centimetres, litres, Celcius, seconds, sqft, degrees, etc...), it will do it.  And you can even program it to do conversions between changeable values, such as currency conversions.  A must for anyone who regularly deals with different countries' measurements.  Free.

eCleaner 2.01    457K
A great free little utility.  How many times have you pasted into a document text that you picked up from an e-mail or from the web, and then spent half an hour getting rid of the unwanted line breaks, or getting rid of the dozens of spaces at the beginning of each line?  With eCleaner this is now a thing of the past!  First configure it once and for all to "Leave blank lines".  Thereafter simply copy and paste any e-mail or web text into eCleaner, press the "Clean" button, immediately switch back to your wordprocessor or e-mail, and paste.  As simple as that.  Free.

Floppy Disk Manager 2.1    1.32Mb
An absolutely essential utility for anyone who sets up and configures PCs. Floppy Disk Manager enables you to take an image copy of a floppy disk and store it on your hard disk or network.  At a later stage, when you need that vital floppy disk (e.g. a System Disk, or a Drivers disk), simply recreate the floppy disk using the image that you stored on your hard disk or network.  Using Floppy Disk Manager, build yourself a library of those crucial floppy disks and so insure yourself against the loss, or corruption, of those floppy disks.  It has a weird installation procedure which does everything except create Program Icons (!!),  but in all other aspects this is a truly professional tool with the ability to enter comments against each diskette image.  We have been using it, and its predecessor, WinDupe, for years with total satisfaction.  This is a fully working 30-day demo;  $49 to purchase.

Free Hex Editor 1.0.156    336K
A tool for the techies. What more can we say, the name says it all. And it's free! One of the best Hex Editors around and, yes, it is free.

NoteTab Light 5.61    2.2Mb   (10-May-2008)
Unbelievable.  Ridiculous.  We were introduced to this 8th wonder of the world as a simple replacement to Windows' Notepad.  This free utility blows the mind :  not only is it the most advanced Text Editor in the universe, it is in fact a virtual control center for all systems people. Judge for yourself :  a text editor, two HTML editors with full dictionary, syntax checker, structure guidance, and examples, a private Clipboard, fully programmable through advanced macro and scripting language, you can launch anything from within it, an FTP client, full FTP scripting for automated FTP tasks, a spell checker, a file compare utility, a reminder alarm of tasks to do, imperial to decimal converter calculators, currency calculator.  Need we say more?  And this is the free LITE version !!  Also runs on Apple Macintosh virtual PCs.

Toggle TrayTools 2.1.4    317K   (14-April-2002)
Some users like to start their programs with just the one click straight from the System Tray (next to the clock).  There are many programs out there which will enable you to do that.  Toggle TrayTools is the Rolls Royce of all of them.  Dead easy to use, brilliantly comprehensive, reliable, and with a very small footprint.  Works on Windows 95/98/NT4/ME/2000.  $15 if you decide to keep it.

Ultra-Edit32 v10.20c    3.5Mb   (20-November-2004)
There are excellent Hex Editors, like Free Hex Editor featured earlier on this page, and there is Simply The Best.  We at AnswersThatWork use Free Hex Editor whenever we are at a customer and need a Hex Editor straight away.  In our office, however, Ultra-Edit32 is the one and only. Multiple file edits, Plain Text editing, Hex Editing, HTML editing, Programming Editing, Macros, File comparison, Encoding translations (MAC, Unix, EBCDIC, DOS, Windows OEM, ANSI), Multiple Clipboards, Bookmarks, this one has the lot.  If you only need a Hex Editor occasionally, get the Free Hex Editor.  If you are a developer, or you are in Systems Support, Networking, etc..,  then pay $35 for Ultra-Edit32, it is an excellent investment.  This is a 30-day evaluation version.  Works on all versions of Windows.