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Julie · Joined: 25 May 2005 Posts: 15

Share your collection of free Office/System Utilities with others.

You can post here links of any great softwares which falls in this category of ‘Office/System Utilities’ like –

Organizers, Calculators, Conversion Tools, Office Suites, Monitoring Tools, Power Tools, Printing Tools, Security Tools, Service Packs & Updates, Automation Tools, Personal Info Managers, Reminder Tools, etc.

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JohnT · Joined: 02 Jun 2005 Posts: 8

Hey guys,
Some good ones for this category-

Lotto Calculator:
http://users.tpg.com.au/davepye/lottocalc.zip

Find out if it's really worthwhile playng Lotto. Check the odds and more! Check previous games for winning numbers, find out the odds for any Lotto, Powerball or Keno, run the simulator. Includes just under 200 optimized wheel systems. This won't win the Lotto for you, but will allow you to see just why it's so hard to win.

Simple Budget: A very simple, no frills, but functional program that itemises all of your expenses plus your income and then shows you how much money you have left each week, fortnight, month and year. No complicated instructions or interface, start entering data as soon as the program has loaded. Fully functional with no restrictions.
http://www.davidpye.com/freeware/files/simplebudget.zip

LIFESPAN AGE CALCULATOR can subtract dates, outputting the number of days months and years elapsed. Free, quick, small and very effective, Lifespan Age Calculator runs on pretty much anything (anything running windows that is!). A very small footprint (35k zipped, 80k unzipped) makes Lifespan Age Calculator very easy to distribute on the net or by email. Did I forget to mention it's a completely free way to subtract dates?
http://home.thirdage.com/Genealogy/lifespancalculator/LIFESPAN.zip

Hope to see some more good office tools here

Maria · Joined: 02 Jun 2005 Posts: 8

Yes here are some more good office/system tools-

HDDLife: Worried about hard drive failures? Get HDDLife - a real-time hard drive monitoring utility with alerts, malfunction protection and data loss prevention functions. This hard drive inspector is an advanced proactive hard drive failure detection system which controls all of your hard drive risks. HDDLife uses S.M.A.R.T. technology, and works both for single PCs and large computer networks.

S.M.A.R.T. technology was developed by hard drive manufacturers to accurately predict hard drive life span and prevent HDD malfunction. HDDLife displays S.M.A.R.T. attributes in real-time and alerts the system administrator if particular hard-drive attributes exceed threshold values and are at risk. The system administrator can then backup data and/or replace endangered hard drives.

HDDLife loads on Windows start, compares new attribute values with the previous values and consumes absolutely no memory. The program is extremely straightforward - no fundamental knowledge of PC or hard drive technology is needed whatsoever. Zero failures during the last four years for the 100000+ hard drives monitored! 100% FREE to download and try.
http://www.HDDlife.com/HDDlife1.exe

Emsa Bandwidth Monitor is program that allows monitoring your internet connection speed, total traffic, average download/upload speed, etc. It is very simple to use; runs as system tray icon and shows a small, transparent-able, repositionable window that you can place on your desktop. It also allow viewing extended Net adapter interface settings, like MAC address, speed, etc. It allows viewing traffic data per interface or as a whole. It can be set to autorun at system startup. This program has been designed with simplicity in mind, but usefulness for the user. Freeware.
http://download1.e-systems.ro/BandwidthMonitorN.zip

-Maria

Monica · Joined: 02 Jun 2005 Posts: 14

OK, Now see the most amazing software which I use daily in my office-

PhoneTray is an easy to use FREE Caller ID software. It shows and speaks the callers name and number before you answer the phone. You can set a different ringtone for each caller or type of callers - select from 20 included ringtones or use any wav file. PhoneTray logs all your incoming calls - date, time, name and number.
PhoneTray can automatically zap telemarketers with a special number disconnected tone. The program can play Federal do-not-call warning forcing telemarketers to remove you from their calling lists - by law! PhoneTray can block calls from specific numbers or reject any other type of unwanted calls (blocked number, out of area etc.) by answering and playing selected message. Several messages are included or you can use wav file of your choice.
PhoneTray requires a modem with CallerID support and CallerID service from your phone company.
http://dl.downloadhosting.com/download/traysoft/PhoneTrayFree.exe

InstallSpy: This is not spyware, but a program to help you discover spyware! Track any and all changes to the registry and file system, and also record all shell notification events (e.g. media inserted), when a program is installed, uninstalled, or run. This can warn you of programs trying to install new services, programs that are set to run on reboot, changes to your home page, etc. It's a highly configurable program that allows you to catch any change to your system. Filtering lets you zoom down to the details that are most important to you.
http://www.mjleaver.com/Software/InstallSpy_Setup.zip

Rambooster: "Clean your RAM of all that stuff that it practically never needed. Makes computer faster and more reliable. No more unnecessary boot-ups"
http://www.sci.fi/~borg/rambooster/Rambooster.zip

-Monica

Mike · Joined: 23 May 2005 Posts: 12

Hi folks,

All you guys have posted some incredible products’ links above, I have downloaded a few.
Just awesome!

Some more superb tools are here-

RegScrubXP: Safely cleans junk out of the Windows XP/2000 System Registry, making it smaller and faster to access
http://www.lexundesigns.com/LexunFreeware/Apps/RegScrubXP-Install.zip

Jetico Personal Firewall protects your computer from unwanted hacker's attacks from outside
as well as from malicious programs "living" secretly inside your computer's memory and hard drive.
Three levels of protection are included: low-level network packets filtering, application-level network events filtering and filtering of user-level process activity.
Jetico Personal Firewall checks every packet that comes in or out of your computer. Using configuration sets for Security Policy you define how your computer is connected to the local network and the whole Internet. Your computer may be completely hidden from any unfriendly attempts to access your hard drive while you are able to access any web sites you want and you decide on which applications are allowed to access Internet and which are not.
With Jetico Personal Firewall you feel secure, safe and protected while enjoying all Internet activities.
http://www.jetico.com/jpfwall.exe

SpyBot-Search & Destroy searches your hard drive for so-called spy- or adbots; that is, little modules that are responsible for the ads many programs display. Many of these modules also transmit information, including your surfing behavior on the Internet. If SpyBot-S&D finds such modules, it can remove them. In most cases the host still runs fine after removing the spyware/adware.
http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=mirrors

-Mike
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Gaurav · Joined: 23 May 2005 Posts: 7

Wow!

What a thread it is!
I found some unbelievable tools above.

I use these free utilities, so do I recommend for you people, may be you find them useful-

System Security Suite (3S) is the program to remove internet tracks and junk files from your computer. It allows you to delete Cookies, clear Internet Explorer Cache, delete index.dat Files, clear Typed URLs, Windows Temp Folder and much more. You can also specify custom folder locations with file masks, which will be cleaned in addition to the selected items. In addition, the program allows you to view and optionally remove programs that launch automatically at Windows startup.
http://www.igorshpak.net/software/3ssetup104.zip

Bottin can maintain names and addresses, phone numbers, photos, voices... It can print envelops, automatically compose a phone number (with the necessary prefixes), retain anniversary dates and ring to remember them, and so on.
http://micromeg.free.fr/Programs/Bottin2x.exe

-Gaurav