A free service that checks documents like HTML and XHTML for conformance to W3C Recommendations and other standards.....(free).....

This command line program waits until the file, specified as a parameter, can be opened exclusively. It can be used in .bat files if you want to process, such as copy, delete and so forth, a file that is currently opened by another program. WaitForFile will wait indefinitely until it can open the requested file.....(free).....

This small command line utility makes possible to switch on a computer from a second one by sending a Magic Packet. Both computers can be located on the same LAN or on different LAN segments.....(free).....

This is a revolutionary program which allows you to set Macromedia Flash (*.swf) files as your wallpaper on the Windows desktop. You can set to change wallpapers in random sequence, change them after the program starts, or after a time delay. (Site loads slow).....(free).....

You've never used the caps lock key on purpose, you've never needed it. You've accidentally pushed the key at least a thousand times. Now use wanocaps, the capslock terminator. It's not really a program, it?s actually a registry adjustment.....(free).....

wAPI Monitor 2000 is a small utility that allows you to monitor the debugger messages sent by many MS Windows applications and utilities. Facilities are also included to add diagnostic output messages to any software project that you may be developing.....(free).....

Software and protocol that enables secure distributed communication for small (on the order of 10-50 nodes) trusted groups of users. WASTE is designed to enable small companies and small teams within larger companies to easily communicate and collaborate in a secure and efficient fashion, independent of physical network topology. WASTE is a mesh-based workgroup tool that allows for encrypted, private communication between distant parties on the internet, independant of local network organization. .....(free).....

Energy tracking and management software for Windows 9x, 2000, XP, NT. This is a freeware product that will manage stand-by mode, and track your energy savings when your computer monitor is in stand-by mode.....(free).....

Wax is a high performance and flexible video compositing and special effects software. The idea for Wax is to be very general purpose and flexible in video compositing and effects, so that you can compose your dream video sequence with ease everytime. Wax can create 2D & 3D special effects and can work in two modes - as a standalone application which would appeal for home users/beginners, and as a "plug-in" to video editors/NLEs which would be more useful for professional editors.....(free).....

Turns Internet Explorer into a fully skinnable Web browser, allowing users to skin the toolbar buttons, the window itself and the progress throbber. It supports alpha blended throbber animations (unlike anything else out there) and is easy to use. Version 0.80 of WebBlinds is completely re-written from the previous release, has improved speed, and now skins the status bar and accepts toolbar buttons of any size. Moreover, it uses much less memory than a fully featured stand alone skinnable browser might use, while at the same time having just as much, if not more flexibility than a separate skinnable browser.....(free).....

Web C Plus Plus is a command line utility that takes your source code, and converts it into an HTML file using a fully customizable syntax highlighting engine and colour schemes. This is useful if you want to post your code online and make it easier to read, or to make online programming tutorials .....(free).....

Fabulous... Developing web-sites, CSS, Color Tools, SEO, Usability, lots more.....(free).....

Web Monitor controls all outgoing HTTP requests from your computer and blocks unwanted Internet resources and redirects. Web Monitor protects your privacy and saves your Internet bandwidth .....(free).....

There are many web operating systems hoping to bring all your usual desktop applications online in one place. Some replicate the entire desktop, while others are startpages with info from around the web.....(free).....

Web site hoover.....(free).....

WebThermometer and NetThermometer are a couple of utilities to measure the temperature remotely on the browser via HTTP (the former) or TCP/IP (the latter). If everyone attaches the web thermometer to his computer connected to internet we will build a net of thermometers inside the internet, a World Wide Web of Thermometers! .....(free).....

URL (Web Tracks) Finder is a FREE tool that allows you to scan and check files on your computer's hard drive for Internet addresses. Features: You can search for addresses containing specified substring. You can scan predefined groups of files. You can create and modify such predefined groups of files. Search results are displayed in a table. You can save search results to the file. Internet Tracks Finder is a free tool that allows you to scan files on your computer's hard drive for internet tracks. The files found are displayed for the user to investigate. You may find unencrypted private data and estimate the efficiency of any internet eraser software.....(free).....

Wega2 is a freeware high quality image viewer for digital cameras with built in resampling filters. Wega2 includes some handy additional tools to compare images and analyze exif data with the build in exposureplot program.....(free).....

Graph-based RDF visualizer. From Simile, Semantic Interoperability of Metadata and Information in unLike Environments.....(free).....

Shell replacement for WindowsXP and Windows Server 2003. Replaces the taskbar, start menu and system tray.....(free).....

A simple, freeware date calculator for Windows. Enter a date and interval and press calculate to find any date in the future or past. What Date will recognize any date format which Windows can understand (date formats as set in Control Panel). .....(free).....

What Is Transferring is a easy-to-use packet sniffer for Windows 2000/XP. It is able to capture TCP/IP packets that pass through your network adapter, and view the captured data in Text mode (for HTML page, email, etc.) or in Hex/Ascii mode (for ZIP, JPEG, GIF, etc.). With this software, you can check: 1) If there is any unwanted connections. For example, if you do nothing but this software captured some HTTP or UDP connections - it means that some software automatically tried to connect to other computer. (might be spyware, adware, virus, trojan, etc.) 2) What have those connections sent or received. For example, if you installed adware on your computer, you may want to know if your privacy was sent out. It works on Windows 2000/XP, no need to install any capture driver. It also allows you to save captured data to text file.....(free).....

Rotating home page tool. A different one of your favorite pages is shown each time you open your browser .....(free).....

Whats its color is an image-color processing utility that will evaluate an image and give you the image's primary and complementary dominant colors of an image, how many visually unique colors are in an image, and the top ten visually unique colors in an image. Extremely useful when creating any type of designs around an image. The more colorful the image, the better the results. Results will display your image on the best suited background for that image.....(free).....

Whistler Msgina is a replacement msgina.dll (shutdown screen) for XP, based on Windows Whistler.....(free).....

WhoCrashed allows you to find out which drivers were responsble for crashing your computer without requiring any debugging skills. WhoCrashed is a comprehensible crash dump analysis tool. Whenever a computer running Windows suddenly reboots without displaying any notice or blue screen of death, the first thing that is often thought about is a hardware failure. In reality, most crashes are caused by malfunctioning device drivers and kernel modules. In case of a kernel error, most computers running Windows do not show a blue screen unless they are configured to do so. Instead these systems suddenly reboot without any notice.....(free).....

WhyReboot is a small (~60KB) Windows application that displays a list of pending file operations that will occur after rebooting your computer.....(free).....

Our most powerful 21st-century technologies - robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotech - are threatening to make humans an endangered species .....(free).....

The Widget Program Manager will take a snapshot of your system at the time the program first starts. This snapshot will show all of the processes, modules, and threads that are running on your PC. You will be able to end a process, reboot your PC, and shut down your PC. You will also be able to view the CPU usage, memory load, and monitor other items on your PC in real time.....(free).....

Widgipedia is a site dedicated to web widgets and desktop widgets. You'll find here widgets for all platforms that you can use in your web pages or on your desktop and a great community of widgipals. Web widgets, desktop widgets, widget resources, samples, tutorials.....(free).....

Wi-Fi Security can be hard. There are many options, many settings, and a lot of techno-babble in many WiFi clients that make it difficult for non-technical users to understand. The LucidLink WiFi Client eliminates all of the clutter and only presents what you need to connect to the WiFi network. It automatically determines the WiFi security method being used on the network and requests only the information required to connect to that network. The LucidLink WiFi Client was designed from our WiFi security background and ease of use was the foremost design consideration. It warns you if you attempt to connect to an insecure or poorly secured Wi-Fi network (you can choose not show these warnings) and it detects suspicious networks or access points that may be posing an ?evil twin? attack threat.....(free).....

Wi-Fi signal strength always visible .....(free).....

Personal wiki that lives in one self-modifying XHTML file containing software, interface and data. Very useful for creating small websites and mantaining notes or todo-lists; completely javascript-programmable, supports images and files embedding.....(free).....

wikidPad is a Wiki-like notebook for storing your thoughts, ideas, todo lists, contacts, or anything else you can think of to write down.....(free).....

Wikipedia for your hard drive. Wikipedia DVD Selection is a free, hand-checked, non-commercial selection from Wikipedia, targeted around the UK National Curriculum and useful for much of the English speaking world. It has about 5500 articles (as much as can be fitted on a DVD with good size images) and is about the size of a twenty volume encyclopaedia (34,000 images and 20 million words). Articles were chosen from a list ranked by importance and quality generated by project members. This list of articles was then manually sorted for relevance to children, and adult topics were removed. Compared to the 2007 version some six hundred articles were removed and two thousand more relevant articles (of now adequate quality) were added. SOS Children volunteers then checked and tidied up the contents, first by selecting historical versions of articles free from vandalism and then by removing unsuitable sections. External links and references are also not included since it was infeasible to check all of these.....(free).....

WinBubble will help you to Customize and Tweak your Windows Vista easily. Its features cover Customization, Security and Optimization .....(free).....

WinBuilder is a script engine that will run projects developed by several authors which produce very efficient boot disks available for several windows platforms.....(free).....

An easy way to delete any or all of the following: Recent Documents MRU list, Temporary Files folder, Cookies folder, IE History, IE Temporary Internet Files, Any others, if you add them yourself, What's different from all the other batch files. It just takes one doubleclick from within Windows. , Then next time you reboot (and only the next time, until you choose to run it again) all that stuff will get deleted. You don't need to have an Autoexec.bat file, nor muck about with the Registry. And because it runs under Windows it uses Windows' memory management too, even with Win9x, without needing to set a temporary SmartDrive cache in DOS.....(free).....

WinContig is an easy-to-use stand-alone defragmentation tool that doesn't create any installation directories or Registry entries on your computer. Its purpose is to quick defrag files without the need to defrag the whole disk. Its defragmentation and analysis engine is based on the standard Microsoft defragmentation API. In addition, WinContig allows you to group files into profiles, and also it accepts a number of optional command-line switches that you can use to control how the program operates. WinContig is an application designed for Windows 2000/XP operating systems. NOTE: WinContig has been tested only on NTFS file system. .....(free).....

WinExplorer is a utility that shows all system's windows in hierarchical display. For every window in the hierarchy, you can view its properties, like handle, class name, caption, size, position and more. You can also modify some properties, like Caption and Visible/Enable (Go to Freeware).....(free).....

Context menu extension lets you search files, search file names, determine sizes, attributes, lots more. For Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000 und Windows XP.....(free).....

WinGZip is an small utility for working with files in gzip format (usually it's files with .GZ or .TGZ extensions). It allows to compress any file into gzip format, decompress and test the integrity of already gzipped files.....(free).....

WinMac is a free program that allows Windows 95, 98, NT4, 2000, Me, and XP users to add a Macintosh-style menu bar to their system.....(free).....

Give Windows a personal look. Customize your computer to fit your needs: exchange icons, assign icons to any folder, change or modify windows elements, change start button text, start menu url and much more .....(free).....

New site dedicated to bringing you the latest information about Windows Desktop Customization. Lots of themez, icons, wallpapers.....(free).....

WinMerge is an Open Source visual text file differencing and merging tool for Win32 platforms. It is highly useful for determing what has changed between project versions, and then merging changes between versions.....(free).....

WinMover is an application for moving windows more comfortably with the the mouse in Windows. It is fully customizable and can mimic the behaviour of many window managers for UNIX and Linux. If you for example hold down the Alt-key, you can move or resize a window by pressing and dragging the mouse button anywhere in the window. WinMover can also snap the window to the border of the screen.....(free).....

Windows, in all its versions, has always had of the problems in the management of RAM, the Paging file and the Cache. This prog has a simple graphical interface, that displays use of RAM, Swap file and CPU, and just click the mouse in order to optimize, Use this carefully--it does alter your Windows registry.....(free).....

WinPatrol uses a heuristic approach to detecting attacks and violations of your computing environment. Unlike traditional security programs, WinPatrol doesn't scan your hard drive searching for previously identified threats. Instead a snapshot is taken of your critical system resources and WinPatrol alerts you to any changes that occur without your knowledge. You'll be warned immediately while others wait to hear about it on the news.....(free).....

Make a window roll into its title bar, send it to the back or make it stay on top. Minimize, maximize or close all visible windows, including minimizing to the tray area. Make a window translucent on Windows 2000 or above. WinRoll is lovingly hand-crafted in 100% pure assembly language to give the fastest response and the smallest memory footprint.....(free).....

WinSCP is an open source SFTP client and FTP client for Windows. Its main function is the secure file transfer between a local and a remote computer. Beyond this, WinSCP offers basic file manager functionality. It uses Secure Shell (SSH) and supports, in addition to Secure FTP, also legacy SCP protocol.....(free).....

Add tabs to every program. A tabbed browser, tabbed putty, tabbed terminal or tabbed shell, tabbed anything. Multi tab your windows in seconds. A terminal or shell with tabs work faster and efficiently! Having multiple windows as tabs will give a better overview of your windows than before. Also having multiple ssh sessions by the click of a tab works faster and efficiently.....(free).....

WinTool is a powerful application that allows you to, basically, play around with windows and processes. WinTool allows you to kill, hide, tweak, show, change, and set options regarding windows that are open. It also allows you to view and kill processes that are currently running. WinTool is literally a beefed up version of the Windows tasklist, with many more functions and operations available to users. Use WinTool to change an application's title bar text. Is that window getting in the way? Easy - use WinTool to hide it. Or better yet, kill it - with WinTool. Too many applications running? Use Wintool to terminate all the ones that you don't need. How about processes? Terminate these as well to recover previously used system resources. Don't know where that window went? Use WinTool to find it, and move it back to where it is supposed to be. WinTool is versatile and has multitudes of uses in and around your desktop.....(free).....

Use WinTray to save valuable taskbar space. When the taskbar is clogged with multiple buttons for all those open windows, WinTray can be used to hide them as system tray icons, saving space. Easy access is provided to the hidden windows through hotkeys or their system tray icon (or both). WinTray can even be set to apply hotkeys and/or system tray icons when it starts up. Use WinTray to save you space and to hide windows from view when they're not needed.....(free).....

Windows port of the UAE Amiga emulator.....(free).....

Automatically control how to display a window. Features: Move, maximize, minimize, restore, enable, disable, hide, show, ontop, bottom, alwaysontop, clip, transparent, transparent color, move relative to another window, stick to the edge of the screen, center, run a program. Doubleclick trayicon to center the active window.....(free).....

WinZapper lets you erase event records selectively from the Security Log in Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 .....(free).....

If you are interested in 32-bit programming for Windows 95/98/ME or NT/2000/XP using assembler, you will find everything you need here including an Assembler, Resource Compiler, Linker, Symbolic Debugger, Editor, Help Compiler, Information, Tutorials, Sample code and demos and Links.....(free).....

Compact program that lets you monitor your system and provides easy access to frequently used controls.....(free).....

This small program converts BIN CD images to ISO images. Files over 2GB are also no problem. When it comes to a quick convert, is exactly the WinBin2Iso conversion tool that you need. WinBin2Iso does not have to be installed and can be executed easily from the desktop, and can be carried on a small usb-stick or other memory device .....(free).....

Prototype of Windows-based installer for the popular Linux distribution, Ubuntu. The idea is to provide a simple-to-use, no-risk way to install Ubuntu in a partition on a Windows machine .....(free).....

WinContig is an easy-to-use stand-alone defragmentation tool that doesn't create any installation directories or Registry entries on your computer. Its purpose is to quick defrag files without the need to defrag the whole disk. Its defragmentation and analysis engine is based on the standard Microsoft defragmentation API. In addition, WinContig allows you to group files into profiles, and also it accepts a number of optional command-line switches that you can use to control how the program operates. WinContig is an application designed for Windows 2000/XP operating systems. NOTE: WinContig has been tested only on NTFS file system.....(free).....

File Encryption System that use an innovative, fast, secure and easy way to protect and compress your most important documents, files, music, video, productions etc. Fully integrated in Windows shell, easy to use, fast, practically uncrackable.Just right-click the file(s) you want to encrypt on windows explorer, insert personal password and you will get a packet file that nobody knows about its content. Do the same on encrypted file and you will retrieve the exact original file(s). Every application delivered is released with its own unique key: so you can also distribute encrypted files within your friends in total security. Smart graphical interface, high file compression, very fast processing, high compression: more than real security .....(free).....

Windentify Beta Lite is a freeware demo of a state-of-the-art voice-based identification system that prevents any sort of unauthorized access to your PC. Secure, reliable, and with the unique facility to restrict access to systems and files to just a single user?s voiceprint, this is the best in voice-based security applications.....(free).....

WinDirStat is a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool for Microsoft Windows.....(free).....

WindowBlinds is a software utility that extends the Windows GUI to accept thousands of different looks and feels. WindowBlinds has been used for everything ranging from making one's desktop look "like a Mac", to integrating help desk features in corporations, to enhancing productivity, to branding, to just looking "cool". Today, WindowBlinds has an installed base of over 4 million users around the world. WindowBlinds works on all versions of Microsoft Windows, from Windows 98 on. It uses the built-in features of Windows to enhance its performance and make itself a seamless part of the operating system. In Windows XP, for example, Microsoft provides users with the ability to switch between different looks (or styles ? Windows Classic and Windows XP style). WindowBlinds takes advantage of this new architecture, in effect allowing users to add additional styles.....(shareware, $19.95 after trial -- no time-out on shareware version).....

Small utility to hide windows with a key press.....(free).....

Window Sensor is a simple tool to find out the type of window or control at the mouse pointer position. It displays the class name, window handle and window text of the window or control and of all of its parents (containers) up to the main window. Optionally the window or control can be highlighted by a red rectangular frame .....(free).....

Do you know what's running on your computer? Maybe not. The Window Watcher tells all, reporting every window created by every running program, whether the window is visible or not. You might be surprised to learn exactly what your computer is up to .....(free).....

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You can download the Windows 2000 Resource Kit software tools listed on this page for free and install them on your computer. These utilities can help you streamline administrative tasks such as managing Active Directory?, administering security features, working with Group Policy and Terminal Services, automating application deployment, and other important jobs.....(free).....

Windows Defender is a free program that helps you stay productive by protecting your computer against pop-ups, slow performance and security threats caused by spyware and other potentially unwanted software.....(free).....

A cool circular menu to start you apps on the desktop or sidebar .....(free).....

Windows Easy Transfer Companion enables you to automatically transfer your most important programs from your Windows XP-based PC to your new Windows Vista-based PC .....(free).....

Create Windows Error Messages. Fool your friends! Use one of the default icons, or use one from a special list .....(free).....

MS Windows Error Messages is a small utility that will allow you to look up MS Windows error code numbers and display a descriptive message explaining what the numeric code actually means. If you have software programs that produce numeric error codes now you can find out what they really mean. MS Windows Error Messages also provides a facility to display all of the error codes and messages defined for your version of MS Windows. MS Windows Error Messages will run on MS Windows Millenium Edition and 98 as well as MS Windows 2000 and 95/NT systems.....(free).....

With Windows Essentials Codec Pack you should be able to play 99% of all the movies and music files that you download off the internet, and stay up to date with the latest Codecs through W.E.C.P's Audio / Video Codec Update Service .....(free).....

Short history of Windows, from 1.01 (1985) to Vista (2007). Enjoy .....(free).....

Replacement file manager for Windows similar to Microsoft's Windows Explorer. It features many options that Windows Explorer is missing, and it has two fixed file views side by side (but can be changed to a single file view) that is useful when copying many files from folder to folder.....(free).....

WinHlp32.exe is required to display 32-bit Help files that have the .hlp file name extension. To view .hlp files on Windows Vista, you need to install this application......(free).....

The Windows Inspection Tool Set (WiTS) provides you with cross-linked, filtered views into a Windows system. View operating system information, processes, services, users, network interfaces and connections, file shares, printers and more. Get notified of system resource status, new network connections, process starts and exits, service status and other system events.....(free).....

When you are working on your computer and installing a new program, the installation suddenly fails. Now you are left with a partly installed program. You try to install the program again, but you are unsuccessful. Or, maybe you have problems trying to remove an old program because the installation files are corrupted. Windows Installer CleanUp Utility should be able to help.....(free).....

Set of utilities for Windows that provide additional window management services, Windows desktop and task bar management. The user can hide windows, make windows transparent, switch windows into the 'always on top' mode, etc. Utilities can be integrated into the shell. (Go to Desktop Utilities link).....(free).....

The Windows Mobile Developer Power Toys help you develop and test your Windows Mobile applications .....(free).....

WindowsPager is a desktop-switcher-pager for Windows to manage virtual workspaces. It will integrate smoothly into the desktop panel .....(free).....

According to the author, "As a tech writer, one of my biggest pet peeves is the plethora of bad advice littered across almost every web site dedicated to system tweaking. Besides the tweaks that simply don't work, some of them will actually cause your computer to run even slower?or worse. Let's examine some of the most offensive myths out there regarding PC performance tweaking, and debunk them once and for all" .....(free).....

Windows Post-Install Wizard (WPI for short) is a hypertext application designed for giving users choices. While Windows XP offers many ways of customizing the setup process out of the box, its major drawback is the lack of being able to select which applications an end user may install. In the past, end users and administrators needed to either download the files manually, or create overly complex scripts that could only be used once. WPI allows you to create one image, which can then be custom configured, and optionally, automated, so that end users can install any applications.....(free).....

Windows PowerShell is a new task-based command line shell and intuitive scripting language for system administration that provides comprehensive control and automation for Windows administrators. Windows PowerShell makes administrators more productive by improving the manageability of the Windows operating system and applications that run on Windows. From Microsoft .....(free).....

The WinTasks Process Library contains information about all common Windows processes and is continously updated with new information. On this page you can find a subset of the most popular processes listed in WinTasks Process Library. The categories available online are: Security Risks, System Processes, and Applications.....(free).....

Rampant misinformation is understandable, because it is hard for the general consumer to find a simple yet comprehensive explanation of just what WPA is. This page tries to fill that gap by explaining WPA in a straightforward, detailed way.....(free).....

Read files containing Windows 9x,NT,2K,XP,2K3 registry hives. It extracts many useful information about configuration and windows installation settings of host machine. Registry hive can be exported into REGEDIT4 format. Every topic data can be saved to CSV. It's designed in Multiple Document Interface.....(free).....

The Windows Rights Management Add-on for Internet Explorer provides a way for users of supported Windows operating systems to view, but not alter, files with restricted permission. These restrictions enable authors to prevent sensitive documents, Web-based information, and e-mail messages from being forwarded, edited, or copied by unauthorized individuals. These restrictions provide protection, not only while the information is in transit, but also after the recipient of the information has received it.....(free).....

Windows Sidebar Styler takes advantage of the new technologies introduced in Windows Vista in order to provide extensions to the existing functionality of Windows Sidebar. Custom styles allow for resizing and customizing the appearance of Windows Sidebar so that it fits other UI elements, such as the Aero Glass colorization or an actual third party theme. Designers could save their visual styles so that other Windows users could apply them. Designers would not necessarily create these files on Windows Vista - Windows Sidebar Styler is backward-compatible with legacy operating systems as well. Gadgets are mini applications managed by Windows Sidebar. They can now take full advantage of Windows Presentation Foundation - the powerful managed code-oriented framework for presenting rich visual compositions such as vector graphics, 3D drawing, animations and more. In addition to that, it could be used in conjunction with Windows Communication Foundation in order for the Gadgets to connect to services and provide frequently updated information.....(free).....

Windows Speech Recognition Macros extend the speech recognition capabilities in Windows Vista. Users can create powerful macros that are triggered by voice command to interact with applications. Thanks to our friends at

Managing shared computers can be difficult, technically challenging, time-consuming, and expensive. And what?s more, without system restrictions and protections, users can inadvertently change the desktop appearance, reconfigure system settings, and introduce unwanted software, viruses, and other harmful programs. Repairing damaged shared computers can require significant time and effort. User privacy is also an issue for shared computer environments. Shared computers often use shared user accounts that make Internet history, saved documents, and cached Web pages available to subsequent users. Windows SteadyState provides a more effective way to help defend shared computers from changes by untrusted users and unwanted software installations. It can also help safeguard system resources .....(free).....

Great idea.. WSCC is a free, portable program that allows you to view, execute and organize the utilities from various system utility suites. WSCC is only an interface, you need to download and install the utilities separately. Alternatively, WSCC can use the http protocol to download and run the programs. Windows Sysinternals Suite (including support for Sysinternals Live service), NirSoft Utilities.....(free).....

Windows Template Library (WTL) is a C++ library for developing Windows applications and UI components. It extends ATL (Active Template Library) and provides a set of classes for controls, dialogs, frame windows, GDI objects, and more .....(free).....

Desktop Central provides a set of free Windows tools that Windows Administrators might require on an day-to-day basis. It has a set of five tools, viz: Wake on LAN, GPO Update, Shutdown/Restart Tool, Software Inventory Tool, and Join/Unjoin Computer Tool. This is very handy as it can be performed on multiple computers simultaneously. These tools are made available from the Desktop Central family and is provided as a separate download, which is absolutely free to use.....(free).....

Allows creation of a bootable ISO image with integration of service packs, creation of user accounts, integration of drivers, hotfixes, patches, software.....(free).....

Microsoft Windows User State Migration Tool version 3.0.1 migrates user files and settings during deployments of Microsoft Windows XP and Windows Vista. USMT captures files and settings from the source computer and then migrates them to a new Windows installation.....(free).....

Tips and tricks to speed up and configure Vista .....(free).....

Power tool that lets you tweak and optimize your Windows Vista operating system and already one of the most popular Tweaking and Optimizing Tool on the Internet. It has some great new features and over 60 tweaks that you can individually apply to tweak and optimize your Windows Vista system without having the knowledge of registry and system settings.....(free).....

Microsoft's latest operating system, Windows XP, has been out for some time now. While it's still new in terms of an OS, it's been around long enough to have accumulated some dust on your PC. In other words, it's time for a cleaning.....(free).....

Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 Recognizer Pack adds international handwriting recognizers to a Tablet PC or other personal computer .....(free).....

Registry fixes, utilities, illustrations and tweaks.....(free).....

This tool collection can be used to exit Windows from the command line. The zip archive contains several independent executables: Shutdown.exe, ReBoot.exe, LogOff.exe, Shutdown_Force.exe, ReBoot_Force.exe, etc. Go to Freeware .....(free).....

WinGZip is an small utility for working with files in gzip format (usually it's files with .GZ or .TGZ extensions). It allows to compress any file into gzip format, decompress and test the integrity of already gzipped files.....(free).....

Tutorial and Presentation creation software, primarily aimed at creating tutorials on how to use software (like a tutor for MS-Word/Excel etc). Using Wink you can capture screenshots, add explanations boxes, buttons, titles etc and generate a highly effective tutorial for your users .....(free).....

Make a window roll into its title bar, send it to the back or make it stay on top. Minimize, maximize or close all visible windows, including minimizing to the tray area. Make a window translucent on Windows 2000 or above. WinRoll is lovingly hand-crafted in 100% pure assembly language to give the fastest response and the smallest memory footprint. WinRoll is proudly a FREEWARE and OPEN SOURCE application .....(free).....

Move windows automatically to a predefined place. Resize width and/or height. Moving OR changing size possible. Supports text contained in titles (like "Notepad") to identify window. One hotkey for all functs. Multi language support/Handbook .....(free).....

Click the icon, a menu is displayed. Drag a menu option on-top of any window to perform the specified remaking operation on that window. Options are, topmost, non-topmost, close window, terminate window, translucent, minimize window, maximize window, show window normal, hide window, enable window, and disable window. There is a feature for viewing window information and you can capture a window to disk as a bitmap. You can specify child windows, and the application can be set to run each time Windows starts .....(free).....

WinSplit Revolution is a small utility which allows you to separate your screen into two, three or four portions... Especially suitable for high-end LCD screens with high resolutions, Your screen is split so that you are able to display up to 6 non overlaping windows at the same time.....(free).....

With WinSpy, you can find out what the others have done on your computer, including what web sites they have visited, what text they've read, images they've looked at, movies they've seen. and also what files they opened/saved, what kind of search they have done and what they ran at the start menu. Double clicking the displayed item will directly open or link to the file or the URLs stored on your computer. Version 2.0 adds an Index.dat Viewer, which can view the URLs in index.dat file.....(free).....

Sometimes you need to look at a very large text file, (like the 1GB log files on some systems) This program reads the last however many Mbytes of the file without creating a 1 GB swap file .....(free).....

In the recesses of your computer, 20-30 invisible processes run silently in the background. Some hog system resources, turning your PC into a sluggish computer. Worse yet, other useless processes harbour spyware and Trojans - violating your privacy and giving hackers free reign on your computer. WinTasks Process Library is an invaluable resource for anyone who wants to know the exact purpose of every single process .....(free).....

Windows User Console gives access to a large number of Windows functions from one GUI. The main form is divided into six areas: Menu, Internet, Internet Utilities, Office, Accessories, and Settings.....(free).....

WipeDir is a utility designed for use by developers to facilitate the removal of directories that may contain open files. Though intended for use as part of uninstall methods, it may have other applications. Features include: Two versions, GUI and console. Several options controlled by command-line switches. If unable to delete a directory immediately, it waits for up to five seconds for other applications to close. If still unable to delete the directory, it can instruct Windows to delete the directory when next restarted.....(free).....

Erase items from your hard drive using standards promulgated by US Department of Defence and NATO .....(free).....

WiredX.net enables access to unix applications from Windows machines via web browsers......(free).....

WirelessKeyView recovers all wireless network keys (WEP/WPA) stored in your computer by the 'Wireless Zero Configuration' service of Windows XP and by the 'WLAN AutoConfig' service of Windows Vista. It allows you to easily save all keys to text/html/xml file, or copy a single key to the clipboard.....(free).....

WirelessNetView is a small utility that runs in the background, and monitors the activity of wireless networks around you. For each detected network, it displays the following information: SSID, Last Signal Quality, Average Signal Quality, Detection Counter, Authentication Algorithm, Cipher Algorithm, MAC Address, RSSI, Channel Frequency, Channel Number, and more.....(free).....

Wireshark is the world's foremost network protocol analyzer, and is the de facto (and often de jure) standard across many industries and educational institutions. Wireshark has a rich feature set which includes the following: Deep inspection of hundreds of protocols, with more being added all the time. Live capture and offline analysis. Standard three-pane packet browser. Multi-platform: Runs on Windows, Linux, OS X, Solaris, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and many others. Captured network data can be browsed via a GUI, or via the TTY-mode TShark utility. The most powerful display filters in the industry. Rich VoIP analysis. Read/write many different capture file formats: tcpdump (libpcap), Catapult DCT2000, Cisco Secure IDS iplog, Microsoft Network Monitor, Network General Sniffer? (compressed and uncompressed), Sniffer? Pro, and NetXray?, Network Instruments Observer, Novell LANalyzer, RADCOM WAN/LAN Analyzer, Shomiti/Finisar Surveyor, Tektronix K12xx, Visual Networks Visual UpTime, WildPackets, EtherPeek/TokenPeek/AiroPeek, and many others. Capture files compressed with gzip can be decompressed on the fly. Live data can be read from Ethernet, IEEE 802.11, PPP/HDLC, ATM, Bluetooth, USB, Token Ring, Frame Relay, FDDI, and others (depending on your platfrom). Decryption support for many protocols, including IPsec, ISAKMP, Kerberos, SNMPv3, SSL/TLS, WEP, and WPA/WPA2. Coloring rules can be applied to the packet list for quick, intuitive analysis. Output can be exported to XML, PostScript?, CSV, or plain text .....(free).....

A Windows gizmo with commands to modify or manage shutdown, audio, connections, screensaver, more.....(free).....

WMA to MP3 Converter can convert Windows Media files to MP3 files which can be played in MP3 Players. All Windows Media formats (*.wma, *.wmv, *.asf) are supported. The program is a freeware and does not contain any form of malware.....(free).....

Command line tool that allows to shutdown, power-off, reboot, logout remote PC. It may be used as alternate of shutdown.exe utility .....(free).....

This program implements wake-on-lan function. Wake up remote computer. Keeps the list of computers. Export and import of the list.....(free).....

Utility serves a number of purposes: keyboard shortcuts, save and restore clipboards, customize icon display, type special characters.....(free).....

WorldTV allows you to view and record Internet TV stations from around the world. You can record the TV programs in real time or setup one or more timers to start / end recording at a convenient time. Multiple programs can be simultaneously recorded. Version 2.0 supports Windows Media Player stream formats.....(free).....

The WorldWide Telescope (WWT) is a Web 2.0 visualization software environment that enables your computer to function as a virtual telescope, bringing together imagery from the best ground and space-based telescopes in the world for a seamless exploration of the universe .....(free).....

World Wind lets you zoom from satellite altitude into any place on Earth. Leveraging Landsat satellite imagery and Shuttle Radar Topography Mission data, World Wind lets you experience Earth terrain in visually rich 3D, as if you were really there. Virtually visit any place in the world. Look across the Andes, into the Grand Canyon, over the Alps, or along the African Sahara .....(free).....

Create movies and collaborate on movies online. Star Wreck Studios has developed a Web platform that is designed to harness the power of passionate Internet communities for creating short films, documentaries, music videos, Internet flicks, full length features, mobile films and more. www.wreckamovie.com is a social community, simple workflow and marketplace that builds communities around film productions. It helps get films done faster and at a considerably lower cost through crowd-sourced work on production tasks and online resourcing of expertise and corporate funding. The communities developed in production will also create a viral social marketing force that will get films seen through the hundreds of existing online and standard channels .....(free).....

Collaborative writing software online - write, share, revise, compare.....(free).....(retired)

Decodes Scripts encoded with the Microsoft Script Encoder.....(free).....

WTask allows you to to hide the Task bar of Windows. This option is not present from Control Panel, yet may be useful in some cases. By hiding this Task Bar, you no longer have access to the small icons in the Tray, nor to applications lodging in the Task bar, or even to the Start menu unless your keyboard is set to activate it (e.g., through the Windows key).....(free).....

WTF (What's This File) is a simple method of checking what's running on your machine, researching any Task found, and then ending the Task if required. Best of all, unlike many tools in it's class, you don't need to study a large manual to use it. WTF is freeware, includes an installer/uninstaller and like all RCMedia Services applications, does not contain any spyware, adware or backdoor nonsense of any kind.....(free).....

Windows 7 Training Kit for Developers includes presentations, hands-on labs, and demos designed to help you learn how to build applications that are compatible with and shine on Windows 7. Thanks to The Windows Club

This small utility measures your computer activity. It counts the keyboard / mouse presses and computes trajectory that you have arrived by your mouse. You can easily set it up to be automatically loaded on startup if you would like to have captured all your activity. Every day is saved into history, so you can make statistics of your activity (averaging..). You can also export your whole history to a CSV file (comma separated values) which may be used later in e.g MS Excel. You can do it using the right click menu or directly from the command line (e.g. winometer.exe /exporthistory history.csv) Thanks to The Windows Club

Conceals the windows of visible programs of your own choice (including from the taskbar). When Hide an active window is switched on, the analogue of the "anti-boss" key is added to the window that is active at this moment. Changes the icon of the program in the system tray. or shuts down of the icon of the program in the system tray.

If you’re already running a full anti-malware suite, you might not even realize that Windows Defender is already installed with Windows, and is probably wasting precious resources. Here’s how to get rid of it

WizMouse is a mouse enhancement utility that makes your mouse wheel work on the window currently under the mouse pointer, instead of the currently focused window. This means you no longer have to click on a window before being able to scroll it with the mouse wheel. This is a far more comfortable and practical way to make use of the mouse wheel. Thanks to The Windows Club

This tool will allow you to resize and tweak the Windows 7 taskbar thumbnails left and right, in and out

Displays information about the window the mouse pointer is currently over. Displays the windows handle, size and the owner thread information. Useful for people writting windows applications or wanting to create an interface to another application such as macros and scripts

This small program converts BIN CD images to ISO images. Files over 2GB are also no problem. When it comes to a quick convert, is exactly the WinBin2Iso conversion tool that you need

Tiny portable tool that allows you to change your Windows 7 start orb button with just one click. Thanks to instant fundas

System file replacer. This program will, back up the old file, try to Take Ownership and replace it with the NEW dragged or manually selected file. The Replacer will first look in the system32 folder for a match with your NEW dragged or selected file, if the OLD file is found it will be backed up and replaced without prompt, otherwise you will be asked to select it manually. It's just an .exe and nothing will be installed. WARNING: Use is on your own risk

View the content of Windows Prefetch files

If you are confused by Windows 7 Start Menu, or miss the familiar Classic Start Menu, you should take a look at this utility – Classic Start Menu. UPDATE--we made a mistake in our initial listing. Sorry, this program is not free

The Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools are a set of tools to help administrators streamline management tasks such as troubleshooting operating system issues, managing Active Directory, configuring networking and security features, and automating application deployment. Contains dozens of great utilities

From Microsoft, The Windows 7 Security Compliance Management Toolkit provides an end-to-end solution to help you plan, deploy, and monitor the security baselines of computers running Windows 7 and BitLocker Drive Encryption in your environment

This free but powerful software will quickly scan your hard drives and let you know if there are any sector errors. It is critical that all customers thinking about running data recovery software run the Freeware Windows Surface Scanner before choosing their recovery option. Thanks to Lifehacker

Discovers the WAN IP address, optionally sends via FTP a text file containing the WAN IP information, optionally sends an email containing the WAN IP information to a designated recipient

This utility displays the list of all applications that are loaded automatically when Windows starts up. For each application, the following information is displayed: Startup Type (Registry/Startup Folder), Command-Line String, Product Name, File Version, Company Name, Location in the Registry or file system, and more. It allows you to easily disable or delete unwanted programs that runs in your Windows startup. You can use it on your currently running instance of Windows, as well as you can use it on external instance of Windows in another drive. WhatInStartup also supports a special "Permanent Disabling" feature - If a program that you previously disabled added itself again to the startup list of Windows, WhatInStartup will automatically detect the change and disable it again

WiLMA for short, this is a fabulous must-have help if you have to keep track of many open windows at the same time, even over multiple monitors. (The developer shows a shot of eight monitors.) The main application has a basic window that allows the management of various layouts. Adding new ones, editing existing ones, configuring the options, all the basic things you can expect from any normal application. When closed or minimized it sits in the tray and offers a tray icon with quick access to layouts that are enabled (it’s possible to exclude layouts from populating the tray menu since some layouts are not meant to be applied directly). A layout is a collection of window definitions that contain conditions and actions. Conditions that describe the window and how it should be detected and matched and actions that allow various actions to be taken such as minimizing, moving, relocating, moving it to a different screen, offsetting the position, maximizing it to a certain screen, etc. There are three types of layouts: Normal Layouts: these contain window definitions where the entire layout can be applied to a current desktop. Individual Window Layouts: these contain window definitions that can be applied individually through an active window context popup menu. Live Layouts: these are layouts where the system is monitored and when windows that match any or all definitions it will apply the actions to that window as it becomes available and gets noticed

Wake up your system from a Stand-by mode or Hibernation programmatically. This simple utility, WakeupOnStandBy, will do it for you. Once activated it resides in the system and wakes it up at predefined time, runs a file and if necessary sends it into Stand-by mode, hibernates it or shuts it down. It can also be used to run scheduled operations every day, or on specific day(s)

WinID is a controls and windows identification utility that is both powerful and compact. Its main purpose is to give an easy way to retrieve information about Microsoft Windows controls visually right off the screen. WinID resembles Spy++ from the Microsoft Visual Studio toolset but it also incorporates lots of its own handy features. Who would be interested in using WinID? Definitely, a person who knows (or plans to learn) the architecture of the Microsoft Windows Operating System - programmer, debugger/tester, beginner. It will definitely be handy for debugging your C/C++/MFC/.NET and Visual Basic applications, as well as learning more about how your favorite programs are made

WinToFlash will help pull over the contents of a Windows installation CD or DVD and prep the USB drive to become a bootable replacement for the optical drive. It can alsow do this with your LiveCD. You don't have to worry about scratches on the disc or misplacing your original media discs once you transfer their contents to the flash drive. The optical drive is quickly becoming a thing of the past, especially in office environments, as media is shifted to the cloud

This spreadsheet from Microsoft, lists the policy settings for computer and user configurations included in the administrative template files delivered with Windows 7. These files are used to expose policysettings when you edit Group Policy Objects (GPOs) using Group Policy Object Editor (also known as GPEdit)

Use Windows Easy Transfer to copy your files, photos, music, e-mail, settings, and more from a computer running Windows XP to a computer running Windows 7. You can transfer data using an Easy Transfer Cable, removable media, or across a network. Thanks to Web Talk

Windows Double Explorer manages two Windows Explorer in one application. Also you can add your favorite folders with drag and drop to the toolbar for quick access. It's easyier to manage your disc structure. Thanks to instant fundas

WirelessNetView is a small utility that runs in the background, and monitors the activity of wireless networks around you. For each detected network, it displays the following information: SSID, Last Signal Quality, Average Signal Quality, Detection Counter, Authentication Algorithm, Cipher Algorithm, MAC Address, RSSI, Channel Frequency, Channel Number, and more

comprehensive data recovery software to recover data on major windows operating system. It recovers files emptied from the Recycle Bin, lost due to hard drive crash, formatted or damaged hard drive, virus infection and other unknown reasons. Support recovery of all major file types, including text, exl, pdf, bmp, exe, html, jpg, avi, mp3, etc. As a easy disk data recovery software, get delete and formatted files back. Thanks to Web Talk

Wireshark is the world's foremost network protocol analyzer, and is the de facto (and often de jure) standard across many industries and educational institutions

The Windows Automated Installation Kit (Windows AIK) is a set of tools and documentation that support the configuration and deployment of Windows operating systems. By using Windows AIK, you can automate Windows installations, capture Windows images with ImageX, configure and modify images using Deployment Imaging Servicing and Management (DISM), create Windows PE images, and migrate user profiles and data with the User State Migration Tool (USMT). Windows AIK also includes the Volume Activation Management Tool (VAMT), which enables IT professionals to automate and centrally manage the volume activation process using a Multiple Activation Key (MAK)

New wireless network tool Informs you of who is using your wireless network, Informs you of all the names, Informs you of all the IP addresses, Informs you of the Mac addresses, Scans your wireless network in only 10 seconds, Detects computers even if you don't see them in program neighbourhood, Detects computers even if you can't ping them

WinToFlash starts a wizard that will help pull over the contents of a windows installation CD or DVD and prep the USB drive to become a bootable replacement for the optical drive. It can also do this with your LiveCD. You don't have to worry about scratches on the disc or misplacing your original media discs once you transfer their contents to the flash drive. The optical drive is quickly becoming a thing of the past, especially in office environments, as media is shifted to the cloud

The main application has a basic window that allows the management of various layouts. Adding new ones, editing existing ones, configuring the options, all the basic things you can expect from any normal application. When closed or minimized it sits in the tray and offers a tray icon with quick access to layouts that are enabled (it’s possible to exclude layouts from populating the tray menu since some layouts are not meant to be applied directly). A layout is a collection of window definitions that contain conditions and actions. Conditions that describe the window and how it should be detected and matched and actions that allow various actions to be taken such as minimizing, moving, relocating, moving it to a different screen, offsetting the position, maximizing it to a certain screen, etc. There are three types of layouts: Normal Layouts: these contain window definitions where the entire layout can be applied to a current desktop. Individual Window Layouts: these contain window definitions that can be applied individually through an active window context popup menu. Live Layouts: these are layouts where the system is monitored and when windows that match any or all definitions it will apply the actions to that window as it becomes available and gets noticed

Word Count is a simple utility for quickly counting the words, characters and lines in a variety of formats. (Note the meaning of 'lines' is dependent on format, but represents the accurate number of lines for formats where appropriate, handling line breaks, page breaks etc. but is an approximation for free-flowing text.) (Go to freeware)

Make a window roll into its title bar, send it to the back or make it stay on top. Minimize, maximize or close all visible windows, including minimizing to the tray area. Make a window translucent on Windows 2000 or above. WinRoll is lovingly hand-crafted in 100% pure assembly language to give the fastest response and the smallest memory footprint

Windows4all.com is a Silverlight based online virtual operating system. It is is a website that simulates an operating system inside your web browser. Thanks to instant fundas

Windows Virtual PC provides the capability to run multiple Windows environments such as Windows XP Mode from your Windows 7 desktop.

Did you ever want to take Wikipedia with you while you are offline? Call on WikiTaxi: It is a portable application that delivers the Wikipedia of your choice to wherever you go. WikiTaxi enables you to read, search, and browse Wikipedia offline. No Internet connection is needed, all pages are stored in a WikiTaxi database. Because Wikipedia is constantly growing, WikiTaxi uses compression to make sure that the database stays reasonably small. The huge English Wikipedia easily fits on a 8 GB memory stick

This program can be used by software developers in order to reveal the structure of a graphical user interface. Window Sensor is a simple tool to find out the type of window or control at the mouse pointer position. It displays the class name, window handle and window text of the window or control and of all of its parents (containers) up to the main window. Optionally the window or control can be highlighted by a red rectangular frame

WinBuilder is a script engine that will run projects which produce very efficient boot or live disks available for several windows platforms. Use it to create boot disks from Windows XP, or for a variety of other projects. Not sure about it? Go look at the Projects page under downloads

Special designed for ripping and converting DVD movies to iPhone, iPod + touch, Apple TV video formats. Apple multimedia fans could put DVD movies on apple gadgets as iPod, iPhone, Apple TV via real 100% free software called WinX Free DVD to iPhone Ripper. And, audio files also could be extracted from DVD disk into MP3 music. This one-click easy to use free software has handy options enable you watch DVD movies with your iPod, iPhone, or on Apple TV at anytime, anywhere and could save your money at this hard time. You deserve this great softwar

Just a few of the ideas bouncing around cosmological physics these days

WinCDEmu is an open-source software that allows mounting CD/DVD images by clicking at the image files in Windows Explorer. It supports both Windows XP and Vista, is open-source

Information on the right and wrong ways to set up Windows 7

A bunch of nice little command-line utilities, mainly for use in Windows batch files

Windows 7 Little Tweaker is a small and simple to use utility that let you easily activate a few useful extras for Microsoft's new OS, Windows 7 Ultimate. Windows 7 Little Tweaker is a Windows 7 only portable application and will not run on any other Windows versions. Windows 7 Little Tweaker must run as Administrator, and with UAC disabled

New search engine -- more analytical and quantifiable-data intensive than the others. WolframAlpha's long-term goal is to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone. We aim to collect and curate all objective data; implement every known model, method, and algorithm; and make it possible to compute whatever can be computed about anything. Our goal is to build on the achievements of science and other systematizations of knowledge to provide

Includes explanations of each service and advice on which services you can safely disable. Discussions of Win 2K, XP, Vista and Windows 7 (Scroll down left column)

Black Viper's Top 9 tweaks for a faster (and less annoying) Vista PC

WhatChanged is a simple utility that searches for modified files and registry entries. It is useful for checking program installations. There are two steps for using WhatChanged: 1) First, take a snapshot of the state of the system 2) Second, run it again to see the differences from the previous snapshot. What Changed uses the "brute force method" to check files and the registry

Writespace is a fullscreen writing environment, developed with WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) as a ClickOnce installed add-in for Word 2007. Thanks to instant fundas

Little utility for closed process monitoring. Some features: Reactivate dead or closed process / Execute any application if dead or closed process. Customizable watch time. Customizable after execution delay time. Start with Windows® option. Start iconized to Tray option. AutoRun option (turn to active mode when program start). Automatic (and manual) check for program updates. Character Set management to support translation into non-latin languages (i.e. Russian, Chinese, etc..). NEW - Added support for Windows NT4 (Workstation and Server)

WinFlip provides a 3D window-switcher as a replacement for the standard Windows Alt-Tab. Winflip displays all open windows in a 3D stack, which the user can flick through and select using either keyboard or mouse

Interesting concept - WinSplit Revolution allows you to easily organize your open windows by tiling, resizing and positioning them to make the best use of your desktop real estate. WinSplit is especially useful for high-end LCD screens with high resolutions because it helps you to efficiently manage many active windows. The advantage of using WinSplit is that it saves you from having to drag and drop windows by allowing you to snap windows into specific tiled configurations using simple keyboard hotkeys. Thanks to Download Squad

In just two clicks, WinBubble will help you to Customize and Tweak your Windows Vista easily. Its features cover Customization, Security and Optimization

Wondering why Windows has a Start - but no Stop button. This may change now if you decide to download WinExit. Once installed you will wonder why you run Windows so long without it. WinEixit allows to shut down Windows by double click. Beside shutting down using different shut down types (also timer or alarm triggered), WinExit also is able to log usage time, and a clean up service during shut down. Everything with just one double click

This is a security program that can be used to detect unknown viruses and spyware. It allows the power user to trust the system executables initially and alerts when new programs are run or when existing programs are modified

Live Labs Web Sandbox technology preview, a solution for securing web content through isolation. Today web gadgets, mashup components, advertisements, and other 3rd party content on websites either run with full trust alongside your content or are isolated inside of IFrames. As a result, many modern web applications are intrinsically insecure, often with unpredictable service quality. Live Labs Web Sandbox addresses this problem

WazTree II is an Explorer-like file manager which allows selection of drives via tabs

With SolarWinds free Wake-On-LAN, powering up a remote PC is no longer an issue. When the remote network adapter hears a Magic Packet created for its unique MAC address, the network adapter alerts the computer to power up. If Wake-On-LAN is enabled in the computer's BIOS settings, then the system will start up just as if the power button has been pressed. When a device is shut down, its network interface card is still receiving power and keeps listening on the network for a magic packet to arrive – enabling Wake-On-LAN to do its magic! Go to Downloads

WinCDEmu is an open-source software that allows mounting CD and DVD images by clicking at the image files in Windows Explorer. It supports both Windows XP and Vista, is open-source and completely freeware. Version 2.0 supports ISO, CUE, BIN/RAW/IMG file formats as well as SMB network shares and includes a workaround for Windows cache bug. Each mounted image will be represented by a separate virtual CD device, as in MacOS. There is no limit for the number of simultaniously mounted images

Tweaking.com - Windows Repair is an all-in-one repair tool to help fix a large majority of known Windows problems including registry errors and file permissions as well as issues with Internet Explorer, Windows Update, Windows Firewall and more. Malware and installed programs can modify your default settings. With Tweaking.com - Windows Repair you can restore Windows original settings .....(free)....

Use the Windows 7 USB Download Tool with ANY .iso file. Thanks to Cool Thing of The Day!.....(free).....

Many PC users love to tinker with the hardware and software on their machines. Other people consider any time they spend using Windows' built-in system tools a total waste. In between are those of us who understand the value of a little preventive maintenance--as long as it doesn't take all day.....(free).....

Try the new Microsoft Windows 8 Power Shell right now, even on Windows 7.....(free).....

Windows Seizer is a standalone portable freeware utility which lists all the windows you have open.Can take the place of Task Manager. Window Seizer then displays the following technical information for each window listed: Memory Usage, Window Handle, Class Name, Parent Handle, Window Visibility, Process ID, Status, Filename, Path, X Coordinate, Y Coordinate, Width, Height.....(free).....

Windows Double Explorer manages two or more Windows Explorer in one application. Also you can add your favorite folders with drag and drop to the toolbar for quick access. It's easyier to manage your disc structure. (A kind of Norton Commander or Total Commander) .....(free).....

This utility displays the list of all applications that are loaded automatically when Windows starts up. For each application, the following information is displayed: Startup Type (Registry/Startup Folder), Command-Line String, Product Name, File Version, Company Name, Location in the Registry or file system, and more.....(free).....

WhoisThisDomain is a domain registration lookup utility allows you to easily get information about a registered domain. It automatically connect to the right WHOIS server, according to the top-level domain name, and retrieve the WHOIS record of the domain. It support both generic domains and country code domains.

Weather Monitor is a lightweight sidebar gadget that downloads the weather forecast from Accuweather, enabling you to view it directly on your desktop. When downloading select the .ZIP option

WinDataReflector is a lightweight file synchronization and backup tool that wraps up fast file comparison and transfer algorithms into a simple and clear interface that offers you visual comparison of files and folders before synchronizing and backing them up and support for two way synchronization with fully customizable rules.

WinMetro is specially designed to bring the newly introduced Windows 8 Metro UI to Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP. It offers an easy solution for old versions of Windows users to try and enjoy the tile based Metro UI. By displaying useful information such as weather, calendar, news, stocks, and frequently used programs, it turns your desktop into an informative and productive work station. It also offers the option to boot to Metro Start Screen directly.

Wireless Network Watcher is a small utility that scans your wireless network and displays the list of all computers and devices that are currently connected to your network. For every computer or device that is connected to your network, the following information is displayed: IP address, MAC address, the company that manufactured the network card, and optionally the computer name. You can also export the connected devices list into html/xml/csv/text file, or copy the list to the clipboard and then paste into Excel or other spreadsheet application.

The Winstep Nexus Dock is a FREE professional dock for Windows. With Nexus, your most frequently used applications are only a mouse click away - and Nexus turns working with your computer into a fun and exciting experience.

Wise Program Uninstaller is able to remove your software by safe uninstall. And it can repair the programs of Windows Office, Adobe etc.

WifiInfoView scans the wireless networks in your area and displays extensive information about them, including: Network Name (SSID), MAC Address, PHY Type (802.11g or 802.11n), RSSI, Signal Quality, Frequency, Channel Number, Maximum Speed, Company Name, Router Model and Router Name (Only for routers that provides this information), and more...

With this tool you can integrate Addons, Drivers, Gadgets, Language packs, Modified Files, Theme Packs, Tweaks, Silent Installers, Updates. You can also remove features such as Windows Media Player and customize Windows default services state. Win Toolkit also comes with extra tools which helps you convert files, make ISOs, download the latest updates (thanks to SoLoR and McRip), and completely customize your images to tailor your Windows installation disk to your exact needs. (Site requires registration)

Truly free video converter. Convert your videos quickly, easily, and all at once. WinFF is open source and cross platform written in Free Pascal and Lazarus. WinFF is published under the GNU public license v3. WinFF is published without any warranty or suitability for any purpose.

WinToUSB is a free software that allows you to install and run Windows operating system on a USB hard drive or USB flash drive, using an ISO image or CD/DVD drive as the source of installation. WinToUSB also support creating bootable WinPE USB drive, it can help you to transfer the contents of WinPE to the USB drive and make the drive bootable.

UPDATE: Site no longer available but MajorGeeks still has it, select the MajorGeeks Mirror to download. This new tool allows an easy and comfortable way to download genuine Windows 7, 8.1 and 10, as well as Office 2007, 2010 and 2011 disk images (ISO) directly from Microsoft's servers.

Free toolkit to access WMI information locally and remotely. You can add own queries and create custom views.

Many tools search through the hard drive and look at each file determining their sizes. WizTree works differently by taking that information directly from the NTFS Master File Table meaning it's almost instant.

This is Windows 95, running in an Electron app.