I recently came across Tinyapps.org this site has got some very useful utilities all of which have a very small footprint, in an age where most applications tend to be bloatware, tinyapps provides great applications that can be put onto a USB thumb drive or onto a floppy if you can still find one that is đ .
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Here are two great applications that have a tiny footprint but perform some very useful tasks. The first one is Process tamer from Donationcoder.com, process tamer automatically changes the priority on applications that tend to freeze windows thus preventing lockups and crashes. The second program is Shadenow which automatically dims the laptop screen after a preset time and thus help you conserve power, while most laptops do have a setting that dims the screen by a preset amount when running on batteries this utility gives you more control on how dim you want your screen plus it can be activated with a hot key.
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I found this great 3D desktop utility from a post on Digg.com. I downloaded a copy and found out that it works pretty well. while this is no match for Beryl or even MacOS Â it is still pretty cool and takes up very less memory (about 5mb).
here is a screen shot of my desktop
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Crap Cleaner is a nifty little tool that enables you to clean out all the junk and temporary files that mysteriously accumulates overtime on your windows PC. Every time you visit a site or  cookies temporary files and installer related files get stored in the temp folder, while there are a variety of tool that boast many optimization techniques the best so far is CCleaner from http://www.piriform.com/. The software is an effort to provide a utility that does just what it says clean crap from your computer at an unbeatable price “FREE”. On a freshly installed computer running windows XP this tool is able to remove as much as 500MB of junk thus making way for your eclectic mix of Mp3’s from various obscure bands and maybe more space for your files.
CCleaner can also fix certain issues with the registry, It can also be setup to run automatically at startup and for the paranoid “tinfoil hat” types can be setup to erase files by shredding them. It also includes an add/remove programs interface using which you can uninstall programs and a startup editor which can be used to prevent programs from starting up automatically when windows starts. Overall this utility is best suited if you don’t want to spend 20-30$ on a swiss “army knife” of a utility that claims to do everything but does not do anything well.Go ahead and give it a try the small download size and the excellent performance will win you over. Nearly 350 million people have downloaded this utility you should too.
Here’s a useful list of Firefox extensions. I have been using these extensions to extend Firefox’s functionality and they work great đ
Adblock 0.5.2.039
Add Bookmark Here 0.5.3
BlogThis 0.2.1
BugMeNot 0.6.1
Download Statusbar 0.9.2
eWebMail Color and Graphics 1.6
Ext2Abc 0.2.1
fireFTP 0.86.2
FoxyTunes 1.0
ListZilla 0.5.1
Nuke Anything 0.2
QuickNote 0.6
ReloadEvery 0.5
SpellBound 0.7.3
SpellBound Win32 Components 0.7.0
Tweak Network 1.0
US Department of Homeland Insecurity Idiocy Level 0.1.1.1
Wikipedia 0.6.0.7
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Cablenut is a small windows utility that can be used to tweak some internal register settings (MTU buffers for the nit picky) inside windows to increase the Internet connection speed.
you can download the Cablenut software here,there is an online configurator that can take in values and generate a config file here.or you can just select your type of connection from the cablenut wizard .
warning: Fiddling with the registry might prove to be disastrous if you don’t know what you are doing so be careful. Any thing you choose to do by following this article will be at your own risk.
To optimize the way windows starts we need to see how many services are running and disable one’s that are not required a online wizard to do just this is available here.
to remove unnecessary programs from starting up with windows everytime click on start>run>
and in the run dialog type msconfig click on ok.
from the startup tab unckeck all the programs that you don’t need.a huge list of programs that startup automatically is available here consult this to decide if you need a program or not.
next we need to remove unnecessary programs that you don’t use anymore from start>settings> control panel>add remove programs
we also need to remove temporary files,you can use a tool called disk cleanup available from start>programs>system tools>disk cleanup
the above steps should make your computer run at least 10% faster then before
Will post more tweaks in the coming weeks.
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