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File names don't always tell the whole story of what's in a file. And you don't want to open a half-dozen huge programs when all you need to know is the basic contents of a file. Vista lets you add a preview pane to its Explorer, but what are XP users to do? Universal Viewer from to the rescue. This free utility lets you peek inside a variety of common file types (graphics, PDF, HTML, and many more) just by right-clicking and choosing the Universal Viewer command.

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FileBox eXtender

FileBox eXtender is a brilliant tool that saves you tons of time by making navigating to folders within dialog boxes a breeze. The tool adds two buttons to file-open and file-save dialog boxes that show your favorites and recent folders. The program also makes many unsizable Windows dialog boxes resizable. It also optionally sets the view in the dialogs to "Details," and adds another button that lets you roll up the dialog so only the Menu bar is displayed. --Steve Bass Note: This software comes in 32-bit and 64-bit versions.

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Quintessential Player

Quintessential Media Player is a feature rich media player for Microsoft Windows. It supports all popular audio formats including MP3, WMA, Ogg Vorbis, and CDs. QMP is highly skinnable and has a robust plug-in architecture.

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The best way to keep your PC running properly, and safe from malware, is to know exactly what programs, processes, startup programs, and more are running. That's exactly what this program does--and even more. Not only does it identify all that, but it will also use the VirusTotal.com malware-checking site to see whether any are malevolent, will provide details about each via the Processlibrary.com Web site or Google, and give you other information about each as well.

Windows only: Take control of your unresponsive computer next time it freezes up with freeware system tray app AntiFreeze. After you've installed it, just wait for the next time your computer hangs and hit Alt-Ctrl-Win-Home to activate AntiFreeze, suspend your running programs, and free up your memory and CPU cycles. You can then use AntiFreeze's interface to selectively resume processes or end the process that you suspect is to blame. You probably won't use it a lot, but it does seem like a good alternative to the reset button as a last resort. I've installed and tested AntiFreeze, but I'll admit that I wasn't able to put it to a full test because I haven't hit any significant hangs, so your mileage may vary.

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ActiveGrid Studio enables developers to rapidly build enterprise-level Web 2.0 applications with a minimum of training, time, and effort. Supports Java, PHP, Python. Database supports is the best I've seen in an open IDE. Has built in Python and Java environments plus a built in running Apache web server. Highly recommended.

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Overview The Performance Monitor Wizard simplifies the process of gathering performance monitor logs. It configures the correct counters to collect, sample intervals and log file sizes. This wizard can create logs for troubleshooting operating system or Exchange server performance issues. Top of page

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Registry Workshop is an advanced registry editor. It is a perfect replacement for RegEdit and RegEdt32 which shipped with Windows. In addition to all the standard features, Registry Workshop adds a variety of powerful features that allow you to work faster and more efficiently with registry related tasks. With Registry Workshop, registry editing becomes more safe than ever before.