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Top Ten Tools We constantly scour the Internet to bring you the ten most essential downloads around. From the latest updates of popular software, to tools that will increase your PC’s speed, security, reliability, functionality, and minimise the likelihood of errors – you’ll find them all here. All of the Top Ten Tools can be found on the Windows Advisor website in the Downloads section. Fasta Fasta is a really handy tool for quickly launching recently used programs, folders and files. Just type the first few letters of the item you wish to use and the program will suggest the full name; simply hit return and it will open or run. All opened items are also stored for even quicker access.

Free Mp3 Recorder Free Mp3 Recorder is a utility that lets you record music or any other audio from your PC. It records the audio data played on the sound card, so any sound that can be played on the PC can be recorded. You have the option to save the sound as an .mp3 or .wav file.

Instantbird Instantbird is a multi-protocol (IM) . Using it, you can connect to all your different IM accounts. It uses the rendering engine to display IMs, and the Pidgin networking to connect to the different networks. Memory Optimizer Memory Optimizer is a great program for quickly recovering memory; it is particularly useful for users whose systems are frequently accessing the pagefile. It features a simple, attractive interface with one-click operation for freeing memory.

MultiMonitorTool With MultiMonitorTool, you can disable/enable monitors, set the primary monitor, save and load the configuration of all monitors, and move windows from one monitor to another. You can do these actions from the user interface or from the command , without displaying the user interface. MultiMonitorTool also provides a preview window, which allows you to watch a preview of every monitor on your system.

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Mz Registry Backup Mz Registry Backup is a professional-looking tool for creating a backup of your registry. This is very useful when using registry clean-up programs as it allows you to restore your ‘last good’ settings. You can also schedule backups to run daily, weekly, or even when your computer starts.

PC Audio Visualizer PC Audio Visualizer is an interesting tool that displays the waveform of the audio being played on your PC. It takes the sound directly from the sound card so can display any sound. It also gives you information about the sampling rate and bitrate.

Rename Rename will enable you to quickly change the names of your files, regardless of the directory they’re stored in. It offers a host of options for renaming, including prepending text or appending text, changing the file extension, adding numbers and more.

What’s My Computer Doing? Are you curious why your hard drive LED is sometimes flashing or why the CPU fan gets louder even if you’re not doing anything? What’s my computer doing? tells you why. It shows full details of all programs that are accessing your hard drive or using the CPU. Furthermore you have the option to close these programs or even uninstall them.

WinWeb Browser Deluxe 2.0 WinWeb Browser Deluxe is a lightweight and easy to use web browser. Based on Internet Explorer, this browser can access any web page quickly and easily. It comes with a RSS viewer, a tool for downloading online videos and it also allows you to customise its appearance with the theme designer.

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