 Windows 98 desktop tools and utilities What system would be complete without a collection of tools and utilities to monitor, tweak and enhance your system? |
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| Active Desktop Calendar | |||||
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| Description: | A personal information manager that runs in the background and is displayed as your desktop wallpaper, using Active Desktop. Includes a calendar, appointments and more. In addition to the icons provided, you can download icons from the author's Web site. | ||||
| Requirements: | 45 day trial | ||||
| Install instructions: | Download to your local drive, then unzip it (for help click here) and run the setup.exe file. | ||||
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http://www.xemico.com/adc | ||||
| Auto Maintenance 3.03 | |||||
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| Description: | Auto Maintenance makes it easy to automate common maintenance tasks such as virus checking, backups and disk defragmenting. Auto Maintenance allows you to preset the programs' options and run everything by itself at predefined intervals, dates or times. | ||||
| Requirements: | Shareware | ||||
| Install instructions: | Internet Explorer users just click on the file and choose Open to run the setup program straight from the CD. Nestcape users download to your local drive and run the EXE file. | ||||
| Links online: |
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/comptime/ | ||||
| Background Master | |||||
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| Description: | Background Master is one of many utilities that allow you to change your desktop wallpaper. The difference is Background Master can also use JPEG images from the Web, including some live cameras. All you need to do is give it the URL of the image and it will handle the rest. | ||||
| Requirements: | Expires after 16 uses | ||||
| Install instructions: | Internet Explorer users just click on the file and choose Open to run the setup program straight from the CD. Nestcape users download to your local drive and run the EXE file. | ||||
| Links online: |
http://www.digitalsquid.com/ochroid/bmaster | ||||
| Boot Log Analyzer | |||||
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| Description: | Boot Log Analyzer looks at your BOOTLOG.TXT file and calculates the time taken to load each driver when Windows starts up. This is a great help in finding the culprit if your computer takes a long time to boot up. Recommended for advanced users only. | ||||
| Requirements: | Freeware | ||||
| Install instructions: | Download to your local drive, then unzip it (for help click here). | ||||
| Links online: |
http://www.prohosting.com/~vision4/indexf.htm | ||||
| Clipboard Magic 1.33 | |||||
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| Description: | If you spend a lot of time cutting and pasting, and particularly if you use the same text or other items repeatedly, then Clipboard Magic is for you. Anything cut or copied to the clipboard can be stored in Clipboard Magic's database, either automatically, or whenever you decide to. Then just double-click on the icon in the system tray, select the item you want and it will be copied back into the clipboard for easy pasting. | ||||
| Requirements: | Freeware | ||||
| Install instructions: | Download to your local drive, then unzip it (for help click here) and run the setup.exe file. | ||||
| Links online: |
http://www.cyber-matrix.com/clipmag.htm | ||||
| Cool Info | |||||
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| Description: | Displays everything you could ever want to know about your computer in an easy-to-read interface. Everything from the processor type and speed to more than you ever wanted to know about the disk drives. A particularly useful feature is the dialog that allows you to display all the version and copyright information for each file. | ||||
| Requirements: | Freeware | ||||
| Install instructions: | Internet Explorer users just click on the file and choose Open to run the setup program straight from the CD. Nestcape users download to your local drive and run the EXE file. | ||||
| Links online: |
http://www.creationsoft.com/software.htm | ||||
| Cool Timer 98 | |||||
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| Description: | This small utility keeps track of how long your computer has been running. Any time you want to check, just click on the icon in the system tray. | ||||
| Requirements: | Free for home users | ||||
| Install instructions: | Internet Explorer users just click on the file and choose Open to run the setup program straight from the CD. Nestcape users download to your local drive and run the EXE file. | ||||
| Links online: |
http://www.creationsoft.com/software.htm | ||||
| Directory Sorter 2.1 | |||||
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| Description: | While Windows Explorer displays your files in a nice alphabetically sorted list, the file directory is not stored in any particular order. Directory Sorter changes the order of your files and folders in your file directory. You can sort your files and folders by eight different criteria, convert all the file names to upper-case for CD distribution and change the date stamps on your folders. This program is particularly useful if you want to change the order your backup program or virus checker looks at your files. | ||||
| Requirements: | Demo | ||||
| Install instructions: | Internet Explorer users just click on the file and choose Open to run the setup program straight from the CD. Nestcape users download to your local drive and run the EXE file. | ||||
| Links online: |
http://www.key.net.au/~sflynn/ | ||||
| DirectX Control Panel | |||||
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| Description: | Gain control of your DirectX drivers. This Control Panel extension allows you to see all the DirectX drivers in your system, and to adjust their settings. | ||||
| Requirements: | Freeware | ||||
| Install instructions: | Download to your local drive, then unzip it (for help click here) into the \windows\system\ folder.. | ||||
| Links online: |
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| Disappear 98 | |||||
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| Description: | Disappear 98 makes the background of icon text on the desktop disappear, so that the text sits directly on top of your wallpaper. To use the program just unzip it and place it in the Startup folder. The next time you start the computer, the backgrounds will disappear. | ||||
| Requirements: | Freeware | ||||
| Install instructions: | Download to your local drive, then unzip it (for help click here). | ||||
| Links online: |
http://199.227.53.149/disappear/98.shtml | ||||
| Disk CleanUp | |||||
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| Description: | Normally when you delete a file, the file's directory entry is erased, but the data itself remains on the disk until it is written over. This means the data can still be accessed even though the file has been deleted. Disk CleanUp completely removes all traces of the file, the data and the directory entry, for added security. | ||||
| Requirements: | Shareware | ||||
| Install instructions: | Internet Explorer users just click on the file and choose Open to run the setup program straight from the CD. Nestcape users download to your local drive and run the EXE file. | ||||
| Links online: |
http://www.execpc.com/~sbd/CleanUp.html | ||||
| DOS4GW | |||||
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| Description: | DOS memory extender used by some programs. | ||||
| Requirements: | Freeware | ||||
| Install instructions: | Download to your local drive, then unzip it (for help click here). | ||||
| Links online: |
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