Timer 1.2 - full version

Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP
Licence: Free full version
Minimum system requirements: N/A
Web: http://www.acutesoftware.com.au

Time yourself online or doing a job and set reminder alarms for yourself with the full version of Timer 1.2, previously sold for $32, now yours free thanks to Acute Software.

Be aware of how much time you spend online or on a project. With Timer 1.2 you can set a timer to go off after you've been online for 2 hours or so, ensuring that you never get any scary ISP bills. Timer acts in three main modes - stopwatch, timer and alarm clock. You can have up to 32 separate timers running at once in any combination of these three modes. In this way, you can simultaenously record time spent on a client's project, use it as a kitchen timer to remind you to turn over the roast in ½ hour, when to watch that TV program that's on at 8:30pm, or to check on your lab experiment at 10 minute intervals.

Timer upgrade offer

Upgrade to latest version, Timer 3.2 for only US$16.50. That's a discount of 25% off the retail price!

Timer 3.2 has some great new features worthy of upgrading to. To find out more, install the trial version on this month's CD or visit the Acute Software Web site.

How to order
To purchase Timer 3.2 at the special discount price simply visit www.acutesoftware.com.au/upgrade-timer.html.

Timer 3.2 - trial version

Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP
Licence: Shareware
Minimum system requirements: N/A
Web: http://www.acutesoftware.com.au

The latest version of Timer has some great new features. You can now keep a favourites list of stopwatches so you don't have to keep creating them anew. The timers can count up or down and you can create up to eight daily alarms.

Ashampoo PowerUp XP 2.0 - full version

Operating system: Windows NT4/2000/XP
Licence: Free full version
Minimum system requirements: N/A
Web: http://www.ashampoo.com/

Get the most power out of Windows with the full version of PowerUp XP 2. Previously sold for $58, PowerUp XP 2 is yours free after online registration, thanks to Ashampoo.

Some Windows settings are easy to change but some are more difficult and dangerous, such as the Windows Registry. With PowerUp XP anyone can make high-performance tweaks to Windows. Even experts will appreciate the ease of having so many performance tuning options available from one intuitive program interface.

Registration
To obtain a free registration key, install PowerUp XP, then select Get Free Key from the Internet menu. If you aren't already online the program will prompt you to establish a connection to the Internet. Your full version key code will then be sent to you at the email address you provide. Select Enter Reg/Trial Key in the Internet menu to enter the key code in the input field displayed. Use copy and paste to make sure the code is entered correctly.

Ashampoo special offer

NetGuide readers can get Ashampoo WinShampoo for 30% off the retail price!

WinShampoo is a cleaning agent for your Windows system, containing two of Ashampoo's most popular products: Ashampoo WinOptimizer Platinum Suite and Ashampoo UnInstaller Suite. To learn more about WinShampoo install the trial version on this month's NetGuide CD or the Ashampoo Web site.

How to order
To buy WinShampoo at 30% off the retail price simply visit the special order page at www.ashampoo.com/shop/0021/upgrade.

 

Ashampoo WinShampoo - trial version

Operating system: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP
Licence: Shareware (30-day trial)
Minimum system requirements:
Web: http://www.ashampoo.com/products/0021

Keep your Windows system clean of unwanted junk files that slow system performance. Winshampoo combines two programs: WinOptimizer Platinum Suite and Uninstaller Suite Plus. There's no longer any need to have a cluttered Windows egistry or hard drive, full of obsolete files left over from programs that are no longer on your PC. Install WinShampoo and Windows will remain a speedy, clean and
error-free zone.

NetGuide issue index Jan-Jun 2004

Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP
Licence: Free
Minimum system requirements: Adobe Reader
Web: N/A

The issue index lets you quickly find which NetGuide issue every article or review is in from the last six months. No longer will you waste precious time sifting through your stack of NetGuide issues grumbing "now where's that handy troubleshooting guide again?".

Agent Ransack 1.7.3

Operating system: Windows 9x/ME/NT/2K/XP
Licence: Free
Minimum system requirements: N/A
Web: http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack

Agent Ransack is a free tool for finding files and information on your hard drive fast and efficiently.

R-Drive Image 1.1

Operating system: Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP
Licence: Shareware - 15 days trial
Minimum system requirements: N/A
Web: http://www.drive-image.com/

R-Drive Image is a tool providing disk image files creation for backup or duplication purposes. Disk image file contains exact, byte-by-byte copy of a hard drive, partition or logical disk and can be created with various compression levels on the fly without stopping Windows OS.

ABF Outlook Express Backup 1.9

Operating system: Windows 98/Me/NT4/2000/XP/2003
Licence: Shareware - 30 days trial
Minimum system requirements: Outlook Express 5.0 or higher
Web: http://www.abf-soft.com/

A backup and synchronisation tool for the popular Outlook Express mail client. It allows you to backup and restore your messages, address book, settings, mail and news accounts, message rules, blocked senders lists, signatures, stationeries and even your favourites.

ABF Outlook Backup 2.2

Operating system: Windows 98/Me/NT4/2000/XP/2003
Licence: Shareware - 30 days trial
Minimum system requirements: Outlook 2000/XP/2003
Web: http://www.abf-soft.com/

A backup and synchronisation tool for the MS Outlook 2000/XP/2003. It allows you to backup and restore your messages, address book, settings, mail and news accounts, message rules, blocked senders lists, signatures, stationeries and even your favourites.

Active Backup Expert Professional 1.90

Operating system: Windows 98/Me/NT4/2000/XP/2003
Licence: Shareware - 30 days trial
Minimum system requirements: N/A
Web: http://www.orionsoftlab.com/

Active Backup Expert is an easy to use backup software that creates backups into any location in your system such as hard drives and optical discs.

NovaBACKUP 7.1Professional Edition

Operating system: Windows 98/Me/NT4/2000/XP
Licence: Shareware - 30 days trial
Minimum system requirements: N/A
Web: http://www.no-panic.com

Easily backup to any disk drive, including CD-R/RW and DVD-R/RW (and DVD+RW) drives, SCSI/EIDE Tape Drives, IOMega Zip/Jaz/Click drives, hard drives and more.

WebFerret 5.0

Operating system: Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP
Licence: Free
Minimum system requirements: N/A
Web: http://www.ferretsoft.com/

WebFerret lets you search the web quickly and thoroughly by instantly submitting your search query to multiple search engines, and displaying all of the results in a single concise window.

Advanced Searchbar

Operating system: Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP
Licence: Free
Minimum system requirements: Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 or later; An Amazon Account.
Web: http://www.advancedsearchbar.com/

The Advanced Searchbar is an Internet Explorer toolbar that allows you to quickly access and search over 60 search engines and is jam packed with features including easy access to computer system and disk tools.

NewsNose

Operating system: Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP
Licence: Free
Minimum system requirements: N/A
Web: http://www.bangstudios.com

NewsNose is a news search system that queries over 1600 news sources simultaneously using a simple yet very flexible interface.

A9 Toolbar

Operating system: Windows 2000/XP
Licence: Free
Minimum system requirements: Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 or later; An Amazon Account.
Web: http://toolbar.a9.com/

An Internet search toolbar add-on for Microsoft Internet Explorer for Amazon Users.

MSN Toolbar

Operating system: Windows 98/ME/2000/XP
Licence: Free
Minimum system requirements: Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 or later
Web: http://toolbar.msn.com/

Search toolbar plugin for Microsoft Internet Explorer with pop-up blocking capability.

Google Toolbar

Operating system: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Licence: Free
Minimum system requirements: Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 or later
Web: http://toolbar.google.com

Search toolbar plugin for Microsoft Internet Explorer with pop-up blocking capability.

Yahoo! Companion Toolbar

Operating system: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Licence: Free
Minimum system requirements: Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 or later
Web: http://toolbar.yahoo.com

Search toolbar plugin for Microsoft Internet Explorer with pop-up blocking capability and allows you to save your favourites and access them from any computer.

Fresh Diagnose 6.6

Operating system: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP
Licence: Free
Minimum system requirements: N/A
Web: http://www.freshdevices.com

Fresh Diagnose is a utility designed to analyse and benchmark your computer system. It can analyse and benchmark many kinds of hardware, such as CPU performance, hard disk performance, video system information, mainboard information and much more.

Fresh UI 7.06

Operating system: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP
Licence: Free
Minimum system requirements: N/A
Web: http://www.freshdevices.com

Fresh UI is a fresh solution for configuring and optimising Windows operating system. Loaded with hundreds of useful hidden settings in Windows XP/2000/NT4/98/ 95/Me, it covers the customising and optimising techniques that you'll be glad to know.

Ad-Aware 6 Standard

Operating system: Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP
Licence: Free
Minimum system requirements: N/A
Web: http://www.lavasoftusa.com

Ad-aware Standard Edition is the award winning, free* multicomponent detection and removal utility that consistently leads the industry in safety, user satisfaction, support and reliability.

Spybot - Search & Destroy 1.2

Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP
Licence: Donationware
Minimum system requirements: N/A
Web: http://www.safer-networking.org

Spybot - Search & Destroy can detect and remove spyware of different kinds from your computer.

R-Undelete

Operating system: Windows 9x, ME, NT, 2000, XP, 2003
Licence: Demo
Minimum system requirements: N/A
Web: http://www.r-undelete.com/

R-Undelete can undelete files on any valid logical disks visible by the host OS.

Advanced System Optimiser 2

Operating system: Windows XP, 98/ME. 2000/2003/NT
Licence: Shareware - Trial
Minimum system requirements: N/A
Web: http://www.systweak.com/

A collection of essential tools for Windows.

Ashampoo WinOptimizer Platinum Suite 1.22

Operating system: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP
Licence: Shareware - Trial
Minimum system requirements: N/A
Web: http://www.ashampoo.com/

A package of cleanup tools that will keep your Windows® installation lean, mean and running smoothly.