Keyboard / Typing Apps

Mr Memory (686Kb) is very simple. It provides a quick check of how your system memory is doing at any time. Once running. there will be a new icon in the Windows Taskbar for Mr. Memory. Move your mouse pointer over this and the Mr. Memory window will appear on your screen, move your pointer away and the window will disappear. Double click this icon if you want to exit Mr. Memory.

PC Wizard is a powerful utility designed especially for detection of hardware, but also some more analysis. It's able to identify a large scale of system components and supports the latest technologies and standards. This tool is periodically updated (usually once per month) in order to provide most accurate results.

IZArc - IZArc2Go is portable version of IZArc.
Just drop it on any USB Flash Drive and you will have full functional archive utility wherever you go.
You don't have to install anything on the computer's hard disk.
IZArc2Go has all features of IZArc except that it can’t be integrated into the Explorer
shell menu and it is not possible to associate any archive file type with it.

Rain For keeping my 35 micron AMD K6-233 (O/C'd to 3X83) cool, I have found no program that works better." Those were my words after my initial testing of "Leading WinTech's" new program in May of 98. That system is now working harder than ever in my son's room and Rain still helps keep that processor from becoming a smoke emitting device.

HD Tune is a hard disk utility which has the following functions:
Benchmark: measures the raw performance
Transfer Rate
Access Time
CPU Usage
Burst Rate
Hard Disk information which includes partition information, supported features, firmware version, serial number, disk capacity, buffer size, transfer mode
Hard Disk Health
S.M.A.R.T. Information (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology)
Power On Time
Error scan
Temperature display
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Portable Apps Suite (USB Friendly) -- Useful Stuff -- JohnHaller.com

Portable USB Apps - TheInfoBox.com Although a lot of people use their USB Flash Drive to take files around with them, you can also load up some cool programs and utilities. You can turn your drive into a portable toolbox filled with all sorts of goodies.

ClearTweak allows you to change the contrast setting of the ClearType setting for Windows XP.
ClearType is designed to enhance LCD displays. It may appear slightly blurry on standard desktop monitors. It does not hurt to try ClearTweak on a CRT monitor. Even though ClearType is designed for LCD's, some people see an improvement on CRT's.

KeyTweak keyboard remapper

Driver Backup Software WinDriver Expert is a free utility for personal, non-commercial use, provided by Huntersoft, specifically for backing up your Windows system driver files.
WinDriver Expert can identify all of your Windows driver files and save them to a secure location in two simple mouse clicks.
Backing up your Windows driver files means they will be available to you the next time you need to reinstall the driver or the whole operating system. WinDriver Expert places the driver files in one organized location of your choosing.

SpeedFan is a freeware program that monitors fan speeds, temperatures and voltages in computers with hardware monitoring chips. SpeedFan can even access S.M.A.R.T. info for those hard disks that support this feature (almost all :-)) and show hard disk temperatures too, if supported. SpeedFan can even change the FSB on some motherboards. At the lowest level, SpeedFan is an hardware monitoring software, but its main feature is that it can control the speed of the fans (depending on your sensor chip) according to the temperatures inside your pc, thus reducing noise and power consumption.

WinDriversBackup is a free utility for personal, non-commercial use, provided by JerMar Software Corp. specifically for backing up your Windows system driver files.
WinDriversBackup can identify all of your Windows driver files and save them to a secure location in two simple mouse clicks.

Child Proof is a program that protect your computer from children by accident pressing wrong buttons or key. It hides all windows, the toolbar at the bottom and the desktop and replaces it by a toolbar with programs you allow your child to execute. This avoids most problems when children use the computer, but not all.

Home Typist - adds typewriter sounds to your computer keyboard

RapidKeys A virtual keyboard is an application intended to replace the keyboard by using a pointing device (mouse, trackball or similar device). Virtual keyboards are usually used by people with physical disabilities or for systems without keyboard.

Click-N-Type Virtual Keyboard is an on-screen virtual keyboard designed for anyone with a disability that prevents him or her from typing on a physical computer keyboard. As long as the person can control a mouse, trackball or other pointing device, he or she can send keystrokes to virtually any Windows application or DOS application that can run within a window.

Nifty Worker lets you execute applications using shortcut keys, and more!

EasyScan is an acquisition interface for flatbed scanner using Twain standard interface capabilities from scanners drivers. So it allows to use all Twain version 1.6 or higher compatible scanners (most of flatbed scanners are). His goal is to standardize the using of scanners which interfaces are all different, and above all to promote a powerful interface with multiple possibilities. This software allows to scan in 256 colors, 16 colors... functions not allowed with some scanners, to flip the image, to rotate the image, to select one RGB channel... It can also store many images in order to print them once (very useful for sending FAX with multiple pages).

KatMouse - mouse wheel utility for Windows The prime purpose of the KatMouse utility is to enhance the functionality of mice with a scroll wheel, offering 'universal' scrolling: moving the mouse wheel will scroll the window directly beneath the mouse cursor (not the one with the keyboard focus, which is default on Windows OSes). IMO this is a major increase in the usefullness of the mouse wheel.

Apple Mouse Utility Are you using a 1 button Apple mouse under Windows? Than this utility is the solution for you! By holding the Control key while this utility is running, the mouse button will act as the right mouse button instead of the left mouse button!

Mouse Emulator - Emulate your mouse with a keyboard

Keyboarding Keyboard shortcuts can sometimes be faster and more convenient than a mouse. Keyboarding is an informational tool that lists 2,900 keyboard shortcuts for Windows 95/98/Me/2K, Access 97 & 2000, Excel 97 & 2000, Outlook 97 & 2000, Word 97 & 2000 and Internet Explorer 4 & 5. Also lists 60 DOS commands and their switches

NeSoft Anti-lost CD - don't loss your CDs D ejects CD from CD-drive at Windows shutdown.

Hotkeycontrol XP is a software to customize hotkeys (or single keys) for specific purposes .It will make any keyboard to work as a Multimedia or Internet keyboard .It can be used to change volume with On-screen-display or display in tray icon .Using iOSD, any avi file can be used to display the volume status on screen. Also, using iOSD, any bitmap can be displayed on the screen conveniently using hotkeys. You can play/eject audio CD's, hide/close/keep active window on top or shutdown/restart/logoff your computer. You can also send keystrokes which may be used to type in frequently used text and run programs with optional command-line parameters and open folders and webpages. You can also control your browser and any media player with hotkeys.

Dynamic Drive- Mouse Trail effects

MouseCam Have you ever been to a web site or tried to read documents where they used a font so small you had to really strain your eyes to read it? Or have you ever wanted to get greater detail of a graphic? MouseCam is a free small utility that magnifies anything your cursor is over up to 20x normal size.

Noisy Keyboard Do you miss the days of typewriters, when you heard a distinctive sound each time you pressed one of the keys? Those days are back when you use Noisy Keyboard. This free system tray-based utility lets you hear seven different types of sounds as you hunt and peck your way through another computing session: one that plays when you hit the Spacebar, another that's heard when you touch the Enter key, and a third that's played when any other key is pressed.

Noisy Mouse is a simple program that adds separate sounds to right, left, and middle mouse button actions. It adds the three selections to the Windows Sounds properties, allowing you to use the native Control Panel applet to assign any of the three files included, or any .wav file your prefer. Noisy Mouse optionally resides in your system tray to provide access to editing the sounds or terminating the program

ThumbTrack hold the scroll box (thumb) for you, And lets you scroll without the need to hold the left mouse button pressed. Every time that you start dragging the scroll box you can release the left mouse button and continue your scrolling just by moving the mouse.

Typing Tutor The program is designed to be used in a multi-user environment, and is compatible with RM Net LM and RM Connect, and installation Instructions for these follow. Typing Tutor can be used on a Standalone PC, and other Networking environments (however no support for the product can be guaranteed

3D Cool Info (1.89Mb) This program uses a tabbed interface to organize information about your PC's hardware and software into logical categories.
Shows details about your operating system, CPU, disk drives, display settings, memory capacity, and network options without navigating through dozens of properties dialogs.
Lets you obtain version information on your programs, drivers, DLLs, and fonts, and the program keeps track of how long your system has been running.

HiCDEject you can try out our program HiCDEject. This program helps control your CD-drive's door with one click of your mouse. The total size of this program is only 9 KB.