A system analyzer is often overlooked as the toy of PC modding fanatics, but the reality is that these applications are very effective at dissecting your PC and giving you the hard truth about its performance. PC Wizard aims to explore the insides of your system and give you the complete low down on its strengths and weaknesses.

Once you launch PC Wizard you’ll notice it takes some time to detect all the hardware installed on your PC. Use the left side of the interface to navigate through the different categories. PC Wizard reveals all the basic details of your hardware, like ports, drivers and processors, but you’ll soon realize there’s much more to it, like analyzing system files or investigating the configuration of elements such as your Internet connection or your Control Panel. Over-sized icons make it fairly obvious what you can inspect, however we would have appreciated an explorer type window to navigate through components and select exactly what to analyze.

The core of any self-respecting system analyzer is the benchmarking tool and that is where PC Wizard excels. The application lets you inspect everything from processors to cache, RAM and multimedia like DirectX, MP3 compression and video. Benchmarks provide the results as a list of information or via comprehensible graphs. These will show you straight away where you’re PC stands and the “compare with” button will let you measure your processor up against well known models. We have to warn beginners though that the information is fairly technical and will be more relevant to experienced users. Just for fun, test out the video benchmark to obtain a swarm of multicoloured balls and lines all over your screen.

That’s the only bit of excitement you’ll get with this application though. PC Wizard is not here for fun it's here to be effective. The detailed information and thorough benchmarking tests give you reliable data on all the characteristics and components of your PC. The complexity of this type of application means beginners are best kept away from it altogether, however advanced users will revel in the wealth of knowledge it will uncover on their PC’s performances.

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There are so many graphics cards and chipsets nowadays that compatibility problems with software inevitably arise. PowerStrip provides advanced, multi-monitor, programmable hardware support to a wide range of graphics cards - from the Matrox Millennium I to the latest ATI X850 and NVidia SLI solutions.

The developers claim this is the only program of its type to support multiple graphics cards from multiple chipset vendors, simultaneously, under every Windows operating system from Windows 95 to the x64-bit edition of XP. A simple menu pop up from the system tray provides access to some 500 controls over your display hardware, including color correction tools, period level adjustments over screen geometry, and driver independent clock controls.

The program automatically detects when programs are launched and responds by activating specific display settings, gamma adjustments, performance switches and even clock speeds - returning everything to normal when the program closes. A quick setup wizard gets you up and running with minimal fuss and and live updates are supported to ensure you're always running the latest release.

If you've had problems with games or compatibility issues with other software, look no further than PowerStrip.

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Problems with the Windows registry are a common cause of Windows crashes and error messages.Registry Repair allows you to fix your registry and optimize your PCs performance.With a few easy steps, you are able to find problems caused by invalid entries, references and links in the Windows registry and provides a list of the errors found, you can choose to selectively repair each item or automatically repair them all.

Registry Repair uses a high-performance detection algorithm to quickly identify missing and invalid references in your Windows registry. These problems can occur for many reasons including being left-behind after the un-installation or incorrect removal of software, by missing or corrupt hardware drivers, or orphaned startup programs.

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Driver Magician is an easy-to-use and powerful tool for device drivers backup, restoration and update for Windows Operating system. It identifies all the hardware in the system, extracts their associated drivers from the hard disk and backs them up to a location of your choice.

Then when you format and reinstall/upgrade your operating system, you can restore all the "saved" drivers just as if you had the original driver disks. After one system reboot, your PC will be loaded and running with the required hardware drivers.

What's more, Driver Magician has a built-in database of the latest drivers with the ability to go to the Internet to receive the updates. It saves lots of time to find the correct drivers and mature drivers will obviously increase the performance of hardware.

Key features:

• Back up device drivers of your computer in four modes
• Restore device drivers from backup in one mouse click
• Update device drivers of your PC to improve system performance and stability
• Live Update device identifier database and driver update database
• Detect unknown devices
• Back up more items such as My Documents and Registry
• Restore more items from backup
• Get detailed information of the hardware drivers
• Clone all drivers to an auto-setup package (.EXE), so you can restore drivers without installing Driver Magician

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VSO Inspector is a free add-on to report various information about your hardware configuration. Using this freeware, you can check the listed CD and DVD readers and writers connected to your computer, check the firmware used, the details about the media used and the speed supported by a given writer with this media. You can also scan a burnt media for read errors and be confident about the readibility of your fresh backup.

Here's what VSO Inspector can do for you:

Detect and list the features of your CD/DVD writers

Supported formats

Region details

Firmware versions

Buffer size

Region Code

Read and Write modes

Detect and list information about the inserted media

Media type

Capacity

Media ID (manufacturer and/or model)

Number of layers

Supported speeds (with current writer)

Media Analysis

Sector reading

Definition of the area to check

Definition of the read direction

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Hardware sensors monitor utilizes sensor chips on smart motherboards to track system and CPU temperatures, voltages and cooling fans. By quickly catching an overheated computer, you can prevent disasters such as system instability or damage. The program is resource friendly, resides quietly in the system tray, and continually monitors the various parameters. By clicking its icon, you'll view real time values for each component.

Once it has detected an overheating state, Hmonitor can perform a number of tasks. First, it can sound an audio alarm, then shut down the system or optionally execute any selected application (i.e. sending E-mail alert messages to system administrator). It can also log information each minute to a file on your hard drive. From the settings dialog, Hmonitor enables you to set "yellow zone" and "red zone" temperatures for the motherboard and CPU. You can also set minimum fan RPM before a warning is issued. In addition, nominal values and thresholds can be adjusted for voltage parameters.

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Adusoft PSP Video Converter is an easy-to-use and professional PSP movie converter software which helps you convert videos to watch on PSP's (Sony PlayStation Protable MP4 video format). Adusoft PSP Video Converter is able to convert almost all kinds of video files such as divx, xvid, avi, wmv, asf, mpg, mpeg, vob, mov, qt, vcd, svcd, rm to Sony PSP MP4 files, with speed and high quality.

This powerful software, in just a few clicks, completes the task of video conversion so you can watch video on your PSP. There's no need to worry about configuration either - it automatically detects your hardware configuration and decides on an optimized conversion scheme.

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WinAudit performs a rapid and exhaustive audit of installed software, license information, security configuration, hardware inventory, network settings and much more. It has the following features:

• Easy to use
• Audits virtually everything
• No setup
• Windows 95 and up
• Save in text, HTML, CSV, PDF
• Send audit by email
• Export to databases
• Operates in batch mode
• Extensive documentation

The programme reports on virtually every aspect of computer inventory and configuration. Results are displayed in web-page format, categorised for ease of viewing and text searching. Whether your interest is in software compliance, hardware inventory, technical support, security or just plain curiosity, WinAudit has it all. The programme has advanced features such as service tag detection, hard-drive failure diagnosis, network port to process mapping, network connection speed, system availability statistics as well as Windows update and firewall settings.

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EzVoice is full-featured answering machine software with voice mail support. It captures caller ID, and allows you to pre-screen calls and block unwanted calls or telemarketers. Its built-in address book lets you customize greetings for friends, relatives or coworkers.

Moreover, it will notify you of new calls or voice messages through emails to your pagers or cellular phones. If you own a business, you can set up to 10 voice mailboxes in EzVoice, which enable you to announce products, prices or other related information in separate mail boxes. This will greatly improve your business image. Additionally, you can attach memos or notes to your phone messages.

With built-in search tool, you can retrieve and find these messages quickly. EzVoice further provides other useful features such as visual and audio alert upon new calls, password protected remote retrieval, unlimited recording length and so on.

EzVoice is feature-rich, and yet at the same time easy-to-use. It comes with automatic hardware detection as well as auto-configuration. Its design has borrowed some up-to-date techniques from the latest research in human computer interactions. Most users reported that they were able to start running EzVoice to answer their phone calls within one to five minutes after downloading.

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PC Info is not a hardware benchmark or detection utility. This program is used mainly by network administrators who need to have a summary summary of all the devices installed in every single machine they work with.

This tool will help to make your work more effective, saving time and money when trying to discover who installed what. In this way, if any problem occurs, you will have all the information you need with just a few clicks.

The only thing you need is to create a database with all the computers, including owner name and a list of all the installed components. This list can also be exported to other formats.

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A computer is very much like a car in the respect that it's all clean and speedy when you first get it but after a short while it starts to slow down. And just as your auto needs a tune-up every once in a while, so to your PC can be given the once over to speed it up. Registry Mechanic is one of a number of registry cleaners on the market, and it also proves to be one of the best.

Trawling through your registry for problems can be a tricky and even dangerous task, but this program makes it really simple to cut the crap that you don't need through its idiot-proof navigation. The app splits registry errors into categories, prioritising their importance and offering you a simple-to-understand description of what the problem is. Although the interface is great for novices, there are plenty of customisation options to keep dab-hands happy too.

Scanning in Registry Mechanic is pretty quick and seems to be very thorough (it picked up over 200 errors!) There are several scanning options, such as the ability to scan automatically or to select certain directories to examine. Solving problems is easy for beginners because the program takes you to the path of the error, allowing you to delete it manually, making it safer, to boot. Unfortunately there's no undo tool in the program so you'll need to revert registry entries yourself if you delete one in error. On the whole, Registry Mechanic provides a fast, easy solution for fixing registry problems and speeding up your machine.

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Every PC owner faces the problem of slow computer syndrome at some stage and one of the most common causes of this frustrating issue is the Windows registry. In brief, this is a database that stores configuration information about all the hardware and software on your system and does so for each user account. Through persistent use, entries become redundant or unorganized, which is why users need some way to sort it out from time to time. RegCleaner attempts to provide a solution to this problem but does it deliver the goods?

What you get is a small program that displays the data that holds your Operating System together. It does so using the raw values and as such, some of the entries may seem mystical to anyone that doesn’t have much experience of the Windows registry. For users who do know their way around, however, they will find this utility to be efficient and useful for weeding out any lingering entries such as unused file types, “dead” uninstall information, or unwanted startup services.

There is an automatic scan but it seems to be geared towards manual removal of entries. Good for quickly removing multiple keys, the lack of a confirmation dialog could lead to disaster, but as you work through various lists, everything you affect is backed-up, should you accidentally get trigger-happy.

We like the no-nonsense interface of RegCleaner, which suits users who have clear objectives in mind before opening the program. Conversely, if you aren’t confident around the registry, don’t expect any spoon-feeding from here. For that, you may want to look to alternatives such as Registry Repair or Registry Booster.

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A feature-rich software application that works with off-the-shelf web cameras and camcorders to provide a monitoring solution with video and audio recording capabilities. Eyecopia helps you create a simple monitoring system with hardware that you may already have in your home.

A webcam, computer and internet connection are all you need to get started. Once connected, Eyecopia will monitor multiple cameras for you and create events. Events are the video files, and associated information, that are created by the program when motion is detected by a monitored camera. If available, Eyecopia will record audio to these files as well.

Eyecopia will then send event notifications to your cellular phone, email, or other networked computers using Eyecopia Remote to let you know. Users have intuitive and flexible control of how, when, and where these notifications are sent.

Eyecopia excels at allowing you to interact and manage these events at your own convenience, in very simple and efficient ways. You'll love features such as Eyecopia's unique categorization capabilities and the ability to add sticky notes to events.

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Spyware Doctor Enterprise is designed for organizations seeking a centrally deployed and managed solution that works in real time on a network server to detect, remove, and continuously block malicious spyware from 10 to thousands of computers.

This program allows you to protect thousands of client computers on an Enterprise network.
The level of protection can be managed from a centralized PC including installation and maintenance, threat management, monitoring, analysis and removal. You can also schedule scans on demand and request security updates for each PC. The security features in Spyware Enterprise are also pretty impressive as you can assign servers to a managed domain, meaning you can automatically switch from one to another in case of hardware failure.

This program will appeal to network administrators both new and old as it features wizards to help you get up and running for the first time with configurable database backups for those who want more control.

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UFS Explorer is easy-to-use tool that allows you to browse your alternative filesystems and extract files from there. Now it supports user-mode read-only support for Ext2/Ext3 Linux filesystems as well as FAT fs support. It gives you a really efficient way to access your files, located on your disk partitions and disk images (VMWare, RAW) that are not accessible normally.

Key features of the program:

• Read-only access to Linux Reiser/Ext2/Ext3 filesystems
• Read-only access to BSD UFS/UFS2 filesystems
• Read-only basic access to MacOS X HFS+/HFSX and byte-swapped UFS/UFS2
• Read-only access to FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 with LFN
• Explorer-like filesystem browsing
• File search support
• Files recovery/extraction (for files larger then 16k - available after registration)
• Preserve file modification dates
• 3 file views: 'Large icons', 'Small icons' and 'Details'
• Folder/object group extraction
• Hard-disk auto-detection
• Partitions auto-detection basing on DOS/BSD/MacOS partitioning
• Supports Apple Mac OS-style hard disk partitioning
• Partitions probing: detect correct filesystem if partition label is invalid
• Smart filesystem caching
• Symlinks browsing, object properties and other utility features
• Hardware changes re-scan; opened devices management
• Files extraction from disk images! Supports VMWare 3,4,5 hard disk image files, RAW disk image files, both RAW and 'chunked' Apple MacOS disk image files (.DMG) with ZLIB compression support

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WirelessMon is a software tool that allows users to monitor the status of wireless WiFi adapter(s) and gather information about nearby wireless access points and hot spots in real time. WirelessMon can log the information it collects into a file, while also providing comprehensive graphing of signal level and real time IP and 802.11 WiFi statistics.

The following wireless LAN information is displayed by WirelessMon (when available, as not all wireless adapters will support all of these features).

• Current connection information: SSID; Connected access point MAC address; Signal strength; Tx Power; Authentication type; RTS Threshold; Fragmentation Threshold; Channel in use; Frequency being used; Number of Antennas; Beacon Period; ATIM Window; Dwell Time; Hop Pattern; Hop Set.
• Statistics information: More than 30 parameters are reported. Including a detailed break down of frames sent and received, error counts, transmission retry counters and related low level data.
• IP information: Information about the current TCP/IP connection is reported. Including the adapter MAC address; Adapter device driver name; the IP Address; Subnet Mask; if DHCP is enabled; the Gateway Address and the DHCP server IP address.
• IP counter information: Network throughput is monitored and displayed. This includes the maximum bandwidth available from the network adapter hardware, the current send and receive data rates in bytes per second and packets per second, plus error counters.

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FantaFace Mixer is designed to create fantastic face composites with multiple images. With our intelligent face detection and facial feature extraction technique, you can easily mix up multiple faces into a magic "average face" or generate thousands of synthetic copyright free photo-realistic face by age, gender and ethnicity.

FantaFae Mixer takes advantage of hardware acceleration, the high speed of the rendering engine makes it possible to compute multiple faces at one time and see the final composite in real time. If you have a webcam or any video device, you can quickly capture some headshots as source images. You can store edited faces in a classified Face Library and then simply pick up some faces from there for a new composite.

The skinnable user interface is good looking, streamlined and makes its easy to work with images.

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Plato Video to PSP Converter is the professional Video to PSP converter software. It automatically converts almost all formats of video files that are already on your computer such as DivX, XviD, AVI, WMV, MPG, MPEG,ASF,MOV,ASX,SVCD,VCD stream formats into PSP video files.The primary function of Plato Video to PSP Converter is to convert video file to MP4 which can be played in Sony PSP.

Plato Video to PSP Converter is the easiest video to PSP converter software. This user-friendly software is so easy to use that just a few clicks completes the task of converting a video to PSP! The Program automatically detects your hardware configuration and decide an optimized conversion scheme. Its preview display enables you to observe the whole converting process, making the waiting time enjoyable!

Key Features:

• Convert various video file formats to MP4 for PSP
• Conversion speed is 3 times of the playback speed
• Super easy to use: as simple as a few clicks
• Batch files conversion
• Custom define the output audio volume
• Support almost all digital video files (AVI, MPG, MPEG, ASF, WMV, MOV, 3GP, AMR, FLV, FLIC, SWF,etc.) into an PSP video files
• Best quality: the support for the latest industry standards ensures the videos you create with best picture and audio quality
• User-friendly interface : without any complicated settings
• Hardware auto-detect: Automatically detect your hardware and decide the best converting speed
• Preview display: you can see the converting progress in preview window

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Adobe Audition started life as a simple audio editor until Adobe saw that the big money was in music creation software. The program is now part of the Creative Suite line as a multi-track recording studio that offers all the refinement you expect in Adobe products but leaves beginners floundering in technical jargon.

First of all, be warned that this is a big download – 470MB to be exact - and the installation is also a long, drawn-out process so don’t be in a hurry to go anywhere when trying this. After the initial installation, Adobe Audition searches for compatible audio formats on your hard drive but asks you which file types you want to associate with it. Otherwise the program would detect every single sound file on your hard drive meaning your Adobe Audition library would be a jumbled mess.

The main interface is clean, with the active window highlighted by a red border. Each window is separated by tabs to keep the ‘File’, ‘Effects’, ‘Main’ and ‘Mixer’ sections separate and easy to revert to. If you don’t like the layout then Adobe has provided an ‘unlock panel’ option which allows you to detach and move these windows to a position of your choosing. You can save your own rearrangements as workplace templates according to the type of project you are working on.

To really get the most out of Adobe Audition, you’ll need a pretty good sound card. For those concerned with MIDI support, Adobe Audition doesn’t offer a great deal in this area and many users report this as one of the most confusing aspects of the program to configure.

To describe all the editing possibilities of Adobe Audition would involve going into the minute technicalities of audio composition and compression but there are four main modes to get to grips with. The first is ‘Waveform Display’ which displays the wave in graphical form. Second is ‘Spectral Frequency Display’ which graphically displays the frequency range with colours. ‘Logarithmic Display’ does exactly the same but obviously displays the wave as a Logarithm. For producing stereo-sound, there’s also ‘Spectral Pan Display’ and ‘Spectral Phase Display’ which enable you to get stereo sound perfectly synched.

The actual editing itself is performed using the time-honoured cut and paste functions common to most audio and video editing programs. You simply mark an in and out point and cut and paste the audio until it’s as you want it. However, the program is much more advanced than this as it’s able to detect beat patterns and rhythms and set in and out points accordingly. To use this function though, you’ll have to spend a long time studying the Help guide (which fortunately is very clear and detailed). You can also use a relatively new function in the audio editing field called ‘Frequency Space Editing’ which means you can edit certain frequencies of the sound rather than the wave as a whole. There are also of course a heap of effects that you can apply to sounds ranging from complex distortions to pitch bending specific frequencies.

Most recently, the program has been updated with a host of new features. Pick of the bunch is probably the way Adobe have improved multitrack editing, added new effects and enhanced noise reduction. They've also added phase correction tools plus VSTi virtual instrument support. The multi-track editing suite has been improved to save time and maintain consistency by grouping clips into a "Multitrack View". From here you can trim and fade much more easily. You can also batch save all audio files applying specific file formats, locations, filename templates, and more at the same time. 3343

As you can see, Adobe Audition is a very advanced program designed only for those who are serious about multi-track audio production. If you are looking for a simple sound editor, then this is way too advanced and will only leave you frustrated. If however you want to take your first few steps into professional editing, the extensive Adobe help guide will ensure that you get the most out of this rich and complex program.

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KNOPPIX is a bootable Live system on CD or DVD, consisting of a representative collection of GNU/Linux software, automatic hardware detection, and support for many graphics cards, sound cards, SCSI and USB devices and other peripherals.

KNOPPIX can be used as a productive Linux system for the desktop, educational CD, rescue system, or adapted and used as a platform for commercial software product demos.

It is not necessary to install anything on a hard disk. Due to on-the-fly decompression, the CD can have up to 2 GB of executable software installed on it (over 8GB on the DVD "Maxi" edition).

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