CCleaner 2.34.1200

CCleaner is a freeware system optimization and privacy tool. It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history. But the best part is that it's fast (normally taking less than a second to run) and contains NO Spyware or Adware!

Cleans the following:
• Internet Explorer: Temporary files, URL history, cookies, Autocomplete form history, index.dat.
• Firefox: Temporary files, URL history, cookies, download history.
• Google Chrome: Temporary files, history, cookies, download history, form history.
• Opera: Temporary files, URL history, cookies.
• Safari: Temporary files, history, cookies, form history.
• Windows: Recycle Bin, Recent Documents, Temporary files and Log files.
• Registry cleaner: Advanced features to remove unused and old entries, including File Extensions, ActiveX Controls, ClassIDs, ProgIDs, Uninstallers, Shared DLLs, Fonts, Help Files, Application Paths, Icons, Invalid Shortcuts and more... also comes with a comprehensive backup feature.
• Third-party applications: mRemoves temp files and recent file lists (MRUs) from many apps including Media Player, eMule, Kazaa, Google Toolbar, Netscape, MS Office, Nero, Adobe Acrobat, WinRAR, WinAce, WinZip and many more...
• 100% Spyware FREE: This software does NOT contain any Spyware, Adware or Viruses.

Features of CCleaner 2.0:
* Complete rebuild in C++
With the requirements for a portable version, 64-bit compatibility and Windows Vista increasing against the limitations of the old architecture. We decided to rebuild the entire CCleaner application in highly optimized C++.
* Faster analyzing and cleaning
Each scanning process was rewritten from scratch and fully optimized. The result being a noticeable speed increase in all areas.
* Portable
CCleaner can now run from a USB thumbdrive and be installed/run on a computer without a complicated setup process.
* Compact
The rewrite removed all external file dependencies, so the main EXE is now half the size of the original program and support files.
* Redesigned User Interface
The original CCleaner user interface was looking a little dated, so the GUI was redesigned with a modern look, but without sacrificing speed or usability. New icons were created for the interface and the main program icon was updated with a more modern style.
* Exclusions
It is now possible to specify files, folders and registry keys to ignore from the cleaning process.
* Loads of little tweaks
Too numerous to mention them all separately, we've tried to improve CCleaner in all areas. Changes in CCleaner 2.34.1200 (26 Jul 2010):
- Extended cookie cleaning to include HTML5 Web Storage.
- Improved Index.dat cleaning by deleting ones not locked by the system.
- Improved "Install date" detection and accuracy for Uninstall Tool.
- Improved file lock detection when analyzing to avoid false reporting.
- Improved scrolling for list control to avoid repaint problems.
- Improved cleaning of Recycle Bin.
- Improved jumplist support to avoid possible UI lock.
- Updated eMule cleaning.
- Minor bug fixes.

Homepage - http://www.ccleaner.com

Size: 3.26 MB

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Paragon Partition Manager Express Free Edition 11.0 Build 9887

Discover why we hold a global market share in data safety technology with our latest Free Partitioning Software.
The main focus of Paragon Software Group is providing top level, professional hard disk management and repartitioning solutions. Partitioning is not for amateurs. That is why millions of people have trusted our safe, stable technology and professional software solutions for over 14 years. Our newest Express Edition easily organizes your hard drive and redistributes free space to enhance system perfomance. Best of all, you can now enjoy the benefits for free!
Achieve complete hard disk control with the most advanced partitioning tool! It provides a full range of features that meet your specific partitioning needs, whatever they may be: resizing partitions without data loss, running multiple operating systems, copying partitions to a spare hard drive, solving boot problems, converting file systems and other complex operations.
The Bootable Recovery Media ensures data and system access in the event of drive failure.

Express Key Features:
• Redistribute Unused Disk Space - Gain additional space in an your existing partitions by easily resizing and moving partitions with through the smart Resize Wizard.
• Organize and optimize your hard drive - Add partitions with the highly intuitive Create Partition Wizard. Leave a core partition to host Windows and automatically create a new partition for work and data files in a logical, intuitive place.
• Prepare your hard drive for backup - Simplify the backup process by separating your data from your Operating System. A structured approach allows you to have a separate location for your OS, your data, and your backups.
• Dual boot user systems - Many applications still don't work with Vista, so why not keep a copy of Windows XP? With separate drive partitions, you can install several operating systems and have a choice on startup. Key Features:
• User Friendly Fault Minimizing Interface
• A handy launcher to easily find and run the required tasks.
• Comprehensive wizards to simplify even the most complex operations. Partition Management Facilities:
• Express Create Partition Wizard to create a new partition in the most appropriate place of your hard disk, format it to NTFS and then make it available in the system by assigning a drive letter.
• Express Resize Partitions Wizard to increase free space on one partition by up-taking the unused space of an adjacent partition of your hard disk. So, you can easily resize without any data loss! Auxiliary Facilities:
• Recovery Media Builder to create a Linux/DOS bootable media, which can later be used to boot and automatically complete a data-sensitive operation (resize, move) abruptly interrupted as a result of a hardware malfunction, power outage or an OS failure, thus reviving the corrupted partition or just launch utilities under these operating systems. Moreover, with its help you can save data from partitions of your hard disk directly to compact discs or burn ISO-images. The utility supports various formats of laser discs: CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, DVD-R, DVD+R double layer, Blu-ray and can handle multi-session burning.

Homepage - http://www.paragon-software.com/home/pm-express/

Size: 31.8 MB

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BS.Player 2.56 Build 1043

BS.Player - the best multimedia player (DivX, HD and AVC video, movie, audio, DVD, YouTube) in the world! Ever since the very beginning in the year 2000, the BS.Player™ has been one of the world's most popular multimedia players. It is popular for many reasons, one however should be pointed out: BS.Player™ is the first player ever to enable its users to focus on watching the movie instead of dealing with poor computer capabilities or running around looking for a proper setting and codec. BS.Player ™ is used by more than 70 millions of multi media users throughout the world and it has been translated into more than 90 world languages. All downloaded versions of our FREE version exceed the sum of all downloads of competitive media players and payable DivX or DVD players. Because it does not use much of the CPU processing resources for multimedia playback it is suitable for all those who use slightly less capable computers.
Now, you can finally enjoy the playback of HD DVD and AVCHD movies of the highest quality with minimal system requirements. BS.Player can playback any YouTube movie directly from the internet and save it to local disk.

Most importantly, BS.Player ™, a free media movie player, is a product for the world multi media market and is therefore equipped with advanced subtitle options which enable the users to watch video content with subtitles from many popular subtitle formats (MicroDVD .sub, VobSub .sub + .idx, SubViewer .sub, (Advanced) SubStation Alpha .ssa or .ass, SubRip .srt, VPlayer .txt...). BS.Player is also a AVCHD player and enables you to display AVCHD video format movies (Advanced Video Codec High Definition) used in digital tapeless camcorders. It can automatically search and download missing subtitles for currently playing video, if available. BS.Player ™ is the software movie and media player that supports all popular video and audio media file types, containers and formats such as: DivX, Xvid, avi, mpg, mpeg-1, mpeg-2, mpeg-4, 3ivx, YouTube streaming video, AVC HD (avchd player), QT QuickTime mov, RM Real media, OGM, Matroska , mkv, asf, wmv, DV, m1v, m2v, mp4, mpv, swf, vob and wav, mpa, mp1, mp2, mp3, Ogg, aac, DTS, Dolby Surround, Dolby digital DD 5.1 - AC3, aif, ram, wma, flv (Flash and YouTube Video) and much more! Main features of BS.Player are:
• Sound Equalizer
• Fully skinnable windows (Media list, Play list, Equalizer)
• Bookmarks support (add, edit)
• Chapters support (create, move to, skip)
• Custom aspect ratios
• Multiple audio stream switching
• Frame capture (video to picture)
• Plugin support (Winamp DSP plugins and others)
• Multilingual interface
• Fast forward and fast rewind option
• Frame stepping (playback video one frame at a time)
• WinLIRC support (user defineable remote controllers)
• Support switching between multiple (different language) subtitles
• Pan-scan and custom pan-scan option
• Support for multiple audio streams and switching between them
• Every action can also be assigned to WinLIRC button
• Playback of incomplete AVI files and locked files (files in use, files still downloading or recording)
• Command line support (for example "bsplayer.exe movie.avi -fs" will start playback of movie in full screen mode)
• Support a lot of subtitles formats (MicroDVD, SubRip, Subviewer...), custom subtitles position, color, font, transparency...
• BSI/INI files support and dynamic DirectShow filters loading (so everything can be burned on CD and played without installing anything)
• Almost every action can be assigned to user selected key (even two keys) and different keys can be assigned for full screen and windowed mode
• Support for all popular media formats (audio and video): divx, avi, mpeg 1, mpeg 2, xvid, 3ivx, ogm, matroska, asf, wmv, DV, m1v, m2v, Quicktime mov, mp4, mpv, QT, Real rm, SWF, vob, wav, mpa, mp1, mp2, mp3, ogg, aac, ac3, aif, ram, wma... What does the BS.Player™ 2.5 PRO have to offer:
* Playback of AVCHD video new. (Advanced Video Codec High Definition) format used in Canon, JVC, Panasonic, and Sony digital tapeless camcorders.
* Support for global multimedia keys
* Play YouTube streaming including HD, High Quality and Normal resolution videonew
* Save YouTube streaming video to local disk (YouTube downloader)new
* Customizable Equalizer
* Support for Capture/Tuner devices (and Teletext support)
* Capture Video to file
* Integrated subtitle editor
* Network file buffering
* Support for Flash playback
* Technical e-mail support
* DVD support
* Text "Only for Non-Commercial use" is removed in PRO version
* Free one year subscription upgrade Changes in BS.Player 2.55.1042:
- with some files there was no audio, fixed
- rared subtitles will now be loaded only if subtitle file name is the same as movie name
- fixed problem with playlist and moving items
- if mouse button was set for some actions it didn't work, fixed
- fixed problem with 'Always add all files in current directory to playlist' option when 'Sort files' was enabled
- sometimes DXVA was not used with EVR renderer, fixed
- some other bug fixes
+ added subtitle upload support for opensubtitles.org and getsubtitles.com
+ subtitles background color alpha can now be set

Homepage - http://www.bsplayer.org

Size: 12.7 MB

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Advanced Defrag 4.5.0 (Datecode 26.07.2010)

Advanced Defrag - Complete Care for the health of your computer hard drive and Performance! Advanced Defrag is an award-wining professional program which is designed to cure system sluggishness and crashes. Program applies the most advanced defrag technology which enables you to completely and thoroughly analyze the disks and clean up all the fragmentation found in the computer disk with a very pleasant speed, effectively maximum the system performance and improve your working efficiency with the computer, it is definitely worth for your investment.
Defragmentation is really important for your system's optimization. As your hard disk may be badly fragmented in the course of time, it would eventually cause negative problems to your computer like system slowdowns, PC crashes, slow startup and shutdown; it would even shorten the disk life span.

Benefits from Advanced Defrag:
• Completely & thoroughly defrag hard disk.
• Optimize computer system performance.
• Accelerate program & application launching.
• Improve working efficiency with the computer.

The magnetic head is controlled by the disk driver to search the area where the file in and read data and transfer it to the disk cache or EMS memory. The searching time in the disk performance index is called average seeking time. The average seek time of most the hard disk is less then 9.5 millisecond. Advanced defrag program is able to put disperse files into continuous space of the hard disk, it will greatly reduce the searching time of magnetic head, better file reading & writing speed is available under this condition.

Key features highlight:
• In-depth analyze and defrag quickly & thoroughly.
• Remove any infected and corrupted file completely.
• Scheduled regular defrag task for everyday maintenance .
• Auto-update support, all Windows base-OSs compatible.
• Detial web-report for every analyse and defrag action.
• Advanced multithreading and sharing design.
• External USB device defrag supports.
• Intuitive Layout and Easy to Use.

Supported Operating Systems:
• Microsoft Windows Vista
• Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 1 or higher
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 or higher
• Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 2 or higher
• Microsoft Windows 7

Homepage - http://www.advanceddefrag.com

Size: 12.9 MB

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New AMD Roadmap Revealed

The guys over at German site ATI Forum have gotten their hands on a new CPU roadmap from AMD. Certainly some will note the new hex-core X6 1045T, but the primary points of interest here are the two Fusion processors at the bottom.

Labeled with the name "Zacate", we can see that AMD will be bringing out a single- and dual-core offering late in the fourth quarter this year. Considering the low TDP (18W and 25W) and previous reports, these will likely be the Ontario notebook/netbook chips.

These early Fusion chips will be paired with a new southbridge platform, dubbed "Hudson D1". This platform provides up to 14 USB 2.0 (+two 1.1) ports as well as six SATA 3.0Gb/s ports, all in a 6W TDP package. Unfortunately, USB 3.0 will not be available in this particular version.

Before these Fusion chips hit the market, AMD has a variety of other CPUs coming, including the aforementioned hex-core 1045T. This chip will feature normal/Turbo clock speeds of 2.7/3.2GHz. Also expected are three quad-, three tri-, and four dual-core Athlons as well as a dual-core Phenom and single-core Sempron.

Asus VG236H 3D Vision Monitor Review

Introduction

The Z-axis. Its function is far more important in life than most people would ever give it credit for.

Anyone who knows how tall they are, and I assume that's all of us, will know all about the Y-axis. Got to take something off the top shelf for a person not quite as tall as you, that'll be the Y-axis.

The X-axis is equally a part of all of our lives. It's 3 miles to the supermarket? That's the X-axis. Your room is 15' long? X-Axis again. Anyone who has ever done basic mathmatics and plotted stuff on graphs understands the X and Y axis.

In display terms we're so familiar with it we don't even think of them as axes anymore. Full-HD is 1080p, and the 1080 is the value of the Y-axis resolution. When we look at monitors, or improving our frame-rates, we deal with figures like 1280x1024 or 1680x1050 as normally as we deal with our keyboards.

But the poor old Z-axis is much maligned. Z-axis is all about depth. Distance away from you in 3D space. It first appeared in our lives with games such as BattleZone. This allowed us to move into the screen, and rotate. However because we didn't have the ability to move up and down, it was still a 2-axis game. Moving on a few years and ID brought us the seminal Wolfenstein 3D and later on Doom. These were the first two games in which the concept of moving into the screen was brought into the mainstream and they are lauded as revolutionary. Once again though they didn't take advantage of up and down. We had to wait for Quake to give the masses a game that allowed you full movement in 3D space.

So what has this all got to do with a monitor?

Monitors are, like televisions and suchlike, still 2D devices. Sure you may have the effect of moving into the screen along the Z-axis with your FPS games or whatever, but you aren't really aware of it because your brain is still processing a 2D image. You can tell the other enemy is far away because it's smaller that the one hitting you with a chainsaw, but you can't really tell how far away, and never really feel like you're occupying the same world as it.

All that changed a while ago with the introduction of stereoscopic 3D technology. We'll explain more about that later on, but the important thing is that early monitors capable of handling the refresh rate necessary to handle it were limited to 1680x1050. Most people when given the choice between a high resolution or a emerging technology chose the resolution. The rest of us sat and waited for monitors to be sufficiently high calibre to supply us with both the 3D 120hz aspect and the high resolutions we demand.

Asus have brought out the VG236H which is a full-HD monitor supporting the 120hz we need for the stereoscopic effect to work, and that is the subject of today's review.

Technical Specifications

TFT-LCD Panel	Panel Size: 23" (58.4cm) Wide Screen Color Shine Technology True Resolution: 1920X1080 Pixel Pitch: 0.265mm Brightness(Max): 400 cd/㎡ Contrast Ratio (Max.): 100000 :1 Display Color: 16.7M Viewing Angle (CR≧10): 170°(H) /160°(V) Response Time: 2 ms
Video Features	Trace Free Technology SPLENDID Video Preset Modes (5 modes) Skin-Tone Selection (3 mode) HDCP support Color Temperature Selection(5 modes)
Convenient Hotkey	SPLENDID Video Preset Mode Selection Auto. Adjustment Brightness Adjustment Contrast Adjustment Input Selection
Input / Output	PC Input: Dual-link DVI-D (support NVIDIA 3D Vision) Video Input: Component(YPbPr)/HDMI AV Audio Input: HDMI
Signal Frequency	Analog Signal Frequency: 24~140 KHz(H)/ 50~122 Hz(V) Digital Signal Frequency: 24~83 KHz(H)/ 50~85 Hz(V)
Power Consumption	Power Consumption < 60 W Power Saving Mode <>
Mechanical Design	Chassis Colors: Black Tilt: +15°~-5° Swivel: Yes Height Adjustment VESA Wall Mounting: 100x100mm
Accessory	Dual-link DVI cable Power cord Quick start guide warranty card Nvidia 3D Vision Kit

As you can see we've got a 23 inch, 1920x1080 monitor with a TN panel that supports all the usual Asus features and has a decent amount of connectivity.

So let's take a look up close shall we.

nVidia GeForce GTX 460 768MB GDDR5 Review

Introduction

Over the last 12 months, nVidia have been all about one thing - delays. Month after month, I'm sure many of you had waited for the range topping GeForce GTX 470 and 480 graphics cards. Indeed, nVidia were late to the DirectX 11 party but today no one seems to care. The bottom line is that team green have taken back the performance crown and are succeeding in their catch up endeavours. Not so long ago, we also saw the release of nVidia's eyefinity competition, known as 3D Vision and Surround. Step by step, it may seem that light is at the end of the tunnel.

One slight problem though. Not everyone on the market today can afford to drop upwards of £300 on a new DX11 graphics card. With ATi enjoying healthy sales figures from Radeon HD 5670, 5750 and 5770 SKUs, it is about time that nVidia returned with some more competition. Today we are pleased to present to you exactly that; meet the nVidia GeForce GTX 460.

I have lied slightly, in that nVidia already have a "mid range" offering on the market today known as the GTX 465. As my colleague highlighted, the cut down GTX 470/480 graphics card suffered from all of the power and heat based issues of its larger siblings but without any of the performance that made them worthwhile. To make matters worse, it is priced well above the £200 mark, making it terrible value for money. Not good news at all.

This is where the GTX 460 comes into the picture. Like the observant chaps that nVidia are, they went away and reworked the GF100 architecture to offer a native mid range graphics card. That's right, no added baggage and no inflated price tags. I think we're all eager to see what it has to offer so let's jump straight to the specifications.

Manufacturer	nVidia	nVidia	nVidia
Model	GeForce GTX 460	GeForce GTX 460	GeForce GTX 465
Stream Processors	336	336	352
Memory	768MB	1024MB	1024MB
Memory Interface	192bit	256bit	256bit
Core Frequency	675MHz	675MHz	606MHz
Shader Frequency	1350MHz	1350MHz	1215MHz
Memory Frequency	3600MHz	3600MHz	3206MHz
RRP	£150	£180	£220

First of all, we would like to make it clear that there are two versions of the GTX 460. If you decide to save £30 and purchase the 768MB version, not only will you lose out on 256MB video memory, data will be transmitted via a slightly narrower memory interface. It remains to be seen if this causes significant harm to performance but it's safe to say that downgrades such as these are never good news.

Next, I would like to point out the specifications of the GTX 460 relative to the preceding GTX 465. Despite a £80 and £40 price difference, the GTX 460 has just 16 less stream processors but considerably higher memory, shader and core clocks. Is that value for money we smell? Let's find out.