Start Menu Software

JetStart

Launch applications by typing few characters of its name (type "word" to start Microsoft Word). Quickly run the most recent or the most used programs right from tray icon, find recently installed Start Menu shortcuts. Place your most used information in the handy toolbar. Manage your Windows startup programs, easy view, edit, disable and delete autostart entries. Try JetStart today and you'll wonder how you ever lived without it!

CDMenuPro Personal Edition

Use CDMenuPro to start your CD or DVD automatically with your own individually designed CD autoplay menu - corporate presentations, documents, product catalogs, dissertations, job applications or slide show. Use a clear and professional CD start menu to set you and your corporate presentation apart from the competition.

Actual Transparent Windows

This software lets you apply transparency effect to any window in Windows 2000/XP. The transparency effect looks very impressive and may be useful with such windows as Windows Taskbar, WinAmp, Start menu and drop-down menus and lists, Instant Messengers and others. Actual Transparent Windows lets you set individual transparency rate from 0% (solid) to 100% (fully transparent) for each window to achieve the desired effect.

Advanced Launcher

This is an integrated toolbar and tray launcher. It can show several fully customizable toolbars at a time. When you click a toolbar button it can either run an application (open a document) or show multilevel customizable menu. Menus can also show contents of folders (e.g. Programs folder from the Start menu or Desktop folder). You can minimize toolbars to tray and access them as menus.

Advanced Security Level

Secure your PC and restrict access to it with Advanced Security Level. It gives you an excellent administrative support to control the users access rights for your computer by setting up the desired access control level for each user. You can restrict access to Control Panel applets and to running specific applications; hide desktop icons, local and network drives; disable Start Menu items, DOS, boot keys, Registry editing, taskbar and much more.

1st Security Agent Pro

Password-protected security utility for all Windows. Restrict access to Control Panel, disable Start Menu items, hide drives, disable DOS, boot keys, Registry editing, taskbar, task manager, and network access, hide desktop icons, apply password protection to Windows, and disable running applications. Secure Internet Explorer, disable individual menu items and individual tabs in the Internet Options dialog, as well as specific settings from each

1st Security Administrator

Protect PC, restrict access to Windows applications, password-protect boot, apply access restrictions to PC, protect your privacy, deny access to Control Panel, disable interruption boot keys, context menus, DOS, Registry editing, Internet and network access. Hide desktop icons, disk drives, Start Menu items, taskbar, task manager, tray icons. Apply password protection to Windows, control Internet, spy on PC users. 1st Security Administrator is licensed as shareware and filed in security section.

AGInstaller

This development tool is a script-based tool that creates professional setups. It has the gentleman's set of features such as multilanguage support, numerous dialogs, an uninstaller, registry and INI modification, Start Menu shortcuts, files compression and more. Setups can be packed into one SFX setup file for easy distribution. The size of the extractor module is only 40k overhead over compressed data size. Freeware.

AppLaunch

NB Software AppLaunch is a desktop utility that provides an alternative method of launching applications, easier to use than Windows Start menu, and neater than having large numbers of desktop shortcuts. Shortcuts can be to applications, documents and URLs, and can include parameters, and a description that is displayed when the shortcut is selected. Each shortcut can optionally be associated with a hot key combination.

AMenu for CDs

Make a pop-up start menu! Burn this program onto a Data CD along with the your other files. When the CD is loaded on a computer, it will pop up a menu that directs the user to choose from several options. Prior to burning, you can design the options by simply editing the text file called autorun.inf. You can use AMenu to launch programs, setup files, web sites, text files, MP3 files, Winamp m3u playlists, and more. 8 custom buttons. This miscellaneous software is categorized under multimedia, utilities, cd recording,.

Aweris WebServer

This software is compact and integrated distribution of Apache (the leading http server), PHP and Perl (the most used server-side scripting languages), designed to help you when working with PHP, Perl and MySQL databases (the most popular open-source database server) and extended with various productivity tools for your Windows web-development needs.

Advanced Tracks Eraser

The complete solution for cleaning Internet activities and traces of your PC! It cleans up your browser's cache, cookies, history, recent document list and much more automatically! With Advanced Tracks Eraser FREE Plug-Ins you can clean the tracks of up to 50 popular applications, such as the recent viewed pictures history of ACDSee, play list RealOnePlayer and Windows Media Player, Office recent documents, Acrobat Reader, WinZip and much more!

PS Hot Launch VVL

PS Hot Launch is meant to quickly run different applications, open documents, go to the right folders and web pages, send mail to a specified address, etc. The above operations are carried out through the menu that can be called by clicking the program icon in the taskbar system tray, and also by pressing user assigned hot keys (support for the Win key significantly extends the number of possible combinations). This freeware is listed under launchers, system utilities file management category.

XStart

This software is an easy to use application launcher. A good alternative to the Windows Start Menu. Friendly and intuitive. It provides quick access to your favorite programs, shortcuts, folders, documents and websites. You can create custom categories, change themes and much more! How many times during the day you open a program or a document? With XStart you can reduce this time!

StormWindow Me

Cetus StormWindow [TM] for Windows Me will allow the authorized user to add several types of protections to the desktop and system of a Windows Me computer. Intelligent use of StormWindow security measures will allow secure use of any shared Windows Me PC. StormWindow protections would probably be most useful to a system administrator at a school or business.

Best Vista Tune Free

Choose a new look and feel for old Windows desktop. Best Vista Tune Free allows you to fine-tune your Windows Vista easily and safely. It gives your system the look you want, and optimizes its performance for the tasks you do most often, while cutting CPU and RAM expenses on the tasks you are.

BackRex Expert Backup

This utility allows you to backup, transfer or migrate your current Windows system settings, customizations & profile, such as desktop layout, regional settings, etc. BackRex Expert Backup also saves customizations and data for MS Office suite, Outlook, Windows Mail, Outlook Express, Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox including personal address books, mail & news folders, favorites, contacts, tasks, notes, recent documents and much more. This demo is listed under system utilities backup, restore category.

System Cop

This tool is a universal, flexible and powerful tool for tuning and optimizating the work of the Windows operating systems. System Cop allows you to change a great number of standard and "hidden" (which are not available for editing by standard Windows tools) settings of the Windows operating systems. System Cop is a "control center" of your system ! With this tool you can change the settings of your system centralized from one program only. Utilities shareware listed in system utilities configuration, system utilities registry, system utilities security, system utilities misc. utilities tools.

Shutdown Lock

Irritated with the fact that some applications just don't go well together with Window's Hibernate or Suspend features? The easiest way to fix the problem is to get Shutdown Lock that can hibernate-enable any application, like FlashGet, or AudioGrabber. This tiny utility (about 64 KB) makes it possible for third party software to force PC into suspension or hibernation, rather than shutting PC down. 100% FREE to download and try.

Mil Shield

This internet utility 2.2 protects your privacy by deleting all tracks from your online or offline computer activities: cookies, cache, history, INDEX.DAT files and all other tracks. There are some unique new features in this release: Selective cleaning (selectively preserves temporary Internet files, history and/or cookies for chosen by you safe Internet sites), Panic key combination, Automatic cleaning, Support for multiple user accounts. This shareware is listed under privacy, security, utilities category.

XP Icons

Give your Win98/Me/Win2k System icons the look of XP by changing your Start menu, Desktop, Drives, Folders and various file type icons to XP. XP Icons changes nearly 100 Win98/98SE/Me and Win2k system icons to the new Windows XP Icons Set. Version 3 now allows installing the complete set or changing over 60 Windows System icons individually with your choice of over 140 XP icons included with the program or any other you may have. This shareware is listed under icons category.

IconXP

Use this powerful utility to edit icons and customize Windows. IconXP contains a variety of paint tools to let you edit icons in either standard or custom sizes, in color depths up to 32-bit True Color. For Windows XP icons, you can add impressive drop shadow and smooth effects. You can import and export ICO, BMP, JPEG, CUR, ANI, GIF, WMF, PNG, XPM, XBM, WBMP and Adobe Photoshop PSD files. You can customize Windows Desktop icons and folder icons.

Dr.Salman's Window Power Tools

Window Power Tool is the No. 1 System Optimizer for Windows 95/98/Me/NT4/2000/XP. It not only increases Internet Speed but also make Windows Run faster and Smoother. It gives more RAM, enhances memory,frees up wasted memory and boosts Performance. The program also gives Windows over 51 extra Security and Anti-Hacking Features.

Sib Icon Extractor

This graphics tool is a handy tool that allows you to scan and extract icons from any location, be it a local file, folder, zip-archive or a website. You can even extract your favourite icons from Mac OS files and use them to give an added gloss to the Windows desktop. Collected icons are stored in icon libraries, preserving their source information. Added to this is the ability to replace any Windows icon with a new one in just a few clicks.

Key Launch

How long does it take before you'll find a program in your Start Menu? If you're familiar with a keyboard, then you can do this in less than a second. You can type a few characters to find a program in your start menu, instead of going through all these menus and submenus. Just enter "calc" to find all programs containing this string. If you want you can add "aliases" to frequently used programs or folders.

IconLover

Scan files, folders or entire drives for icon images. Extract icon images from ICO, CUR, ANI, DLL, EXE, ICL, IL, NIL, OCX , SCR, CPL, BPL and other files. Create and manage ICL icon libraries. Save the extracted icons in own .ICC icon collection format for better and more efficient icon storage. Delete duplicate icons from collections. Sort icons inside collections. Export icons to ICO and BMP files. Customize Windows Desktop and folder icons.

XPepius

This utility is an all-in-one tools suite for tweaking, optimizing, tuning and cleaning of Windows XP. It helps you increase performance and manage your system using 450+ tweaks and 5 utilities that include a Start-Up Manager, Uninstaller, Cleanup Center (cleans history of Windows, Internet and 80+ third party softwares), Disk Cleanup, and XP Styler. Also has skinned, fully commented interface, HTML help file and drag & drop support.

AcceleRun Free

AcceleRun will run any of hundred installed programs during 2 seconds. Ergonomic design. Minimum memory usage. Ready to help you after first launch. Save your time for more important tasks! This utilities software is categorized under system utilities launchers, task managers.

Parental Control Tool

This software is a powerful security utility that allows you to restrict access to Windows important resources. This easy-to-use utility helps you to keep your computer in order. It enables you to impose a variety of access restrictions to protect your privacy. You can deny access to each individual component of several Control Panel applets, DOS programs, Registry editing and network access. It has got the multiuser intuitional interface.

Hotkey Jumpstart

This software lets you start any program, document, or music file on your computer by typing one hotkey and then a few characters of its name. It's ideal for people who would rather keep both hands on the keyboard than waste precious seconds reaching for the mouse and hunting through the start menu. This attractive program slides onto your desktop and supports skins and partial transparency.

ByteSweeper

This software removes unused and temporary files from your system - allowing it to run faster, more efficiently and giving you more hard disk space. The best part is that it''s fast! ByteSweeper also features a "Safe Mode" for those who just want to cleanup their computers quickly and safely. And, for the more advanced user, we''ve included an "Advanced Mode" that allows you to select different cleanup options.

SuperCleaner

This utility is an all in one disk cleaner for your computer. It features a variety of cleaning methods, in order to gain back your valuable hard disk space. Its garbage file scanner is able to locate up to thousands of megabytes of unneeded files. The Internet Privacy feature of SuperCleaner will let you erase your web browser's cache (temporary Internet files), history, cookies, and index.dat.

WinLock Professional

WinLock is a comprehensive security solution for personal or publicly accessible computers. It is a program that ensures that only authorized people can access sensitive information on your computer. With WinLock you can control how long others can use your computer, disable Windows hot keys (such as Alt-Ctrl-Del, Alt-Tab, Ctrl-Esc, etc.), lock Windows desktop, customize the Start menu, hide the Start button and Switch bar, and much more... This shareware is listed under security category.

Activescan

Scans,disinfects and eliminates over 110,000 viruses,worms and Trojans from all system devices,hard disks,compressed file and all your email.Detects spyware.84 percent of malware installed on computers worldwide is spyware.Do you know if your PC is spyware free?

Corporate Network Security

Network-based security software used for protecting PC workstations over a network. Impose access restrictions to network PC workstations, execute patches remotely, and schedule reboots, shutdowns, and Windows Explorer restarts. The software supports over 600 different security restrictions and tweaks that let you restrict access to almost every corner of Windows.

StormWindow NT

Cetus StormWindow [TM] for Windows NT will allow the authorized user to add several types of protections to the desktop and system of a Windows NT computer. Intelligent use of StormWindow security measures will allow secure use of any shared Windows NT PC. StormWindow protections would probably be most useful to a system administrator at a school or business. Utilities shareware listed in windows desktop security software tools.