Ashampoo WinOptimizer is an easy-to-use suite of tools for maintaining and optimizing your Microsoft Windows computer. It keeps your Windows® installation free of unnecessary garbage and running smoothly while other computers just get slower and slower.

In addition to older versions of Windows®, the new Ashampoo WinOptimizer 4 is fully compatible with Windows Vista™ in both the 32 and 64 bit versions. This means that you can start maintaining your slick new Windows Vista™ system right away - it won’t even have a chance to get clogged down with new garbage! But that’s not all: Once again, Ashampoo has managed to produce a radically better and more useful program - without compromising their famous ease of use. In addition to Windows Vista™ compatibility, WinOptimizer 4 also comes with three new modules, a brand-new hard disk defragmenter, a huge number of new system tweaking options and many other improvements and enhancements.

Developer: Ashampoo
License: Shareware
OS: Windows All
Size: 10.0 MB
Download Ashampoo WinOptimizer 5.05 link

Wise Registry Cleaner speed up your PC by cleaning your Registry.

The older your PC is, the more junked-up its Registry becomes. Badly written programs (and there are plenty of those around) don’t bother to clean the Registry when you uninstall them, and some programs add unnecessary junk to the Registry. The more junked-up your Registry, the more likely it is to crash or to slow down your PC.

This freebie does a neat job of cleaning out the Registry junk. It scans the Registry, flagging orphaned or bad Registry entries, and shows you the name and values for each. It identifies Registry entries that may be dangerous to delete, and those that are safe to delete, so you can distinguish between the two. It also lets you decide which entries to delete, and which to keep. For safety’s sake, it can also back up your Registry before a scan, so that you can restore it, if the program causes any problems.

Wise Registry Cleaner is one of the safest Registry cleaning tools available in the market today. Its scanning engine is thorough, safe and fast.

Developer: WiseCleaner
License: Freeware
OS: Windows All
Size: 1.1 MB
Download Wise Registry Cleaner 3.6.3 link

Keep your PC operating smoothly by using Error Repair Professional to scan, identify, clean and repair errors in your PC with a single click. With a few easy steps, it will scan your entire registry for any invalid entries and provides a list of the registry errors found. You can then choose to selectively clean each item or automatically repair them all.

Developer: Error-Repair-Pro.com
License: Shareware
OS: Windows All
Size: 1.3 MB
Download Error Repair Professional 3.84 link

HWiNFO32 are professional hardware information and diagnostic tools supporting latest components, industry technologies and standards. Both tools are designed to collect and present the maximum amount of information possible about computer’s hardware which makes them suitable for users searching for driver updates, computer manufacturers, system integrators and technical experts as well. Retrieved information is presented in a logical and easily understandable form and can be exported into various types of reports.

HWiNFO32™ - A powerful system information tool for Windows:
* Comprehensive hardware information
* System health monitoring
* Basic benchmarks
* Text, CSV, XML, HTML, MHTML report formats
* Periodical updates
* For Windows 9x/2000/XP/Server 2003/2008/Vista (32/64-bit)
* Available as HWiNFO32 SDK (Custom Client) !

Developer: HWiNFO
License: Freeware
OS: Windows All
Size: 1.9 MB
Download HWiNFO32 2.20 link

IZArc is the ultimate freeware archive utility supporting many archive formats like: 7-ZIP, A, ACE, ARC, ARJ, B64, BH,  BIN, BZ2, BZA, C2D, CAB, CDI, CPIO, DEB, ENC, GCA, GZ, GZA, HA, IMG, ISO, JAR, LHA, LIB, LZH, MDF, MBF,  MIM, NRG, PAK, PDI, PK3, RAR, RPM, TAR, TAZ, TBZ, TGZ, TZ, UUE, WAR, XXE, YZ1, Z, ZIP, ZOO.

With a modern easy-to-use interface, IZArc provides support for most compressed and encoded files, as well as access  to many powerful features and tools. It allows you to drag and drop files from and to Windows Explorer, create and extract  archives directly in Windows Explorer, create multiple archives spanning disks, creating self-extracting archives, repair  damaged zip archives, converting from one archive type to another, view and write comments and many more.  IZArc has also build-in multilanguage support.

With IZArc you can open CD image files like ISO, BIN, CDI and NRG. It is also possible to convert such files from one type to another (BIN to ISO, NRG to ISO).

Developer: Ivan Zahariev
License: Freeware
OS: Windows All
Size: 3.6 MB
Download IZArc 3.81.1550 link

Vista Manager is a system utility that helps you optimize, tweak, and clean up Windows Vista. It will increase your system speed, improve system security, and meet all of your expectations. It’s compatible with Windows Vista SP1 entirely!

Windows Vista is the new Operating System for home users and professionals alike. Windows Vista brings clarity to your world, so you can more safely and easily accomplish everyday tasks and instantly find what you want on your PC.

Vista Manager is the powerful software tool to tweak and optimize your Windows Vista, it bundles more than 30 different utilities in one and help your system faster and more stable, secure and personal!

Developer: Yamicsoft
License: Shareware
OS: Windows All
Size: 5.5 MB
Download Vista Manager 1.5.3 (32bit) link
Download Vista Manager 1.5.3 (64bit) link

Since 1996 PC WIZARD is among the most advanced system information programs on the market. PC WIZARD 2008 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.

PC WIZARD 2008 is also an utility designed to analyze and benchmark your computer system. It can analyze and benchmark many kinds of hardware, such as CPU performance, Cache performance, RAM performance, Hard Disk performance, CD/DVD-ROM performance, Removable/FLASH Media performance, Video performance, MP3 compression performance.

PC WIZARD 2008 can be distributed freely (ftp, archives, CD-ROMs …).

Developer: CPUID.com
License: Freeware
OS: Windows All
Size: 2,6 MB
Download PC Wizard 2008.1.85.2 link

Did you know that Windows maintains an “unseen” history of all of your PC activities, including files you have opened, websites visited, e-mails sent, logins and passwords, etc? It is important to understand that even having taken steps to “delete” files, cookies, search terms, browser history, etc., your data and activity remains on your PC “unseen. This leaves a history of all of your PC activity available to anyone who may currently have or someday gain access to your computer, be it family, employer, colleague, legal, PC maintenance, shared network, wireless network, or hacker sources. In addition, when you are on the Internet, you may have downloaded intrusive devices such as cookies, bugs, and spyware onto your computer. The intrusive devices may strike at any time. These problems raise not just privacy concerns but serious security issues as well.

To truly erase this information off of the hard drive requires a deeper professional “cleaning” of your computer that is provided by History Sweeper software. History Sweeper is very simple and quick to use, and can provide you with the peace-of-mind of knowing that your personal activity and information will remain private and protected.

By maintaining this history of all your PC activity and “deleted” files, the performance of your PC is impacted with less efficient use of the disk space and disk mapping. History Sweeper serves as a very beneficial general PC maintenance program, saving storage space, allowing more efficient mapping, and improving the performance of your PC in the process.

Developer: InfoWorks Technology Company
License: Shareware
OS: Windows All
Size: 0.35 MB
Download History Sweeper 2.99 link

System Mechanic automatically finds and repairs errors and fragmentation and cleans out clutter - so your PC operates smoothly, reliably, and up to 300% faster!

Don’t waste money on expensive “experts” to fix your PC. System Mechanic repairs, optimizes, and maintains your PC.

Enjoy that new PC feeling again.
* Clear out clutter and errors for improved speed and reliability.

Improve your gaming experience.
* Optimize your PC to play the latest high-performance games at maximum speeds.

Speed up internet access.
* Accelerate download and web surfing speeds up to 300%.

Stop spyware and other threats.
* Block spyware and eliminate security vulnerabilities that leave you at risk of intruders.

Got PC problems? System Mechanic is your solution!

Developer: iolo technologies
License: Shareware
OS: Windows All
Size: 42.2 MB
Download System Mechanic Professional 8.0.0.18 link

WinRAR is a powerful archive manager. It can backup your data and reduce size of email attachments, decompress RAR, ZIP and other files downloaded from Internet and create new archives in RAR and ZIP file format.

* Using WinRAR puts you ahead of the crowd when it comes to compression by consistently making smaller archives than the competition, saving disk space and transmission costs.
* WinRAR provides complete support for RAR and ZIP archives and is able to unpack CAB, ARJ, LZH, TAR, GZ, ACE, UUE, BZ2, JAR, ISO, 7Z, Z archives.
* WinRAR offers a graphic interactive interface utilizing mouse and menus as well as the command line interface.
* When you purchase WinRAR license you are buying a license to the complete technology, no need to purchase add-ons to create self-extracting files, it’s all included. One price, one payment, once.
* You also receive the benefit of a life-time use of the WinRAR archiver. No upgrade fee to pay. When a new release is made, simply download and install, your license is valid for life.
* WinRAR is easier to use than many other archivers with the inclusion of a special “Wizard” mode which allows instant access to the basic archiving functions through a simple question and answer procedure. This avoids confusion in the early stages of use.
* WinRAR offers you the benefit of industry strength archive encryption using AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) with a key of 128 bits.
* WinRAR supports files and archives up to 8,589 billion gigabytes in size. The number of archived files is, for all practical purposes, unlimited.
* WinRAR offers the ability to create selfextracting and multivolume archives.
* Recovery record and recovery volumes allow to reconstruct even physically damaged archives.
* WinRAR features are constantly being developed to keep WinRAR ahead of the pack.

Developer: RARLAB
License: Shareware
OS: Windows All
Size: 1.2 MB
Download WinRAR 3.80 beta 3 link