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Laptop Utilities?

post #1 of 7
3/21/05 at 11:05pm
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Hi all,

Could anyone suggest any good [free?] laptop utilities? Namely, power management utilities (windows is a little feature-lacking, imho), processor speed changing (is this possible?), on screen display for special button presses (brightness, volume, wireless on/off...). Any suggestions would be aprreciated.

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post #2 of 7
3/22/05 at 12:51am
your laptops manufacture should have power management and special button applications for your specific laptop.

as for good apps i recommend

netstumbler
ACDSEE powerpak 7 (best picture viewer and quick photo editor avalible)
Office 2003 (obviously)
Power DVD (has built in power saving features but i never use them)
Registry Mechanic 4 (keeps your registry in check)
diskeeper 9 pro (better than the built in disk defrag for winxp)
spyware blaster (ban's known bad sites in your MSIE browser and its free)
spysweeper (best anti spyware program avalible)
NOD32 (a good antivirus, uses WAY less resources than stupid norton 2004)
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post #3 of 7
3/22/05 at 1:40am
Give SpeedswitchXP a try.
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post #4 of 7
3/22/05 at 7:33pm
The New Definitive Tool for battery life NB after SpeedSwitchXP!!! Take a look to RMClock!!! It can drop down the Voltage of the CPU!!! My Banias at 600Mhz/0,760V - 1,6Ghz/1,260V never start the fan!!!

And Battery say hello to you )

Sorry for my english, it's so difficult to explain "feelings" )))

Wip
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post #5 of 7
3/22/05 at 8:02pm
You might want to check out the FAQs at the top of this page as well, I found some good links in there.
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post #6 of 7
3/23/05 at 12:55am
compusec.. absolutely

security! free whole boot drive encryption

http://www.ce-infosys.com.sg/CeiNews_FreeCompuSec.asp

rmclock looks neat.
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post #7 of 7
3/23/05 at 3:45am

A bunch o stuff

unison - cmd line file syncronization, good for keeping laptop and destop in sync

Windowblinds - skins and a slight speed boost to the gui

gvim - native win32 vi, 'nuf said

SFU3.5 - free posix unix subsystem for windows with ksh, csh and a raft of unix command line tools such as vi, top, grep, etc.

Cygwin - same thing, only opensource, includes X11 gcc

speedswitchXP - excellent power tool

winplosion - expose functionality for windows, great for laptops, shareware

vmware or virtual pc - run any os

rainlendar, rainmeter - nice lightweight calendar and monitors, good outlook integration
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