StartEx 2.0 (www.zalentino.com):
Startex, an extremely useful application launcher, categorizes your programs in colorful logical groups, so you can easily find what you need. Support Drag&Drop.
Adding a new icon is as simple as dragging it onto the menu, and you can also move items between categories in the same way. Support AutoHide.
Startex hides in the upper left corner of your desktop, and reveals a small yellow button when your mouse touches the edge of the screen.
Clicking the button reveals a customizable drop menu that lets you launch your favorite programs, organized in categories.
You can customize the color of each category to your preference using the full Windows color palette, and also add or remove categories as needed.
It works on Windows 2000/XP/Vista. File size: 1,11 Mb


Free virtual CD ROM for Windows XP 2.1
Free virtual cd rom for Windows XP 2.1 lets you create a virtual CD drive on your hard disk. For anyone unfamiliar with the terms virtual CD or CD emulator, they mean that you can copy the entire contents of a CD-ROM to your hard disk and run the programs or access the files without the need for the original CD. This can make files more accessible, faster and more convenient. Given the speed and size of today's hard drives, you could easily fit a number of CDs onto your hard drive without noticing the difference. Assuming you had 30 full CDs, these would take around 20GB on a hard drive and all will be accessible after a few clicks of a mouse.
Hard drives are about 10 times faster than a CD, plus you can instantly access the file instead of grabbing the CD case, inserting the CD and awaiting for the contents to load. It's true, you could try copying the files over to the hard drive, but this can get messy, plus some programs require a CD to be loaded in order to run. This virtual CD program 'pretends' it is a CD drive (even though the files are on your hard drive), so your programs will run as normal.
It works on Windows XP. File size: 59,6 KB.


IPNetInfo v. 1.17 (www.nirsoft.net)
IPNetInfo is a small utility that allows you to easily find all available information about an IP address: The owner of the IP address, the country/state name, IP addresses range, contact information (address, phone, fax, and email), and more.
This utility can be very useful for finding the origin of unsolicited mail. You can simply copy the message headers from your email software and paste them into IPNetInfo utility. IPNetInfo automatically extracts all IP addresses from the message headers, and displays the information about these IP addresses.
It works on Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/2003. File size: 100 KB.