When you pop in a CD/USB Drive in XP/Vista you get an AutoPlay Option Window giving you an option to chose the action to be taken directly using the applications listed in the AutoPlay Options.

CleanHandlers helps you remove the invalid entries from the listing. In addition, this utility can find invalid AutoPlay entries and also remove them automatically.

Application Fixes :

1. Select an action to perform box is completely blank for an event.
2. To remove unwanted entries from the AutoPlay window.
3. A junk entry appears in the AutoPlay window, sub-titled as <need provider>

AutoPlay Handlers are located at the following registry location in Windows

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer \ AutoplayHandlers \ Handlers \ <handler>

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer \ AutoplayHandlers \ EventHandlers \ <Event Name>

Note : Registry Editing is a tricky part, so do backup your registry before you try editing your registry.

Download CleanHandlers v2.4
(For Windows XP and Windows Vista systems)

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Technorati Tags: Freeware,Windows Utilities

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Mac OS X application WriteRoom, lets you write in a full-screen, distraction-free, writing environment.Dark Room is a clone of the Mac OS X application WriteRoom.This can be really useful in writing notes, letters, long posts without any distraction.This is only for text, images cannot be inserted.

It needs no installation just download DarkRoom, extract the Zip file and run the DarkRoom.exe to start the application.

Keyboard Shortcuts

• File Menu
  • Clear Document: Ctrl+N
  • Open Document: Ctrl+O
  • Save Document: Ctrl+S
  • Quit: Ctrl+Q
• Edit Menu
  • Undo: Ctrl+Z
  • Redo: Ctrl+Y
  • Cut: Ctrl+X
  • Copy: Ctrl+C
  • Paste: Ctrl+V
  • Select All: Ctrl+A
  • Find: Ctrl+F
  • Find Next: F3
  • Preferences: Ctrl+,
• View Menu
  • Statistics: Ctrl+/
  • Toggle Fullscreen: F11 or Esc

System Requirements

• Windows XP / 2000 / 2003
• .NET Framework 2.0 ( download from here )

Download DarkRoom from here.

DarkRoom HomePage

Technorati Tags: freeware,MacOSX,DarkRoom,WriteRoom

Did you ever wanted to print CD/DVD Covers for your CD’s.UndercoverXP is a small program to easily print CD and DVD covers. It supports JPEG, GIF, PNG and BMP formats and can automatically scale front covers, back covers, front + inside, inlays, DVD Boxes, Digital Pictures and CD/DVD labels to the correct sizes.You can print 23 types of covers.

You can edit the selected image by selecting Format Editor Under Options.

UnderCoverXP is available in 25 languages and can be downloaded from here and is only 868 KB.

UnderCoverXP is also Vista Compatible.

Technorati Tags: CD Covers,Freeware,Utilities

Every gamer would have experienced what happens when you accidentally hits the Windows Key on the keyboard while playing a game in Windows It would minimize the game windows and open the start menu, this can be really annoying, There is a way to disable the Windows key. This can done in two ways the easy way or the hard way. The easy way is to use a simple freeware, and the hard way is to edit your registry entries,

In order to achieve this you can download a freeware called WinKey Killer, which can be used to disable the start menu and also a few other combinational keys which could disturb you during the game.

How To Use?

• Extract the zip into a folder.
• Double click WKeyKill to start the application ie., to disable start menu.
• For options double click WKKSetup.
• For re-enabling the start menu, Again Double click WkeyKill.

Every application that you started or the ones that got started automatically can be consuming a lot of memory.You can know which processes are running in the background by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del in Windows but the details are not complete like the process id,parent process id,ip connections and many more like this.Knowing which process is running in the background can let you decide which process to run or not,freeing your memory and getting your system to work faster.

To get detailed information about whats running in the background like processes, IP Connections, Modules Services, Start-Up applications,Drivers, System Information.Get yourself a tool called WhatsRunning from WhatsRunning.net to get all this information.

Here’s the screenshot

Download WhatsRunning 2.2

It works on Windows 2000/XP/2003 systems.

Xnview’s shell extension enables users to view the preview of an image by simply right clicking on the image in the context menu, Set the image as his wallpaper either centered or Best fit to desktop, Convert the image into 7 different formats ( GIF, BMP, JPG, PCX, PNG, TIF, TGA ) right from the menu’s Convert Into Option, Change the size of the preview.

And the best part of it is that it is FREE !!!

Here’s a screenshot of the extension in use

XnView Homepage

The XnView Extension can be downloaded from here.