CCleaner is a great cleaning utility.

With it you can delete cookies, temp files and more. It has a registry cleaner, startup manager and can uninstall applications as well.

CCleaner 2.12.660 latest changes:

• Improved Google Chrome support.

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Recuva is a freeware program for recovering deleted files.

Recuva 1.19.350 changelog:

• Redesigned the Options window.
• Fixed bug related to Insufficient resources error.
• Improved handling of invalid file records.
• Various UI tweaks.
• Minor bug fixes.

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LameXP is a free audio converter which supports multi-threading encoding, which means that it can convert two files at once, saving you some time if you have a CPU with 2 or more cores.

For MP4/AAC encoding support you need to download the free Nero Digital Audio Encoder. Just download it and copy the EXE files to LameXP folder.

Latest changes in LameXP 3.05:

• Creates MP3 (MPEG 1.0 Audio-Layer III) files
• Provides a graphical user-interface for Windows XP
• Provides the highest possible MP3 quality/compression-rate
• Supports PCM Wave-Audio files, MP3 files and raw PCM files
• Supports bitrate-based and quality-based compression
• Supports variable bitrate MP3 files and avarge bitrate encoding
• Supports Mono, Stereo, Joint Stereo and Dual Mono
• Supports ID3 Tags (ID3v1 and ID3v2)
• Supports Resampling and Stereo/Mono Downmixing
• Supports varoius encoder quality/speed modes

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PortableApps.com released Firefox Portable Edition 3.0.1.

The portable version of Firefox 3 is not yet available in all supported languages.

But after reading this information, you will be able run it in your language just by using a local installation of the language you want.

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Nvidia ForceWare Drivers 178.13 WHQL were released two days ago.

Nvidia claims that this set improves performance in many games compared to the previous WHQL release. Here are the release notes.

Note: If you experience longs waits or the installation fails, extract the contents of the installer to a folder and move the PhysX setup to another location. Then, run it after ForceWare successfully installs.

If you ever get any problems when updating drivers you can use Driver Sweeper after you have uninstalled you current drivers to clean your system for left over files. After that, reboot your computer and install the new ones. This will reduce the chance of having driver issues.

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SMPlayer is an open source, multi-platform video/audio player, focusing in video features.

It uses the well-known (at least in the open source field) command-line player MPlayer. This means SMPlayer doesn’t need external codecs in order to play the files. This is great because it saves you time and troubles when playing less-known formats.

Note: If you are using Windows Vista, the default settings of SMPlayer will disable Aero temporarily while playing files.

For it to work well with Aero, go to Options - Preferences. In the General tab, select gl or gl2 in the Output Drivers: Video drop down list. Aero won’t be disabled anymore.

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Mozilla had to release a new version almost immediately because 3.0.2 introduced a bug that prevented Firefox from remembering some site passwords or save new ones.

This is the only change in Mozilla Firefox 3.0.3.

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TheWorld Browser is a free alternative to Internet Explorer. It is lightning fast to open up and is slightly faster than IE to display pages.

It has an embedded download manager which is great and hast ad blocking options as well as content (such as java script, flash, etc.) filtering to speed up page display. Supports skins.

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