Defraggler is a freeware defragmentation program.

You can defragment individual files as well as entire hard drives.

Defraggler 1.04.098 latest changes:

• Multi-language release (16 new languages!).
• Improved handling of daily schedules.
• Fixed bug that could file defrag to be very slow.
• Improved logging of analysis methods.
• Loads of performance improvements.
• Loads of bug fixes.

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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 2.13.720 latest changes:

• Added support for Firefox 3.1.
• Added right-click cleaning and analysis for individual items in the tree.
• Added icons to tree parent items.
• Added cleaning for Windows Error Reporting files.
• Added Include/Exclude list editing.
• Improved TypeLib registry cleaning.
• Fixed Index.dat bug that could cause a crash.
• Fixed bug with INI warning messages.
• Internal architecture improvements.
• Fixed minor GUI errors.

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BurnAware is a good burning application that supports almost all the features of major burning programs. BurnAware is one of the best freeware out there.

Changes in BurnAware Free Edition 2.1.5:

• New trial period is available (Home and Pro editions).
• Added tray icon.
• Added “Remember options” option to save preferred options and use it as default for all data compilations.
• Added confirmation message on cancel of burning process.
• Slightly optimized burning process.
• Fixed minor bug with boot DVD file system.
• Fixed “access violation in riched20.dll” error while burning Audio CD.

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Notepad++ is an open source text editor that has many useful features, like syntax highlighting, code folding, autocompletion and macro recording.

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New and updated installers:

• FileZilla 3.1.5
• SMPlayer 0.6.4 Switchless
• XnView 1.95.2

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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XnView is a great image viewer.

Supports viewing, converting, screen capture, slideshow and TWAIN (scanning).

Read more about all the features of XnView.

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Today, Microsoft released a patch (KB958644) that resolves a critical vulnerability found on all versions of Windows.

You can read the security bulletin for more information.

While Vista and SErver 2008 are not rated critical, it is important that everyone install this regardless of what Windows version you have.

You can download it manually at Microsoft’s website or via Windows Update.