Shark007 updated its Adobe Reader Lite versions. The only change was to remove AcroRd32Info.exe, which were running in memory all the time when you closed Adobe Reader.

This Lite versions leaves out many plugins and has customized preferences so it opens faster and has just the features than the average users needs. Also, the file size is a lot smaller.

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This excellent freeware program for recovering deleted files is now out of Beta stage.

The developer includes the Yahoo! toolbar in the installer but you can uninstall it later. A trick is to install it and grab the files copied to the installed folder. The are no external dependencies and only the settings are stored in the registry.

This way you can have the program without the toolbar and without any installer at all for any future use. I make my own custom MSI installer using the installed files. I can’t share it. I would violate the license agreement by doing so.

Recuva 1.16.333 is the final version. Latest changes:

• Added ability to search for non-deleted files (for recovery from damaged or reformatted disks only).
• Added support for .rtf, .pdf, .mp3 and .tif files to deep scan.
• Fixed bug that would limit file size of .avi files to 1GB after deep scan.
• Various UI tweaks.
• Performance improvements.

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FileZilla Portable is made by PortableApps.com

The difference between this release on the original ZIP format download and this one is that the original is portable but makes use of some configuration files in the user’s application data. If you take it to another computer, the configurations you have made won’t be available on this other computer.

FileZilla Portable is 100% portable, so all your preferences will be saved within the program’s folder, regardless of what computer you run it in.

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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.

It has a portable version available.

You can read all the features in its website.

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A new version of paint.NET has been released today.

The responsiveness of the adding and subtracting image selections is much better in this release, and according to the changelog also the performance was improved but i didn’t notice it because is fast enough right now.

Paint.NET 3.35 latest changes:

• Posterize adjustment.
• Intersect selection mode.
• Dramatically improved performance for selection editing modes (add, subtract, intersect).
• Bug fixes.

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I have posted about foobar before. This new version has some important changes like the ability to choose several item within the albums list and they included some DSP (Digital Signal Processing) plugins with Crossfade and Skip Silence features.

foobar2000 0.9.5.4 latest changes:

• Media Library Search: queries using “SORT BY” create always-sorted autoplaylists by default.
• File format handling updates:
  • Security updates to Vorbis, Speex, FLAC and WavPack libraries.
  • Fixed a rare Ogg seeking accuracy bug.
  • Improved MP4 parser security.
• Converter improvements:
  • No longer aborts the entire operation when one of queued tracks can’t be processed.
  • Optional status log popup after conversion.
• Album List: ability to select multiple items at once by holding shift or control keys.
• New built-in DSPs: Crossfader, Skip Silence.

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For anyone that makes use of environment variables in Windows, Rapid Environment Editor makes adding, editing or deleting them very easy and fast.

It is a perfect replacement for the inconvenient dialog that Windows offers to do this. You can even preview the expanded values right away in the same window, which is very useful for testing variables.

It displays system and user variables separated for better management.

You can download a portable version.

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A new version of this registry defragmentation programs is out.

Now they included a portable version in the download page, which is great.

Quicksys RegDefrag 1.5 latest changes:

• Fixed bug in font ANSI charset
• Fixed bug in column order at Registry Information
• Added new language: Dutch
• Updated languages: Polish and Czech
• Minor bugs fixed

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