Style XP is not a skinning engine. It uses Microsoft's built-in visual style engine, but enhances it by providing many useful tools. Style XP can import, select, rotate, and manage Themes, Visual Styles, Wallpaper, and Logons. Future versions may support sounds, cursors, screensavers, and packages of all the above. Read More...

Radeonator is a tool for tweaking your ATI Radeon 8xxx/7xxx/64DDR/LE/VE/32DDR cards.

This tweaker only works on Microsoft Windows 2000/XP for now but there will be 9X/ME support soon.

X-bios.com have got hold of 2 new Nvidia Nvflash utility versions to flash your video card BIOS.

Here's what they're saying: One of our visitors (posted as Anonymous) sent information about new NVFLASH utils, available on Gainwards FTP site. I have checked it and put it in the file collection.
Nvidia Nvflash utility version 3.19b
Nvidia Nvflash utility version 4.13

HyperSnap-DX 4 is a screen capture and image editing tool for MS Windows. It captures screens from standard desktop programs and even those hard-to-grab DirectX, Direct3D, 3Dfx Voodoo and Glide mode games. HyperSnap-DX 4 can capture frames from many software DVD players and other video playing software.

A new version of Boot XP has been released v1.50 RC1.

Just came across the site of Lars Hederer who seems to be a talented german programmer. He has written two tools to optimize and backup the Windows registry for NT kernel based operating systems: ERUNT - The Emergency Recovery Utility NT - Registry Backup and Restore for Windows NT/2000/XP NTREGOPT - Registry Optimization for Windows NT/2000/XP Read more...

XP-AntiSpy is a small utility that let's you disable some built-in update and authentication 'features' in Windows XP. It disables all the known 'suspicious' functions in M$ latest OS. There is a new Version of XP Antispy today! Problems with setting the bandwidthlimit solved. XP-Antispy homepage
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V.Control is a free software which gives direct hardware control to your video graphics adapter; enabling custom refresh rates in increments of 1 Hz, over clocking without rebooting windows, and modifying PCI/AGP hardware configurations. Also provided are various registry tweaks. Currently supported are: 3dfx Voodoo Banshee, 3dfx Velocity, 3dfx Voodoo3, 3dfx Voodoo4, and 3dfx Voodoo5 (Voodoo5 6000 is untested). V.Control will also save and restore positions of desktop icons for any video graphics adapter. Compatible with Microsoft Windows 95, 98, ME, NT4, 2000, XP. Please note that this software is beta-ware.

A new version of GeForce Tweak Utility has just been released: 3.2 t19.

This utility allows you make a lot of modifications to the registry settings of any GeForce videocard. GeForce256 DDR, GeForce2/MX/Pro/Ultra, GeForce3, Quadro, Quadro2/Pro/MXR, Quadro DCC.

Stardock has released a free program that tests to see if your video card and drivers support the new Windows XP APIs for alpha blending acceleration along with general performance tests. The goal behind XPBench is to get video card makers to update their drivers to take advantage of these things.

Cmedia have released a new Audio Rack v2.81 that includes: Control Center, CD Player, MIDI Player, MP3/Wave Player, Mixer.

Fdrsoft have got their hands on a new version of leadtek's Winfox tweak utility v2.204.

Radeonator is a tool for tweaking your ATI Radeon 8xxx/7xxx/64DDR/LE/VE/32DDR cards.

This tweaker only works on Microsoft Windows 2000/XP for now but there will be 9X/ME support soon.

Dacris Benchmarks is a performance testing and optimizing program. Unlike most benchmarking programs Dacris Benchmarks has the option to Generate a report about your PC. The report includes a 3D games report which shows the frame rates in many 3D games. Dacris Benchmarks has the option of loading/saving baselines which are reference systems to compare with yours. The new version of Dacris Benchmarks now has an agent that helps you, providing tips and inside information. It also has a new skin interface and system optimization wizard.

A new version is available. Whenever I used it I had problems with XP afterwards but hey that's porbably just me. Here is the changelog: Added functionality to disable creation and sending of errorreports, if an OfficeXP application crashes. Added functionality to disable bandwidth-reserving in networks, which is caused by the QoS (Quality of Service). - The tool automatically detects if the QoS service is installed, and and hides the entry if not. XP-AntiSpy can now by controlled by commandline->See scriptreference.txt A local download is available and check out XP-Antispy's homepage if you want.

Zoom Player is a Media Player replacement. Zoom Player provides special zooming functions to improve TV-Output quality by eliminating overscan. Zoom Player's scaling system allows you to exactly match the video area to your screen's dimensions in real-time with adjustable background color in order to test for brightness bleeds. You can also fast forwarding (even on MPEG4 type formats such as DivX), 10 Keyboard accessible presets to automatically adjust the video area to pre-defined settings, customizable control bar with graphical time-seek controls, keyboard mapped controls, aspect ratio support for correct playback of anamorphic video and out of aspect-ratio content.

I know, this is not brand new or hot news but I thought, you might be interested in this tool. While surfing the web I found this little 20 KB tool and it comes in handy for testing your CPU cooling effectiveness. It stressed my Athlon as much as I expected but it is really nice to test the cooling system.
These programs are designed to load x86 CPUs as heavily as possible for the purposes of system testing. They have been optimized for different processors. FPU and ALU instructions are coded an assembler endless loop. They do not test every instruction. The goal has been to maximize heat production from the CPU, putting stress on the CPU itself, cooling system, motherboard (especially voltage regulators) and power supply (likely cause of burnBX/MMX errors). Read More...

jv16 PowerTools is the next generation of RegCleaner. A full set of tools to keep your computer and your LAN up and running. jv16 PowerTools is basicly the Tool to control your computer. Until now your computer might had been the one who is in charge, but with jv16 PowerTools you can take the control. The program contains all the tools needed for monitoring and cleaning the Registry and the file system. In addition to that, you can control all the computers in your LAN.

Rage3d.com Radeonator is a tool for tweaking your ATI Radeon 8xxx/7xxx/64DDR/LE/VE/32DDR cards.

This tweaker only works on Microsoft Windows 2000/XP for now but there will be 9X/ME support soon!! So hit the link above to download.

NVIDIA BIOS Editor - new v1.0 RC2 build 130 release. This program will support all BIOSes from TNT2 and up to Ti 500. Except TNT and TNT2 with old version of Control Block (less than version 3). Does not require any .dll, and will work under any version of Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP.