PowerStrip provides advanced, multi-monitor, programmable hardware support to a wide range of graphics cards - from the venerable Matrox Millennium I to the latest Radeon 8500DV and GeForce3 Ti500. It is in fact the only program of its type to support multiple graphics cards from multiple chipset vendors, simultaneously, under every Windows operating system from Windows 95 to XP.

Tweak-XP bundles more than 22 different utilities in one: it was developed to combine both tweaking and optimizing features to increase the speed of your Windows® XP system. All settings can be done without having any former knowledge, since Tweak-XP informs the user in detail about each option.

Customizer XP is an integrated suite of programs that can help you to tweak your Windows 2000/XP to its fullest potential performance or just keep it running like new. It offers a wide range possibility to customize and optimize your Windows program. Whether you want to tweak your Windows registry, cleanup your harddisk, or increase your multimedia and 3D games performance. Read more...

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.

I saw @ NVmax that a new version has been released! Update: I got a mail from Chris Paiva he said that it was NVmax 4.00.47. I downloaded the file and he is right! So I think NVmax made a mistake? NVmax said it was 4.00.43. Click on Read More... to see the changes & fixes and a direct download link.

MBM let's you monitor voltages, temperature, fan speeds, set alarm options and offers many more useful functions when you want to have a keen eye on your motherboard. Changelog listed under read more plus download links.

FlashFXP is a powerful and popular FTP & FXP Client for Windows. It is loaded with features for the power user, but has an intuitive user interface that takes only minutes to master. Using the FTP protocol, you can transfer files from remote servers to your computer, or even to another remote server. FlashFXP makes it easy to update your Web site, download files from the company server, or even download files from the internet that always seem to fail using your Web browser.

iuVCR is a Windows 2000/XP intended video recording program. Have a TV tuner or a video capture card installed on your Windows 2000 or XP system? Now you can easily record your favorite TV programs and videos in *.AVI or *.WMV format. iuVCR has got a simple and plain interface, allows to capture video of any format, resolution and duration, can automatically start when scheduled and has a number of other useful features.

Easy CD-DA Extractor is a powerful and easy digital audio extraction utility that makes digital copies from audio CDs and saves as audio files such as MP3, Windows Media Audio and Windows Wave. You may use built-in encoders, get plug-ins for other free encoders, or use any Windows audio compression codec. Features include: CDDB, ID3 and WMA tags, file converter with batch support, tons of files can be converted to a different format simultaneously, serves also as a MP3 and WAV decoder and sound normalizer.

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.

Rage3D 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.

Fraps is a tool that lets you monitor current framerates in a corner of the screen for programs utilising DirectX or OpenGL technology. It also allows you to easily take screenshots of games, and manually determine the average framerate between two points.

Overclockers.com have developed a PCI latency timer that can modify most, if not all, PCI latency timers on motherboards with VIA chipsets!

Here's what they're saying:

This utility will allow the modification or display of the PCI latency timer of a PCI device if its PCI latency timer is located at offset D. I've used it to modify the PCI latency timer of modems, VIA EIDE controllers and sound cards. Curiously I'm surprised a modem would be capable of bus-mastering at all -- considering it has got to be the slowest device you can find on the PCI bus.

Seems that Nvidia has some nice utilitys online which are being used by software developers. You can browse through the file-area by clicking read more.

Found some tools: 1) WinHvance v1.5.1 This program offers more than 170 Windows operating systems registry tweaks forWindows 95/98/98SE/ME. 2) pcTuner v1.8 Beta 1 is a special utility to configure Windows 95/98. You can configure hundreds of Windows hidden settings, from the Start Menu, Desktop, Accessories, to Windows Explorer. 3) Bios Wizard Gets your BIOS id number and provides information. 4) 3D Winbench 2000 1.1 measures the performance of a PC's 3D subsystem, which includes the Direct3D software, the monitor, the graphics adapter, the graphics driver, and the bus used to carry information between the graphics adapter and the processor subsystem.

The IBM storage subdivision has released version 3.0 of the useful DFT. The Drive Fitness Test (DFT) provides a quick and reliable method to test IBM SCSI and IDE hard disk drives. The Drive Fitness Test only performs read tests and does not overwrite customer data. Note: Currently, the Drive Fitness Test does not support IBM Microdrives or Travelstar E drives.

Asus Germany has readied the latest version of the LiveUpdate utility which enables the user to update their motherboard BIOS from within Windows itself. The new version is 3.29.05 [download link] and it works for all Windows OSes. Additionally a new beta BIOS is available for the following motherboard: Bios A7M266-D 1005 - 002-E Beta

The SONAR? digital multitrack recording system is a new generation of professional audio technology from Cakewalk, the leading developer of music and sound software for Windows. SONAR is the musician?s choice for recording, editing, mixing, and delivering music and sound projects for CDs, film and video scores, the Internet, or any multimedia project.

CladDVD XP is a 'DVD Ripper', meaning it decrypts the encrypted VOB files off the DVD and saves them to your hard drive. The files can be ripped in a standard way preserving the original content along with the IFO, useful when you use or need to use a 3rd party application to process the VOB files. CladDVD XP also allows you to rip using 'IFO Parsing' which will allow you to select certain ProGram Chains like the main movie or a certain version of the movie, this is definately the recommended option, you can also rip extra features apart from the main movie.

HARDiNFO 2002 is a System Information, Diagnostic, Benchmark and Computer Management application designed to be used by Small Business to Large Business and Professionals. HARDiNFO 2002 displays the hardware information in well organized categories with high quality graphical representation of each hardware component for fast and easy understanding.

HARDiNFO 2002 is the most easy to use system information, diagnostic & benchmark tool. It is the first system information application which supports detection of hardware configuration from an Internet/LAN network computer without having to install it on your entire network.