Similar to Windows 9x/Me, the registry files in an NT-based system can become fragmented over time, occupying more space on your hard disk than necessary and decreasing overall performance. You should use the NTREGOPT utility regularly, but especially after installing or uninstalling a program, to minimize the size of the registry files and optimize registry access. The program works by recreating each registry hive "from scratch", thus removing any slack space that may be left from previously modified or deleted keys.
Note that the program does NOT change the contents of the registry in any way, nor does it physically defrag the registry files on the drive (as the PageDefrag program from SysInternals does). The optimization done by NTREGOPT is simply compacting the registry hives to the minimum size possible.

VirtualDrive 9.0 emulates your computer's CD/DVD-ROM drive, which enables you to run CD and DVD programs directly from your hard drive without the use of the physical CD/DVD-ROM drive or the actual disc.

VirtualDrive does two basic things:
(1) It can copy an entire CD/DVD into a single, compressed disk-image file that resides on your hard drive
(2) It contains a driver that fools Windows into treating the disk-image file as if it were a physical CD/DVD running in a physical CD/DVD drive. VirtualDrive lets you create up to 23 virtual CD/DVD-ROM drives and an unlimited number of CD/DVDs. Since you have 23 CD/DVD-ROM drives on your computer instead of just one, you can run more than one CD/DVD-ROM simultaneously.

Over time the registry becomes larger and larger as new programs are installed, used and removed. The design of the registry is such that when you add some data into the registry it becomes larger, but when you remove this data the registry will not shrink back to its previous size. Why? When a registry entry is removed, that entry is simply marked as blank but remains in place, introducing a gap into the registry. In this way the registry becomes more and more fragmented over time.

Registry fragmentation causes overall system performance to decrease. Systems with a fragmented registry will take longer to boot and will use more memory just for processing the registry, resulting in decreased overall performance as other programs are forced to use much slower virtual memory. Registry Compressor will optimize, compact and defragment your registry.

ICQ 4 introduces a new Edition with Xtraz features on top of the essentials ones. It's designed to make the experience of using ICQ more fun and intriguing! ICQ Lite has all the essential features of the full version of ICQ. You can message people, exchange files, send SMS messages, and meet people. It also includes multilingual support, the ability to save your chat histories, and a typing indicator that shows when a contact is typing you a message.

In addition to familiar features such as chat, SMS messaging, and file-transfer capabilities, the newest version includes ICQ Xtraz, which allow you to send personalized greeting cards, apply custom icons to your buddies, play online games, and customize your shortcuts panel for one-click access to all your favorite features. The ICQ Xtraz platform enables ICQ to present users with a selection of new services as they are created, without the need for you to download a new client.

11view is a free, fast and easy image viewer with several unique features. It has been created to show, print and convert images with the highest possible quality. 11view is the most handy and easy-to-use viewer made especially for digital camera owners. Loading-time interpolation makes any picture appear smooth and clear when stretched onto a full screen. Display calibration corrects color and brightness distortions caused by your monitor giving you the most realistic colors possible. Gamma correction allows you to light-up dark photos or darken too bright ones while viewing them.
• Special approach for batch conversion of images with different sizes and proportions
• Sharpest resizing using Lanczos resampling method
• Full support for transparency (e.g. convert PNG with transparency to GIF and otherwise)