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Release Date: Monday, September 22, 2008

Release Notes:
The K-Lite Codec Pack is a free collection of codecs and related tools. Codec is short for Compressor-decompressor. Codecs are needed for encoding and decoding (playing) audio and video. The very user-friendly installation is fully customizable, which means that you can install only those components that you want.

There are three versions of the K-Lite Codec Pack: The Standard version contains everything what is needed to play all the commonly used formats. The Full version contains even more codecs and also has encoding support. The Corporate version is a special version for use in a corporate environment.

The text in black applies to the Full and Standard versions, the text in green applies to the Full and Standard versions and the text in red applies to the Full version only.

• Media Player Classic 6.4.9.1 is a full-featured player which has internal decoding support for DVD, MPEG-2, MP2, MP3, AC3 and DTS. It also has internal support for opening Matroska and Ogg containers. Media Player Classic (MPC) is also capable of playing other content if those codecs are installed.
• FFDShow revision 2080 is a DirectShow decoding filter for decoding various audio and video formats like DivX, XviD, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.263, H.264, MJPEG, CinePack, TrueMotion, DV, ASV1, ASV2, VCR1, VP3, Huffyuv, Theora, AAC, AC3, DTS, MP2, MP3, MP4 and TrueAudio. When using FFDShow you don't need to install separate decoders for these formats. FFDShow is based on the original DirectShow filter from XviD for decompressing movies with a rich set of video postprocessing filters. For video decompression it uses the libavcodec from the ffmpeg project and to enhance visual quality of low bitrate movies it uses the postprocessing code from mplayer. FFDShow can also be used as a separate postprocessing filter for other decoders. Features of FFDShow include: Fast video decompression using optimized code for MMX (MultiMedia eXtensions), SSE (Streaming SIMD (Single Instruction Multiple Data) Extensions), SSE2 and SSE3 on Intel (Integrated Electronics) Pentium processors and on AMD (Advanced Micro Devices) Athlon processors also 3DNow!, Support for a lot of different codecs, Image postprocessing for higher playback quality, Automatic quality control: it reduces the postprocessing level when the CPU (Central Processing Unit) load is high, Hue, saturation and luminance correction, Sharpening filter, Presets, Support for various subtitle formats and FFDShow is completely free and Open Source under the restrictions of the GPL (General Public License)
• XviD Decoding 1.2.0-dev build 2008-01-10 is required for playing XviD movies. XviD is currently the most popular format.
• XviD Encoding 1.2.0-dev build 2008-01-10 is required for encoding movies in the XviD format.
• DivX Decoding 6.8.4.0 is required for playing DivX movies.
• DivX Encoding 6.8.4.0 is required for encoding movies in the DivX format.
• Windows Media VCM 9.0.1.1184 is required for playing Windows Media 9 movies and audio.
• On2 VP6 Decoding 6.4.2.0 is required for playing VP6 movies. These are not very common.
• On2 VP6 Encoding 6.4.2.0 is required for encoding movies in the VP6 format.
• On2 VP7 Decoding 7.0.10.0 is required for playing VP7 movies. These are not very common.
• On2 VP7 Encoding 7.0.10.0 is required for encoding movies in the VP7 format.
• Intel Indeo 5.2562.15.54 is required for playing movies that have the Indeo 5 format.
• Intel Indeo 4.51.16.2 is required for playing movies that have the Indeo 4 format.
• Intel Indeo 3.24.15.03 is required for playing movies that have the Indeo 3 format.
• Intel I.263 2.55.1.16 is required for playing movies that have the I.263 format.
• Huffyuv 2.1.1 CCE Patch 0.2.5 is required for playing and encoding movies that have the Huffyuv format. Huffyuv is a lossless (no quality loss) video compression format.
• Elecard MPEG-2 demuxer 1.0.31.51211 or MainConcept MPEG-2 demuxer 1.0.0.54 or Ligos MPEG-2 demuxer 4.0.0.77. Windows already has a MPEG-2 demuxer (splitter) so normally you won't need one of these.
• Ligos MPEG-2 decoder 4.0.0.77 or Cyberlink MPEG-2 decoder 6.0.0.1402 or MainConcept MPEG-2 decoder 1.0.0.56. Required for playing MPEG-2 movies. Ligos and MainConcept will also decode MPEG-2 audio streams. Not required if you use Media Player Classic, because it has native MPEG-2 decoding support.
• Fraunhofer MP3 DirectShow decoder 1.9.0.311 is required for playing movies that have a MP3 audio stream.
• AC3 DirectShow decoder (AC3Filter) 1.51a is required for playing movies that have an AC3 audio stream.
• AC3 ACM decoder 1.4 is required for playing movies that have an AC3 audio stream in applications like VirtualDub.
• Ogg Vorbis DirectShow decoder (CoreVorbis) 1.1.0.79 is required for playing movies that have an Ogg Vorbis audio stream.
• AAC DirectShow decoder (CoreAAC) 1.2.0.575 is required for playing movies that have an AAC audio stream.
• MusePack DirectShow decoder 1.0.0.4 is required for playing MusePack audio files.
• Monkey's Audio DirectShow decoder 1.00 is required for playing Monkey's audio files (.ape). Monkey's Audio is a lossless (no quality loss) audio compression format.
• WavPack DirectShow decoder (CoreWavPack) 1.1.1 is required for playing WavPack audio files.
• FLAC DirectShow decoder (CoreFLAC) 0.73.1936 is required for playing FLAC audio files. FLAC is a lossless (no quality loss) audio compression format.
• Voxware MetaSound DirectShow decoder 1.0.0.12 is required for playing movies that have a Voxware MetaSound audio stream.
• DivX ;) Audio 4.2.0.0 is required for playing some DivX 3.11 movies.
• LAME MP3 ACM 3.98 is required for encoding MP3 streams and files.
• MP4 DirectShow splitter 1.8.122.18 is required for opening audio and video streams in a MP4 container (.mp4 files). Works only in combination with FFDShow.
• Ogg Vorbis DirectShow splitter 0.9.9.5 is required for opening audio and video streams in an Ogg Vorbis container (.ogm and .ogg files). Not required if you use Media Player Classic to play these types of files, because it has native OGM decoding support.
• Ogg Vorbis DLLs 1.1.1 are required for opening audio and video streams in an Ogg Vorbis container (.ogm files). Not required if you use Media Player Classic to play these types of files, because it has native OGM decoding support.
• Matroska DirectShow splitter 1.8.122.18 is required for opening audio and video streams in a Matroska container (.mkv and .mka files). Not required if you use Media Player Classic to play these types of files, because it has native Matroska decoding support.
• Matroska DirectShow splitter 1.0.3.0 can be used to mux audio and video streams into a Matroska container.
• DirectVobSub (VSFilter) 2.33 is a tool for displaying subtitles. Your subtitle files should have the same filename as your video file (for example MovieName.avi, MovieName.idx and MovieName.sub) and should be in the same folder (directory) as your video file. Then the subtitles will automatically be displayed in most players.
• DirectVobSub (VSFilter) 2.39 is a tool for displaying subtitles. Your subtitle files should have the same filename as your video file (for example MovieName.avi, MovieName.idx and MovieName.sub) and should be in the same folder (directory) as your video file. Then the subtitles will automatically be displayed in most players. Use the older version if you have problems with this version.
• SHOUTcast Source 1.0.0.1 can be used to play SHOUTcast streams in any DirectShow enabled player.
• Morgan Multimedia Stream Switcher 0.9.9 can be used to switch between audio streams in a video file that has multiple audio streams. These types of video files are not very common. Not required if you use Media Player Classic or BSplayer, because they have native support for multiple audio streams. Only install this when you really need it.
• GSpot Codec Information Appliance 2.70a is a tool that can tell you exactly which codecs are needed to play a certain video file. This is very helpful when you have troubles playing a video file.
• VobSubStrip 0.11 is a tool which can strip languages from VobSub subtitle files (.idx and .sub files).
• GraphEdit build 061102 is a visual tool for building and testing DirectShow filter graphs.
• AVI Fixed 2.0 beta 1 can rebuild the index section of .avi files. This can make files with broken frames playable. In some cases it will also solve synchronisation problems and incorrectly displayed movie lengths.
• The FourCC (Four Character Code) Changer is a program for changing the FourCC of a video file, which is used to identify which codec should be used to decode the file. This power tool is for expert users only.
• Bitrate Calculator can be used to calculate the bitrate to use when encoding a movie.

• Media Player Classic 6.4.9.1
• FFDShow revision 2080
• XviD Decoding 1.2.0-dev build 2008-01-10
• XviD Encoding 1.2.0-dev build 2008-01-10
• DivX Decoding 6.8.4.0
• DivX Encoding 6.8.4.0
• Windows Media VCM 9.0.1.1184
• On2 VP6 Decoding 6.4.2.0
• On2 VP6 Encoding 6.4.2.0
• On2 VP7 Decoding 7.0.10.0
• On2 VP7 Encoding 7.0.10.0
• Intel Indeo 5.2562.15.54
• Intel Indeo 4.51.16.2
• Intel Indeo 3.24.15.03
• Intel I.263 2.55.1.16
• Huffyuv 2.1.1 CCE Patch 0.2.5
• Elecard MPEG-2 demuxer 1.0.31.51211
• MainConcept MPEG-2 demuxer 1.0.1.20
• Ligos MPEG-2 demuxer 4.0.0.77
• Ligos MPEG-2 decoder 4.0.0.77
• Cyberlink MPEG-2 decoder 8.1.0.1608
• MainConcept MPEG-2 decoder 1.0.0.78
• Fraunhofer MP3 DirectShow decoder 1.9.0.311
• AC3 DirectShow decoder (AC3Filter) 1.51a
• AC3 ACM decoder 1.4
• Ogg Vorbis DirectShow decoder (CoreVorbis) 1.1.0.79
• AAC DirectShow decoder (CoreAAC) 1.2.0.575
• MusePack DirectShow decoder 1.0.0.4
• Monkey's Audio DirectShow decoder 1.00
• WavPack DirectShow decoder (CoreWavPack) 1.1.1
• FLAC DirectShow decoder (CoreFLAC) 0.73.1936
• Voxware MetaSound DirectShow decoder 1.0.0.12
• DivX ;) Audio 4.2.0.0
• LAME MP3 ACM 3.98
• MP4 DirectShow splitter 1.8.122.18
• Ogg Vorbis DirectShow splitter 0.9.9.5
• Ogg Vorbis DLLs 1.1.1
• Matroska DirectShow splitter 1.8.122.18
• Matroska DirectShow splitter 1.0.3.0
• DirectVobSub (VSFilter) 2.33
• DirectVobSub (VSFilter) 2.39
• SHOUTcast Source 1.0.0.1
• Morgan Multimedia Stream Switcher 0.9.9
• GSpot Codec Information Appliance 2.70a
• VobSubStrip 0.11
• GraphEdit build 061102
• AVI Fixed 2.0 beta 1
• FourCC Changer
• Bitrate Calculator

Release Date: Thursday, June 14, 2007

Release Notes:
The K-Lite MPEG Pack is a bundle of decoders for MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 video and MPEG audio.
It contains several different filters to choose from, so you can pick your favorite ones.

• Video: Cyberlink, DScaler5, InterVideo, Gabest, MainConcept and Ligos
• Audio: Ligos, InterVideo and MainConcept
• Splitter: Cyberlink, Gabest, MainConcept, Elecard and Ligos

Release Date: Friday, October 9, 2009

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• Avidemux 2.5.1.5369
  Avidemux is a very powerful tool for editing video files. It supports almost every type of video file as input. It can do lots of things: cut, convert, etc. It contains its own decoders and encoders for all common audio and video formats, so it does not need any codecs.
• DVDStyler 1.7.4
  DVDStyler is a basic DVD authoring tool. With this you can create your own DVDs, complete with a custom menu.
• ImgBurn 2.5.0.0
  ImgBurn is a tool for burning DVD image files (ISO, IMG, etc.).

• Use Avidemux to convert your file into a DVD compatible format: MPEG-2 video, AC3 audio and MPEG-PS container format
• Drag and drop the converted file(s) into DVDStyler and create a custom menu, for example just a simple button to start the movie, then select the Burn DVD... option in the menu to generate an ISO file
• Burn this ISO file with ImgBurn on a blank DVD

Release Date: Tuesday, January 5, 2010

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The K-Lite Codec Tweak Tool is a standalone version of the tool that is included in the K-Lite Codec Pack.

• Scan the registry to detect and remove broken references to codecs and filters
• Generate a detailed log of all installed codecs and filters
• Enable or disable over 190 codecs and filters (if they are installed)

Release Date: Thursday, November 19, 2009

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With the MOV Download Tool you can download QuickTime MOV files from websites.

The MOV Download Tool acts as a proxy between those QuickTime buttons, which you can find on various websites, mostly for HD (High Definition) content, and the QuickTime Player. The URLs are intercepted by the tool and it presents you a list of actions to choose from. This tool is also able to extract URLs from .qtl files. Those can be found on for example the Apple Film Trailers and Yahoo! Movie websites.

Release Date: Monday, February 15, 2010

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QT Lite is a lightweight version of QuickTime. It contains only the essential components that are required for viewing QuickTime content in your favorite browser.

Release Date: Monday, February 15, 2010

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QuickTime Alternative will allow you to play QuickTime files (.mov, .qt and other extensions) without having to install QuickTime Player from Apple. It also supports QuickTime content that is embedded in webpages. The very user-friendly installation is fully customizable, which means that you can install only those components that you want.

The QuickTime Alternative iTunes add-on allows you to use QuickTime Alternative or QT Lite together with iTunes. Without this add-on iTunes will give an error about missing components.

• Media Player Classic 6.4.9.1 is a full-featured player which has decoding support for QuickTime content.
• QuickTime codecs 7.65.17.80 (QuickTime Alternative 3.1.1) or 7.2.0.240 (QuickTime Alternative 1.90) or 6.5.2.10 (QuickTime Alternative 1.56) are required for playing QuickTime movies and audio.
• QuickTime ActiveX control 7.65.17.80 (QuickTime Alternative 3.1.1) or 7.2.0.240 (QuickTime Alternative 1.90) or 6.5.2.10 (QuickTime Alternative 1.56) allows you to view QuickTime content that is embedded in a webpage. The QuickTime Browser plugin supports Internet Explorer. Other programs might also need this component.
• QuickTime Browser plugin 7.65.17.80 (QuickTime Alternative 3.1.1) or 7.2.0.240 (QuickTime Alternative 1.90) or 6.5.2.10 (QuickTime Alternative 1.56) allows you to view QuickTime content that is embedded in a webpage. The QuickTime Browser plugin supports Mozilla, Firefox, Seamonkey, Netscape, Opera, Safari and Chrome.
• QuickTime Control Panel is required for configuring some QuickTime settings.
• QuickTime plugins are required for viewing some special formats that are sometimes used on webpages. The QuickTime plugins include iPIX and QuickTimeVR.
• QuickTime DirectShow filter allows you to play QuickTime content in all DirectShow enabled players. Without this filter QuickTime content can only be played in Media Player Classic.

• Media Player Classic 6.4.9.1
• QuickTime codecs 7.65.17.80 / 7.2.0.240 / 6.5.2.10
• QuickTime ActiveX control 7.65.17.80 / 7.2.0.240 / 6.5.2.10
• QuickTime Browser plugin 7.65.17.80 / 7.2.0.240 / 6.5.2.10
• QuickTime Control Panel
• QuickTime plugins
• QuickTime DirectShow filter

• Updated Media Player Classic to 6.4.9.1 rev. 107
• Fixed an issue when running an unattended installation from the system user account on Windows 7
• Minor changes and improvements

Release Date: Monday, December 3, 2007

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QuickTime MPEG-2 Plugin allows you to play QuickTime content in all DirectShow enabled players. QuickTime MPEG-2 Plugin is required for MPEG Streamclip.

Release Date: Saturday, July 22, 2006

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Windows Media Lite will allow you to play and stream Windows Media files without having to install Windows Media Player from Microsoft. In all recent Windows versions Windows Media Player is installed by default, but some tools (like nLite and XPlite) allow you to remove Windows Media Player from your system or even prevent it from ever being installed. The downside to this is that vital components for Windows Media playback are also removed. As a result you won't be able to play or stream Windows Media content. A solution for this problem is Windows Media Lite, which restores those vital components. The very user-friendly installation is fully customizable, which means that you can install only those components that you want.

• Windows Media Codecs (DirectShow/VCM/DMO)
• Windows Media Core Components
• Windows Media Player Core Components
• Windows Media Browser plugin for Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Firefox, Seamonkey, Netscape, Opera, Safari and Chrome

Warning: Do not install Windows Media Lite if Windows Media Player is installed.

Release Date: Thursday, January 7, 2010

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BSplayer is a player for playing back any file for which you have a codec.

Release Date: Monday, February 1, 2010

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VideoLAN is an excellent multimedia player with it's own plugins for playing different formats, so it doesn't need any codecs to be installed. It works great for previewing partially downloaded files too. It can also be used as a server to stream on a (wired or wireless) high-bandwidth IP (Internet Protocol) version 4 or 6 network in multicast or unicast. VLC (VideoLAN Client) is cross-platform and supports Windows, Mac OS X, BeOS, Solaris, Crux Linux, Debian GNU (GNU's Not Unix) Linux, Familiar Linux, Fedora Core Linux, Gentoo Linux, Mandrake Linux, Red Hat Linux, Slackware Linux, Novell's SuSE (System und Software Entwicklung = System and software development) Linux, Turbo Linux, NetBSD (Berkeley Software Distribution), OpenBSD, FreeBSD, QNX, Zaurus and Windows CE (Windows Mobile) for Pocket PC. The installer includes the eMule partfile plugin, which lets you preview eMule partfiles more efficiently.

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Release Date: Monday, February 21, 2005

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TMPGEnc (Tsunami MPEG Encoder) can convert AVI (Audio Video Interleave) files into the MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 (Motion Pictures Expert Group or Moving Pictures Expert Group) format which is used for (S)VCDs ((Super) Video CDs). It will only take a few hours to convert and compress a whole movie in high quality.

Release Date: Monday, November 14, 2005

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RAD Game Tools Splitter is a DirectShow filter for playback of Bink (.bik) and Smacker (.smk) files. These formats are often used for videos in games.

Release Date: Friday, December 18, 2009

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CoreAVC is a DirectShow filter for decoding H.264 video. It has very good performance.

Release Date: Thursday, September 4, 2008

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A bundle with all versions of the Intel Indeo codecs.

Release Date: Wednesday, April 25, 2007

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FlacDrop is a tool for encoding WAV to FLAC and for decoding FLAC to WAV.

Release Date: Friday, October 3, 2008

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LAME MP3 Encoder is a tool for encoding WAV to MP3 and for decoding MP3 to WAV.

Release Date: Friday, October 3, 2008

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LameDropXPd is a tool for encoding WAV to MP3 and for decoding MP3 to WAV.

Release Date: Thursday, April 12, 2007

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OggDropXPd is a tool for encoding WAV to OGG and for decoding OGG to WAV.

Release Date: Wednesday, April 25, 2007

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WavPackDrop a tool for encoding WAV to WavPack and for decoding WavPack to WAV.

Release Date: Sunday, April 15, 2007

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Voxware Audio is a set of DirectShow decoding filters for Voxware MetaSound and MetaVoice audio. These audio formats occur very very rarely in AVI files. These filters are a bit buggy, so don't install them unless you really need them.

Release Date: Wednesday, August 12, 2009

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Speex DirectShow Filter is a decoding filter for Speex (.spx) audio files. Speex is an open source audio compression format designed for speech. Speex is a lossy format, meaning quality is permanently degraded to reduce the filesize.

Release Date: Sunday, December 30, 2007

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Dirac DirectShow Filter is a decoding filter for Dirac (.drc) video files. Dirac is a general-purpose video codec aimed at resolutions from QCIF (176x144) to HDTV (1920x1080) progressive or interlaced. It uses wavelets, motion compensation and arithmetic coding and aims to be competitive with other state of the art codecs.

Release Date: Sunday, December 30, 2007

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PMP Splitter is a decoding filter for PSP (.pmp) video files.

Release Date: Thursday, September 4, 2008

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DirectVobSub (VSFilter) is a tool for displaying subtitles. Your subtitle files should have the same filename as your video file (for example MovieName.avi, MovieName.idx and MovieName.sub) and should be in the same folder (directory) as your video file. Then the subtitles will automatically be displayed in most players.

Note that this is an old version of DirectVobSub (VSFilter). Use this old version only if you have problems with the newer versions of DirectVobSub, which are included in the K-Lite Codec Pack.

Release Date: Thursday, April 12, 2007

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Morgan Multimedia Stream Switcher is a DirectShow filter for switching between streams in a media file. This filter is only needed if you want to play files that contain multiple audio, video or subtitles streams. This filter for example prevents multiple audio streams to be played simultaneously and instead allows you to choose one of them. Most modern video players already have a stream switcher build in, so usually this filter is not needed.

Release Date: Friday, June 5, 2009

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DivX VFW contains only the DivX VFW codec, nothing else. Therefore this is for encoding only, not for playback.

DivX H.264 decoder contains the DivX codec with support for H.264 video.

Release Date: Friday, June 5, 2009

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The Xvid codec is required for playing Xvid movies. Xvid is currently the most popular format for video. This package contains the Xvid DirectShow decoding filter and the Xvid VFW Codec.

Release Date: Monday, February 22, 2010

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MediaInfo Lite is a tool to analyze media files. It can give you information about the audio and video format, video resolution, duration, etc.
It optionally includes a shell extension for Windows Explorer. When installed, it will show you information when you move your mouse pointer over the media file.

Release Date: Monday, November 2, 2009

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jv16 PowerTools, which includes RegSupreme Pro, is a full set of tools to keep your computer up and running. Until now your computer might have been the one who is in charge, but with jv16 PowerTools you can take control. With this software you can automatically clean your Windows registry from obsolete and unneeded data, automatically fix many kinds of registry errors, such as broken file references, easily uninstall leftover traces of software you have thought you have already uninstalled ages ago, detect and remove unneeded history data and MRU (most recently used) lists that can contain sensitive information about you, locate and delete unneeded files, including temp files and duplicate files and much more. When using these tools your computer will begin to perform better, run smoother and start faster, your privacy will be improved and the risk of sensitive data leaking to others will be minimized. Also you will save time by having to spend less time to maintain your computer. jv16 PowerTools is a Windows optimization utility suite containing many advanced tools, but advanced doesn't mean difficult to use: Even the smallest details in the product have been designed with the ease of use in mind. The Windows Control Panel like user interface for example makes the product easy to learn and the automatic backup creation makes it safe to use, even if you are learning by trying and make a mistake sometime, since you can always restore the backup created by the program. jv16 PowerTools includes a Software Manager, Startup Manager and Registry Manager, Cleaner, Finder, Monitor, Compactor, etc. and (Duplicate) File Finder, Cleaner, Organizer, Recovery, etc. and Directory Finder, Disk Wiper, One Click Cleaner, History Cleaner and Automation Tool for all other tools.

The only difference in the HB version is that it also includes the Handbooks.

Release Date: Tuesday, September 23, 2008

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RegSupreme Pro is a registry cleaner and a lightweight Windows maintenance tool which can also uninstall software. RegSupreme Pro can also find and remove hidden traces of any installed software. The multilingual user interface allows you to use the program in all major languages. The automatic backup feature makes backups of everything the program removes or modifies.

Release Date: Thursday, September 20, 2007

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RegSupreme is a registry cleaner and a lightweight Windows maintenance tool. RegSupreme can find and remove hidden traces of any installed software. The multilingual user interface allows you to use the program in all major languages. The automatic backup feature makes backups of everything the program removes or modifies.

Release Date: Friday, January 22, 2010

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TreeSize Professional is a powerful and flexible harddisk space manager. Find out which folders are the largest on your drives and recover megabytes on them. TreeSize Professional shows you the size, allocated and wasted space, the number of files, 3D bar and pie charts, the last access date, the file owner, the NTFS compression rate and much more information for several folders or drives you choose. It also lets you search for old, big and temporary files. The application has an intuitive Explorer-like user interface and it is fast and multithreaded. You can print detailed reports or export the collected Data to Excel and to an HTML, XML or ASCII file. TreeSize Professional can be started from the context menu of every folder or drive.

Release Date: Friday, May 9, 2008

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Nero CD-DVD Speed, the predecessor of Nero DiscSpeed, is a benchmark which can test the most important features of an optical drive. These tests include: Transfer rate, Seek times, CPU (Central Processing Unit) usage, Burst rate, DAE (Digital Audio Extraction) quality & Spinup/spindown time. It can also check the CD (Compact Disk) and DVD (Digital Versatile Disk) media quality.

• Small improvements and bug fixes

• Improved support for HD DVD, BD and DVD-RW DL
• Moved capture button from title bar to client area
• Improved BitSetting support for LG and LiteOn drives
• Added jitter support for LiteOn 20A3 drives to the Disc Quality Test
• Improved Disc Quality Test support for recent Asus drives
• Small improvements and bug fixes

Release Date: Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Release Notes:
Nero DiscSpeed (previously Nero CD-DVD Speed) is a benchmark which can test the most important features of an optical drive. These tests include: Transfer rate, Seek times, CPU (Central Processing Unit) usage, Burst rate, DAE (Digital Audio Extraction) quality & Spinup/spindown time. It can also check the media quality of an optical disc.

Release Date: Monday, February 23, 2009

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eMule connects to the eDonkey network and is one of the best P2P (peer-to-peer, point-to-point, person-to-person) filesharing programs available today. It provides sharing of all kinds of media (films, video, audio, music, albums, pictures, documents, books, etc.) and software (applications, games, etc.). eDonkey combines the strengths of Napster, Gnutella (LimeWire), Direct Connect, FastTrack (Kazaa Lite K++, Clean Grokster, iMesh Light), SoulSeek and BitTorrent while avoiding their problems. eMule doesn't rely on a central server, yet searches are quick and your client doesn't get bogged down with endless search requests. You have the ability to search all the files being shared anywhere on the network. It automatically resumes interrupted transfers from alternate sources. The client also incorporates a serverless network based on Kademlia.

• Clients use several networks to create one reliable network (eDonkey, Source Exchange, Kademlia)
• eMule's Queue and Credit system helps to ensure that everyone will get the file he wants by promoting those that upload back to the network
• eMule is completely free and Open Source under the restrictions of the GPL (General Public License)
• Each file checked for corruptions while downloading to ensure an error free file
• The eMule Intelligent Corruption Control helps to speed up the correction of corrupted parts
• Auto priorities and Source management allows you to start many downloads without having to monitor them
• The Preview function allows you to look at your Videos and Archives before they are completed
• The eMule features webservices and a webserver that allows you to have quick access to and from the Internet
• You can create categories for your download to organize them
• To find the file you want, eMule offers a wide range of search possibilities which include: Servers (Local and Global), webbased (FileDonkey) and Kademlia
• eMule also allows you to use very complex Boolean searches that make the searches much more flexible
• With the messaging and friend system, you can send messages to other Clients and add them as friends
• In your friend list, you can always see if a friend is online
• With the build in IRC (Internet Relay Chat) client, you can chat with other downloaders and chatters around the globe
• To avoid downloading fake files, there are lots of sites with verifieds (links to verified files)
• LinkCreator can be used to create ed2k links with or without hashset
• A big IP blocklist is included in the installer, this will prevent a lot of computers who monitor filesharing activity or spread fake files from making a connection
• Supports Microsoft Windows 95, 98, 98 SE (Second Edition), ME (Millennium Edition), NT (New Technology) 4.0 SP (Service Pack) 6, 2000, XP (eXPerience), 2003, Vista, 2008 and 7 (both 32-bit and 64-bit)
• eMule is distributed together with a huge FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) with answers to lots of possible questions

• Updated the server list
• Updated the IP blocklist, this will prevent a lot of computers who monitor filesharing activity or spread fake files from making a connection
• Updated the included links to sites with verified files
• Improved the default configuration
• Updated LinkCreator to 0.7, LinkCreator can be used to create ed2k links with or without hashset
• Minor fixes and improvements

Release Date: Wednesday, November 29, 2006

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3DMark is a benchmark made by Futuremark (formerly MadOnion) to determine the DirectX performance of graphics cards. 3DMark can be used for comparing different visual processing units.

Release Date: Wednesday, November 29, 2006

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3DMark is a benchmark made by Futuremark (formerly MadOnion) to determine the DirectX performance of graphics cards. 3DMark can be used for comparing different visual processing units.

Release Date: Wednesday, March 10, 2010

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Internet Explorer is a browser developed by Microsoft. Windows Internet Explorer (formerly Microsoft Internet Explorer) is based on the Trident render engine, which does not follow the W3C Web Standards.

Internet Explorer Collection contains multiple IE versions, which are standalone so they can be used at the same time.

Conditional Comments work exactly the same as in the native versions. The original version number is shown correcty in the User Agent string. The version number can be found in the window title too.

Internet Explorer Collection also includes the Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar 1.00.2188.0. This Explorer Bar provides a variety of tools which make troubleshooting websites easier. The Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar is compatible with Internet Explorer 5.0 and higher when using Windows 2000 or higher.

The user-friendly installation is fully customizable, which means that you can install only those components that you want. You can also make an unattended installation.

Internet Explorer Collection fully supports upgrading, so there is no need to uninstall a previous version before installing a newer version: just install the newer version on top of the currently installed version with the same or more components selected.

• Internet Explorer 1.0 (4.40.308)
• Internet Explorer 1.5 (0.1.0.10)
• Internet Explorer 2.01 (2.01.046)
• Internet Explorer 3.0 (3.0.1152)
• Internet Explorer 3.01 (3.01.2723)
• Internet Explorer 3.03 (3.03.2925)
• Internet Explorer 4.01 (4.72.3110.0)
• Internet Explorer 5.01 (5.00.3314.2100)
• Internet Explorer 5.5 (5.51.4807.2300)
• Internet Explorer 6.0 (6.00.2800.1106)
• Internet Explorer 6.0 (6.00.2900.2180)
• Internet Explorer 7.0 (7.00.5730.13)
• Internet Explorer 8.0 (8.00.6001.18702)

Warning: Use a web browser and not Internet Explorer as primary browser. If you're a web developer and you don't want to spend time on problems which only occur in Internet Explorer, then let your visitors use Edskes Software Silent Setup for Mozilla Firefox.

• Improved the default settings of Internet Explorer 8.0 (8.00.6001.18702)
• Fixed a bug in Internet Explorer 8.0 (8.00.6001.18702) which prevented links with a target attribute to open
• Fixed a bug in Internet Explorer 3.03 (3.03.2925) which in certain cases removed JScript and VBScript support for 32-bit applications
• If you have run Internet Explorer 3.03 (3.03.2925) previously you can fix the removed scripting support issue by installing the new version
• Fixed a bug which sometimes caused the previously visited pages dropdown not to expand when IE8 was installed
• Added Internet Explorer 3.01 (3.01.2723)
• Added Internet Explorer 3.03 (3.03.2925)
• Added an option to create a shortcut to the native version of Internet Explorer
• Improved compatibility with Windows 7
• Improved the installer of Internet Explorer Collection
• Improved default settings
• Minor improvements

Release Date: Saturday, March 8, 2008

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Malware Killer contains a bundle of tools to check a computer for adware, spyware and viruses. Malware Killer also provides the possibility to clean a computer if adware, spyware or viruses are found.

Release Date: Wednesday, March 10, 2010

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This is a standalone on-demand version of McAfee VirusScan including the latest virus definitions. It can detect, clean or erase malware like viruses, worms and Trojan horses. McAfee VirusScan can also produce a log file in which the scanning results are stored.

Release Date: Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Release Notes:
This is a standalone on-demand (manual) version of NOD32 Antivirus including the latest virus signature database updates. It can detect viruses, worms, Trojans and other malicious software and has very good cleaning capabilities, an unprecedented detection track record, fast scanning rates and extremely low utilization of system resources. NOD32 Antivirus can also be used to clean up an infected system or as a second opinion for your current scanner.

Release Date: Monday, February 15, 2010

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The compression utility WinRAR is an archive manager with support for packing RAR and ZIP archives and unpacking RAR, ZIP, ZIP64, 7Z (7-Zip), CAB, ARJ, LZH (Lempel-Ziv-Huffman), TAR, GZ, ACE, UUE, BZ2, JAR (Java Archive developed by Sun Microsystems) and ISO (ISO9660) archives. You may use it to backup your data, reduce the size of email attachments, decompress files downloaded from the Internet and create your own file archives.

Release Date: Friday, November 23, 2007

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WinAce is an archiving utility with an easy-to-use interface for creating, extracting and viewing archives.

• Compression for ACE, ZIP, LHA, MS-CAB and JAR
• Decompression for ACE, ZIP, LHA, MS-CAB, RAR, ARC, ARJ, GZip, TAR, ZOO and JAR
• Integrity check for ACE, ZIP, LHA, MS-CAB, RAR, ARC, ARJ, GZip, TAR, ZOO and JAR
• Multi-volume (disk spanning) archives for ACE, ZIP and CAB
• SFX (self-extracting archives) for ACE and ZIP
• Repair functionality for ACE and ZIP
• Comment files in HTML, ANSI or ASCII for ACE and ZIP
• Authenticity verification for ACE
• Password encryption & recovery records for data protection
• Full command line access (compatible with DOS (Disk Operating System) ACE)
• Detailed information for all archive types
• Quickviewer for graphic files
• Quickviewer for Word Documents
• Quickviewer for HTML (HyperText Markup Language) pages
• Quickviewer for ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) files
• Full drag and drop support
• Complete file-management (copy, move and delete files and directories)
• Optimization of existing archives
• Access to your archives in Windows Explorer and via the context menu (shell extension)
• Table of contents in the Properties panel of ACE and ZIP (shell extension)

Release Date: Tuesday, February 23, 2010

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Before WinRAR became popular WinZip was the most popular compression utility for Windows. WinZip allows you to quickly and easily zip and unzip files and folders. WinZip also supports encryption using the Rijndael AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) to protect your sensitive data.

Release Date: Tuesday, February 9, 2010

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Microsoft DirectX (previously WinG) is a group of technologies designed to make Windows-based computers an ideal platform for running and displaying applications rich in multimedia elements such as full-color graphics, video, 3D animation and rich audio. DirectX includes DirectDraw, Direct3D, DirectInput, DirectSound, DirectMusic, DirectPlay and DirectShow. The most used API's (Application Programming Interfaces) in computer (PC or console) games include DirectX from Microsoft, OpenGL (Open Graphics Library) from SGI (Silicon Graphics) and Glide from 3dfx Interactive.

Release Date: Tuesday, July 15, 2003

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TweakUI gives you access to system settings that are not exposed in the Windows XP default user interface, including mouse settings, Explorer settings, taskbar settings and more.

Release Date: Tuesday, June 16, 2009

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IrfanView, made by Irfan Skiljan, is a fast and simple freeware image viewer, editor and converter that supports all major graphic formats, including AIF, ANI/CUR, ASF, AU/SND/AIF, AVI, B3D, BMP/DIB, CAM, CLP, CRW, DAT (VideoCD), DCR, DDS, DXF, Dicom/ACR, DJVU, ECW, EMF/WMF, EPS, FLI/FLC, FPX, FSH, G3, GIF, ICO/ICL/EXE/DLL, IFF/LBM, IMG/GEM, JPG2000, JPG/JPEG, JPM, KDC, LDF, LWF, MED, MID/MIDI/RMI, MNG/JNG, MOV, MP3, MPG/MPEG, MrSID, MRW, NEF, LM/NOL/NGG, OGG, ORF, PBM/PGM/PPM, PCX/DCX, PhotoCD, Mac PICT, PNG, PSD, PSP, QTIF, RAS/SUN, RAW, RAF, RA, RLE, SFF, SFW, SGI/RGB, SWF, TGA, TIF, TTF, TXT, WAD, WAV, WBMP, WBZ/WBC, WMA, WMV, XBM and XPM. In addition it features drag and drop support, directory viewing, TWAIN (Technology Without An Interesting Name) scan support, slide shows, batch conversion, multi language support, thumbnail option, preview option, print option, IPTC edit, capturing, extract icons from EXE/DLL/ICLs, lossless JPG (Joint Photographic Expert Group) rotation, EXE/SCR creating, many hotkeys, many command line options and modifications such as changing color depth, crop, blur and sharpen.

Note that IrfanView will install the Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer and Google Desktop Search by default.
Deselect the checkboxes of the Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer and Google Desktop Search in the installer to prevent this.

Release Date: Thursday, January 14, 2010

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Nullsoft Winamp is a fast, flexible, high-fidelity music player for Windows which supports many audio and video formats, custom appearances called skins and audio visualization effects.

Release Date: Monday, February 15, 2010

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Lavasoft Ad-Aware is a free utility that scans your memory, registry, harddisks, removable and optical drives for known adware and spyware components and lets you remove them easily and safely. Ad-Aware is designed to provide continuous protection from known aggressive advertising, datamining, parasites, scumware, keyloggers, selected traditional trojans, dialers, malware (malicious software), browser hijackers and tracking components. Ad-Aware will provide the user with the confidence to surf the Internet knowing that their privacy will remain intact. Download and install Ad-Aware, Spybot Search & Destroy, Spyware Doctor and Spy Sweeper to protect your privacy.

Release Date: Monday, January 26, 2009

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Spybot Search & Destroy can detect and remove different kinds of spyware from your computer. Spyware is a relatively new kind of threat that common anti-virus applications do not cover. If you see new toolbars in Internet Explorer that you didn't intentionally install, if your browser crashes or if the start page of the browser has changed without your knowing, you most probably have spyware. But even if you don't see anything, you may be infected, because more and more spyware is emerging that is silently tracking your surfing behavior to create a marketing profile that will be sold to advertisement companies. Spybot Search & Destroy is free, so there's no harm in trying to see if something snooped into your computer. If you fear incompatibility with other software you are using, we can assure you that will not be the case. Spybot Search & Destroy can also clean usage tracks, an interesting function if you share your computer with other users and don't want them to see what you worked on. And for professional users, it allows to fix some registry inconsistencies and extended reports. Spybot Search & Destroy also delivers useful tools such as an e-mail list of opt-out addresses to stop unwanted solicitations and a file shredder to securely overwrite unwanted files deleted from your PC. For protection against ad-serving software, trojan horses and other means of tracking your surfing habits, get Spybot Search & Destroy immediately.

Release Date: Monday, February 15, 2010

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Spyware Doctor is an advanced adware and spyware removal utility that detects and cleans thousands of potential spyware, adware, trojans, keyloggers, spyware, cookies, trackware, spybots and other malware from your PC. This tool allows you to remove, ignore or quarantine identified Spyware. It also has an OnGuard system to immunize and protect your system against privacy threats as you work. By performing a fast detection at Windows start-up you will be alerted with a list of the potential threats identified.

Release Date: Thursday, February 25, 2010

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Skype uses P2P (peer-to-peer) technology to connect you to other users. Not to share files, but to talk with them for free. The technology is extremely advanced, but very simple and easy to use. You will be making perfect quality free phone calls to your friends all over the world in no time using your computers sound card, speakers and microphone. Skype is available in the following languages: Arabic, Bulgarian, Cesky (Czech), Danish, Deutsch (German), English, Español (Spanish), Estonian, Finnish, Française (French), Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italiano (Italian), Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Dutch (Dutch), Norsk (Norwegian), Polski (Polish), Português (Brazilian), Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Turkish and Svenska (Swedish). Simply download Skype and select the language during installation.

• Unlimited free high-quality worldwide voice communications
• Superior sound quality (better than your regular phone)
• Works with all firewall, NAT (Network Address Translation) and routers (nothing to configure)
• Friends list shows you when your Skype friends are online and ready to talk or chat
• Your calls are encrypted end-to-end for superior privacy
• Based on cutting edge P2P technology

Release Date: Sunday, April 29, 2007

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PuTTY is a free SSH, Telnet and Rlogin client for 32-bit Windows systems. SSH, Telnet and Rlogin are three ways of doing the same thing: logging in to a multi-user computer from another computer, over a network. Multi-user operating systems, such as Unix and VMS, usually present a command-line interface to the user, much like the Command Prompt or MS-DOS Prompt in Windows. The system prints a prompt, and you type commands which the system will obey. Using this type of interface, there is no need for you to be sitting at the same machine you are typing commands to. The commands and responses, can be sent over a network, so you can sit at one computer and give commands to another one, or even to more than one. SSH, Telnet and Rlogin are network protocols that allow you to do this. On the computer you sit at, you run a client, which makes a network connection to the other computer (the server). The network connection carries your keystrokes and commands from the client to the server and carries the server's responses back to you. These protocols can also be used for other types of keyboard-based interactive session. In particular, there are a lot of bulletin boards, talker systems and MUDs (Multi-User Dungeons) which support access using Telnet. There are even a few that support SSH.

Release Date: Friday, March 5, 2010

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Today you need to remember many passwords. You need a password for the Windows network logon, your e-mail account, online passwords, etc. The list is endless. Also, you should use different passwords for each account. Because if you use only one password everywhere and someone gets this password you have a problem... A serious problem. The thief would have access to your computer, e-mail account, etc. Unimaginable.
KeePass Password Safe is a free open-source password safe and manager which helps you to manage your passwords in a secure way. You can put all your passwords in one database, which is locked with one master key and/or a key-disk. So you only have to remember one single master password and/or insert the key-disk to unlock the whole database. The databases are encrypted using the best and most secure encryption algorithms known today (AES and Twofish).

Release Date: Thursday, January 21, 2010

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Mozilla Firefox (formerly Firebird, which was formerly Phoenix) is a redesign of Mozilla's browser component, written using the XUL user interface language and designed to be cross-platform. It includes a popup blocker, tabbed browsing, a smarter search, hassle free downloading and improved privacy and security. Mozilla Firefox is a free web browser based on the Gecko render engine, which follows the W3C Web Standards much better then Windows Internet Explorer. Also there are a lot of handy extensions available for Firefox.

Mozilla Firefox is very easy to install: launch Edskes Software Silent Setup for Mozilla Firefox. From then on everything goes automatically.

If you prefer to manually install Firefox: run the installer, follow the steps and set Mozilla Firefox to be the default browser. From then on always start Firefox to surf the web.

With Edskes Software Mozilla Firefox Collection it is possible to use multiple standalone versions of Mozilla Firefox at the same time, which is useful for web developers.

Edskes Software Silent Setup for Mozilla Firefox is a small multilingual utility developed by Edskes Software which automatically downloads and installs the latest version of Mozilla Firefox, and then immediately opens one or more websites.

• It doesn't ask the user difficult questions, doesn't show technical information and gives no complicated error messages
  
• It supports both 32-bit and 64-bit versions (if available) of Microsoft Windows 98, 98 SE, ME, NT 4.0, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, 2008 and 7
  
• It can be started from Internet Explorer 1.0 through 8.0
  
• It even works under the most restricted user accounts: if the rights of the user running Edskes Software Silent Setup for Mozilla Firefox are not sufficient enough Firefox won't be installed, but only extracted to a temporary directory. Because the website(s) are opened directly, the user won't notice the difference
  
• It can open the website(s) immediately in the desired language

Release Date: Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Release Notes:
Edskes Software Mozilla Firefox Collection is a utility developed by Edskes Software that contains multiple versions of the free web browser Mozilla Firefox, which are standalone so they can be used at the same time. Mozilla Firefox is a registered trademark of the Mozilla Foundation.

In Edskes Software Mozilla Firefox Collection you can quickly see how your websites look when rendered using different versions of the Gecko render engine. You can specify the filenames or locations (URLs) to open in all installed versions of Mozilla Firefox. Filenames or URLs that include spaces must be enclosed in quotes ("). Multiple filenames or URLs may be used by separating them by spaces. This will result in multiple tabs being opened.
Entering for example
"C:\Directory\Local File.xhtml" "http://mozilla.com/" "http://edskes.com/"
in the input field will open the local file and the two URLs in three tabs in every installed version of Mozilla Firefox.
You can also specify paths and filenames or URLs as parameters to Edskes Software Mozilla Firefox Collection (EdskesMFC.exe), in that case the interface won't appear but all versions of Mozilla Firefox will start directly with the specified paths and filenames or URLs opened in tabs.

The version number of each included version of Mozilla Firefox can be found in the window title.

Edskes Software Mozilla Firefox Collection also includes the Firebug and Web Developer add-ons for all included versions of Mozilla Firefox. These add-ons provide a variety of tools which make troubleshooting websites much easier.

The user-friendly installation is fully customizable, which means that you can install only those components that you want. You can also make an unattended installation.

Edskes Software Mozilla Firefox Collection fully supports upgrading, so there is no need to uninstall a previous version before installing a newer version: just install the newer version on top of the currently installed version with the same or more components selected.

Specify the parameter -setDefaultBrowser to the installer to make it set Mozilla Firefox as default browser.

Edskes Software Mozilla Firefox Collection is only available in English.

Edskes Software Mozilla Firefox Collection is primarily intended for web developers. Regular users can better use Edskes Software Silent Setup for Mozilla Firefox.

• Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.20
• Mozilla Firefox 3.0.18.0
• Mozilla Firefox 3.5.8.0
• Mozilla Firefox 3.6.0.0

• Firebug 1.5.3 add-on
• Web Developer 1.1.8 add-on
• Flash Player 10.0.45.2 plug-in

• It can open one or more local files and/or URLs in all installed versions of Mozilla Firefox with a single click
• It can appear in the context menu of Windows Explorer, so a file can be opened in every installed version of Mozilla Firefox directly
• It can display the version number of Mozilla Firefox in the titlebar
• It includes a number of window resizing options for the Web Developer add-on, settings for all common resolutions like 800x600, 1024x768, 1280x1024, 1440x900 and 1600x1200 are included
• It can be installed for all users, so it's available for everyone
• It can be installed and used silently, it's possible to create an unattended installation and use all functions using command line parameters
• It even works under the most restricted user accounts after installation, only the installation needs to be done by someone with Administrator privileges
• It supports both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Microsoft Windows 98, 98 SE, ME, NT 4.0, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, 2008 and 7
• Note that Mozilla Firefox 3.0 and higher do not support Microsoft Windows 98, 98 SE, ME and NT 4.0

• Updated Firebug to 1.5.3
• Minor changes and improvements

Release Date: Tuesday, March 2, 2010

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Mozilla Thunderbird is a redesign of the Mozilla mail component. The goal is to produce a cross platform standalone mail application using the XUL user interface language. The intended customer is someone who uses Mozilla Firefox (or another standalone web browser) as their primary web browser and wants a mail client based on Mozilla that works nice with the web browser.

Release Date: Tuesday, January 12, 2010

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Adobe Reader (previously Acrobat Reader) enables business professionals and home users to reliably share information using intelligent PDF (Portable Document Format) files. You can easily view, print and search PDF files using a variety of platforms and devices.

The Portable Document Format (PDF) is the file format created by Adobe in 1993 for document exchange. PDF is used for representing documents in a device-independent and display resolution-independent fixed-layout document format. Each PDF file encapsulates a complete description of a document that includes the text, fonts, images, and 2D vector graphics that compose the document.

Release Date: Friday, February 12, 2010

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Adobe Flash Player (previously Macromedia Flash Player) lets you view animation and entertainment on the Internet. It displays webapplication front-ends, high-impact website user interfaces, interactive online advertising and short-form to long-form animation. Since it is free of the design restrictions of more traditional web display options, you can use Flash to clearly and exactly express your brand and company identity.

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The Java Runtime Environment (JRE) from Sun Microsystems contains the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), runtime class libraries and Java application launcher that are necessary to run programs written in the Java programming language.

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Google Chrome is a web browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer and easier compared to Windows Internet Explorer from Microsoft.

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You can keep your Microsoft Windows-based computer up to date using Microsoft Update (previously Windows Update). Microsoft Update is a free Internet service from Microsoft that helps you get the latest updates for your computer, including critical security updates, performance improvements, enhancements, updated hardware drivers and the latest versions of Windows features such as the Windows Media Player. Microsoft Update is an alternative to picking and choosing the updates you need for your particular computer and software from the large library of all available updates. Because the service can identify the correct updates for your particular hardware and software, Microsoft Update makes it much easier to make sure your computer has all the latest operating system improvements. You can use the Microsoft Update website to review, select and install all the latest updates for your computer whenever you like, helping you to ensure that your computer stays up to date and secure.

Computer users must get into the habit of regularly running Microsoft Update on their computer operating system. Doing this on a regular basis is a good method of taking care of bug-fixes and minimizing security vulnerabilities. Computers and software are the new tools of our trade and it is the responsibility of the user to maintain them. Taking a few minutes each week to ensure your operating system and software applications are up-to-date is a pretty cheap insurance against having your computer compromised.

Remember that Microsoft does not distribute updates or patches by e-mail. If you receive e-mail purporting to be from Microsoft, claiming to be a security update, it is almost certainly a virus.