Sorry....again

So i am sure most of you have noticed that i haven't really posted anything at all this week, the reason for that is that this was finals week in my college, i had to do a bunch of work that caused Elite Freeware to fall by the wayside. For all of this i apologize...again, so have a picture of a cute hamster holding some flowers, i am sure this enough to make amends with all of you.
Now we will continue with our scheduled posting of quality freeware programs that can be found on the web, stay tuned!

Remove malware from your computer using the powerful ComboFix

We all have had malware at one point or another in our computers, usually we get rid of the bad stuff by reformatting and installing Windows again and even tough that it's a valid aproach it gets old fast. Therefore all of you should give ComboFix a chance, this little utility will remove known malware by doing a simple scan. The malware that it can't get rid of will go into a log that can be used by really knowledgeable people to delete the bad stuff in question. If you are planing to use ComboFix i recommend reading this handy guide that will help you when runnning the program for the first time besides having some download links for the app.
In conclusion if your system has been hijacked by malware then give ComboFix a chance.

Get it at http://download.bleepingcomputer.com/sUBs/ComboFix.exe

Rename your files with the portable and small Ken Rename

Overview:

Ken Rename is a multi-file rename utility


Review:

Ken Rename is a small and portable app that can rename several files at once using several custom rules that you can set up like for example removing parts of a filename, inserting text, change filenames into uppercase, replace certain parts of filenames among many other things, changes made will be instantly previewed so that you can review your changes before commiting to renaming, there's also a undo handy button available if you screw up. The program supports custom scripts and macros for those of you that are advanced users and the saving/importing of list of files for renaming.
In conclusion Ken Rename worked pretty well for me so give it a try if you fancy some renaming, you probably won't regret it. Available for Windows 2000/XP/Vista.


Get it at http://myprogramspace.blogspot.com/2008/07/krename-multi-file-rename-tool-v0.html

Read text files as books with eTextReader

Overview:

This program lets you read plain text files - e.g. eTexts as provided by Project Gutenberg - in a book-like manner.


Review:

eTextReader is a small and portable app that will let you read books from Project Gutenberg or any other text file in a book like manner. eTextReader comes with a bunch of features that will help you in your reading like being able change fonts, font color, use bookmarks, create a table of contents, edit files using an editor among many other things. In conclusion this could be a useful program for book lovers out there that don't mind reading trough a monitor screen. Available for all Windows versions.


Get it at http://www.fellnersoft.at/eTR.htm

Open and close your CD tray with EjectCD and CloseCD

Overview:

Ejects all or some CD trays and Closes all or some CD trays.


Review:

If you want to quickly open or close your CD trays from Window then EjectCD and CloseCD will get the job done without too much fuzz. Just add these small apps into a shortcut and run them to open and close all of your trays. Optionally you select the drives that you want to open/close by adding them into the command line.
In conclusion EjectCD and CloseCD work well so give it a try if you are interested. Available for all Windows versions.

Get them at

EjectCD & CloseCD

ArcThemAll! can quickly compress files and folders using the UPX, ZIP and 7z formats

Overview:

ArcThemAll! is a portable software to multi-compress files and folders in UPX, ZIP and 7z formats. It includes an intelligent UPX compression mode, the support to self-extracting archive creation, the encryption/decryption of archives and much more.


Review:

ArcThemAll! is a simple portable compression utility that makes compressing files and folders into UPX, ZIP and 7z file formats pretty easy. Just drag and drop into the interface what you want to compress or decompress and hit go! before doing this you may wanna take a look at some of the options that ArcThemAll! offers like making archives self-extracting and encrypt archives with a password.
In conclusion ArcThemAll! worked well for me so you should give it a look if you often compress stuff using the UPX, ZIP and 7z formats. Available for all versions of Windows.


Get it at http://sourceforge.net/projects/arcthemall/

Keep only one instance of a program running with SingleInstance

Overview:

Allow only one instance of a program to run.


Features:

- User defined programs.
- Option to detect hidden programs.
- Won't close instances started before SingleInstance.


Review:

If for some reason you only want to keep a single instance of a program running in Windows then you must give SingleInstance a try. This small app will only keep a single instance of a program running and will close any extra ones, you can set the response time to make the extra instances close pretty quickly which is pretty good. SingleInstance only used between 4 to 5MB of memory in my sistem so the program shouldn't take many resources. In conclusion this could be a handy for some people and works well. Available for all Windows versions.


Get it at http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Skrommel/index.html#SingleInstance

Sorry

Sorry for the disturbing lack of new post this week, i had to do a bunch of college tasks this week and i simply didn't have the time to update Elite Freeware as much as i wanted. Anyway i am pretty sure this won't happen again so i'll be writing normally from now on.