Advanced Text to Speech 3.6
With it you can avoid eyestrain and get text read to you. ATTS is an easy to use Text to Speech utility based on microroft Agent Technology. ATTS can read any text back to you. Simply select the text you want read and press Ctrl+C and presto ATTS is reading to you. ATTS can play plain text files and write them to MP3 or WAV files too. It has an easy to use Text To Speech Converter interface with big clearly readable buttons so you can easily make ATTS work for you. You can select multiple pieces of text (i.e. your email, newspaper articles, memos, contracts) and listen to them rather than strain your eyes reading them on screen, or wasting paper and toner printing them. ATTS supports a variety of voice tones and allows users to set the speed of the voice. Stop straining your eyes and use ATTS 3.6 ATTS fully supports Windows 98, Me, NT, 2000, XP
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http://www.rosecitydownloads.com/atts.zip
PASSWORD RECOVERY
MessenPass
MessenPass allows you to recover your password(s) from a wide variety of popular Instant Messenger programs, including MSN Messenger, Windows Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, ICQ Lite 4.x/2003, AOL Instant Messenger, AOL Instant Messenger/Netscape 7, Trillian, Miranda and GAIM. Just run the program and it will present you with a list of all accounts found on your PC, including the username and passwords. The list can be exported to HTML or saved as text file. MessenPass can only be used to recover the passwords for the current logged-on user on your local computer. You cannot use it for grabbing the passwords of other users.
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/mspass_setup.exe
HFNetChk
One particularly important element of operating a secure system is staying up to date on security patches. It s critical to know which patches have been applied to your system and, more importantly, which haven`t. HFNetChk that will significantly aid system administrators in this task. HFNetChk is a command-line tool that enables an administrator to check the patch status of all the machines in a network from a central location. The tool does this by referring to an XML database that is constantly updated by Microsoft. You can use HFNetChk to assess patch status for the Windows NT 4.0, WIndows NT Terminal Server, Windows 2000, Windows XP operating systems, as well as hotfixes and service packs for IIS 4.0, IIS 5.0, SQL Server 7.0, SQL Server 2000 (including MSDE), Exchange Server 5.5, Exchange Server 2000, Windows Media Player, Front Page Server Extensions, Microsoft Java Virtual Machine, Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC), and Internet Explorer 5.01 or later.
http://hfnetchk.shavlik.com/hfnetchk_3.86.0.1.exe
Malware Prevention
Winpatrol
These days all users face a real risk of malicious programs secretly installing themselves on your computer. Anti-virus and anti-spyware products help reduce the chance of infection but you can really enhance your protection by installing WinPatrol, which provides a vital "last ditch" defense layer by telling you when a product is trying to change any of the critical settings on your PC such as the registry and auto-start areas. WinPatrol simply throws up a dialog asking whether you want to allow the change or not. It's simple but highly effective. The only downside is the messages can confuse some inexperienced users.
size:800kb
http://www.winpatrol.com/wpsetup.exe