20 Great Low-Cost Utilities

Performance Enhancers

Motherboard Monitor This free program uses the temperature sensors inside your computer to monitor how hot the components are getting. If any are overheating, it will sound an alarm, and it can even shut the system down if it gets too hot. This is a good tool for anyone who builds their own PCs.

TweakUI This free program provides access to a number of settings for altering the Windows UI (User Interface) to make Windows easier to use.

FreeRAM XP Pro A free utility that monitors how programs use memory, and tries to make the most efficient use of the memory you have. It can also, on request, try to free up a user-defined amount of memory so that a memory-hungry program can have the space it needs to run properly.

RAMBooster RAMBooster is another memory-optimization program that manages your computer's memory to keep as much of it free as possible.

Cacheman This free program is designed to speed up reading and writing to the hard drive by managing the caches that Windows sets up to hold data that is waiting to be read or written. It can also manage the PCs memory, freeing up memory for programs that need it.

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