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Computer:
Operating System Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition
OS Service Pack Service Pack 2
DirectX 4.09.00.0904 (DirectX 9.0c)
Computer Name HAL (Hoover)
User Name User

Motherboard:
CPU Type AMD Athlon 64, 2000 MHz (10 x 200) 3200+
System Memory 1536 MB
BIOS Type AMI (01/17/06)
Communication Port Communications Port (COM3)
Communication Port ECP Printer Port (LPT1)

Display:
Video Adapter NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS (256 MB)
Monitor Mitsubishi 50LCD [15" LCD]
Multimedia:
Audio Adapter Modem #3 Line Playback
Audio Adapter SoundMAX HD Audio O

Storage:
IDE Controller Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller
IDE Controller Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller
IDE Controller Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller
Floppy Drive Floppy disk drive
Disk Drive SAMSUNG HD160JJ (160 GB, 7200 RPM, SATA-II)
Disk Drive WDC WD800JB-00CRA1 (74 GB, IDE)
Optical Drive _NEC DVD_RW ND-3550A
SMART Hard Disks Status OK

Partitions:
C: (NTFS) 152625 MB (86445 MB free)
E: (NTFS) 32250 MB (32086 MB free)
F: (NTFS) 44067 MB (43007 MB free)
Total Size 223.6 GB (157.8 GB free)

Input:
Keyboard Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard
Mouse Logitech USB Wheel Mouse

Network:
Network Adapter WAN (PPP/SLIP) Interface (207.144.202.150)
Modem U.S. Robotics 56K Voice Win 1806 #2

Peripherals:
Printer Brother HL-1240
USB1 Controller Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller [NoDB]
USB2 Controller Standard Enhanced PCI to USB Host Controller [NoDB]
USB Device Logitech USB Wheel Mouse
USB Device USB Printing Support

FastStone Image Viewer 2.6

You can resize, crop, remove red-eye, and adjust color, brightness, and contrast. You'll also find a few simple effects and filters, including Lens, Waves, and Morphs. FastStone Image Viewer for Windows can batch-convert files into a number of popular image formats including GIF, BMP, PSD, and PNG, and the slide-show creator allows you to apply transitions, specify the interval between images, and add your own MP3s as a soundtrack.



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FastStone Photo Resizer 1.4

FastStone Photo Resizer is a free image converter and resizer intended to enable users (especially digital-camera owners) to convert, rename, resize, crop, rotate, change color depth, add text, and watermarks to images in a quick-and-easy batch mode.



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FastStone Capture 4.2

It allows you to capture anything on the screen including windows, objects, full screen, rectangle regions, freehand-selected regions, and scrolling windows/Web pages. It has innovative features such as a floating Capture Panel, hotkeys, resizing, cropping, text annotation, printing, and e-mailing. The built-in Screen Magnifier is very fun to use.

An Open Ended multimedia player that can play MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, MP3, and OGG, as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can even show .FLV (YOUTUBE videos).

Found a better defragmentation software product than the one incorporated in Windows XP. This one does a better job of showing how the clusters are situated. With the Cluster Inspector you can view the cluster contents and display fragmented files.

Download O&O Defrag 2000 Freeware from FileHippo.com