Screensaver Commander: Randomise and manager your screensavers

Screensaver Commander is a great little freeware program I found when I was searching for a screensaver randomizer. Finding a decent screensaver randomiser was harder than you might think, and this one is the best one I’ve ever found, plus it’s free!

It allows you to add your favorite screensavers to a list that it randomly picks from each time the screensaver starts. A great idea, as you’re bound to get bored of just the one screensaver all the time, i know i did! It also has the useful feature of setting a list of programs that you don’t want the screensaver coming on during. This can be useful for times such as when you’re watching a dvd or video file, or doing anything processor intensive such as defragmentation or a virus or spyware scan.

You can also control the settings for each screensaver from within the program,test them, and set the period of time before the screensaver turns on and before the monitor powers off, if you should choose so. It’s a neat little easy-to-use program that makes using your computer (well, not using your computer) that little bit more interesting.

You can grab it for free and get more info by going here

Planestate: Impressive Free Screensaver

Planestate is a pretty impressive freeware 3d screensaver for Windows.

It’s kinda hard to describe what it looks like without seeing it, but imagine endless partterns twisting and turning as they float through a starfield. If that’s hard for you to imagine… Here’s some screenshots because its better than me attempting to describe it!
It’s hard to appreciate how good this screensaver looks until you actually see it moving, so the screenshots don’t really do it justice .

It also claims to have very low cpu usage which is an added bonus. Theres no nag screens or anything like that, just a title that fades away after the first few seconds when it starts up. I’ve seen scrensavers that aren’t even as good as this that make you pay for them! So its worth checkin’ out if you want a pretty cool screensaver for your PC!

To see for yourself, grab the free download here.

ProcessLibrary.com Quick Access

This little program is a free add-on for the Windows Task Manager, for finding out about what’s running on your computer.

Firstly, let’s get to the Windows Task Manager, this can tell you whats running on your computer. To get to it right click the taskbar (or press control-alt-delete), click Task Manager, and then click Processes. There you’ll see a list of all the processes running on your computer. A lot of this stuff is useful and needed stuff, but sometimes it can be unneeded stuff. It can be stuff that isn’t necessary and is just slowing up your computer by running, or it can even be bad stuff such as spyware.

So how can you know what all those things listed actually are? Well this program adds a little “I” link beside each thing listed (standing for ‘Information’ i guess!). So now with a simple click, it opens up a webpage telling you exactly what each one means. So you can learn exactly what it does and if it’s needed or not. Handy little program that saves a lot of typing into Google!

Theres over 9000 entries in the processlibrary.com database of running tasks,and more added weekly. So you’re pretty sure to find out what you’ve got running.

Here’s a task manager tip while we’re on the subject: You can easily see which programs are using the most RAM on your PC by clicking the memory column header in task manager to arrange them by memory use.This free little add-on program just does one useful job really well!

For more info and to download it, go here!