Sound Control is a freeware replacement windows Sound Mixer applet which together with most of the features of the standard windows mixer it also allows you to add hot keys to adjust any combination of your sound mixer volumes. Support to control Winamp with a series of hot keys, CD Player and an On Screen Display is also included. Supports windows 95 / 98 / NT4 / 2000 / xp and Millennium-Me.

Have you ever copied some text from a web page, a word document, help, etc., and wanted to paste it as simple text into another application without getting all the formatting from the original source? PureText makes this simple. Just copy/cut whatever you want to the clipboard, click on the PureText tray icon, and then paste to any application. Better yet, you can configure a Hot-Key to convert and paste the text for you. The pasted text will be pure and free from all formatting.

You can also configure a system-wide Hot-Key to be used to activate PureText and convert the clipboard contents to pure text. To configure, right-click on the tray icon and choose "Options" from the pop-up menu. The default Hot-Key is WINDOWS+V. PureText can also optionally paste the converted text into the window that currently has the focus, which allows you to convert and paste in one keystroke.

PureText only removes rich formatting from text. This includes the font face, font style (bold, italics, etc.), font color, paragraph styles (left/right/center aligned), margins, character spacing, bullets, subscript, superscript, tables, charts, pictures, embedded objects, etc. However, it does not modify the actual text. It will not remove or fix new-lines, carriage returns, tabs, or other white-space. It will not fix word-wrap or clean up your paragraphs. If you copy the source code of a web page to the clipboard, it is not going to remove all the HTML tags. If you copy text from an actual web page (not the source of the page), it will remove the formatting.

PureText is basically equivalent to opening Notepad, doing a PASTE, followed by a SELECT-ALL, and then a COPY. The benefit of PureText is performing all these actions with a single Hot-Key and having the result pasted into the current window automatically.

Whats New in This Release:

· Added Unicode support when running on windows NT/2K/XP/2003+.
· Added an option to play a sound when the Hot-Key is pressed.
· Added option to have PureText start each time you log on to Windows.
· Updated dialogs to use new xp look when running on xp and beyond.
· Added command line options to allow PureText to convert the clipboard contents to pure text, optionally perform a paste and play a sound, and then immediately exit. Run "PureText.exe /?" for command line help.
· Changed the default Hot-Key to WINDOWS+V.
· Removed the ability to create Hot-Keys that include the ALT key, as the ALT key prevents the Paste feature from working.
· Fixed some issues with the Hot-Key capture dialog.
· Blocked all Hot-Keys that contain CTRL+V, as they cause problems with the Paste feature.
· Fixed an issue that only allowed up to 30,000 characters to be converted.
· Reworded key names in Options dialog.
· Updated icon.

Amaze Wallpaper Changer is a powerful and easy-to-use wallpaper manager for windows NT4/2000/XP with expanded capabilities, such as calendar and hot keys support.

Now you dont worry about wallpaper sizes and resolutions - the program fits everything automatically. Wallpaper rotation can be done automatically or manually, by pressing hotkeys, upon system startup or shutdown, or after a specified time period.

Here are some key features of "Amaze Wallpaper Changer":

· Supports popular graphics formats such as BMP and JPG
· Semi-transparent wallpaper calendar with various skins
· Automatically wallpaper change on system start or shutdown, on-hot-key press, or after a specified time period.
· Option "Only once per day" support. Wallpaper will be changed only once per day
· Multilingual interface and multi-user support on NT/2000/XP
· hot keys support
· Wallpaper collections support
· Thumbnails

hot Keyboard Pro description
hot Keyboard Pro can perform various user-defined tasks on a hot-key press hot Keyboard Pro assigns to hot keys such repetitive tasks as: date/time stamps and email addressing, frequently used text phrases or names, as well as software launches, etc.

hot Keyboard Pro can quickly change sound volumes, and can open dial-up connections. User defined functions can be recorded and played back by hot Keyboard Pro.

Its many powerful features and its ease of use will make hot Keyboard Pro one of your favorite time savers! hot Keyboard is a perfect solution for workgroups to synchronize and share macros over the network.

For example, you change the text in a macro on a single computer and it is changed across the network instantly. And you can distribute the same hotkeys for any actions over the network.

Keep messages with routine replies such as your prices, FAQ answers, etc. up-to-date on your companys support team computers.

How does hot Keyboard work? After you create a hotkey, hot Keyboard hides itself in the system tray and works in the background. When you press a hotkey hot Keyboard runs selected macro while remaining invisible.

hot Keyboard supports windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP and requires 2 MB of disk space.

Limitations:

· 21 day trial

Excellence hot Key description
Excellence hot Key is a useful windows keyboard macro tool Excellence hot Key is a useful windows keyboard macro tool.

Excellence hot Key allows you to issue just about any series of keystrokes to your windows applications with the touch of a key.

What is a macro? A macro is a set of commands that can be run using one key press. Often commands are repetitive and tedious. A macro lets you run them all from a single combination of keys, such as Ctrl-Alt-space.

Dust description
Switch users directly with chosen hot key plus password saving & automatic logon Direct User Switching Task (DUST) extends this functionality by providing the ability to switch directly to another user session, via a hot key, without going through the windows XP/Vista welcome screen.

This uses a popup menu of icons in a similar style to Alt+Tab task switching (including using the Shift key to reverse the selection direction). The benefits this task provides over standard Fast User Switching are as follows:
Can switch directly to another user session via a hot key without going through the windows XP/Vista welcome screen.
An option to switch directly to another session via a menu off a notification area icon (useful for tablet computers).
Allows user switching when the windows xp welcome screen has been turned off for the classic logon prompt.
Allows user switching when the windows xp computer is a member of a domain.
Can optionally save passwords and automatically logon on with them.

The default hot key is WinKey+S, but during installation a different key combination can be chosen. This can involve any combination of WinKey, Alt and Control (but not Shift) as the key (or keys) that need to be held down whilst another key is pressed to access the popup menu.

The rest of this documentation refers to the chosen combination that needs to be held down as the DustKey. The Direct User Switching Task runs in every user session and provides the functionality to switch away from the current user.

Hence immediately after installation the task will not be running in existing sessions until the user logs out and logs back in again (or the task is explicitly started from its installation directory).

The following screen shot shows the popup menu where repeated pressing of the hot key (whilst the DustKey is held down) causes the next item in the list to be selected.

The first item will disconnect the current session and the last item will simply cancel the popup (as will DustKey+Esc). All intermediate items will have the picture for the appropriate user of that session (if available) and when selecting the item the session number and user name will be displayed.

Here are some key features of "Dust":

· Notification Area Icon
· Disconnect Rather than Lock
· User Settings and Passwords
· Classic Logon under windows XP
· Enforcing windows xp Fast User Switching
· Direct Switching Considerations
· Automated Silent Installs


Limitations:

· Direct User Switching Task with a trial license that will work for 30 days

OnHand description
OnHand is an application intended for full use the windows hot keys OnHand is an application intended for full use the windows hot keys.

It allows you to reduce time to access frequently used actions, such as starting applications, opening documents, minimizing windows and passing keyboard commands to other applications. Utility possibilities are considerably expanded for the user due to the use of script language for automatic executing of complex actions.

OnHand can make a hot-key combinations using Ctrl, Alt, Shift and Win key - modifiers.

In comparison with built-in windows functions, OnHand provides more possibilities for the choice of a hot key (~ / ; : . ,). At same time, OnHand can show all assigned hot keys, simply by clicking on its icon on the System Tray. OnHand supports saving and loading of various hot keys lists.

These lists can even be assigned to a hot key, allowing you to set various lists to work with different applications.

The HotKeyLauncher give a possibility to launch (run) programs by ANY key combinations selected by user. This is a resident program, which scan for hot keys pressed by user and launch a selected program, web link, document, etc. Friendly interface provides an easy setting of new hot keys and respective tasks. There are some useful presets such as windows shutdown by hot key. HotKeyLauncher really save for you a lot of time!

Launches the programs, opens files and folders using keyboard keys: hot keys. It is very fast, because for start of the program it is enough to touch needed hot key to start needed program or file. You can adjust combinations of keyboard keys to launch the programs and to open files which are used more often by you. When AIHotKey works in background, you can press your hot Key Combination to start programs or files, which you allowed earlier. Use hot key combinations up to 7 keys in one time depending from your keyboard. You can also include Mouse keys in your hot keys combinations. You can launch with hot Key combinations all files, programs, folders, disks and even a shortcuts. hot keys work from any program, in background. Using AIHotKey you can launch programs in 4 modes: normal, hide, minimized, and maximized. Program system requirements: windows Installer 2.0 or later, Microsoft .Net Framework 1.1 or later.

Wonderfully launches the programs, opens files and folders by any keyboard keys. It is very convenient, because for start of the program it is not necessary even to touch the mouse. You can adjust combinations of keyboard keys to launch the programs and opens files which are used more often by you. When HotKey works in background, you can press your hot Key Combination to start programs or files, which you allowed earlier. Supports hot Key long combinations with two and more keyboard keys in one time. Supports Mouse Keys. You can launch with hot Key combinations all files, programs, folders, disks and even a shortcuts. hot keys work from any program, in background. Allows to launch programs in 4 modes: normal, minimized, maximized and hiding. Program System Requirements: Needs windows Installer 2.0 or later.

HotkeyEx is a utility that allows you to start programs, open files or execute commands with a simple key combination. You can register hot keys for many common operations. HotkeyEx classifies hot keys into 6 categories, which helps managing them. These are: Run program or file, Run DLL, Run control panel applet, Shutdown Windows, Hotkey batch, Load hotkey file. You can have more than hot key sets saved in different files, so you can load different configuration when you need to.