DShutdown is a stand-alone program that allows you to easily shutdown and wake up local or remote PCs, with many specific options.

DShutdown supports more than just standard shutdown options, there are options relating to "pure" shutdown (such as the "force after wait" option which causes a forced, but 'clear' shutdown). There are monitoring options that allow you to shutdown a PC after a particular application terminates (useful at the end of compressing several files). There are also options to shutdown a PC when Internet traffic reduces below a particular data-rate (useful to shutdown a PC when it has finished a large download).

It is also possible to intercept a shutdown request, initiated by the user or an application, and to then execute the shutdown request with selected options from DShutdown. (For example: to simultaneously shut down all Lan PCs when the server shuts down).

DShutdown doesn't force a power-off without logging off and saving settings. DShutdown instead provides a means to log-off, shutdown and safely power-off your PC. Administrators who use roaming profiles will appreciate the benefits of this feature.

• Download DShutdown v1.72.1 (Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP/VISTA) ca 200 KB

• FAQ How To Shutdown Remote PCs

Interface translation in other languages

DSynchronize interface can be translated in several languages:

Italian (By Phant0mw0rm)

Czech Republic (By Alfox)

DSpeech is a TTS (Text To Speech) program with functionality of ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition) integrated. It is able to to read aloud the written text and choose the sentences to be pronounced based upon the vocal answers of the user. It is specifically designed to quickly and directly provide the functions and improved practical usefulness that are requested by this kind of program. In the meantime, the invasiveness and resource consumption is minimal.
(DSpeech does not install itself, is very light, starts in a second and doesn't write anything to the registry). Some notable features of DSpeech are:

1. Allows you to save the output as a .WAV, .MP3 or OGG file.
2. Allows you to quickly select different voices, even combine them, or juxtapose them in order to create dialogues between different voices.
3. DSpeech integrates a vocal recognition system that, through a simple script language, allows you to create interactive dialogues with the user.
4. Allows you to configure the voices in an independent way.
5. Thanks to apposite TAGs, it allows you to dynamically change the features of the voices during the playback (speed, volume and frequency), to insert pauses, emphasize specific words, or even to spell them out.
6. Allows you to capture and reproduce the content of the ClipBoard.
7. DSpeech is compatible with all vocal engines (SAPI 4-5 compliant).
8. AI dialog system. Not really useful, but amusing. It does not work in every language.
 

• Listen a sample of dialogue from DSpeech:
• Overview of the advanced features of DSpeech:
• Download DSpeech v1.55.3 (Windows NT/2000/XP/VISTA) ca 800 KB

Other components you need to install

To open PDF files, you must download the DSpeech PDF Plug-In (ca 250 KB).

On Windows XP, if you want use SAPI4 voices, you must install SAPI4. Download it here (800 KB).

On Windows NT4/2000 you must install SAPI5, you can download it here or here (6 MB)

On Windows NT4/2000/XP, if you want use the Speech Recognition features, you must install the MS-Recognition Engine as well. Download it here (30 MB).

Where find the Voices

• SAPI5 voices are the best, but unfortunately often they are not distributed for free. The most famous are Cepstral, Acapela, Loquendo, RealSpeak and Voiceware.

RealSpeak: They are good voices and it seems that Microsoft will integrate them by default on Windows Vista.
British English, Italian, Spanish, French, German

eSpeak: It's a new open source engine in english (good) and in other languages (average).
Multilanguage

• SAPI4 voices, instead, have worse quality but are easier to find, and downloadable for free; the best are:

L&H TrueVoice: They have a good voice sampling, but wav and MP3 conversions are very slow.
American English, British English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish

Interface translation in other languages

DSpeech interface can be translated in several languages:

Italian (By Talksina & Marco Tettamanti)

Spanish (By Ricardo Abad & Esteban Mello)

Spanish Valencian (By Ricardo Abad)

Spanish Catalan (By Josep Rullo Batalla)

French (By Roger J.)

German (By Björn Gott)

Portuguese (By Ângelo Miguel)

Brazilian Portuguese (By Antonio Cezar Locutor)

Latin American Spanish (By Rafael Lopez Jr.)

Japanese (By Philip Deane)

Chinese (CHT) (By Hong Kong Blind Union)

Czech Republic (By Janusz Chmiel)

Romanian (By Irina Popovici)

DSynchronize is a stand-alone utility that let you periodically synchronize two or more folders on Hard Disk, Floppy Disk, LAN, USB Key, CD-DVD (with packet writing software) and FTP server.

It is also possible to specify the time and the day to schedule the synchronization to run, and to create some additional "filters" for other factors.

Real-Time sync is also supported.

• Download DSynchronize v2.30.1 (Windows NT/2000/XP/VISTA) ca 100 KB

Interface translation in other languages

DSynchronize interface can be translated in several languages:

Italian (By Edoardo Piparo)

French (By Jean-Paul DAVIN)

German (By Harras)

Spanish (By SySmcn)

Slovak (By Rene Kuzica)

Korean (By Sushizang)

Czech Republic (By Alfox)

Brasilian (By Victor Victor Bonalume)

DTaskManager, obviously, is a Task-Manager, but specifically engineered to give additional functionalities that the Windows bundled TaskManager (and other third party products) do not have:

1. Three different ways to close a process, as the "termination request", the standard "forced termination" with dialogue tolerance, and the "forced termination" of any type of process, bypassing all permissions (it can also terminate running system processes).

2. DTaskManager allows you to suspend and reactivate a process (as in Linux). This is useful, for example, to temporarily suspend a task that uses system resources when you don't want to terminate it (such as a DivX encoding process).

3. DTaskManager allows you to select more than one process at a time, and terminate all of them "simultaneously".

4. DTaskManager does not need any useless confirmation.
 

• Download DTaskManager v1.51 (Windows 2000/XP/VISTA) ca 100KB

(Special thanks to William Warner for donation of a dual-processor system for make tests!)