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Clavier+ will allow you to create keyboard shortcuts using any key, including the Windows key (around the Space key), to launch programs, write text, display websites. You always launch the same programs, navigate in the same websites? Create a simple shortcut to do it quickly. Bored to write your E-mail address? Create a universal keyboard shortcut to write it: it will work under Word, Excel, and your favorite Internet browser!

Keyboard customization under Windows has never been easy. Fortunately, KbdEdit is here to turn it around: now it's never been easier! Twist your keyboard into a pretzel sooner than you can say "heterosyllabic".

Kavoom! KM is like a hardware keyboard-mouse switch (a KVM switch with no video connected), allowing you to operate two or more computers using a single keyboard and mouse. You transfer control from one computer to another by moving the mouse pointer off the edge of the screen towards the other monitor. Or you can use hot keys to switch back and forth.

PopChar is an invaluable utility application that lets you insert special characters, accented and foreign letters etc. into any document. No need to search for or remember complex keystrokes. Just pop up the PopChar window, click the desired character, and the character is inserted into your current document. Unicode fonts are neatly arranged in the standard Unicode categories.

KeyScrambler is a leading anti-keylogging software program. It defeats existing and new keyloggers by encrypting keystrokes at the keyboard driver level and decrypting them in the destination application, leaving keyloggers with entirely indecipherable keys to record.

Do you have a notebook or keyboard without a NumLock or CapsLock indicator light? Do you have a computer without a hard drive activity light? If so, then TrayStatus is for you. TrayStatus can show you the following information in your taskbar’s notification area (system tray):

Free Piano is a virtual MIDI keyboard and a VST host for Windows. You can use Free Piano to play piano with computer keyboard or MIDI keyboard with any vst instrument you like, or output through MIDI. Or generate any MIDI message with any key on the keyboard. You can also record your song and export a MP4 movie to share with your friends.

Ever try to size a window so it just touches the edge of the screen? It’s tedious (at least for me). FreeSnap allows you to instantly resize any window edge to the corresponding screen edge. Want that window to touch the right edge of the screen? Press and hold the left “Windows Key” (see illustration below) and press the right arrow. It’s just that simple. The number-pad keys work as well, regardless of the NumLock state.

New version! - If you've ever used a multiple monitor equipped PC, then you can imagine how Multiplicity works. Each monitor is connected to its own PC. When the user moves the mouse over to a given monitor, the user is then controlling that PC.

Description: Keyndicate visually displays the current state of the CapsLock, NumLock and ScrollLock key in the tray menu. When a bar is compressed means the key is not active and when expanded signifies the key is active. The order in which the bars are represented are from top to bottom, CapsLock, NumLock and ScrollLock.

New version! -Award Keylogger is fast, invisible and easy-to-use surveillance tool that allows you to find out what other users do on your computer in your absence. It records every keystroke to a log file. The log file can be sent secretly with email or FTP to a specified receiver.

The Extra Keys application is a simple desktop utility program intended for use with "Western European" language versions of Windows. It provides an easy and convenient way to insert international accented chracters and other symbols into your documents. Most of these characters will probably not be found on your keyboard, although this depends on the language and specific keyboard being used.

New version! -Operate all of your computers from a single keyboard, monitor, and mouse. Kavoom! KVM is like a hardware KVM switch except that the "switch" appears on your monitor, and you use the mouse to select which computer to operate.

Mouse and Keyboard Center helps you personalize and customize how you work on your PC. Tailor your mouse and keyboard to meet your unique needs and work style. Modify your mouse and keyboard settings to make it easier to use the unique features of most PC apps. View and change basic and application-specific settings for all connected devices in one place.

This slipped in under my radar last week – the Microsoft Touch Mouse will be updated for Windows 8. More updates to come on that so stay tuned to the  Microsoft Hardware blog for more.

7plus is a free open-source program which aspires to make working with Windows as comfortable as possible. The feature set it adds to Windows ranges from interface extensions to the explorer to highly specialized solutions for all common tasks, with the goal of reducing the work load for the user. This feature-rich system, powered by Autohotkey, provides very powerful configuration capabilities to suit the needs you have and those that you have but not know of yet!

KO Approach is a desktop Shell Enhancement that enables quicker access to files and folders with a set of hierachical menus. KO Approach runs on the background and does not need to be open at all times. In fact, unless you need to change some of its settings, you may never know Approach is there at all!