Miscellaneous Utilities

These utilities are absolutely free, easy to use and take seconds to install. If you have any questions, suggestions or comments, welcome to the related forum threads.

Hidden Start - run apps in the background

Hidden Start is a small startup manager that allows console applications and batch scripts to be started without any windows in the background. It can start multiple applications in the specified order and handle UAC privilege elevation under Windows Vista. (Learn more)

Hidden Start

There are a few real-world examples of using Hstart:

More examples coming soon... Please visit our support forums to report any bugs and suggest new features.


Visual Subst - virtual drives in effect

Visual Subst is a small tool that allows you to associate the most accessed directories with virtual drives. It uses the same API similar to the console 'subst' utility, but makes it easier to create and remove virtual drives in a GUI way.

Visual Subst

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Close All Windows

This tool helps you to close all running applications with one click. It does not use system resources because it only flashes a ‘close’ signal to all open windows on the desktop and then ceases.

Close All Windows

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Bad Application ;-)

This tool does nothing, it only emulates a bad application... It can only change process priority class and start an endless loop (i.e. stop responding). In addition it can flash window and terminate shell process.

Bad Application ;-)

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