DShutdown (Dimio's Shutdown) is a stand-alone program that let you schedule the shutdown of a local or remote PC. He supports, beyond classical shutdown options, also a series of particular options relating "pure" shutdown (as the "force after wait" option, that causes a forced, but "clear", shutdown), and relating monitor functions (as the option to shutdown a PC when an application terminate, useful at the end of compression of several files, or as the option to shutdown a PC when Internet traffic reduces itself under a particular value for a given amount of time, useful to shutdown a PC at the end of a download). Is also possible to intercept a shutdown request caused by the user (or by another software) and to execute the shutdown request with selected options in DShutdown (this can be useful, for example, to shutdown all LAN's PCs at the shutdown of a server).
DSynchronize is a stand-alone utility that let you periodically synchronize two or more folders in a LAN.
Is also possible to specify the time and the day on which the sync have to run and to create some filters.
There is also an option to add the date and time of the sync to the name of the folder, to obtain a series of backups, classified by date and time.
Optionally Real-Time sync is available.
DSpeech is a stand-alone program of Text To Speech, specifically designed to provide quickly and directly the functions of better practical usefulness, that are requested to this kind of programs. In the meantime the invasivity and the spent of resources are minimal. (DSpeech does not install itself, is very light, it starts in a second and doesn't write anything on the register). It's compatible with all modern vocal engines SAPI 5 compliant.
DTaskManager is a stand-alone Task-Manager specifically engineered to give additional functionalities that the Windows bundled TaskManager does not has: forced termination of any type of process bypassing all permissions (it can terminate also system processes), suspend and reactivate a process capability, monitor actually opened ports and much more.