Really Effective

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 and more.

TICK is probably the ultimate freeware dial up enhancer. Logs all dial up networking calls. Uses no runtime files and has popup digital display, IP Address finder, web notify tools, finger, ping and lots more.