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WIDGET PROGRAM MANAGER

Takes a snapshot of your system at the time the program first starts. This snapshot will show all of the processes, modules, and threads that are running on your PC. You will be able to end a process, reboot your PC, and shut down your PC. You will also be able to view the CPU usage, memory load, and others on your PC in real time. (1.0MB)

DOWNLOAD added Aug 31 '00


SPACE MONGER

SpaceMonger is a tool for keeping track of the free space on your computer. Each file or folder on a given drive is displayed in a box in the main window whose size is a relative comparison to all the other files in your system. So, for example, if the "Windows" box takes up 90% of the screen, the "C:\Windows" folder and all its sub-folders and files are taking up 90% of your "C:" drive. (103KB)

HOMEPAGE | | DOWNLOAD added Oct 22 '00


FREEMETER

FreeMeter is a utility that monitors system performance. Some things that can be monitored include: Disk Space Usage, CPU Utilization, Disk Transfer Rates, Memory Usage, Running Processes, Page File Usage and more. (888KB)

HOMEPAGE | | DOWNLOAD updated Jun 9 '07


FIND UNUSED FILES

Have you ever wondered how many files are unused on your disk for the last 300 days? Find Unused Files can show you a report of such files. You can tell it to look for files which have not been used for a certain number of days. (580KB)

HOMEPAGE | | DOWNLOAD updated Jun 23 '02


DEPENDENCY

Most programs require the support of additional files sometimes not included in order to run properly. Dependency will show you the dll's and ocx's as well as their size and location that the exe of the program is dependent upon. (95KB)

HOMEPAGE | | DOWNLOAD added May 13 '01


TYPE PARSER

This utility is used to get information on the usage of your drive, by grouping similar extensions and showing how they are distributed on your hard disk. (383KB)

HOMEPAGE | | DOWNLOAD added Sep 14 '01


RUBY

A program designed to catalog the files on CD-Rs. A search can be initiated on the database just like the Windows Find feature. Find the disc that a particular file is on with this utility. Can also catalog floppies, Zip disks, other removable media and even hard drives. (4.2MB)

HOMEPAGE | | DOWNLOAD updated Jun 9 '07


DISK INVESTIGATOR

Display the true drive contents by bypassing the operating system and directly reading the raw drive sectors. View and search raw directories, files, clusters, and system sectors. Verify the effectiveness of file and disk wiping programs. Undelete previously deleted files. (557KB)

HOMEPAGE | | DOWNLOAD added Oct 26 '02


DISCLIB

Disclib is a CD collection organizer program. It may be used as a catalogue of CDs. After creating the catalogue, disclib stores file and folder names and tree, allows user to categorize folders and files, and allows searching all the files from the collection CDs without need to place them in CD reader. Disclib may place in the catalogue any windows folder not only folders on CDs. Disclib has a customizable Multilanguage functionality. (1.9MB)

HOMEPAGE | | DOWNLOAD updated Aug 17 '06


PARTITION MANAGER

Ranish Partition Manager is a boot manager and hard disk partitioner. It gives users high level of control for running multiple operating systems, such as Windows 98/NT/XP, Linux, FreeDOS, and FreeBSD on a single disk. (169KB)

HOMEPAGE | | DOWNLOAD added Mar 24 '03


DBF TO CSV

DBF2CSV is a free utility to convert .DBF database files to .CSV text format (comma-separated values). Full source code is included. Written in Perl. Also includes three tiny Perl v4 interpreters in case you don't already have Perl installed. Runs under Windows, DOS, OS/2, Linux, Unix, etc. and probably any other OS that supports Perl version 4 or 5. (440KB)

HOMEPAGE | | DOWNLOAD updated Sep 13 '05


FOLDERS REPORT

The FoldersReport utility scans a drive or a base folder that you select, and displays essential information for each folder that it finds: The size of all files inside the folder, The real files size on the disk, number of files inside the folder, number of hidden files, number of compressed files, and number of subfolders. (22KB)

DOWNLOAD added Jul 23 '03


MST ISUSEDBY

Software Tool which you can use to determine what process on your system has a particular file open. This is important, for example, if you want to copy or delete a file and you don't know why it isn't working. Windows XP only. (552KB)

HOMEPAGE | | DOWNLOAD updated Nov 16 '03


PC INSPECTOR FILE RECOVERY

Data recovery program that supports the FAT 12/16/32 and NTFS file systems. (2.8MB)

HOMEPAGE | | DOWNLOAD added Oct 1 '03


DISKTECTIVE

With Disktective you can find out the real size of your directories and distribution of used space inside them. Each directory may contain hundreds of subdirectories each containing many files. Simply run Disktective and let Disktective create a complete report displaying the real sizes of all directories and their containing subdirectories. (422KB)

HOMEPAGE | | DOWNLOAD added Dec 20 '03


ZERO ASSUMPTION DIGITAL IMAGE RECOVERY

Recovers deleted images from digital camera card. Generally, program should work with any media type (e.g. CompactFlash, MemoryStick, SmartMedia and so on) accessible by means of operating system. You need the use of your camera or the appropriate card reader you normally use to transfer images from camera to PC. (610KB)

HOMEPAGE | | DOWNLOAD added Jan 19 '04


MOUSESOFT DIRECTORY SIZE

MDS reports space used on your local and network drives. Quickly identify where space is used. Export results to HTML, Text and Excel. Sort results by Size or Name. (2.3MB)

HOMEPAGE | | DOWNLOAD added Jun 12 '04


HD TUNE

Benchmark: measures the raw performance, Transfer Rate, Access Time, CPU Usage, Burst Rate. Hard Disk information which includes partition information, supported features, firmware version, serial number, disk capacity, buffer size, transfer mode. Hard Disk Health, S.M.A.R.T. Information (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology), Power On Time, Error scan, Temperature display. Windows XP only. (628KB)

HOMEPAGE | | DOWNLOAD updated Apr 3 '09


FREEUNDELETE

In case of accidental deletion of files on a NTFS file system (used by default in Windows XP, 2000 and NT) FreeUndelete is the utility to help. (1MB)

HOMEPAGE | | DOWNLOAD added Dec 2 '04


HDDLIFE

Controlling the health of your hard drives using the S. M. A. R. T. technology. Constantly monitoring the state of your hard drives in the background mode. Displaying the temperature of your hard drives. Get warned about a possible hard drive failure. Win XP only, non-commercial use only. (1.4MB)

HOMEPAGE | | DOWNLOAD added Jan 21 '05


SPEEDEFRAG

SpeeDefrag is a program which restarts your computer and runs only defrag.exe with optimized windows settings. This makes defrag work faster. SpeeDefrag will automatically shutdown your computer after completing the defragmentation process. (750KB)

HOMEPAGE | | DOWNLOAD added Dec 14 '05


NTFS READER

DiskInternals NTFS Reader is a tool that provides a read access to NTFS disks from Windows 95, 98 and Me. It is designed to save any files from NTFS disks to any visible local or network drive. Compressed and encrypted files are supported. (700KB)

HOMEPAGE | | DOWNLOAD added Feb 14 '06


HDCLONE

The Free Edition of HDClone offers all necessary abilities to copy a complete hard disk onto another, larger hard disk. This can be utilized to migrate an existing installation to a new hard disk as well as for data rescue. (3.3MB)

HOMEPAGE | | DOWNLOAD added April 8 '06


UNLOCKER

Cannot delete file: Access is denied. The file is in use by another program or user. Make sure the disk is not full or write-protected and that the file is not currently in use. Unlocker is the solution. (183KB)

HOMEPAGE | | DOWNLOAD added April 9 '06


DISK CLEANER

In a matter of seconds Disk Cleaner calculates recursive folder size (including all files and sub-folders) for all folders on the entire NTFS drive. It allows drilling down through any particular folder to its subfolders and helps identify space-hungry ones. (642KB)

HOMEPAGE | | DOWNLOAD added May 1 '06


METAMORPHOSE FILE N FOLDER RENAMER

Allows many command line renaming operations in a single utility, perfect for those of us that need to rename large numbers of files and/or folders on a regular basis. However, the ease of the interface ensures a one-time user (I need to rename 5 gigs of mp3's) will not find it too frustrating to use. (3.7MB)

HOMEPAGE | | DOWNLOAD added May 8 '06


FOLDER GUIDE

Utility that provides fast access to your frequently used and favorite folders. It can operate as the part of your context menu in your Windows Explorer. After quick install it will appear in context menus of Windows Explorer and Open/Save dialogs as "Folder Guide" item.With Folder Guide, you no longer need dozens of mouse clicks to navigate to your desired folder. (798KB)

HOMEPAGE | | DOWNLOAD added Jun 5 '06


DISK INDEX

Disk Index is a simple tool for indexing files and folders on a disk. Disk Index scans any disk (e.g. hard disk, CD-ROM, network disk) for files and folders and writes an index with a disk summary to a regular text file. (640KB)

HOMEPAGE | | DOWNLOAD added Jun 16 '06


CATFISH

Disk catalog browser. Save snapshots of all your disks & removable media (ZIP disks, CDROMs). Quickly find files in all catalogs by name (with wildcards), size, and/or date. See all total file and subdirectory counts as well as total space usage. (114KB)

HOMEPAGE | | DOWNLOAD added Jul 6 '06


AUSLOGICS DISK DEFRAG

Auslogics Disk Defrag is a compact, manual defragmentation tool that supports FAT 16, FAT 32, and NTFS (with compressed and encrypted files). For the individual user, Disk Defrag is more than adequate for the job of maintaining high-level disk performance. (1.4MB)

HOMEPAGE | | DOWNLOAD added Aug 4 '06


FOLDER MARKER

Allows you to change colors of folders from standard yellow to allow better folder organization. (1MB)

HOMEPAGE | | DOWNLOAD added Aug 24 '06


DISK INDEX

Disk Index scans any disk (hard disk, CD-ROM, network disk, etc.) for files and folders and writes the list and disk summary to a regular text file so it can be viewed with any text viewer or editor. (640KB)

HOMEPAGE | | DOWNLOAD added Sep 25 '06


AURIONIX FILEUSAGE

Aurionix FileUsage integrates smoothly with Microsoft Windows Explorer to add extra columns to Explorer's Detail View. The extra columns display the total size of all files and subfolders within a given folder, the total percentage disk usage and the total number of files within a given folder. (270KB)

HOMEPAGE | | DOWNLOAD added Nov 13 '06


XXCOPY

XXCLONE duplicates the whole Win NT, 2000 or XP system volume to another volume that will become ready to boot without a restore step. You may boot the system from the clone volume by simply swapping the disks when a disaster strikes. Free for non-commercial use. (243KB)

HOMEPAGE | | DOWNLOAD added Jan 16 '07


SCANDIR

Scan (multiple) directories for all or a selection of files. Selection criteria based on filename, path, extension, filesize and / or filedate. Scan results can be printed or saved in an output file. Delete, Rename, Copy, Move or Attrib files. (825KB)

HOMEPAGE | | DOWNLOAD added Jan 29 '07


STARTUP CONTROL PANEL

Startup Control Panel is a control panel applet that allows you to easily configure which programs run when your computer starts. (34KB)

HOMEPAGE | | DOWNLOAD added Feb 26 '07


UNDELETE PLUS

Undelete Plus is a quick and effective way to retrieve accidentally deleted files. The program supports all Windows file systems for hard and floppy drives including FAT12/16/32,NTFS/NTFS5 and image recovery from CompactFlash, SmartMedia, MultiMedia and Secure Digital cards. (526KB)

HOMEPAGE | | DOWNLOAD added Mar 19 '07


RECOVER FILES

Recover Files is a professional file recovery software that allows it's user to recover accidentally deleted files. Even files removed from the Recycle Bin, network drive, compact flash card, portable drives, in a DOS window, or from Windows Explorer with the SHIFT key held down. (1.2MB)

HOMEPAGE | | DOWNLOAD added Jul 17 '07


NT FILE RECOVERY

NT File Recovery is a quick and effective solution to restore accidentally deleted files from NTFS file system. The software supports recovering all types of files like documents, applications, media files etc. Can be run from a flash drive. (340KB)

HOMEPAGE | | DOWNLOAD added Aug 4 '07


MY DRIVES

My Drives customize look of disk drives in windows explorer by replacing drives icons, setting labels and hiding drives. (1MB)

HOMEPAGE | | DOWNLOAD added Aug 27 '07


TESTDISK

TestDisk is a powerful free data recovery software! It was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software, certain types of viruses or human error (such as accidentally deleting a Partition Table). Partition table recovery using TestDisk is really easy. (2.1MB)

HOMEPAGE | | DOWNLOAD updated Apr 3 '09


PRIMITIVE DISK INDEXER

Primitive Disk Indexer is a simple program that will allow you to save the file structure of any disk. It will allow you to view what folders and files there are on a disk even if you do not have this disk. For example, if you have a large CD and DVD collection, you will be able to view what files there are on any disk without even having to touch that disk and insert it into the CD drive. (3.2MB)

HOMEPAGE | | DOWNLOAD added Feb 14 '08


FINERECOVERY

FineRecovery is a powerful and cost-effective undelete and data recovery software. FineRecovery can be run from a USB storage device. (498KB)

HOMEPAGE | | DOWNLOAD added Feb 28 '08


CHECK DRIVE

CheckDrive offers you an easy way to check your hard drives for errors. CheckDrive may detect and fix hard drive errors that might appear on system crashes or when switching off your PC without a proper Windows shutdown. (28MB)

HOMEPAGE | | DOWNLOAD added Mar 12 '08


EASEUS DISK COPY

Providing sector-by-sector disk/partition copy regardless of your operating system, file systems and partition scheme. The sector-by-sector method assures you a copy 100% identity to the original. EASEUS Disk Copy can be used for copy, cloning, or upgrading your original small hard drive to a new larger drive. (20MB)

HOMEPAGE | | DOWNLOAD added Mar 25 '08


HDD HEALTH

HDD Health is a full-featured failure-prediction agent for machines using Windows 95, 98, NT, Me, 2000 and XP. Sitting in the system tray, it monitors hard disks and alerts you to impending failure. (923KB)

HOMEPAGE | | DOWNLOAD added May 11 '08


DATA CATALOGUE

Data Catalogue is an application that can be used to catalogue all files and folders on your entire network including your local drives, removeable media such as CDs/USB sticks and network drives. Using the integrated scheduler you can keep historical records of the structure of all your file systems. You will be able to use Data Catalogue to search for files quickly, see which device/media a file is located on on removeable media and identify when files have been deleted or moved. (492KB)

HOMEPAGE | | DOWNLOAD added Sep 25 '08


EASEUS PARTITION MANAGER

EASEUS Partition Manager Home Edition, as Partition Magic alternative, is a comprehensive hard disk partition management software to Resize and Move partitions, Create, Delete and Format partitions, Hide and Unhide partitions and much more. Free for non-commercial use. Does not work with 64 bit. (8MB)

HOMEPAGE | | DOWNLOAD added Sep 28 '08


RECUVA

Recuva (pronounced "recover") is a utility to restore files that have been accidentally deleted from your computer. This includes files emptied from the Recycle bin as well as images and other files that have been deleted by user error from digital camera memory cards or MP3 players. (2.2MB)

HOMEPAGE | | DOWNLOAD added Dec 1 '08


UPDATEDATES

Update file modification dates for a single file or all files in a folder. Increase or decrease the "Date Modified" field of the specified file(s). (2.1MB)

HOMEPAGE | | DOWNLOAD added Dec 3 '08


RED BUTTON

It removes unused and unwanted components of Windows, increases the speed of operating system, cleans up hard drive, cleans traces of system activities, makes your Windows more comfortable. (317KB)

HOMEPAGE | | DOWNLOAD added Apr 13 '09


RVL DRIVE SCANNER

With RVL Drive Scanner, you can scan drives or folders. And in addition to determining the total number of folders and files in a particular drive or folder, the application also displays the number of normal, hidden, and system files and folders. (432KB)

HOMEPAGE | | DOWNLOAD added May 29 '09


DEFRAGGLER

It differs from other defrag tools on the market, by enabling you to quickly and simply defrag the files you want to, without having to process the whole drive. Simply run it, select the file and defragment in seconds. (854KB)

HOMEPAGE | | DOWNLOAD added Jun 23 '09


HDDSCAN

HDDScan is a program for low-level HDD diagnostics. HDDScan supports IDE/SATA/SCSI hard disk drives, RAID arrays, external USB/Firewire hard disks, flash cards. (1.7MB)

HOMEPAGE | | DOWNLOAD added Jul 2 '09


DIRLOT

The DirLot utility shows relative size of files and subfolders in a folder on diagram. (26KB)

HOMEPAGE | | DOWNLOAD added Aug 7 '09


ACTIVE PARTITION MANAGER

Active@ Partition Manager is an application that helps you manage storage devices and the logical drives or partitions that they contain. You may create, delete, format and name partitions on your computer without shutting down the system. (4.3MB)

HOMEPAGE | | DOWNLOAD added Aug 11 '09


RAMRUSH

RAMRush is a free memory management and optimization tool. It can efficiently optimize memory usages of your Windows system, free up physical RAM and make your system work better. RAMRush uses an intelligent way to manage the physical memory and lets the RAM work in a better performance. (532KB)

HOMEPAGE | | DOWNLOAD added Aug 19 '09


YEAHBIT PROCESSMAINTAIN

Yeahbit Process Maintain will show you each process with their names, path,and IDs. It will provide you all the necessary information to identify a process. You can easily see what s happening behind the desktop, which processes are running on your computer. (477KB)

HOMEPAGE | | DOWNLOAD added Aug 21 '09


COPY CHANGED FILES

The copy changed files tool is a program that lets you copy changed files from one directory tree to another. The program only copies changed files, leaving all other files behind. (41KB)

HOMEPAGE | | DOWNLOAD added Sep 5 '09


EXTREME COPY

ExtremeCopy is a Windows copy file utility which copy and move files and folders extremely fast and operation is simple. It includs some powerful features such as pause copy process,error recovery and so on but as easy as Windows default. (1.9MB)

HOMEPAGE | | DOWNLOAD added Sep 29 '09


DISK EXPLORER PRO

This application is a powerful tool for cataloging all CDs, DVDs, floppies, ZIP disks, or other removable media, hard drives, network drives, or even FTP servers on the Internet (they are called volumes). Entire structure of volumes can be catalogized as well as internal structure of various archive files (ZIP, 7-ZIP, RAR, ARJ, LZH, CAB, TAR/GZIP, ACE, JAR and others) including self-extracting installers (EXE). (3.5MB)

HOMEPAGE | | DOWNLOAD added Feb 25 '10


FOLDER SIZE

Folder Size is a utility that can analyze your computer and display all the file and folder sizes. You can easily check the distribution of your disk space as the tool will provide detiled infromtion on the file and folder sizes including their subfolders. (1.6MB)

HOMEPAGE | | DOWNLOAD added Mar 8 '10


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