Freeware: Disk Eraser

	ADRC Data Recovery Tools  License: Freeware
	ADRC Data Recovery Tools v1.0 contains a collection of DIY data recovery tools that supports a wide variety of drives (fixed drives or removable drives) and file systems (FAT12, FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS) for Windows 95/ 98, Windows ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003 server. The software incorporates extremely simple GUI with novice users in mind. The software zooms in to do only critical data recovery or backup functions with minimum complexity. It gives you full control to undelete files. You can even undelete the files even after you have cleared the recycle bin. The software also supports disk to disk mage back up or disk cloning, export or import a backup disk image so you could back up and restore the system image and data at one go (in case you do not want to reinstall the operating system and application program). This function is especially useful if you need to clone disk with unknown file systems such as MAC or UNIX. It also allow you to copy files from hard disk or removable data media with bad sectors where normal windows copy will result in system hang. When bad sectors are found on the disk, the program will intelligently search the neighbouring sectors to determine the extent of bad blocks and mathematically calculate the number of retries needed to optimize the speed of copying. You can even edit, repair or restore your corrupted boot parameters (either FAT or NTFS boot sector type). The program is designed to be compact "green-ware" without any installation. In fact, the whole program is less than 100 kb and you could stuff it anywhere (such as a floppy) and run the program from there to do the necessary recovery or backup. It is absolutely free If you are happy with the utility, share the information with others about ADRC Data Recovery Tools or place to link to our download home page. Author: Adroit Data Recovery Centre| Date: 01-06-2006 | Size: 48 KB
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	Returnil Virtual System Personal Edition  License: Freeware
	Returnil Virtual System Personal Edition is a powerful virtualization technology that completely mirrors your actual computer setup and it can create a virtual storage disk within your PC where you can save documents, data, and files while using the System Protection feature. It provides a simple, effective, and smart way to prevent unwanted or malicious changes from being made to your PC and the drive where Windows Operating System is installed. You operate your system in a virtual environment, so anything you do will happen in the virtual environment, not in the real PC. If your computer is attacked or gets infected with harmful viruses, Spyware and other malicious programs, all you need to do is simply reboot the PC to erase all changes. Once restarted, your system will be restored to the original state, as if nothing ever happened! Meanwhile, Returnil Virtual System can create a virtual storage disk for you; the purpose of this partition is to provide a place for you to save your data when the Virtual System Protection mode is turned ON, and you can customize the size of this disk to meet your individual requirements. When the Virtual System Protection is OFF, you can install or remove programs, save documents within the Windows disk drive, install security upgrades and software patches, alter configurations, and update user accounts. All changes made will remain following a restart of the computer. All of this without sacrificing computer performance or usability while helping to reduce technical support intervention and the need for routine maintenance. By cloning your system in memory rather than on your hard disk, it offers better speed and reliability than other virtualization solutions. Returnil Virtual System Personal Edition is free for home users. Author: Returnil| Date: 20-10-2007 | Size: 2030 KB
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	NASLite  License: Freeware
	NASLite v1.x is a collection of single floppy disk based Network Attached Storage (NAS) Server Operating Systems designed to transform a basic computer into a dedicated file server. NASLite v1.x is intended primarily for use in a small business or home office network. By design, NASLite v1.x is a community file server and does not support features such as user management , the ability to join domains or disk quotas. However, it is very easy to set-up and use. Author: Server Elements| Date: 20-05-2004 | Size: 1761 KB
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	DiskBench  License: Freeware
	Disk Utility to test Inernal Memory and Memory Card speed of Nokia Communicator Author: Novosoft| Date: 01-01-2004 | Size: 0 KB
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	DiskAid  License: Freeware
	DiskAid is a tool for PC and Mac which enables to use your iPhone or iPod Touch as external Disk. With DiskAid you can transfer files and folders between your iPhone or iPod Touch and your Computer.  - DiskAid is a Freeware, 100% free of charge.  - PC Windows & Mac OSX compatibility.  - Auto detection feature, just plugin it in !  - Copy Files & Folders between your iPhone or iPod Touch and your Computer.  - Files & Folders Browser.  - Drag & Drop.  - Features rich file organization including foldercreation, renaming... etc.  - No jailbreak needed. Author: DigiDNA| Date: 20-06-2008 | Size: 858 KB
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	Diskasizer  License: Freeware
	Diskasizer is a free Windows utility that shows how much disk space each of your folders is using. Author: Development Dept| Date: 22-06-2001 | Size: 36 KB
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	Remora USB Quick Launch  License: Freeware
	Remora (rĕm´ere) : warmwater fishes of the family Echeneidae, characterized by an oval sucking disk on the top of the head. With this apparatus the remora, or suckerfish, attaches itself to sharks, swordfishes, drums, marlins, and sea turtles. In this way it travels without effort... Remora USB Quick Launch is a small tool for installing onto the root directory of your USB drive. You can store My Favorites To Go and create Shorcuts To Go for files, documents and folders which are opened frequently . You can also use it to find and run a file in your USB drive easily by using the built-in scan function . With Remora USB Quick Launch, access to files on your USB drive is much easier, in fact, almost effortless. Main features (1) Create File Shortcut To Go for executable files, Office documents, graphics, music ... in your USB drive. (2) Create Folder Shortcut To Go for folders in your USB drive. (3) Create My Favorites To Go, or your portable internet bookmarks. Adding a description to bookmark is supported. (4) Click the popup menu in tray icon to launch files in your mobile disk quickly. (5) Support file existence checking and URL checking when updating shortcut to database. (6) Find file and run file without opening Window File Manager. (7) Comprehensive database maintenance with support for removal of invalid shortcuts and bookmarks. Author: Essential Skill Consultants Limited| Date: 30-05-2006 | Size: 2280 KB
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	HS WinPerfect SE  License: Freeware
	Windows system optimizer which cleans hard-disk and system registry, optimizes memory, uninstalls software no longer wanted. It supports Windows 2000/XP/Vista. It automatically detects the system and dynamically organizes itself accordingly. MAINTENANCE * Clean drives from files left aside and unused including internet cookies,temporary files and caches. * Clean system registry from uninstalled software junks * Safe uninstall of selected software from your system. * Schedule execution of modules. SECURITY * Add and Manage System Restore Points * All modifications and cleaning may be restored at a later time, if security button is checked. SPEED * Clean computer memory from unnecessary data enabling programs run faster * Increase system performance OPTIMIZATION * Auto-detecting low memory and boost performance by refreshing memory space. * Increase free disk space INFORMATION * Show system information * Show graphical representation of folder usage * Show free memory space in intervals Author: Yenicag Bilisim Ltd| Date: 22-04-2008 | Size: 4558 KB
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	idlebackup  License: Freeware
	Idlebackup features - Easy to use backup program also suited for non-advanced users. - Easy restore, select directories and/or files to restore. - Incremental backup, selected directories and files are copied to a set backup path (1:1). The first backup is a full backup, then each next backup will copy only changed files, no files are deleted (if option "Synchronize backup" is set to off). - Option "Synchronize backup" can remove unused files, so only files that are also present on the source hard-disk are kept. See backup description. - Manual or Automatic backup (with a set interval time) during idle time of the computer. - Interval time from 1 minute - 30 days. - In Automatic mode Idlebackup will work invisibly in the background, and only if idle (no keys,mouse actions detected). Status is visible by icon color in sytem tray - After a manually started backup, you can select to shutdown Windows - Can also copy large files > 2Gb. - Backup mail data of Thunderbird, Outlook, Outlook Express (see site idlebackup.nl, usage examples) - Backup medium = hard-disk/usb-stick/usb-drive or network. - Normal windows installation/deinstallation. - With backup option 3 (computer name in backup path) suited for making backups from multiple computers to one external storage (USB-hard-disk). Author: Aad Meeldijk| Date: 26-07-2008 | Size: 1041 KB
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	Easy Spyware Scanner  License: Freeware
	Easy Spyware Scanner is a simple free spyware scanner that removes spyware, adware, scumware, and trojans from the hard disk. It prevents active x spyware from loading and stops spyware sites from storing cookies on any hard disk. Author: EasySpywareScanner.com| Date: 22-10-2004 | Size: 1168 KB
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	CopyTrans Doctor  License: Freeware
	CopyTrans Doctor Beta is an all-in-one iPod repair solution. It is able to correct iPod hard drive errors, establish iPod database (library) diagnostics, look for iPod missing lost or unlisted songs and even recover iPod songs you may have inadvertently removed from your iPod disk! CopyTrans Doctor v0.96 features include:  Provide complete iPod diagnostic  Repair iPod hard drive partition problems  Check iPod database integrity  Search iPod missing songs  New in v0.81! Compatible with iTunes 7.3  New in v0.82! Bug fixes  New in v0.83! Improved repair procedure  New in v0.90! Major program redesign  New in v0.91! Improved disk error detection and repair  New in v0.92! Improved interface and error detection  New in v0.94! Added disk surface repair; Better Shuffle detection; Bug fixes  New in v0.95! Minor bug fixes  New in v0.96! Minor bug fixes  Retrieve iPod accidentally deleted songs Coming soon Author: WindSolutions LLC.| Date: 31-07-2007 | Size: 1553 KB
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	Pic Viewer  License: Freeware
	Small viewer program that lets you view almost all graphic files you have on your disk. Supports most common graphic file types available, has a few editing abilities, and is a simple file manager, with copy, move, rename and delete options. Full screen mode also lets you modify a few things and re-save file afterwards. Author: Jose Falcao| Date: 14-08-2008 | Size: 335 KB
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	Xtrimsoft PackIt  License: Freeware
	Xtrimsoft PackIt finds identical / duplicate files on your hard drives and/or network storage media (e.g. server drives, CD-ROMs etc.) using user-definable matching scheme, from partial to full match and byte-for-byte to CRC32 compare. Xtrimsoft PackIt complements Windows Disk Cleanup by searching for files that are copied to your hard drive and located in a few folders several times. Xtrimsoft PackIt can find files that have different file names, like "song.mp3" and "Copy of song.mp3". It is also very useful for finding and cleaning up identical downloads, especially on a multi-user computer. Redeem your lost hard disk space now! Benefits: Use Xtrimsoft PackIt totally free of charge to keep your hard drives organized! It is a quality product designed for: • Speeding up the process of eliminating duplicate files • Viewing to confirm they are actual duplicates and removing them • Remove the duplicates and redeem your lost hard disk space • Reducing storage and time used for backups • Reducing human error on a shared server (e.g. user folder - accidental drag and drop, copy and paste etc.) Author: Xtrimsoft Sdn Bhd| Date: 02-07-2004 | Size: 578 KB
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	Anti-lost CD Ejector Lite  License: Freeware
	Protect yourself from CD loss. What's new in version 2.2 : - multi-drive control using hot keys. Only call Main Menu (by double pressing a hot key) and press a letter of the proper drive; - some interface improvements. Anti-Lost CD Ejector opens your CD-drive if a disk is left inside it when you shutdown Windows. And you can manage this process with advanced Anti-Lost CD Ejector parameters. With the help of this program you can use your CD-drive more comfortable with hot keys or mouse. If you don't want to count how many times per day you switch off the power of your computer and then switch it on again, because you have forgotten to eject CD disk from your CD-drive, If you don't want to forget your CD disks in your CD-ROM and go to your friends with an empty cover, If you don't want your friends or colleagues to forget their disks at yours and then look at you as if you have stolen them, If you don't want to run from one office computer to another one looking for where you have left your favorite disk, If you don't want ... to waste your nerves and time... ...try Anti-Lost CD Ejector - this small program can solve these big problems Main features: - eject CD, if it is in CD-drive when you shutdown or restart Windows; - CD-monitoring - you can always see, whether disk is in drive or not, without opening the drive, only by looking on an icon in the system tray; - close/eject CD drive only with one hotkey (<SCROLL LOCK>, <PRINT SCREEN> or <PAUSE/BREAK> according to your choice); - close/eject CD drive by mouse click, browse CD by the middle button, (you can customize mouse actions in PRO version); Lite-version of Anti-lost CD Ejector is FREEWARE. Author: Andrew Lyapunov| Date: 27-11-2003 | Size: 777 KB
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	Hide Folder HiBit  License: Freeware
	Program main functions:  [1]-Protect any folder or file by : Hide, Lock, Encrypt or Fake it  [2]-The protected folders or files still protected even in other computers  [3]-You can lock files on a computer and unlock them on another computer  [4]-The protect Operation just take 3 seconds at any computer  [5]-You can undelete the folder or file by Locking it.  [6]-FileSystem: NTFS, FAT32 and all other file systems  [7]-HiBit suitable with (1)Fixed disk (2)Removable disk (3)External disk (4)Flash disk (5)Floppy disk  [8]-Crypt Text Editor: you can type some words and it will be encrypted automatically letter by letter immediately    Some Technical Information:    -Windows version: NT, 2000, 2003 server, XP and now Vista  -FileSystem: NTFS, FAT32 and all other file systems  -More security: We advice you to use HiBit to hide folders or files on FAT32 if you want more security, this because the folder or file hidden by HiBit on FAT32 FileSystem will not be changed and still in hidden status on other PCs and computers, or other platforms like UNIX and other windows versions.  -Fastness: if you want more fastness and don't care for more security on other platforms and other PCs you can use HiBit on NTFS filesystem.  -Large Files: there is no relationship beween HiBit speed to hide folder and the size of that file, but a large number of files into that folder may confuse HiBit and make it runs slow in compare of usual times.  -Removable Disks: HiBit it is a perfect solution for Portable and removable disks because you may use a removable disk in another computer, if you do that you will notice that your secret files/folders still hidden there.  -Fake Folder: you can use 'Fake Folder' function to fake your folder with another system folder form(system folders like My Compter, Recycle Bin etc.. folders), if someone opens your secret folder he will be taken to another system place, the folder still faked even on other computers. Author: Falcon-Soft| Date: 16-09-2007 | Size: 1750 KB
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	Fresh Diagnose  License: Freeware
	Fresh Diagnose is an utility designed to analyze and benchmark your computer system. It can analyze and benchmark many kinds of hardware, such as CPU performance, hard disk performance, video system information, mainboard information, and more! Key features of Fresh Diagnose: System Information: Scanning your system and give a complete report about your computer's hardware and software, for examples: mainboard information, video system information, PCI/AGP buses information, peripheral (keyboard, mouse, printer, etc.) information, network information. System Benchmarks: Testing your system performance, such as CPU, hard disk, CD/DVD ROM, and compare it with other systems. Use this free software to learn more about your computer and its components, detect/diagnose any problems in your computer, and increase your computer's performance! Author: Freshdevices Corp.| Date: 17-10-2003 | Size: 1231 KB
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	Cute Partition Manager  License: Freeware
	Cute Partition Manager is an advanced hard disk partition management utility Publish-me.com. Using Cute Partition Manager, you can easily add, edit, delete and manage the partitions in your computer. Free product support is available at site. Most of the hard disks have plenty of space and can easily accommodate more than one operating system. In order to have multiple operating systems, you need to partition your hard disk with a partition management utility like Cute Partition Manager. Cute Partition Manager is very easy to use. It lets you preview the changes before you save them. It lets you edit the boot flag, partition type and other advanced parameters. It gives you total control of your system during the partition process. For example, it lets you remove all existing partitions and install all the operating systems from scratch. It supports all versions of Windows (9x,ME,NT,2K,XP,Vista), DOS, Linux, etc. Author: OSL Corp.| Date: 26-10-2006 | Size: 37 KB
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	Format144  License: Freeware
	Unconditionally formats a standard 1.44MB floppy disk in drive A:. Windows XP has a problem formatting demagnetized or corrupt diskettes: its format function only checks for diskette to be readable, and does not perform actual formatting if it is not. Format144 is a simple command-line tool that formats disktettes to the most common standard. Source code is realeased under the GNU GPL for study and improvement. Author: Denis Petrov| Date: 27-10-2004 | Size: 19 KB
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	PC Shredder  License: Freeware
	PC Shredder is one free data removal and file shredder software, can permanently delete files, folders and make them irrecoverable, completely shredding the files you specify, make it impossible for anyone to restore deleted information! Prevent your business data, important documents and personal information from being recovered.    PC Shredder is Freeware. It is free for both personal and commercial use. PC Shredder works on Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003 Server and Windows Vista. There is no minimum hardware requirement for PC Shredder to run properly.    Why You Need PC Shredder:  When you delete files from a disk on your computer, Windows does not erase the contents of these files from the disk - it only deletes 'references' to these files from files system tables. The contents of all deleted files remain on the disk and can be easily restored using any recovery utility.  After you delete the data, Windows deletes the data but not completely. After deleting the file, its name is only erased from the database whereas all the contents remain there. This way data don't get deleted completely. Here is the solution for your concern.  Don't let your PC be unfaithful to you. Use PC Shredder to keep your PC secure and faithful.  PC Shredder allows you easily wipe free space to ensure that previously 'deleted' files cannot be recovered.  PC Shredder uses 5 built-in delete files algorithms for overwriting files content to leave no chances to recover them.  PC Shredder can save hard disk space and improve your computer's performance Author: PCShredder.com| Date: 10-09-2008 | Size: 283 KB
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	dfg ShutDown XP  License: Freeware
	This program is a professional shutdown, automation, atomic time synchronizing, disk cleaning and PC protection utility - the best you can get today. dfg ShutDown XP gives you an easy and thorough time controlled and automatic way to shutdown, restart or log off your system with optional power off and shutdown forcing (no questioning). An optional Countdown Counter (visual and acoustic) enables you to cancel the system shutdown within a time period of up to 99 seconds. The program also has a built in alarm clock function (alarm sound). Optionally will dfg ShutDown XP will protect the computer while you are absent. You can also launch a program (and wait for exit) before shutdown e.g. to start your daily backup program. All actions (log off, shut down, restart, etc. including system crash info) together with time and userID will be stored in a log file. Synchronization from your system clock to the exact time using the Internet can be done manually or automatically. It queries one of the National Institute of Standards and Technology timeservers, which then returns the correct standard time. It works through firewalls and proxy servers and supports 12(AM/PM) and 24 hour time format incl. all time zones. The standard time is converted to local time and compared with the internal system time on the computer, and adjustments are made accordingly. Optional time check automatically after Windows / program start and the Internet connection is available. The disk cleaning function is optionally accomplished before the shutdown starts. Author: d.f.g| Date: 17-03-2004 | Size: 1057 KB
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	EASEUS Partition Manager  License: Freeware
	As Partition Magic alternative, EASEUS Partition Manager is an excellent partition management freeware for home users only. It not only provides with convenient user-interface simplifying your tasks but also enables you to configure and manage partitions of hard drive. With the help of EASEUS Partition Manager, you can create, delete, format partitions on your hard disk quickly and easily. The most attractive feature is that it can resize/move your partitions by using the free spaces without destroying data. Here come the main functions of EASEUS Partition Manager: Resize/ Move partitions Support hardware RAID Create partitions Delete/ (delete all) partitions Label partitions Format partitions View Disk/Partition property Set Active Hide/Unhide partitions With this wonderful freeware, your hard disk will be of great performance on your computer. Why not have a try and see how powerful these functions of this free partition software are? You can easily and safely organize your hard drive with the freeware EASEUS Partition Manager. EASEUS Partition Manager is the best partition tool and is available for free! It provides flawless partitioning operations of all kind: resize, move partitions and redistribute free space, and much more. Author: YIWO Tech Ltd| Date: 27-06-2008 | Size: 4623 KB
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	UndeleteMyFiles  License: Freeware
	UndeleteMyFiles is a free tool to recover accidentally deleted files from hard disks, USB flash drives, CF and SD cards and other storage media. Features: -File Rescue - The File Rescue Wizard is a quick and easy way to find and recover deleted files from PC. It employs a simplified two-step process that enables you recover any files that used to reside on your system. -Media Recover - The Media Recover Wizard is a quick and easy way to find and recover deleted media from PC and digital devices.It employs a simplified two-step process that enables you recover any files that used to reside on your system. -Delete File Search - The Advanced Delete File Search provides a great variety of specialized filters that allow you to find and work closely with specific deleted information and files.Recoverable items can be previewed beforehand, deleted file contents can be searched and organized in many ways, and entire directory structure may be recovered. There is an option of deleted disk partitions files and folders recovery. -Files Wiper - The Security Tools allow you to delete any files permanently without recovery.Also provide an option of Windows context menu integration. -Emergency Disk Image - The Emergency Disk Image can be a critical tool when salvaging lost data because it provides a way to save all data on a particular drive to a single file and recover intended items over time without risk of loss due to use of original drive. Disk images create an immediate usable snapshot and thus prevent deleted data from being overwritten by subsequent drive activity. -Mail Rescue - Mail Recovery Wizard. Author: SeriousBit| Date: 25-07-2008 | Size: 1476 KB
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	AFreeRipper  License: Freeware
	AFreeRipper extracts digital-audio tracks from an audio CD into sound files on your computer disk. You can save CD audio tracks to WAV or MP3 files and convert or encode audio files between WAV and MP3 formats. AFreeRipper allow user control output quality through bitrate and channel. AFreeRipper also lets you record voice streams into an audio file. Author: Bin Artisan LLC| Date: 8-42-2006 | Size: 2058 KB
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	Linksys USBM128M - Instant USB Disk 128MB  License: Freeware
	Upgrade your Linksys USBM128M - Instant USB Disk 128MB. Before starting this driver installation we suggest you make sure you are installing the latest driver version available. Follow readme instructions/help file for installing drivers when available. Sometimes you need to restart your system for the new installed driver to become active. You can install this driver with the following operating system: Windows 98/ME/2000 Author: Linksys| Date: 01-04-2002 | Size: 50 KB
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	Linksys USBM64M - Instant USB Disk 64MB  License: Freeware
	Upgrade your Linksys USBM64M - Instant USB Disk 64MB. Before starting this driver installation we suggest you make sure you are installing the latest driver version available. Follow readme instructions/help file for installing drivers when available. Sometimes you need to restart your system for the new installed driver to become active. You can install this driver with the following operating system: Windows 98/ME/2000 Author: Linksys| Date: 01-04-2002 | Size: 50 KB
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	Linksys USBM32M - Instant USB Disk 32MB  License: Freeware
	Upgrade your Linksys USBM32M - Instant USB Disk 32MB. Before starting this driver installation we suggest you make sure you are installing the latest driver version available. Follow readme instructions/help file for installing drivers when available. Sometimes you need to restart your system for the new installed driver to become active. You can install this driver with the following operating system: Windows 98/ME/2000 Author: Linksys| Date: 11-04-2002 | Size: 50 KB
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	Bodie's Splitter  License: Freeware
	Bodie's Splitter is a multilingual utility to divide a long file in others but small (1.44 mb), so that, each one of the generated files fits in a disk, and then, these files can to be transferred to another pc, or saved as backup. This pieces can later be combined to form the original file. In this version the user can select the size of the cuts to make. Author: Marcelo Dato| Date: 08-11-2004 | Size: 16 KB
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	Driver Magician Lite  License: Freeware
	Driver Magician Lite identifies all the hardware in the system, extracts their associated drivers from the hard disk and backs them up to a location of your choice. Then when you format and reinstall/upgrade your operating system, you can restore all the "saved" drivers just as if you had the original driver diskettes in your hands. Author: GoldSolution Software, Inc.| Date: 04-04-2006 | Size: 1573 KB
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	VistaGlance  License: Freeware
	Instantly find document, music, video or run program you want within several seconds since you firstly think of it. You don't need Explorer now! Super fast indexing, super fast search by file names, attributes and tags.. Copy, move and open parent folder of found files, apply smart filtering and sorting. Works with CD DVD USB-drives. Let computer guess what you need. Uses artificial intelligence with fuzzy logic to show you the files you want. The core parts of VistaGlance are powerful file indexing engine and heuristic module based on fuzzy logic. Unlike other similar solutions, VistaGlance indexes average hard disk in several minutes. It needs to index your hard disk only once. After that, VistaGlance monitors and reflects all changes in your file system instantly. The search itself commonly takes less then one second even on large hard disk. The main task of heuristic module is to select the most appropriate files and take them at the top of Results List. VistaGlance calculates the overall relevance of each result depending on the string relevance, date and time of last access, usage frequency of exact this file and files of such type and a lot of secondary parameters. Consequently, you will find the needed file within first ten results in the most of queries. Author: QwertyStudios| Date: 27-09-2006 | Size: 2429 KB
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	Zilla Free DataNuker  License: Freeware
	Zilla Data Nuker literally destroys files, free space and your Recycle Bin contents instead of only deleting them. That means your data contents once overwritten and destroyed It can't be recovered. The user therefore should be sure of the files, folders .etc. he/she wants to shred.There are many safeguards built into the Zilla Data Nuker program to warn the user.Windows allocates clusters for new files (and extending existing files) from one end of the disk and moving towards the other end. Accordingly, the user for example if deleting files near the end of the disk, it might be very long before those clusters get used again.Therefore, shredding a disk's free space ensures that any deleted data stored in unallocated clusters will be completely shredded, and all the bits and pieces of left over data from deleted files will be destroyed.Generally speaking Windows stores files using two steps:A directory entry and A series of one or more clusters on a disk.When the user deletes a file using windows the file's data doesn't actually get deleted from disk. Windows simply marks the file's clusters as available for reuse, then marks that file's directory entry as deleted (from the directories available) by replacing the first character of the file's name with a special character. Now if those clusters don't get reused for another file, they are vulnerable and can be retrieved by those who know where and how to look for it.Adding one byte to the directory that was deleted will allow the retrieve of the entire file that has been deleted. This is used in most of the "Unerase" utilities functions. Zilla Data Nuker makes it virtually impossible to retrieve data from a file because it literally overwrites the file's data clusters before deleting the file. A "quick" shred overwrites the file once, filling its data clusters with zeroes. A "Thorough" shred overwrites the file maximum 10 times, using varying bit patterns each time Author: ZillaSoft.ws| Date: 15-04-2007 | Size: 124 KB
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