Erase Hard Drive

	Active@ Kill Disk - Hard Drive Eraser  License: Freeware
	Active@ KillDisk is a quality security application that destroys data permanently from any computer that can be started using a DOS floppy disk. Active@ KillDisk Professional conforms to US Department of Defense clearing and sanitizing standard DoD 5220.22-M. You can be sure that once you wipe a disk with Active@ KillDisk, sensitive information is destroyed forever. Author: LSoft Technologies Inc.| Date: 06-06-2003 | Size: 252 KB
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	Hard Angel  License: Freeware
	Do you remember CIH? The virus has injured 500000 computers and many computers have been destroyed as a result of erasing of the Flash-BIOS. Now owners of motherboards lock it but this problem is actual for hard disks still. Hard Angel it is jumper for your hard drive. Protect your hard drive with a Hard Angel! The Hard Angel: provides the hardware protection of your drive for the prohibition of unauthorized access; allows to lock attacks of viruses which use this mechanism for destruction of the information; allows to warn the user about the risk of a data loss if drive starts to fail; provides reliable storage of the passwords and possibility of their restoring; allows to bypass limitations of the BIOS of capacity of your drive; works under any OS. Ideas and algorithms are checked out in the gangsters world of Russia and by speculators of inside in America. Author: AHI-2| Date: 12-03-2004 | Size: 195 KB
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	VAIOSoft DriveEraser  License: Freeware
	Secure Data Clean up: DriveEraserâ„¢ permanently erases data from hard disks, removable media, partitions, files and folders. It is specifically designed to eliminate data that is no longer needed and should not be recovered by anyone else. When files are deleted from a disk on your computer through the operating system, the operating system (Windows 95/98/2000/Linux etc) does not erase the content of these files from the disk. It only deletes references to these files on the hard drive. Contents of the deleted files continue to be stored on the disk and can be easily restored using disk utilities. Major Functions Secure Erase hard/removable Disk Drives Secure Erase any selected partition Secure Erase files/folders Secure Erase Methods Create virtually any Custom Secure Erase rules Secure Data Clean up: DriveEraserâ„¢ permanently erases data from hard disks, removable media, partitions, files and folders. It is specifically designed to eliminate data that is no longer needed and should not be recovered by anyone else. When files are deleted from a disk on your computer through the operating system, the operating system (Windows 95/98/2000/Linux etc) does not erase the content of these files from the disk. It only deletes references to these files on the hard drive. Contents of the deleted files continue to be stored on the disk and can be easily restored using disk utilities. Major Functions Secure Erase hard/removable Disk Drives Secure Erase any selected partition Secure Erase files/folders Secure Erase Methods Create virtually any Custom Secure Erase rules Author: VAIOSoft, Inc| Date: 28-04-2004 | Size: 970 KB
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	HDDlife  License: Freeware
	Worried about hard drive failures? Get HDDLife - a real-time hard drive monitoring utility with alerts, malfunction protection and data loss prevention functions. This hard drive inspector is an advanced proactive hard drive failure detection system which controls all of your hard drive risks. HDDLife uses S.M.A.R.T. technology, and works both for single PCs and large computer networks. S.M.A.R.T. technology was developed by hard drive manufacturers to accurately predict hard drive life span and prevent HDD malfunction. HDDLife displays S.M.A.R.T. attributes in real-time and alerts the system administrator if particular hard-drive attributes exceed threshold values and are at risk. The system administrator can then backup data and/or replace endangered hard drives. HDDLife loads on Windows start, compares new attribute values with the previous values and consumes absolutely no memory. The program is extremely straightforward - no fundamental knowledge of PC or hard drive technology is needed whatsoever. Zero failures during the last four years for the 100000+ hard drives monitored! 100% FREE to download and try. Author: BinarySense, Ltd.| Date: 31-01-2005 | Size: 1458 KB
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	Virtual Drive Creator™  License: Freeware
	Create Virtual Drives from long paths, it's easy! Type the full path or browse to the path via the Drive and Folder Lists. Choose a drive letter from the “Available Virtual Drive Letters” list, Click [Add Virtual Drive] to create the virtual drive, or Double Click the letter. Make CD-ROMs obsolete, copy the contents of the CD-ROM to a folder on your Hard Drive and install it from there, then run the Virtual CD from your hard drive. Author: J. A. Associates| Date: 13-01-2003 | Size: 1871 KB
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	Eraser  License: Freeware
	Eraser is an advanced security tool, which allows you to completely remove sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it several times with carefully selected patterns. You can drag and drop files and folders to the on-demand eraser, use the convenient Explorer shell extension or use the integrated scheduler to program overwriting of unused disk space or, for example, browser cache files to happen regularly. Author: Heidi Computers Ltd| Date: 19-01-2003 | Size: 2654 KB
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	The Shredder  License: Freeware
	BE CAREFUL WITH THIS APPLICATION! It is a file shredder, as the name implies and if used incorrectly, it can permanently destroy files on your hard drive! I've built in lots of bells and whistles and warnings, so it should be difficult (to say the least) to blow something up and not know it! The Shredder, despite its risky nature, is a useful program that can increase your personal security by eliminating sensitive files. This program was experimental and intended to lay the foundation for file shredding techniques I have since used in many other programs. Author: Corby Johanneson| Date: 29-02-2000 | Size: 319 KB
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	100xCD  License: Freeware
	100xCD Cache speeds up your CD-ROM drive by caching frequently accessed data to your local hard drive. It work under Windows-XP/2000. Modern hard drives and RAID-devices are much faster than any CD-ROM drive available on the market (in both access time and transfer rate), so the overall performance increases when using 100xCD. Freeware. Author: KMI Software| Date: 15-03-2002 | Size: 680 KB
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	Eraser  License: Freeware
	Eraser is an advanced security tool, which allows you to completely remove sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it several times with carefully selected patterns. You can drag and drop files and folders to the on-demand eraser, use the convenient Explorer shell extension or use the integrated scheduler to program overwriting of unused disk space or, for example, browser cache files to happen regularly, at night, during your lunch break, at weekends or whenever you like. The patterns used for overwriting are based on Peter Gutmann's paper "Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid-State Memory" and they are selected to effectively remove the magnetic remnants from the hard disk. Other methods include the one defined in the National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual of the US Department of Defense and overwriting with pseudo-random data. You can also define your own overwriting methods. Author: Sami Tolvanen| Date: 07-01-2002 | Size: 750 KB
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	Sure Delete  License: Freeware
	Sure Delete is a tool for Windows based computers to completely remove data from your hard drive. No more worrying if your sensitive data can be recovered. No more headaches. Sure Delete is tested safe for FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, and NTFS disk formats, so you can use it in Windows™ 95, 98, NT 4.0, and Windows 2000 environments without worry. (NT/2000 users must have the appropriate permissions). Sure Delete is packed with features. Besides being able to wipe files Sure Delete now can wipe free drive space. So even if you forgot to delete the file via Sure Delete, you can just wipe the empty HD space, and you can be sure its gone. Another feature is the ability of the user to choose speed/security ratio. If you have a lot of time on your hands you could use the most secure but also the most time consuming type of wiping. However if you are short on time, and all you need is to prevent half educated snoops from recovering your data then you don't need as much security and you can set Sure Delete to use a little less secure but faster method of wiping. There are many more features which you'll just have to download Sure Delete to discover. Author: Michael L| Date: 18-11-2000 | Size: 427 KB
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	CleverCrypt Lite (Freeware)  License: Freeware
	Create a password protected, fully encrypted hard drive to store all of your private files in. Just copy your files into your CleverCrypt drive for total protection. <p> The instant you save data into a CleverCrypt drive, CleverCrypt automatically scrambles the data before it is saved on the drive. Once you close your drive or turn off your computer, your secure drive is automatically locked. You don’t have to remember to secure your data: CleverCrypt does it for you every time. To access your data again, simply open CleverCrypt and supply the correct passwords to access your confidential information. <p> Even if your whole computer is stolen, your data will remain locked in the virtual drive, safe from prying eyes. Without your passwords, the data is simply not there! <p> CleverCrypt is the perfect security tool for lawyers, doctors, government establishments and any practice dealing with highly sensitive information. <p> You can use CleverCrypt to protect any office documents, including spreadsheets, confidential documents, presentations, emails, client lists, accounting information and scheduling diaries. <p> CleverCrypt Lite is completely free! <p> If you like our product, please consider purchasing the full version to support our work. Author: Quantum Digital Security| Date: 24-08-2004 | Size: 3730 KB
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	Hide & Protect any Drives  License: Freeware
	Hide or restrict access to any drives such as Hard drive, CD, DVD, floppy and flash, and deny access to partitions of your hard drives with "Hide & Protect Drives". Stop unauthorized software installations and data leak by removable media. Author: IM-Soft| Date: 08-10-2004 | Size: 765 KB
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	Zilla Data Nuker  License: Freeware
	When you delete a file from Windows it just mark the file as deleted in file allocation table, but the data of the file is still on your hard disk, Windows does not physically remove deleted files from your hard disk. Emptying your Recycle Bin does NOT protect you at all. Your sensitive files can be recovered, even after you format your hard disk! This powerful program helps you shred important files & folders so that they cannot be restored & prevent attempts to recover sensitive deleted files from your hard drive by data recovery or forensic software. Shredder allows you to purge, wipe & erase data with methods that far exceed US Department of Defence standards for file deletion (DOD 5220.22). Easily automate the cleaning process with batch files, shortcuts and scheduler. Completely remove sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it several times with carefully selected patterns. Overwrites all bits in selected files, including cluster slack space, with binary 1's, 0's, and/or random bit patterns. Supports complete folder deletions including subfolders. Shreds disk free space so you can even use shredder to destroy previously deleted files on your hard drive. Drag & Drop files or entire folders Delete even if the file is locked! No trails are left of any compromising or confidential information. Easily choose the number of overwrites according to your security ambitions. The higher the number the less the probability that even finest magnetic tracks could be detected. The Department of Defense (DOD 5220.22-M) recommends seven passes for top security. You can also shred files by right-clicking on them from the MS Windows Explorer or on the recycle bin and selecting the shred item on the popup context menu. Author: ZillaSoft.ws| Date: 28-04-2004 | Size: 4214 KB
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	Stats 2000  License: Freeware
	3D animated no-nags disk utility that will take boring hard drive statistics and spice them up using 3D animation. Tells you what kind of files are on the hard drive, the distribution of files by age and size. Also gives you the time of day that most files are used on your system. All 3D charts can be printed and manipulated. Author: Contact Plus Corporation| Date: 08-04-2003 | Size: 767 KB
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	Disk Investigator  License: Freeware
	Disk Investigator helps you to discover all that is hidden on your computer hard disk. It can also help you to recover lost data. 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. Undelete previously deleted files. Verify the effectiveness of file and disk wiping programs. Author: Kevin Solway| Date: 03-04-2003 | Size: 522 KB
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	CHAOS Shredder  License: Freeware
	Windows does not physically remove deleted files from your hard disk. Emptying your Recycle Bin does NOT protect you at all. Your sensitive files can be recovered, even after you format your hard disk! When you delete a file from Windows, Windows just mark the file as deleted in file allocation table, but the data of the file is still on your hard disk, there are many tools available which can let others easily recover your sensitive files even after you have formated the hard disk. Sensitive data can easily fall into the wrong hands. And because Windows is not capable of deleting information beyond recovery, you are at risk! Passwords, financial documents, even those "about last night" e-mails are fair game for the IT professionals, computer technicians or hackers. CHAOS Shredder allows you to purge, wipe and erase data with methods that far exceed US Department of Defense standards for file deletion (DOD 5220.22). Author: Safe Soft Corporation| Date: 22-08-2004 | Size: 287 KB
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	Easy Erase Spyware Remover  License: Freeware
	Easy Erase Spyware Remover is a simple adware/spyware removal utility. With an active monitoring feature, Easy Erase Spyware Remover will notify you whenever the program or software you are running contains adware/spyware code. Prevents some spyware and adware from installing. Updated with the most common adware and spyware programs. Easy Erase Spyware Remover removes the major spyware and adware programs and even more. Not only does it block and remove adware and spyware, it also removes some trojans. It can even detect some viruses. Author: EasyErase.com| Date: 10-07-2004 | Size: 421 KB
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	Easy Erase File Cleaner  License: Freeware
	Easy Erase File Cleaner is a simple file cleaning utility. Easily erase your termporary internet files, temp files, browser histories, and other personal information. With an option to perform at startup, Easy Erase File Cleaner also allows you to easily clear your documents menu and your start button run history. Author: EasyErase.com| Date: 10-07-2004 | Size: 335 KB
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	Emsa DiskCheck  License: Freeware
	Emsa Disk Check is a dual-purpose utility, for disk checking (prescan and full disk reading) and also benchmarking. What it does, is scanning/reading the entire contents of a disk (CD, DVD or hard drive; or even floppy) and show any read errors that may appear, but also show drive speed information, progress statistics etc. It was designed with simplicity in mind, but usefulness for the user. You can use it to do a full check of the surface of any disks, for example if you have just scratched a disk and want to see if it is still readable, or if you want to check all your cd library for time or usage related faults. You can also use it for drive benchmarking, easily comparing speeds through 'X' speed multiplier factor, in real conditions. You can also scan hard drives or even floppies - and get real condition performance information accordingly with drive performance but also with the way data is stored on it, which obviously impacts on overall performance. Make sur you clean the CD or DVD before doing tests, to remove dirt and ensure tests are accurate. Freeware. Author: EMSA SYSTEMS LTD| Date: 25-03-2004 | Size: 185 KB
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	ArcSet  License: Freeware
	ArcSet is a program used for clearing of Read Only Attributes on files copied off a CD-rom to Hard disc drive. It is handy for Audio files and magazine bundled CD content or Document archives copied from CD-rom to your hard disc drive that you will need to modify or delete later. Author: BirdCage Software| Date: 13-11-2001 | Size: 1 KB
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	HDD Temperature  License: Freeware
	There are many reasons why hard-drives get damaged, and overheating is probably the most common one. If you remember your physics lessons well, you know that spinning something at several thousand revolutions per minute causes heat, plenty of heat. That is why servers and computers have coolers, fans and other gadgets that prevent overheating. But as fans get plugged, coolers stop working, or too many hard-drives get added - the risk of "frying" your HDDs and losing data increases drastically. So how do you monitor your HDD temperature to make sure you data is always save? Simply download HDD Temperature from PalickSoft. This utility comes in two versions - regular and pro. The regular version is intended for home users who have only single hard-drive and is totally free. Using S.M.A.R.T. technology included in all modern HDDs, HDD Temperature checks and monitors the temperature of your hard drives; you can also set the maximum value of drive temperature so that you will be warned should this temperature be exceeded. S.M.A.R.T. stands for "Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology" and is currently the most advanced technology in this field; this technology was developed by HDD manufacturers and is supported by IBM, Maxtor, Seagate, Hitachi and many others. HDD Temperature Pro is created specially for small and large companies that have many computers and need to monitor multiple hard-drives. This "beefed up" version has several features that the regular version does not. For example, it can monitor several HDDs simultaneously and can send warning messages to a specified e-mail address or certain computer in the network. Importantly, it can automatically force overheated system to hibernate, protecting both HDD and unsaved data. You also can run this application as network service, making this tool is ideal for corporate networks. Get your copy now and stop sweating about your hard-drive temperature. Author: PalickSoft| Date: 09-05-2004 | Size: 1016 KB
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	HDD Temperature  License: Freeware
	There are many reasons why hard-drives get damaged, and overheating is probably the most common one. If you remember your physics lessons well, you know that spinning something at several thousand revolutions per minute causes heat, plenty of heat. That is why servers and computers have coolers, fans and other gadgets that prevent overheating. But as fans get plugged, coolers stop working, or too many hard-drives get added - the risk of "frying" your HDDs and losing data increases drastically. So how do you monitor your HDD temperature to make sure you data is always save? Simply download HDD Temperature from PalickSoft. This utility comes in two versions - regular and pro. The regular version is intended for home users who have only single hard-drive and is totally free. Using S.M.A.R.T. technology included in all modern HDDs, HDD Temperature checks and monitors the temperature of your hard drives; you can also set the maximum value of drive temperature so that you will be warned should this temperature be exceeded. S.M.A.R.T. stands for "Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology" and is currently the most advanced technology in this field; this technology was developed by HDD manufacturers and is supported by IBM, Maxtor, Seagate, Hitachi and many others. HDD Temperature Pro is created specially for small and large companies that have many computers and need to monitor multiple hard-drives. This "beefed up" version has several features that the regular version does not. For example, it can monitor several HDDs simultaneously and can send warning messages to a specified e-mail address or certain computer in the network. Importantly, it can automatically force overheated system to hibernate, protecting both HDD and unsaved data. You also can run this application as network service, making this tool is ideal for corporate networks. Get your copy now and stop sweating about your hard-drive temperature. Author: PalickSoft| Date: 09-09-2004 | Size: 1929 KB
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	Jetico Personal Firewall  License: Freeware
	Jetico Personal Firewall checks every packet that comes in or out of your computer. Using configuration sets for Security Policy you define how your computer is connected to the local network and the whole Internet. Your computer may be completely hidden from any unfriendly attempts to access your hard drive while you are able to access any web sites you want and you decide on which applications are allowed to access Internet and which are not. With Jetico Personal Firewall you feel secure, safe and protected while enjoying all Internet activities. Author: Jetico, Inc.| Date: 17-02-2004 | Size: 2688 KB
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	DustBuster  License: Freeware
	DustBuster is a garbage file removing utility for Microsoft Windows operating systems. It searches for junk files and temp files that are of no use and are just taking space on your hard drive. Based on a "fuzzy logic" scanning technology, DustBuster cleans over 1500 different types of useless temp files and directories in a single click, detecting and deleting all these unneeded files automatically. This will increase hard disk space on Windows 98/ME/2000/XP. The integrated SensibleScan search engine does not interfere with system files or installed applications: it gives you the freedom to clean up disk space simply and securely in no time, enhancing your system's performance, so you can focus on what's really important to you Author: Casper&McAlba| Date: 25-09-2004 | Size: 191 KB
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	eXibition Wallpaper Manager  License: Freeware
	Add a little pizzaz to your desktop with eXibition Software's Wallpaper Manager. Now you can choose images from anywhere on your hard drive to automatically rotate on your Windows desktop. Show off pictures of the kids, rememeber that wonderful vacation, avoid the same ole same ole screen. Author: eXibition Software| Date: 31-12-2004 | Size: 3374 KB
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	HDD Thermometer  License: Freeware
	HDD Thermometer is a hard disk temperature monitoring tool. It has all the features needed to prevent overheating and possible data loss. HDD Thermometer use S.M.A.R.T. technology to get access to the hard disk temperature. Most of modern hard disks provide self temperature value through S.M.A.R.T. So if at least one of your hard disks supports this feature than this program will be useful for you. When designing HDD Thermometer, we aimed to create fast, small, and feature-rich software. We considered that we succeeded in this. The most part of its life program eats about 400 KB of memory, CPU usage is minimal too. HDD Thermometer features: * Monitor hard disks temperature changes; * Ability to perform any of following actions when exceed Warning or Critical temperature: a) Show Notification b) Play Sound c) Execute Application d) Shutdown / Hibernate * Show hard disks temperature indicators in SysTray; * Log temperature changes; * Ability to set individual settings for each hard disk. * Multi-language user interface. (Currently available 20 languages). Author: RSD Software| Date: 18-11-2004 | Size: 253 KB
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	eDATA Unerase  License: Freeware
	eDATA Unerase is a powerful and easy-to-use data recovery software to recover lost or deleted files from hard drives, floppy disks, digital cameras, SmartMedia, CompactFlash, Sony Memory Sticks, IBM Micro Drives, Flash cards or other removable media types. Simply use eDATA Unerase to restore your lost files in 3 wizard steps even if they have been deleted by a virus attack, emptied from the Recycle Bin, lost due to the format of a hard drive or system crash. No special skills are required. Author: OctaneSoft.com| Date: 09-12-2004 | Size: 2083 KB
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	! Internet Eraser  License: Freeware
	Internet Eraser protects your privacy by cleaning up all the tracks of your Internet and computer activities. The tool is integrated with IE and it can erase the browser cache, history, cookies, typed URLs, autocomplete list and so on in one click. You can also set the tool to automatically erase those tracks when you quit IE or quit Windows. The tool is also featured to erase the disk free space and has the open plugin support. With the plugin support, AbsoluteShield Internet Eraser now supports to erase the tracks left by any applications. We currently offer more than 30 plugins which supports the most popular programs such as MS Office, WinZip, UltraEdit, RealPlayer, Media Player, Beside the ability to erase the tracks of your Internet and computer activities, the tool also has an integrated, small, configurable and intelligent Ad window and popup blocker Here is a quick overview of the features: Features Remove the tracks of your activities completely, such as IE history, cookies, typed urls, etc Integrated IE and Messenger Popup Blocker Plugin Support for MS Office, Winzip, RealPlayer and more Erase the free disk space, cleaning unused data Speed up your surfing experience and computer speed by erasing temp files and cached files Stealth Mode so other people don't know you area running it Author: No Spam| Date: 05-02-2004 | Size: 1250 KB
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	Learn Computers With Video  License: Freeware
	See how to identify every computer component using photos and videos of real components inside a Pentium 4 system.Understand all about the Hard Drive,its components and its location in any computer.Learn about the modem,monitor,and other components.Boost your knowledge of the BIOS and how it is updated.See photos of each component and be able to see inside such devices as the mouse,keyboard,and the monitor in great detail.Look at the components used to network your home computers.Fully understanding your RAM,and ROM memory. Author: Softsale software| Date: 31-01-2003 | Size: 555 KB
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	Mihov Picture Downloader  License: Freeware
	Mihov Picture Downloader is a handy and useful tool for downloading all the pictures from one or several web pages. Just type in the address and let this program do the rest. One click and all the graphics will be transfered to your hard drive, without clicking on every link and viewing every thumbnail. You can also preview images as they get downloaded. Author: Miha Psenica| Date: 30-05-2003 | Size: 326 KB
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