Freeware: Hard Disk Optimization

	Auslogics Disk Defrag  License: Freeware
	Disk fragmentation leads to system slowdowns, PC crashes, slow startup and shutdown and sometimes to system failures. Auslogics Disk Defrag is designed for fast optimization of today's modern hard disks. Get the maximum performance out of your expensive hardware investments. And it's absolutely FREE. Improve computer performance and stability Increase your productivity - no more waiting for files to open Defragment disks in only a few minutes Useful disk fragmentation map and detailed fragmentation report Windows XP Home and Professional, 2000/2003 and Vista supported Hard disks are by far the slowest component in your computer. CPU and memory work much faster than hard disks because they do not have moving parts. Therefore fragmented disks often become a bottleneck of the system performance. Besides causing slowdowns, fragmentation makes the hard drive disk heads move frequently when reading files which leads to freeze-ups and system crashes. It is important to keep your disks defragmented and optimized as much as possible. Author: Auslogics Software| Date: 18-03-2008 | Size: 1341 KB
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	Guranteed Free PC Speedup  License: Freeware
	SpeedItUp Free will speed up any computer system running Windows XP or Microsoft Windows Vista. It works by using New Hard-Disk optimization technology that allows your computer to read data in some cases up to 300% faster from your Hard Drive. SpeedItup Free then optimizes your RAM and makes other settings to speed up your Internet connection and overall computer performance. Download Speeditup Free for free now. Author: MicroSmarts LLC| Date: 04-10-2007 | Size: 4099 KB
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	SpeedItUp Free  License: Freeware
	SpeedItUp Free will speed up any computer system running Windows XP or Microsoft Windows Vista. It works by using New Hard-Disk optimization technology that allows your computer to read data in some cases up to 300% faster from your Hard Drive. SpeedItup Free then optimizes your RAM and makes other settings to speed up your Internet connection and overall computer performance. Download Speeditup Free for free now. Author: MicroSmarts LLC| Date: 23-06-2007 | Size: 1878 KB
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	SpeedItUp Free - XP & Vista Edition  License: Freeware
	SpeedItUp Free will speed up any computer system running Windows XP or Microsoft Windows Vista. It works by using New Hard-Disk optimization technology that allows your computer to read data in some cases up to 300% faster from your Hard Drive. SpeedItup Free then optimizes your RAM and makes other settings to speed up your Internet connection and overall computer performance. Download Speeditup Free for free now. Author: MicroSmarts LLC| Date: 03-09-2007 | Size: 4099 KB
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	EaseUs Disk Copy  License: Freeware
	The EaseUs Disk Copy utility offers a very fast and easy way to copy all or part of a hard drive to another hard drive. Copy Utility to image hard drives. Use this to make a copy of a hard drive that DataRecoveryWizard scans slowly, has read errors, you suspect it is otherwise going bad or otherwise causes problems with Windows. EaseUs Disk Copy can create an exact (Mirror Image, Disk to Disk) copy of your old disk, including the operating system, applications, personal preferences, custom settings, and all of your vital data. Disk Copy can be used for backup, cloning, or Upgrading your original small hard drive to a new larger drive. Essential Utility for Disaster Recovery. Author: YIWO Tech Ltd| Date: 07-11-2005 | Size: 2084 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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	Ariolic Disk Scanner  License: Freeware
	Disk Scanner is a free tiny utility to check the hard drive for read errors. Disk read errors may be the first typical sign of the possible disk failure. Ariolic Disk Scanner makes a raw sector read check of the hard drive and shows the result as a picture of your disk, where the good and bad clusters marked, so you can see the status of your disk at a glance. Key Features:   * Ariolic Disk Scanner does not require a setup - it's portable. Run it directly from CD or a Flash drive.   * See the check result at a glance   * Works with hard drives, flash disks, CD, floppy   * Nice and simple user interface   * and many more... Author: Ariolic Software, Ltd.| Date: 22-02-2008 | Size: 417 KB
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	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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	1-Hour Search Engine Optimization  License: Freeware
	Free 1-hour search engine optimization crash course on the basics of search engine optimization and how to submit to search engines. The course is designed for complete search engine optimization beginners. Suitable for all ages. No experience whatsoever is required. The course is written by Michael Wong, a search engine optimization specialist and author of 3 search engine books. Author: 1-Hour Search Engine Optimization| Date: 08-05-2003 | Size: 548 KB
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	The Undelete Free Disk Wipe  License: Freeware
	The Undelete Free Disk Wipe data cleanup and file wipe tool, that allow you to completely wipe/ remove / delete / erase a selected files,on a disk (floppy disks, hard disks,logical drives, etc). Any Data Recovery Software or Tool can't restore file, if file have been erase using The Undelete Free Disk Wipe - Data File Wipe tool. The Undelete Free Disk Wipe are useful if you want to make it difficult for people to recover deleted data from your disk. Author: The Undelete| Date: 15-06-2006 | Size: 235 KB
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	1-Hour Search Engine Optimization Crash Course  License: Freeware
	Free 1-hour search engine optimization crash course on the basics of search engine optimization and how to submit to search engines. The course is broken down into 10 chapters: 1. What Is Search Engine Optimization?; 2. Search Engine Optimization Part 1: Meta Tags; 3. Search Engine Optimization Part 2: HTML Tags; 4; Search Engine Optimization Part 3: Keywords; 5. Search Engine Optimization Part 4: Link Popularity; 6. Search Engine Submissions; 7. Submit To Web Directories; 8. Submit To Search Engines; 9. Advertise In Pay Per Click Search Engines; 10. Search Engine Optimization Software, Books, Tools and Resources. In this crash course you'll learn the basics of search engine optimization and how to submit to search engines. The course is designed for complete search engine optimization beginners. Suitable for all ages. No experience whatsoever is required. The course is written by Michael Wong, a search engine optimization specialist and author of 3 search engine books. Author: Michael Wong| Date: 12-11-2003 | Size: 640 KB
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	Encryption Screensaver_3d_Securstar  License: Freeware
	SecurStar hard disk encryption logo is moving around the desktop in a 3d format. SecurStar is world leader in hard disk encryption software, offering container encryption, volume encryption as well as partition and full hard disk encryption. Get DriveCrypt and DriveCrypt plus pack today, and secure your computer effectively against unauthorized access. DriveCrypt is the most used disk encryption software worldwide. Military strong 1344 Bit encryption: DRIVECRYPT securely and easily protects all proprietary data on notebooks and desktop computers 100% of the time without users having to think about security. Any organization, from a small company to a large international firm with thousands of users in the field, can effectively protect business plans, client lists, product specifications, confidential corporate memos, stock information, and much more with this product. As data is read from the hard disk, DRIVECRYPT automatically decrypts the data before it is loaded into memory. When data is written back to the hard disk, it is automatically re-encrypted. The encryption/ decryption process is completely transparent to the user or any application program -the data is caught "on the fly" as it transfers back and forth between the hard disk and memory. Consequently, users don't need to remember to decrypt or re-encrypt their data, or change the normal operation of the PC. In addition, only individual files are decrypted at any one time, not the whole hard disk. Author: SecurStar GmbH| Date: 12-06-2005 | Size: 781 KB
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	5star Game Tuner  License: Freeware
	Maximum computer capacity for your games! 5star GameTuner, optimization software for Windows, which aims at whipping your old PC into shape so that it can withstand (at least?) a few rounds of the current game hits - instead of throwing in the towel immediately. Additional features:  Freeware!  Storable user profile for quick restoration of individual settings  Fast switch between standard PC-application (work) and PC-games (leisure time at last)  Optimization of hard disk performance and cache access, of DirectX-, graphic card- and 3D-performance, of network and internet communication, Windows system services and various general settings  Fully automatic optimization, no previous experience required  Display of increase in performance Author: Engelmann Media GmbH| Date: 27-04-2007 | Size: 2300 KB
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	NT Disk Viewer  License: Freeware
	NT Disk Viewer allows users to display hard-disk data by physical sectors (in hex-code or ascii). Sectors can be copied and exported to files. The software supports FAT and NTFS file systems. Really useful when doing a "low-level" disk investigation and verification the effectiveness of file and disk wiping programs. NT Disk Viewer designed for developers and technical specialist who need access to physical sectors of hard drive. Portable as it uses a single exe file, have a very simple, user-friendly interface. Author: NTechnologies Inc| Date: 20-01-2008 | Size: 260 KB
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	vOptimizer FreeWare  License: Freeware
	With over 10,000 users, vOptimizer is the recognized industry-standard VM optimizer for fast, easy, and reliable optimization of Windows virtual machines for VMware and Microsoft platforms. vOptimizer is an advanced optimization solution that quickly and easily reduces a virtual machine's virtual hard drive to the smallest size possible while optimizing Windows guest operating systems for speed and performance.vOptimizer Desktop Edition enables unlimited optimizations of local VMs while Network Edition enables entire repositories of VMs located anywhere on the network to be optimized via scheduled automated jobs. vOptimizer FreeWare is a reduced version of vOptimizer Desktop. Features:  Comprehensive VM optimization with associated size/performance gains  New UI and 10x faster optimizations  Optimize local VMs with no need for VMs to be running Author: Vizioncore| Date: 09-10-2007 | Size: 5595 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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	HDClone Free Edition  License: Freeware
	The Free Edition of HDClone is the ideal tool for moving or cloning contents of entire hard disks on larger ones. Since it works on a physical level it can be used with any operating system and any filesystem. HDClone copies the data for you. This allows you to transfer entire system installations to a newer hard disk quickly and easily (hard disk migration). You only have to add the additional space on the disk via a partitioning tool. Since HDClone has its own operating system and is self-booting, it can be used even if the installed operating system is damaged. Therefore HDClone is also a great solution for data rescue on damaged hard disks or system installations. The commercial versions HDClone Basic Edition, HDClone Standard Edition, HDClone Professional Edition, and HDClone Enterprise Edition offer extended features. Author: Miray Software| Date: 22-02-2008 | Size: 4772 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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	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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	Easy Menu  License: Freeware
	There are many hard disk menu systems but none as simple and flexible as Easy Menu. Unlike most systems which only allow you nine items to a page, Easy Menu can accomodate up to 200 and any of those can call sub menus which can also hold up to 200 items. You can select programs from Easy Menu by the arrow keys, by typing the number or with full alphabetic search. Easy Menu includes a unique security system. Instead of just password protecting individual programs, you can also annotate each program as "User" or "Administrator only". When you lock to user items, the programs which are for the administrator only, simply dissapear from the menu. You can also prevent users from exiting to the DOS prompt ! If you administer DOS PCs, Easy Menu is the ideal front end.. Author: John Turnbull| Date: 26-12-2003 | Size: 200 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: 06-05-2006 | Size: 350 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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	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. Main Features:   • 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.   • Disk free space info and monitoring.   • The full list of features. Author: BinarySense, Ltd.| Date: 1-51-2006 | Size: 6348 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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	SC-DiskInfo  License: Freeware
	SC-DiskInfo is a disk space usage analyzer. This program will track down those folders and files that are using most disk space so you can remove unwanted data and clean up your drive effectively. It displays details, including number of subdirectories, file count and overall size, as well as a graphical chart display to quickly spot the largest folders. SC-DiskInfo is very fast and easy to use. It is compatible with Windows 2000/XP/2003 and no installation/uninstallation is required. Author: Soft-Central| Date: 29-11-2004 | Size: 320 KB
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	Arctor Disk-To-Disk Backup Free  License: Freeware
	Arctor is hard disk backup made smart, fast, simple and powerful. At a price of less than $1 per GB, today's cheapest and fastest backup media are hard disks - so why not simply use one for your backups? Backups on hard disks are much quicker and easier to restore, check and update. Large enterprises have used automated backup solutions based on tape libraries or the more modern D2D backup for years. With Arctor, enterprise computing is available even for small and medium sized companies at an affordable price: you can setup a reliable backup solution with fast restore capabilities at a fraction of the costs. Since Arctor's hardware requirements are quite low, even an outdated Windows workstation will be perfectly adequate as network-attached storage device. Arctor only requires a standard PC with one or more large disk drives (internal or external, or a RAID system of any type). Download the free, fully functional trial version and see how easy it is to set up and use Arctor! Arctor Version 2 offers a lot of new features and enhancements: * Complete user interface redesign * New Statistics, Analysis and Maintenance Features: Transfer Bandwidth, Disk Usage, Selected Files, Archived Files, Orphans, File Size Distribution etc. * S.M.A.R.T. disk monitoring helps you to detect problems with your hard disks before they get serious * Advanced scheduling options for individual rules and rule groups: Rules can be combined to rule groups with individual scheduling options: interval, time-of-day, week day, on request, retry missed schedules * Advanced Restore Wizard: restore missing/modified files only, preserve read-only file attribute in compression mode * I/O Bandwidth limiting to conserve network resources * Commandline Interface to support batch operations * Support for long file names Author: byteplant GmbH| Date: 13-12-2006 | Size: 3153 KB
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	Free File Wipe  License: Freeware
	Recovery-review.com proudly presents a first freeware file wiper called Free File Wipe from a new line of handy freeware tools related to data recovery. Imagine situation when you must delete/erase some data or file forever. This can be some secure data about your accounts or passwords stored on hard, floppy or flash disk. But in fact, MS Windows (and other OS) doesn't delete data in secure way. They just marked deleted files in internal file allocation table as deleted and don't erase it physically. So this is why you can restore deleted files with uneraser. Of course, it's good news when you want to recovery some accidentally files or data, but, as noted above, it could be a trouble for you, if you want to delete something securely. But recovery-review.com has a solution for you! It's called Free File Wipe, the freeware file and data wiper with simply and user-friendly interface, but with good wiping algorithms. Free File Wipe allows you to delete/erase/wipe any file from any media easily and securely and none of the unerasers would bring it back. When you've deleted file with Free File Wipe it's gone forever. Enjoy this great tool for free Author: Recovery-Review.com| Date: 12-20-2006 | Size: 287 KB
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	Cropel  License: Freeware
	Cropel is a S.M.A.R.T. disk monitor. Thanks to the ever growing online disk database, Cropel allows you to meausre your hard drives against other's drives. Author: Zero Assumption Software| Date: 17-01-2007 | Size: 1223 KB
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	NaSa's e.Purge  License: Freeware
	It deletes files and folders. It's a task scheduler program that operates the task on the background. It performs the job of cleaning when the occurrence due date and time is recurred. Assuming that this program is your cleaning agent. It manages routinely task as well as specific date and time jobs by performing the tasks according to your schedule settings. Enter the inputs to tell it where exactly the folder location to be managed and what is the type of style of task and when you want it to be executed, the rest... leave it to NaSa's e.Purge. Author: WajaSoft.com| Date: 24-07-2004 | Size: 1855 KB
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