Freeware: Slow Disk

	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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	Speed Limiter  License: Freeware
	Speed Limiter can simulate slow TCP/IP connections. Use Speed Limiter for example to see how long a website have to load on slow connections. Or test your software with slow TCP/IP connections. Author: delight software gmbh| Date: 09-03-2004 | Size: 1660 KB
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	PC Health Optimizer Free Edition  License: Freeware
	Are you sick and tired of slow PC performance? Do you wish your computer ran like it did when you first bought it? Since your computer is like any other machine, it needs maintenance to stay in top health. And here's how we can help. There is no catch. This software is spyware and adware free. PC Health Optimizer Free Edition is a unique set of over 10 maintenance tools to improve system performance and security. This free suite of utilities will identify and eliminate problems which slow any system down. It corrects problems in many areas of your computer including hard disks, memory, registry and more. This gives your PC the boost it needs. Besides giving your computer optimum performance, PCHO provides security tools that every PC owner should have to keep their PC in good health. The included anti-spyware and other programs allow you to protect and backup your system constantly. Beautify and optimize your Windows experience by changing icons and limiting navigation options. Create a backup of your system files, registry, email or other files with ease. Author: Retina-X Studios, LLC| Date: 29-05-2008 | Size: 11021 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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	Wise Disk Cleaner  License: Freeware
	Wise Disk Cleaner is a user friendly, fast and easy to use application developed to free up disk space by deleting junk files.Wise Disk Cleaner scans junk files and delete these junk files in windows system, your system will can work better and more quickly.Wise Disk Cleaner can scan more than 50 types of junk files, and you can freely add the type of junk file which you consider. After Wise Disk Cleaner analyzes your system for find junk files, you can individually view each of the junk file found and call up a detailed description. If you wish, you can also clean up all junk files automatically. Author: WiseCleaner.com| Date: 12-05-2007 | Size: 1130 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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	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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	Wise Disk Cleaner 3 Free  License: Freeware
	Wise Disk Cleaner is a free disk utility designed to help you keep your disk clean by deleting any unnecessary files. Usually, these unnecessary, or junk files appear as a result of program's incomplete uninstalls,Temporary Internet Files, etc. It is best if these files are wiped out from time to time, since they may, at some point, use a considerable amount of space on your drives. Wise Disk Cleaner, with its intuitive and easy to use interface, helps you quickly wipe out all the junk files. There are two ways in which you can do that. If you are a beginner, you may use the wizard and use the program's default settings in order to clean-up your system. In you are an advanced user, you can customize the operations: you can manually select folders to be cleaned-up, you can erase files with certain extensions, exclude folders from the scan, etc. When deleting file, you can choose to erase them forever, or, in case you are not sure about them, you can delete them to Recycle Bin. Using the program is indeed easy. It also works fast when both scanning for files and deleting files Author: WiseCleaner.com| Date: 01-11-2007 | Size: 890 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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	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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	Dekart Private Disk Light  License: Freeware
	Free fast AES 128-bit disk encryption program. Private Disk Light allows you to create a secure space for all your work, exchange encrypted data with others, and feel sure that your information is safe from external and internal manipulation. Private Disk Light creates one or more secure virtual disks on your hard drive. Information stored in this secure area is automatically encrypted and may only be decrypted by entering the password. Without the password, the information from a secure disk cannot be accessed and decrypted. Private Disk Light employs an AES standard encryption algorithm. This technology ensures a high level of encryption, which does not hinder the computer`s performance in any way. Important note: Dekart Private Disk Light contains No spyware, No adware, No viruses and it's freeware. Private Disk Light is very easy to use and takes only a few minutes to install. Data encryption is an effortless process, requiring only the copying of files into the designated secure drive. Private Disk Light keeps information safe and secure, but currently its development has been stopped. The product offering better functionality than Dekart Private Disk Light, is Dekart Private Disk, a highly configurable advanced disk enryption software, offering a host of important features and options. Try Private Disk Light, it's yours to use for free. And if you want a more full-featured product, look into Private Disk. Author: Dekart| Date: 08-11-2004 | Size: 395 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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	Advanced Disk Cleaner  License: Freeware
	Fast, powerful, and easy to use disk cleaner which frees up valuable disk space by finding and removing the many garbage and temporary files left behind by other programs. Advanced Disk Cleaner searches your disks very rapidly and displays the results almost immediately so you can decide which of the found files you whish to clean. The program accurately detects and identifies all the garbage files, is easy to use. It's methods of cleaning include deleting to the recycle bin, moving the garbage files to a backup folder or direct deletion. After using Advanced Disk Cleaner, you will have more disk space so you can install more programs, have more MP3 files, etc. Author: Innovative Solutions| Date: 30-08-2004 | Size: 1162 KB
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	ANALYZER for RECOVER Fixed/Floppy Disk  License: Freeware
	ANALYZER for RECOVER Fixed/Floppy Disk V0.2 FREEWARE visually reports on bad sectors in system area of floppy disk. You can check if Boot Sector, FAT 1, FAT 2, and ROOT FOLDER sectors are good or bad. You find how much of remaining file system can help recover files when you use RECOVER Fixed/Floppy Disk. While RECOVER Fixed/Floppy Disk (RFD) brings simplicity into data recovery, ANALYZER for RECOVER Fixed/Floppy Disk V0.2 gives a head start to using RFD. When Boot Sector on floppy is bad, WINDOWS 98SE displays a window with this error message: The disk in drive A: is not formatted: Do you want to format it now? When 1st FAT sector on floppy is bad, WINDOWS 98SE displays the same error message for reasons known to itself. When first Root Folder Sector is bad, WINDOWS 98SE displayed a window with this error message: A: is not accessible: The system cannot read from the specified device If it is the Boot Sector or the 1st FAT sector or both that is/are damaged, you can use RECOVER Fixed/Floppy Disk to recover your files. If ROOT FOLDER got damaged, if your disk analysis shows that first few sectors are good, you can use RECOVER Fixed/Floppy Disk. If you run Disk Defragmenter quite often, even if both FAT copies got damaged, you can recover your files by using RECOVER Fixed/Floppy Disk. Must-have disk utility. No more groping around for locating disk surface damage in system area. If your OS says it can do nothing, it is not going to affect your decision making. ANALYZER for RECOVER Fixed/Floppy Disk V0.2 gives you a head start in accurately locating disk errors that unsettle the Operating System. You can figure out what system area got damaged and to what extent. This serves as a starting point for using RECOVER Fixed/Floppy Disk. ANALYZER for RECOVER Fixed/Floppy Disk V0.2 simplifies reporting on Boot Sector, FAT copies and ROOT FOLDER to a single page. You get INT 25H sector numbers and readability status in color codes on screen. Author: Systech Software| Date: 21-06-2004 | Size: 17 KB
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	Remora USB Disk Guard  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 Disk Guard is designed as a file encryption switch in your USB storage devices. With Remora USB Disk Guard, you can secure all your files anytime and anywhere. Main features: (1) An easy and fast tool to encrypt and decrypt files. (2) An easy and fast tool to encrypt and decrypt folder. (3) Using the fastest and strong 128 bits encryption technique. Author: Essential Skill Consultants Limited| Date: 30-05-2006 | Size: 2065 KB
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	Zero Assumption Disk Space Visualizer  License: Freeware
	With Zero Assumption Disk Space Visualizer, you can generate an easy-to-understand graphical disk map. This map is useful to identify the largest folders on your drives and recover megabytes of disk space. Author: Zero Assumption Software| Date: 30-01-2006 | Size: 866 KB
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	HT Fireman CD/DVD Burner  License: Freeware
	HT Fireman CD/DVD Burner is simple and easy-to-use burning software. HT Fireman CD/DVD Burner allows you to create Multi-session Data CD/DVD, Audio CD, MP3 Disk and ISO image easily. Description HT Fireman CD/DVD Burner shows you easiest way to burn Data disk, Audio CD, MP3 Disk and ISO image. To burn disk, you only need to drag-and-drop files/folders into HT Fireman CD/DVD Burner from Explorer, and click 'Burn!' button. You can get burned disk with only a few clicks and drags. HT Fireman CD/DVD Burner allows you to create/continue/complete the multi-session data disks. HT Fireman CD/DVD Burner supports 'on the fly' recording, so you don't need to worry about the hard-drive free space. And also, it burns at surprisingly fast burning speed. Features Supports drag-and-drop from Explorer. Supports on-the-fly recording. Supports load sessions from multi-session disk. Supports Disk/Writer information view. [DataBurn] 1. Can rename file/folder name 2. Can make new folders 3. Can create multi-session disk 4. Provides close-disk option [AudioBurn] 1. Can customize audio track order [MP3 Disk] 1. Can create MP3 CD disk 2. Can make new folders 3. Can create multi-session disk 4. Provide close-disk option [ISO Maker] 1. Can create CD ISO image [ISO Burn] 1. Can burn CD ISO image Author: Honest Technology| Date: 22-07-2005 | Size: 2668 KB
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	G-Lock Temp Cleaner  License: Freeware
	Most hard drive are full of junk files that have been left behind by other clean up software. These junk files waste space and can even cause problems with the normal operation of your computer. G-Lock Temp Cleaner (GTC) searches your drives potentially unwanted files so you can deal with them all with just one click. Unlike standard "cleaner" type programs, GTC also identifies garbage files on the HDD of the network computers. Author: G-Lock Software| Date: 17-06-2002 | Size: 874 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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	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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	Sigma Player  License: Freeware
	Sigma Player is a multimedia player that let you enjoy many kind of files. You can play any mp3, wav, avi,DVD (vob), midi,mid, mpge and mpg files. Features include hability to change from normal screen or full screen mode. Playlist that when you shutdown the player is saved for future playing. Also counts with auto replay, slow motion, very cool interface and more. The program is coded with very fast subrountines, so it loads and unloads quickly. In fullscreen mode you can use the keyboard to control the movie. Play, pause, slow motion, stop, all commands can be transmited by keyboard. Author: Diego Botello| Date: 07-03-2004 | Size: 2299 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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	Catfood Mail  License: Freeware
	Catfood Mail is a simple utility designed for administering POP3 mail boxes. It can be used to delete unwanted mail, preview the size of your mailbox before connecting your regular client over a slow connection, or as a lightweight client to check for important mail. Version 2.00 includes the ability to preview HTML email. This feature helps when using Catfood Mail to check full messages. This version also allows you to store connection information and set Catfood Mail to automatically log in to your POP3 account. Author: Catfood Software| Date: 11-09-2004 | Size: 1401 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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	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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	Mihov DiskFree  License: Freeware
	Mihov DiskFree is a program that shows free disk space in megabytes. It updates the information every second, so it is very useful with programs which consume very much disk space very fast (sound capture and video capture). It supports large FAT32 partitions and network drives, and it also puts an icon with the free space information in the system tray. Author: Miha Psenica| Date: 20-05-2003 | Size: 246 KB
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	Disk Performance Analyzer for Networks.  License: Freeware
	The Disk Performance Analyzer for Networks is a stand-alone utility that detects and reports fragmentation-related performance loss on networked systems. The Performance Analyzer provided never before available single-point analysis of systems requiring defragmentation attention to achieve optimal performance. With Disk Performance Analyzer for Networks you can zero in on the machines that need attention and handle them before they turn into a helpdesk problem. After installing and launching the utility, you are presented with a list of computers on your domain(s) available for analysis. Once you have selected target computers, a small agent is temporarily copied to these computers to begin an analysis. The agent quickly and unobtrusively gathers disk fragmentation information from the remote computers and reports this data to the Disk Performance Analyzer for Networks main console. The agent then completely removes itself from remote client systems. After collecting all the analysis data, Disk Performance Analyzer for Networks will create and present a comprehensive report showing the fragmentation related performance degradation on selected remote computers. Author: Executive Software| Date: 25-08-2004 | Size: 5119 KB
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	SBMAV Disk Cleaner Lite  License: Freeware
	A powerful tool for cleaning out the cobwebs of useless information clogging your system. SBMAV Disk Cleaner searches for and deletes temporary files and folders created by Windows and other applications. It also searches for invalid links to deleted documents. The program is easy to operate for first time users. The disk cleaning process can also be launched automatically by command-line to save you time. Author: SBMAV Software| Date: 24-03-2006 | Size: 1140 KB
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	Advanced WindowsCare  License: Freeware
	Slow down, freeze and crash are over. Repair and cure your windows with 1 click. Unlike other utility, Advanced WindowsCare does not do simple registry cleaning. It thoroughly examines Windows system, accurately detects the bottleneck for slowing down and crashing, and fixes them. With the novel system technology, Advanced WindowsCare empowers you to run computer faster, more stably and more efficiently than with any other system utilities. Author: IObit| Date: 02-01-2006 | Size: 2228 KB
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	NfoNak  License: Freeware
	See how your computer is performing in a variety of different graphical formats. It can also be used as a screen saver. You can monitor such details as memory, disk space, disk usage, CPU usage, internet data rates etc. The graphical formats available are highly customizable and you can mix and match to get the display you want. Author: Andy Erceg| Date: 12-08-2003 | Size: 577 KB
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