File & System Utilities
- Unlocker
For many frustating occasions where you get the “Cannot delete file: Access is denied” error messages when deleting files, save yourself the headache and install this free program before you need it.
http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/ - Process Explorer
Ever wondered which program has a particular file or directory open? Now you can find out. Process Explorer shows you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded. It’s almost similar with the Windows Task Manager, except that it provides much more advanced functions.
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/ProcessExplorer.html - FreeRAM XP Pro
If you want to boost your PC performance without taking a hit in the pocket, get FreeRAM XP Pro.
http://www.yourwaresolutions.com/ - CCleaner
CCleaner is a freeware system optimization and privacy tool. It removes unused files from your system – allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history.
http://www.ccleaner.com/ - 7-Zip
Forget Winzip or WinRAR. Throw any compression format, and 7-Zip will handle it. It supports zip, rar, cab, 7z, tar, gz, among others. As like many other open source software, the interface needs a little time to go around with, but you’ll get used to it in no time.
http://www.7-zip.org/ - SequoiaView
Ever wondered why your hard disk is full? Or what directory is taking up most of the space? When using conventional disk browsing tools, such as Windows Explorer, these questions may be hard to answer. With SequoiaView however, they can be answered almost immediately. SequoiaView uses a visualization technique called cushion treemaps to provide you with a single picture of the entire contents of your hard drive.
http://www.win.tue.nl/sequoiaview/ - Smart Data Recovery
Smart Data Recovery is a free data recovery tool for Windows operating system that supports the FAT and NTFS file systems. The software easily recovers data from hard disks, digital cameras, and any type of storage media – flash drives, USB drives, memory stick, PC card, multimedia card, secure digital card and diskette.
http://www.smartpctools.com/data_recovery/ - FreeUndelete
FreeUndelete is a freeware data recovery program for deleted files. In case of accidental deletion of files on a NTFS file system (used by default in Windows XP/2000/NT) and FAT32 (added in 2.0 release) FreeUndelete is the utility to help. Features a comprehensive interface, which allows user to sort the files according to their efficiency (good, average, poor).
http://www.officerecovery.com/freeundelete/index.htm - Partition Resizer
The first free program to resize and move partitions without data loss, with features include: Int13 extensions support allows handling of disks up to 2TB (2048GB) of size. New Resizing/Moving engine, with simpler interface. Move and resize your partitions in one step. Transparent extended partition resizing (no more confusion with extended partitions). Command line parameters for accessing advanced options (read-only operation etc.).
http://zeleps.com/ - Hekko Virtual CD
Hekko Virtual CD creates a virtual CD-ROM drive on your Windows PC. This allows you to make images of your favorite CD-ROMs and use them without inserting a CD into a CD-ROM drive. Hekko Virtual CD: 1) improves the speed at which you access data, 2) stops you from having to switch disks in and out of your CD-ROM drive. Use Hekko Virtual CD to easily access your favorite games, favorite music or favorite software programs. Since Hekko Virtual CD uses HekkoScan(tm), nearly *any* CD can be imaged.
http://www.circleofone.com/ - Omziff
Omziff is a straightforward encryption utility that uses various cryptographic algorithms to encrypt and decrypt textual files. These algorithms include: Blowfish, Cast128, Gost, IDEA, Misty1, AES/Rijndael, and Twofish.
http://www.xtort.net/xtort/omziff.php - Regmon
Regmon is a Registry monitoring utility that will show you which applications are accessing your Registry, which keys they are accessing, and the Registry data that they are reading and writing – all in real-time. This advanced utility takes you one step beyond what static Registry tools can do, to let you see and understand exactly how programs use the Registry. With static tools you might be able to see what Registry values and keys changed. With Regmon you’ll see how the values and keys changed.
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Regmon.html - MD5summer
MD5summer is an application for Microsoft Windows 9x, NT, ME, 2000 and XP which generates and verifies md5 checksums. Its output file is compatible with the output of the Linux GNU MD5Sum and it will also read Linux generated files.
http://www.md5summer.org/download.html - SyncToy for Windows XP
With new sources of files coming from every direction (such as digital cameras, e-mail, cell phones, portable media players, camcorders, PDAs, and laptops), SyncToy can help you copy, move, and synchronize different directories.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/prophoto/synctoy.mspx
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