SpeedCommander

Sven Ritter

We are so used to using the Windows file manager that many believe it is a connected, inseparable part of the experience. But that isn't true, and even less so when we can turn to such useful and quality alternatives as the following: SpeedCommander is a file manager for Windows that allows you to perfectly substitute its native counterpart integrated in the operating system. It has tons of benefits, including dual folder display, web browsing, direct access to system directories, system directory drop down menus, and favorites. If you want to try out a new way to manage your files and folders, SpeedCommander is a great option.

Cigati OLM Converter

Cigati Solutions

Prevent Restore

PrivacyRoot

AS you probably know, when you delete a file you don't delete it properly, but the space occupied by that file is replaced and made available for other applications or files, but you don't delete the file itself and sometimes they can be restored if you don't save another file in the same space. Until that moment that the old file is overwritten those files can be accessed by using certain methods. Prevent Restore is an application that overwrites the files you delete so they can't be accessed anymore. They will not be able to be recover. Prevent Restore analyzes the free space in disc and overwrites that space to make unavailable to access it. IT's a good way to make sure that when you delete a file you can be sure thatit is totally destroyed.

Hard Disk Sentinel

Heartfelt Development Services Hungary Kft.

Hard Disk Sentinel is a protection and maintenance tool for your hard disk. You can use it to analyze, diagnose and fix any problem or deterioration of your disks. The program offers the most important information at first glance, you just have to open the window. However, as you navigate through the different tabs you can take a look at other interesting parameters, such as the temperature, S.M.A.R.T. or output. Thanks to these monitoring tools, you can always be up to date on the state of your hard disk. You are therefore able to prevent even the smallest failures, avoiding the possible consequences. Hard Disk Sentinel is a useful tool for any user, since it brings you greater security in the maintenance of your hard drive.

Metamorphose File-n-Folder Renamer

Ianaré Sévi

EMCO MoveOnBoot

Emco Software

If you've ever received an error message from Windows when trying to move, rename, or delete blocked files or folders, you know how annoying it can be. In these circumstances, the operating system rarely gives you any details about the issue, so you often need to find external help to solve the problem. EMCO MoveOnBoot is an excellent application that lets you move, rename, or delete any file or folder that is blocked in the system, either because another application is supposedly using it, or for any other reason. The program includes a useful assistant that helps you perform these tasks easily, without too many steps. Aside from that, EMCO MoveOnBoot has more than 20 different skins to change its appearance, and it can be set to launch at startup.

Xinorbis

Paul Alan Freshney

If you have not a lot of free space on your HD and you are used to reorganize it frequently you'll welcome Xinorbis because it will let you know a lot of information about your HD and the folders in it. Xinorbis scans your HD and gives you detailed info of every folder in your HD so you'll perfectly know the status of your folders in just a few seconds. Using a sophisticated mix of graphs, tables and tree displays, it gives the user a complete overview of the contents of a hard disk, folder, removable or network drive. The program features the results in a sectors chart so in just a glance you'll know the status of your HD and the folders occupying more space in it. Finally, Xinorbis, can compare two folders or drives and you'll know how to use them.

Cigati Mail Migration Tool

Cigati Solutions

AutoVer

Beans Place

If you're looking for a simple tool to manage different versions of files, look no further. AutoVer allows you to make an inventory with several different versions of one file. You can put as many folders under the program's supervision as you want. Each time you modify one of the files that is inside one of these directories, AutoVer makes a copy of it to a location that you've previously defined. The main advantage of using AutoVer is that it's so simple: it includes a small explorer that gives you access to certain details about each version of a file, including its size and date of creation. If you want to restrict which files the program works with, you can establish masks to filter the files.

SyncBack SE

2BrightSparks

You might have some folders or maybe even an entire partition dedicated to duplicate files and backups of your most important documents. If that's the case, SyncBack can be really useful for keeping these backups updated. It works in a really simple way: the program syncs the original files and their copies so you always have the latest edits saved. It can be especially useful if you use several different computers (your work computer, personal laptop, desktop computer, etc.) and want to keep your files synced. SyncBack also has endless customization options, filters, and configuration tools. Best of all, it's completely free.

Toucan

N/A

The more we use our PC and the more we trust in technology to manage our data, the more important it is to keep safe our private data. That's the reason why we see how a lot of applications are being developed in order to keep our privacy safe. Decrease the dangerousness of the threats and keep our data in private is very important. Toucan is one of these application and it is portable, what makes it to be usable on any computer without having to be installed. Toucan offers files and folders synchronization and backup creation. Your data can be really safe if you usually use Toucan to create backups and copy files to removable drives. If you want to make them to be even safer, encrypt them. Its interface organize the different tasks into different tabs, so it's easy to access all functions offered by the program. Creating backups should be essential if you work with important data. We are not talking only about photos or songs, we are talking about private data, current accounts, bank numbers, charts, etc. It's always a good idea to have a backup.

EASIS Data Eraser

N/A

EASIS Data Eraser is a tool to delete the contents of any hard drive or partition in the safest way possible. The application uses several types of algorithms during the deletion process, which makes it impossible to recover the information with programs that try to do that. In fact, when you start deleting a partition or disc, six different algorithms (like the 'Bruce Schneier' and the 'Peter Gutmann') start working so there's no trace left. The program works in a really simple way: when you open it you see a list of the partitions and drives available, you just have to double-click on one of them to proceed. EASIS Data Eraser is a really useful tool, but it can also be dangerous. If you don't know what you're doing with it it's better to leave it, as you could permanently delete information by mistake.

Archivarius 3000

Eugene Troitskiy

Archivarius 3000 is very complete application which will help you finding your files and emails on PC, local network or CD/DVD drives. You can configure the searching process by a simple wizard. With this wizard we will configure the search process very easily. We will choose where we want to search and what kind of files we are searching for. Once we have selected where we are going to perform the search, Archivarius will index all documents, so when we insert a word, it will show us the result of the documents containing that word in it automatically. Archivarius is capable of searching compressed files (ZIP, ACE, RAR, etc,) in mail clients (Outlook, Outlook Express, Netscape, Mozilla Thunderbird, The Bat!,...).

CHAOS Shredder

Safe Soft Corporation

Karens Replicator

Karen Kenworthy

Often, when you need to backup all your files, it means wasting a lot of your time to do so. From now on, this tedious task will be much easier. Karen's Replicator is an application for automatically creating backups of your drives or just certain files in another hard drive or directory on your PC or the local network. This means you can choose exactly how and when the backups are created. You have tons of options like: setting how often you want your files backed up, filtering the files, and it also offers overwriting options. If you like to always have a backup of your files or you need to make sure you don't lose any information, Karen's Replicator can take care of the job without you barely even noticing. Best of all, it's efficient and completely customizable.

Default Programs Editor

Factor Mystic

Each type of file has a pre-established program that opens it, and a series of options in the context menu that appears when you right-click it. Still, you often need other options, or may want to change the default program used to open a certain file. That's where Default Programs Editor comes in. It's an application with a simple interface in the style of an assistant that allows you to change the menus associated with each type of file, including the icon it displays, the program that opens it, autoplay, and much more. Default Programs Editor offers three essential modifications: changing file association settings, modifying autoplay settings, and modifying default programs. The last two are not available for XP. The first and most important feature of the program allows you to change the context menu actions associated with a given file extension, the file type's icon, and its description. The Autoplay Settings option helps you to modify the frequent action list that appears when you connect an external drive, while Default Programs Settings allows you to change the file associations of Windows accessories. Default Programs Editor is very easy to use, as it employs a wizard that guides you through some simple steps to help you adapt the context menu to fit your needs.

IsoBuster

Smart Projects

Have you ever tried to read data from a CD without a positive result? Now, you can save your old data, your photos or videos you think you had lost thanks to ISObuster. ISObuster is specialized on recovering data from damaged CDs and DVDs, and it supports DVD-R, DVD-RW, CD-RW, DVD-RAM, ISO, CUE, etc. It is really easy to use: Run ISObuster, insert the CD or DVD, choose the drive and let ISObuster read and show you the content of your CD or DVD. Then you can browse that data as if the CD were new. In addition, you will be able to convert the image format, recover data from a fast-formatted CD-RW, analyze the surface of a digital drive,... And it is translated into more than 40 languages.

Digital Janitor

N/A

If you use P2P programs and you own a high capacity Hard Disc, your download folder is probably a mess and that's the reason why Digital Janitor can be really useful. We usually download lots and lots of files, but if they are all in the same folder, it's hard to find the one we want. If you use Digital Janitor you can put your download folder in order automatically. It's easy to use, you only have to assign a folder to each type of file and it will detect the downloaded files. When the file has been downloaded, Digital Janitor moves it to the selected folder. That means that you can have all music files in a folder different from video files or documents. E.g. you can assign .mp3 files to My music folder, so you will find all downloaded music in my music folder without having to touch anything. By this way, Digital Janitor will do your job and will keep all your downloads in order and easy-to-find. Digital Janitor automatically sorts the folder depending on where you want a certain filetype to go.

SugarSync

SugarSync, Inc.

Sugarsync is a quite attractive piece of software which allows you to have your data stored remotely and access them from any computer at any time. When you sing up, you get 5 GB storage space and you can make it bigger by inviting other people to the service or paying for space. SugarSync offers two synchronization methods: drag and dropping files into the magic case or adding folders from the program menu. One of the most interesting options of SugarSync is the possibility of installing the program and sync files with portable computer, blackberry and smartphones. If you are using a computer which hasn't SugarSync installed, don't worry, you'll be able to access data via web. Finally, you can decide to share files with other users using the Share option. You can decide whether to hare one file, two or a whole folder. In addition, you can password protect files and mark files a only read ones.

CloneSensor

IQRSoft

If you think your HD is full of useless and repeated files, it is recommendable to use a program to make them disappear. What program should you use? Perfect, you are in the correct page, you can download Clone Sensor, a piece of software which detects the duplicated files attending to several criterials. CloneSensor is housed in an attractive interface that makes the use of the program to be really easy, and you can configure it, so it search the duplicated files exactly as you like. In addition, it lets you manage the files once you find them, copy, cut, move, delete,... you decide what you do with them when the process has finished.

KFK

KC Software

Although the concept of this program called KFK is not new at all, it offers some options which make it a very recommendable choice. This lite and effective program allows us to divide large files into smaller ones. You decide the size of those new files, in fact, you can decide whether the size of the files or the number of them. Of course, all those new files can be restored as the previous large file at any time using the program or even without it, and that's good news for everyone, you'll only need the program to fragment it and create those new files, but your friends won't have to install KFK to restore the files. In addition you can decide to save them in a CD or DVD.

Last Changed Files

www.file.net

Partition Saving

D. Guibouret

Partition Saving is an excellent tool for working with hard disks and partitions that lets you perform a number of important operations on those devices. With Partition Saving, it's possible to save, restore, and copy any part of your hard disc, whether it be the entire disk, an entire drive, the master boot record (MBR), the partition table, etc. Although the interface is in text mode, it is the equal of such professional applications as Partition Magic. It can also carry out maintenance tasks, such as canceling defective sectors of the file system, or correcting the physical definition of the disk (cylinders, heads and sectors).

NexusFile

JungHoon Noh

NexusFile is a free application for Windows that lets you manage your files quickly and easily, providing an advanced way to navigate your file system. The NexusFile interface includes two panels for navigating, each of which is suitable to use as the default file browser on Windows. It also has support for FTP, which makes it even more versatile. You can even use bookmarks to access the folders you use frequently as quickly as possible. For these reasons, NexusFile is an application worth downloading.

GSplit

Guillaume Di Giusto

Durable Copy

KutinSoft

Surely at one time or another you have come across a hard drive that you want to use but couldn't because it was physically in bad shape. The normal thing to do in these situations is to throw the hard drive out and lose all the information you saved on it. Now it doesn't have to be that way. Durable Copy is a data extraction tool that specializes in recovering information from files saved on physically damaged drives, thus allowing for a new copy of your data to be made. Its interface is very intuitive, made in the style of FTP servers, which makes it very easy to do the transfers. It also contains buttons for managing the browser's different views, and even a favorites option for selecting where to save the extracted information. If you want to recover the data that you think you have lost from your damaged discs, Durable Copy will help you recover all that information.

FlexTk Express Edition

N/A

FlexTk is a pretty good file management toolkit that allows you to perform several performing tasks that will make your PC to be faster and not to waste space. Its interface is very intuitive, you will find no problem when using it because the upper menu shows clearly the actions you can perform: File Search, Classification and Organization as well as duplicate files search. FlexTK can scan and analyze your HD and it will tell you how you are using it, it will order the folders by capacity or it will tell you the space you are occupying with multimedia files, docs,... Finally it doesn't take a lot of time to scan your HD (depending on your HD, of course) the only analysis that takes more than 30 seconds is the duplicate files analysis, but the results are really good.

SpaceObServer

JAM Software

Would you like to have a better and more in depth control of the memory storage on your hard drive? Would you like to have periodic reports on the usage and space of your hard drive? Now you can. SpaceObServer is a tool that checks up on the total amount of memory space that your computer is using for various types of files and reports to you their size and how they are distributed. All this information is saved into a database, in which it will provide even more information on things you need to know more about. The way this data is represented varies in how you would like it to show up as, through various texts or graphics. It will also let you gather information about your files, allowing you to find any duplicates you may have. If you would like to have more control of your files on how they are stored on your computer, SpaceObServer is a great tool for you!

Mareew Free Eraser

Mareew

Disk Space Monitor

Abaiko Software

Disk Space Monitor is an useful tool whose function is to tell us the free space we have in our HD at any time. It analyzes all drives connected to our computer, no matter if they are Hard Disks, CD drives, diskettes or any other drive and shows us the information in an intuitive and simple interface. We will be able to know the total space, free space and last update made by Disk Space Monitor. We can configure Disk Space Monitor so it will analyze our computer whenever we want. We can choose the units it will analyze, the times a day, how it will does,...