FreeUndelete

Recoveronix Ltd.

FreeUndelete is a practical tool oriented at the recovery of all types of files. In the case of accidental deletion of files with NTFS format (standard with Windows XP, 2000, and NT), FreeUndelete will be of great help, recovering your files and data intact in the majority of attempts. The program is easy to use, it simply searches among selected drives for any deleted files that are recoverable. FreeUndelete is a completely free tool.

Similarity

GAR Software

Every day it is becoming easier to access digital music files, allowing us to download gigabytes and gigabytes of files that can become a huge job to organize. In our desire to collect as much music as possible, sometimes a hard drive can become full of duplicate files. To help you in the task of organizing your hard drive and optimizing available space, there's Similarity; a useful program that analyzes your folders to show files that are identical and therefore eliminate them. The program allows the user to create two different directories for comparison, which, depending on the amount of files to analyze, takes just a few minutes. For its analysis, Similarity takes into account the actual content of the files to identify them with greater precision. The program includes a built in music player to make sure that the detected files really are duplicates, in case the analyzation of the file wasn't 100% effective.

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.

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.

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.

PureSync

Jumping Bytes

Having important files and folders safe is something really relevant. One of the best options is to have a backup in a different and external drive. Sometimes it is not easy, but we have found a really good application that will help you keep them updated and safe. Puresync includes many interesting features and it is not difficult to use. You choose the folders and files you want to backup and the destination drive. From then on, the program will check it and each time you modify the original file PureSync will backup it automatically. You can plan backups to be done everyday, everyweek,... or automaticcally when files are modified. Now you may think it is not important but in case of crash you'll welcome having used it.

UltraExplorer

Mustangpeak Software

If you think Windows Explorer doesn't offer all you need to better manage your files and folders, you'll surely be interested in UltraExplorer. UltraExplorer is a powerful explorer that makes working with folders incredibly easy, allowing the user to work in different locations simultaneously from a unified program interface. This is possible because UltraExplorer uses the successful tabbed browsing formula that's been so useful for web browsers. This way, you can easily work with multiple folders, do basic operations like copying, pasting, cutting ... and even use a simple FTP client built into the program. UltraExplorer also supports skins and different display modes, with each tab displaying columns of all the folders in the file path to get to the file you want to use.

MacDrive

Mediafour Corporation

MacDrive is a very interesting solution for accessing a hard disk or disk partition in which the operating system is Macintosh. Windows is unable to see Mac OS partitions on its own, even if they are on the same disk, so you have to find external applications such as this one to do so. The program lets you access a Mac disk or partition as if it were a regular one. The operations the user can then carry out are the same as with any device: copy, cut or eliminate files. MacDrive adapts the names, the extensions, and the icons of the different documents to Windows, so you won’t have any problems when working with them. On the other hand, it lets you make security copies of these units' contents on compact discs. Plus, this tool lets you create, eliminate and format Mac disk partitions.

Last Changed Files

www.file.net

USB Personalizer

Christian010

USB Personalizer is a lite application that allows you to personalize the look of your USB drive when plugged in your PC. You can change the icon you see in the file explorer as well as the background color of the window and the font color. Choose ICO files for the icons and JPG images for the backgrounds. It's very easy to use, you only have to copy the .exe file in the root of your USB PenDrive and execute it. Once you personalize the style of your PenDrive, USB Personalizer creates a file named autorun.inf which is the one that will personalize the file when you connect it to any PC.

ViSplore

lee-soft.com

ViSplore implements several improvements in the original Windows file explorer, such as dynamic path breadcrumbs to show where the user is browsing or a built-in file searcher that allows the user to find files in the any folder. It can be used as a complementary file browser or set it as default - You can do that by activating the option Default File Manager in the menu of the application located in the system tray. You can open it at anytime just pressing the key combination Windows + W. The breadcrumbs system used by ViSplore is interactive, that means that when you click any folder of the path, it shows a menu featuring all the subdirectories in it. Finally, the Vista style of VISplore will give your desktop a new, stylish and semitransparent look.

Mareew Free Eraser

Mareew

CodySafe

Codyssey.com

Anti-Twin

Joerg Rosenthal

It is very usual to see your hard drive full of repeated files and clones of other files which most commonly are totally useless. You know that you have them but you don’t know where... And that’s when Anti-Twin comes into scene. It is a really comfortable application which lets you find all repeated files in your system. It scans the selected folder in a matter of seconds (it depends on the folder) showing us the files identified as repeated in the main window. Once that list of file is complete, select them and destroy them... or not, that’s up to you. Anti-Twin can scan the full HD, an specific folder or compare two paths.

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,...

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.

OpenedFilesView

Nir Sofer

How many times have you tried to uninstall a program, only to find that Windows won't allow it, because some unknown file is being used? Well, from now on, you can solve this little problem thanks to OpenedFilesView, a useful app that lists all of the files currently being used by the system. OpenedFilesView gives its users a complete list of each and every one of the files being used. It also provides certain characteristics, such as where the file is found, its specs, size, date it was made/changed, the process it's a part of (and that process' file path), etc. This way, you can figure out exactly which process corresponds to which document, and whether or not you can get rid of it. You can also finalize any process, open a window with information on the file, or export the list in HTML format, all from the program's interface

File Identifier

Optima SC Inc.

How many times have you found any file without extensdion? That can be a problem, because you don’t know the program you must use to open it. If you usually work with a lot of files, this problem may be part of your daily matters. File Identifier can be the solution for your problems. It is an application based on the Windows file interpreter. Nowaays it doesn’t have an interface. Throughout some parameters we can obtain the fileformat of a file without extension. How to use? You have to copy the ’unknown’ files into the ’bin’ folder which is created when you unpack the doewnloaded file. The following step is to access to the file interpreter from 'run' option in the start menu, write ’cmd’ and you will access it, At last, open the folder where file.exe is stored. Once you are there, write the name of the program, followed by the name of the file you want to know the extesion. The data shown is the kind of file and the file extension.

Back2zip

Free-backup.info

If you don’t want to loose your important files due to a system failure, now you are on time. Back2zip allows you to backup your important files. Back2zip is not a usual backup program, because it includes more features than others and probably the most important is that you can choose to backup the files and compress them in a zip file and send them via web where you desire. It is fully customizable, and when we say "fully"we are right, because it allows you to change all features of the interface to adapt it , you can even change the font style and size. In addition all your action will be saved in a log, so you can consult them whenever you want.

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.

Check Your Disk!

Daniel Stori

ComparatorPro

SoftByte Labs

Sometimes you'd like a more reliable way to check whether your backup system is doing what it's supposed to be doing. Now you can automatically perform checks like that using this application. With ComparatorPro you can do comparisons between different directories and files based on an initial filepath, to find out which folders or directories are left over or missing with respect to the first filepath. The way it works is simple. Just select the two filepaths to compare and all the differing files and directories from one side or the other will be automatically listed. Also, once you've done the comparison, you can copy the missing or extra files from one place to the other so that both directories are identical. You can also delete duplicate files if that's your objective. All this makes ComparatorPro a super-useful tool for those who want to preserve the integrity of their file tree.

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).

Sprintbit File Manager

Sprintbit Software

Sprintbit File Manager is a highly powerful app to view and transform the music files on your computer. With it you can do countless actions such as copying, moving, renaming, deleting, and creating folders, as well as changing the names and extensions of your files. Apart from these basic tasks, the program offers a good number of utilities, such as the option to burn your playlists to CD or DVD, put several files together, encrypt them, upload them to an FTP, etc. Deserving of special attention is the tools section, where you can access innumerable practical utilities related to all sorts of applications (image viewer, search engine, mass-file renamer, connection to operating system action...) . It's also possible to create zip files with several files.

NTFS Undelete

eSupport.com

NTFS Undelete is a free application that lets you recover lost files that you may have deleted in error from your harddrive. It comes in three different forms: an installation package that you can use to recover files stored in a different unit from that of the system, an ISO-formatted image that you can burn onto a CD or DVD that will then execute the NTFS Undelete application, and a ZIP archive that contains some portable executables from the program that can be initiated from an removable unit. When using NTFS Undelete, it is recommended to save your recovered files in a different place than they were originally, because recovering the files may sometimes damage the originals that were lost. NTFS Undelete supports the use of file masks to accelerate the file search, and comes with an advanced search mode that allows you to filter the results within certain parameters (file size, date of creation, etc).

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!

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.

CHAOS Shredder

Safe Soft Corporation

KDiff3

Joachim Eibl

KDiff3 is a tool for Windows that lets you compare the contents of two or three files and directories. It shows the differences between the files when working with different folders. When working with single files, the program allows you to see the differences between them line by line and character by character. KDiff3 highlights the different parts by using different colours. It is particularly useful for detecting the presence of white space and tabulations. With support for Unicode and other encoders, KDiff3 includes an automatic merge function and an integrated editor for resolving and merge conflicts arising from this process, printing of differences, manual line alignment, integration with the Windows shell, and so on.

Double Commander

Alexander Koblov

It's not hard to find alternatives to the default Windows file explorer, one of the aspects of the operating system that could really use some improvements. Double Commander is a two-panel file manager for Windows and Linux that streamlines file management thanks to a series of small features. The first is the fact that you can personalize the columns displayed by the application in each panel. The column that seems to be the most useful is that of attributes or file permissions (that's right, permissions aren't just a part of UNIX systems). The second is the ability to select and unselect files using a mask, and then to package them together using a compression tool included in the program. It is compatible with ZIP, TAR, GZ, and TGZ formats. Double Commander makes use of a tool bar similar to that of Norton Commander from MS-DOS. It allows you to perform different actions with a file by simply pressing the corresponding key. When it comes to viewing a file (F3), Double Commander includes a file viewer/editor that can display the contents of a file in text, binary, or hexadecimal form. The viewer is especially useful for web developers, since it is capable of highlighting the syntax of various programming languages, including the following: ObjectPascal, Java, C , PHP, SQL, HTML, XML, UNIX scripts, TEX, Perl, CSS, definitions of the Lazarus formula, and more. These and many more features await you in an application that simplifies Windows file management.