Eraser - Secure Data Removal
Most people have some data that they would rather not share with others - passwords, personal information, classified documents from work, financial records, self-written poems, the list can be continued forever.
Perhaps you have saved some of this information on your computer where it is conveniently at your reach, but when the time comes to remove the data from your hard disk, things get a bit more complicated and maintaining your privacy is not as simple as it may have seemed at first.
Your first thought may be that when you delete the file, the data is gone. Not quite, when you delete a file, the operating system does not really remove the file from the disk; it only removes the reference of the file from the file system table. The file remains on the disk until another file is created over it, and even after that, it might be possible to recover data by studying the magnetic fields on the disk platter surface.
Before the file is overwritten, anyone can easily retrieve it with a disk maintenance or an undelete utility.
There are several problems in secure file removal, mostly caused by the use of write cache, construction of the hard disk and the use of data encoding. These problems have been taken into consideration when Eraser was designed, and because of this intuitive design and a simple user interface, you can safely and easily erase private data from your hard drive.
Eraser is an advanced security tool (for Windows), which allows you to completely remove sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it several times with carefully selected patterns. Works with Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP and DOS.
Eraser is FREE software
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Stickies
PC utility to help to cut down on the number of Post-It� notes you have stuck to your monitor. It is a computerized version of those notes.
The idea behind Stickies is that the program is small and simple. Stickies will not mess with your system files, or write to the registry. Stickies stores all information in a single text-based ini file.
Main features:
Once on screen, stickies will remain where placed until closed, even through reboots
Stickies appearance can be customized; fonts, colors and buttons may be changed, and styles saved. Stickies can be resized horizontally.
Languages other than English for the interface are also supported.
Stickies can be transferred from one machine to another either over a TCP/IP network connection, or by using a SMTP mail server:
Hierarchical friends list, which may be automatically transferred from other friends
WAV file play/PC speaker beep on receive
Signature for transmitted or emailed stickies
Favorite friends can be chosen
Stickies can be hidden (sent to sleep!) for a certain period, until a specified date and time, or to wake every day, week or month, to act as reminders
International language support
Save to file/Import from file, to transfer stickies by removable media
Stickies is small and simple, it writes to a single text file, and does not touch the registry
...and Stickies is completely free!
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PDF zipDirect
Create PDF Files for free from any application. PDF reDirect is installed as a 'virtual printer'. This enables Windows application to create PDF documents via the 'Print' command. PDF reDirect has no restrictions, no watermarks, and no pop-up advertisements!
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4Diskclean is a disk/file utility where users can clean with a button click all sort of temporary/junk files left behind on hard disks.
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SysTrayPlay is a simple mp3 player that uses little memory or cpu time .. it sits on the taskbar when loaded ..and only in a 210k zip file!
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