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 TreePad: have you tried it? See here all it can do for you! | |||||||
| Free disk management utilities | |||||||
| Disktective |  Freeware disk reporting tool for Windows. It allows you to find out the size, distribution and structure of used disk space. A folder/directory may contain hundreds of subdirectories each containing thousands of files. Select any folder or disk and Disktective will create a report displaying the real sizes of all directories and all containing subdirectories. Freeware for Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP Disktective home page. Created by Freebyte! | ||||||
| FMT | Free format tools for floppies: 360kb, 720kb, 1.2mb, 1.44mb, 1.68mb & 1.72mb | ||||||
| Ranish Partition Manager |
Freeware. Ranish Partition Manager is a boot manager and hard disk partitioner. It gives users high level of control for running multiple operating systems, such as Windows 98/NT/XP, Linux, FreeDOS, and FreeBSD on a single disk. | ||||||
| IDE/ATA diagnostics utilities |
Utilities for low level surface scans, detecting drive options, diagnosing IDE drives, detecting associations between physical and logical drives. | ||||||
| Free disk catalog programs | |||||||
| Catfish | Small, free and automatic disk inventory program for Windows. For people who can't remember what they put on their ZIP disks, floppies or CD-roms! We use it at Freebyte. | ||||||
| Cathy | A similar program (not only in name) to Catfish. Has searching capabilities based on file name, date and size. Customizable date format. Found files can be opened directly, if they are present. Only contains a small single executable file, meaning that no installation is needed. Runs on Windows. | ||||||
| Free compresssion, split and ZIP programs | |||||||
| HJSplit |  Freeware file splitter for a variety of platforms. Why split files? Think of a file of 20 Mb, and try to send this to a friend. Using email this does not succeed, it is simply too large, and how to put it onto a floppy? HJSplit will enable you to split the large file into smaller chunks, which can be much more easily sent and stored. Later on these chunks can be re-joined using HJSplit itself or HJJoin. HJSplit is available for a large number of operating systems: Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP, Linux, Java, OS/2, Windows 3.x, MS DOS, Amiga. For the MAC there is a compatible file joiner available. Created by Freebyte! in cooperation with various programmers. | ||||||
| Freebyte Zip |  A powerful freeware ZIP program with full Windows user-interface. It can zip and unzip files, create new zip files, directly view and sort zip file contents, make self-extracting archives, password protect and encrypt files, etc. etc. Runs on windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, NT and XP. Created by Freebyte! | ||||||
| StuffIt | Mac file expander (program to open compressed files) for the MAC platform. Support for various file formats, like BinHex, MacBinary, zip, gzip, uu, tar. Lite version is freeware. | ||||||
| UPX | Free program which can compress Windows and Linux executables to 40% of their original size. Very fast and efficient program. | ||||||
| File Vault | You can create a secure archive of files with this utility. Ideal for sending secured information over the internet or on disks. The archive you create is self extracting. This means that the recipient does not have to have any special software to decrypt the files!! | ||||||
| Free backup programs | |||||||
| Freebyte Backup | Freebyte Backup is a very effective freeware backup program. It
enables you to easily backup files from any amount of directories and
sub-directories. Freebyte Backup can backup all files, or a selection of files: you can filter according to file-date, file-type and even perform an incremental backup. Also: support for profiles. Small, simple to use, and simple to install (no dll's!!). Freeware for Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP. Created by Freebyte!. | ||||||
| ImageMaker | ImageMaker allows you to create the exact images of your entire hard
drive(s), or partitions, in 'disk files'. Afterwards, the images can be
restored to the initial or any other hard drive or volume, regardless of
the file system it is formatted in. For Windows. Version 1.1 is freeware. | ||||||
| Free file storage space | |||||||
| The services listed in this section enable you to backup, store and share your files on the Internet for free. If you need a place to host your Web site, please see our guide to free home pages. | |||||||
| My Secure Files | Store, encrypt and share around 20 Mb of files for free. | ||||||
| Sharemation | 5 Mb of free file storage. | ||||||
| Yahoo Briefcase | 30 Mb of free files storage. Save Yahoo! Mail attachments directly to your Yahoo! Briefcase. | ||||||
| Xdrive | Non-free, 15 day free trial. Integrates with the Windows explorer as an extra drive. 75MB secure storage for $4.95 a month | ||||||
| Data recovery tools | |||||||
| Lost your data and no backups? Then your last resort is a
data-recovery tool or data-recovery service. Causes of data loss can vary from computer viruses, power failure, operating system crash, application crash, corrupt or missing system files, accidental formatting of harddisks, hard disk media failure, accidental deletion of files, etc. | |||||||
| PC Inspector | Freeware. Supports the FAT 12/16/32 and NTFS file systems. Restore FAT partitions automatically, recovers files with the original time and date stamp. | ||||||
| Easy Recovery | Non free. Very useful tool to recover damaged, lost or deleted files.
Free time-limited evaluation version available. | ||||||
| FlopShow | Freeware. FlopShow is a file recovery + file undelete utility for fat - 12 partitions (floppies). Also options to create floppy disk images which can be used to restore floppies. | ||||||
| Disk Investigator | Freeware. This program 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. Verify the effectiveness of file and disk wiping programs. Undelete previously deleted files. | ||||||
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| Data removal tools | |||||||
| If you need to remove sensitive data totally from your
harddisk, simply deleting these files is not enough! Using advanced
methods, it is even possible to recover data that's been overwritten,
unless it has been overwritten using carefully selected platterns!
Operating systems usually do not totally delete the file, but just mark the file as being 'deleted' so it can not be accessed when you view the contents of a directory. This means that you can not see the file anymore with normal tools, but specialized recovery tools can still access your data. To prevent this from happening, you need to totally erase your files, using one of the specialized data removal tools you can find in this section. These removal tools totally erase your data by replacing the contents of your files with effective data-patterns before deleting them the normal way. | |||||||
| Eraser | Freeware. Eraser can remove sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it with carefully selected patterns. You can drag and drop files and folders to the on-demand eraser, use the convenient Explorer shell extension or use the integrated scheduler to program overwriting of unused disk space or, for example, browser cache files to happen regularly, at night, during your lunch break, at weekends or whenever you like. Runs on Windows 95/98/NT/2000. | ||||||
| SuperShredder | Freeware. SuperShredder gives you the ability to delete files using not only common methods such as Gutmann and NISPOM (DoD), but can be completely customized to give you all the security and/or performance you may need. It can receive files via drag-and-drop onto the application or the icon, selecting files from inside the program, command line, and can even add a shortcut to your 'Send To' menu inside the Windows Explorer so it's simple to delete files in a secure and convenient fashion. | ||||||
| HandyBits file shredder | Freeware for personal, non-profit use. Can overwrite files with random data up to 15 times. Multi-language support, integration with Windows Explorer, with icon on desktop to use as recycle bin, etc. | ||||||
| CleanDisk | Non-free. Total deletion of files, clean the Windows swap file, clean temporary files. Contains disk viewer to view the real contents of your disk including 'deleted' entries. Suitable for Win95, Win98, WinME, WinNT, Win2000, WinXP. | ||||||
| Free file management utilities | |||||||
| ShellGem | A small free program that makes moving and copying files in Windows 95/98 easily. Once you install it, just right-click-drag any file, and ShellGEM opens a list of the drives on your system. You can then move through an unfolding tree of your system's folders (no clicking required), and move or copy the file wherever you want. | ||||||
| Windows Commander | Excellent and reliable shareware (non-time limited and
non-crippleware) Explorer replacement program for Windows
95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP. Improved access to your local files through a
two-pane interface, convenient access to remote FTP sites, access Zip
files as directories, enhanced search, quick view, etc. Much better than
the standard Windows explorer which, believe it or not, is known to be a
major cause of computer crashes. See also what others have to say about Windows Commander. | ||||||
| The Rename | Program that allows you to rename a batch of files simply and quickly with many options. You can add counters (in decimal, hexadecimal and octal), search and replace text, replace prefix with file's content, convert names to upper or lower cases, invert letters, invert cases, replace name with system date and time or with file's time and date. Support for long file names. You can act separatly on prefix and extension. You can rename or copy files. Possibility to undo last operation. Inline help available. Program can rename truetype files with their internal name. Many more options. Requires Visual Basic 5 runtime modules (1.3 Mb). | ||||||
| Attribute changer | This application is designed to automate mass changes to file and folder attributes. It add's itself to the context menus for folders and drives. You can establish filters and exceptions to fine tune the search process. | ||||||
| Related Freebyte pages | |||||||
| Anti Virus software | Believe it or not, there are many good anti-virus programs you can download and use for free! Also: free firewalls, very useful trial anti-virus program versions, anti-virus software tests, links to specialized anti-virus sites, etc. | ||||||
| Free technical support | Free technical support for all computer-related issues: Hardware, software, PC, Windows, MAC, PDAs, Linux, drivers, Modems, dll's, virus | ||||||
| Free drivers, dll's, bios upgrades |
Find your missing system file (dll, vxd, ocx, driver, etc.) or BIOS upgrade, and download it for free. | ||||||
| Data protection and encryption |
Free data protection and encryption software. | ||||||
| Free operating systems |
Many free operating systems for download. | ||||||
| Software sites | A large list of freeware sites, shareware sites and software search engines. | ||||||
| Information wanted! | |||||||
| If you know of any good programs, utilities or services be listed on this page, please let us know! | |||||||
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Last updated on November 27, 2003 Copyright: Freebyte! If you have any comments about this page, | |||||||
