Phần Mềm-Tiện Ích part 17 ppt

Best Free Secure Erase Utility Eraser is a free, GNU license utility that will securely erase files, folders or even whole disks from any Windows or DOS PC.. 2.6MB http://www.heidi.ie/e

Best Free Secure Erase Utility

Eraser is a free, GNU license utility that will securely erase files, folders or even whole disks from any Windows or DOS PC Eraser overwrites data area with selectable random data patterns and also wipes data in the paging file, Internet cache, temporary files,

Internet cookies, unused disk space and a number of other places where data can secretly lurk It handles FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS partitions as well Erasing files with high security will always be a difficult and time consuming task and can never offer absolute 100% safety However Eraser makes the task about as easy as it be, with a security level beyond most conceivable requirements An impressive package (2.6MB)

http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/

Best Free Outlook Express Backup

This free utility allows you to do a full or selective backup of OE's critical files including mail folders, newsgroups, address book and identity settings Simple, effective neat (2.1MB)

http://www.oehelp.com/OEBackup/Default.aspx

Best Free Process Viewer New New

PrcView has long been my personal choice but Process Explorer has pushed it aside The reason? A better display setup coupled with more features and even more information Process Explorer uses two vertical panes The top contains all active processes while the second shows either all the handles opened by a selected process or, optimally, a list of DLLs and memory mapped files A very handy search feature allows you to work

backwards from named DLLs or handles to the owning process A gem Freeware,

230KB

http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/procexp.shtml

Best Free Inventory Tool

AIDA32 is arguably the best system inventorying tools I've used regardless of price It will document just about every aspect of your hardware and software configuration Throw in the fact that it checks out networks, gives memory benchmarks and that it is totally free, and you end up with a product that should be in everyone's toolkit Download from the link below but remember to download the documentation as well Corporate users need to register - but there's still no charge The developer announced in March

2004 that the product has been frozen and there will be no more development However,

as of today, it is still the best in its class

http://www.sofotex.com/AIDA32-download_L9326.html

Best Free Anti-Scumware Utility New

There's a scumware plague at the moment All it takes is a visit to a pushy web site or a loaded shareware install and next minute your Internet Explorer homepage has been changed, your default search setting altered, unwanted ads pop up on your screen and worse SpywareBlaster is not a scanner like SpyBot but rather a stand-alone inoculation program that prevents the initial infection It provides active protection against more than

1500 products that use ActiveX based exploits and offers defenses against unwanted cookies as well A companion program to SpywareBlaster is SpywareGuard Again, this

is not a scanner like SpyBot It is a protective program that works like an anti-virus suite

by checking programs before they are executed Both products are well executed,

regularly updated and work well with each other and SpyBot

http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html

(2.2MB)

http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareguard.html

(1.96MB)

Best Free Search and Replace Utility Updated

I've been a long time user of Funduc Software's excellent Search and Replace utility, now

in version 4 However, I have to admit that after using HandyFile's free Find and Replace program, my loyalties are torn Granted, it does pretty much the same thing, but it's faster

as changes are made in memory rather than by writing to disk This feature also provides

a degree of safety If you need to do text file replacements over multiple files, I suggest you give this tiny free utility a spin.(361KB)

http://www.silveragesoftware.com/handytools.html

Best Free Outliner

I'm not a great fan of outliners - my brain doesn't work that way Some folks however, swear by them and if that includes you, then you should check out Keynote, an Open Source freeware program that has a dedicated band of followers Its major design

attribute is its ease of use Words like "natural" and "seamless" come close to the mark but really don't capture the essence of what is really a great design What do you do with it? Well to quote the web site “KeyNote is used by screenwriters to draft screenplays, by medical doctors to keep patient databases, by developers to store source snippets - and to everyone it serves as a place to put all the random pieces of information that have no particular structure of relationship to other data, and do not fit easily in task-specific

applications such as word-processors, databases or spreadsheets.” (1.7MB)

http://www.tranglos.com/free/index.html

Best Free Rename Utility Updated

Lupas Rename 2000 is a small Windows utility that globally renames all the files in a directory and its subdirectories It can convert names to upper/lower case, change the case of the first letter, add text, left crop, right crop and just about anything else you can think of And unlike DOS based utilities, it will work on hidden files as well Add in a nice GUI interface, an undo feature, full preview of changes and the fact that it's free and you have a utility that should be in every toolkit

http://www.azheavymetal.com/~lupasrename/download.php

Best Free Windows Driver Backup New

I used to recommend WinDriversBackup for this task but it has now, unfortunately, morphed into shareware However, I can suggest you try WinRet as a replacement It will not only back up your drivers but also your system registry, program settings and

preferences, shortcuts, Favorites, Outlook Express folders, accounts and message filters

as well As a bonus, it allows you to tweak some of your system settings I didn't try the latter but can report that the driver backup and restore worked well It's not quite as

simple to use as WindriversBackup but, then again, it has much more functionality (227KB)

http://winret.sourceforge.net/

Best Free Digital Image Utility

Irfanview is a free multimedia viewer and editor that supports a huge range of file

formats Each new version seems to add more capabilities but to me, its most powerful features are its speed and its batch processing capability If you want to resize sets of digital images for the web or for transmission by email, Irfanview is the best free solution available It's also a mighty fine image viewer as well I just can't believe something this good is free

http://www.irfanview.com/

Best Free File Comparison Utility

WinMerge is a free Windows utility that compares two files and identifies the

differences The differences can then be merged from one file into the other This is the sort of product that is ideal when you have several different versions of a file and are not

sure of how they differ The product is geared to text files so it won't be much use to you with Word Processing or other complex formatted documents But for text reports or computer programs, WinMerge is ideal (514KB)

http://winmerge.sourceforge.net/

Best Free Email Accessory

As well as my normal POP email account, I have multiple Yahoo webmail accounts Managing the latter used to be easy until Yahoo started charging to forward webmail to

my POP account To overcome the problem, I now use a nifty free product called

YahooPOPS! that allows you to collect your Yahoo webmail from within your POP email client such as Outlook or Eudora I use Outlook and must say YahooPOPS! works seamlessly from within the program I just press "Send/Receive" and collect all my email

at the one time One of those rare programs where you offer a silent "thanks" to the developer every time you use it ( 3.7MB)

http://yahoopops.sourceforge.net/

Best Free Outlook Accessory

I hate opening HTML email Despite multiple layers of protection I just know that one day some cunning new exploit is going to get me That's why I'm so enthusiastic about PocketKnife Peek, a small free Outlook add-in that allows you to preview your HTML email as text

http://www.xintercept.com/pkpeek.htm

The Best Free Encryption Utility New

This is what the web site says: "dsCrypt is AES/Rijndael file encryption software with simple, multi-file, drag-and-drop operations It features optimal implementation,

performance and safety measures dsCrypt uses an advanced encryption algorithm and offers unique options for enhanced security." To that I'll add the fact that it's tiny, easy to use, has open , employs proven techniques that are essentially unbreakable and comes from a highly reputable source In summary, dsCrypt offers the average user everything they want in a secure encryption program and it's free That's why I use it myself (25KB)

http://freezip.cjb.net/freeware

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Best Free Time Correction Utility New

A lot of folks have difficulty getting time correction software to work on their PC If that's you then you should try Dimension 4, a free utility that gives you the choice of connecting to a time server either by standard TCP protocol or by the more common (and more problem-prone) SNTP protocol If you haven't yet got a time correction utility, this

is the one It's free, it’s easy to use, and it has every function that you could conceivably want Because it works from both the command line and Windows, it's ideal for batch files, too (292KB)

http://www.thinkman.com/dimension4/

Best Free Startup Manager New

Everyone needs a startup program utility so they can exercise control over what third party programs start automatically with Windows My long time choice has been PC Magazine's Startup Cop but alas, this is no longer freeware - it's now only available if you subscribe to the magazine's software service My new choice is Mike Lin's Startup

Control Panel It’s small, capable and has powerful features not found in Startup Cop including the ability to edit or add entries Unfortunately these same features make it potentially dangerous in the hands of newbies That caveat aside, it's a great product Thanks Mike (59KB)

http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml

Best Free File Backup Program New

Karen's Replicator v1.8.10 is a straight-forward backup utility that copies individual files, folders and even entire drives to another location The backup can be on another partition, local drive or network drive Its key feature is the ability to schedule automatic backups

No, it doesn't support removable media - that kind of feature is for a different class of backup product The intended use of this product is to make regular automatic backups of critical files I use it to make hourly backups of the file containing my notes for future issues of my newsletter Simple, effective and free (1.4MB)

http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptreplicator.asp

Best Free Data Recovery Utility New

PC Inspector File Recovery 3 is a free utility that does an impressive job recovering accidentally deleted files or files lost through corruption of the file system It has some nice features, like the ability to recover files with lost headers, and to recover partitions even when the boot sector has been lost or damaged It works with the FAT16/FAT32 and NTFS file systems This is no home written utility - it is a serious product from a