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PuraRa is a simple tool that does a simple job: it removes files from your computer that other mainstream cleaning programs tend to oversee. Some of our targets can simply be removed to create some valuable space while others are removed in an attempt to repair certain problems because they will simply recreate themselves.
Download: PureRa 1.1
Recuva (pronounced “recover”) is a freeware Windows utility to restore files that have been accidentally deleted from your computer. This includes files emptied from the Recycle bin as well as images and other files that have been deleted by user error from digital camera memory cards or MP3 players. It will even bring back files that have been deleted by bugs, crashes and viruses!
Recuva is free for both commercial and personal use.
Download: Recuva 1.19.350 | Screenshots
Construct is powerful and easy to use development software for both DirectX 9-based games and applications. It includes an event based system for defining how the game or application will behave, in a visual, human-readable way.
Features
- Create games and applications with:
- Super fast hardware-accelerated DirectX 9 graphics engine
- Add multiple pixel shaders for advanced special effects, including lighting, HDR, distortion, lenses and more
- Physics engine for realistic object behaviour
- Place object on different layers for organising display, parallaxing, or whole-layer effects
- Debugger giving you complete control over all aspects of your game for testing purposes.
- Smaller, faster specialised runtime for applications
- 50+ plugins ranging from Tiled Background to database access
Construct is developed and distributed free of charge.
Download: Construct 0.97.5
CCleaner (Crap Cleaner) is a freeware system optimization and privacy tool. It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history. But the best part is that it’s fast (normally taking less that a second to run) and contains NO Spyware or Adware! :)
Cleans the following:
Internet Explorer
Temporary files, URL history, cookies, Autocomplete form history, index.dat.
Firefox
Temporary files, URL history, cookies, download history.
Windows
Recycle Bin, Recent Documents, Temporary files and Log files.
Registry cleaner
Advanced features to remove unused and old entries, including File Extensions, ActiveX Controls, ClassIDs, ProgIDs, Uninstallers, Shared DLLs, Fonts, Help Files, Application Paths, Icons, Invalid Shortcuts and more… also comes with a comprehensive backup feature.
Third-party applications
Removes temp files and recent file lists (MRUs) from many apps including Opera, Media Player, eMule, Kazaa, Google Toolbar, Netscape, MS Office, Office 2007, Nero, Adobe Acrobat, WinRAR, WinAce, WinZip and many more…
Download: CCleaner 2.12.660 | Screenshots
CloneSpy can help you free up hard drive space by detecting and removing duplicate files. Duplicate files have exactly the same contents regardless of their name, date, time and location. Also, CloneSpy is able to find files that are not exactly identical, but have the same file name. Perhaps you have different versions of a file and you want to find all of them and remove the older versions. CloneSpy can also find zero length files. These are files that have no content.
With CloneSpy you can process files which
- are duplicates
- are duplicates and have the same file name
- have the same file name
- have the same file name and (approximately) the same size
- are zero bytes long
CloneSpy offers you a complete mechanism for determining which duplicate or same-name files should be removed. It is also possible to leave this decision up to the individual user.
CloneSpy can handle equal files by
- deleting redundant files
- moving redundant files to a specific folder
- exporting a list of all equal files without removing any files
- deferring file operations on redundant files to a batch file where you can apply arbitrary file operations
With CloneSpy you can build checksum files from files on CDs (or even on hard drives, etc.) and use them to check whether these files already exist on your system.
CloneSpy does NOT contain adware or any devices for collecting and/or transmitting any user information.
Download: CloneSpy 2.34 Windows 98se/NT/ME/2000/XP
With Argente - Registry Cleaner you can safely clean and repair problems in the Windows registry with just a few clicks of the mouse.
Languages: English and Spanish.
Download: Argente - Registry Cleaner 1.5.0.2
SUMo which stands for Software Update Monitor.Thanks to SUMo you’ll be able to keep your PC up-to-date by using the most recent version of your favorite software ! Unlike build-in auto update features, SUMo tells you if updates are available before you need to use your software
Download: SUMo 2.3.4.60 | SUMo Beta
Use the Norton Removal Tool to remove a failed installation or a damaged Norton product.
The Norton Removal Tool uninstalls all Norton 2008/2007/2006/2005/2004/2003 products and Norton 360 from your computer.
Operating system: Windows 2000/XP/Vista.
Download: Norton Removal Tool 2009.00.41
DFIncBackup is a personal backup program designed for incremental backup of files directly to zip archives.
With it, you don’t have to backup all your files over and over, instead, you can backup only new ones or ones that have changed since last backup. You never lose or overwrite valuable files - all their versions will be saved into zip archives.
This home edition may be used for free by home users and small business firms.
Compatible with Windows 9X, ME, 2000, XP, 2003 and Vista
Download: DFIncBackup Home 2.80
KCleaner - KC Softwares System Cleaner
KCleaner is a tiny application (small memory footprint) than helps you keeping your system clean of unwanted / temporary files.
It has a manual mode and an automatic mode which periodically scans and clean you computer.
Download: KCleaner 0.10.0.18
Swiss File Knife - the open source file tree processor - is a free multi function command line tool that belongs onto every usb stick.
No installation, no registry entries, no DLL’s - one exe handles all.
This package contains binaries, source and buildscripts for windows and linux.
Download: Swiss File Knife 1.5.1
Free PC Audit is a freeware system, hardware and software information tool. It extracts details of all components of the PC, shows installed software with version and product key. Free PC Audit does not require installation and can be used as a portable application. It can be run from a removable storage device such as a CD-ROM drive, USB flash drive, flash card, or floppy disk.
This professional tool is designed to collect and present the maximum amount of information possible about computer’s hardware and software which makes them suitable for users searching for driver updates, computer manufacturers, system integrators and technical experts as well.
Compatible with: Windows Vista / 2003 / XP / 2000 / NT / Me / 98
Download: Free PC Audit 1.1
Bat To Exe-Converter converts your batch-script files to exe files.
Features and differences to usual batch files
- Ghost applications
- Additional binaries, icons, versioninformations
- Hidden source
Download: Bat To Exe-Converter 1.4.1.0
Uranium Backup is the most complete and versatile software for multiple data transfers and backup.
What Uranium Backup can do: Tape Backup, Backup with automatic CD and DVD burning, Microsoft SQL Server and MSDE database backup, with integrated zip compression and encryption, FTP and SFTP - Upload and Download, Backup to disk - network - zip compression - synchronization, Automatic scheduled backups, Automatic e-mail sending of the backup logs to one or more addresses, and more.
This version of Uranium Backup is absolutely freeware an so can be used freely, without any time limitation and without any cost.
Compatible with all versions of Windows: 98 / ME / NT / 2000 / XP / 2003 / Vista.
Download: Uranium Backup 7.0.0.2837
EASEUS Partition Manager Home Edition is a comprehensive hard disk partition management tool with friendly user-interface. It provides all types of basic and advanced functions: Resize and Move partitions, Create, Delete and Format partitions, Hide and Unhide partitions and much more. Your data is completely protected during all operations.
For Windows 2000 Professional SP4, Windows XP
Free for home users only
Locate32 is software which can be used to find files from your harddrives and other locations. It works like updatedb and locate commands in Unix based systems. In other words, it uses databases to store information about directory structures and uses these databases in searches. The use of these databases provides very fast searching speed. The software includes a dialog based application as well as console programs which can be used to both update and access databases.
Supported operation systems are Windows 98/ME/NT4/2000/XP/Vista.
Download: Locate32 3.0.7.7010 | Locate32 3.1.8.9210 RC3
Cobian Backup is a multi-threaded program that can be used to schedule and backup your files and directories from their original location to other directories/drives in the same computer or other computer in your network. FTP backup is also supported.
Cobian Backup exists in two different versions: application and service. The program uses very few resources and can be running on the background on your system, checking your backup schedule and executing your backups when necessary. Cobian Backup is not an usual backup application: it only copies your files and folders in original or compressed mode to other destination, creating a security copy as a result. So Cobian Backup can be better described as a “Scheduler for security copies”.
New on version 7:
• Designed and written from scratch
• Zip64 for zip files larger than 2 GB
• SQX compression
• Backup FROM and TO a FTP server
• Limit the speed of your FTP transfers
• SSL servers supported
• The program can now remind you if you have missed backups
• Strong encryption: Supported methods are Blowfish (128 bit), Rijndael (128 bit) and DES (64 bit)
• An open plug-in architecture to allow the program’s enhancement
• The interprocess communication is done using TCP/IP. This allows a better communication between the program parts AND the program can be administrated from another machine anywhere in the world.
• Backup to multiple destinations
• A backup history is displayed
• Compressed files can now be split
• A new user interface
• Remote backup
• Automatically remove old backups
• The application can be used as a command line utility. No separate command line program is needed
Download: Cobian Backup 9.5.0.201 Windows 95, 98, ME, Windows NT, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista
AML Free Registry Cleaner is Registry-cleaning software. It will safely clean and repair Windows Registry problems with a few clicks and enable you to enjoy a cleaner and more efficient PC. The Registry is the nerve center of your PC, and problems with the Windows Registry are a common cause of Windows crashes and error messages.
With a detailed startup-manager you can see what all programs start automatically with Windows and optionally disable them.
AML Free Registry Cleaner also finding and removing common junk files that accumulate over time. It comes pre-configured with 22 types of file extension that can usually be considered disposable, and you can extend the range by adding your own file types.
AML Free Registry Cleaner also Provides a detailed overview of running programs and processes. AML Free Registry Cleaner also allows you to search for words in the entire registry.
OS: Windows XP/2003/Vista (32 and 64 bit)
Download: AML Free Registry Cleaner 4.10
CurrPorts displays the list of all currently opened TCP/IP and UDP ports on your local computer. For each port in the list, information about the process that opened the port is also displayed, including the process name, full path of the process, version information of the process (product name, file description, and so on), the time that the process was created, and the user that created it.
In addition, CurrPorts allows you to close unwanted TCP connections, kill the process that opened the ports, and save the TCP/UDP ports information to HTML file , XML file, or to tab-delimited text file.
CurrPorts also automatically mark with pink color suspicious TCP/UDP ports owned by unidentified applications (Applications without version information and icons)
This utility is released as freeware.
Download: CurrPorts 1.50
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