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Friday, November 12, 2010

Defraggler 2.00.230 Released

 

Defraggler is used to defrag your entire hard drive, or individual files - unique in the industry. This compact and portable Windows application supports NTFS and FAT32 file systems.

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This software is from Piriform. Unlike most of the Defrag software it gives us an option to Defrag folders and even files.Defraggler use the same technique as Windows to Defrag so it’s safe and secure. For example, if you move a file from your hard drive to an external USB drive, it will copy the file to the USB drive first, then delete it from the hard drive. In case a problem occurs writing the file to the USB drive, it still has the original on the hard drive to work with. When Defraggler reads or writes a file, it uses the exact same techniques that Windows uses. Using Defraggler is just as safe for your files as using Windows.

Defraggler's Interactive Drive Map gives you immediate graphical insight into what's on your drive.

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At a glance, you can see how fragmented your hard drive is. Defraggler's drive map shows you blocks that are empty, not fragmented, or needing defragmentation.

  • Give your hard drive a quick touch-up with Quick Defrag
  • Organizes empty disk space to further prevent fragmentation
  • Defragment while you sleep - and wake up with a faster PC. Set Defraggler to run daily, weekly or monthly
  • Full Windows OS and Multi-lingual support
  • Boot time defrag of system files
  • Supports 37 major languages

Change Log for new version:

  • Added offline defragmentation of system files
  • Brand new drive map with custom colors
  • Removed 2000 support
  • Lots of other tweaks and stability fixes

Download from Piriform.com

Internet Download Manager Beta 6.03 Released

 

 

Internet Download Manager has release their new beta version. Internet Download Manager v6.03 beta. Fixed compatibility problems with different browsers including Google Chrome. Improved FLV grabber to save videos from web players on YouTube, Google Video, MySpace TV, and other popular sites

Internet Download Manager (IDM) is a tool to increase download speeds by up to 5 times, resume and schedule downloads. Comprehensive error recovery and resume capability will restart broken or interrupted downloads due to lost connections, network problems, computer shutdowns, or unexpected power outages. Simple graphic user interface makes IDM user friendly and easy to use.Internet Download Manager has a smart download logic accelerator that features intelligent dynamic file segmentation and safe multipart downloading technology to accelerate your downloads. Unlike other download managers and accelerators Internet Download Manager segments downloaded files dynamically during download process and reuses available connections without additional connect and login stages to achieve best acceleration performance.

Internet Download Manager supports proxy servers, ftp and http protocols, firewalls, redirects, cookies, authorization, MP3 audio and MPEG video content processing. IDM integrates seamlessly into Microsoft Internet Explorer, Netscape, MSN Explorer, AOL, Opera, Mozilla, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Firebird, Avant Browser, MyIE2, and all other popular browsers to automatically handle your downloads. You can also drag and drop files, or use Internet Download Manager from command line. Internet Download Manager can dial your modem at the set time, download the files you want, then hang up or even shut down your computer when it's done.

Other features include multilingual support, zip preview, download categories, scheduler pro, sounds on different events, HTTPS support, queue processor, html help and tutorial, enhanced virus protection on download completion, progressive downloading with quotas (useful for connections that use some kind of fair access policy or FAP like Direcway, Direct PC, Hughes, etc.), built-in download accelerator, and many others.

DOWNLOAD Internet Download Manager 6.03 beta

Visit them: Internet Download Manager

Saturday, October 23, 2010

Windows Seven File Replacer

 

 

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System modders need to take ownership of a system file before it can be replaced..
To make this process a little less time consuming I wrote a small program that does these tasks for you...
This program will, backup the OLD file, save the ownerships,
take Admin Ownerships and replace it with the NEW dragged or manually selected system file
to finally restore the ownerships back to how they were found.
It does this in just a few seconds!

Normally when a file is replaced the file's ownerships are changed and the "TrustedInstallers" will be gone.
However, the Se7en File Replacer will save all file permissions of the file before replacing it
and after replacement restores them back to how the Replacer found them!!
(even TrustedInstallers if the file had them to begin with)

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The Replacer will first look in the "system32" folder for a match with your NEW dragged file,
if the OLD file is found it will be backed up and replaced without prompt,
otherwise you will be asked to select it manually in a file open dialog box.

(note for x64 users: please don't drag SysWOW64 files as they will be placed in the system32 folder, use the manual function instead!) The manual option will let the user select a new file first and then select the old file which needs to be replaced.
With this function any file in any location can be replaced.

the option to restore the "TrustedInstaller" ownership of a system file.
Please only use this on a file if u know it originally had the "Trusted Installer" permissions.

It's just an .exe and nothing will be installed.
I've added some extra option like:
"clear icon cache" to refresh your icons
and a "sfc /scanfile" option to select and restore a single file via the Windows File Protection service in an easy way.

WARNING: Use is at your own risk!
This tool is to replace un-owned system files.
Be careful not to use this if you don't know what you are doing..
This can and will break the system if corrupted system files are used to be replaced!

Download: Se7en File Replacer v1.5.4

Thursday, October 21, 2010

BatteryCare–Optimize the usage and performance of the modern laptop's battery

 


   
BatteryCare is a software created to optimize the usage and performance of the modern laptop's battery. It monitors the battery's discharge cycles and helps increasing it's autonomy and improving its lifetime.

BatteryCare allows you to have the control over the discharge cycles number, and when this reaches 30 (or other configured value), it notifies you that it's time to perform a full discharge in order to keep the battery gauge calibrated.
Like this, it's guaranteed to always have the correct capacity values reported by the battery.

Besides, when using the battery, there's the possibility to suspend some Operating System features that help degrading the autonomy (only in Windows Vista or higher):

- Windows Aero, the theme that allows for visual effects like window transparency, requires graphics card acceleration, which obviously will help decreasing the battery lifetime;

- SuperFetch, ReadyBoost and SearchIndexer are three Windows Vista (and higher) services that, even in battery mode, are using the hard disk a lot and increase total power consumption, thus decreasing battery lifetime. Suspending these services has absolutely no negative impact on the performance or security of the system.

These features are resumed once the laptop is plugged in to A/C power.

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Main Features of Battery Care

Battery's discharge cycles monitoring: The advanced algorithm accurately records when a complete discharge cycle is performed. When the configured number of discharge cycles is reached, a notification balloon pops up to remind that a full discharge is required.

Complete battery information: It calculates the statistical remaining time in laptops that don't support the battery time left information and only list the charge percentage.Shows all the detailed information about the battery, such as wear level, capacities, consumption, manufacturer, etc.

CPU and HDD temperature reading: BatteryCare constantly monitors your CPU and hard drive temperature, either in degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit.


Automatic power plans switching: Depending on the power source of the computer, BatteryCare can automatically select the power plan you prefer.


Control over Windows Aero and demanding Services: Automatically disable the graphics accelerated theme in Windows Vista and/or demanding services that degrade battery lifetime.
Once the laptop stops running on batteries, the theme is re-enabled and the stopped services are restored.

Notification area information: It features a compact popup with the essential information you need to quickly monitor. Temperatures, charge status, remaining time and power plans

Lightweight in the system: Given the concern about the battery optimization, BatteryCare does not interfere with the system performance. It requires only a mere 0,1% of Processor and Memory resources.

 

Download: http://batterycare.net/en/download.html

Revo Uninstaller–Advance Removal of Programs

 

Revo Uninstaller is alternative of Windows Programs and Features. Most of the times the Programs Uninstaller leave of of junks registry keys and files. With its advanced and fast algorithm, Revo Uninstaller analyzes an application's data before uninstall and scans after you uninstall an application. After the program's regular uninstaller runs, you can remove additional unnecessary files, folders and registry keys that are usually left over on your computer. Even if you have a broken installation, Revo Uninstaller scans for an application's data on your hard disk drives and in the Windows registry and shows all found files, folders and registry keys so you can delete them.

After Installing Revo Uninstaller choose the program which is bothering you to uninstall ,and select it from the list included in Revo Uninstaller.

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It’s perfectly Safe to use the Uninstaller because before it make any changes it creates a Full backup of the Registry and create a System restore point.

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As you can see in the Picture it will give three scanning modes. Safe, Moderate and Advance. I mostly use advance since it want all the left over files out of my Computer.

Once it Full backup of the Registry and create a System restore point first it will attempt to use the Programs build-in uninstaller. Once that’s complete it’s will scan for left over files which you could delete them.

The Free edition is limited to 32-bit programs. If your purchasing the Pro edition you get 64-bit application features

The Browsers Cleaner feature lets you clear out your browsing history, cookies, temp files and more from different web browsers installed on the computer.

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Microsoft Office Cleaner allows you to clean out recent document history for versions 2000 through 2007.

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Windows Cleaner let’s you clean up temp files, document history, the recycle bin, and more unnecessary files that Windows saves so you can reclaim disk space.

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The user interface has been redone and includes tabbed features and an easy to use search that lets you find the app you want to remove more quickly.

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You can pickup the Tools Toolbar and move it around to anywhere you want within the app.

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It still includes the same favorite features like Hunter Mode.

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Main Features of Revo Uninstaller Pro

  • Real-Time installation monitor - for complete uninstall
  • Forced Uninstall - remove stubborn programs
  • Advanced scanning for leftovers - remove remnants of programs
  • Multi-Level Backup System - safe uninstall of programs
  • Junk Files Cleaner - remove unnecessary files
  • Autorun Manager - control Windows startup
  • Windows Tools - useful Windows tools in one place
  • Browsers Cleaner - clear Internet browser history
  • MS Office Cleaner - clear Microsoft Office history
  • Windows Cleaner - remove junk files from your Windows
  • Evidence Remover - erase permanently confidential data
  • Unrecoverable Delete - erase permanently files and folders
  • Full 64-bit compatibility - native support of 64-bit OSs

Free edition is enough for 32 Bit user but if your using 64-bit edition of Windows then you might want to think about Pro edition.

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