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. 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)




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)




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.

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.




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.


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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)




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)

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.




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)




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.



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)




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)




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.




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)



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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)

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)




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)




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
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