FILE BACKUP/COPY  

Windows 2000 and Above

Easeus
Todo
Backup

  Easeus ToDo Backup is freeware. You can use this freeware to backup the system or important data to a safe place. With it you can create mirror image, clone disk, upgrade small disk to bigger one. You can also backup your data into hard drive or CD/DVD.

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Windows 2000 and Above

FBackup

  FBackup is a free backup software for both personal and commercial use. It protects your important data by backing it up automatically to any USB/Firewire device, local or network location. The backed up data can be either compressed (using standard zip compression) or an exact copy of the original files.

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Windows 2000 and Above

TeraCopy

  TeraCopy is a compact program designed to copy and move files at the maximum possible speed, providing the user with a lot of features including pause and resume file transfers, error recovery, no more terminating the entire transfer when a file error occurs.

Shell integration means TeraCopy can even completely replace the standard Windows Explorer copy and move functions.

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Windows 2000 and Above

Microsoft
RoboCopy

  Robocopy enables the more serious file replication tasks that can really simplify your job. The biggest benefit I think you'll find is the ability to create full mirror duplicates of two file structures (including all subdirectories and files, if you choose) without copying any unnecessary files. Only the files that are new or have been updated in the source location will be copied.

Robocopy also allows you to preserve all of the associated file information, including date and time stamps, security access control lists (ACLs) and more.

  FILE MANAGERS  

Windows 2000 and Above

Free
Commander
File Manager

  FreeCommander is an easy-to-use alternative to the standard windows file manager. The program helps you with daily work in Windows. Here you can find all the necessary functions to manage your data stock.

You can take FreeCommander anywhere - just copy the installation directory on a CD, USB-Stick or even a floppy disk - and you can even work with this program on a foreign computer.

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All Versions of Windows Supported

WinDirStat

  WinDirStat is a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool for Microsoft Windows.

WinDirStat reads the whole directory tree once and then presents it in three useful views:

The directory list, which resembles the tree view of the Windows Explorer but is sorted by file/subtree size, the treemap, which shows the whole contents of the directory tree straight away, and the extension list, which serves as a legend and shows statistics about the file types.
 

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  FILE RECOVERY  

All Versions of Windows Supported

Recuva

  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!


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All Versions of Windows Supported

Restoration

  Restore files which are deleted from the recycle bin or deleted while holding down the Shift key by mistake. Conversely, this program has another function that makes it almost impossible to restore all deleted files. You can use it after deletion of confidential documents, embarrassing files and so on.

You don't have to install it, so it doesn't leave any garbage in the PC.


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All Versions of Windows Supported

Undelete
Plus

  Undelete Plus is a quick and effective way to retrieve accidentally deleted files, files removed from the Recycle Bin, in a DOS window, from a network drive, from Windows Explorer with the SHIFT key held down.

The program supports all Windows file systems for hard and floppy drives including FAT12/16/32,NTFS/NTFS5 and even image recovery from CompactFlash, SmartMedia, MultiMedia and Secure Digital cards.
 

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  FILE SYNCHRONIZATION  

Windows XP or Later

Microsoft
SyncToys

   This utility allows you to keep a pair of folders and their files in sync, even when renaming or deleting files, and even if the folders are on different computers or portable storage devices.

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Windows 2000 or Later

SyncBack

  SyncBack is a  freeware program that helps you easily backup and synchronize your files to: the same drive; a different drive or medium (CDRW, CompactFlash, etc); an FTP server; a Network; or a Zip archive.

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  FILE COMPRESSION  

Windows 98 or Later

Pea
Zip

  PeaZip can extract most of archive formats both from Windows and Unix worlds, ranging from mainstream formats as 7Z, RAR, TAR and ZIP to experimental ones like PAQ/LPAQ family, currently the most powerful compressor available.

PeaZip supports creating archives with a wide range of compression and encryption standards, and allows to export job definition as scripts to bridge the gap between GUI and console applications, and let the user pick the best of the two worlds.

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Windows 98 or Later

7-Zip

  7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio. .

7-Zip currently supports 18 other archive formats, including: ACE v2, ARC, RAR, TAR, GZIP, BZip2, LHA and CAB.

You can use 7-Zip on any computer, including a computer in a commercial organization.

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  FOLDER TOOLS  

Windows XP or Below

Print
Folder

  Handy utility to print or save a list of files located in any folder.

Once installed just Right-click any folder in Windows Explorer and select "PrintFolder" in the popup menu.

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Windows XP or Later

Folder
Marker

   Use Folder Marker to mark your folders. One mouse-click and it becomes clear at once, which documents have a high priority, and which of them have normal or low priority. Which operations are finished completely, which are half-done and which haven't started yet. 

Do you fear that someone might unintentionally delete information necessary to you? Mark a folder, and other users will notice at once that that folder contains important information for you.

Changing folder icons, Folder Marker will help you to cope with the standard yellowness. Folder Marker adds an item "Mark Folder" in the folder popup menu. Changing a folder icon is now a piece of cake.

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