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 » Active@ KillDisk 5.1
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  Active@ Kill Disk is a disk eraser program for secure formatting without any possibility of future data recovery. Detect and display information about all hard and floppy disk drives currently connected to your computer; Complete wiping out of all floppies and first detected hard disk drive by securely overwriting data to defeat available recovery software. Works on any system capable of booting from a floppy in DOS mode. Utility is so compact that it can be placed on bootable diskette and used from it. Supports command line, bootable disk or bootable CD, you do not need to boot from the hard drive to destroy it's data.
Personal version is free for personal use on up-to-3 computers at one time.
 author:LSoft Technologies Inc.
 required:DOS, Windows & Vista, *NIX,
 size:10.7 m
 added:16-Jul-2009
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 » Active@ Partition Manager 1.3+
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  Active@ Partition Manager is an application that helps you manage storage devices and the logical drives or partitions that they contain. You may create, delete, format and name partitions on your computer without shutting down the system. In addition, most of the configuration modification you perform will be applied immediately. Features include: Format a logical drive or partition (FAT16, FAT32, NTFS); Create FAT32 partitions greater than 32GB in size (up to 1Tb); Format a Flash memory as NTFS. Assign or change partition attributes; Mark partition as active. Create several partitions on a USB flash memory device; View the properties of a partition, logical drive or hard drive device.
 author:LSoft Technologies Inc.
 required:Windows & Vista
 size:4.4 m
 added:31-Aug-2009
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 » Auslogics Disk Defrag 1.6+
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  Auslogics Disk Defrag will defragment your computer disks and speed up your systems. It's designed for fast optimization of today's modern hard disks, get the maximum performance out of your expensive hardware investments. Defragment disks in only a few minutes. Useful disk fragmentation map and detailed fragmentation report.
 author:AusLogics, Inc.
 required:Win2K, WinXP, Vista
 size:1.6 m
 added:10-Feb-2009
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 » Backup Easy 2.3+
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  Backup Easy is a software for automatic backup of folders and files at a chosen day and time. A graphical interface provides clear, easy control. Remote backup to FTP, FTP over SSL or SFTP server is supported.
 author:Hinxsoft
 required:Windows, Vista
 size:593 k
 added:07-Mar-2008
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 » ChangePI 1.0
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  ChangePI is a high quality FREEWARE snapshot-utility to track down changes on a drive. Simple and easy to use, less fancy or complex than many others out there. Initially created for own use, now put out for YOU! No change will escape the eyes of the Change Private Investigator. Needs BWCC.DLL not included, downloadable here
 author:JTHZ.com
 required:Windows
 size:75 k
 added:25-Jun-2002
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 » DefragDrives 4.3+
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  DefragDrives makes use of the standard Windows defragmentation engine to provide an alternative to the standard Windows interface with additional functionality. Capable of defragmenting up to 10 units consecutively in normal or in-depth mode. Analysis function for the specified units, with complete file fragmentation analysis report. "Create Batch" function will generate a user.bat file that will defragment the selected units. Useful to defrag hard drives with a single click, or create a scheduled defrag without any user input. Vista: files bigger than 64 Mb will be defragmented, unlike Vista's own defrag. NOTE: files bigger than 64 mB will not be included in the defragmentation reports.
 author:SoftHardware
 required:WinXP, Vista
 size:125 k
 added:07-Oct-2009
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 » Defraggler 1.0+Beta
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  Defraggler differs from other defrag tools on the market, by enabling you to quickly and simply defrag the files you want to, without having to process the whole drive. Simply run it, select the file and defragment in seconds. No more struggling with the Windows defragmentation tool! And remember like all Piriform products, Defraggler is completely free for both corporate and individual use. Warning! This is a beta version, it may contain bugs, so should be used for testing purposes only. We therefore do not recommend you use it in a commercial environment.
 author:Piriform Ltd.
 required:Win2K/2K3, WinXP, Vista
 size:445 k
 added:08-May-2008
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 » Disc Space Reporter 1.0
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  Disc Space Reporter is a simple and effective program which gives you a clear insight into how the disc space is organized on your hard drives. It is a helpful tool for cleaning up your computer or finding long lost files. Features: * Hierachical view of the folder structure including absolute and relative used space. * Top N ranking of your files by size - helps to find big orphaned/temporary files. * Loading/storing reports.
 author:Malte Weiss
 required:Windows
 size:192 k
 added:23-Feb-2007
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 » Disk Checker 1.0
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  Disk Checker is a program that monitors the system's hard disk for changes in SMART (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting) information. The program displays the values of critical attributes and determines the health of the disk. The SMART data is vendor specific, so the status displayed of the disk may not be accurate. However a disk failure can be predicted if there is a sudden decrease in the SMART attributes.
 author:Bapuli Online
 required:WinXP, Vista, +.NET 3.5
 size:600 k
 added:25-Jul-2008
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 » Disk Investigator 1.3+
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  Disk Investigator helps you to discover all that is hidden on your computer hard disk, it can also help you to recover lost data. Display the true drive contents by bypassing the operating system and directly reading the raw drive sectors. View and search raw directories, files, clusters, and system sectors. Undelete previously deleted files. Verify the effectiveness of file and disk wiping programs.
NOTE: Use the author's FIRST download link, the second one is broken.
 author:Kevin Solway
 required:Windows
 size:500 k
 added:07-Apr-2008
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 » Disk Sizer 1.0
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  Disk Sizer is a small graphical application that allows the user to view their hard drive(s) in a pie chart which then can be clicked on for a further drill down. The interface can be customised to show ascending / descending orders or display usage in Kilobytes (KB), Megabytes (MB) or Gigabytes (GB).
 author:Evil systems
 required:Win2K, WinXP, Vista, +.NET
 size:900 k
 added:20-Aug-2008
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 » Disk Space Explorer 1.1
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  Disk Space Explorer is a simple utility that scans the entire hard disk and provides size-related information of each folder and its subfolders. This will allow you to quickly identify which folders occupy the most hard disk space. After scanning the hard disk it will provide you with the number of bytes, files and folders that currently exist inside a given folder (and its subfolders).
Requires the MS .NET Framework which is part of XP, will run on other versions of Windows if this is installed.
 author:Minh T. Nguyen
 required:WinXP
 size:8 k
 added:10-Jun-2004
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 » Disk Spy Free 2.0
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  DiskSpy enables you to view every sector of any installed hard disk drive. It is irrelevant if this sectors are bootsectors, partition tables, file system entries or simple data files. Also areas protected by the operating system are accessible, since DiskSpy is completely operating-system-independent. Search for ASCII character strings; Vertical and horizontal scrolling; Byte-, word- and doubleword-views; 7- and 8-bit-view on the ASCII display; Detailed display of capabilities of the installed hard disk drives. Note: the free version only supports IDE drives not SCSI and does not allow editing of the contents.
 author:Miray Software
 required:Windows, Linux, UNIX
 size:828 k
 added:25-Feb-2005
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 » Disktective 4.0
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  Freeware disk reporting tool for Windows, use Disktective to trace used space within your hard disk and directories. Disktective can handle 10 Gb or more. With Disktective you can find out the real size of your directories and disks - and see how used space is distributed inside them. Disktective creates reports, prints pie charts, exports to HTML and TreePad files. The program does not need to be installed or uninstalled.
 author:Henk Hagedoorn
 required:Windows
 size:358 k
 added:23-Dec-2003
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 » Drive Folder 7.6
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  Create Virtual Drives by associating folders of your disks with Drive letters. Drive Folder associates folders with Drive letters making them behave as physical Drives, this is very convenient if you use specific folders to store data files, multimedia, downloads etc. Create an appropriate batch file using the three steps Wizard, and run it from the Batch Files Management panel. More than one Drive letter can be associated with the same folder.
 author:Vasilios Freeware
 required:Win2K, WinXP, Vista
 size:2.04 m
 added:09-Jul-2008
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 » EASEUS Partition Manager 3.5+
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  EASEUS Partition Manager is a partition freeware with a convenient user-interface simplifying your tasks and enabling you to configure and manage partitions of your hard drive. You can create, delete, format partitions on your hard disk quickly and easily. The most attractive feature is that it can resize/move your partitions by using the free spaces without destroying data. Free for HOME USE only.
 author:YIWO Tech Development Co.
 required:Win2K, WinXP, Vista
 size:8.8 m
 added:02-Jul-2008
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 » HardDriveIndicator 1.2
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  HardDriveIndicator displays a system tray load indicator for your local physical disks. Especially useful for situations where the (hardware) hard drive LED is hidden, missing or broken. Has a 5 bar resolution for both read and write operations. Auto-calibrates itself to ensure that the output is relative to the disk usage for the previous 60 seconds (Read and write scales are not relative). Shows a 'governor' to indicate whether the system tray icon is actually being updated. Stand-alone executable, no install required, includes self-referencing link creation/deletion code.
 author:OptionalReaction
 required:Win2K, WinXP
 size:50 k
 added:23-Feb-2006
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 » HDD Health 3.3
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  HDD Health is a full-featured failure-prediction agent that sits in the system tray, monitors hard disks and alerts you to impending failure. The program uses Self Monitoring and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T.) built into all new hard disks, and can predict failures on your hard drives. A host of alerting features include email, local pop-up messages, net messages, and event logging, while using no system resources.
Note: if you go to the author's web page you will need to scroll down to the bottom to find this program.
 author:PANTERASoft
 required:Windows
 size:920 k
 added:14-May-2008
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 » HDD Low Level Format Tool 2.3+
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  HDD Low Level Format Tool is a freeware utility for low-level hard disk drive formatting. This Tool will clear partitions, MBR, and every bit of user data. WARNING: The data cannot be recovered after using this utility. The program utilizes Ultra-DMA transfers when possible. This freeware Low Level Format utility will erase, Low-Level Format and re-certify a SATA, IDE or SCSI hard disk drive with any size of up to 281,474 Gigs. Will work with USB and FIREWIRE external drive enclosures. Low-level formatting of Flash Cards is supported too.
 author:HDD Guru
 required:Win2K/2K3, WinXP
 size:496 k
 added:16-Jan-2008
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 » HDHacker 1.4
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  HDHacker is a stand-alone micro-utility that saves, visualizes, & restores the MBR from a physical drive, the BootSector from a logical drive or any sector from a disk. It can be used, for example, to save and restore a particular boot manager such as LILO, after a Windows new setup. An MBR and BootSector backup can also be useful for simple precautionary purposes in case a virus or alternative OS setup overwrites and/or alters them preventing access to the disc or data.
 author:Dimio's Tools
 required:WinNT, Win2K, WinXP, Vista
 size:20 k
 added:28-Aug-2009
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 » HDShredder Free Edition 3.6+
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  HDShredder Free Edition is free for personal use and is the ideal tool for erasing entire hard disks and other media. HDShredder works independently of partition layout, file system, and operating system. The download package contains HDShredder as a self-booting application. You can easily create a bootable floppy disk or CD/DVD on Windows with only a few mouse clicks. A floppy image, ISO image, and manual (PDF) are also enclosed.
 author:Miray Software
 required:Win2K, WinXP, Vista
 size:7.95 m
 added:26-Sep-2008
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 » JDiskReport 1.0.7
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  JDiskReport enables you to understand how much space the files and directories consume on your disk drives, and it helps you find obsolete files and folders. The tool analyses your disk drives and collects several statistics which you can view as overview charts and details tables. This is ad- and nag-free, uncrippled, binary, multi-platform software that is free of charge and that never expires.
 author:Karsten Lentzsch
 required:Any
 size:648 k
 added:18-Feb-2003
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 » MyDefrag 4.1+
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  MyDefrag is a disk defragmenter and optimizer (a maintenance utility to make your harddisk faster). Fast, low overhead, with many optimization strategies, can handle floppies, USB disks, memory sticks, and anything else that looks like a disk to Windows. Included are a set of easy to use scripts for end users, a scripting engine for demanding users, a screensaver, and a combined Windows plus command line version that can be scheduled by the Windows task scheduler or for use from administrator scripts.
 author:Jeroen Kessels
 required:Win2K, WinXP, Vista, X64
 size:1.54 m
 added:27-Jul-2009
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 » NT Disk Viewer 1.0
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  NT Disk Viewer allows users to display hard-disk data by physical sectors (in hex-code or ascii). Sectors can be copied and exported to files. Really useful when doing a "low-level" disk investigation and verification the effectiveness of file and disk wiping programs. NT Disk Viewer is designed for developers and technical specialists who need access to physical sectors of a hard drive. The software supports FAT and NTFS file systems and is portable as it uses a single exe file.
 author:NTechnologies Inc.
 required:Windows, Vista
 size:256 k
 added:28-Jan-2008
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 » Partition Logic 0.69+
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  Partition Logic is a free hard disk partitioning and data management tool. It can create, delete, format, defragment, resize, and move partitions and modify their attributes. It can copy entire hard disks from one to another. Partition Logic is free software, based on the Visopsys operating system. It boots from a CD or floppy disk and runs as a standalone system, independent of your regular operating system. It is intended to become a free alternative to such commercial programs as Partition Magic, Drive Image, and Norton Ghost.
Note: this program is very much a work-in-progress so make sure you read the "LIMITATIONS" (bottom of the author's page) don't just assume it'll do what you want it to do - yet!
 author:Andrew McLaughlin
 required:Windows, Linux
 size:4.5 m
 added:20-Feb-2008
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 » PC Inspector E-Maxx 1.0
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  PC Inspector E-Maxx is the new professional data deletion program, using the new direct DMA support, data can be deleted from hard drives in high speed mode with speeds up to 3.3 GB per minute. E-Maxx can be started directly from a boot diskette and used to completely clean a hard drive of all data. The deletion process is always based on the physical drive and is independent of the file system (e.g. FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, HPFS, NTFS, Ext2, Reiser, etc.) or the number of partitions.
 author:Convar Deutschland GmbH
 required:Windows, Vista
 size:733 k
 added:08-Jan-2008
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 » PCISniffer 1.5
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  If you want to have the full control of your computer, you ought to know which devices are installed in your machine. Independently of the installed operating system the PCISniffer displays the PCI header data of all PCI devices on the BUS unaltered. PCISniffer scans all PCI busses in the PC and detects automatically which busses and devices are present. You can comfortably browse the detected devices and list all functions of these devices in a detailled display. Since the installed operating system will not be booted, it has no possibility to alter the configuration, thus allowing you the direct access to the data. This makes it possible to detect resource conflicts and solve them.
 author:Miray Software
 required:Windows, Linux, UNIX,
 size:1.03 m
 added:25-Feb-2005
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 » Roadkil's Disk Speed 2.0
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  Roadkils Disk Speed performs a disk speed test and provides details about how fast your disks can transfer data. The information provided includes data transfer rate for linear reads, random read transfer rate and the seek time of the drive. An overall score is given so you can compare different brands of drives when purchasing.
 author:Roadkil
 required:Windows, Vista
 size:48 k
 added:14-May-2008
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 » Roadkil's Sector Editor 1.4
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  Roadkil's Sector Editor allows displaying, editing, printing and searching of disks by individual sectors. The information can be displayed and edited in ASCII or hexadecimal, sectors can be copied and exported to files. It allows chunks of data to be exported to a file and imported, very helpful for manually recovering lost data.
 author:Roadkil
 required:Windows, Vista
 size:52 k
 added:15-May-2008
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 » SidesWipe 1.0+
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  SidesWipe has DOD 5220.22M-compliant capability to render the contents of previously deleted files, and unallocated portions of a disk drive, immune from forensic recovery techniques. Deleted files containing confidential information cannot be recovered. Does NOT operate on any existing files.
 author:CLone Star Software
 required:Windows & Vista
 size:4.3 m
 added:23-Jan-2009
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 » SpaceExplorer 1.0
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  This application really makes life a little easier when you want to know the amount of space used by folders on your hard drive. This app makes it easy, simply run it, select your drive and the directory you want to examine. It will tell you how many folders, sub-folders and files, and their sizes
 author:Piotr Szturmaj
 required:Windows
 size:376 k
 added:27-Dec-2004
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 » SpeeDefrag 4.0
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  SpeeDefrag is a program which restarts your computer and runs only defrag.exe with optimized Windows settings. This makes defrag work faster and SpeeDefrag will automatically shutdown your computer after completing the defragmentation process. Also it supports scheduling of defrag.
 author:Vicky's Cool Softwares
 required:WinXP
 size:1.14 m
 added:06-Feb-2006
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 » TestDisk 6.9
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  TestDisk was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software, certain types of viruses or human error (such as accidentally erasing your Partition Table!). TestDisk has features for both novices and experts. For those who know little or nothing about data recovery techniques, TestDisk can be used to collect detailed information about a non-booting drive which can then be sent to a tech for further analysis. Those more familiar with such procedures should find TestDisk a handy tool in performing onsite recovery. Test Disk is OpenSource freeware & includes the PhotoRec file recovery program.
 author:Christophe Grenier
 required:Windows, Vista, *NIX
 size:+/- 2.0 m
 added:30-Nov-2007
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 » TreeSize Free 1.7
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  Every hard disk is too small if you just wait long enough, TreeSize Free tells you where precious space has gone to. TreeSize Free can be started from the context menu of a folder or drive and shows you the size of this folder, including its subfolders. You can expand this folder in Explorer-like style and you will see the size of every subfolder. Scanning is done in a thread, so you can already see results while TreeSize Free is working. The space, which is wasted by the file system can be displayed and the results can be printed in a report.
 author:JAM Software
 required:Windows
 size:803 k
 added:07-Jul-2006
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 » Ultra Defragmenter 1.0+
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  UltraDefrag is powerful Open Source defragmentation tool for Windows 2K/2K3/XP/Vista and all of the 64-bit editions of Windows. Its engine is very fast because it is created as a kernel-mode driver. There are three interfaces: Graphical, Console and Native. Graphical uses cluster map visualization, Console is good for task scheduling, and the Native tool is for advanced users and programmers. Design of the UltraDefrag is very ergonomic: no skins, no localization, no animation and so on, it's a true small and powerful program!
 author:Dmitri Arkhangelski
 required:Win2K/2K3, WinXP, Vista
 size:98 k
 added:20-Aug-2007
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 » VUFT 1.0
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  VUFT is designed to return drive properties (drive and file system type, free and used space) in the exit code/ERRORLEVEL variable, so these properties can be queried and used in script/batch files. The VUFT program is FREEWARE, provided you DO NOT make any modifications in the program or in the documentation. This program has been tested very thoroughly, but the author DOES NOT warrant that it is free from errors.
Note: the author's free-host website spawns pop up ads at intervals, annoying but harmless ;)
 author:Karoly Kalman
 required:Windows
 size:32 k
 added:04-Jan-2007
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 » Ximinez 0.3
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  Ximinez is a disk usage analyzer and comparator. It enables you to take snapshots of disk usage for a given folder, to browse through the snapshots and to view differences between snapshots. It is aimed towards solving problems like: "Why is my disk suddenly so full when it was OK just recently?". With Ximinez you can compare an old snapshot with a current one and this way quickly find where all those missing gigabytes went. Besides the GUI, the package also includes an optional command line tool, which can be used, for example, in conjunction with a scheduler to take snapshots on a regular basis.
 author:Guru d.o.o
 required:Win2K, WinXP, Vista, Linux
 size:4.9 m
 added:15-Jan-2009
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