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• Useful Tools •
Backup Tools
Tools which can assist you in making Backups in an easy and convenient way!
SyncBack Freeware allows you to start more than one profile at the same time. Simply mark the desired profiles and click on Run.
Screenshots: Windows XP Windows 7 64-bit
SyncBack is compatible with Windows 98 - 7.
Downloads (Version 3.2.21, English): Portable Setup
Get Setups and Archives in other Languages: SyncBack Freeware Homepage.
Freebyte Backup is also a good way to make Backups for free.
Have a look at some Screenshots.
Freebyte Backup compatible with Windows 9x - 7.
Download recent Version 3.0 of Freebyte Backup.
Visit the Homepage of Freebyte Backup.
File Managment
File managment under Windows can be a little circuitous if you have opened a couple of folders and if you have more than one hard drive and partition respectively. I reviewed some free file managers which have some nice features like two instead of only one pane (Twin Pane) and Tabs.
Q-Dir is a File Manager wich supports only one pane but also two, three, four panes (horizontal and vertical), Tabs and some more nice features.
For Windows 98 - XP (32-bit), Vista and 7 (32/64-bit).
Get an impression: Screenshot
Download Q-Dir 4.36 Installer for 32-bit and 64-bit systems.
Q-Dir 4.36 Portable for 32-bit and 64-bit systems.
Visit the Q-Dir Homepage to get unicode versions.
FreeCommander is a Twin Pane File Manager: Screenshot
For Windows 9x, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista and 7.
Version 2009.02a: Installer (2.33 MB) Zip Archive (2.24 MB).
Also available: MSI installer, U3 version and a Portable edition (.paf.exe) but you can extract the normal Zip Archive to your USB devices (hard drives or memory sticks) and naturally you can use the extracted program on your internal drives. If you can download software which is completely (not only the installer) available within an archive (e.g. zip, rar or 7z) it is already portable!
The FreeCommander Homepage and the Support Forum.
Appropriate File Manager (32/64-bit) for Linux and Windows XP - 7: Double Commander
Twin pane file managers for Linux:
GNOME Commander for GNOME, view Screenshots.
Krusader for KDE, view Screenshots.
emelFM2 for UNIX/Linux (Gtk+2), view Screenshots.
BSCommander (Linux/Qt), view Screenshots.
File managers with tabbed interface for Windows:
Xenon File Manager Portable for Windows 9x - 7. Screenshots
CubicExplorer for Windows 9x - Vista.
UltraExplorer for Windows 98 - Vista.
File managers with tabbed interface for Linux:
Nautilus for GNOME, view a Screenshot.
PCMan File Manager (GNOME/Gtk+2), view Screenshots.
Portable Software Tools
Many programs on my pages are portable or available as a portable app. If you find one which is not, get Universal Extractor or JauntePE and make it portable. You can make a portable version out of (nearly) every program! Read a description how to create them with Universal Extractor. You can read tutorials for JauntPE on the Homepage of JauntPE and there is a Forum available on PortableFreeware.com. Often you can also unpack the program file with an Archiver like PeaZip and 7-Zip which are available as portable apps, too.
Try PStart! It's really a good little program which is designed to run every portable program and also your documents from pen drives but you can also run it from your hard drive. Systems: Windows 9x - 7. Available as standard Windows or U3 setup. You can chose between local harddrive installation or installation to a removable device such as an USB flash disk. Languages: English and German. Here are some Screenshots to get a picture.
Portable Start Menu is similar to PStart, operates on Windows 9x - XP, Vista and 7 (32/64-bit) and can close your running portable progs automatically when you close the Portable Start Menu application.
Appetizer acts as Dock Bar on Windows Vista and 7.
The PortableApps Suite contains the OpenOffice Suite, Firefox, Thunderbird, ClamWin, Sumatra PDF Viewer, some progs more and you can easily integrate further. For Windows 9x - 7 and with Wine also for Linux, BSD and Mac OS X.
The Lupo PenSuite looks like the PortableApps Suite, it's up to you which suite do you like more, try it out. For Windows XP - 7 and non-commercial use only!
SyMenu is another tool which needs the .NET Frameworks 2.
Collections of Portable Freeware: PendriveApps.com and PortableFreeware.com
Traffic Control
Do you have a time or a volume tariff? Do you use call by call? With the following Tool you'll have have control over your online-time, your traffic and the costs. The traffic will be picked out over the telecommunications connection or the network adapter.
For Windows, Modem, ISDN and DSL/Cable: Onlineeye
CD and DVD Cover printing tools
UnderCoverXP: An easy to use piece of software for printing CD audio and DVD Covers and labels. Supported image formats: JPEG, PNG, GIF and BMP. It can scale (automatically) and print CD (front, back, inside, inlay), DVD boxes, digital pictures, labels for CD and DVD and the multi-language interface supports more than 20 languages. Screenshot
For Windows 9x, ME, NT4, 2000, XP, Vista and 7.
Downloads: UnderCoverXP 1.23 and the Portable Edition.
The Homepage of UnderCoverXP.
CdCoverCreator: Create own Covers comfortable under Windows 2000 - 7.
A Screenshot is unfortunately available in German only cause the program applies German if you have a German Windows OS. Otherwise English will be always the default language!
Download current version is 2.5.3 of CdCoverCreator.
The CdCoverCreator Homepage is completely available in English.
coverXP: Ad supported but free. Screenshot
coverXP 1.61
for Windows 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP.
The Homepage of coverXP.
Splitter
GSplit for Windows 95 - 7 let you split and join files easily and fast thru the function Split Express. Advanced users and experts will be able to decide e.g. how big each piece should be, how many splits should be created, how much free space should be left on Floppies and creating of self-extracting executables is also an option.
First, have a look at some Screenshots.
GSplit 3.01 Downloads: Setup Portable
You can download my German translation for GSplit. Extract it to the folder Languages.
Visit the GSplit Homepage where you can find more localizations.
HJSplit is an easy to use tool for splitting large files to floppies or send them via email in an very easy and conveniant way. Naturally you can join splited files. It works with all known and maybe unknown file formats.
Get an impression and view a Screenshot of HJSplit.
HJSplit Version 2.3 for Linux and the
Kylix Library.
lxSplit (Command Line) for UNIX/Linux is available for some Linux Distros.
HJSplit 2.4 for Windows 9x - 7 (32/64-bit) and Linux/Wine.
HJSplit versions for MAC, Windows 3.x, DOS, OS2, Java and Amiga.
RAM-Tools
If your computers memory is not so large, you can use these tools to optimize (defrag) your RAM manually or automatically.
Screenshots: FinitySoft Memory Manager and RamBooster.
Download RamBooster 2.0: Archive
Setup
For Windows 9x, ME, NT, 2000 and XP.
Download FinitySoft Memory Manager 4.0
For Win 9x, ME, NT, 2000, XP and Vista.
Homepages: FinitySoft Memory Manager and RamBooster.
Another RAM-Defragger for Windows XP, Vista and 7: Fresh RAM
Ping Tools
With these two tools you can keep your Internet connection (Flatrate) alive, if your provider disables the connection if it's not busy for some minutes. You can use it also if you have an analog modem (e.g. 56k) with a low signal and your connection will be disabled to often. Define your desired intervall, type in the IP address you want and start pinging.
Download Connection Keeper 9.1 now.
For Windows 98 - 7. Screenshot
Visit the Connection Keeper Hompage.
Ping It: Download Version 1.0 and view a Screenshot.
You won't find this useful tool on the developers Homepage cause he stopped working on this project but you'll find some other useful tools on his page. I'll keep this little tool. ;)
Ping It runs under Windows 98, ME, NT4, 2000 and XP.
You need the VB Runtimes
if Ping It doesn't work.
IP Info
You need only 2 clicks to get your LAN (Local area network) and WAN (Wide area network) IP addresses with this little tool. For Windows 98 - XP.
NetworkInfo: Download Version 1.5.0 and view a Screenshot.
Visit the NetworkInfo Hompage.
You can also check your addresses with getip.com or right click on the icon (without a router) on the Windows taskbar which appears when you're online, click on Status, switch to Details. You will see your client (LAN) IP addresses and the server (WAN) IP addresses of your Internet Service Providers. With a router: Type the IP address of your router(mostly 192.168.0.1) in the address bar of your browser, hit return, search for the tab or menu link Status and you'll see your IP addresses.
Clone File Remover
These two tools are able to find all the duplicate files on your Harddrives. Chose a Folder or Harddrive and find all duplicates in just a few seconds.
AntiTwin 1.8d Downloads: Installer (883 KB) NO Installer (858 KB).
Have a look: Screenshot.
AntiTwin is compatble with Windows 98 - 7 and free for private use only.
Visit the Homepage of AntiTwin.
CloneSpy: Download Version 2.52 (746 KB). Screenshot
CloneSpy runs on Windows 98SE - 7.
The Homepage of CloneSpy.
Renamers
Do you want to rename a lot of files in an easy and convenient way and easier as wiz Windows Explorer? Chose one of the following tools! You can rename files in numerical, alphanumerical and alphabetical order. Date, Time and attributes can be changed.
Ant Renamer (Open Source) supports the following languages: Chinese (simplified & traditional), Czech, English, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Polish and Russian.
Get an impression and view a Screenshot.
For Windows 98 - Vista, Unicode is supported only from Windows NT4 and upwards.
Download Ant Renamer 2.10.0: Archive Setup
Visit the Homepage of Ant Renamer.
Rename Master: The developer of Rename Master says that the program should work on all Windows platforms cause it is programmed with the Delphi (6) programming language.
Download Rename Master 2.9.4 and view a Screenshot.
Visit the Rename Master Homepage.
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