MTA OE Backup is a backup and synchronization tool for the popular Outlook Express mail client. It allows you to backup and restore your messages, address book, settings, mail and news accounts, message rules, blocked senders lists, signatures, and even your favorites. All backup functions can be processed either separately or together. The user can choose the identity to save or restore data. MTA OE Backup allows you to backup data on the one computer and restore to another. This feature makes MTA OE Backup not just a backup program but also an ideal and perfectly functional synchronization tool. This program is easy to use and has a simplified user interface, very useful for beginners. 165
With WinGuard Pro 2004 you can password protect your programs, windows and web pages in one easy to use program! What's more, there is also encrytption for your personal files and folders.
It offers an all-in-one security solution for your computer. With extra features to lock the desktop, boot keys, task keys, blocking software installations and internet access.
If you can click a mouse, you'll be able to secure your PC with WinGuard Pro 2004 in seconds.
Since picture is worth a thousand words, visit www.BeeIcons.com before reading this description. Bee Icons 4.0 offers more than 200 pizzazz artistic images to replace your boring Windows system icons. You can spice up Desktop, Start menu, Drives, Folders, Files and other icon types. It takes only one minute and a couple of mouse clicks! No advanced knowledge of PC is required! In addition to 200+ icons that come with the program, there are more than 50 best icon themes (http://www.beeicons.com/themes.php) available for FREE download. Skeptic about their diversity? Christmas, Candy, Pink PC, Industrial, XP Folders, Gadgets, Retro, Black and White, Gooey Green, Robotic, Fruits and Veggies – these are just a few of themes available. Hey, you can have a small revolt against Bill Gates and make your PC desktop look identical to Mac OS! You can really jazz up your PC with Bee Icons! The great thing about Bee Icons is that it is compatible with AWIcons, one of the best icon editing tools from Lokas Software.
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“I enjoy using Bee Icons. I use my PC almost exclusively for business. The ability to personalize my desktop and other screens provides some relief from my more serious work! The ready availability of new icon sets is an excellent feature, which gives me access to whatever suits my mood.” Brian Stagg, Grantham, United Kingdom
“I am very fussy about the appearance of my PC desktop. I have used a few different icon changers and I must say that yours is the simplest and most compatible I've ever used. I love the ease of Bee Icons and the ability to change a single icon if you want.” Bub Preece, Inez, KY 312
Universal Shield 3.0 by Everstrike Software is an ultimate protection tool for you computer - hide files, folders, drives, set the access rules: the most flexible security combinations for your most precious data. The unique feature of Universal Shield is the perfect combination of data hiding and encrypting. This is even more important nowadays, when everybody knows that information is money and information security and protection is most important. The program has been specially designed as the most flexible security tool with a lot of settings, suitable both for home use and corporative environment. A variety of the Universal Shield features include hiding files, folders and drives on a local computer from the local users, including the administrators; setting the access rights for particular files and disks; banning deleting the specific files or adjusting the settings. Password-protect your data, program start-up or program uninstall, secure your data not only from the local users, but the network and Internet users as well. Use the hotkeys to show and hide the folders without actually running the program or run the program in the Stealth mode, so that no other users know about it. Set the trusted processes, which will are not under the protection, for example, some program can work with the hidden data, while the users are still unable to access that data. The new Universal Shield 3.0 version includes a range of new features. Data encryption is processed with the help of 9 algorithms. A variety of security tricks is available as well - you can prohibit access to folders like My Documents, Favorites, History, as well as restrict access to the Control Panel, or ban the desktop and date/time adjustment. The new version also contains a wizard, which includes an option of restricting personal folders and settings, as well as a files/folders/drives protection and hiding expert and a data encryption master. Universal Shield runs under Microsoft Windows 2000/NT/XP. 130
Cypherix's Secure IT 2000 is an easy to use, feature packed program that protects all your files and folders using 448bit strong Blowfish encryption. It includes a powerful, customizable file shredder. Secure IT 2000 has the ability to generate self-decrypting email attachments that allows the user to send encrypted/secure email to anyone - the recipient need not have a copy of the program!. This strong encryption software ensures that it is statistically impossible for an unauthorized person to access the encrypted data. SIT 2000 is so simple to use. SIT 2000 is designed to meet the growing security and privacy needs of all computer users. The software combines ease of use with state of the art technology to ensure total security with a zero learning curve and maximum convenience. The program is fast, and requires relatively few computing resources and little time to encrypt files. The software provides full access control. No unauthorized access to encrypted data is possible under any circumstances, i.e. there are no "back doors". It ensures encryption of every type of file such as spreadsheet, graphic, or word processor. The software works on any kind of medium, whether floppy disk, removable hard drive, zip drive or tape drive. SIT 2000 is transparent to the end user, designed to hide the complexities of encryption technology from the end user. It runs on all 32-bit versions of Microsoft Windows (95/98/ME/NT4/2000 as well as XP) 123
Digital technologies evolution means great new opportunities for all of us. On the other hand it means new potential threats, such as data theft and unauthorized information access or modification. Computers are a reliable alternative to tons of paper locked in a strongbox, providing they are protected properly. These days, most of us store various bits of personal or business-critical information on our hard drives. This fact alone poses great threat to overall information security level since if the computer is accessed by an unauthorized person there is almost no way to protect our private information. Files contents can be read or modified to hijacker’s desire easily. The above is true both for home and office PCs, but this is twice as important for notebooks and laptops. Imagine what would happen if you lose your laptop, containing your or your clients’ financial or private information. The same goes well with our private files on home PCs – would you like your spouse to read through your private e-mails or dating service chat logs? So, is there a way out of this situation? Yes! There is! Presenting Hide Folders XP by FSPro Labs, the innovative folder hiding and protection software enabling you to hide all the private information on your hard drive once and for good! Hide Folders XP allows you to specify up to 64 folders on your hard drive you wish to hide from prying eyes. A couple of mouse-clicks and voila: all required folders are hidden and cannot be accessed, modified or removed by unauthorized users. Only the person who knows the original password will be able to reveal the hidden folders! The application supports all types of file systems including NTFS, FAT32 and FAT. It allows hiding any folder except for system folders making it impossible to disable system operation unintentionally. Throw in convenient multilingual user interface and FREE trial version available and you get your best bet! So go ahead and give it a try right NOW! 222
Change the standard icon of folders to another found icon fast and simple with this small utility for Windows. You can do this pressing right mouse button on a folder and selecting the item "Change Folder Icon" from popup menu. You can search for icons with specified parameters in all types of resource files starting with the selected folder. Also you can: - select an icon from any type of resource files; - export all icons from resource files into .ico-files; - change an icon for a drive (HDD, FDD, CD-ROM); - manage your changed icons; - make icons, changed earlier by another methods (with Windows'XP or another program), independent from source files; - search icons with specified parameters "Number of colors" and "Size in pixels"; - export/import icons to/from libraries (.lib files) for further use on another computer or share them with friends. What's new in version 6.1: Now you can: - use program assistant, - add item for folder/drive to explorer context menu, - store Advanced search options at next program start, - set number of the drop-down strings - depth of the input history [2..20], - make and save your own libraries containing all the found and favourite icons; - save found necessary and favourite icon item as a single file in *.ico or *.bmp format. 254
Change Folder Icons is the only one of its kind tool to change standard yellow folder icons to other bright and colourful icons found. Don't you know how to change standard yellow folder to a bright and colourful? Change Folder Icons is a powerful and useful utility for Windows intended to find thousands of bright icons in your computer and changes Windows folder icons simply and fast! As against other similar programs Change Folder Icons changes folder icons so that while copying to another computer, CD or any removable drive the bright icons are kept (even if the program is not installed). Also you can view changed icons via Network and set colourful icons for network folders.
With a help of Change Folder Icons you can: - change icon of the folder simply pressing the right mouse button on it and selecting pop-up menu item; - change icon of the drive as well as folder selecting item "Change Drive Icon" from drive pop-up menu; - search icons in all your computer files starting with selected folder; - search icons with specified parameters "Number of colors" and "Size in pixels"; - extract icons from any type of files (.exe, .dll, .lib, .icl etc.); - export all icons from the file to .ico files; - find all folder icons changed by another program or manually and make them portable to another place (!) and independent from the icon source files so then you can change location of sources or delete them, copy folders to another computer or drive, but icons are still available; - set description for folders, which you can see in Windows Explorer; - make your own libraries from found icons and share them with your friends.
What's new in version 7.3: - now you can change several folder icons at a time; - opportunity to set path for icons stored in independent & non-portable mode; - drag & drop full support (when you drag several folders to the fields "Icon Preview" and "Select Icon"); - many bugs are fixed. 221
Accessor provides a quick access to main Windows functions, folders and documents.
What's new in version 1.7: 1. New Items are added into Main Menu, such as: - Find Files and Folders, - Empty Recycle Bin, - Clear Documents History, - Formatting Floppy Disk. 2. Now original file icons are displayed while viewing File System (FDD, HDD, CD and Network drives). 3. Settings window has absolutely new interface! Now with: - improved color palette; - more convenient settings window; - Tray Popup Menu which allows to hide/show some Menu Items.
Main features of the program: - Review of the File System (FDD, HDD, CD drives and Network drives) from icon on the system tray; - creation of the list of the most frequently used and favorite folders and use it with help of "Quick Folders" button which is added to: - all standard Open/Save dialog windows; - Open/Save dialog windows in all versions of Microsoft Office; - access to the Control Panel and it’s elements (add/remove programs, properties of the screen, modem, Internet and system); - termination of any running programs from popup menu in one click (Kill User Process); - process administration (termination/addition of the processes) allows to look through the available windows in system with the description of the process itself (id windows, file path, process icon, window styles); - CD-ROM administration (Eject/Close CD from the system tray); - ShutDown / ReStart / LogOff / Lock WorkStation; - and many others... 134
Icon Constructor converts BMP, JPEG, GIF, PNG, PSD, TGA and TIFF formats into Windows icons. You can find many images on the Internet and convert them to icons for use on your Windows desktop, in applications and much more. It supports Windows XP icons in 32-bit color depth with an alpha channel; now you can create semi-transparent XP icons easily. With just a few clicks, any image you find on the Internet or create in a paint program can be turned into an icon. Assign eye-catching icons to individual Windows folders, making every folder different. Our FriendlyLINK (c) technology allows creating icons using pictures of your friends and family. By clicking on this icon default e-mail client will start and you’ll be able to send letter. Add faces to your communications in Internet! The simple Icon Constructor interface makes it easy to change the look of an individual folder. This robust program works like the Swiss Army knife of icon creation! 247
Compare Suite can compare both - related and non-related files. "By keywords" comparison feature highlights common and unique keywords, allowing to compare non-related files. Word-by-word comparison compares files with a common ancestor. Folder comparison function allows to compare two folders and files within it. If you work with plain text, then you can edit compared documents, apply or decline changes. Finally, you can bring comparison details to simple or advanced structured report. 180
Favorite Shortcuts is a very easy-to-use quick launch tool that provides one-click access to the hierarchical list of favorite programs, documents and folders, Windows Quick Launch items as well as list of most recently used documents and folders. It is available as an additional submenu in the Desktop context menu, in a folder background shortcut menu, in the Windows Explorer File menu, in the Internet Explorer Favorites menu and as an optional icon in the taskbar (system tray). To bring it up, right-click on the Desktop (or any other folder background), point to Favorite Shortcuts, and then click an item in the popup menu. Also this quick launch menu available on right-clicking or left-clicking at the Favorite Shortcuts system tray icon. To add new items to the favorite shortcuts list or to the quick launch, right-click a file or folder in Windows Explorer, and then select "Add To Favorite Shortcuts" or "Add To Quick Launch" in the popup menu. Favorite Shortcuts provides fast and convenient access to the frequently used applications, files and folders, and allows to clean up your Desktop and keep it as bare as possible. 128
An easily mastered tool creates the automated or manual backups of local and network files in .zip or .cab format on hard disks, CDs and other removable devices, in a local or a wide network. A Wizard guides you through the steps of a backup-set creation: supplying the paths and filters for included and excluded files, specifying the storage folder and setting to schedule, selecting the incremental or differential backup method. Enabling file inclusion on the date-time basis, you will back up the new and changed files only. Having configured the backup-set only once, you are free to create as many backup copies as you wish. You can easily restore the files stored in a backup, view or edit their content. The export and import features are useful to synchronize the folders on two or more PCs and to span the large backups across the multiple disks. Other features include selecting files by size and attributes, creating self-extracting backups and the support for the Command-line and ActiveX automation. The ample documentation is also available. The ABE Pro creates the unattended backups by using the Active Task Manager included into the installation package. This automation utility can work as a stand-alone application to help you to schedule other tasks. Though, you can use the MS Task Scheduler to automate a backup creation as well. 175
An easily mastered tool maintains backups of files in zip or cab format on hard and removable disks (CD, Zip drives etc.), in a LAN or WAN. A Wizard guides you through the steps of the backup-set creation: supplying the paths and filters for the included and excluded files, specifying the storage folder and compressing ratio, selecting the incremental or differential backup method. Enabling file inclusion on the date-time basis, you will back up the new and changed files only. Having configured the backup-set only once, you are free to create as many backup copies as you wish. Just press the Backup button or click the shortcut on the Desktop. The Command-line support provides you with the ability to get unattended backups by using your favorite Automation utility. Once the backup is created, you can easily restore the files stored within it, view or edit their content. The import/export features are useful to synchronize the folders on different PCs and to span the large backups across the multiple disks. Other features include creating self-extracting .zip files and the support for ActiveX automation. The ample documentation is also available. 147
10-Strike Disk-Pile is designed for maintaining collections of CDs, DVDs and other file resources, generating cool reports and easing up information search on local disks. If you are tired of having to searching through piles of CDs every time you need some information - this program is for you! Spend just one evening on scanning dozens or hundreds of your disks, and you will start saving your time and nerves thereafter. Main features: Stores information on disks' and folders' file structure (including archives: zip, rar, arj, cab, sfx). Organizes disks into groups by subject for more convenient displaying and searching of information. The same disk may belong to more than one group. Stores and edits file and folder description in the catalog. Supports the readme, file_id.diz, and txt descriptions; MP3 tags; avi, exe, dll, jpg, gif, bmp, png, tiff file properties; EXIF tags. Stores image thumbnails. Browses and searches for files and folders on the disks of your collection without getting the disks from their envelopes, loading them into your computer, and having to view the disks one by one. Generates reports in the formats txt and html (e.g. to show your friends all the MP3 disks you have). Creates and maintains the tree-like catalog of the CDs' files and folders (for instance, create your own software archive with programs grouped by category and type). Creates and browses large collections of hundreds of disks without overusing your computer's memory. Operates under Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP. 176
SyncFolder is the visual file comparison/merging and folder synchronization application.
SyncFolder is designed for software engineers, web authors and other professionals who work with multiple revisions of text files or who need to keep multiple folder hierarchies in sync.
SyncFolder saves time and reduces errors by enabling you to work quickly and accurately, whether you are comparing individual files or reconciling entire branches of source code. Merge is a particularly useful tool for code review or code audit situations: the tight integration between file and folder comparison makes it easy to identify and review every change in every source file, even when comparing source hierarchies containing thousands of files. Confidence and control: for product release managers, comparing entire source code branches can give assurance that every change introduced in a particular product release is known and understood. 127
As our life races ahead with blazing speed, our computing demands grow correspondingly. Can you imagine that several years ago a 40 Mb hard drive was more than enough for holding all data in an average company? The technology evolution brings new demands and the 'massive 20 Gb hard drive' we have bought only a couple of years ago seems really tiny today. There are three reasons for the growing storage space demand. First, media comes digital and we smoothly move our photos, music and videos to hard drives. Second, applications feature more and more multimedia content which also requires additional drive space. Third, we get completely lost in all those files without ever knowing which of them are actually important and worth keeping and which are not. Is there a way to clean our hard drives out better than purchasing another 'massive storage unit'? Yes, there is! Presenting Space Searcher, the unique tool intended to save your precious hard drive space and, what's more important, your money! Space Searcher allows you visually manage your hard drive space by letting you know which files and folders take too much space on your hard drive. The application is capable of detecting heavyweight folders and display several types of graphs, charts and numbers to make sure you know what exactly is stored on your hard drive. Most people get amazed at how much trash they store on hard drives without even thinking they have such files. They get even more amazed at how much spaced can be freed up at no cost! Space Searcher is capable of running disk space usage analysis both on small home systems and on enterprise networks. Reports can be saved to Excel or HTML files or printed out immediately providing in-depth analysis of disk space usage. Sorting data in reports is as easy as running the program itself - couple of clicks and you are ready! Multiple researches indicate that Space Searcher can save up to $500 per machine on hard disk replacements! Impressed? Download free 138
WinXCopy is a Fast hassle free XCopy like command line tool (written in C#.Net).
This utility is Windows version of DOS based XCopy utility. I designed it to make copying files repeatable and pleasant experience by avoiding black color DOS boxes and batch files. It displays bare minimum info necessary, so it is amazingly fast, especially with repetitive copies.
No installation necessary. Just unzip the exe into C:WINDOWS or any other folder.
Usage : Run from or create link with following format :
WinXCopy.exe [/s] [/d]
/s - This switch makes WinXCopy copy sub folders as well /d - This switch makes WinXCopy compare the timestamp of source and destination file and copy only if the timestamp is different
Outlook Express Recovery (Repair Outlook Express) tool OE-Mail Recovery is a tool for repairing Outlook Express folders if they are damaged or corrupted. OE-Mail Recovery extracts and saves e-mails from .dbx files in which Microsoft Outlook Express stores messages and folders on the local drive. The program will help you avoid troubles with Outlook Express folders and fix the problems with Outlook Express folders that you can't open. OE-Mail Recovery helps you recover accidentally deleted messages from the "Deleted" folder in Outlook Express. OE-Mail Recovery reads .dbx files and identifies e-Mails stored in them. The recovered messages can be viewed and saved as the message files in the .eml format. The recovered messages can be opened by Microsoft Outlook Express and easy moved/copied to its folders. The program has a wizard for easy Outlook Express Recovery. With the wizard's help you'll perform Outlook Express Recovery in 5 steps. No special knowledge is required to repair Outlook Express. OE-Mail Recovery is like insurance for your Outlook Express Emails. If, all of a sudden, you can't see any emails in an Outlook Express folder and it become necessary for you to repair outlook express, take advantage of OE-Mail Recovery. OE-Mail Recovery is an easy-to-use outlook express repairing tool for recovering dbx file. With this tool you can: 1. Recover messages from Outlook Express folders 2. Repair damaged Outlook Express folder 3. "Undelete" accidentaly removed messages 4. Migrate the e-mails to new computer Supported *.dbx file formats: MS Outlook Express 5/6. Support to recovery in a Batch mode. Support to recovery dbx files with a size up to 4Gb. Support to recovery dbx files with a 2Gb problem. Restoration of the attached files is obligatory. 177
Sniff out wasted space with The Best Duplicate File Finder available. Space Hound 32 eliminates duplicate and unused files that are cluttering up your hard drive and causing problems. Make your operations faster because your system doesn't have to look through thousands of unnecessary files to find the ones you need. Now, much more than a duplicate File finder... Space Hound 32 is an education about the files on your computer. Uncludes File & Directory Management, Zip & Unzip, file Viewers, Hex viewer, icon Viewer, more.
The overall mission of the program is to "sniff out" wasted space on your hard disk that is duplicated, obsolete, or simply forgotten.
Space Hound performs it's job by building specialized file lists which can be examined by the user.
Several primary displays guide you in identifying files which are duplicated, obsolete, and even help find files which may have been forgotten. Space Hound 32 provides the tools to assist you in determining which files fall into these categories.
In addition to helping you "sniff out" wasted and nonproductive disk space, the program provides excellent reporting and exporting capabilities to aid you in managing your data.
Space Hound comes equipped with an array of built-in viewers that support many popular types of documents, graphics, sound files, and archives. It also has a "junk" file removal feature that eliminates several types of files notorious for wasting space. Another strength of the program is its ability to generate lists of files based on your specific criteria -- including file masks, attributes, size, and date. You can even perform complex string searches, use a snapshot utility to compare drive/folder contents, compare files, verify shortcuts, print reports, and retrieve version information.
Nominated for 1999 SIAF Award for BEST UTILITY. Nominated for 1999 PC-Magazine/Ziff-Davis Shareware Award for FILE UTILITY. Nominated for 1998 SIAF Award for BEST UTILITY (Prior version). 129
