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| Free Disk Catalog Programs | |||||||||||||||||||
| Catfish | Small, free and automatic disk inventory program for Windows. For people who can't remember what they put on their ZIP disks, floppies or CD-roms! We use it at Freebyte. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Cathy | A similar program (not only in name) to Catfish. Has searching capabilities based on file name, date and size. Customizable date format. Found files can be opened directly, if they are present. Only contains a small single executable file, meaning that no installation is needed. Runs on Windows. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Free Compression, Split and ZIP programs | |||||||||||||||||||
| HJ-Split |  Freeware file splitter for a variety of platforms. Why split files? Think of a file of 20 Mb, and try to send this to a friend. Using email this does not succeed, it is simply too large, and how to put it onto a floppy? HJSplit will enable you to split the large file into smaller chunks, which can be much more easily sent and stored. Later on these chunks can be re-joined using HJSplit itself or HJJoin. HJSplit is available for a large number of operating systems: Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP, Linux, Java, OS/2, Windows 3.x, MS DOS, Amiga. For the MAC there is a compatible file joiner available. Created by Freebyte.com in cooperation with various programmers. | ||||||||||||||||||
| BZip | A command-line program for compressing/uncompressing bz2 files. This freeware, open-source program is present on most Unix/Linux systems by default. However, if you need it on Windows it can be downloaded from here. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Freebyte ZIP |  A powerful freeware ZIP program with full Windows user-interface. It can zip and unzip files, create new zip files, directly view and sort zip file contents, make self-extracting archives, password protect and encrypt files, etc. etc. Runs on windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, NT and XP. Created by Freebyte.com | ||||||||||||||||||
| StuffIt | Mac file expander (program to open compressed files) for the MAC platform. Support for various file formats, like BinHex, MacBinary, zip, gzip, uu, tar. Lite version is freeware. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Free Executable Compressors | |||||||||||||||||||
| MPress | Freeware executable packer for PE32 (= Windows), PE32+ and .Net executable formats! | ||||||||||||||||||
| UPX | Free program which can compress Windows and Linux executables to 40% of their original size. Very fast and efficient program. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Free Folder & File Synchronizers | |||||||||||||||||||
| Allway Sync | Free file and folder synchronization program for Windows. Synchronizes your data between desktop PCs, laptops, USB drives and more. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Free File & Document Converters | |||||||||||||||||||
| Omniformat | Free document conversion utility for Windows, which allows dynamic conversion and image manipulation of over 75 file formats including HTML, DOC, XLS, WPD, PDF, JPG, GIF, TIF, PNG, PCX, PPT, PS, TXT, Photo CD, FAX and MPEG. | ||||||||||||||||||
| exe-eBook Creator | exe-eBook creator is a freeware ebook compiler for TreePad files.
It enables you to create an executable (program) from a TreePad .tpd or .hjt file. This single "exe-file" contains the TreePad database as well as the TreePad Viewer program. The advantage of an exe-eBook is that it can be distributed royalty-free as a single file, since both data and viewer program are contained inside the program. Furthermore, a TreePad exe-eBook runs directly without installing anything! exe-eBook creator can also compile password protected/encrypted TreePad files as exe-eBook. Additionally: exe-eBooks contain a search engine, an options screen, zoom function 10% - 1000%, history back/forward, etc. An exe-eBook can contain plain text articles, formatted articles, images, tree node icons, hyperlinks. More information and download | ||||||||||||||||||
| Zamzar | Converts videos and other file formats online. It can converts files which are stored on your harddisk or convert files which are on the Internet (URLs). | ||||||||||||||||||
| Free Backup Programs | |||||||||||||||||||
| Freebyte Backup | Freebyte Backup is a very effective freeware backup program for Windows.
It enables you to easily backup files from any amount of directories
and sub-directories. Freebyte Backup can backup all files, or a selection of files: you can filter according to file-date, file-type and even perform an incremental backup. Also: support for profiles. Small, simple to use, and simple to install (no dll's!!). Created by Freebyte.com. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Easeus Disk Copy | Free program which can create an exact (Mirror Image, Disk to Disk) copy of your old disk, including the operating system, applications, personal preferences, custom settings, data, lost files, and inaccessible data. It can be used for backup, cloning, your original small hard drive to a new larger drive. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Free Disk Search Engines | |||||||||||||||||||
| Hardisk Search & Stats |
Very powerful freeware text-Search Engine for your harddisk.
It enables you to conveniently search large numbers of text/ascii-based files simultaneously.
Created by Freebyte.com | ||||||||||||||||||
| Free Disk Management Utilities | |||||||||||||||||||
| Disktective |
 Freeware disk reporting tool for Windows. It allows you to find out the size, distribution and structure of used disk space. A folder/directory may contain hundreds of subdirectories each containing thousands of files. Select any folder or disk and Disktective will create a report displaying the real sizes of all directories and all containing subdirectories. Created by Freebyte.com | ||||||||||||||||||
| Easus Partition Mater | Create and delete partitions, resize and move partitions without data loss, copy the entire hard disk to another one without windows reinstalling and more. The home edition is free. For 32bit Windows. | ||||||||||||||||||
| FAT32 Formatter | Although the Fat32 file system supports volumes of up to 2TB (= 2000 Gigabytes), Windows only allows formatting FAT32
partitions when they are 32 gigabytes or smaller. This freeware and open-source "FAT32 Formatter" utility solves this problem by enabling you to format FAT32 drives and partitions of up to 2 TB. | ||||||||||||||||||
| FMT | Free format tools for floppies: 360kb, 720kb, 1.2mb, 1.44mb, 1.68mb & 1.72mb | ||||||||||||||||||
| IDE/ATA diagnostics utilities | Utilities for low level surface scans, detecting drive options, diagnosing IDE drives, detecting associations between physical and logical drives. | ||||||||||||||||||
| mkdosfs | A port of the Linux mkdosfs command line tool to Windows. It allows you to format FAT32 partitions also when they are larger than 32GB (Windows can only format FAT32 up to 32 Gb). | ||||||||||||||||||
| Partition Logic | A free hard disk partitioning program which can create, delete, format, defragment, resize, and move partitions and modify their attributes. It can also copy entire hard disks from one to another. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ranish Partition Manager | Freeware. Ranish Partition Manager is a boot manager and hard disk partitioner. It gives users high level of control for running multiple operating systems, such as Windows 98/NT/XP, Linux, FreeDOS, and FreeBSD on a single disk. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Smart Defrag | Free disk defragmentation program for Windows. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Free Disk Image Software | |||||||||||||||||||
| SelfImage | SelfImage is capable of making an image of a hard disk partition and saving it as a file - useful for making backups. | ||||||||||||||||||
| RawWrite for Windows | A tool for creating boot disks and other floppy disk images. | ||||||||||||||||||
| dd for Windows | Utlity to create disk-image files, create disks from disk-image files, and rip an iso file from a CD. | ||||||||||||||||||
| XXClone | Copies the whole Win NT, 2000 or XP system volume to another disk that will be ready to boot without a restore step. Supports FAT, NTFS, USB-disk, PATA and SATA. | ||||||||||||||||||
| CD and DVD utilities | |||||||||||||||||||
| Magic Disk | Virtual CD/DVD driver. With this program you can access or mount an ISO image as a virtual CD/DVD drive just like any regular CD/DVD drive. Supports multiple CD/DVD image formats, including: iso, bin, cif, nrg, etc. Freeware for Windows. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Burn4Free | Free DVD and CD burning program for Windows. | ||||||||||||||||||
| BurnCDCC | This freeware utility can be used to burn an ISO file to a CD/DVD disc. Useful e.g. when you have downloaded a Linux OS installation ISO file from the Web. | ||||||||||||||||||
| InfraRecorder | A freeware open-source program for Windows to burn CDs. It also supports burning ISO image files to CDs. | ||||||||||||||||||
| IsoBuster | CD and DVD data recovery tool. It supports all CD and DVD formats and all common CD and DVD file-systems. Not free. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Free Virtual Disks | |||||||||||||||||||
| A virtual disk is a program or driver which allows you to access a file (usually a disk-image file) as if it is an external drive. | |||||||||||||||||||
| VM Back | A virtual floppy drive for Windows | ||||||||||||||||||
| Free encrypted virtual drives | A listing of free disk encryption software and encrypted virtual drives. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Free Remote File Storage/Sharing/Backup | |||||||||||||||||||
| The services listed in this section enable you to backup, store and/or share your files on the Internet for free. If you need a place to host your Web site, please see our guide to free home pages. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 4shared.com | 1 Gigabyte of free space to share files. | ||||||||||||||||||
| AxiFile | 10 Gb of free online file space. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Drive Headquarters | Free 1Gb of remote storage space including FTP access and file-sharing. The non-free plans range from 2 Gb for $ 2.99/month up to 20 Gigabytes for $19.99/Month | ||||||||||||||||||
| File Hamster | Free real-time backup and archiving of your files while you work, monitor specific files on your hard drive and automatically create incremental backups, etc. | ||||||||||||||||||
| FileDEN | Free 1GB of personal storage space, 5GB of monthly bandwidth, you can also store videos and music files and link to them from elsewhere. | ||||||||||||||||||
| FileGenie | 20 Mb of free online backup space. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Internet Virtual Storage | A list of sites providing internet based storage solutions, i.e. remote virtual hard drives or remote virtual storage space, both free and commercial. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Mozy | 2 Gb online backup space for free. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Sharemation | 5 Mb of free file storage. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Non-free Remote File Storage/Sharing | |||||||||||||||||||
| Box.net | 5 Gb online file storage and sharing for around $ 5.50 per month. | ||||||||||||||||||
| I(2) Drive | 500 Mb storage, 1 Gb transfer for $ 9.99 per month | ||||||||||||||||||
| myDataBus | 10 Gigabytes of file storage. $10.95 per year. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Orbitfiles | Unlimited online file storage, backup and file-sharing for $5 per month. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Free FTP Programs | |||||||||||||||||||
| Classic FTP | A free FTP client (for Windows, MAC, Pocket PC) that allows you to upload, download and delete files from a remote server. "Mirror and Upload" tool to scan a selected local folder and upload any files that do not exist in the selected remote folder. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Core FTP Lite | Free FTP client for Windows with SSH/SFTP, SSL/TLS, browser integration, site to site transfers, drag and drop support, file viewing, file editing, transfer resuming, firewall support, custom commands, URL parsing, etc | ||||||||||||||||||
| FileZilla | Freeware, open-source FTP program for Windows. | ||||||||||||||||||
| FTP Wanderer | FTP Wanderer is a multithreaded FTP client with the look-and-feel of Windows Explorer, which makes moving files between the remote server and your computer as simple as local file manipulation. | ||||||||||||||||||
| JFTP | Graphical FTP client, freeware for personal use. Runs on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, OS/2, UNIX, provided Java is installed. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Right FTP | Free FTP client for Windows, with multi-threaded data transfers, firewall support, ability to change remote file/directory attributes, passive data transfer and more. | ||||||||||||||||||
| SmartFTP | FTP program for Windows. Free for personal and non-profit use. | ||||||||||||||||||
| WinSCP | Open source SFTP and FTP program for Windows. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Send very large files for free | |||||||||||||||||||
| Free services which allow sending files of 50 Mb or even 1 Gb. | |||||||||||||||||||
| Dropload | Send files of any type for free, up to 100 MB each. | ||||||||||||||||||
| mailbigfile.com | Send files of up to 1Gb (= 1000 MB) for free. | ||||||||||||||||||
| SendThisFile | Send any number of files of any size, for free. | ||||||||||||||||||
| SendTool | Send files of any type for free (max file size is 800MB). | ||||||||||||||||||
| Transfer Big Files | Send files of up to 1Gb (= 1000 MB) for free. | ||||||||||||||||||
| YouSendIt | Free service: send very large mails (attachments, up to 1 Gb = 1000 Mb). | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Free Data Recovery Tools | |||||||||||||||||||
| Lost your data and no backups? Then your last resort is a data-recovery tool or data-recovery service. Causes of data loss can vary from computer viruses, power failure, operating system crash, application crash, corrupt or missing system files, accidental formatting of harddisks, hard disk media failure, accidental deletion of files, etc. | |||||||||||||||||||
| ADRC Data Recovery Software Tools | Free data-recovery program for Windows, which can: undelete files, recover files from damaged disks, copy a raw disk image to another disk, create and write disk image files to/from internal and removable drives, import/export the boot sector of a drive, etc. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Disk Investigator | Freeware. This program 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. Verify the effectiveness of file and disk wiping programs. Undelete previously deleted files. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Easy Recovery | Non free. Very useful tool to recover damaged, lost or deleted files. Free time-limited evaluation version available. | ||||||||||||||||||
| FlopShow | Freeware. FlopShow is a file recovery + file undelete utility for fat - 12 partitions (floppies). Also options to create floppy disk images which can be used to restore floppies. | ||||||||||||||||||
| NT File Recovery | A free Windows utility to restore accidentally deleted files from NTFS file system. | ||||||||||||||||||
| PC Inspector | Freeware. Supports the FAT 12/16/32 and NTFS file systems. Restore FAT partitions automatically, recovers files with the original time and date stamp. | ||||||||||||||||||
| R-Linux | Free file recovery utility for the Ext2FS file system. | ||||||||||||||||||
| S2 Services Data Recovery Freeware List | Large directory containing freeware, commercial software, tips and information on how to recover lost data. | ||||||||||||||||||
| TestDisk | Free utility for recovering lost or damaged partions on a harddrive. Supports: NTFS, FAT, FAT32, BeFS, BSD, CramFS, HFS, JFS, Ext2, Ext3, ReiserFS, Linux Swap, etc. TestDisk can run on DOS, Windows, Linux, BSD, SunOS and MacOS. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Data Wiping Tools | |||||||||||||||||||
| If you need to remove sensitive data totally from your harddisk, simply deleting these files is not enough!
Using advanced methods, it is even possible to recover data that's been overwritten, unless it has been
overwritten using carefully selected platterns! Operating systems usually do not totally delete the file, but just mark the file as being 'deleted' so it can not be accessed when you view the contents of a directory. This means that you can not see the file anymore with normal tools, but specialized recovery tools can still access your data. To prevent this from happening, you need to totally erase your files, using one of the specialized data removal tools you can find in this section. These removal tools totally erase your data by replacing the contents of your files with effective data-patterns before deleting them the normal way. | |||||||||||||||||||
| After Work | Free Windows utility which can be used to wipe sensitive data from your computer, such as: temporary internet files, IE history, visited sites, opened documents, started programs, temporary registry values. | ||||||||||||||||||
| CleanDisk | Non-free. Total deletion of files, clean the Windows swap file, clean temporary files. Contains disk viewer to view the real contents of your disk including 'deleted' entries. Suitable for Win95, Win98, WinME, WinNT, Win2000, WinXP. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Eraser | Freeware for Windows. Eraser can remove sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it with carefully selected patterns. You can drag and drop files and folders to the on-demand eraser, use the convenient Explorer shell extension or use the integrated scheduler to program overwriting of unused disk space or, for example, browser cache files to happen regularly, at night, during your lunch break, at weekends or whenever you like. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Free Security Soft: File Eraser | Erases files by overwriting the contents with random bytes before deleting them. Freeware for Windows. | ||||||||||||||||||
| HandyBits file shredder | Freeware for personal, non-profit use. Can overwrite files with random data up to 15 times. Multi-language support, integration with Windows Explorer, with icon on desktop to use as recycle bin, etc. | ||||||||||||||||||
| How to destroy a CD or DVD | Don't just throw away your CD's and DVD's when they contain personal or sensitive data. First you need to make sure that the data is unretrievable. | ||||||||||||||||||
| KillDisk | Harddisk, floppy and partition eraser. Free and non-free editions are available. | ||||||||||||||||||
| No File Recovery | Free disk wipe utility for Windows. | ||||||||||||||||||
| SuperShredder | Freeware. SuperShredder gives you the ability to delete files using not only common methods such as Gutmann and NISPOM (DoD), but can be completely customized to give you all the security and/or performance you may need. It can receive files via drag-and-drop onto the application or the icon, selecting files from inside the program, command line, and can even add a shortcut to your 'Send To' menu inside the Windows Explorer so it's simple to delete files in a secure and convenient fashion. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Free File Management Utilities | |||||||||||||||||||
| Attribute changer | This application is designed to automate mass changes to file and folder attributes. It add's itself to the context menus for folders and drives. You can establish filters and exceptions to fine tune the search process. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Fast File Renamer | 
A free program which can help you with the tedious task of renaming large numbers of files. It can be used by anyone who needs
to keep large collections of files organized (such as mp3 files, image and graphics files, web-site-related files, system files). Created by Freebyte.com | ||||||||||||||||||
| FreeCommander | Free dual-pane Windows-Explorer replacement. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Media Convert | Free online media-file converter. Converts sound, video and text files to other formats. | ||||||||||||||||||
| ShellGem | A small free program that makes moving and copying files in Windows 95/98 easily. Once you install it, just right-click-drag any file, and ShellGEM opens a list of the drives on your system. You can then move through an unfolding tree of your system's folders (no clicking required), and move or copy the file wherever you want. | ||||||||||||||||||
| The Rename | Program that allows you to rename a batch of files simply and quickly with many options. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Total Commander | Not free. A highly recommended shareware Explorer replacement program for Windows. Improved access to your local files through a two-pane interface, convenient access to remote FTP sites, access Zip files as directories, enhanced search, quick view, etc. Much better than the standard Windows explorer. | ||||||||||||||||||
| UnLock IT | Freeware program which enables you to unlock the files that are locked by some processes in your system. For Windows. | ||||||||||||||||||
| xplorer2 lite | Free file manager for Windows. | ||||||||||||||||||
| XXCopy | XXCOPY is a powerful superset of XCOPY using the same syntax. Command-line program for DOS and Windows. | ||||||||||||||||||
| File Formats and File Extensions | |||||||||||||||||||
| Dot What!? | Database of file format extensions, mainly for Windows, but also Apple Macintosh and Linux. | ||||||||||||||||||
| File formats and their Extensions | Large list with thousands of file formats. | ||||||||||||||||||
| File-Extensions.org | A search engine and large list of file extensions. Each file extension comes with an explanation on the way it is used today. | ||||||||||||||||||
| FileExt | Search engine for file extensions. It will find the type of file a file-extension represents and/or the program using that file type. | ||||||||||||||||||
| FileFormat.info | Information on many file types. | ||||||||||||||||||
| FileInfo.com | Search or browse for file extensions (Windows, MAC, Linux); the site also includes a listing of software titles related to each file type. | ||||||||||||||||||
| The Graphics file formats page | Graphics file formats, programming code, FAQs, etc. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Webopedia | Data formats and their file extensions. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Wotsit | Information on hundreds of different file types and all sorts of other useful programming information; algorithms, source code, specifications, etc. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Free Checksum utilities | |||||||||||||||||||
| KRyLack File Checksum Tool | A free utility for Windows that can generate a MD5, SHA-1, HAVAL, MD2, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512 hash (= checksum) from a file. | ||||||||||||||||||
| MD5 | A command line utility for Linux/Unix or MS-DOS/Windows, which generates and verifies message digests (digital signatures) using the MD5 algorithm. | ||||||||||||||||||
| WinMD5Sum | Freeware program for Windows to verify data integrity using the MD5 128-bit cryptographic hash. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Free File-system Drivers | |||||||||||||||||||
| Ext2 Installable file system forWindows | Freeware system-driver for Windows NT4.0/2000/XP which provides full access to Linux Ext2 and Ext3 volumes (read access and write access). Useful when you have installed both Windows and Linux as a dual boot environment on your computer. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Free Boot Disks | |||||||||||||||||||
| Bootdisk.com | Freely downloadable boot disks for Windows, DOS, Linux. Also: installation guides for Windows, links to drivers and DLLs. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Related Freebyte pages | |||||||||||||||||||
| Free System and Administrator utilities | Free process viewers, system analysis tools, network monitoring tools, registry tools, task schedulers. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Free Software created by Freebyte | Free Personal Information Managers, free File and Disk Utilities, free Address Books, free eBook Software and more. All created by Freebyte.com. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Free Anti-virus Software | Believe it or not, there are many good anti-virus programs you can download and use for free! Also: free firewalls, very useful trial anti-virus program versions, anti-virus software tests, links to specialized anti-virus sites, etc. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Free Anti-Spyware | Free utilities to detect and remove spyware. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Free Technical Support | Free technical support for all computer-related issues: Hardware, software, PC, Windows, MAC, PDAs, Linux, drivers, Modems, dll's, virus. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Free drivers, dll's, and bios upgrades | Find your missing system file (dll, vxd, ocx, driver, etc.) or BIOS upgrade, and download it for free. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Free Encryption and Computer Security | Free file, disk and email encryption software; free password managers, free data wiping tools, firewalls, computer vulnerability tests. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Free Operating Systems | Free operating systems, such as: Linux, FreeBSD, Windows clones, emulators and much more. Also: interesting alternative commercial operating systems. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Free Programming Tools | Free programming tools for Windows, Linux, etc. Free C++, C, Delphi, Basic, Assembler, Cobol, Pascal, Java, SQL, Databases; links to free compilers, databases, interpreters, IDE's, installers, components, libraries, languages, helpfile generators and more. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Software sites | A large list of freeware sites, freebie sites, shareware sites and software search engines. | ||||||||||||||||||
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