(Copy Directory Path) (Copy Directory Structure) (Folder Access) (Folder Customizer) (Folder Shortcuts) (File Manager) (File Manager Tools) (Search) (Search And Replace) (Archives: Unzip) (Archives: Zip-Unzip) (File Renamer) (File Splitter) (File Wiper) (Files: Undelete) (Files: Validate; Undelete) (Long File Names Tool)

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Copy Directory Path

Path Copy (PathCopy)
(Freeware)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/NT4/2000/XP
Languages: English
Description: Ninotech Path Copy is a shell extension for Windows that enables to copy the path of a file or directory to the Clipboard. You can then paste the path in to your document, e-mail, etc. You copy the path of a file or directory by right-clicking it in the Windows Explorer and choosing Copy Path from the context menu. The context menu then offers nine standard ways of copying the path, in addition to the user defined copying methods that you create yourself: - Short Name: File/folder name converted to 8.3 characters - Long Name: File/folder name - Short Folder: Parent folder name converted to 8.3 characters - Long Folder: Parent folder name - Short Path: Full path name converted to 8.3 characters - Long Path: Full path name - Short UNC Path: Full UNC path name converted to 8.3 characters (only enabled in network environment) - Long UNC Path: Full UNC path name (only enabled in network environment) - Internet Path: Full UNC path name converted to Internet path (only enabled in network
Company: Ninotech Author: --
Home Page:
http://home.worldonline.dk/ninotech/freeutil.htm
download page v 4 (2001-12-04) (pathc400.zip) (155 KB)
http://www.simtel.net/pub/dl/57104.shtml
(desc. rev.: 2004-05-09)

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Copy Directory Structure

TreeCopy
(Freeware)
Windows OS: Windows 3x/95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English
Description: Have you ever needed to copy a directory structure without copying the files? TreeCopy now makes this possible. Our small program will allow you to select the source directory and destination directory, and it will proceed to copy ONLY the directory structure. The utility is bundled with functionality such as a command line interface, display of Win32 or Win 3.x display, showing different drive types, and much, much more!
Company: RJL Software Author: --
Home Page:
http://www.rjlsoftware.com/software.shtml
Program description:
http://www.rjlsoftware.com/software/utility/treecopy/
download TreeCopy v1.10 (treecopy.zip) (197 KB) (treecopy.exe) (223 KB)
http://www.rjlsoftware.com/software/utility/treecopy/download.shtml
(desc. rev.: 2003-12-05)

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Folder Access

Quick Folders
(Freeware)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT
Languages: English
Description: This utility keeps track of folders recently accessed through common open/save dialogs. Most Win9x/NT applications use standard system dialogs when there's a need to get name for a file being opened or saved. Quick Folders adds a small button to a common file dialog, which gives you access to the list of locations (folders) of recently opened (or saved) files.
Company: -- Author: Alexey Rubtsov
Program description:
http://www.simtel.net/pub/pd/13734.html
download page v 1.0.1 (qfold101.zip) (21 KB)
http://www.simtel.net/pub/dl/13734.html
(desc. rev.: 2004-05-09)

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Folder Customizer

ChangeIcon
(Freeware)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/NT4/2000/XP Requires IE 4+
Languages: English, French
Description: Change Icon uses a fonction that came with Internet explorer 4 to allow customize the appearance of folders in the interface.With Change Icon, it is easy to modify each folder icon individually.you can also add a tip text that will appear when cursor moves over the folder.
Company: -- Author: Pierre-Marie DEVIGNE
Home Page:
http://home.nordnet.fr/~pmdevigne/ChangeIcon_e.html
download: (English) v 1.2.1 (ChgIconE.zip) (23 KB)
http://home.nordnet.fr/~pmdevigne/Logiciels/ChangeIcon/ChgIconE.zip
(desc. rev.: 2003-12-05)

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Folder Shortcuts

DirKey
(Freeware)
Windows OS: Windows 98/ME/NT4/2000/XP NOTES: Dirkey 2.0a is the last version of Dirkey that will run on Windows 98/ME
Languages: English
Description: Dirkey is a small utility that enables you to define bookmarks for folders and go back to these bookmarked folders from within File Open/Save dialogs and Windows Explorer. You can set and go to these bookmarks using your keyboard or your mouse. When Dirkey is active you can press Ctrl+Alt+0..9 in e.g. an Open/Save File dialog and a bookmark will be set on the current folder. You can go to any bookmarked folder by using Ctrl+0..9 in the same or another supported window. All bookmarks are global and are preserved when you turn your computer off. You can also open bookmarked folders in a new Explorer window. NOTES: Dirkey 2.0 differs from version 1.x in various ways. Please read the Dirkey 1.x to 2.0 Upgrade Guide first if you are about to upgrade Dirkey 1.x to 2.0.Dirkey NTXP is a dedicated version for Windows NT4(SP4+)/2000/XP, it does not run on Windows 9x/ME. Dirkey NTXP fully supports Unicode path names. The regular version of Dirkey runs on all Windows versions (starting with Windows 98) but only supports path names containing ANSI characters. Dirkey 2 does not support Windows 95, Windows 98 Lite and only supports Windows NT 4.0 conditionally. Please try Dirkey 1.x instead if you are using any of these operating systems.
Company: protonFX Author: Dirk T. Manders
Home Page: download v 2.0a (2003-12-07) (DIRKEY20.EXE) (145 KB); (DIRKEYNTXP20.EXE) (146 KB); (patch 2.0b) (2004-11-13) (DIRKEYNTXP20B-PATCH.zip) (59 KB)
http://www.protonfx.com/dirkey/
(desc. rev.: 2005-01-08)

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File Manager

2xExplorer
(Donationware)
Windows OS: Windows (32-bit)
Languages: English, translated versions: Brazilian, Bulgarian, Bulgarian (Cyrillic), Danish, Dutch, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Traditional Chinese (Taiwan), Turkish, Ukrainian,
Description: Lightweight and powerful, fully shell integrated and extremely usable for increased everyday productivity, 2xExplorer is an ideal dual-pane replacement for explorer, compatible with all 32-bit windows platforms.
Company: -- Author: Nikos Bozinis
Home Page, download:
http://netez.com/2xExplorer/
Buzzy's review:
http://www.buzzys.net/2xexplorer.html
download (English) v 1.4.1.12) (2xex1412.zip) (392 KB)
ftp://mirrors.blue.aol.com/mir01/SIMTEL/pub/simtelnet/win95/fileutl/2xex1412.zip
(desc. rev.: 2003-12-05)

PowerDesk
(Liteware) (Nagware)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/NT NOTES: Works on Windows XP (user reports).
Languages: English
Description: PowerDesk provides you with single or dual pane file management windows, a powerful file finder, zip and unzip capabilities plus many other features. NOTES: Nag screen is intermittent.
Company: V Communications Inc. Author: --
download v 5.0.1.3 (pd5free.exe) (1652 KB)
http://www.v-com.com/download/pd/pd5free.exe
alternate download v 5.0.1.3 (pd5free.exe) (1652 KB)
http://ftp.rrz.uni-koeln.de/pc/win32/shell/pd5free.exe
Home Page ($ware):
http://www.v-com.com/index.html
(desc. rev.: 2005-01-09)

TrackerV3
(Freeware) (free for personal home use and to non-profit and educational organizations)
Windows OS: Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English
Description: TrackerV3 is an Advanced File System Explorer. It comes with a Windows Explorer-like interface but a far broader scope: you get much more information and you get it all on the fly, plus variously enhanced functionality and ease of use, extended file find, reporting features, multimedia preview, and ASCII/binary file view. Since it closely adheres to the look and feel standards known from Explorer, you'll need no time at all to start working, and only a few minutes to get familiarized with the additional features. NOTES: No files are added to your system and your registry is not touched. You may need to install GdiPlus.dll (GDI+) for OS that are older than Windows XP. See the download page for details.
Company: -- Author: Donald Lessau
Home Page:
http://www.trackerv3.com/
download page v 3.60.0063 (2004-10-20) (trkv360.zip) (608 KB)
http://www.trackerv3.com/download.htm
(desc. rev.: 2004-10-24)

Explore2fs
(Freeware)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP
Languages: English
Description: Users of NT who have problems with partitions which are not detected can now use the Native IO feature of Explore2fs. This uses the partitions as identified by NT at boot time. This access is not available from the Win32 subsystem so Explore2fs can bypass Win32 and interface directly with the Native API. This supports drag and drop, as well as many other improvements. Subtle bugs in write support are being ironed out as well as other UI improvements. Despite being version 1.00, I think Explore2fs will join the list of 'Permanent beta' software, for now anyway. NOTES: Please read the FAQ and the platform specific information NT 95!!!
Company: -- Author: John Newbigin
Home Page:
http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm
download v 1.00 pre6 (explore2fs-1.00pre6.zip) (356 KB)
http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/explore2fs/explore2fs-1.00pre6.zip
download v 1.00 pre6 (1230 KB) (explore2fs-1.00pre6.src.zip)
http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/explore2fs/explore2fs-1.00pre6.src.zip
(desc. rev.: 2003-12-02)

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File Manager Tools

OpenExpert
(Freeware) (free for personal use)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English
Description: Ever had the problem that you frequently use a file type with more than one application, while you can only associate one application with that file type? The new OpenExpert is the answer to this problem! Instead of messing around with a fixed association of a file type with only one application, it adds an "Open with" item to the context menu of the chosen file type with all the applications you decide. So you can easily open your graphic files in your favorite paint programs or view your HTML files in either Netscape or Internet Explorer, just with a few mouse clicks. You can even add different versions of the same program to the OpenExpert menu. Main Features: Adds a user-configurable "Open with" sub-menu to each file. Allows an unlimited number of applications for each file type. Easily add applications for any file types. Import and export of configuration data to copy settings to another system. Very small memory footprint
Company: BAxBEx Software Author: --
Home Page:
http://www.baxbex.com/openexpert.html
download page:
http://www.baxbex.com/ox2.html
download: v 1.40 (openexp.exe) (658 KB)
http://www.baxbex.com/files/openexp.exe
(desc. rev.: 2003-12-05)

FileTargets
(Freeware)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP
Languages: English
Description: FileTargets is a shell context menu extension that adds a sub-menu with all your favorite folder names to the context-menu of all files and folders in your system so you can copy/move selected files to pre-defined, most used folders with the click of a mouse. FileTargets menu is similar to the standard SendTo menu but is much more advanced since it allows you to create subgroups, automatically add new folders, copy file path names and much more. Some features: * Copy/move files with only 2 clicks! * Make subgroups to group your target folders * If the folder of interest is not listed in the submenu you can use the Browse for Folder functionality to pick up new folder on the fly * Special configuration window lets you add/arrange/remove folders from the menu with ease * Copy filename/path of selected file(s) to the clipboard Important! This program requires the following installation password (case sensitive): ILikeMoonSoftware
Company: Moon Software Author: --
Home Page:
http://www.moonsoftware.com/
Program description:
http://www.moonsoftware.com/freeware.asp
download v 1.4.0 (2001-03-28) (FileTargets_140.exe) (460 KB)
http://www.moonsoftware.com/getfile.asp?targets
(desc. rev.: 2003-11-30)

Attribute Changer
(Freeware)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP
Languages: English, French, German, Italian and Spanish
Description: Changing attributes and date/time stamps on file and folders in Windows is somewhat troublesome - Attribute Changer will helpfully assist you in this task. This application acts as a Windows shell extension and simplifies changing file and folder attributes by adding itself to the context menus for drives, folders and files. Filters and exceptions can be used to fine tune the update process. Version 5 is a complete rewrite of the product and features many long awaited enhancements, such as direct access to date and time options, displaying current attributes for selected files and folders and relative date/time adjustments. Furthermore, it now features a multi-language enabled installer. Why use Attribute Changer? Drop read only attributes from CD copy operations; Date and time synchronization on files and folders; Compress files and folders on NTFS partitions; Alter every attribute supported by the operating system and many more powerful operations. NOTES:Important: Attribute Changer is a power user tool and as such you should be aware of damages that could arise due to inappropriate use of the software.
Company: -- Author: Romain Petges
Home Page:
http://www.petges.com
download: v 5.23 (2004-02-15) (ac.exe) (800 Kb)
http://webplaza.pt.lu/~rpetges/download/ac.exe
(desc. rev.: 2004-03-03)

Properties Plus
(Freeware) (development discontinued)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP
Languages: English
Description: PropertiesPlus adds additional functionality to your right-click menu under the menu option PropertiesPlus. Here you'll be able to modify file attributes, file extensions, and the time stamps of single files, multiple files, or files contained within the folders. Display the bytes allocated. This program is simple to install and easy to use. If you frequently require more control over your files than that allowed by the base Windows application, PropertiesPlus will allow you considerable flexibility.
Company: Kish Designs Author: --
Home Page:
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/cool/kish/pplusmain.htm
download: v 1.65 (pplus165.exe) (231 061 bytes) (Self-extracting ZIP file)
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/cool/kish/pplus165.exe
(desc. rev.: 2003-12-05)

WAssociate
(Freeware)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English (documentation available in French)
Description: WAssociate manages the associations between file name extensions and file types stored in the Windows registry. These stored file types determine the appearance and actions supported for a file by Windows. WAssociate is about being in control when double or right clicking a file, quickly editing context menus, associated commands and changing icons and descriptions. Control freaks have easy access to the Windows registry key HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, and more... NOTES: NT, 2000 and XP users must have the proper rights to edit the registry.
Company: -- Author: Wilbert Hengst
Home Page:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~wstudios/
download version 3.4 (released 2003) (WAssociate.zip) (376 KB)
http://www.xs4all.nl/~wstudios/Associate/WAssociate.zip
(desc. rev.: 2004-01-06)

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Search

Agent Ransack
(Liteware)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English (help file available in French)
Description: Agent Ransack is a free tool for finding files and information on your hard drive fast and efficiently. When searching the contents of files Agent Ransack displays the text found so you can quickly browse the results without having to separately open each file! Agent Ransack provides compelling advantages over similar search tools: Regular expressions that allow complex rule based searches. Immediate contents results view. Various wizards to walk the user through the searching process. NOTES: registration requested, but not required (name and e-mail)
Company: Mythicsoft Author: David Vest
Home Page:
http://www.mythicsoft.com
download page v 1.7.3 (build 332) (c. 2004-04) (agentran.exe) (792 KB)
http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/download.aspx
(desc. rev.: 2004-05-09)

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Search And Replace

Info-Rapid Search & Replace
(Freeware) (free for non-commercial use)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/NT/2000
Languages: English
Description: InfoRapid Search & Replace is one of the most powerful text retrieval programs currently available for Microsoft Windows. With its built-in converters, it's excellently suitable for searching and previewing HTML and RTF documents. In pure text files, the found text passages can be replaced after the search is over. The search and replace process can be automated with the help of batch files to replace several phrases in one step. The found documents can be opened in a preview window, in which the matches are highlighted. A special feature is that InfoRapid can use Microsoft Office converters to search WinWord, Excel, Lotus and other documents and preview them in their original layout. The advantages of InfoRapid Search & Replace lie in the diverse search options and in the simple operation and handiness. A click on a hypertext link in the search result list opens the corresponding file in the text viewer and jumps directly to the marked passage. Another click, this time with the right mouse button, brings you back to the search result list. You can browse through the search result list with the function keys F5 and F6, without shifting between the file viewer and the search result list every time. If you discover a word you want to look further on, a double click on it is sufficient to take it as new search expression and start a new search. Up to 999 search result pages and search parameters can be stored in a database, from where they can be recalled via a register.
Company: -- Author: Ingo Straub
Home Page:
http://www.inforapid.de/
download v 3.1f (2003-07-12) (sr.exe) (1014 KB)
http://www.inforapid.org/sr/sr.exe
alternate download v 3.1f (2003-07-12) (sr.exe) (1014 KB)
http://www.inforapid.de/sr/sr.exe
(desc. rev.: 2003-12-05)

ReplaceEm (was BK ReplaceEm)
(Donationware)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/NT4/2000 NOTES: a no install version is available.
Languages: English
Description: At its core, ReplaceEm is essentially a text search-and-replace program. However, unlike the search-replace functionality of a standard text editor, ReplaceEm is designed to operate on multiple files at once. And you need not only perform one search-replace operation per file -- you can setup a list of operations to perform. If different groups of files need to have different operations performed on them, this is no problem either. You can also specify a backup file for each file processed just in case the replace operation did not do exactly what you wanted.
Company: Boolean Dream inc. Author: Bill Klein
Home Page:
http://www.boolean.ca/
Program description: download v 2.0 (bkrep20.exe) (572 KB)
http://www.boolean.ca/replace/
download page v 2.0 (no install) (bkrepl.zip) (413 KB)
http://www.tinyapps.org/text.html
(desc. rev.: 2004-12-11)

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Archives: Unzip

ExtractNow
(Donationware)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/XP
Languages: English
Description: ExtractNow lets you extract multiple archives with the click of a button. Supports ZIP, RAR, ACE, JAR, ISO, IMG, IMA, IMZ, BIN, MP3, LHZ, LHA, SIT file formats. NOTES: For SIT support you must download stuffit5.engine-5.1.dll (http://nmoin.brinkster.net/en/stuffit5.engine-5.1.dll) and save it to your ExtractNow directory.
Company: -- Author: Nathan Moinvaziri
Home Page:
http://www.extractnow.com
download page v 3.56 (2003-12-03) (extractnow.exe) ( 1.17MB)
http://www.simtel.net/product.php?id=71675
(desc. rev.: 2004-03-27)

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Archives: Zip-Unzip

7-Zip
(Donationware) (open source: LGPL)
Windows OS: Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English, Localizations for 41 languages
Description: The main features of 7-Zip: Highest compression ratio in new 7z format; 7-Zip is free software distributed under the GNU LGPL; Supported formats: 7z, ZIP, CAB, RAR, ARJ, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, CPIO, RPM and DEB; For ZIP and GZIP formats 7-Zip provides compression ratio that is 2-10 % better than ratio provided by PKZip and WinZip; Self-extracting capability for 7z format; Integration with Windows Shell; Powerful File Manager; Powerful command line version; Plugin for FAR Manager,
Company: -- Author: Igor Pavlov
Home Page:
http://www.7-zip.org/
download page:
http://www.7-zip.org/download.html
download v 3.13 (2003-12-10) (7z313.exe) (920 KB)
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=14481
(desc. rev.: 2004-02-08)

PowerArchiver
(Freeware) (last available Freeware version)
Windows OS: Not Stated
Languages: English
Description: Full built-in support for ZIP, CAB, LHA(LZH), TAR(+TAR.GZ, +TAR.BZ2) and BH (BlakHole) archives and XXE and UUE Internet encoded files. Built-in support for reading and extracting: RAR, ARJ, ARC, ACE, ZOO, GZIP and BZIP2 archives. Multiple disk spanning, passwords, comments, renaming files in archive, installing archive, checking archive for viruses, integrated viewer with support for TXT, RTF, BMP, JPG(JPEG), ICO, WMF and EMF files. Create ZIP, RAR, ACE, ARJ, LHA and BH SFX archives. Complete integration with Windows Explorer: d&d, powerful Explorer Shell Extensions. and more . . . NOTES: An updated unrar.dll file (available at http://www.rarsoft.com) may be needed to download .rar files.
Company: eFront Media Inc. Author: Ivan Petrovic.
Program description:
http://www.woundedmoon.org/win32/powerarc611.html
download v 6.11 (powerarc611.exe) (2,148,823 bytes)
http://www.woundedmoon.org/win32/powerarc611.exe
Home Page ($ware):
http://www.powerarchiver.com/
(desc. rev.: 2004-10-09)

IZArc
(Freeware)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English, Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chineese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian (Cyrillic), Serbian (Latin), Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Spanish (LA), Spanish (Uruguay), Swedish, Taiwanese, Turkish,
Description: IZArc is the ultimate archive utility suports many archive formats like: 7-ZIP, A, ACE, ARC, ARJ, B64, BH, BZ2, BZA, CAB, CPIO, DEB, ENC, GCA, GZ, GZA, HA, JAR, LHA, LIB, LZH, MBF, MIM, PAK, PK3, RAR, RPM, TAR, TAZ, TBZ, TGZ, TZ, UUE, WAR, XXE, YZ1, Z, ZIP, ZOO. With a modern easy-to-use interface, IZArc provides support for most compressed and encoded files, as well as access to many powerful features and tools. It allows you to drag and drop files from and to Windows Explorer, create and extract archives directly in Windows Explorer, create multiple archives spanning disks, creating self-extracting archives, repair damaged zip archives, converting from one archive type to another, view and write comments and many more. IZArc has also build-in multilanguage support. IZArc is the most complete archive utility available today.
Company: -- Author: Ivan Zahariev
Home Page:
http://www.izsoft.dir.bg/
download page v 3.4.1.6 (2004-03-29) (IZArc34.exe) (3 MB)
http://www.izsoft.dir.bg/download_izarc.htm
(desc. rev.: 2004-03-29)

ZipGenius
(Freeware)
Windows OS: Windows 98/ME/2000/XP NOTES: Older version available for Windows 95/NT4
Languages: English (French help file)
Description: ZipGenius has greatly evolved during these years and today it isn't just a zip/unzip application, but it is a perfect companion for your work. ZipGenius is a great solution for who needs to archive and protect its files and projects, but it is also suitable for everyone who just want to share pictures and music files. Flexibility: ZipGenius features are unusual for a program of this type: you get support to TWAIN device (scanners and digital cameras), files extraction to CD-R writer (only under Windows XP®), a FTP client (FTPGenius). and other things. Power: ZipGenius 5 will make you use the right button of your mouse in a very clever way: all the most important functions have been replicated there. ZipGenius fully integrates with Windows® Explorer shell and, specifically, it takes advantages from using Windows® XP innovative features, such as built-in support to CD-R writers. Safety: In ZipGenius 5 we focused to increase data security, so we introduced some features to achieve these results: archive history file is encrypted, most recently used files list can be enabled (always or per session) or disabled, and CryptoZip 2.1 gives better encryption algorhythms to lock your archives. NOTES: ZipGenius 5 cannot be installed under Windows 95 and NT4: use ZipGenius 1.4 SR3.
Company: M.Dev Software Author: Matteo Riso
Buzzy's review:
http://www.buzzys.net/zipgenius.html
Home Page:
http://www.zipgenius.it/
download page v 5.5.1.468a (2004-11-23) (standard ) (zg551std.exe) (7295 KB); (suite) (zg551sui.exe) (9313 KB)
http://downloads.zipgenius.it
(desc. rev.: 2005-01-05)

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File Renamer

THE Rename
(Donationware)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP; Windows Server 2003
Languages: English, French, Italian
Description: THE Rename is a program designed to help you to rename files and folders en masse with a number of possibilities and options. You can rename a series of files with a counter: pict0001.jpg, pict0002.jpg, pict0003.jpg... You can rename files so the prefix is in upper case and the extension is in lower case. The program is useful for people who publish pages on Internet and need to convert file names to lower case. The file attribute changer is a very useful option for anyone using a CD recorder. You can rename pictures with their width and height. You can rename audio files (MP3, VQF, OGG and WMA files) based on their internal tags. You can rename files and folders If you have a digital camera, THE Rename can use (EXIF) tags that your camera include inside photos NOTES: Uninstall old versions before updating. COMMENTS: Adds a lot of entries to the registry,
Company: -- Author: Hervé Thouzard
Home Page:
http://www.herve-thouzard.com/
Program Description:
http://www.herve-thouzard.com/modules/wfsection/article.php?articleid=3
download page v 2.1.6 (2004-02) (therename.zip) (2.9 MB)
http://www.herve-thouzard.com/modules/mydownloads/viewcat.php?cid=2
(desc. rev.: 2004-05-09)

Lupas Rename (Lupas 2000)
(Donationware)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English, German, French, Dutch, Português, Castellano, Italiano, Polski, Català
Description: Program developed to rename a few or a massive number of files with a lot of features. Here are a few features to help you rename the files: Rename files and folders including recursive subdirectories; Shell Integration (right click); Instant Preview (Optional); Undo; Make a Batch file to rename and for UNDO operation; Save and Load your options into an INI File; Filter by any masks: *.mp3;*.mp2 or ???a*.txt. Load/Edit a Text Files in a Small Editor to help renaming files; Displays and Sort Ascendent/Descendent by any column (name, path, size, dates ...); Replace the name or extension by any text; Replace a substring by other with Matchcase Optional; Crop n Chars (Left and/or Right); Insert any string before and/or after the filename or extension; Convert Case (Upper, Lower, Initial, Reverse Initial); Autonumbering in any place of the name or extension of the filename. COMMENTS: It is a simple .EXE file and doesn't need any other external libraries. Save and Load your options into an INI File. Forum available.
Company: -- Author: Ivan Anton
Home Page:
http://www.azheavymetal.com/~lupasrename/
download Page v4.0 (2003-08-04) (LupasRenameSetup.exe) (535 KB), (lupasrename.zip) (250 KB)
http://www.azheavymetal.com/~lupasrename/download.php
(desc. rev.: 2004-01-06)

Oscar's File Renamer
(Freeware)
Windows OS: Not stated - known to run on Win95/98/2000
Languages: English
Description: The Renamer takes and enhances the idea of editing files in directory in a full featured Text editor and then writing all the changes at once into the files. Open Renamer, select directory and the files will appear in the File Name Editor which is a normal full featured text editor with some additional changes (f.e. you can't add or delete [a line or enter invalid characters in a filename]). You can use all the editor functions like Quick find, Replace, multiple Undo/Redo, Macros and of course normal editing [as well as various tools like Upper Case/Lower Case or sequential numbering]. Each file is on a new line and [you] can easily move with arrows like in a normal text. When the files you wanted to rename are done simply click Apply Changes and all files will be physically renamed. COMMENTS: Sometimes the easiest way to change filenames is just to directly edit them. If the changes are repetitive, then use the keyboard macro feature. The Renamer offers minimal help as part of the site description, but if you know how to use an editor, who needs more? Oscar's File Renamer is the most intuitive renamer of the bunch.
Company: Mediachance Author: Roman Voska (aka Oscar)
Home Page:
http://www.mediachance.com/free/renamer.htm
download v 1.1 (2002-08-06) (Renamset.exe) (542 KB)
http://www.mediachance.com/free/Renamset.exe
(desc. rev.: 2004-01-06)

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File Splitter

Chainsaw
(Freeware)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English, German, Danish, French, Portugese, Spanish, Swedish, Indonesian, Italian and Dutch
Description: Split large files into smaller ones. Features: Intuitive user interface, Chunk size up to 2GB, with the parts there is a batch file which puts them together again, All settings are saved between sessions, Redirect output to different drive or path, Can always stay on top of desktop, Realistic chainsaw sound!
Company: -- Author: Gerhard Schmeusser
Home Page: download v 3.6 (chainsaw.zip) (179 KB)
http://www.chainsaw-filesplitter.de
(desc. rev.: 2004-12-21)

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File Wiper

Eraser
(Donationware) (open source GNU GPL)
Windows OS: DOS; Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP
Languages: English
Description: Eraser is an advanced security tool which allows you to completely remove sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it several times with carefully selected patterns. Eraser's source code is released under GNU General Public License. The patterns used for overwriting are based on Peter Guttmann's paper "Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid-State Memory" and they are selected to effectively remove magnetic remnants from the hard drive. Other methods include the one defined in the National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual of the US Department of Defence and overwriting with pseudorandom data. You can also define your own overwriting methods. NOTES: If you have an older version of Eraser installed on your system, make sure you uninstall it before installing the latest version.
Company: Heidi Computers Limited Author: Sami Tolvanen
Buzzy's review:
http://www.buzzys.net/eraser.html
Home Page:
http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/
download v 5.7 (2003-08-03) (Eraser57Setup.zip) (2.6 MB)
http://download.sourceforge.net/eraser/Eraser57Setup.zip
(desc. rev.: 2003-12-06)

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Files: Undelete

PC Inspector File Recovery
(Freeware)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English, several other languages
Description: PC INSPECTOR File Recovery is a data recovery program that supports the FAT 12/16/32 and NTFS file systems. Finds partitions automatically, even if the boot sector or FAT has been erased or damaged (does not work with the NTFS file system). Recovers files with the original time and date stamp. Supports the saving of recovered files on network drives. Recovers files, even when a header entry is no longer available. NOTES: To be able to use PC INSPECTOR File Recovery 3.x you need a working WINDOWS System. Never install the current version on the drive from which you intend to recover data! The software must be installed and run on a second, independent drive.
Company: CONVAR Author: --
Home Page:
http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm
download page v 3.x (pci_filerecovery.exe) (2.8 MB)
http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/uk/download.htm
(desc. rev.: 2004-01-09)

Drive Rescue
(Freeware) (last Freeware version)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English
Description: Drive Rescue is a program for exploring your hard disk, and locating lost files on it. The idea for this program originated from processing a disk with Scandisk--which suddenly contained no data. Since off-the-shelf Windows methods could not recover any of it, this program was successfully created, to find important information of the file system, to look for lost data and to restore it.
Company: -- Author: Alexander Grau
Home Page:
http://skyscraper.fortunecity.com/amd/887/rescue/
Program description:
http://www.woundedmoon.org/win32/driverescue19d.html
download v1.9d (driverescue19d.zip) (1,007,746 bytes)
http://www.woundedmoon.org/win32/driverescue19d.zip
(desc. rev.: 2004-05-09)

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Files: Validate; Undelete

CDCheck
(Registerware) (Donationware)) (free for non-profit use)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP; Windows Server 2003 NOTES: No install version available.
Languages: English, Arabic, Czech, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Taiwan, Ukrainian
Description: CDCheck is utility for prevention, detection and recovery of damaged files with emphasis on error detection. It can check each of your CDs and DVDs and indicate which files are corrupted. CDCheck reporting features tell you exactly where the problems are. CDs can get damaged in a number of ways, so the program helps you determine whether your data is safe before it's too late. The program also provides a comparison option that lets you select a reference directory on your hard drive (or some other device). CDCheck ensures that the contents on a disc match those in the directory, and effectively alerts you of differences. Besides that CDCheck supports creation of CRC files which provide extra safety that files on your CDs are still exactly the same as they were. In addition to CD-ROMs, the program can be used with all other local or removable media (disk drives, floppy disks, ZIP drives...) visible by the operating system (Windows Explorer).
Company: -- Author: Mitja Perko
Home Page:
http://www.elpros.si/CDCheck/
download page v 3.1.3.0 (2004-11-20) (CDCheckSetup.exe) (1098 KB), (CDCheck.zip) (1042 KB)
http://www.elpros.si/CDCheck/download.php
(desc. rev.: 2004-12-03)

QuickPar
(Freeware)
Windows OS: Windows
Languages: English, Dutch, French, German, Norwegian, Portugese, Spanish, and Swedish.
Description: QuickPar is a utility for creating Parity Volumes using the Reed Solomon algorithm. For details of the algorithm used, see the parchive website at SourceForge. Parity Volumes may be used to verify that a set of files have not been corrupted, or to reconstruct damaged files (providing that you have a sufficient quantity of Parity Volumes to match the missing or damaged files). QuickPar uses the PAR v2.0 specification.
Company: -- Author: Peter B. Clements
Home Page:
http://www.quickpar.org.uk/index.htm
download page v 0.8 (2004-01-28) (English) (QuickPar-0.8.zip) (500 KB)
http://www.quickpar.org.uk/Download.htm
(desc. rev.: 2004-03-28)

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Long File Names Tool

LFN-Tools (Long FileNames in DOS)
(Freeware) (open source: GNU GPL) (discontinued)
Windows OS: DOS
Other OS: Unix
Languages: English, German
Description: Microsoft forgot (or was too lazy?) to implement long file names in DOS when they released Windows 9x. Even for Windows ME there is still no support for long file names. So I did the work for them. Odi's LFN-Tools provide an easy file management under DOS for Win95 long file names. You can display directories with long file names like in a DOS-Box. You can change to directories using their long names instead of their crippled DOS equivalent. This also works on FAT32. This is one solution to the problem of backing up a copy of Windows.
Company: The Odi Project Author: --
Home Page:
http://www.odi.ch/prog/lfn/
Project description:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/lfntools/
download (English) v 1.79 (2003-08-13) (lfn-1.79-en.zip) (278 KB)
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/lfntools/lfn-1.79-en.zip?download
(desc. rev.: 2004-07-16)