Windows Tools, Help & Guides

Losing files can be a real pain and sometimes files are irreplaceable. If you have deleted files from your computer and emptied them out the recycle bin, there is still hope. Previously, I’ve covered a program called Recuva, which scans your hard drive for deleted files and attempts to restore them. I have had great success with Recuva, but it is not always found the files I’m looking for. It doesn’t hurt to try different programs and different approaches so I tried a program called Restoration.

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If you run a website or have a remote Linux server, Tunnelier is a great solution for your connection needs. Tunnelier functions as an SMTP client and gives you a fully functional terminal to work with. I use Tunnelier for all my websites and it does everything I need. I try programs like FileZilla, WinSCP, and FireFTP, but this is by far the best solution.

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FreeSnap is designed to take the pain out of resizing and moving windows by providing convenient keyboard shortcuts to do the job. If you are someone who likes keyboard shortcuts, you’ll know how much of a pain it is to resize and move windows with the keyboard alone.

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Windows Free Extended Task Manager provides additional Windows process management features and information about disk activity and network port usage. If you are a geek, who likes to know everything about your computer, this program is a must.

Extended Task Manager features

• Displays disk input/output activity with information about related applications
• Displays network port activity with IP addresses of external computers
• Displays information about applications that utilized most of the CPU or memory at any time presented on the charts
• Displays all files locked by a select process
• Finds all processes locking a specified file
• Includes “Summary” tab for quickly assessing the overall state of the Windows system
• Allows freezing individual Windows processes
• Offer various visual and functional improvements over the standard Windows Task Manager

Free Extended Task Manager

When you delete a file using Windows, it goes to the recycle bin. When you empty the recycle bin, the file is gone right? Actually no; when you delete a file from the recycle bin (or SHIFT+DEL from Explorer), the file is just dereferenced. As long as the data isn’t overwritten, the file is completely recoverable–and may be for sometime if the space isn’t needed. In this guide, you’ll learn about two tools you can use to permanently delete files from your hard drive: RightDelete (GUI) and SDelete (command line.)

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If you’ve ever lost a USB drive before, this will be something you wish you had. If you haven’t lost one yet, then you should install this on your USB drive as soon as possible. I’ve lost two drives in the past; luckily both drives didn’t have any sensitive information on them, but I wonder if I would have got either back if I’d had this program.

USB Lost and Found simply puts a message up each time you put your drive in, which contains your contact information. The person who finds your drive can then get in contact and return your drive to you. If you are willing to pay $3.49 $8.99 for the Pro version, you get lockdown mode, which password protects your data too.

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