Double Driver backs up all your drivers on your computer, so you can do a clean install and restore all your hardware drivers back in place without having to hunt them all down one by one. This is really useful if you manage a network of mixed computers, and don’t have a restore image that will work on all of the different PCs, or just don’t know where your own driver disks are located. Click here to download.

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Double Driver Requirements

• Operating System :: Microsoft Windows XP/Vista/7 (32-bit or 64-bit)

Double Driver Features

• List, save, and print drivers details
• Backup drivers from current Windows
• Backup drivers from non-live/non-booting Windows
• Backup drivers to structured folders, compressed (zipped) folder, and self-extracting capability
• Restore drivers from previous backup
• Available in GUI and CLI application
• Portable (no installation required)

Hey, just bringing another software review, this time it’s a defrag utility called Mydefrag.

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MyDefrag is fully functional freeware, no cost, no time limit, no advertisements.

I like MyDefrag because it is so well designed. It’s based on the standard defragmentation API by Microsoft, a system library that is included in Windows 2000, 2003, XP, Vista, 2008, and Win7. Most defragmenters are based on this API, including the free defragmenter that comes with Windows and many commercial defragmenters. Basically all MyDefrag does is send “move this file to that location” commands to the API. The API is part of the operating system and can safely move almost any file on the disk, without risk and while the computer is in full use.

Mydefrag attempts to move all your data to the front of the drive, it’s a known fact the the front of the drive can be up to 200 times faster than the end! My Defrag also organizes files into different zones, like directories, Windows files, files used while booting, regular files, and rarely used files. Frequently accessed files are placed at the beginning of the harddisk, and files that are commonly used together are placed in close proximity to each other. This results in a dramatic speed increase, and is in fact more important than defragmentation. The program comes with scripts with a zone organization suitable for most users, power users can customize the zones through scripts.

Sorting the files on your disk can give you even more speed. There are several sorting strategies to choose from. Most of them will take a lot of data shuffling, taking a lot of time for MyDefrag to complete, and therefore should only be used occasionally.

Features:

• Intelligent design.
• User scripts for different configurations.
• Can be ran from Scheduled Tasks, Network Scripts (Active Directory for example) or even run as a screensaver.
• 64 bit support for enhanced performance.
• Good for novices as well as experts.

MyDefrag is fully functional freeware, no cost, no time limit, no advertisements. The MyDefrag site is http://www.MyDefrag.com/.

A NOTE ABOUT DEFRAGGING: Defragmentation and optimization will not only make a hard drive faster, butit can also lengthen it’s life span, because the disk will have less work to do and therefore have less wear and tear. Also, it will refresh and strengthen the magnetic data on the harddisk by simply reading the (weakened) data and rewriting it fresh. However, defragmenting and optimizing is work, so excessive defragmenting and optimizing can actually cause more wear and tear than it prevents.

Download:

http://www.mydefrag.com/Manual-DownloadAndInstall.html

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If Filezilla is a good FTP Client, then what is a good FTP Server? I owened a copy of serv-U and BulletProof servers, but after trying Filezilla’s client, I’ve switched to the Freeware FTP server also by Filezilla because it’s updated more current rhan most pay-for servers and has more features.

Remote Administration is one of the great features. Despite administrating the server on the local machine, the interface can also be used to administrate remote servers. But you will most likely want to administrate on your local server. In this case enter 127.0.0.1 as server address. For the server port, you have to enter the same port number you specified during installation for the admin port. (default: 14147)

This means you can share folders and add / remove users from anywhere in the world. This is accomplished by having the server split into two parts, the server daemon , and the interface are separate apps. This insures the server uses the minimum amount of system resources. If your looking to share files across the internet the old school way, or need to access your private files between home and work, FTP is a solid time tested solution.

Download link : http://filezilla-project.org/download.php?type=server

Guide to setting up the server: Coming soon!

Filezilla FTP Server

P.S. Sorry for the downtime, server move completed! The new server is faster and I’m very excited to get things moving again!

With so many FTP clients to choose from, finding the ‘right’ one can be a daunting task.

Filezilla

Some Stand-out Features from typical FTP software

• Supports FTP, FTP over SSL/TLS (FTPS) and SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP)
• Cross-platform. Runs on Windows, Linux, *BSD, Mac OS X and more
• IPv6 support
• Supports resume and transfer of large files >4GB
• Tabbed user interface
• Drag & drop support
• Configurable transfer speed limits
• Filename filters
• Directory comparison
• Remote file editing
• Synchronized directory browsing
• Remote file search

Download it here

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This is an app that’s useful for people with a LOT of information on their system, or if you need to work on someone else’s computer and they had no idea where they were saving everything. (Or maybe they don’t want you to know *wink wink*)

WinDirStat is a disk usage stats viewer and cleanup tool with many handy features like:

• Directory list, Treemap and Extension list views so you can view your files the way you want
• Coupling. Select an item in the directory list: The treemap highlights it; and vice versa
• Zooming
• Built-in cleanup actions including Open, Show Properties, Delete
• Works with network drives and UNC paths
• ‘Create disk usage report’ option
• Language can be set to Czech, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, German, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Polish and Russian
• ANSI and Unicode: The ANSI and Unicode versions of WinDirStat are both included with the launcher automatically launching the correct version depending on the operating system

You can grab a portable copy here: http://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/windirstat_portable
Or the original with Installer here: http://blog.windirstat.info/

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