FREE Great Programs for Windows 7

[Anna Go]

free software for windows

I always use free sticky notes from here:
Sticky Notes - free desktop notes software
it's better than usual notes) and very nice

 

[Anna Go]

free software for windows

Also if i accidentely deleted some data i can restore it with the help of this free program: Undelete - How To Undelete Files - Undelete Deleted Files - Undelete Software
works best for me)

 

[MilesAhead]

PropPage 1.1 opens Property Page for Selected File(s)

Windows has a shortcut to open the Property Page of a file or folder selected in Explorer. Alt Enter. At least on my machine it only opens one property page even if you have 4 files selected(grabs the first one it sees?) (edit: nope, guess it does the size total etc. as if you right click and press Properties.. but that's not what this is about.)

PropPage 1.1 is a simple hotkey that sits in the tray. The default hotkey is Control F6 but it may be changed using the Tray Menu. Select one or more files or folders in Explorer, press the hotkey. The Property Page for each should be opened.

Windows tends to stack them so that it appears as though there's only one page until you move them around. If you set the check mark on the Tray Menu option Place Windows, the program will attempt to unstack them after they are displayed.

Use the command Set Tab Name to attempt to open the Property Page with that Tab in the foreground. If the tab name does not exist the default it displayed.

Example usage: You intend to use it mainly to set the Sharing Properties on folders.

Use the Set Tab Name command in Tray Menu to set the tab name to Sharing.
Now when you select several folders and hit the hotkey, the property page for each will be opened to the Sharing Tab.

If you inadvertently open say 64 Property Pages and many are off the desktop a trick to undo that is just use the Quit Tray Menu command. When PropPage is closed, any Property Pages it has open will close.

It's just a hotkey convenience utility. It's not meant for opening 4000 Property Pages.

PropPage is free for you to use at your own risk.
You may download from my Hotkeys Page

 

[ICIT2LOL]

Just found out about this

I have had a quick flick through but didn't see this one - anyone come across it as it sounds rather interesting and perhaps handy.

LiberKey - Portable Applications

 

[Barman58]

I have had a quick flick through but didn't see this one - anyone come across it as it sounds rather interesting and perhaps handy.

LiberKey - Portable Applications

Yes Have used it in the past and though good I find PortableApps.com - Portable software for USB, portable and cloud drives more polished, Though Liberkey can be more efficient - I have actually run both on the same PenDrive

 

[ICIT2LOL]

Thanks Nigel that looks like a real nice little site to boot - pun intended

Might just run that through the Vista machine and have ago. a bit OT but Its a Vista machine that always telling me the last backup failed yet the disk manger gives me exactly the same on the C: and the external.

 

[Barman58]

Probably best to start a thread in the appropriate forum for the vista issue or have a look at www.vistax64.com to see if it's a known issue. I can remember Vista backup having a few issues especially with system backups where the files are constantly changing even during the verify stage

 

[mickey megabyte]

pc on/off time

want to know when your machine was on/off during the last few weeks?

try pc on/off time - great little portable app.

it will even show you data for your networked machines too.

here are my results, for instance:



you can see that i'm a late riser

 

[ICIT2LOL]

Probably best to start a thread in the appropriate forum for the vista issue or have a look at www.vistax64.com to see if it's a known issue. I can remember Vista backup having a few issues especially with system backups where the files are constantly changing even during the verify stage

Ok mate I'll try over there - thing is it sometimes happens on my dual boot 7 too not often I must admit it's annoying eh?

 

[Barman58]

I had some issues myself with Vista, so ended up going with Acronis for all my backups. Have since moved over to the free EaseUS backup, and don't have any problems. I normally try to use the built in software with Windows but sometimes it's not always possible, I always try it first and then if it's a problem, only then consider other options. The windows backup is working fine for millions of users, both images and data, just that my needs are a bit special at times as I'm dealing with other peoples data as well as my own

 

[ICIT2LOL]

Yeah me too Barman but isn't EaseUS just too easy and quick to be true. I have even tried it out cloning to a 3.0 & 2.0 USB externals and well it seems to me to be nearly as quick as system image form Windows which I find nearly always throws up pop ups saying it didn't finish properly.
Mind you I have noticed those SI's do stick at certain files and then one has to skip them to get it going again.

 

[Dave76]

I have had a quick flick through but didn't see this one - anyone come across it as it sounds rather interesting and perhaps handy.

LiberKey - Portable Applications

Yes Have used it in the past and though good I find PortableApps.com - Portable software for USB, portable and cloud drives more polished, Though Liberkey can be more efficient - I have actually run both on the same PenDrive

Have been using LiberKey for a while and Portable Apps recently.
Both are good.


Macrium Reflect is a good free backup, Imagining, Cloning, program.

You can also get free versions of Acronis if you have a Seagate or Western Digital HDD in you system.

I've used all three mentioned above and never had any problems.

 

[kado897]

I have had a quick flick through but didn't see this one - anyone come across it as it sounds rather interesting and perhaps handy.

LiberKey - Portable Applications

Yes Have used it in the past and though good I find PortableApps.com - Portable software for USB, portable and cloud drives more polished, Though Liberkey can be more efficient - I have actually run both on the same PenDrive

Have been using LiberKey for a while and Portable Apps recently.
Both are good.

I've been using LiberKey also both as a portable on a USB stick and installed on the C drive for instant access to utilities I don't need often. The great thing about LiberKey is that your tools are always at the latest versions.

 

[MilesAhead]

Free Internet Window Washer - index.dat overwrite

The subject of index.dat files came up on the browsers forum today. On search I found a nice freeware that overwrites them, among other things. It's called
Free Internet Window Washer

It will overwrite index.dat without a reboot. You can even leave it in the tray and set it to wash your browsing files at intervals.

Enjoy

 

[StalkeR]

OverDisk v0.11 beta

OverDisk is a disk usage browser. It can be used to quickly find out how a partition's space is distributed among the file system hierarchy.
I've currently stopped working on it, due to a bug in the libraries of the original developing environment. However, I intend to move the project into another suite and incorporate more features from some other utilities I have. So, stay tuned... final version coming Real Soon Now™

OverDisk

 

[M1GU31]

love the free version of avira catches virues and malware efficiently along with comoddo fire wall ^^ use to use avast but got a virues and it never detected the backdoor trojan that got in that malwarbytes detected luckly, had avira for a while and its caught intrueders unlike avast that never said anything so im happy. Love comodo firewall also has saved me couple of times also ^^

 

[ICIT2LOL]

The subject of index.dat files came up on the browsers forum today. On search I found a nice freeware that overwrites them, among other things. It's called
Free Internet Window Washer

It will overwrite index.dat without a reboot. You can even leave it in the tray and set it to wash your browsing files at intervals.

Enjoy

Hum Miles see they have a reg defrag in there too Eusing Software Products

might give it a try on my other machine first though

 

[MilesAhead]

I've used NTREGOPT and never had a problem. It takes the simple approach of copying the registry hives and marking the old ones for deletion on next boot. Very little to go wrong.

 

[Corazon]

I remember NTREGOPT! But WinASO RegDefrag works exactly the same way, only it's a little more polished.

http://www.winaso.com/regdefrag/

Mind you, defragmenting the registry isn't much use unless you're cleaning up a system that's been used a long time and/or has lots of junk installed...but WinASO is my personal favorite.

 

[Capt.Jack Sparrow]

D7 is an advanced tool for IT Professionals and PC technicians. This tool is meant ONLY for advanced users, and not for beginners





http://sites.google.com/a/obxcompguy.com/foolish-it/