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EASEUS Partition Master Home 4.1.1

Lee Collins — 2009-11-09T15:33:00.000Z

Lee Collins, V3.co.uk, Monday 9 November 2009 at 15:33:00

Comprehensive free partition manager

Over the last few years, the cost of buying a new PC has decreased dramatically. You can now expect to get much more value for your money and, as a result, will often receive a much larger hard drive, even with the cheapest computer.

These entry-level models are often equipped with 250GB+ hard drive; plenty of storage for the average PC user. Although having a large amount of drive space is hugely convenient in some ways but, when the drive is supplied in a single partition, this may need re-working. A good way of keeping things organised is to partition your drive, this enables you to divide your drive into sections and effectively manage these areas of your drive. For instance, keep a partition for your work, perhaps another for your media files.

EASEUS Partition Manager Home Edition will enable to divide and organise your hard drive, helping you to stay organised. You can create, delete and format partitions, resize and move them as well as hide or show particular areas of your drive.

You can also use this partition manager to organise folders and files which may enhance certain aspects of your PCs performance as well as safeguard important data.

The latest v4.1.1 now supports Windows 7, but 32-bit only.

Fresh Diagnose 8.26

Anthony Dhanendran — 2009-11-09T00:00:00.000Z

Anthony Dhanendran, Computeractive, Monday 9 November 2009 at 00:00:00

Benchmark and diagnose PC faults

Find out exactly what your PC is doing with this diagnosis tool.

It will analyse the PC and the tasks that are currently running, and will benchmark, or speed-test, the computer's performance in several categories.

Much of the information may be of use if your computer is running oddly and you need to call technical support.

Note: This latest version features SM/DMI and CMOS module enhancements and bug fixes.

HyperSnap-DX 6.70.01

Lee Collins — 2009-11-09T00:00:00.000Z

Lee Collins, V3.co.uk, Monday 9 November 2009 at 00:00:00

Professional screen-grabbing tool

This is the software publisher’s description.

HyperSnap is the fastest and easiest way to take screen captures from Windows screen, and text capture (TextSnap) from places where normal text copy is not possible. HyperSnap-DX combines the power of a first-class screen capture application with an advanced image editing utility - wrapped into one easy-to-use tool!

It's perfect for capturing images that you want to include in your Help system, online tutorials, manuals, training handouts, presentations, marketing materials, Web pages, emails and more. Use HyperSnap-DX to quickly share a picture-perfect representation of anything on your screen.

HyperSnap is versatile and extremely easy-to-use. You can quickly customize menus and toolbars to fit your needs. Assign your own keyboard shortcuts, create instant toolbars, and even control HyperSnap with voice commands.

FileZilla for Windows 3.3.0

Chris Wiles — 2009-11-09T00:00:00.000Z

Chris Wiles, V3.co.uk, Monday 9 November 2009 at 00:00:00

Transfer files across the internet

Ask most users what applications they’ll use to access the Internet and they’ll instantly mention a web browser and an email client. They might mention that they use a chat client, but would be pushed hard to think of another client.

Strange, as only a few years ago the primary application used to be an FTP client. Indeed, you never saw a complete Internet pack without a browser, email client, FTP tool and ICQ chat client. An FTP client will enable you to download files from the Internet much more quickly and you can resume files that have stopped downloading.

However, an FTP client is much more useful for uploading files, administering a server, a remote website or your homepage. You can quickly login to just about any website, with the correct username and password, then upload files, add folders, move around files and change around the site structure.

FTP software is very similar to using Windows Explorer, although you’d be working with two windows rather than the single pane.

FileZilla is an excellent free FTP tool.

FlashGot 1.2.0.8

Chris Wiles — 2009-11-09T00:00:00.000Z

Chris Wiles, V3.co.uk, Monday 9 November 2009 at 00:00:00

Download manager for Firefox

This is the software publisher’s description.

When you’re browsing the web, are you tired of "saving as..." all those downloadable movies, music files, pictures and applications? Are you sick of rather slow downloads? Are you afraid of losing them in the middle of download if you get disconnected or close your browser, being forced to repeat all that tedious work?

Well, you need a download manager and a manager that integrates with Firefox.

FlashGot is a free Mozilla Firefox extension (compatible with Netscape and Flock, too), meant to handle single and massive ("all" and "selection") downloads with several external Download Managers.

With right-mouse button integration, you can quickly right-click on links within Firefox and add the download to your manager. Downloads can apply to media files on the web, so you can download music and similar files to your desktop.

Note that the latest version has support for Mozilla Firefox 3.

System Rescue CD 1.3.2

Tim Smith — 2009-11-09T00:00:00.000Z

Tim Smith, Computeractive, Monday 9 November 2009 at 00:00:00

Create backups and fix a broken computer

System Rescue CD is a collection of programs on a bootable CD for creating and restoring backups, and for repairing Windows when disaster strikes.

Because it is a bootable CD, it does not depend on Windows being able to start but it is still able to read files from a Windows hard disk.

The software on the CD includes tools for repairing problems with the hard disk and it can connect to the internet as well for finding answers to problems. Internet access is also useful for saving files.

This downoad is an ISO file, an image of the CD that must be burnt to a blank CD with an appropriate program such as Active@ ISO Burner.

Glary Utilities Free 2.17.0.776

Chris Wiles — 2009-11-09T00:00:00.000Z

Chris Wiles, V3.co.uk, Monday 9 November 2009 at 00:00:00

Cleanse & optimise your PC

This is the software publisher's description.

Offers numerous powerful and easy-to-use system tools and utilities to fix, speed up, maintain and protect your PC.

It allows you to clean common system junk files, as well as invalid registry entries and Internet traces. You can manage and delete browser add-ons, analsze disk space usage and find duplicate files. You can also view and manage installed shell extensions, encrypt your files from unauthorized access and use, split large files into smaller manageable files and then rejoin them. Furthermore, Glary Utilities includes the options to optimize memory, find, fix, or remove broken Windows shortcuts, manage the programs that start at Windows startup and uninstall software. Other features include secure file deletion, an Empty Folder finder and more.

All Glary Utilities tools can be accessed through an eye-pleasing and totally simplistic interface.

Mozilla Firefox Portable 3.5.5

Lee Collins — 2009-11-08T11:20:00.000Z

Lee Collins, V3.co.uk, Sunday 8 November 2009 at 11:20:00

Portable version of the popular web browser

Some users were disappointed with the release of Mozilla Firefox 2.0. After months of betas, release candidates and previews, the new features weren’t as spectacular as people expected. However, there is only so much you can do to improve a web browser.

With the release of Mozilla Firefox 3, Mozilla decided to work hard on speeding up the rendering engine, so the web graphics has received a completely new upgrade. Dubbed ‘ Cairo’, the new graphics rendering engine should improve the output across different platforms, as it’s being developed as an open-standard.

With other improvements in the way that pages are ‘painted’ on screen, improved SVG support and CSS enhancements, the general improvements for Firefox 3.0 are based around the way it will render web pages through the browser. The new browser also ships with a new user-interface, improved bookmarks and many other new features.

This is the portable version of the long-awaited v3.5 release with features such as private web browsing, speed improvements and much more.