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jb
I was a big fan of Ecco in the old days, but it looks very dated now.
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Lyn
virtualPhotographer
http://www.optikvervelabs.com/download.asp
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Michael Salem
names of their favorite little-known freeware programs.
MiniTrue (short for Ministry of Truth, as in 1984)
The author says: "MiniTrue is a versatile program which combines a fast
and powerful search/replace functionality with a full-featured
textviewer, enabling quick and efficient browsing, searching and/or
modification of a large number of files. MiniTrue can operate
interactively and prompt to see if a replacement should be made or it
can make all desired substitutions automatically. MiniTrue can also
print out matching lines in the manner of the utility grep. If no
strings to search for are present, MiniTrue functions like the pager
program less."
There are Linux and 16- and 32-bit DOS versions with source code.
I use the program rarely, but when I need to search & replace globally
ANSI text it's very useful (a lot better than an unpublished program I
wrote to do the same job). As a specific example, I needed to move some
software from Win98 to Win2000. The original machine had the name "Mail
server". Embedded blanks are not valid in Win2000, so it had to become
"Mail_server". The name was hard-coded into a number of files, some
binary, some text. I used MiniTrue to globally replace.
Author's examples
mtr -rnw * - Eastasia = Eurasia
Replace all instances of the word "Eastasia" with "Eurasia" in
all
files on the drive.
mtr -xb+:.txt *.htm - "<[^>]*>" = \z
Strip most tags from HTML files
mtr -x prog.cpp ^\s*//.*\n = \z //.*$ = \z
Strip "//" C++ comments
mtr -ox file.txt \A(.*\n){10}
Print the first 10 lines of a file. Use "(^.*\n){10}\Z" for last
10.
mtr -xo$ addrbook.dat ([\w\.]{2,}@[\w\.]{4,}) = \1\r\n
Extract email addresses from a non-ASCII file
mtr -x -n -o/ *.txt [\x41]{500}
Find all .TXT files containing at least 500 consecutive A's (A=
\x41)
MiniTrue (short for Ministry of Truth, as in 1984)
The author says: "MiniTrue is a versatile program which combines a fast
and powerful search/replace functionality with a full-featured
textviewer, enabling quick and efficient browsing, searching and/or
modification of a large number of files. MiniTrue can operate
interactively and prompt to see if a replacement should be made or it
can make all desired substitutions automatically. MiniTrue can also
print out matching lines in the manner of the utility grep. If no
strings to search for are present, MiniTrue functions like the pager
program less."
There are Linux and 16- and 32-bit DOS versions with source code.
I use the program rarely, but when I need to search & replace globally
ANSI text it's very useful (a lot better than an unpublished program I
wrote to do the same job). As a specific example, I needed to move some
software from Win98 to Win2000. The original machine had the name "Mail
server". Embedded blanks are not valid in Win2000, so it had to become
"Mail_server". The name was hard-coded into a number of files, some
binary, some text. I used MiniTrue to globally replace.
Author's examples
mtr -rnw * - Eastasia = Eurasia
Replace all instances of the word "Eastasia" with "Eurasia" in
all
files on the drive.
mtr -xb+:.txt *.htm - "<[^>]*>" = \z
Strip most tags from HTML files
mtr -x prog.cpp ^\s*//.*\n = \z //.*$ = \z
Strip "//" C++ comments
mtr -ox file.txt \A(.*\n){10}
Print the first 10 lines of a file. Use "(^.*\n){10}\Z" for last
10.
mtr -xo$ addrbook.dat ([\w\.]{2,}@[\w\.]{4,}) = \1\r\n
Extract email addresses from a non-ASCII file
mtr -x -n -o/ *.txt [\x41]{500}
Find all .TXT files containing at least 500 consecutive A's (A=
\x41)
D
Duddits
I'd just like to ask anyone to post the names of their favorite
little-known freeware programs. Please list as many or as few as you'd
like, and no need to have links to download sites: we can probably find
those easily enough.
Thank you in advance for your help!
Summer Properties 1.1
This program adds another page to the file property sheet (when you
right-click on a file and then choose "Properties"). On this page you can
find the checksum(s) for the file in question. Supported checksum
algorithms are:
* CRC16 - not frequently used, quite weak algorithm
* CRC32 - common, used by several compression and file splitting
applications
* MD5 - crypto strength algorithm, very common in the Unix world
* SHA1 - even stronger than MD5, but less used
http://www.earthmagic.org/?software
GIPO MoveOnBoot 1.95 (last freeware version)
Copies, moves or deletes files on the next system boot. The utility is very
useful when the user needs to replace or delete files which are locked by
other applications, loaded into the memory or just cannot be changed until
next system boot.
http://www.gibinsoft.net/gipoutils/fileutil/content.htm
Free Extractor
Makes the smallest (25kb overhead) most configurable SFX/Simple install
files
http://www.disoriented.com/FreeExtractor/
DigitalCameraEnhancer
The king of free digital photo clean up IMNSHO.
http://www.mediachance.com/digicam/enhancer.htm
regards
Dud
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ggdbr01
Three Ancient Games: Checkers, Chess, & GO
1. CHECKERS
Here is a link to the excellent Checkers freeware program "Cake", to be
downloaded as "CheckerBoard 1.611". It is one of the strongest Checkers
programs available for the PC:
http://www.fierz.ch/download.htm
Only ONE SIMPLE THING you have to do when you first start the program:
Click "Engine > Select" at the top, and choose "cakeM.dll" as your
Primary playing engine. It should be ready to roll after that! (It's
probably good to designate "dama.dll" as your secondary engine, while
you're at it). You can also set the level of skill of the computer
opponent. (If you play the program at full strength, you will NOT beat
it -- unless you are one of the top 10 Checkers players on earth (and
probably not even then!)
REMEMBER: capturing is compulsory in English/American style Checkers!
If you're offered a jump, you have to take it!
Have your Cake and eat it, too!!
2. CHESS
"Crafty" is one of the strongest Chessplaying programs on earth, and it
is entirely free. It runs under the "Winboard" chess-display system.
Getting it set up takes a little effort, but it is worth it!
It plays a very strong game of Chess, probably rated at the Master
level or above:
http://au.geocities.com/cafelattegames/chess/
3. GO
This ancient game appears to have originated in China, and it seems to
be centuries older than Chess. I don't think there's much doubt that
it is the oldest continuously played game on earth: and it's easy to
see why.
Former World Chess Champion Emanuel Lasker (who held the title for a
longer time than anyone else) became an avid GO player later in life,
achieving the amateur master rank, I'm told. His relative, Chess
Grandmaster Edward Lasker, wrote a book on GO. He later said, "If they
have games on other planets, they have GO." I think you'll see why as
you learn the game: the rules seem so utterly non-arbitrary.
I think the two games, Chess and Go, while very different, supplement
one another nicely.
For those who would like to experience a fine introduction to the game
of Go, I encourage you to download the excellent free 9X9 version of
David Fotland's "The Many Faces of Go":
www.smart-games.com/igowin.html
To learn the rules of the game quickly and solidly, I recommend Karl
Baker's excellent tutorial "The Way to Go", available for free here (in
PDF format):
www.sfgoclub.com/beginners/W2Go8x11.pdf
The full program of "The Many Faces of Go" is not freeware, but it is
very affordable (and worth every penny of it):
www.smart-games.com/manyfaces.html
But believe me, the free mini-program is wonderful and challenging and
will keep you busy for a very long time!
The full program, as well as the free mini-program, have brought me
many hours of enjoyment. (By the way, the highest level I have achieved
on the mini-program is 6th Kyu. If you can do better, you have my
admiration!)
Brett
http://www.FreewareFriend.com/
Powerful non-profit website for finding great free software.
"Discover freeware jewels on the World Wide Web!"
Always free, no registration required.
1. CHECKERS
Here is a link to the excellent Checkers freeware program "Cake", to be
downloaded as "CheckerBoard 1.611". It is one of the strongest Checkers
programs available for the PC:
http://www.fierz.ch/download.htm
Only ONE SIMPLE THING you have to do when you first start the program:
Click "Engine > Select" at the top, and choose "cakeM.dll" as your
Primary playing engine. It should be ready to roll after that! (It's
probably good to designate "dama.dll" as your secondary engine, while
you're at it). You can also set the level of skill of the computer
opponent. (If you play the program at full strength, you will NOT beat
it -- unless you are one of the top 10 Checkers players on earth (and
probably not even then!)
REMEMBER: capturing is compulsory in English/American style Checkers!
If you're offered a jump, you have to take it!
Have your Cake and eat it, too!!
2. CHESS
"Crafty" is one of the strongest Chessplaying programs on earth, and it
is entirely free. It runs under the "Winboard" chess-display system.
Getting it set up takes a little effort, but it is worth it!
It plays a very strong game of Chess, probably rated at the Master
level or above:
http://au.geocities.com/cafelattegames/chess/
3. GO
This ancient game appears to have originated in China, and it seems to
be centuries older than Chess. I don't think there's much doubt that
it is the oldest continuously played game on earth: and it's easy to
see why.
Former World Chess Champion Emanuel Lasker (who held the title for a
longer time than anyone else) became an avid GO player later in life,
achieving the amateur master rank, I'm told. His relative, Chess
Grandmaster Edward Lasker, wrote a book on GO. He later said, "If they
have games on other planets, they have GO." I think you'll see why as
you learn the game: the rules seem so utterly non-arbitrary.
I think the two games, Chess and Go, while very different, supplement
one another nicely.
For those who would like to experience a fine introduction to the game
of Go, I encourage you to download the excellent free 9X9 version of
David Fotland's "The Many Faces of Go":
www.smart-games.com/igowin.html
To learn the rules of the game quickly and solidly, I recommend Karl
Baker's excellent tutorial "The Way to Go", available for free here (in
PDF format):
www.sfgoclub.com/beginners/W2Go8x11.pdf
The full program of "The Many Faces of Go" is not freeware, but it is
very affordable (and worth every penny of it):
www.smart-games.com/manyfaces.html
But believe me, the free mini-program is wonderful and challenging and
will keep you busy for a very long time!
The full program, as well as the free mini-program, have brought me
many hours of enjoyment. (By the way, the highest level I have achieved
on the mini-program is 6th Kyu. If you can do better, you have my
admiration!)
Brett
http://www.FreewareFriend.com/
Powerful non-profit website for finding great free software.
"Discover freeware jewels on the World Wide Web!"
Always free, no registration required.
F
Frank Bohan
I'd just like to ask anyone to post the names of their favorite
little-known freeware programs. Please list as many or as few as you'd
like, and no need to have links to download sites: we can probably find
those easily enough.
Thank you in advance for your help!
Two excellent text manipulation programs:
Linestrip http://www.lexacorp.com.pg/
RLSort http://pweb.sophia.ac.jp/~britto/rls/
Request: Please do not put "no need to have links to download sites". It is
customary in ACF to include links where possible.
===
Frank Bohan
¶ You can't plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
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Tom McDonald
(e-mail address removed) wrote in @z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com:
MouseShifter
Wraps mouse at screen edges.
http://mmm.hoeting.de/df_progies.html
http://mmm.hoeting.de/binaries/mouseshifter_e.rar
158 kb
Tiny Taskbar Icons
Save sapce on the taskbar, turn Taskbar Buttons into small icons.
Read about it here:
http://tinyurl.com/bs43u
Download here:
http://www.execulink.com/~tinker/taskbaricons.exe
31 kb self-extractor that produces on/off registry patches and a readme.
I'd just like to ask anyone to post the names of their favorite
little-known freeware programs. Please list as many or as few as you'd
like, and no need to have links to download sites: we can probably find
those easily enough.
Thank you in advance for your help!
I will hold off on my favorites for now until others have had a chance
to contribute.
Thanks again!
Brett
http://www.FreewareFriend.com/
Powerful non-profit website for finding great free software.
"Discover freeware jewels on the World Wide Web!"
Always free, no registration required.
MouseShifter
Wraps mouse at screen edges.
http://mmm.hoeting.de/df_progies.html
http://mmm.hoeting.de/binaries/mouseshifter_e.rar
158 kb
Tiny Taskbar Icons
Save sapce on the taskbar, turn Taskbar Buttons into small icons.
Read about it here:
http://tinyurl.com/bs43u
Download here:
http://www.execulink.com/~tinker/taskbaricons.exe
31 kb self-extractor that produces on/off registry patches and a readme.
D
dak
I'd just like to ask anyone to post the names of their favorite
little-known freeware programs. Please list as many or as few as you'd
like, and no need to have links to download sites: we can probably find
those easily enough.
WebVersions
Keep track of the differences between software versions on your PC
and the Internet. With just one click on the "Net Update" button this
program will check all the programs in its list to see if there are
newer versions on the Internet.
<http://users.pandora.be/mylinks/MyWebsite/MySoft/MySoft.html?L=style1>
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dsmcd
Atomic Clock Sync keeps your system clock accurate to the second, with
automatic corrections:
http://www.download.com/Atomic-Clock-Sync/3000-2350_4-10316305.html?tag=lst-0-1
Very nice.
B
Bob Adkins
I'd just like to ask anyone to post the names of their favorite
little-known freeware programs. Please list as many or as few as you'd
like, and no need to have links to download sites: we can probably find
those easily enough.
HDTune. A nice HDD benchmarking, error scanning, health and temperature
reporting utility. I like it better than the commercial programs.
MicroWav. Great for auditioning small sound bytes quickly. Associate WAV
files with it and use with Explorer. Nothing is quicker or smaller.
XPLite. Great program for trimming the fat from XP. Crippleware, but still
very useful.
EraseTemp. Best temp file erasing program I have found. Start it at Windows
boot, and it erases all TMP files and folders over 2 days old. Command line
switches for cleaning other folders. Dot Net only.
AceMoney. Very nice check book and budgeting program. Regular updates,
small, fast, and useful.
MWSnap. Very small and capable screen capture utility. Intelligently
designed auto-save feature.
All the above are either portable, or 1 File Wonders.
-- Bob
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Roger Johansson
Michael said:The author says: "MiniTrue is a versatile program which combines a
fast and powerful search/replace functionality with a full-featured
textviewer, enabling quick and efficient browsing, searching and/or
modification of a large number of files. MiniTrue can operate
interactively and prompt to see if a replacement should be made or it
can make all desired substitutions automatically. MiniTrue can also
print out matching lines in the manner of the utility grep. If no
strings to search for are present, MiniTrue functions like the pager
program less."
Program home page
http://www.idiotsdelight.net/minitrue/
Web page about Minitrue, with more examples.
http://www.student.northpark.edu/pemente/sed/minitrue.htm
Minitrue has one advantage over the common unix text utilities like
grep, sed, awk, etc.
They can only work on text files, as far as I know, while Minitrue can
work on any kind of file, or group of files.
B
Bill Yerkes
Registrar Lite
http://www.resplendence.com/reglite
A far superior registry editor I could not live without (software
development job). The best feature is search in that it finds ALL
occurrences, displays them in a child window and permits you to go back
and forth. Invaluable in ripping stuff out by hand when uninstalls fail
or don't exist.
http://www.resplendence.com/reglite
A far superior registry editor I could not live without (software
development job). The best feature is search in that it finds ALL
occurrences, displays them in a child window and permits you to go back
and forth. Invaluable in ripping stuff out by hand when uninstalls fail
or don't exist.
D
dansheen
My favorite startup program- I've tried the more recommended ones hereI'd just like to ask anyone to post the names of their favorite
little-known freeware programs. Please list as many or as few as you'd
like, and no need to have links to download sites: we can probably find
those easily enough.
Thank you in advance for your help!
I will hold off on my favorites for now until others have had a chance
to contribute.
Thanks again!
Brett
http://www.FreewareFriend.com/
Powerful non-profit website for finding great free software.
"Discover freeware jewels on the World Wide Web!"
Always free, no registration required.
and always come back to this.
http://members.lycos.co.uk/codestuff/
from snapfiles:
Starter is yet another startup manager, that allows you to view and
manage all the programs that are starting automatically whenever Windows
boots. It lists all the hidden registry entries, as well as the common
Startup Folder items as well. You can choose to safely disable selected
entries, edit them or delete them altogether (if you know what you re
doing). Expert users can even add their own entries. Very nice
interface, easy to use, no documentation though (but hardly needed).
J
Jim Byrd
Well, since no one else has mentioned this, maybe it is relatively unknown:
URLKicker - http://www.eggheadcafe.com/articles/20050612.asp Very Highly
Recommended
You simply cannot believe just how useful this little utility turns out to
be - I must use it 25-30 times a day. Written by Dr. Peter Brombert, a C#
MVP.
"Recently, I got frustrated enough about having desktop shortcuts to Url's
that I often need which would hog the MSN WebMessenger IE window that was
already open (or some other similar window). So I thought I'd write a little
utility to be able to copy a url to the clipboard and have it use
Process.Start to open it in a new IE process. What happened next is that I
discovered other useful ingredients that could be added, and so UrlKicker
was born."
But you really need to read the rest . . .
URLKicker - http://www.eggheadcafe.com/articles/20050612.asp Very Highly
Recommended
You simply cannot believe just how useful this little utility turns out to
be - I must use it 25-30 times a day. Written by Dr. Peter Brombert, a C#
MVP.
"Recently, I got frustrated enough about having desktop shortcuts to Url's
that I often need which would hog the MSN WebMessenger IE window that was
already open (or some other similar window). So I thought I'd write a little
utility to be able to copy a url to the clipboard and have it use
Process.Start to open it in a new IE process. What happened next is that I
discovered other useful ingredients that could be added, and so UrlKicker
was born."
But you really need to read the rest . . .
C
ceed
I'd just like to ask anyone to post the names of their favorite
little-known freeware programs. Please list as many or as few as you'd
like, and no need to have links to download sites: we can probably find
those easily enough.
OneClickPlay: Drop this little program in a folder with mp3's and execute
it. It generates a random playlist of the files in the folder and sends it
to your default player. Great if you have a lot of mp3s and do not want to
mess around with complicated playlist editors and such. You can of course
make shortcuts elsewhere for quick access. There are also some switches
you can use to have the program execute to your liking. Great, simple and
very useful.
http://czech-ware.net/popelka/index.asp?lang=en
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ggdbr01
Thanks, dansheen! This sounds like an excellent program: I'll take it
for a test drive. Up to now, I have used the old freeware version of
"EndItAll.exe" to close down hard-to-close programs after boot-up.
EndItAll.exe can be run from the DOS command line, so I have it run
automatically from a startup batch file for programs I always want to
shut down:
My "bootup.bat" batch
file:
PAUSE
START enditall /K:Apache.exe
:START enditall /K:KodakCSS.exe
START enditall /K:EasyShare.exe
START enditall /K:ipclient.exe
:START enditall /K:ipmon32.exe
START enditall /K:iPodService.exe
START enditall /K:iTunesHelper.exe
START enditall /K:qttask.exe
:START enditall /K:realplay.exe
START enditall /K:realsched.exe
PAUSE
Finding the old free version of EndItAll.exe isn't easy, but if you
browse around, it's out there.
Even so, if the program you describe works well, I may change over to
it.
Brett
http://www.FreewareFriend.com/
Powerful non-profit website for finding great free software.
"Discover freeware jewels on the World Wide Web!"
Always free, no registration required.
for a test drive. Up to now, I have used the old freeware version of
"EndItAll.exe" to close down hard-to-close programs after boot-up.
EndItAll.exe can be run from the DOS command line, so I have it run
automatically from a startup batch file for programs I always want to
shut down:
My "bootup.bat" batch
file:
PAUSE
START enditall /K:Apache.exe
:START enditall /K:KodakCSS.exe
START enditall /K:EasyShare.exe
START enditall /K:ipclient.exe
:START enditall /K:ipmon32.exe
START enditall /K:iPodService.exe
START enditall /K:iTunesHelper.exe
START enditall /K:qttask.exe
:START enditall /K:realplay.exe
START enditall /K:realsched.exe
PAUSE
Finding the old free version of EndItAll.exe isn't easy, but if you
browse around, it's out there.
Even so, if the program you describe works well, I may change over to
it.
Brett
http://www.FreewareFriend.com/
Powerful non-profit website for finding great free software.
"Discover freeware jewels on the World Wide Web!"
Always free, no registration required.
O
Obbop
I'd just like to ask anyone to post the names of their favorite
little-known freeware programs. Please list as many or as few as you'd
like, and no need to have links to download sites: we can probably find
those easily enough.
Thank you in advance for your help!
I will hold off on my favorites for now until others have had a chance
to contribute.
Thanks again!
Brett
http://www.FreewareFriend.com/
Powerful non-profit website for finding great free software.
"Discover freeware jewels on the World Wide Web!"
Always free, no registration required.
Anuddah' handy goody if you need what it offers. Copy text from a Web site.
Co-citer saves the text, the URL, date/time etc. Great for those writing
papers for college or who are collecting data of interest such as for
hobbies, etc.
Worked fine on my old Win95 machine and my current Win98SE
http://www.cogitum.com/
G
ggdbr01
Good supplement/replacement for the Windows Explorer:
2xExplorer:
http://www.download.com/2xExplorer-Z1/3000-2248_4-10111859.html?tag=lst-0-1
Many outstanding features. Perhaps the most useful is that once
installed, you can right-click any folder to see the disk space taken
up by the ENTIRE contents of that folder (including all subfolders).
Also has some features that are like Norton Commander. Very useful.
Other features:
* Dual pane layout, with intelligent communication between two
independent panes
* Powerful selection engine, for easily building up selection patterns
for items before file operations
* File filters, both for selecting and for displaying files
* Drivebar navigation, for accessing quickly all the drives installed
on a computer
* Keyboard shortcuts for nearly all its commands, for efficient
everyday use
* Complete file date information, utilising Creation and LastAccessed
information as well as the normal Modification date.
* Proper path resolution, including UNC and relative paths (e.g. "C:"
as opposed to "C:\")
* Printing of folder contents, find results and other statistics
* Proper file sorting, based on extension (alphabetically)
Norton Commander-type Features
# Full drag/drop and shell context menu support, for integration with
the desktop
# Separable tree view; one can have both the tree view and the two
contents panes visible at the same time
# Multifunctional address bar, for specifying folder names and visual
filters, plus for running windows or DOS applications.
# Dockable Thumbnail bar, for previewing popular graphics formats (jpg,
bmp, gif, etc.) plus HTML and M/S Office documents.
# Efficient navigation, supporting bookmarks, folder history and
internet-style back/next folder navigation
# Shell namespace browser, allowing the browsing of non-filesystem
folders like ControlPanel etc. If you install a shell extension for FTP
and/or ZIP content browsing, 2xExplorer will integrate with that too
(does so already for zipfolders in winXP & 2000).
# Autocompletion for paths and other frequently typed information.
# Copy pathnames of selected items and preview bitmaps, simplifying
clipboard transfers.
# Optional single-click activation schemes for both views and tree, to
match your usability patterns.
Embedded Tools
* Text editor/viewer. It offers whatever Notepad lacks: unlimited file
sizes, font/color selection, powerful search and replace, toolbar,
keyboard shortcuts etc. It also features a HEX and a RTF viewer, plus
many useful tools for programmers of all sorts.
* Folder synchronisation. Forget the shortcomings of Briefcase. The
dual pane layout of 2xExplorer can be used to compare the contents of
any two folders. The synchronisation is based either on simple
date/size information, or on full binary contents comparison. Complete
sub-trees can also be examined using the unique Mirror Browsing tool.
* Find files command. This is more powerful than the standard windows
item, allowing more search criteria, hence files can be located with
greater precision. The search results can be fed to any of the regular
panes for further processing.
* Folder subtree data. Similar to TreeSize, this feature can generate
information about the number of files and associated storage for a
complete sub-tree beneath some folder. The results are presented
intuitively in a tree control.
* Batch file creation. Using a command template to be applied on each
one of the selected files, 2xExplorer can automatically generate MS/DOS
batch files ("*.bat"). By executing these scripts complicated
operations can be performed on any arbitrary set of files (e.g. mass
renaming of filename extensions, touching date stamp info, etc.)
* Advanced file management. 2xExplorer has built-in commands for
touching file dates, splitting & merging large files, shredding for
complete file destruction etc. For NTFS partitions hard links can be
created, too.
Brett
http://www.FreewareFriend.com/
Powerful non-profit website for finding great free software.
"Discover freeware jewels on the World Wide Web!"
Always free & easy, no registration required.
2xExplorer:
http://www.download.com/2xExplorer-Z1/3000-2248_4-10111859.html?tag=lst-0-1
Many outstanding features. Perhaps the most useful is that once
installed, you can right-click any folder to see the disk space taken
up by the ENTIRE contents of that folder (including all subfolders).
Also has some features that are like Norton Commander. Very useful.
Other features:
* Dual pane layout, with intelligent communication between two
independent panes
* Powerful selection engine, for easily building up selection patterns
for items before file operations
* File filters, both for selecting and for displaying files
* Drivebar navigation, for accessing quickly all the drives installed
on a computer
* Keyboard shortcuts for nearly all its commands, for efficient
everyday use
* Complete file date information, utilising Creation and LastAccessed
information as well as the normal Modification date.
* Proper path resolution, including UNC and relative paths (e.g. "C:"
as opposed to "C:\")
* Printing of folder contents, find results and other statistics
* Proper file sorting, based on extension (alphabetically)
Norton Commander-type Features
# Full drag/drop and shell context menu support, for integration with
the desktop
# Separable tree view; one can have both the tree view and the two
contents panes visible at the same time
# Multifunctional address bar, for specifying folder names and visual
filters, plus for running windows or DOS applications.
# Dockable Thumbnail bar, for previewing popular graphics formats (jpg,
bmp, gif, etc.) plus HTML and M/S Office documents.
# Efficient navigation, supporting bookmarks, folder history and
internet-style back/next folder navigation
# Shell namespace browser, allowing the browsing of non-filesystem
folders like ControlPanel etc. If you install a shell extension for FTP
and/or ZIP content browsing, 2xExplorer will integrate with that too
(does so already for zipfolders in winXP & 2000).
# Autocompletion for paths and other frequently typed information.
# Copy pathnames of selected items and preview bitmaps, simplifying
clipboard transfers.
# Optional single-click activation schemes for both views and tree, to
match your usability patterns.
Embedded Tools
* Text editor/viewer. It offers whatever Notepad lacks: unlimited file
sizes, font/color selection, powerful search and replace, toolbar,
keyboard shortcuts etc. It also features a HEX and a RTF viewer, plus
many useful tools for programmers of all sorts.
* Folder synchronisation. Forget the shortcomings of Briefcase. The
dual pane layout of 2xExplorer can be used to compare the contents of
any two folders. The synchronisation is based either on simple
date/size information, or on full binary contents comparison. Complete
sub-trees can also be examined using the unique Mirror Browsing tool.
* Find files command. This is more powerful than the standard windows
item, allowing more search criteria, hence files can be located with
greater precision. The search results can be fed to any of the regular
panes for further processing.
* Folder subtree data. Similar to TreeSize, this feature can generate
information about the number of files and associated storage for a
complete sub-tree beneath some folder. The results are presented
intuitively in a tree control.
* Batch file creation. Using a command template to be applied on each
one of the selected files, 2xExplorer can automatically generate MS/DOS
batch files ("*.bat"). By executing these scripts complicated
operations can be performed on any arbitrary set of files (e.g. mass
renaming of filename extensions, touching date stamp info, etc.)
* Advanced file management. 2xExplorer has built-in commands for
touching file dates, splitting & merging large files, shredding for
complete file destruction etc. For NTFS partitions hard links can be
created, too.
Brett
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Mel
Looks interesting but:Anuddah' handy goody if you need what it offers. Copy text from a Web site.
Co-citer saves the text, the URL, date/time etc. Great for those writing
papers for college or who are collecting data of interest such as for
hobbies, etc.
Worked fine on my old Win95 machine and my current Win98SE
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requires Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher.
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