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Ensure Disk Security & Configure Hard Drive Settings Using Drive-Thru

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Storage devices are an integral part of the system usage for any user. Portable devices when plugged in, lead to auto-runs and other unwanted actions, while local hard drives may not be as private and secure as you require. Drive-Thru is a lightweight drive management utility that enables you to ensure drive security by hiding and/or locking drives holding sensitive data. It allows customizations like disabling auto-runs of both system as well as portable drives (USB, HDD, RAM Disk, etc.). Furthermore, it automatically detects connected drives and extracts detailed, information for subsequent actions, accordingly. It also supports ISO files for booting an operating system or mount/un-mounting purposes. With features like Add to Drive Context Menu, Removable Disk Write-Protection, CleanUp, Defrag & BackUp Path, and other drive monitoring and explorer options, Drive-Thru offers a powerful way to manage your local and removable storage mediums. Read More

TumblRipper: Download Images From Any Tumblr Blog Without Duplicates

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Yesterday, we covered Tumblr Downloader, an open source application for Windows that allows you to grab images from one or multiple Tumblr feeds in batch. Today, we found another Tumblr downloader for you called TumblRipper, a portable tool that enables you to backup your Tumblr pictures to your hard drive, or download pictures posted on the other Tumblr blogs. The application looks through the download folder and grabs only the images which are not already available. That means that you don’t have to worry about multiple copies of the same image being stored on to your hard drive. Keep reading to find out more about TumblRipper. Read More

Aomei Partition Assistant: Perform Wizard-Guided Partition Operations

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Partitioning your hard drive is risky business. There is always the chance of losing your data if anything goes wrong. Therefore, backing up important data should be the first step when you decide to create new partitions from existing partitions, merge partitions together or allocate disk space to an existing partition. Previously, we have explained to you how to make partition in your hard drive easily and how to resize and move partition without losing data in Windows. Today, we have another partition manager and disk management tool for Windows-based systems called Aomei Partition Assistant. It provides you with multiple tools to easily resize and move partition, extend NTFS system partition, merge adjacent partitions into one etc. Keep reading to find out more about Aomei Partition Assistant. Read More

FixBee: Delete Junk Files And Defragment Hard Drives

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There are two things that you should take care of if you want to keep your computer running smoothly: regularly clean it to remove the junk files, and regularly defragment your hard drive to make sure that your data is neatly stored within. The system takes less time to locate data if your hard drive is defragmented. Think of it as a cupboard where you keep all your stuff. If all the items are neatly placed into labeled compartments and every type of product has its own section, it will be very easy for you to locate the required item. Instead, if everything is haphazardly placed inside the cupboard, it will take you a lot of time to find the required item from the mess. Today, we have a single application that performs both the functions of cleaning, and defragmenting your computer. FixBee is an application for Windows that allows you to easily and quickly defragment, as well as clean your PC. It not only repairs errors, but also removes junk files collected over time that just consume valuable disk space and create clutter, slowing down the computer. Read More

Hulbee Desktop: Hard Drive & Internet Search With Word Cloud Support

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Being able to quickly get to what you need saves a lot of time and allows you to concentrate more on the work at hand. Previously, we have covered some very useful tools to quickly search through files and folders by defining certain criteria and specifying parameters, such as UltraFileSearch, LookDisk and SearchMyFiles. Today, we have another searching utility, called Hulbee Desktop, that indexes your hard drive items, automatically generates a word cloud related to your searches and provides you with options to search for type-specific files, along with location, data and size parameters. The application allows you to search for items within your hard drive and on the internet from the same interface. Read More

DHE Drive Info: Portable Tool To View Detailed Hard Drive Statistics

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Preventing hard drives from failures and crashes can avert the loss of important data, but assessing the health of your hard disk manually can be time consuming. When a hard disk is working, temperatures increase during processing and read/write operations. Heavy applications, such as virtual machines, put a lot of stress on the hard disk. In order to keep the hard disk working fine and making sure that it does not crash, you have to keep an eye on how it is performing. DHE Drive Info is a portable application for Windows that lets you view the detailed information about connected hard disks according to their partitions. The application has options to view the basic information, S.M.A.R.T. data, S.M.A.R.T. Logs, Control different settings of the hard disk, view Hidden Areas and access the Sector Browser. Moreover, the system tray of DHE Drive Info shows the current temperature of the hard disk. Read on to find out more about DHE Drive Info. Read More

Weezo: Share, Transfer And Gain Remote Access To Hard Drive Content

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Weezo is a remote access/file sharing application that lets you gain remote access to the content on your computer, such as photos, music, videos and documents. You can either access the items in your computer from a remote location, or share them with your friends with safe, immediate and unlimited file sharing ensured. Weezo takes the concept of file sharing, and simplifies the process to such an extent that its just a matter of sharing a link and password to give your friends access to your hard drive folders. Other than sharing data, music, videos, documents etc, the application also allows you to give remote desktop access, remote startup and shutdown, and lets others view your webcam in their browsers (with your permission, of course). Even that's not all, as Weezo is not only a file sharing service, but also lets you send whole folders and stream content from your computer. Read on to find out more about Weezo. Read More

Identity Finder: Find, Manage & Delete Personal Information From Your PC

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Identity theft means stealing the identity of another person by obtaining personal information, such as drivers license number, social security number, and other identification documents, and using them to impersonate that person to gain benefits, or performing criminal acts. The problem amplifies when the crimes committed by the impersonator are attributed to the victim of identity theft, and the burden of proof of innocence falls onto the victim. Internet has provided criminals new and easier ways to steal your personal information, and commiting fraud in your name. Your computer collects detailed information about you, such as logins, passwords, addresses, credit card numbers etc, and stores them on your hard drive. So, if a thief can gain access to your system, he can easily grab this information. Today, we have a very useful application called Identity Finder that allows you to locate all the sensitive information stored in your PC that can be stolen and used by someone with malicious intentions. Read on to find out how to protect yourself from identity theft. Read More

PC House Keeper Provides All-In-One PC Maintenance & Tweaking Solution

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Just like your car, keeping your computer in shape is necessary for its performance to be top notch at all times. With time, junk files, unwanted software, redundant startup entries and services clog up the system causing it to slow down. Cleaning it from time to time is necessary for keeping it from crashing down while working. PC House Keeper is a very comprehensive PC maintenance application with a host of tools to diagnose and improve your system’s performance. It provides users with a centralized and easy-to-navigate interface, enabling you to clean junk, uninstall redundant and unused applications, regain hard drive space by deleting temporary files, scan and fix registry errors, manage Windows startup, regain used memory, specify network and internet settings and securely delete files permanently from your system. Read more about PC House Keeper after the break. Read More

DiskAlarm Monitors Hard Drive Temperature & Alerts When Limits Exceed

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Heat kills and one of the greatest foes of your PCs' hardware components is probably heat. Excessive heat can kill them within minutes and without you even knowing it. Akin to temperature rise of CPU, GPU and motherboard - amidst certain system heavy loads, temperature of hard drives also increases significantly during heavy processing and read/write operations, and can even damage the hard drive (which though is rare the case) if no proper care is taken. For instance, your hard drive will start heating up if you’re running a virtual machine on your computer and might act abnormally. Likewise, hard drive temps go considerably high during summer seasons due to high ambient temperature, or in adequate system airflow. Manufacturers design each hard drive with temperature thresholds that they need to run within to function properly, and avoid damage to data and hardware. That is why it is important to monitor your hard drive temperatures while performing operations that require heavy processing or you might end up breaking one and then expect a long wait for the RMA process. Today, we have an application for you called DiskAlarm, which allows you to view the hard drive temperature, and sounds an alarm in case the temperature exceeds the specified limit. Read past the break for more details pertaining to its usage. Read More

Disk Health Monitor: Receive Email Notifications For Hard Drive Errors & Crashes

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Hard Disk now a days can store incredible amount of data, as they provide Terabytes of space to store digital information. However, they are also prone to various data losses and some even come DOA. Some of the causes of sudden hard disk failures can arise from abnormal heat threshold and power loss. Preventing hard disks from disk failures and crashes can avert the loss of your important files, but assessing the disk health manually is not only time consuming, but tiring as well. Disk Health Monitor is an application for Windows that can keep a check on disk health, and send emails when hard disk crash or read/write error is reported by Windows Event Viewer. The application notifies the user in two ways; one with a balloon pop-up in system tray and other is email notification, which is quite helpful if you're away from your PC and has a habit of leaving it on for twenty four hours a day. The application automatically starts with Windows logon, and scans Windows event log up to the last system start up in order to identify hard disk errors that might've occurred before Disk Health Monitor starts. More details on this application up ahead. Read More

KeepAliveHD: Prevent External Drives From Going Into Auto Sleep Mode

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Some external hard drives go into sleep mode after a period of inactivity (which is usually 10 minutes). While this option can be prevented by going to Advanced Power Options in Windows and disabling the hard disk sleep feature, a better alternative can be to customize the sleep mechanism of an external drive. For instance, one can use an application to toggle the auto-sleep mode On or Off according to specified criteria. Read More

Monitor Local And External Hard Drive Health With Easis Drive Check

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Disk Errors often occur due to negligent use of systems which we all seem to have become accustomed to. This ranges anything from canceling setups, force shutdowns to manual system power off. We all know that Disk errors often can result in permanent damage to the hard drive. For this reason it is always a good idea to run a S.M.A.R.T (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) supported application to check your hard disk health. This is so because S.M.A.R.T is a known standard to monitor track sensitive values from your drive to prevent hard drives from complete failure. Read More

Liquesce Is Windows Drive Pooling Software Similar To WHS Drive Extender

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Multiple drives can be often hard to manage as important pieces of data are scattered in a series of separate hard drives. Drive pooling is a good mechanism in such cases to view system drives, partitions and folders in a unified format for better management. Liquesce is a drive pooling application which has functionality similar to the Windows Home Server based Drive Extender. It allows merging hard drives and directories into a single representation within Windows Explorer. In other words, you can manage all your system drives, partitions and directories within a unified virtual drive with Liquesce. The supported drive formats for the storage pool include SATA, IDE, ESATA, FIREWIRE and USB. Read More

SpeedOut Checks USB & External HDD Read/Write Speed

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Do you want to know the exact rate at which your USB or external hard drive transfers the data? SpeedOut is a simple program that can be used to find the exact data transfer rate and also check which USB or external hard drive provides you better performance. It has a simple interface which shows the results in bar chart along with numerical test results. Read More

Find Out What Has Changed In Your Windows Registry Or Hard Drive

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Many software leave their traces in the Windows registry even through you have properly uninstalled them. When your registry is full of such traces(junk keys), your Windows performance is effected. Wouldn’t it be great if you could see what has changed in your registry and then take proper measures to remove the junk keys? Back in February, I mentioned few ways to reinstall trial software when trial period has expired. One reason the trial software cannot be reinstalled is because during the reinstallation process it detects the previous key from Windows registry and deny another installation. Wouldn’t it be great if you could see which key was added in the registry and then remove it more easily? Read More

How To Analyze Your Hard Disk Space Usage

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If you haven't checked your hard drive for temp files or used a specific program to do this task, chances are that your PC may have been cluttered with so many unknown files that they maybe taking up a whole lot of disk space. If you think your hard disk is cluttered we'll help you to remove unnecessary files with ease. Read More