Two free apps that you should be using by now
Here are two free apps that are incredibly useful:
CCleaner (Crap Cleaner) is a itsy bitsy program that does big things. It clears out unnecessary junk that eventually piles up in your Windows installation whether it's application cache/history or stuff Windows leaves behind
A neat feature is that it rids you of unused registry entries, not like it's going to change much, but useful if you want to entirely purge application leftovers for clean reinstalls.
Tidbit 'tool' features include:
- Startup information, giving you a list of programs that run automatically of which you can disable.
- Windows XP users should take a look at the uninstall utility of CCleaner as it's a lot faster than the built-in Add/Remove Programs control panel item which takes forever to populate as you install more and more applications.
- The system resotre utility allows you to remove specific restore points; saving you a lot of diskspace as you remove irrelevant points. I recommend that you delete restore points wherein you had a virus at the time. This is to prevent you from restoring data along with the virus.
Oh yes, lastly, you don't need it in your startmenu once installed i.e. just run it from the Recycle Bin.
Get CCleaner at http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner.
TeraCopy will make copying files a breeze. It just will. I don't even need to write about it, here's an excerpt from its site:
Copy files faster. TeraCopy uses dynamically adjusted buffers to reduce seek times. Asynchronous copy speeds up file transfer between two physical hard drives.
Pause and resume file transfers. Pause copy process at any time to free up system resources and continue with a single click.
Error recovery. In case of copy error, TeraCopy will try several times and in the worse case just skip the file, not terminating the entire transfer.
Interactive file list. TeraCopy shows failed file transfers and lets you fix the problem and recopy only problem files.
Shell integration. TeraCopy can completely replace Explorer copy and move functions, allowing you work with files as usual.
Full Unicode support.
Windows 7 x64 support.
Teracopy integrates and replaces the built-in Windows copy/cut/paste utility. It shows you detailed read-write speed which is handy for making media benchmarks. Queueing is particularly useful as the default Windows utility will start new transfer regardless if an operation is currently running which just slows everything down.
Get it now at http://www.codesector.com/teracopy.php. There's TeraCopy Pro which gives some more features but you won't really need it not unless you're always moving around tons of specific files.