If you need to transfer files from PC to PC regularly then there are various ways of doing it but CCFile attempts to make it easier.

CCFile is a free web based file transfer application that allows you to transfer files PC to PC regularly. It helps you share files, photos, music and video with friends without the need for P2P software or dealing with the complexities of FTP software. It's especially useful for large files.

It's an extremely simple apps to use. It supports drag and drop so simply drag the files you want to transfer into the CCFIle interface. You then simply enter the IP address of the recipient you want to send it to or if your own on a home network, it will automatically detect all connected users. You can observe the status of transfers via status bar and you can even resume broken transfers at a later date.

Simple and much easier than FTP, CCFile is an excellent way to transfer files to other users in a hurry.

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Advanced File Worker is a powerful file management, backup and rename utility. You can perform any number of file operations by pressing only one button.

Make your work faster and faultless. Program options give the user the possibility to perform various kinds of file operations: clean up temporary files from hard drive(s); backup at scheduled times or when program defined starts; copy, move, rename, delete files by include and exclude masks. For graphic files there are various options to select files by picture size. Script supporting gives the user great possibilities to tune the program for their own requirements.

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Compare It! makes your file compare and file merge tasks even easy! Quickly visually identify differences between files, merge them with a single click, and print/publish your work without any problems! Compare It! displays 2 files side-by-side, with colored differences sections to simplify analyzing. Overview bar will show overall changes picture.

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Both the iPhone and iPod Touch are great tools to have your favorite music and videos always with you, but what if you also want to carry files or documents?

The solution is then DiskAid, a simple tool that lets you manage the contents of your Apple device as if it was just another removable drive plugged into your computer. DiskAid doesn't require any special drives or difficult configuration at all; just connect the iPhone or iPod Touch to the PC and you're good to go.

DiskAid lets you browse the contents of the device in a neatly organized folder structure, drag and drop these contents to and from the PC and also perform some file management tasks like creating new folders or renaming others.

On the downside, you'll find that the folder structure is not easy to recognize, that is, folders' and files' names do not always correspond to the apps and files you have in your device. For example, while checking my music collection, I saw that all the MP3 files were renamed to strange character sets instead of their regular names.

With DiskAid you can easily use your iPhone or iPod Touch as a storage unit for files and documents, and also transfer them to and from the PC. You'll have to guess what their real names are though.

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Here’s a simple but very effective program that you’ll love. ResourcesExtract allows you to extract, from an exe or dll file, all the pictures and videos contained in it. For example, if you’ve always wanted to have the icons that a particular application uses, this program lets you access them in seconds.

From the main (and only) program menu, select the path of the application you need to extract the images from, then select the destination folder and choose what do you want to get: icons, cursors, bitmaps, avi files, etc. Press the ‘Start’ button and ResourcesExtract will open a folder with all the files extracted, ready for you to use almost immediately.

The software’s layout is really basic and there are not many options you can choose from, but on the other hand, the program is simple and effective. It would have been good to have a preview of the files contained within the exe file in order to choose just the images we needed and to avoid extracting things we don’t really want.

ResoucesExtract is a powerful tool that lets you extract images, icons and AVI files contained in an application. This can be very useful for web developers, but also end users who want to have a particular image of a program they like available to use.

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ZKleener is a disk cleaning tool that enables you to get rid of junk files in a very easy way. In fact, you can define by yourself which kind of files should be considered as junk, because the program's settings enable you to filter file types by extension and therefore include or exclude them from the program's black list.

ZKleener features three different scanning methods (Quick, Full and Custom) with diverse depth ranges. It also includes a backup and restoration utility which is supposed to help you recovering files that have been deleted by mistake. Unfortunately this tool didn't seem to work for us.

Once the scan is finished (it doesn't take long, even in the Full System mode) the program displays the number of files that are about to be erased and the percentage of disk that will then be freed. You'll be amazed at the amount of disk space that can go to waste only in temporary files.

ZKleener is a great application to perform quick, effective cleaning tasks in a very easy way.

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Want to compare two or more files without all the hassle involved? In that case, Deltopia DeltaWalker will be a great help. Deltopia DeltaWalker is an excellent program that includes functions and options needed to automatically compare all kinds of files and folders. With it, you can compare up to three files in detail and more generically, all files contained in two separate folders.

The program also includes an efficient editor of structures capable of displaying on-screen displays and equalities, and even differences similarities of the archives. It is also compatible with Unicode, MBCS and ASCII. The developer goes a bit over the top in trying to sell this tool describing it as "Ultimate clarity, productivity, and ease of use. Native looks and performance. Beautifully human. Runs everywhere," which is a little over the top to say the least but it's a useful tool nevertheless.

In summary, Deltopia DeltaWalker is a solid tool to perform the tedious task of comparing files and folders.

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The Locked Files Wizard (LFW), formerly CopyLock, is a simple assistant that allows you to either replace, move, delete or rename one or more files or folders which are in use by the system or any running process.

Additionally, you can display and possibly stop the processes or services that lock a file, and manage files flagged to be processed by the system on next reboot (e.g. after an installation or an uninstallation.)

The Locked Files Wizard can also help to select some worms and trojans from the Registry and to quickly remove them from the system. The package also includes a command-line version (cl.exe) that can be called from a Command Prompt or a script.

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It provides you with a complete set of tools to help you manage your disk space easily. Features include folder size, graphical charts, file distribution statistics and reports (by size, extension, type, owner, date, etc.), biggest files, network support, snapshots, file management, printing of file listing, compress into ZIP file, exports to Excel, html, xml and text files, etc.

All the information provided by SizeExplorer Pro will help you manage your drives easily. You will be able to rapidly spot large files that may be useless, and you'll have a good general view of the space usage distribution on your local and network drives.

SizeExplorer Pro includes a viewer for analyzing your saved snapshot and a command-line tool for saving snapshots from the prompt or from a scheduler.

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Visual Comparer is a software utility having text files and files of special formats comparison as the main feature. Visual Comparer allows you to load text files for comparing, perform matching and merging operations as well as to edit the text as if it were a fully-functional text editor. Visual Comparer is intended mainly for software and web site developers who require a special text editor with syntax highlighting and visual comparing feature. It is a great match for Diff Commander!

This is what Visual Comparer has to offer:

• Full-functional text editor
• Char-by-char comparison
• Support command line parameters
• Strict and exact syntax highlighting
• Adjusting and rearranging of similar lines
• Toggle views orientation (horizontal or vertical)
• Fully customizable menu, toolbars and shortcuts

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CD Anywhere is a shareware utility that enables users to create disk images from CD-ROM, Video DVD medium, make virtual CD drives and even burn CD image files to physical disk.

It can convert data CD/DVD to ISO9660 image file, create many virtual drives, attach and detach image files from virtual drive, burn CD image files to CD, and more! CD Anywhere also supports many different standard and non-standard image formats, including the Bin/Cue format you download from the Internet.

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If you currently have Windows running and you realize that you need some files for your work which you have stored on an Ext2 volume of your Linux installation, you no longer have to shut down Windows and boot Linux!

Furthermore, Windows will now be able to handle floppy disks which have been formatted with an Ext2 file system.

The file system driver Ext2fs.sys caches file data and the file system's meta data such as directories and all the on-disk structures of the Ext2 file system. (It uses the file cache of the Windows NT operating system.) Therefore it is performant. The level of sophistication of the Ext2 file system driver's implementation is indeed comparable to Windows NT's native file system drivers.

The "Ext2 Installable File System" software package is distributed as a single executable solution, complete with all of the features. It is a setup wizard which installs and configures the Ext2 file system driver.

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Magellan Explorer is an advanced, yet easy to use, Windows file manager based on the powerful dual window pane concept. Previous users of the Norton Commander file manager software and similar tools will feel right at home. It can also act as a Windows Explorer replacement with a tree view on the left. Or you can enjoy a combination of both!

In addition to all the basic file management features found in Windows Explorer it also contains a built-in FTP client and archive manager (packer). All major file compression formats from ZIP (WinZIP), RAR and ACE to UNIX formats such as TAR and GZip are supported.

An integrated file viewer is included for instant viewing of your pictures, as well as Microsoft Office documents (Word, PowerPoint and Excel), PDF files etc. The hex file mode allows viewing of any file type.

Advanced file manipulation tools enable you to manipulate single and multiple files with ease. Powerful tools such as group rename and group attribute let’s you work on large sets of files at once, rather than dealing with each file one by one.

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If you're anything like me then you're probably installing and uninstalling apps on a daily basis, which usually messes up all file associations in the system.

In that case, you can either repair them manually or run a program like Types. This simple tool lists all the file types available in your system and helps you view and edit their associations with certain apps. This means that, for instance, if you've always opened JPG images with XnView but this association has been taken over by another graphic editor, you can easily restore it with Types. Plus, it doesn't even require installation.

Besides file associations, Types also lets you edit icons, context menu, properties and other features of all file types shown in Windows Explorer. On the downside, the program is not very easy to use and doesn't include any documentation either, so you better know what you're doing before editing anything.

Types can help you restore broken file associations in your system, though it may not be easy to use for a beginner.

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Has it ever happened that you try to delete a file, only to receive an error message telling you that the file is in use, or that you don't have permission to access the file, or that the file is write-protected: you can't delete it!

But now you have a new ally. It's called Unlocker and is a simple program capable of detecting the applications and processes that are blocking the file you want to delete, free it and allow you to delete without any problems.

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Wuala is an online drive, accessible from anywhere. Based on P2P technology, it stores encrypted versions of your documents around the Wuala network, so that they will always be available to you with no risk of server breakdown. Thanks to a multi-download system (as bytes of your files are located on different PCs of the network), you will access your files quickly. The program in itself is highly usable and has a pleasant design. All the files you store are set as private by default but if you need to share them with your friends, groups or with the whole network, you can do that easily by changing their availability.

The downsides are that you need the application installed to access your files, and this may be a problem when you are not at home or in the office. Furthermore, in order to use more than 1GB of storage you need to make the same amount of space available on your own hard-disk, for sharing over the network. I.E. if you would like to store files of 50GB, you’d have to make 50GB available on your own hard-disk.

The application could come in handy for anyone who needs to regularly back up data. In that case, one would have a secure virtual disk, always available. For users who just need to have a limited online hard-disk, accessible from a web-page thus without any installation, there are simpler useful services, like eSnips.com.

Wuala is a potentially very interesting application for secure backups and sharing documents with a working group but some of its restrictions limit its utility.

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With DiskInternals Linux Reader you can see the contents of the Ext2 and Ext3 partitions of your Linux partitions directly from Windows.

The interface is reminiscent of Windows Explorer and allows access to files, folders and anything else you've stored whilst using Linux. The program includes a browser and provides direct links to other utilities which can retrieve data from FAT partitions, NTFS drives, flash disks and optical disks. The problem however is that the Linux partition is read-only, so you can't save documents created in Windows on it. The reason for this is that if you were able to edit and manipulate documents without actually running Linux, it could damage or corrupt the files when you next start Linux.

The program is particularly good at handling pictures as it gives the user a preview much as you expect in Windows or a decent photo file browser. If you have any security software installed on Linux, this is also no problem as the program can circumvent it.

If you regularly switch between Linux and Windows or want to try and restore a deleted file, then DiskInternals is everything you'll need.

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LojiklSweep creates hard drive backups and gives you multiple options over how it does so. The program has an easily navigable interface which guides the user through the process. First, it creates a task, indicates what should be copied (folders, registry, system files, and so on.) It also lets you select which filter should be applied and sets the date and schedule for the task. You then only need to indicate where the data should be recorded i.e. hard drive, FTP server, compact disc etc.

To copy data such as My Documents, Bookmarks browsers and folders of photos and music, LojiklSweep has direct access to the shortcut paths. You can also verify copies to check their integrity and automatically email backup alerts to let you know once it's been completed. This is also useful in that gives you an exact time and date as to when the last backup was performed.

In short, this is an easy to use backup application that does the hard work so you don't have to remember them.

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DBF Converter is a versatile yet easy-to-use conversion program. It has a familiar Wizard-like interface but can also be used as a command-line utility for batch file processing. DBF Converter supports all the modern data interchange formats, such as XML, CSV, TXT, HTML, RTF, PRG and others. You can even convert your DBF table into a set of SQL queries that can be imported into any SQL database.

In addition to simple conversions, DBF Converter allows you manipulate data by selecting only specific columns and applying filters. Unlike simplified filtering rules that are normally available in other DBF applications, DBF Converter dynamically builds a sample database record form. The ability to put advanced masks and rules into any field of the sample record is one of the most valuable DBF Converter features.

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Managing files in Windows isn't always simple and you're often left wondering why Microsoft has restricted the amount of things you can do with files. Thankfully, it is possible to access extra functions for changing and managing files, but you're going to need a third party application to do so. PropertyEditor is just such an application and lets you configure several more options.

First off, the program displays the path to the file and also its size. Then you can add new functions to the menu, indicating that the PropertyEditor is responsible fo a particular task. Another useful option is to assign a drive letter to a folder or device. Through a series of tabs you can tweak typical NTFS options such as the allocation of icons to files, manipulate the creation dates, and inidicate the state of the file (i.e. hidden, indexed, reading, temporary, etc.) In some cases you do need to be careful when changing file data as they is no way of reverting back to a file's original state.

If used correctly though, PropertyEditor opens up a world of new options for making your files easier to handle.

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