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Smart Defrag IObit SmartDefrag works automatically and quietly in the background, constantly keeps your computer fragment-free. http://www.iobit.com/SmartDefrag/index.html Outlook Express Tweaker Tweaker for Outlook Express allows you to: hide "MSN ... Messenger" in Outlook Express menu; turn off the Outlook Express splash screen; change the path where message attachments are stores; change the path where Address Book is stored; change the Outlook Express start page location; use smooth message scrolling; hide the Accounts Settings dialog from menu (to protect it from the changes); ... (view more)

Beam File Send files up to 5 gigs in size. Sending one or more files with BeamFile is easy: choose files to send, send an e-mail message to the recipient, and that's it! The recipient will receive an e-mail message with a link that will allow her ... (and only her!) to retrieve the file. http://www.beamfile.com/ Disk Defrag Defragment disks in only a few minutes. Fragmentation leads to system slowdowns, PC crashes, slow startup and shutdown and sometimes to system failures. Useful disk fragmentation map and detailed fragmentation report. Windows XP Home and Professional, 2000/2003 and Vista ... (view more)

Video Downloader This Firefox extension lets you freely download videos from Youtube, Google, Metacafe, iFilm, Dailymotion and 60+ other video sites, plus all embedded objects on a webpage (movies, MP3s, flash, QuickTime, etc) -- directly! ... VideoDownloader adds a small icon on the status bar at the bottom of your Firefox window, and a toolbar button. Just click that and download the video you are watching. https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2390 Speed Defrag Speed Defrag optimizes Windows XP defrag. It restarts your computer which refreshes the ram and then loads only the defrag.exe program. ... (view more)

Speed Defrag Restarts your pc and runs defrag program only, which optimizes defragmentation speed and also it automatically shuts down your pc after completion. So just before going to bed, switch it on and in the morning you'll find your hard disk ... defragged and pc shutdown. http://www.vcsoftwares.com/ Win Backup Now free, version 1.86 of WinBackup. Rated best backup software of the year by Computer Shopper. The award-winning WinBackup 1.86 remains the obvious choice for home users and small and medium sized businesses alike. As one of the most efficient and reliable backup solutions ... (view more)

DEFRAG or ' Disk Defragmenter ' is a program included with most versions of the MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows operating systems since MS-DOS 5.0, ca 1989. Defrag.exe defragments a file system such as a hard drive. Disk optimization is, briefly, a ... method of optimizing the efficiency of disk caching to minimize head travel and maximize effective speed: Move all the index or directory information to one spot. Move this spot into the center of the data, e.g. one third of the way in, so that head travel to data is halved compared to having directory information at the front. Cluster files around ... (view more)

Speed Defrag SpeeDefrag is a program which restarts your computer and runs only defrag.exe with optimized windows settings. This makes defrag work faster. SpeeDefrag will automatically shutdown your computer after completing the defragmentation ... process. http://www.geocities.com/coolvicki7/SpeeDefrag.html Spyware Warrior A wealth of resources to help you fight spyware and adware. http://www.spywarewarrior.com/ (view more)

Infopackets Reader Ed M. writes: " Dear Dennis, I can't seem to run Disk Defrag, ScanDisk, or Norton Disk Doctor on my system because other programs are actively running in the background and keep interrupting the process. How can I find out what is ... running in the background and stop it? I have asked this question numerous times to Microsoft and they don't seem to know the answer. I have tried 'CTRL + ALT + DEL' on my keyboard to bring up the Windows Task Manager, I get a list of programs -- but I do not know which ones are safe to delete? Can you help? " My response: Many users ... (view more)

Not too long ago I asked Infopackets Readers for their picks on a good ScanDisk and Defrag replacement for Microsoft since I get lots of emails from folks asking why their Scandisk and Defrag constantly restart (and never get the job done). Here's ... some comments sent in from readers of the Gazette newsletter. Scott T. writes: " Diskeeper is the ultimate freebie Defrag program, as far as I'm concerned. " http://www.diskeeper.com/freeware/freeware.asp Lots of people recommended Diskeeper Lite, in fact. On the other hand, John C. uses the Microsoft Defrag utility from Windows ME: ... (view more)

My friend Abba from California called me on the phone this morning after he received yesterday's issue of the Gazette which talked about Disk Imaging and Partitioning. Abba asked me why Windows XP didn't come with Scandisk and wondered why something ... so important such as Scandisk isn't easily accessible on the Desktop. I told Abba Windows XP doesn't use Scandisk anymore and now uses a program called CHKDSK. By the way, CHKDSK actually means "check disk." To use CHKDSK on Windows XP and scan your hard drive for errors usually caused by an improper shutdown: Double-click My Computer ... (view more)