A few free utilities. I found all these entries online on Gizmo Richard’s web site. He’s done a nice job finding 46 free utilities for Windows computers. While many of his are also on my list (how’s that for validation), here are some I had not found yet (only exception might be AIDA32). I especially liked the TrueCrypt.

Xplorer2 – http://www.netez.com/xplorer2/x2lite.htm
Easy to use file manager for Windows

Hotkeycontrol XP — http://www.digital-miner.com/hkcontrol.html
Allows you to set up certain keys so that a single key press combination can start up a program, insert text, change directories/volume, or whatever.

AMDeadlink – http://aignes.com/press/deadlink140.htm
Checks for deadlinks in your bookmarks or favorites files.

HTTrack – http://www.httrack.com/
Allows you to whack a web site.

Empty Temp Folder – http://www.danish-shareware.dk/soft/emptemp

CCleaner – http://www.ccleaner.com/
Empties temporary folders and a few other things as well.

Aida32 – http://www.sofotex.com/AIDA32-download_L9326.html
AIDA32 is a professional system information, diagnostics and benchmarking program running on Win32 platforms. It extracts details of all components of the PC. It can display information on the screen, print it, or save it to file in various formats like HTML, CSV or XML. For corporate users, AIDA32 offers command-line switches, network audit and audit statistics, remote system information and network management.

KarenWare’s Replicator – http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptreplicator.asp
Automatically backup files, directories, even entire drives! Karen’s Replicator copies selected files from one drive/folder to another. Source and Destination folders can reside anywhere on your network. Files larger than 2 GB are supported.

PC Inspector File Recovery – http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/uk/welcome.htm
This is a data recovery program that supports the FAT 12/16/32 and NTFS file systems. he “Special Recovery Function” supports the following disk formats: ARJ AVI BMP CDR DOC DXF DBF XLS EXE GIF HLP HTML HTM JPG LZH MID MOV MP3 PDF PNG RTF TAR TIF WAV ZIP

TrueCrypt – http://www.truecrypt.org/
Free open-source disk encryption software for Windows XP/2000/2003. # It can create a virtual encrypted disk within a file and mount it as a real disk. It can encrypt an entire hard disk partition or a device, such as USB memory stick, floppy disk, etc.

Free PDF Reader – http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php
Foxit Reader is a free reader for PDF (eBook) documents. You can view and print PDF documents with it.

Free Spell-Checker – http://tinyspell.m6.net/

WordWeb Dictionary – http://wordweb.info/

Free Undelete Utility – http://www.geocities.jp/br_kato/

Panaroma AutoStitch – http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html

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