ReNamer is a small, yet very flexible file and folder renamer, that offers all the standard renaming procedures, including prefixes, suffixes, replacements, case changes as well as advanced options and support for Unicode file names. In addition, it can also remove brackets, add number sequences, remove digits or symbols and change file extensions. The program allows you to combine multiple renaming actions as a rule set, applying each action in logical sequence. Renamer supports 60 different meta fields, including EXIF, ID3 and others, that can be used as part of the new file name. Advanced users can use PascalScript to program their own renaming rules.

ReNamer

SpaceSniffer is a portable tool application that lets you understand how folders and files are structured on your disks. By using a treemapvisualization layout, you have immediate perception of where big folders and files are placed on your devices.

www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/index.html

UltraDefrag is a powerful Open Source Defragmentation tool for the Windows Platform. It can defragment any system files including registry hives and paging file. Also one of the main goals of UltraDefrag is doing the job as fast and reliable as possible.

ultradefrag.sourceforge.net

Ever had to format your system?

Perhaps you have been victim of file corruption which also victimised your gamesaves?
Maybe you just wish to transfer your gamesave(s) to your new machine, or to take with you to a friend’s?

With GameSave Manager, you can easily backup, restore and transfer your gamesave(s).
No longer do you need to manually track through all of the those different directories to backup/restore/transfer your gamesaves, making it great for those who like to share gamesave progress with friends/family, format frequently, paranoid about data loss, etc…

gsm.duncsweb.com

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.

Options include repeated copies at intervals as short as a few minutes, or as long as several months, copy only files that have changed, and the replication of folder and file deletions.

www.karenware.com/powertools/ptreplicator.asp

The Ultimate Boot CD for windows is a bootable recovery CD that contains software used for repairing, restoring, or diagnosing almost any computer problem.

I came across this package when searching for a free hard drive imaging program. I found DriveImage XML, which is nice, but is missing one option. When restoring your image you need access to the target drive as a secondary disk, and DriveImage XML doesn’t come with some sort of self bootable version like most, if not all, commercial drive imaging programs. The Ultimate Boot CD for Windows solves this problem because it contains, as you might have guessed already, DriveImage XML.

DriveImage XML compressed and imaged my 5.7 GB C: Drive in 13 Min to 4.2 GB. Restoring took 7 min. Not very fast but fast enough for something you only do every once in a while. The Ultimate Boot CD is filled with a lot more great tools for testing, restoring, removing, undeleting and benchmarking stuff.

One thing though, because of the obvious copyright laws you have to build the CD yourself with the UBCD package and a Windows XP Disc. Instructions are available on the UBCD website.

www.ubcd4win.com

This is, as the name suggests, a disk defragment and optimize utility. It can not only handle hard discs but also usb disks, usb sticks and floppies.

The program is available in several versions and is completely automatic by default, although you can control the behavior of every version through the command line. The windows GUI version is really bare bones, there are no buttons or pull down menus. It only shows its current action and progress in a high detail map of your hard disc. The command line version is for use in an automatic environment like the task scheduler, administrator scripts and so on. The final version is a screensaver version whose use should be obvious.

JkDefrag is based on the standard defragmentation API by Microsoft, a standard system library in Windows. Most defraggers, including commercial ones, are based on this API. JkDefrag is therefore very solid and there is no risk of losing data. You can stop the program at any time with alt-f4, the close button of the window, the pulldown menu of the taskbar, the task manager or another utility and it will finish the current file in the background.

www.kessels.com/JkDefrag

Hold it. For everybody who would like more control through a GUI and not through the command line there is a separate frontend available which also doubles as a frontend for the former Sysinternals (now Microsoft) utility PageDefrag. This small utility will defragment your system files at reboot.

JkDefragGUI

There are a number of NT disk defraggers on the market, including Winternals Defrag Manager. These tools are useful for performing a general defragmentation of disks, but while most files are defragmented on drives processed by these utilities, some files may not be. In addition, it is difficult to ensure that particular files that are frequently used are defragmented – they may remain fragmented for reasons that are specific to the defragmentation algorithms used by the defragging product that has been applied. Finally, even if all files have been defragmented, subsequent changes to critical files could cause them to become fragmented. Only by running an entire defrag operation can one hope that they might be defragmented again.

Contig is a single-file defragmenter that attempts to make files contiguous on disk. Its perfect for quickly optimizing files that are continuously becoming fragmented, or that you want to ensure are in as few fragments as possible.

technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/

Power Defragmenter is a GUI (Graphic User Interface) application for program Contig by Sysinternals. Contig is a very powerful defragmentation application designed for Windows NT/2000/XP operating systems.

www.excessive-software.eu.tt

Note: You will have to browse to the download section of the website yourself.

DupKiller is one of the fastest and the most powerful tools for searching and removing duplicate or similar files on your computer. Complicated algorithms, built in its searching mechanism, perform high results — rapid file search. A lot of options allow to flexibly customizing the search.

It’s fast. And it can also scan removable media (floppy, cd, usb, etc), exclude files from scanning, delete files directly from harddisk or to the recycle bin and lots more.

www.dupkiller.net