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Synchronize your work folder at your office and home computer

 

Did you ever feel the need to synchronize some important folders across different computers you use at different physical locations, you can easily do this with Allway Sync.

Allway Sync is a free software for file and folder synchronization software for Windows.

It helps you to synchronize files and folder either through a USB portable device, ftp server or via amazon s3 server.

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Features:

  • It’s free Sync Software. 
  • Does not contain any spyware, adware or malware
  • You can install Allway sync software on as many computers as you need but it should be for personal use only.

    How To Use?

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    Delete windows installer configuration on failed installs with windows installer clean up utility

     

    It happens with lot of us on windows when we try to install a program but it does not install sometimes it may not meet some installation requirement. 

    But we can remove windows installer configuration information which got stored in my computer with the help of Windows Installer Clean Up Utility.

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    With the Windows Installer CleanUp Utility, you can remove a program’s Windows Installer configuration information after unsucessfull installation of the program.

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    Convert drm protected music to wav files with freeware Drm2Free

    It occurs many times when you try to copy the DRM ( Digital Rights Management ) protected music from your audio files but not able copy, because the file you are trying to copy is DRM protected.

    Drm2Free is a freeware program which lets you copy protected or unprotected audio files to wave-files for private use ( as shown in the image below ).

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    After running the program, for every protected copied sound file a new and unprotected wav-file is created.

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    Password Protect your Confidential information with steganos locknote

    Did you ever think of storing the all your passwords or other confidential information in a file? But before you can do that, the most important question which comes to your mind is how will you be able to protect that file.

    Steganos LockNote is a Freeware which comes handy in this situation. It will change the way you work with confidential notes.

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    It allows you to encrypt and decrypt any note in a simple and independent way which can be unlocked any time, any where with a correct password.

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    Access special Folders in windows with freeware special Folders View

    There has been large number of special folders in windows and we keep accessing these folders from different locations. When I say Special Folders, I mean folders like My documents , Startup , Temporary Internet Files etc.

    We cannot access all these special folders are scattered over the operating system drive and some times they are so deep in terms of the directory structure which a normal user cannot remember easily.

    But a cool freeware called Special Folders View makes it possible to list all these special folders in one go. ( as shown in the image below )

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    As shown in the image above, Special Folders View displays the list of all the special folders in which you just need to double click over a special folder path entry to open it in windows explorer.

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    Remove Duplicate Files with free Easy duplicate finder

    I have been using computers for about 5 years now, till now my harddisk storage size has increased from 40gb to 160gb as the number of media files like songs movies , downloaded flv videos and other documents and files have increased a lot.

    So, with the increasing number of files and documents leads to duplicate files and documents over the entire hard disk across different drives, but recently I found a cool FREE application called Easy Duplicate Finder which finds and remove duplicate files ( as shown in the image below ).

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    Easy Duplicate Finder – It is a Finder is a free powerful tool that helps you to find and remove duplicate files on your PC.

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    Change default windows icon and their colour with folder Marker

    We are seeing the same windows icons for years now, till now almost every one including me are bored with the same look and feel of windows icons for my computer , network , internet explorer and folders etc.

    Lets give them a different colour with Folder Marker ( shown in the image below ).

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    Folder Marker is a free utility which can allow you to change the color of any windows folder , you can assign any image-coded-icon to any folder so that it can easily catch your attention among various other folders (as shown in the image below ).

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    Above pictures shows some of the folders of my C: drive, out of all these folders I have given a different colours and icon to all my important folders using Folder Marker.

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    Get shortcuts created on the desktop when you insert your pen drive with Desk Drive

    We have received so many problems from the readers on Troublefixers.com when they insert pen drives into their computers it got detected but doesn’t show up in my computer.

    But yesterday night we found a utility called Desk Drive solves this annoying problem as it creates the shortcuts dynamically when a a portable device like USB drive inserted and detected in my computer.

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    You can easily selects the media for which you want the shortcuts to be created ( as shown in the image below ).