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To topFile Downloader New or Updated

File Downloader icon File Downloader is a small command-line tool that allows you to download files from webservers and FTP servers. It can easily be inserted in a script, a batch file or the Task Scheduler to automate file downloads. The program features multiple parameters and options. Type download.exe in a Command window to learn more about its syntax and its parameters. Versions 1.10 and later are Unicode only.

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To topFile Uploader New or Updated

File Uploader icon File Uploader is a small command-line tool that allows you to upload one or many files (wildcards allowed) to webservers (POST or PUT verbs) and FTP servers. It can easily be inserted in a script, a batch file or the Task Scheduler to automate file uploads. Type upload.exe in a Command window to learn more about its syntax and its parameters. Versions 1.11 and later are Unicode only.

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To topDirCmp New or Updated

DirCmp icon DirCmp is a command-line tool that allows you to compare two directories and possibly their subdirectories. The program reports files missing in either directory and whether some files are different or empty. You can also specify a list of files to exclude during the comparison. The output can be redirected to a text file. Simply type dircmp in a Command window to learn more about the syntax of the program.

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To topLocked Files Wizard

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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 window or a script.

Disclaimer: you can crash your system or make it unbootable if you are not careful, use at your own risk.

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To topUniversal Converter

Universal Converter icon This Universal Converter allows you to convert to and from many UK, US and metric units. To do a conversion, simply select a category (length, speed, surface, temperature, volume, weight, etc.), select the source and the target units. The conversation is made on the fly as you type the source value. You can also now do some currency conversion, display real-time time differences in two places in the world at the same time and look up country and phone codes. The Close to system tray option allows you to run a single instance of the program and to automatically minimize it to the system tray (the part of the taskbar near the clock) when you close it. If you need the program again, simply double-click its icon in the system tray.

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To topBirthday Reminder

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Birthday Reminder is a small application that takes place in the system tray. It searches your default Windows Address Book (WAB) and possibly displays the contacts who have their birthdays or wedding anniversaries today (and optionally in the coming week).

If some birthdays are available the icon blinks in the system tray, you can then double-click it to display the list of contacts. Select a contact in the list and click E-mail to send him/her an e-mail.

You can configure the application to automatically run at startup by ticking the Run at startup option in the menu.

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To topDisplay

Display icon Display is a small command-line tool that allows you to either rotate display orientiation (if supported by the display driver and the system) or to turn the monitor or the screen saver on and off to save power. Run display.exe in a Command window to learn more about its syntax.

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To topMedia Checker

Media Checker icon MediaChecker helps you check all your media (fixed or removable like diskettes, zip, magneto-optical disks, or CD-R,...) or only a folder on these media and ensure that all your precious data that you store on them are safe and can be accessed successfully.
The latest versions can now run on older systems with just Internet Explorer 3.0.

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To topBasic Authentication

Basic Authentication icon Basic Authentication is a little program that converts a user name (login) and optionally a password to/from their Base64 Basic Authentication counterpart.

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To topCloseApp

CloseApp icon CloseApp is a small command-line tool that allows you to close all the processes whose executable filename matches the one passed as a parameter. Alternatively, you can pass a DLL filename as a parameter to close all processes using that library.
Run closeapp.exe from a Command window to learn more about its syntax.

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