CyberKit 3.0b1

CyberKit offers other services often little-known but very important. One of these is the so-called Ping. "Ping" means a remote host computer to send small packets of information specified and wait for the answer.

If the remote computer responds to our "stress" can determine the connection speed between your personal computer and the server asked. The Ping is therefore a very useful service that allows you to see if a server (and to what extent) is fast or not or if there is some communication problem.

We should also mention the traceroute that allows you to "trace" the path that our request takes before reaching a particular website. Useful to uncover problems that result in third parties not connected with the Internet provider or from which the request or from the Internet site of destination.
Very useful service nslookup.

As a sort of "Swiss boxcutter" CyberKit is a program that in addition to handyman services such as ping and traceroute provides access to most experienced many other interesting utilities.

CyberKit 3.0b1

Restoration 3.2.13

An excellent program ("weight" chilobytes few ...) that can recover any deleted files from hard disk (although this is no longer present in the Windows Recycle Bin).
The program also supports the NTFS file system of your Windows 2000/XP.

Restoration also includes a function for the secure deletion of one or more files that makes it impossible to recover, even with other similar utility.
Completely free.

Restoration 3.2.13

PolderBackup 2.8.0

PolderBackup utility is easy to use (who does not speak English can still find some difficulty) that can meet any need for data backup.

The program allows you to select a set of files and folders should be created as the backup. This makes it possible to create templates ("templates") in order to manage a wide range of backup. Each "template", in practice, once invoked, can only start the backup you are interested.

PolderBackup includes several filters to the file level, the ability to delete redundant files, file recovery, zip compression format.
The program is very easy to use via the single executable file.

PolderBackup 2.8.0

Asterisk Key

Asterisk Key is a free program that allows you to recover forgotten passwords.
Unlike many other similar software, Asterisk Key is able to find passwords entered in any dialog box or any web form.

The operation of the program is straightforward: as soon as the dialog or web page containing the password to be recovered are open, simply press the button "Recover" to "lay bare" the masked keyword, in Windows, using a series of asterisks.

Asterisk Key

Cobian Backup

Cobian Backup is a great free program for automatic backups, the rescue of entire folders on your computer to a destination to be determined (which may be another hard disk, a CD or DVD, FTP server, USB stick, etc..).

We choose the folders that will be part of our rescue, we set intervals (every Monday or every hour or every month, or once only, etc..) Choose to have it all in a single compressed file to our e- choice-encrypted with a password, we set the destination and the rest will be left to the program.

Setup is fairly simple, although at first need to waste a few minutes. Perhaps a paid program like Handy Backup is more intuitive, however Cobian Backup is free and does the exact same things.

Back up certain important folders automatically and periodically (where there are no data to update frequently, or all our emails, etc..). Is a very useful practice, especially for those who have valuable data on PC, which event of major hard drive crash would be lost (or recovered only at very high cost). Advanced users are familiar with the usefulness of these backup programs, because we have passed in first person ... others rely on luck, hoping that everything always goes well ...

Cobian Backup

BadCopyPro, recover data from damaged

Almost the same level of CD/DVD Diagnostic, this allows you to save situations apparently difficult. With a little patience, it is often possible to salvage. Costs about $ 40, a little less of a competitor.
If data recovery from DVD, however, takes many hours in the most desperate cases even whole days, it is good to know, because if it were expected to recover much ruined a DVD in minutes (or a couple of hours ), you would be absolutely disappointed. It is not the fault of BadCopyPro But data recovery from DVD (unlike the CD, where inevitably there are less data and everything is faster), it takes much, much patience.

BadCopyPro

CD/DVD Diagnostic, Recovering data from damaged CDs and DVDs

If you sometimes have a problem with a CD or DVD that you can not read, this is the program for you (yes, you could blame you for having wanted to save the quality of the recorder and CD you bought poor quality, but the lesson than you will in the future). With the right time, unable to recall many situations that seem hopeless. Fails in the impossible, but saved by several difficult situations.

CD/DVD Diagnostic

CD Recovery Toolbox free, Recover damaged CDs and DVDs

It's a very good program for data recovery from CD, DVD and Blu-Ray: I consider the best of the free ones.
Can work with physically damaged disks (for example due to scratching or accidental contact with liquid, etc..), The operating system even rfiuta accept: CD Recovery Toolbox scans, and finally seek to recover all recovery.
Note: for the avoidance of doubt, that in case of discs (especially DVD) physically damaged, the scanning process and recovery can last many hours (as in all such programs, anyway).
Simple and effective.

CD Recovery Toolbox free

CDCheck, detection & recovery of damaged files

It's a program focused primarily on the identification of errors on a CD (or DVD), but also allows you to do some data recovery.
The main feature of CDCheck is to make a comparison between the data and the data written to hard disk, even if the audio CD (in this case by referring to the tracks WAV Hard Disk): in this case will be able to whether the burning took place in an absolutely identical to the data on your hard drive. It can also check him a CD/DVD to see if there are errors in it (functionality still less powerful than the aforementioned comparison).
The part on data recovery runs quietly, but nothing comparable to specific programs (which unfortunately are paying).
And free and works the way it is, if we want the actual license (no charge), we must register via email.

CDCheck

ISOBuster, Images of CD and DVD (freeware and shareware)

Another of those programs that we can be of great help. Isobuster freeware can extract the image to a folder on a CD (with Nero, CloneCD, Blind Write, or a similar program) ... all files on CD available to us are so ready to be modified. After the change, we can put everything back to CD, creating an ISO image from scratch (using Nero, etc.).
It's really something useful (assuming you have a basic knowledge of using a PC ...).
All this for free. It been a long time the best in its class, but today is undoubtedly superseded by UltraISO ... however it is still free, and who does not need too many options will undoubtedly satisfied. Add that-unfortunately-since he became in part payment the free section is no longer being developed a few years ago it was even in the Top 10 Magic ...).
The fee allows the hand to recover damaged CD and DVD, with a considerable range of options and functions.

ISOBuster

Handy Recovery

Handy Recovery is data recovery software designed to restore accidentally deleted files on hard and floppy drives with FAT12/16/32, NTFS and NTFS 5 file systems. The program runs under Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003 and can recover files deleted by virus attacks, power failures and software faults. Easy-to-use Explorer-style disc content browser helps to find lost files and restore even a bunch of recursively deleted folders with one click.

Handy Recovery

Unstoppable Copier

The program will attempt to recover as much data as possible without giving up once an error is encountered. The program allows recursive copying of whole disks or simply a single file. This program isnt just for recovering damaged files it can be used for any copying. It is also useful for copying data when the copy process may be interupted at which stage you can simply use the resume function to continue.

Unstoppable Copier

FreeUndelete

In case of accidental deletion of files on a NTFS file system (used by default in Windows XP, 2000 and NT) FreeUndelete is the utility to help. It is our pleasure to emphasize that FreeUndelete is free. There is no charge, direct or hidden, to download and use a fully functional copy of the program. The program does not install any spyware or adware along with it. It does not populate user's desktop with pop-up ads or forcefully subscribe user to mailing lists.

FreeUndelete

eDATA Unerase PE

Simply use eDATA Unerase to restore your lost files in 3 wizard steps even if they have been deleted by a virus attack, emptied from the Recycle Bin, lost due to the format of a hard drive or system crash. No special skills are required.

eDATA Unerase PE

PC Inspector File Recovery

It recovers files with the original time and date stamp, even when a header entry is no longer available. It also supports the saving of recovered files on network drives. The '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.

PC Inspector File Recovery

DataRecovery

DataRecovery is freeware and written by TOKIWA to undelete accidentally deleted files even from recycle bin. But DataRecovery doesn't assure that all files deleted can be recovered successfully.

DataRecovery

PhotoRec

PhotoRec is file data recovery software designed to recover lost pictures (Photo Recovery) from digital camera memory and lost files including video, documents and archives from Hard Disks and CDRom. PhotoRec ignores the filesystem and goes after the underlying data, so it'll work even if your media's filesystem is severely damaged or formatted. PhotoRec is safe to use, it will never attempt to write to the drive or memory support you are about to recover from. Recovered files are instead written in the directory from where you are running the PhotoRec program.

PhotoRec

Encopy

This utility is designed for data rescue from damaged media when standard system copy fail, freeze and or reject medium. This software try rescue data from media like these and even in some cases of serious damage might restore data. It is not possible to rescue everything perfectly, but in most cases this way might be useful.

Encopy

SoftPerfect File Recovery

SoftPerfect File Recovery is a free and useful tool to restore accidentally deleted files from hard and floppy disks, USB flash drives, CF and SD cards and other storage media. It supports the popular file systems such as FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS and NTFS5 with compression and encryption.

SoftPerfect File Recovery

NT File Recovery

NT File Recovery is a quick and effective solution to restore accidentally deleted files from NTFS file system. The software supports recovering all types of files like documents, applications, media files etc. NT File Recovery can be installed on and run from flash drive (USB), so that the risk of overwriting your data is minimized.

NT File Recovery