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 Note: PC User provides these programs on an as is basis, and they should be used with extreme care. While they have all worked fine in testing, we cannot promise that they will work as expected on all systems. In rare cases they may even cause some damage.
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| FreeMem Professional URL: www.hotfiles.com Registered price: $25 Rating:  When you close down your applications, DLLs tend to stay in memory, leaving less memory for Windows 95 to use. This forces use of the swap file and consequent performance slow-downs. FreeMem works either automatically or manually, ensuring that when you close down an application, all associated files are closed as well. You can set FreeMem to free up RAM when it falls below a point you've chosen. FreeMem can also automatically free up memory which is allocated through programming errors in applications, loaded by large DLLs, held in the cache, as well as memory which is used by background processes.
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| Mini Clipboard URL: www.winfiles.com Registered price: $25 Rating: Mini Clipboard is a clipboard enhancer you'll want if you do a lot of online work. Not only does it have the usual clip features -- a number of clipboards, save to file etc -- but it includes great Internet functionality. Its Internet buttons let you automatically browse, e-mail, FTP or Telnet to sites using your default Internet software. The Internet buttons are simple to use. For example, the 'Browse' button searches the selected clip box for the first 'http' or 'www' address and opens it.
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| Visual Copy URL: www.hotfiles.com Registered price: $35 Rating: Visual Copy allows you to safely copy or move files on your PC. The many features include overwriting certain, all, or no files; including/excluding files and more. You can copy directories only or include subdirectories. In addition, all files within a directory can be copied or you can use a file filter. A display of files which have been considered, skipped, copied and overwritten is shown on the main screen.
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 Visual Copy is a file management utility to copy or move files. |
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| Thunderbyte
8.05a Registered price: $POA From: Thunderbyte Australia (07) 3204 5000, http://www.thunderbyte.com Rating: From our experience, one of the most reliable virus scanners around. Thunderbyte will detect all known viruses, plus guard against new and unknown viruses. For full protection and virus cleaning capabilities you will need to register, but the shareware version will alert you to any virus you may have and offer several options to getting rid of it.
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| PaintShop
Pro 5 Registered price: $110 From: Communique (02) 9622 5624, http://www.comm-unique.com.au/ Rating: PaintShop Pro has always been our favourite graphic file viewer and converter, but in this latest version, this shareware program is now a comprehensive graphics package. As well as providing a Browse utility for managing graphics files, it lets you create and save graphics in the GIF and JPG formats common on the Web. It also provides image manipulation tools that'll let you grab an image and edit it to your heart's content.
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| WinZip (32-bit) URL: http://www.winzip.com Registered price: $45 Rating:  WinZip is the de facto standard in handling Windows archiving, and if effective archive management is important to you, you need this program. In this latest version, you can choose between the standard interface and the compression wizard, for those who are new to handling archiving.
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| NTFSDOS URL: http://www.ntinternals.com/ntfs20.htm. Freeware NTFSDOS version 2.0R+ gives DOS x-ray eyes. Its core program, ntfsdos.exe, searches out all your NTFS drives, mounts them (assigns a drive letter) and makes them look like standard FAT drives. The only downside is that the x-rayed NTFS drives are read-only. In Windows 95, NTFSDOS uses companion device driver ntfshlp.vxd to display long filenames for an NTFS partition. To ensure NTFSDOS can find the driver, it's best to have ntfshlp.vxd and ntfsdos.exe in the same folder. NTFSDOS needs DOS 5.0 or later and about 125Kb of conventional RAM, and is available from http://www.ntinternals.com/ntfs20.htm.
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 The NTFS partition (drive E:) isn't visible from DOS until after ntfsdos.exe is run. The directory listing for Windows 95 DOS shown gives both long and short filenames.
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| Thunderbyte
8.05a Registered price: $POA From: Thunderbyte Australia (07) 3204 5000, http://www.thunderbyte.com Rating: From our experience, one of the most reliable virus scanners around. Thunderbyte will detect all known viruses, plus guard against new and unknown viruses. For full protection and virus cleaning capabilities you will need to register, but the shareware version will alert you to any virus you may have and offer several options to getting rid of it.
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| WinZip (16-bit) URL: http://www.winzip.com Registered price: $45 Rating: WinZip is the de facto standard in handling Windows archiving, and if effective archive management is important to you, you need this program. In this latest version, you can choose between the standard interface and the compression wizard, for those who are new to handling archiving.
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