file tools
UUDWin – added 9/14/2005
UUDWin makes it easy to quickly extract binary files encoded in a variety of formats commonly used to send data through Email and the Internet. UUDWin supports UUENCODE, XXENCODE, BINHEX4, MIME BASE64, MIME Quoted-Printable, MIME Text/Plain and the new yEncode encoding formats. It’s the easiest to use, most forgiving message decoder available for the Windows platform! No sorting, formatting or other processing of messages is required. UUDWin does it all for you. It supports drag & drop and the clipboard. (kind of old, but looks useful…)
FileCompare – added 8/14/2005
FileCompare compares two folders of files in binary (recursive) to see if they are identical and then gets rid of duplicate files.
DupBlock – added 8/9/2005
DupBlock generates blocks of text that are alike except for one or more sequenced variables. You supply the default text section to be repeated and specify variable names in the positions where a variable is to be used. You then define the variables, which can be counter or list variables. Specify the number of iterations to perform and then generate the duplication. Depending on your needs this may be faster than copy/pasting text manually in a text editor and then doing tedious manual edits.
FileStructureToHTML – added 3/5/2005
FileStructureToHTML literally creates an .html file of your selected drive or a specific directory. You can select the colors for the entire file, including the background, text, and links.
DustBuster – added 1/25/2005
Garbage file removing utility for Microsoft Windows operating systems, it searches for junk files and temp files that are of no use and are just taking space on your hard drive.
WhoLockMe – added 12/17/2004
WhoLockMe, a little extension for your Microsoft Explorer, permits you to list all the processes locking your selected file!
Duper – added 12/10/2004
Duper scans directories for identical files, allows you to easily locate and delete duplicates wasting hard disk space. Duper requires a recent (1.4 or newer) Java install
Hjsplit File Splitter – added 06/09/2004
HJSplit is a popular set of file-splitting programs created by Freebyte! in collaboration with various programmers. HJSplit supports many platforms (Windows 3.x/95/98/ME/2000/NT/XP, DOS, Amiga, Java, etc.). All versions are compatible with each other and allow you to exchange files between these different platforms.
ComponentSoftware Diff – added 1/1/2005
ComponentSoftware Diff (CSDiff) works as an advanced file-difference analysis tool for Microsoft Windows.
TaskTracker – added 3/11/2004
TaskTracker automatically tracks various types of documents, including images, MP3 files, zip files and more. It works similar to the Windows Recent Documents feature, but keeps a categorized overview of files and folders that you have recently used, making it easier to find a particular item.
File Bolter – added 12/5/2003
File Bolter – the smart file search utility provides an intuitive graphical tool to analyze file content. Plugins are supported. Graphic file search plugin is included as an example.
Rename4U – added 1/13/2004
Rename4u works as a powerful and easy to use program for renaming files. It allows you to rename any number of files, using various methods, including search/replace,renumbering, prefixes/suffixes, permissions, etc. The program also offers a test mode, which allows you to preview most operations before actually renaming the files.