Freeware Pharmacy

One day, you'll turn on your computer and hear a click-click-click, and then panic will set in when you realize your treasured pictures, music, and documents are lost. Hopefully your worries will subside when you remember you've backed up your data regularly, and you're only facing the minor annoyance of a restore.

Over the course of a computer's life, leftover "junk" files and registry entries are left scattered around the disk. Windows has the Disk Cleanup tool to remedy some of these situations, but not nearly all or enough - that's why cleanup tools were created. CCleaner is the most established, complete, and safe of the bunch.

If you have sensitive data or information stored on your hard drive, you need TrueCrypt. TrueCrypt provides amazingly free (open-source) and simple secure disk encryption, protecting your valuable files or your entire drive from unauthorized access.

Most people think that once you empty the Recycle Bin, you've deleted those files forever. In actuality, this doesn't have to be the final goodbye for your files. Obviously you should avoid deleting files you need, but accidents happen from time to time. And when they do, Recuva is right there to get those files back.

Everything is a fast, lightweight, and efficient disk search utility for Windows. It's goal is to give you instant access to all the files on your drive, with the touch of a key. And because of its small footprint and focused developers, Everything outperforms all other search/indexing tools.

Contrary to popular belief, synchronization (sync) and backup are not the same - sync is just a popular backup method. Backup is a broad and complex genre (well handled by SyncBack), but sync is a pretty simple concept - it's just keeping two or more identical sets of files in different locations. No app handles sync with more sophistication than FreeFileSync.