Quicksys RegDefrag is a freeware registry defragmentation program. Its interface is clean and simple.

Changes in Quicksys RegDefrag 2.1:

• Improved Unicode characters support.
• Improved Windows Service Pack detection at Registry Information.
• Addew new parameter (-REMOVETEMP) to remove older temp files.
• Fixed memory leak at -REMOVEBACKUPS parameter.
• Fixed memory leak at new version check.
• Added new languages: Greek and Croatian.
• Updated languages: French and Italian.
• GUI improvements.
• Minor bugs fixed.

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Deluge is a great freeware BitTorrent client. It is open source and has plugins capabilities.

Lates changes:

• Fix issue where torrents will not be properly added to the session

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Making images of hard drives is a useful way of having backup copies of all your information, including your entire operative system.

For many years, only a few companies made this kind of programs and they were expensive. But now, there are some free alternatives that make this possible without spending any money. Besides, they are pushing commercial products to lower its prices because of the new competition.

The industry is lead by two applications, Acronis True Image and Norton Ghost. These two are great and include an impressive array of options that many of the free applications don’t have. But most users won’t use them anyway.

DriveImage XML

The first application i want to talk you about is DriveImage XML, from Runtime Software.

Official description:

DriveImage XML is an easy to use and reliable program for imaging and backing up partitions and logical drives.

The program allows you to:

• Backup logical drives and partitions to image files
• Browse these images, view and extract files
• Restore these images to the same or a different drive
• Copy directly from drive to drive
• Schedule automatic backups with Windows Task Scheduler

Macrium Reflect Free

The second one is Macrium Reflect Free.

Official description:

• Create a disk image whilst running Windows using Microsoft Volume Shadow copy Service (VSS).
• Image to Network, USB, FireWire drives and DVD.
• Built in scheduler.
• 32 bit and native 64 bit versions.
• Industry leading compression levels and speed.
• Linux based Rescue CD with Network access and full GUI. Only 6.5MB in size!
• Built in CD/DVD packet writing engine. Supports packet writing to DVD DL media with Windows Vista.
• HTML log files.

No Excuses

There are free tools to make those important backup disk images. It is up to you which one to choose.

Personally, i liked Macrium Reflect Free feature set.

Last week Microsoft launched its Wave 3 of Windows Live services and applications.

You can download the web installer which only installs and downloads the applications you select or the full installer for offline setups.

Here are the links to both releases in many languages:

English Web Full

Italian Web Full

German Web Full

French Web Full

Spanish Web Full

Arabian Web Full

Danish Web Full

Dutch Web Full

Finnish Web Full

Japanese Web Full

Korean Web Full

Norwegian Web Full

Swedish Web Full

Defraggler is freeware defragmentation program.

You can defragment individual files as well as entire hard drives.

Latest changes:

• Fixed drive list bug.
• Added support for multiple languages.
• New options dialog.
• Added scheduler.
• Fixed display of labels for removable drives.
• Added support for tabbing between sections.
• Loads of performance improvements.
• Minor bug fixes.

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BooZet Double Driver is a very simple and useful tool which not only allows you to view all the drivers installed on your system but also allows you to backup, restore, save and print all chosen drivers.

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doPDF if a PDF printer utility that allows you to make PDF files from any application that supports printing.

doPDF 6.1.276 was released today.

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OpenOffice is an open-source office suite that includes alternatives to all Microsoft Office programs, like an spreadsheet, word processor, slide presentation program and other modules.

It lets you save your work as PDF, Office formats, and the native OpenOffice files.

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