Comodo Backup [No Longer Available] is an excellent backup utility from the creators of Comodo Firewall. It's free, easy to use and have everything you might need. You can easily backup your local files and folders to anywhere on your computer, network, DVD / CD or even FTP server. Plus it can be set to run automatically on specified time interv

Here is the place where you can change exactly what Search indexes and when it indexes. You can also rebuild it from scratch, something I would recommend every 2 - 3 months. Without this, old files that no longer exist will hang around in the index messing up your searches and slowing it down. You'll find Windows Search 4.0 will rebuild your index much more rapidly then previous versi

The program can run on all Java-supported systems. If you're on Windows, simply download the installer and run it. The installation is automatic. For OS's other than Windows, download the file, unzip it, and run the executable jar f

Comodo has different backup modes: copy, move and synchronization. So apart from simply copying/moving the files from one place to another you can set Comodo to keep source and backup copy synchronized. That is to say, whenever you make some changes to the original files the changes will be replicated on your backup c

The above tools are handy for running hard drive backups to another partition, external drives or your own FTP server. However if you want to backup only a handful of files and store them on reliable third party servers then you can try a free online backup service called Mozy . It's quick to configure, fully automated and available both for Mac and Windows PCs. The only problem is that the free account gives you only 2 GB of storage space. See all Mozy features h

I hope this helps you get the most accurate search results as quickly as possible. Some of it's pretty basic I know, but in part two I will be going through how to search using filters, saved searches and virtual folders which will make your organisation a whole lot eas

A lightweight software at 477KB, Sofonesia Folder Protector requires .Net Framework to function. Beyond that, hiding the folders is a cinch. Just add multiple files to the protected folder's list and click. The software also does not encrypt the contents, it only hides the folder. Folder Protector also works in the Safe Mode. Password protection also has a failsafe in a "˜Forget password' hint quest

To set up Firefox to use the dynamic tunnel as a SOCKS proxy, go to the Firefox Options >Advanced >Network and click the Settings"¦ button. In the settings page, click Manual proxy configuration , enter localhost for the SOCKS Host , and 1080 for the Po

SyncBack - We have already covered the SyncBack backup tool earlier, but basically, it's another backup software. Although the app has both free and paid versions, the free one has enough features for running local back

An even better alternative is DropBox , however since it's still in beta, you will have to wait for the next round of invites before you can get in. With DropBox you're also able to access your files from other PCs, keep them synchronized across multiple computers and even keep a detailed log of all changes made to the file and restore it to an earlier version. Quite useful for people who work from multiple locati

With a bit of discipline you can have the flood of eMails that are arriving in your inbox each and every day nicely sorted within minutes and you'll never again miss an important message that reaches your inbox totally unfilte

With Vista there is no new features or changes to the User Interface but the Windows indexing technology will be working significantly faster . (If you are using XP then you will see a whole new search interface, and I would suggest you download this update if you haven't alrea

The free version of Cryptainer though only allows for 25MB of "˜vault' space per disk volume. So if you are looking to hide larger files, this isn't the answer.The free version is available for Windows gaming news|https://windowsmastery.Com/ 2000, XP, 2003, Vista from he

Next, let's set up the local tunnel for the computer on the network running Windows Remote Desktop. Let's say the local IP addresses on the LAN where the SSH server resides are 192.168.1.xxx addresses. The Windows machine has a local IP of 192.168.1.100. Enter 3390 for the Source port , 192.168.1.100:3389 for the Destination , select Local for the port type, and then click the Add button. You'll see later why I've configured the source port to be different than the destinat

For simplicity - yes. For encryption - no. The application allows you to assign a password to a single LockBox folder. If you want to handle multiple files or folders, you have to pull everything into a master folder and lock it. The locked folder disappears from view and cannot be accessed by anyone without the password. The folder according to the developer's website is also not accessible remotely, through DOS or the safe m