Diagnostics and Data Recovery Category

MozBackup is a Free tool that can be used to backup Firefox and Thunderbird profiles. It allows a user to backup and restore bookmarks, contacts, e-mail, history, addons and extensions, cache and much more. MozBackup also allows a user to restore these profile backups. This backup tool makes it easy to move your Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird Porfiles and related information across multiple PC's. This application requires roughly 1.26MB of free space for completely portable stand alone installation.

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PC Inspector is a portable file recovery program that supports reading both FAT and NTFS file systems. PC Inspector can find partitions and files within, even if the boot sector has been erased or damaged. You can then recover files using the original time and date stamp. PC Inspector even allows it's user to save recovered files on network drives. This tool can also recover files, even if a header entry is no longer available. Most other recovery utilities cannot recover these files.

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PhotRec is a portable software data recovery utility that can be used to recover files including video (hence the PhotoRec name), documents and archived files from hard disks, removable storage devices and even CD Roms. It can recognize the header formats of supported file types and works even if the filesystem is severely damaged or has been formatted. PhotoRec requires roughly 5.71MB for complete portable installation.

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DriverBackup is a nice driver backup tool that allows a user to create a backup of his or her hardware driver files. DriverBackup preserves drivers of your hardware peripherals by saving them into a user specified location. You can then quickly reinstall your system hardware drivers if need be from the saved location. This tool uses 212KB of disk space once extracted making it ideal for portable usage.

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Data Recovery is software that allows you to easily recover lost and accidentally deleted files. It can even recover files that have been deleted from the recycle bin. Data Recovery supports FAT, FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS recovery including some compressed and encrypted files. The complete applications is less than 500k extracted, so it will fit on even the tiniest of USB thumb drives.

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CCleaner is a (System Cleaner) system optimization and privacy tool that can help speed up Windows and free up valuable hard disk space. It can remove unused files from your system and further clean all traces of your personal online activities like your Internet browsing history, typed urls, cookies, index, dat files and much more. Best of all, it's portable so you can bring it with you on a USB flash drive or other portable device.

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EasyCleaner is a tool that can be used to remove and delete old Windows temp, backup files and registry entries that are no longer being used by your computer. It can also be used to clear internet history, remove invalid shortcuts, add or remove software or manage startup programs. EasyCleaner is easy to navigate and use via a nice simple graphical interface and can be run portably from a USB flash device.

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Restoration is a tiny yet simple portable utility that allows it's user to restore or recover files that have been removed from Windows or deleted from the recycle bin. Restoration can also be used to recover lost pictures and other misc files from portable media such as USB flash drives, hard drives and compact flash cards typically used by most digital camera's. Restoration contains "other" additional options that allow it's user to make the deleted data non-recoverable.

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DriverGrabber is a tiny Utility that allows you to create a backup of all your important third party Windows system drivers. This tool can be useful for anyone that might need to reformat or reinstall Windows but doesn't want to hunt down all of the necessary drivers at post install. DriverGrabber copies your computers third party system drivers to it's own "Drivers" directory, making a backup that is easy to retrieve later.

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IE PassView is a tiny, easy to use utility that enables a user to reveal any passwords that might be stored by the Internet Explorer Web Browser. IE PassView has the ability to reveal or view and recover saved HTTP dialog box passwords, FTP login passwords, and Auto Complete form field login passwords. This program can be stored and run directly from portable USB device and currently works with all Internet Explorer versions up to 7.0. It's a great tool for finding or recovering those passwords that may have been lost or forgotten.

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Undelete Plus is FREE portable file recovery software that allows it's user to retrieve accidentally deleted files. Even files removed from the Recycle Bin, network drive, compact flash card or portable drives. Undelete Plus will work with Windows 95, 98, Me, NT, 2000, XP and 2003 operating systems. It can be used to recover deleted files from NTFS/NTFS5, FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 partitions.

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HD Speed is a portable utility that can measure the burst speed or sustained data transfer rates of your CD-DVD roms, hard disks, and floppy drives. HD Speed presents this data via a nice clean and simple GUI. This application can be installed to and run directly from a portable device such as a USB flash pen drive.

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Recuva is a free file recovery tool that can be installed to and run directly from a portable USB device. Recuva enables the user to recover deleted files, including those deleted from a hard drive, flash card, mp3 player, recycle bin and more. After reviewing and using recuva, we highly value and strongly recommended adding this great tool to your portable collection.

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RockXP is a Freeware application that allows you to recover your Windows XP product key or activation code along with keys for other Microsoft products. This is very useful if you need to reinstall a microsoft product. Additionally, you can recover lost usernames and passwords, MSN logins, Internet connection parameters etc. It's a must have tool for your USB portable storage device. RockXP is under 770kb.

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