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Recover Files from Corrupted/Damaged CD/DVD/HD DVD/Blu-Ray disks with CD Recovery Freeware: CD Recovery Toolbox

CD, DVD, HD DVD and Blu-Ray disks won’t last forever in good condition. Sometimes, you may get it damaged or corrupted so that you cannot copy some of the files to your computer. Imagine if a corrupted DVD contains, let’s say, your family pictures or perhaps some important data that you need to get back into your computer. If this happens, before you fall into despair, try some CD/DVD recovery software to recover the files. There are lots of CD/DVD recovery freeware out there for a start. More »

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Convert Excel Files to Images

Office Convert Excel to Image is a free software that enables you to convert Excel sheets or graphs to images. Any text, graphics, or any other items within your Excel files will be converted just the way they are. Though the free version lacks of some of good features like watermarking the conversion result, the free features are good enough if you simply want to convert Excel files to pictures.

Features of Office Convert Excel to Image:

• Supported Excel file formats: XLS, XLSX, XLSM.
• Supported image formats: JPG, BMP, PNG, GIF, TIFF, TGA, RLE, WMF, EMF.
• Support drag and drop files.
• Convert multiple Excel files at once.
• Save the list of the files in the queu so you can load the list every time you want to do the same files conversion.
• Add files or an entire folder to the conversion list.
• Optionally display error information should it happen during the conversion.
• Open the folder of the conversion results so you can instantly know how good the results are.
• Support Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista (x64) platforms.

The disadvantage of this free version is that a nag screen welcomes you whenever you open and close it.

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Free AVI to MP4 Converter for Windows

AVI to MP4 Converter is a freeware that lets you convert AVI video to MP4 video format file, supporting AVI, DivX, Xvid, WMA, MOV, H.264, MPEG1/MPEG2 video formats. As you can see from the screenshot below, there is no such complicated thing around in converting. There is no need to worry about encoders and decoders either. The video quality of the converted MP4 video file has the same quality as the quality of the source (AVI) as well as the height and width.

AVI to MP4 Converter works for Windows Vista, Windows XP, 2000, 2003 Server and Windows 98.

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Download Windows 7 Taskbar for Windows XP

One of the changes in Windows 7 Taskbar, compared to Windows XP or Vista, is the iconized taskbar. If you open a progam or folder in previous Windows versions like XP, the name of it is displayed on the button within the taskbar. In Windows 7 taskbar, the name is no longer displayed. There is only the icon of the opened program.

Windows 7 Taskbar Iconizer is a program that replaces Windows XP taskbar with Windows 7 taskbar. Hence, whenever you open a program, you’ll see only the icon on the taskbar. The look is just like the icons you put in the Quick Launch bar. The benefit is obvious; the taskbar has more space.

Windows 7 Taskbar Iconizer is portable, but you need to restart Windows to apply the changes you make to the taskbar. If you don’t like the result, you can revert the changes using the same program.

Windows 7 Taskbar Iconizer

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Shortcut Key to Create New Folder

This free add-on, bxNewFolder, lets you use a shortcut key to create a new folder within Windows explorer. Optionally, it adds a “New Folder” button to the toolbar of Windows explorer. If pressing F12 isn’t the fastest way to create new folder in certain situations, then clicking on the button will do the same thing.

Once you press the shortcut key or clicking on the button, a small window pops up. Enter the name of the folder into the provided space and click the “Ok” button to instantly create a new folder. If you hold down the Shift key while you click the “Ok” button, the new folder will be opened immediately after it is created.

No more crawling to the context menu again to access the option to create new folder. With a click on a button or shortcut key, you can instantly create a new folder. bxNewFolder works on Windows XP, 2000, 98, ME, NT.

bxNewFolder (Scroll down to the middle of the page to find the download link)

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Capitalize, Lowercase, Uppercase Many File/Folder Names at Once in Windows Explorer Through Context Menu

CopyAs is a free add-on for Windows explorer that enables you to capitalize, lowercase or uppercase many file/folder names at once through right-click menu. After installing, highlight or select all the files or folders that you want to change the names, choose “CopyAs Plus” and select one of the rename options.

To capitalize file/folder names, select “New Name.new extension”.
To uppercase file/folder names, select “NEW NAME.NEW EXTENSION”.
To lowercase file/folder names, select “new name.new extension”.

In addition, you can change the time stamp of many files at once, copy file names to clipboard (with full path or not), launch command prompt from current folder and rename file series.

CopyAs

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