Gmail Backup is a free program that allows you to backup your Gmail account and store it on your local computer. You can download all email messages stored on your computer or local. EML files. Out Gmail accounts contain a lot of important mail so it is essential to have a backup of our mail. The program can e-mail security for a specific date range or higher only.

The program has a simple and easy to use interface. Just enter your details, password, the folder in which to store the backup and the date range and click a button. For this to work, you must enable IMAP in your Gmail account. The messages are downloaded and the name of the sender’s subject line, and date stamp so that it becomes easier to find locally. execution of the command line is also available if you want to make automated backups. It also allows the restoration of their Gmail accounts.

The program is a big step for a solution to make a backup of your Gmail accounts. This program is free and runs on Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7.

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TrayStatus is a freeware which shows the status of the Num lock, Caps lock  and scroll lock keys in the taskbar notification area. If you use a notebook or you have a keyboard without an indicator light for the caps lock or num lock keys, this program is just for you.

Apart from the status of the keys, the program also shows the current read/write hard disk activity. The current read/write speed is also shown as a tooltip when you move your mouse over the icon. The program displays 4 separate icons in the notification area. You can also enable or disable the icons based on the preferences that you like.

The program is a freeware and works on Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7.

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Hit the delete button or clear the Recycle Bin does not actually delete files from your computer, it just removes the file reference the file system table. They may be easily recovered using any program of recovery. This can sometimes pose serious privacy issues if you’re selling your hard drive or your PC. Here is a list of some free programs that you can use to permanently delete files from your harddrive so you can not be recovered again.

1) Eraser

Eraser is an advanced security tool for Windows that can completely remove sensitive data from your computer, overwriting it several times with selected patterns. You can create a task and have it published in time point. You can even select the file and free the space suppression methods. It has a simple interface.

2) Freeraser

3) File Shredder

File Shredder lets you choose between 5 different fragmentation algorithms for erasing data. It also contains an integrated disk cleaner can clean unused disk space. It has a simple interface where you can add files and folders you want to delete.

4) Disk Redactor

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Clean Startup as its name suggests is a free computer desking program that can manage the programs that start automatically when you start the PC. Every time you turn on your computer, you will notice that many of the programs start automatically. While some may be useful, some may be useless may be taking the system resources, while delaying the start time. Clean Startup presents a very simple interface that helps you manage which programs to add to your startup list.

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AllDup is a free program that enables you to find duplicate files on your PC. The program has a lot of options that let you find matches file size, name, date, attributes, created date and even the comparison byte by byte. You can search through multiple folders or drives. The program implements a fast algorithm and the results are very fast.

After selecting the folders to scan, simply press the scan button and the program finds and displays the results. The results are shown in the group and they also give you more information as the file name, location, size, etc. You can select the files you want to delete or you can follow the filter by using the intelligent selection can select the files on the basis that the places or dates. There are several things you can do with duplicate files. You can remove, move or copy to a new location or even change the name. While searching for mp3 files, you can choose to ignore the mp3 tags.

The program includes a viewer that lets you preview a wide variety of files. You can save search results or return later, or you can export results to text or csv. Duplicate files can be converted into hard links and shortcuts. You can search using a variety of filter masks. So if you have lots of music, videos and photos on your computer, there are plenty of possibilities that will be a lot of duplicates in them. With this tool, you can find duplicates and remove them quickly enough to free hard disk space.

The program is freeware and runs on Windows 2000/XP/Vista and Windows 7. A portable version of the application is also available.

GetFolderSize is a free utility that can be used to analyze the disk space on your hard disk. The program will scan your hard drive, USB drives, folders, etc and show you a detailed report about which folder is taking the amount of space. People who have multiple hard drives and often forget what they have been copied here and there they are certainly going to benefit.

In implementing the program, just select the drive or folder you want to scan and click the button ‘Scan’. Then, scan the drive and present you with a detailed report that shows each folder size, percentage of disk space in the folder you are using, the number of files / folders within the unit, etc. The program has a lot of customizable options. You can expand all the folders for more detailed information using the click of a button. You can see the size of the folder or disk in bytes, KB, MB or GB. You can even use it to find a file, and even delete files or send them to the recycle bin if you wish. The program also integrates with the context menu and you can directly call the program from the Explorer context menu. The report generated can be printed or can be exported to text or csv.

The interface may seem a bit complicated at first but if you want to know quickly what programs are taking up too much space on your computer, give this a shot. The program is freeware and runs on Windows 7, Windows Vista, and XP. A portable version of the program is also available.