David's Freeware Collection!

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition (SQL Server Express) is a powerful and reliable data management product that delivers rich features, data protection, and performance for embedded application clients, light Web applications, and local data stores. Designed for easy deployment and rapid prototyping, SQL Server Express is available at no cost, and you are free to redistribute it with applications.



Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition

Macrium Reflect Free is easy to use and a fast way to create a disk image. Use it to return your PC to the exact state it had been in at the moment a disk image was created, thus saving maybe a day's work reinstalling and configuring all the programs.



Macrium Reflect Free

SyncBack is a flexible, and quite powerful backup and synchronization program that allows to to maintain backup copies of your files and folder, or to synchronize them, so that both locations always have a complete copy (e.g Laptop/PC). It offers different types of actions that let you choose how older and newer files are processed, which files should be excluded (by mask) and more.



SyncBack

7-Zip is an open source file archiver designed originally for Microsoft Windows. 7-Zip operates with the 7z archive format, and can read and write to several other archive formats.



7-Zip

IZArc is a very good free archive utility, works with almost any archive file format and it also converts various CD image file formats to ISO.



IZArc

TUGZip is a powerful award-winning freeware archiving utility for Windows that provides support for a wide range of compressed, encoded and disc-image files, as well as very powerful features, all through an easy to use application interface.



TUGZip

ZipGenius is a powerful zip tool that offers support for more than 20 different compression formats, including 7zip, ZIP64, UPX and many others.



ZipGenius

TeraCopy is a tiny freeware program that copies your files faster than Windows Explorer. It integrates in the shell and it’s very easy to use.



TeraCopy

FreeCommander is a very good alternative to the standard Windows file manager.



FreeCommander

If you can get used to the multi-pane crazines, Q-Dir is an awesome tool for manually managing your files and folders.



Q-Dir

xplorer² lite offers more functionality than Windows Explorer, but with an interface sufficiently similar to Explorer that most users will find it easy to learn and use.



xplorer² lite

ReNamer is a very easy to use drag and drop file renamer. It offers all the standard renaming procedures: prefixes, suffixes, replacements, case changes. Other features include removing contents of brackets, adding number sequences and changing file extensions.



ReNamer

Rename Master is a utility for renaming large groups of files with a few clicks. Anyone that has worked with websites, file archives, or collections of music, videos, or pictures has probably spent way too much time renaming hundreds of files. The program provides an easy to use interface that allows you to perform simple and advanced rename operations, very easily. You can even preview the to-be-renamed file names before you finalize it and apply any changes.



Rename Master

Everything does what you really want when you hit “Search” in Windows. It’s really tiny, doesn’t need to be installed if you don’t want, and searches for files across your system with the speed of a jackrabbit gone rogue on old-school cold medicine.



Everything

EASEUS Partition Master has an intuitive and user-friendly interface. It's features include resize, move, copy, create, delete, hide, unhide, convert, explore and format partitions with a single step.



EASEUS Partition Master

Process Tamer is a great tiny freeware tool that allows you to control the processes that are running in your system.



Process Tamer

System Scheduler is an alternative to the Windows Task Scheduler, with more features and flexibility.



System Scheduler

RegSeeker is a handy tool for managing several popular registry items and searching the registry by keyword. The program also includes a registry cleaning feature that finds invalid and unused registry entries, allowing you to delete them. RegSeeker can automatically create a backup before deleting any registry entries. The program comes with an attractive, easy to use interface. Nevertheless it is not intended for complete beginners and you should feel comfortable working with the Windows registry before using it.



RegSeeker

ERUNT (Emergency Recovery Utility NT) allows you to keep a complete backup of your registry and restore it when needed. The standard registry backup options that come with Windows back up most of the registry but not all of it. ERUNT however creates a complete backup set, including the Security hive and user related sections. ERUNT is easy to use and since it creates a full backup, there are no options or choices other than to select the location of the backup files.



ERUNT

NTRegOpt is a registry compactor that improves system performance by compacting the registry, removing any slack space that may be left from previously modified or deleted keys. The program does not modify any registry entries, so it is safe to use.



NTRegOpt

Autoruns shows you what programs are configured to run during system bootup or login, and shows you the entries in the order Windows processes them. (This is another Microsoft freebie. It amazes me how they charge through the nose for crappy software, and release the few gems in their arsenal for free,)



Autoruns

Starter is a startup manager, that allows you to view and manage all the programs that are starting automatically whenever Windows boots. It lists all the hidden registry entries, as well as the common Startup Folder items as well. You can choose to safely disable selected entries, edit them or delete them altogether (if you know what you re doing). Expert users can also add their own entries.



Starter

Unlocker is a Windows Explorer extension allowing you with a simple right-click on a file or folder to get rid of error messages such as 'error deleting file or folder', 'cannot delete folder: it's being used by another person or program'. Simply right click the folder or file and select Unlocker. If the folder or file is locked, a window listing of lockers will appear. Select the lockers and click Unlock and you are done.



Unlocker

SIW is a great free system information tool that provides info about the components and software environment in your computer. Other interesting extra features include network bandwidth monitoring and password manager.



SIW