FC Portables: April 2011

Portable Blaze Video Magic Pro 5.0.0.0

Blaze Video Magic is a powerful but easy to use utility for multimedia file conversion. Expanding your multimedia entertainment, Blaze Video Magic realizes you to freely access and enjoy video, music, photo on PC, MP3 player, portable MPEG4 device, PS game player or 3G smart phone. Possessing Blaze Video Magic, you will have a wonderful and extensive digital entertainment life.

Easy CD-DA Extractor aka "Swiss Army Knife Of Digital Audio" is ALL-IN-ONE software that copies Audio CDs, converts audio files from one format to another, edits metadata of audio files and can burn Audio CD, MP3 CD & DVD, and Data CD & DVD. Easy CD-DA Extractor supports all popular audio file formats such as 3G2, 3GP, MP1, MP2, MP3, Windows Media Audio (WMA), Ogg Vorbis (OGG), MP4, M4A (AAC and Apple Lossless), AAC, aacPlus (HE-AAC, AAC+, HE-AAC+PS, eAAC+), FLAC, Musepack (MPC), WavPack (WV), WAV, AIFF, Monkey's Audio (APE), CUE and M3U.

SmartWhois is a useful network information utility that allows you to look up all the available information about an IP address, hostname or domain, including country, state or province, city, name of the network provider, administrator and technical support contact information. It helps you find answers to these important questions: Who is the owner of the domain? When was the domain registered and what is the owner's contact information? Who is the owner of the IP address block?

Almeza MultiSet - Leader in Unattended Installation of Windows and Software! Want to create a WindowsXP installation disk that will automatically install the OS Windows without asking questions about username, product key, time and locale settings? At the same time your favorite applications are automatically installed, the necessary keys are entered into the registry, drivers are updated, new patches (service packs) from Microsoft are installed. It's possible and you can do it easily with Almeza MultiSet! Almeza MultiSet will automatically install all the applications you require, either onto your original computer or onto a new one. It's an ideal solution for rebuilding your systems quickly!

Registry Winner™ claims to be the most advanced technology in pc diagnosis and repair. It can do a complete scan of the pc errors such as system slowdown, freezing, crashing and deadlock. Safely optimize the speed of system and set your PC in a fantastic performance! Registry Winner™ is a top-ranking error-resolution technology which will fix the computer errors and optimize the system speed. Various annoying problems will gradually appear like slow speed, crashing or freezing, blue screen, deadlock, error messages etc. after your computer being used for a period of time.

Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom™ software is the professional photographer's essential toolbox, providing one easy application for managing, adjusting, and presenting large volumes of digital photographs so you can spend less time in front of the computer and more time behind the lens. So you can spend less time sorting and refining photographs, and more time actually shooting them. Its clean, elegant interface literally steps out of the way and lets you quickly view and work with the images you shot today, as well as the thousands of images that you will shoot over the course of your career. Because no two photographers work alike, Adobe Lightroom adapts to your workflow, not the other way around.

O&O PartitionManager is similar in design to the familiar Windows DiskManager, but provides a number of advanced options such as changing the size of a drive, or moving it from one place to another.

What makes it even more unique is the integration of O&O SafeErase, our multiple award winning tool for deleting data securely. This is something that comes in very handy when you no longer need a certain partition and wish to free the space it's taking up on the disk.

O&O PartitionManager will enable you to easily administer all your hard drive partitions easily!

Avidemux is a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. Tasks can be automated using projects, job queue and powerful scripting capabilities. It supports most video formats like DVD, VOB, AVI, DivX, XviD, WMV, MPG, MP4, AVI, MOV, MKV, DV, FLV.

VirtualDub is a video capture/processing utility for Windows platforms. It is streamlined for fast linear operations over video. It has batch-processing capabilities for processing large numbers of files and can be extended with third-party video filters. VirtualDub is mainly geared toward processing AVI files. Also built-in capturing and video frameserving.

ConvertXtoDVD, video conversion software, you can convert and burn all your videos and convert Avi to DVD! Backup and transfer your movies to DVD and enjoy watching them on any home DVD player. All in one conversion and burning software. This award-winning divx to dvd video converter software supports most video and audio formats for video conversion (avi, mpg, mov, wmv, mkv, ogm and more) and even handles DVD to DVD copy! Backup and transfer your movies to DVD and enjoy watching them on any home DVD player.

Did you know your IP address is exposed every time you visit a website? Your IP address is your online identity and could be used by hackers to break into your computer, steal personal information, or commit other crimes against you. Auto Hide IP allows you to surf anonymously, change your IP address, prevent identity theft, and guard against hacker intrusions, all with the click of a button. Auto Hide IP is privacy-protection software which enables you to conceal your real IP address, surf anonymously, and automatically change your IP address every few minutes.

Manage iPhone, iPod without iTunes

Sick of iTunes? Looking for a faster, lighter and free alternative iPod, iPad, iPhone manager? CopyTrans Manager is the perfect iTunes alternative for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. Add music & videos to iPod, edit track tags and artworks, create and organize iPhone playlists, preview songs & videos with the integrated music player.
It has never been this simple!

Universal Viewer is an advanced file viewer with wide range of formats supported. Implemented view modes and corresponding file formats are:

Text, Binary, Hex, Unicode: any files, of unlimited size (even 4Gb+ sizes are allowed)
RTF, UTF-8: RTF and UTF-8 encoded texts
Image: all general graphics formats: BMP JPG GIF PNG TGA TIFF... plus all formats supported by IrfanView/XnView external viewers
Multimedia: all formats supported by MS Windows Media Player: AVI MPG WMV MP3...
Internet: all formats supported by MS Internet Explorer: HTML PDF XML MHT...
Plugins: all formats supported by Total Commander Lister plugins
MS Office: all file types of MS Office (if installed): DOC DOCX XLS PPT...
Converters: some types can be viewed as plain text: DOC DOCX PDF PPT ODT...

Hiren's BootCD - an indispensable tool used by many computer technicians and system administrators. At one bootable CD assembled dozens of the most popular programs and utilities for running DOS. This is a utility for working with hard drive, its recovery and diagnostic tools diagnosis of all the computer nodes, file managers, utilities for the network, as well as many others.

Now even faster, easier, more precise: CDRWIN 8 is concentrated and proven burning power for your CD-, DVD- and / or Blu-ray-writer with a diabolically new and modern interface, which offers the most important functions quickly and clearly arranged.

CDRWIN 8 is equipped with state-of-the-art technology providing those qualities, which already made the predecessors so successful: reliability, velocity, comprehensive functionality and a straightforwardness that directly leads to success.

Virtual Piano is a powerful simulation of various musical instruments. Apart from a regular piano, the program can also simulate over 600 other instruments and various sound effects! The user interface is extremely easy but powerful. If you don't understand some of the options, you don't even need to! Simply choose your favourite instrument from the box and start playing using your mouse, your computer's keyboard or any other external device...

MediaInfo supplies technical and tag information about a video or audio file. Supported formats: Video : MKV, OGM, MP4, AVI, MPG, VOB, MPEG1, MPEG2, MPEG4, DVD, WMV, ASF, DivX, XviD, MOV (Quicktime), SWF(Flash), FLV, FLI, RM/RMVB. Audio : OGG, MP3, WAV, RA, AC3, DTS, AAC, M4A, AU, AIFF, WMA.

Open DVD Ripper is a remarkable ripping tool which provides powerful functions and high quality applications. It can rip DVD files to different popular video formats including AVI, MKV, WMV, MPG, 3GP, MP4, FLV, SWF, MOV, TS, RM, ASF and audio formats such as MP3, M4A, WAV, AC3, MP2, AMR, FLAC, WMA, OGG, RA, AAC, AU, AIFF, etc. With Open DVD ripper, you can easily downsize DVD files with high ripping speed and without much loss of quality. It can also back up your important files on hard drive or any portable media for future use. Buy Open DVD ripper and enjoy the convenience of this multifunctional ripping software right away!

Open Blu-ray ripper is high-grade Blu-ray ripping and converting software. It gives you the freedom to convert latest Blu-ray movies to a great variety of audio and video formats and enjoy the movies on different devices, such as iPad, iPod, iPhone, AppleTV, PSP, PS3, XBOX360, Zune, Mobile Phone, GPhone, Smart Phone, PMP, Pocket PC, PDA, etc. Its new cutting-edge HST™ tech makes the conversion extraordinarily fast, 800% faster than ever. With Open Blu-ray ripper, you can enjoy the converted Blu-ray movies anytime anywhere!

EZ Video Cutter is an intuitive application that will allow you to edit, trim, merge and convert videos. Supported Video formats for CUT and JOIN as followings: asf, avi, flv, m4v, mp4, mkv, mov, mpg, mpeg, wmv. Video conversions will support all popular video formats. The Cutting tool can perform cutting video clips to the exact Start and End setting positions (not Keyframes) most of the time. The included DUAL video viewers would make setting for start and end positions extremely easy.

Multi-Boot Rescue Disk with latest release (16/04/2011) of the following antiviruses embedded:

AOSS PcTools
AVG Rescue CD
Avira Antivir Rescue System
BitDefender
Dr.Web LiveCD
eScan
F-Secure
GDATA
Kaspersky KAV Rescue CD
Panda Safe CD
Ubuntu
VBA Rescue MRT Rescue

DVDx 4.0 is an audio/video encoder as well as a powerful DVD copier. You can read DVDs and quiet any audio or video files and encode them to quiet any popular video formats: VCD/CVD/SVCD/DVD, Xvid/Divx, MPEG-4, H.264, AVC, QuickTime, Flash Video, Ogg, WebM, AC.3, WAV, MP3, MP4/AAC, Lossless Audio, PCM, Vorbis etc.

Photomatix Pro 4.0.2 - Silent Installation

Photomatix Pro processes multiple photographs of a high contrast scene into a single image with details in both highlights and shadows. Photomatix offers two types of processes to increase the dynamic range. One process is called HDR Tone Mapping, the other Exposure Blending. Both processes are designed to produce an image with an increased apparent dynamic range, but their results are different. You should try both and then choose the result that works best with your images. The first section of this manual provides tips for taking photographs intended for High Dynamic Range (HDR) processing in Photomatix Pro. The second section describes how to create HDR images and process them through Tone Mapping. The third section deals with the Exposure Blending functions, and the fourth section with the Batch Processing tool. Finally, section five provides a few tips and techniques.

HTML Executable is a versatile HTML compiler ("html to exe") which creates stand-alone and secure desktop EXE applications or software from websites or any group of HTML pages with their media files. Create attractive ebooks, full-featured HTML Applications, reliable Rich Internet applications, presentations, digital publications, custom web browsers, CD autoruns, demonstrations, offline documentation and compact archives for easier, efficient and secure distribution of your contents.

Photo to Cartoon converts photographs into cartoons with a few clicks. No drawing required! Use the result cartoons as avatars, to sign emails and letters, make greeting cards and party announcements, make custom jigsaw puzzles or create a unique art gift. A caricature makes an original and amusing present that even that person who has everything would be happy to get. 3d2f.com editors have called the program "not only easy to use, but also a lot of fun". Photo to Cartoon is an ideal tool to make custom coloring books from photographs.

Manage your Windows drivers with ease with Driver Check software. Driver Check can deep scan your hardware devices, detect and update the outdated drivers if available, completely backup them and restore them if necessarily. You can also uninstall the drivers completely on demand. Driver Check does all of these through the easy-to-use interface and makes your system running more secure, stable and always up-to-date.

Why Use Driver Check?

-Do you know your PC mysteriously slows down due to the outdated drivers?
-Are your printer, scanner, USB devices, DVD player or new devices not accessible?
-Are you troubled with the blue screen, system crashing or freezing from time to time?
-Are you annoyed by the hassles of checking, downloading and installing the lastest drivers?
-Have you felt helpless on finding the device drivers after re-installing your operating system?
-Do you get warning messages saying that the computer does not recognize the new devices?

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Alcohol 120% is a powerful Windows CD and DVD burning software that makes it easy to create backups of DVDs* and CDs. In addition, the program lets you store your most used CDs as images on your computer, so you can call them up at the click of a button. Now includes Pre-Mastering function and support for Blu-ray format. Alcohol brings new meaning to the word multimedia! It is without a doubt a leader in its class, bringing the ability to emulate and record CDs and DVDs together into one amazingly easy to use software program. Now includes Alcohol Xtra. A unique Pre-Mastering function. Using the latest technology the program is constantly being developed and improved to add new features, allowing it to maintain it's position as a leading software package.

Rescue is close at hand O&O DiskRecovery searches for and reconstructs deleted or lost data! The clear Wizard guides you step-by-step through the data rescue. O&O DiskRecovery supports all popular file formats and scans every sector of the hard disk, the memory card or the digital camera for lost files. O&O DiskRecovery can also find and recover data in the most extreme situations, such as with already formatted or destroyed file systems.

O&O DiskRecovery is the new and enhanced product developed by O&O for its professional Data Recovery line-up. O&O DiskRecovery uses the most modern technology to put data recovery for almost every form of data loss at the user’s disposal. The new version offers support for an increased range of files, better support for user signatures and a new preview function for various types of files. O&O DiskRecovery functionality begins where other programs leave off.

Ultimate Boot CD - bootable CD-ROM containing all the necessary software to fix, restore, or diagnose any computer problem. The program is completely free of charge, is built using the capabilities of Bart's PE. Ultimate Boot CD has the support of the network, can interoperate with NTFS, allows you to recover deleted files, create new partitions, scan hard drives for viruses, etc.

VLC Media Player - Universal Media Player that can play almost any existing file formats: MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, XviD, H.264, MP3, OGG and other, regular DVD and VCD discs and music formats. One of its features is the ability to play almost any type of streaming video, including the transport stream from the satellite receivers. Can act as a server to stream over the network and using IPv4 or IPv6, with sufficient bandwidth.

It's a selfecoded application that we in paradox have coded .It's not only an autotrader but also dupechecker, rls-search, rls-fxp ftp-gui, news-checker, update-checker, irc-client, pre-engine, spread-engine .

TuneUp Utilities can make your Windows operating system faster, more comfortable and more secure with just a few mouse clicks. And all operations performed on the operating system are completely safe, because all changes are monitored by TuneUp Rescue Center and can be undone at any time. All TuneUp Utilities modules can be accessed through a common interface that is divided into six categories.
The software helps both beginners and experts to make Windows meet their needs in a way that is better, easier and safer. All important system options are explained in an easy way and can be turned on or off at the click of your mouse. TuneUp Utilities will then make the necessary changes in the registry or boot files automatically. We place a high value on system stability, so that Windows won't stop working reliably. And most changes that you make can be undone in TuneUp Rescue Center - easily and safely.

DVD neXt COPY neXt Tech™ combines all the bells and whistles of all of our products into one. It is by far our best product producing the best quality copies at the fastest speeds and it is the easiest to use. You check the right boxes make a few changes and save the updated movie to your neXt Tech™ database. You can then copy the movie with no errors. Another innovative feature is that separate updated movie databases are very small, (1-2kb) and can be transferred through email to other computers, at home or in the office, and then loaded into the database of DVD neXt COPY neXt Tech™ running on that computer. You can then copy that specific movie on that computer without going through the update process again. You can now TAKE CONTROL of your latest batch of new DVD movies by fixing the errors and updating them yourself, using our neXt Tech™ Updater, included with your purchase of DVD neXt COPY neXt Tech™.

Antivirus protection is spelled NOD32. Built on the award-winning ThreatSense engine, ESET NOD32 Antivirus software proactively detects and eliminates more viruses, trojans, worms, adware, spyware, phishing, rootkits and other Internet threats than any program available. No matter what your system, there is no better antivirus protection. ESET NOD32 Antivirus was awarded the "BEST Antivirus Solution” in 2006 and 2007 by AV-Comparatives. Compare antivirus solutions here to learn more, or check out the latest Virus Bulletin.

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SuperEZ Wave Editor Pro is an ideal solution for audio editing and mastering. The program contains everything you need to create great sounding recordings and audio CDs, including professional tools for recording, analysis and editing. The SuperEZ Wave Editor Pro user interface was designed with speed, accuracy and ease of use in mind.

A large range of high quality audio tools and effects are integrated in SuperEZ Wave Editor Pro — including tools for dynamic processing, equalizing, numerous effects such as echo, amplification, noise reduction, reverb, chorus and flanger, as well time stretching and key transposition tools. Recordings distorted by noise, clicks, crackle, clipping or missing high frequency content can be restored.

New Adobe Photoshop Lightroom software is the professional photographer's essential toolbox, providing one easy application for managing, adjusting, and presenting large volumes of digital photographs so you can spend less time in front of the computer and more time behind the lens. So you can spend less time sorting and refining photographs, and more time actually shooting them. Its clean, elegant interface literally steps out of the way and lets you quickly view and work with the images you shot today, as well as the thousands of images that you will shoot over the course of your career. Because no two photographers work alike, Adobe Lightroom adapts to your workflow, not the other way around.

Along with the large capacity hard disk popularity, people were already used to copying compact discs to CD/DVD image files, generally used is the famous ISO 9660 international standards format, therefore CD/DVD image files are called ISO files. Because the ISO file retained complete data information of the compact disc (including compact disc boot information), you were allowed the convenience to use commonly used CD/DVD burning software (for example Nero-Burning ROM ) to record the disc with your CD-R/RW or DVD-R/RW over and over forever, it can also be used directly through Virtual CD/DVD-ROM drive software (for example Daemon-Tools ) .

WinZip System Utilities Suite includes a set of easy-to-use tools that offer quick relief from the file "garbage" accumulated on the PC hard disk. A pair of taps on the button you can clear your cache and browser history, delete incorrect entries in the registry, get rid of temporary and obsolete files, and other odds and more data. As additional measures to ensure more stability and performance of the system, offered defragment your disk data, correcting errors in the Windows registry, etc.

RipBot264 is a simple and easy to use All-In-One Converter. Convert from DVD, Blu-ray or any video to iPod, iPad, PSP, PS3, XBOX360, PC, MAC, MP4, MKV, Blu-ray or AVCHD without exotic filters and unnecessary settings.

Spyware Terminator is an easy to use application that requires small system resources, updates constantly, offers free support and real-time protection for your computer. Spyware Terminator effectively protects your computer from known types of Spyware but also many Spyware variants.

You can quickly and easily find Spyware that may slow down or even crash your computer, display annoying pop-up advertisements, change your Internet browser settings or abuse your private information without your consent and knowledge. Real-Time Protection runs in the background and prevents most threats from installing and harming your computer.

Total Privacy is a safe and easy-to-use to use privacy protection tool that stops all those pesky snoopers such as Cookies, history, index.dat, competitors (and even your boss!) from finding the trail of your computer use that modern internet browsers and many other programs leave behind. All this can be accomplished with a single click on the mouse, or even automatically!
With Total Privacy you get total confidence and peace of mind for secure computer use by completely and permanently removing all traces and history of your recent activity. What's more, Total Privacy also helps improve and optimize your computer's performance. By deleting all those unnecessary temporary files, install/uninstall records and by cleaning your internet browser cache, Total Privacy will keep your computer functioning as smoothly and as quickly as it should.

Total Privacy 5 makes use of the most advanced washing and shredding methodsavailable today to make sure that your own private business and computer use remains exactly that - private. Get more of the full story on how the power and simplicity of Total Privacy makes it easy for you to foil the intruders who want to check up on your computer activity by following the topics below.

Your computer holds a lot of your life. Your music, your photos, your business records and your various social networks. That's why you can't trust just any PC maintenance product on the Internet. After nearly a decade of research and millions of PCs cleaned, WinCleaner is the most trusted name in PC maintenance software. WinCleaner OneClick will help keep your PC working optimally so you can experience that "as good as new" feeling every time you use your PC.

Your PC needs to be cleaned. WinCleaner does it for you in just One-Click!

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ChordPulse is a backing band and a musical sketch pad to practice, improvise and compose like never before. ChordPulse is a handy virtual backing band for music practice, inspiration, improvisation, and pure fun with music. Play and sing along with ChordPulse. Use it as a full accompaniment, a drum machine with bass, a metronome with chords, and more.

FlashBoot is a tool to make USB disks bootable. Its primary focus is USB Flash disks, but other types of USB devices are supported as well. Making disk bootable involves formatting and copying operating system files to it. Different operating systems are supported: Windows 7/Vista, Windows XP, SysLinux-based disks, GRUB4DOS disks, Linux kernel etc. You may create blank bootable USB flash with minimal set of system files and then manually tune it for your needs, or convert a full-featured bootable CD-ROM or floppy disk to bootable USB Flash keeping all functionality. FlashBoot can either format physical disk or write an image file. So you may create customized USB disk manually or with another tool and use FlashBoot to create image out of it and redistribute it in local network or online.

Why do you might want to use bootable USB flash disks?

With DVD2one you can make a movie-only or full disk copy of your DVD for personal use on a single DVD-Recordable.

Unique video compression engine: combines blazing speed with the highest quality.
Multi-processor, multi-core and multi-computer (grid) compatible.
Process a movie to fit on a single recordable in a matter of minutes (depending on the speed of your computer).
Make a movie-only copy of your DVD. Why waste space and image quality on unnecessary intros, menus and language tracks?
Make a full disk copy of your DVD. For those who want to keep those fancy menus and intros.
Powerful join mode. Useful for putting multiple episodes of a (tv) series or joining both sides of a flipper on 1 disk.
Batchprocessing: Program up to 50 disks to be processed one after another without user intervention.
Remaster your CDs on DVD in Super CD quality.
Builtin burnengine.
Target support for DVD Players, Media Players and PS3.
Written from scratch, not based on any old code, libraries or existing opensource projects.

Changes in DVD2one 2.4.1:

- Audio Remaster engine again up to 2 times faster. This makes the engine up to 6 times faster than before!
- Increased max multiplier value to 128.
- Increased the batch list size to 50.

Guitar Pro is first and foremost a software designed to edit tablatures for guitar, bass, and other fretted instruments from 4 to 8 strings.
Its great ease of use and the success of its specific file format have made it a software used by guitarists worldwide.
It now includes editing support for many other instruments like the piano or the drums, a realistic audio engine, and interactive tools to support every musician's practice

Multi Virus Cleaner is a free, stand-alone utility used to detect and remove major viruses. It is not a substitute for full anti-virus protection, but rather a tool to assist administrators and users when cleaning infected systems.

Multi Virus Cleaner is regularly updated and can detect over 14,000 common viruses, worms, trojans and dialers (including all variants of the Sober, MyDoom and Bagle viruses).

The program boasts a fast, user-friendly scanner that requires minimal processing power and is an excellent choice for repairing a compromised system.

The new 2011 version also detects and removes major spyware.

HandBrake is a multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder. Supported sources: Any DVD-like source: VIDEO_TS folder, DVD image or real DVD, and some .VOB and .TS files, Blu-ray source, Most any multimedia file it can get libavformat to read and libavcodec to decode. Outputs: File format: MP4, MKV, Video: MPEG-4, H.264, or Theora (1 or 2 passes or constant quantizer/rate encoding), Audio: AAC, MP3, Vorbis or AC-3 pass-through (supports encoding of several audio tracks), Switchable or burned in subtitles and much more!

HandBrake 0.9.5 Highlights:

Create, edit, extract, convert, compress, encrypt, mount CD image file!!!
PowerISO is a powerful image processing and file compression tool, which allows you to create, extract, compress, edit and convert ISO/BIN image files, and mount these files with internal virtual drive. And most of all, the compressed files can be used directly without decompressing.

• Support ISO, BIN, NRG, IMG, DAA, ...
• Open, Create, Edit, Extract ISO File...
• Compress, Encrypt, Split ISO File...
• Integrated with internal Virtual Drive...

Ashampoo Burning Studio users are unusually loyal, with good reason – this program’s speed, simplicity and efficiency are simply unbeatable. Over the years the Ashampoo programmers have turned the program into a full suite that can handle all your data, audio and video burning and authoring tasks, without sacrificing its famous ease of use. In version 10 they have once again added a wealth of new features and modules, but the program is still amazingly intuitive to use – everything is explained as you do it. The main focus of this premium version is even better authoring capabilities for building video and audio discs using the latest formats. HD and Full HD video (720p and 1080p) are now fully supported for Blu-ray discs, and all the encoding is handled by Ashampoo Burning Studio 10. All the authoring tools have been overhauled and the video encoding quality is even better than before.

You now use the same new integrated editor for building DVD and Blu-ray video disks with menus. The program also starts more quickly and is generally snappier to use. In addition to this there is a new Autoplay Editor module with which you can build auto-starting data discs with attractive interactive menus – for example for collections of programs. And there is now also a new Audio Player with which you can play audio files and audio CDs without leaving the program.

The Ashampoo HDD Control software performs hard disk maintenance for you. This involves taking measures to prevent potential failures and crashes before they occur. The software supports all commonly available IDE and serial ATA drives. Based on the type of drive in use, Ashampoo HDD Control provides the user with all important facts and information, including the drive serial number, firmware version, cache size, number of configured partitions, drive space and current temperature. As the number of signs indicating that the drive could soon potentially fail begins to mount, the background guard signals an alarm. For this reason, it is easy to understand why the computer takes longer to read the file, since it first of all needs to locate and assemble all the separate fragments.