FC Portables: November 2011

Portable Kernel for Windows Data Recovery v11.01.01

Kernel for Windows Data Recovery, an output-driven, stupendous, and sophisticated FAT and NTFS data recovery software enables you to recover all data, which has been lost from your computer's hard disk drive. This wonderful Windows Data Recovery software can even recover the file(s) or folder(s) that are deleted by pressing the SHIFT + DELETE key. The deleted files that are recovered using Windows Data Recovery - FAT and NTFS software are displayed in Red color for their easy identification. The software comprises different scanning modes to help you completely recover the every bit of lost data based on various data loss situations.

In image processing, computer graphics, and photography, high-dynamic-range imaging (HDRI or just HDR) is a set of techniques that allow a greater dynamic range of luminance between the lightest and darkest areas of an image than current standard digital imaging techniques or photographic methods. This wide dynamic range allows HDR images to more accurately represent the range of intensity levels found in real scenes, ranging from direct sunlight to faint starlight.[1]

Ultima Steganography is an extremely easy-to-use steganography software for Windows. With the help of the program you can easily encrypt some file and hide it in a picture. Once a file is hidden in an image the saved picture is still a picture, it will load just like any other image and appear as it did before, the only difference will be that it contains hidden file.

FL Studio is a full-featured, open architecture, music production environment capable of audio recording, composing, sequencing and mixing, for the creation of professional quality music. FL Studio can be used as a scratchpad for your ideas or to produce completely mastered tracks ready for publication. It will play any sample file (wav), generator (softsynth), VSTi & DXi or midi instrument you feed it. You will be creating wav, mp3 or midi songs or loops only minutes after launching it. FL Studio is a Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) for Windows PCs (or Intel Mac/ Bootcamp). With a full feature-set and aggressive pricing (inc. lifetime free updates), FL Studio may be your ideal DAW! FL Studio can be used as a scratchpad for your ideas or to produce completely mastered tracks ready for publication. FL Studio will play any sample, VSTi, DXi or Buzz plugin fed into it and also comes with its own generators (softsynths) and effects (filters).

Directory List & Print is a software tool for Windows™ and enables listing and printing the content of any directory in a simplest way. By copying to the clipboard the lists can be exported into other programs or opened directly in Word™ and Excel™. The Free Version (Freeware) has all the basic features included, the Pro Version (Shareware) provides interesting additional features.

A Simple Defragmenter, Easy and Fast. Defragment disk more efficiently and reliably, defragment and speed up pc with Smashing Defrag.

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.

Password Recovery Bundle™ a full suite (bundle) of password recovery tools available for its corporate and government clients. The password recovery software was created to deal with files protected through the use of popular computer applications. It is not ElcomSoft's goal to aid hackers or criminals in accessing sensitive data. Rather, these password crackers are made available ElcomSoft clients to aid security and computer forensics specialists in dealing with password protected data. Based on our tests and feedback from ElcomSoft clients, these password recovery tools are the fastest on the market, easiest to use, least expensive and they are feature rich. More password recovery tools are in development which will target the security afforded by other popular computer applications.

Web Builder is a WYSIWYG (What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get) program used to create web pages. WYSIWYG means that the finished page will display exactly the way it was designed. The program generates HTML (HyperText Markup Language) tags while you point and click on desired functions; you can create a web page without learning HTML. Just drag and drop objects to the page position them 'anywhere' you want and when you're finished publish it to your web server (using the built in Publish tool). Web Builder gives you full control over the content and layout of your web page.

IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer for Windows 9x, ME, NT, 2000, XP, 2003 , 2008, Vista, Windows 7.

It is trying to be simple for beginners and powerful for professionals.

IrfanView seek's to create unique, new and interesting features, unlike some other graphic viewers, whose whole "creativity" is based on feature cloning, stealing of ideas and whole dialogs from ACDSee and/or IrfanView! (for example: XnView has been stealing/cloning features and whole dialogs from IrfanView, for 10+ years).

IrfanView was the first Windows graphic viewer WORLDWIDE with Multiple (animated) GIF support.
One of the first graphic viewers WORLDWIDE with Multipage TIF support.
The first graphic viewer WORLDWIDE with Multiple ICO support.

Get the most out of your computer, printer, speakers and other devices by updating your drivers. Smart Driver Updater quickly scans your PC and external devices to provide you with the best new drivers available for your system.

Find and replace outdated drivers instantly

- Access to over 200,000 drivers
- The latest Windows 7, Vista and XP Drivers
- Popular printer, video, audio and sound drivers
- Automatic scan finds and updates drivers in just minutes
- Easily create and reinstall driver backups
- Safe way to manage all your device drivers

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. 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.

When your computer or Windows crash, even hard disk crash, Spotmau BootSuite will be the best and complete emergency solution for you, which provide a full toolkit for PC emergency recovery and repair. Spotmau BootSuite works under boot environment with Microsoft WinPE technology. You can use it to boot up any computer with bootable CD or USB. Powerful and Easy! With this complete package Bootable Computer Repair Utility Suite you can almost solve all your PC problems. It includes Windows Recovery, Data Recovery, Disk Management and Password Recovery.

Perfect Mask 5 has been completely rebuilt from the ground up and now includes new masking technology that makes the process of selecting subjects and replacing backgrounds more automated and intuitive. Photographers can simply brush over the area to be removed and Perfect Mask will create an initial mask that can be fine-tuned with the easy to use touch up tools. When Perfect Mask detects a solid background, it is automatically removed. As with Mask Pro, Perfect Mask works well on tough subjects like hair and glass, even when they are on complex backgrounds.

Make your Computer Work Faster Now by using Uninstall Tool! It's a fast, secure and convenient way to remove unneeded applications and system components. Great, powerful and reliable alternative to standard Windows Add/Remove program. Uninstall Tool does its job great and performs a clean uninstall of the programs. During our testing on both XP and 7, the software behaved as it should and did not try to pull anything on us.

Aiseesoft iPhone Transfer is the all-in-one solution for iPhone (iPhone 4). It can import music, video, ePub, PDF, image files on PC to iPhone directly, and export files (music, movie, pictures, TV shows, Podcast, iTunes U, eBooks, Camera Roll, ringtone, SMS, Contacts, voice memos, camera shot) from iPhone to local disk without any loss.

Perfect Layers 2 allows photographers to combine photos for endless creative options. Create and edit multi-layered files with Perfect Layers directly from Lightroom, or as a standalone application. Perfect Layers files are saved in the PSD file format and can be edited in Photoshop and Photoshop Elements later.

Perfect Portrait 1 is a completely new product that offers the latest innovations in portrait retouching for photographers. Photographers can now focus on the art of portrait creation because the most time consuming retouching tasks have been automated in Perfect Portrait. Perfect Portrait automatically finds faces, eyes and mouths in images so that photographers can get directly to the work of retouching and enhancing an image. Improving skin texture and color, removing blemishes and enhancing features like eyes, lips and teeth have never been easier.

Acronis® Disk Director® 11 Home is an all-new version of the most feature-rich disk management product available. If you're serious about maximizing disk use and data safety, it's never been easier to create hard disk partitions or resize, move or merge partitions without data loss. Acronis Disk Director 11 Home includes powerful new features like Windows® 7 support, Dynamic Disk and GPT disk support, spanning a volume across multiple disks and much more.

So much can go wrong with your computer, such as accidental file deletions, system viruses and total hard-disk failures. Having a complete PC-backup solution is critical. Having one that's fast, effective and incredibly simple is even better! That's why we created Acronis^® True Image^™ Home 2012.

Simulating 2,000+ popular award-winning Tiffen glass filters, specialized lenses, optical lab processes, film grain, exacting color correction, plus natural light and photographic effects, the Tiffen Dfx digital filter suite is the definitive set of digital optical filters for professional photographers, top motion picture filmmakers, video editors, and visual effects artists around the world.

Symantec System Recovery 2011, (formerly Backup Exec System Recovery), delivers fast and reliable system recovery to help you minimize downtime and meet recovery time objectives with confidence. Quickly restore physical and virtual systems in minutes, even to bare metal, dissimilar hardware, remote locations, or virtual environments through Symantec’s patented Restore Anyware technology. With more than 787,000 protected systems, Symantec System Recovery is one of the most proven, trusted, and reliable system recovery solutions.

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.

EASEUS Partition Master is comprehensive hard disk partition management tool and system partition optimization software, Professional Edition can let you enjoy all the powerful basic and advanced partition functions. It is especially for business users who run Windows XP/Vista/Windows 7 32/64 bit and want to optimize the disk usage and better manage disk space. More advanced than Home Edition, it can help you create bootable CD/DVD in case of system boot failure.

AutoPlay Media Studio will help you create professional software, presentations, autorun CD/DVD ROMs and more by simply dragging, dropping and integrating your favorite media files such as MP3s, video, photos, and flash movies. It's just that easy. Then create powerful interactions between your media files and objects by selecting actions from a friendly script menu and publish your projects with a single click. AutoPlay Media Studio is the industry standard for creating professional interactive CD-ROM AutoPlay and AutoRun menu systems.

Essential NetTools is a set of network utilities useful in diagnosing networks and monitoring your computer's network connections. Essential NetTools s a Swiss Army knife for everyone interested in a set of powerful network tools for everyday use. The program includes a NetStat utility that shows your computer s network connections and open ports and maps them to the owning application. Essential NetTools also features fast NetBIOS and TCP port scanners, a NetBIOS Auditing Tool for checking LAN security, and a monitor of external connections to your computer s shared resources, as well as a process monitor that displays information about all the programs and services running on your computer. Other useful tools are included, such as Ping, TraceRoute, and NSLookup. Additional features include report generation in HTML, text, and comma delimited formats and a customizable interface.

The utility will automatically analyze the video stream, finds and removes static overlays, such as logos channels, unwanted subtitles and watermarks. Unique ability to gracefully remove Inpainting static objects from video streams, leaving a zero or near zero visible trace of even the most complex cases.

WEP Hacking - The Next Generation

This has to be one of the smallest Windows XP installations out there. Whats more - you can use 99% of the programs you always use and up to now there is not one single report of any game not working in MicroXP.

Hard disk drive is an integral part of every computer. It stores all your information. One of the most prevalent defects of hard drives is bad sectors on the disk surface. Bad sectors are a part of the disk surface which contains not readable, but frequently necessary information. As a result of bad sectors you may have difficulties to read and copy data from your disk, your operating system becomes unstable and finally your computer may unable to boot altogether. When a hard drive is damaged with bad sectors, the disk not only becomes unfit for use, but also you risk losing information stored on it. The HDD Regenerator can repair damaged hard disks without affecting or changing existing data. As a result, previously unreadable and inaccessible information is restored.

Program features:

Ability to detect physical bad sectors on a hard disk drive surface.
Ability to repair physical bad sectors (magnetic errors) on a hard disk surface.
The product ignores file system, scans disk at physical level. It can be used with FAT, NTFS or any other file system, and also with unformatted or unpartitioned disks.
Starting process directly under Windows XP / Vista / 7.
Bootable regenerating flash can be created from the program and used to automatically start regenerating process.
Bootable regenerating CD allows starting regenerating process under DOS automatically.

Comparing to previous versions, the new 2011 code has been completely reworked. Here are some of improvements of the new version:

Windows Key creates a password reset CD or USB Flash Drive that work during the boot process and instantly reset Administrator or other account passwords and Windows security settings that prevent you from logging in.

Features

100% recovery rate
All passwords are reset instantly
Windows 7 New!, Vista, Vista SP1 supported
All Windows Workstations supported
All Windows Servers supported, including Server 2008 (Windows Key Professional and Enterprise editions only) New!
Resets passwords with a bootable CD-ROM
Resets passwords with a bootable USB drive (Windows Key Professional and Enterprise editions only)
Burns password reset CD
Resets local Administrator passwords
Resets Domain Administrator passwords (Windows Key Enterprise edition only)
Resets local policy settings
Resets secure boot options: startup password or startup key disk
Displays account properties
Supports all Service Packs
Supports RAID/SCSI/SATA drives Updated!

Windows Doctor is a top professional program on the security protection and system optimization of the Windows operating system. It thoroughly scans patch vulnerabilities, Startup items, plug-ins, services and processes, etc., in the system with its rapid and stable search engine to diagnose possible security threats and protect your system from the threats of spyware, adware, Trojans and viruses. Windows Doctor also provides functions such as Registry Cleanup, Privacy Cleanup, System Speed-Up and Advanced Tools. They help you clean up garbage information in the registry, protect your privacy, make your computer run more stable and with better performance.

The HTMLRunExe is a specialized software to create digital books (e-books). The exhibition is made as in a common browser, with the advantage of being edited by the user, because you can modify various settings of this title to your presentation.

Scanitto has been developed for simplification of scanning process. Use this program you can fast and without any problem receive images from your scanner. Using Scanitto you can easily and simply scanning images, documents or photos, and save them in a format which is necessary for you. Also Scanitto will give you a function of direct-printing on your printer and allow use your printer and scanner as a copy machine. Scanitto is simple to use, all that you need is: choose a scanner, setup a scanning settings and a folder for saving scanned images. After scanning you can directly print your images.

R-Studio is a family of powerful and cost-effective undelete and data recovery software. Empowered by the new unique data recovery technologies, it is the most comprehensive data recovery solution for recovery files from FAT12/16/32, NTFS, NTFS5 (created or updated by Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista), HFS/HFS+ (Macintosh), Little and Big Endian variants of UFS1/UFS2 (FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD/Solaris) and Ext2FS/Ext3FS (Linux) partitions. It functions on local and network disks, even if such partitions are formatted, damaged or deleted. Flexible parameter settings give you absolute control over data recovery.
The R-Studio data recovery software was originally developed for use by data recovery experts, system administrators, IT professionals, and advanced and experienced computer users. Some of R-Studio's features were even designed exclusively for computer forensic experts, and most R-Studio users don't need every single feature of the software.

Partition Manager maximizes server performance and reduces overall cost of system administration by delivering Windows server reconfiguration, deployment, backup and disaster recovery. This powerful tool increases the efficiency of Windows-based system administration. Abundant functionalities such as system reconfiguration, deployment, backup, and disaster recovery will guarantee optimized disk partitioning and maximum utilization of your drives. Partition Manager 11 Server Editions can help you minimizing downtime and required technician resources!

Active@ Boot Disk (Win Edition) is a bootable CD/DVD/USB disk that allows you to boot up your computer and fix most startup and PC configuration problems. Active@ Boot Disk based on lightweight Windows 7 (WinPE 3.1) operation environment and contains disk image, data recovery, partition management, password resetting, data erasure, network access tools and system utilities. Active@ Boot Disk is a bootable CD that gives you a lightweight Windows 7 (WinPE 3.1) environment with disk image, data recovery, password resetting, data erasure and network access tools. The WinPE 3.1 Operating System runs entirely from Random Access Memory (RAM), enabling you to insert a second CD that contains drivers or software or can be used for CD/DVD burning.

Toon Boom Studio is the best 2D animation software to learn and create animation with. Ideal for students and hobbyists looking for an easy-to-use animation program, excellent for teachers and educational institutions, Studio makes all animation techniques accessible to users, offering them the most creative and rewarding experience.

UnHackMe - First BootWatch AntiRootkit! Now it is the must have tool for you! UnHackMe is specially designed to detect and remove Rootkits (a new generation of Trojan programs - invisible Trojans). A rootkit is a program that a hacker uses to mask intrusion and obtain administrator-level access to a computer or computer network. The intruder installs a rootkit on a computer using a user action or by exploiting a known vulnerability or cracking a password. The rootkit installs a backdoor giving the hacker a full control of the computer. It hides their files, registry keys, and process names, and network connections from your eyes. Your antivirus could not detect such programs because they use compression and encryption of its files. The sample software is Hacker Defender rootkit. UnHackMe allows you to detect and remove Rootkits.

HD Tune Pro is an extended version of HD Tune which includes many new features such as: write benchmark, secure erasing, AAM setting, folder usage view, disk monitor, command line parameters and file benchmark.

HD Tune Pro is a hard disk utility which has the following functions:

Benchmark: measures the low-level performance (read/write)
File Benchmark: measures the file performance (read/write)
Info: shows detailed information
Health: checks the health status by using SMART
Error Scan: scans the surface for errors
Erase: securely erases all data from the disk
Disk Monitor: monitors disk access
Folder View: shows disk space usage for each folder
AAM: reduces noise or increases seek perform

Portrait Professional is a sophisticated computer program that has been trained in male and female beauty. The software has been shown hundreds of examples of beautiful photographs of human faces, and using sophisticated statistical techniques, it has learnt how to subtly enhance photographs to make them more beautiful. What does this mean for you? It means that you can give your photographs an automatic "celebrity makeover" correcting the lighting and makeup, removing blemishes and generally making your subject look as good as possible.

This complete password recovery solution provides corporate security administrators with the full control over employees’ computers and files. System administrators, IT professionals and help desk personnel can now get access to any business file whenever required. Many types of passwords are recovered or reset instantly, while advanced acceleration methods are used to recover difficult passwords.

Adobe Photoshop - this is one of the most popular image editors. Adobe Photoshop allows you to both create new images or edit existing image files.

Graphic editor Adobe Photoshop is used to create photo-realistic images, work with color scanned images, retouching, color correction, collaging, transformation diagrams, color separation, etc. Adobe Photoshop has all the methods of working with bitmaps, in this case has the opportunity to work with layers and uses contours. Adobe Photoshop is the undisputed leader among the professional graphic editors due to its widest possibilities, high efficiency and speed. On assurances the developer version of CS5 almost twice the speed of work CS4.

A staggering 65% of problems which a PC encounters, whether in business or at home, are not caused by hardware problems, they are not caused by viruses, they are not caused by spam; they are caused by background tasks belonging largely to legitimate and well-known software you use every day !

The average PC has 25 or more background tasks which do not need to be running, all sucking up processor time and memory resources. 25 or more !

For example : perhaps you have a laptop which works wirelessly in your home with no problems whatsoever. However, when you take it on your travels you are unable to connect to any wireless network. You're frustrated, you've asked a friend to help, you've been to the PC repair store and still no joy you can use wireless only in your own home !! This is where The Ultimate Troubleshooter (TUT) comes in : load it, and immediately it identifies for you the background task which is causing this nightmare. And the irony : the wireless router installation CD sent to you by your Internet Service Provider installed that task, and, naturally, you never suspected it might be the cause of all your problems.

DVDFab is all you need to backup DVDs & BluRays. DVDFab is brand new, is completely rewritten, is based on 10 years of DVD copy software development. DVDFab is simply the easiest way to copy a DVD/BluRay movie. Just insert the movie and a blank DVD then press Start. Your entire movie - including menus, trailers and special features - is copied to a single DVD with just one click, and everything happens automatically. Backup your entire DVD - including menus, trailers, and special features - onto one or multiple discs.

No matter your computer/hard drive is crashed, doesn't boot at all, or can't get into Windows for any other reasons, Wondershare LiveBoot 2012 can take them all. Integrating with the latest Microsoft WinPE technology, bootable LiveBoot CD or USB drive allows you to boot up any computer, as well as fix computer bootup problem, rescue data, backup and restore file or system, clone and deep wipe disk, manage disk, etc., over 40+ utility functions in total. The user-friendly interface simplifies the complicated repair procedures into only a few clicks for both beginners and experienced users!