WinContig 0.78 Compatible with: Win2k, XP, Vista Filename: WContig.zip Size: 300 kb Author: Marco D'Amato More Details & Downloads
Description: WinContig is an easy-to-use stand-alone defragmentation tool that doesn't create any installation directories or Registry entries on your computer. Its purpose is to quick defrag files without the need to defrag the whole disk. In addition, WinContig allows you to group files into profiles, and also it accepts a number of optional command-line switches that you can use to control how the program operates.
Description: Q-Dir makes your files and folder easy to manage. Fast and easy access, with an amazing Quadro-View technique. You don't have to renounce the usual, Drag and Drop, all Views, and other functions of your system. No! Q-Dir gives you other nice functions, that make you happy. One can save many hand moves and also time! Q-Dir does not have to be installed and can be executed easily from the desktop. Rename Q-Dir_Installer.exe to Q-Dir.exe and GO. It's a small famous utility for Windows PC-s and also an USB-stick friend :). WARNING :Once Q-Dir, always Q-Dir ;)! Some Features: Favorites, Drag&Drop, Clipboard, Copy/ Paste, ZIP-, FTP-,cabinet-,network-, system - folders, shortcuts ... , Large icons, tiles, list, detail, thumbnail,Export:XLS CSV TXT HTML, Desktop-Menu, My Computer-Menu. Screen magnifier, Color Filter ::New in 3.07 / 04/27/2008 1. Speed-Optimizing in color filters for larger directories. 2. Optional activation of colors or bold font for the tree view's. 3. Font size corrections in the display (accwiz.exe). New in 3.05 / 04/20/2008 1. Corrections:Tree-View,Color-Filter,Popup-Menue.
FineRecovery v1.1 Compatible with: Win2k, XP, Vista Filename: finerecovery.exe Size: 496 kb Author: FineRecovery Inc. More Details & Downloads
Description: FineRecovery is a free and powerful utility to restore deleted files from hard disk. Windows does not remove deleted files, they remain and kept in a hidden area on your hard drive and can be easily recovered.
FineRecovery uses a fast engine to quickλy scan your PC for deleted files and get the files back to life. Our file recovery software is an effective tool to recover deleted file & folders from corrupt, deleted, damaged NTFS partitions.
Description: DataRecovery is freeware and written by TOKIWA
to undelete accidentally deleted files even from recycle bin.
Key-features:
1 FAT12,FAT16,FAT32,NTFS undeletion
2 undelete whole files in a directory in a single click
3 search by partial string in the file name
4 runnable from floppy disk
5 undelete NTFS compressed files
6 undelete EFS encrypted files
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DataRecovery doesn't need to be installed. Just unpack the archive you downloaded and it's runnable.
DataRecovery doesn't install anything, so no registry entries or initialization files are left on your computer when you delete the directory of DataRecovery
Description: TestDisk is a powerful free data recovery program! It was primarily designed to recover lost partitions, repair FAT/NTFS boot sector, NTFS MFT and Ext2/Ext3 superblock and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software, certain types of viruses or human error (such as accidentally deleting your Partition Table).
PhotoRec is a File Recovery program designed to recover lost files; including video, documents and archives from Hard Disks, CDRom and lost pictures from digital camera memory (thus, its Photo Recovery name). PhotoRec ignores the filesystem and goes after the underlying data, so it can still find files even if your media's filesystem has been severely damaged or re-formatted (overwritten data, of course, can not be recovered).
Description: Aurionix FileUsage integrates smoothly with Microsoft Windows Explorer to add extra columns to Explorer's Detail View. The extra columns display the total size of all files and subfolders within a given folder, the total percentage disk usage and the total number of files within a given folder.
Auslogics Disk Defrag 1.0.0 Compatible with: NT4/Win2k/XP Filename: diskdefrag_install.exe Size: 1454 kb Author: AusLogics. Inc More Details & Downloads
Description: Disk fragmentation leads to system slowdowns, PC crashes, slow startup and shutdown and sometimes to system failures. Auslogics Disk Defrag is designed for fast optimization of today's modern hard disks. Get the maximum performance out of your expensive hardware investments. And it's absolutely FREE.
Improve computer performance and stability
Increase your productivity - no more waiting for files to open
Defragment disks in only a few minutes
Useful disk fragmentation map and detailed fragmentation report
Windows XP Home and Professional, 2000/2003 and Vista supported
Hard disks are by far the slowest component in your computer. CPU and memory work much faster than hard disks because they do not have moving parts. Therefore fragmented disks often become a bottleneck of the system performance.
Besides causing slowdowns, fragmentation makes the hard drive disk heads move frequently when reading files which leads to freeze-ups and system crashes. It is important to keep your disks defragmented and optimized as much as possible.
Aurionix FileUsage 1.1.0 Compatible with: Win2k/XP Filename: AurionixFileUsage.msi Size: 480 kb Author: David Thompson More Details & Downloads
Description: Aurionix FileUsage integrates smoothly with Microsoft Windows Explorer to add extra columns to Explorer's Detail View. The extra columns display the total size of all files and subfolders within a given folder, the total percentage disk usage and the total number of files within a given folder.
- Requires the Microdsoft .Net Framework 2.0
MBRwizard 2.0b Compatible with: /NT4/Win2k/XP Filename: MBRWiz2.0.zip Size: 75 kb Author: Roger Layton More Details & Downloads
Description: MBRwiz is a command line tool designed to directly modify the MBR, with the capability to set partitions active for booting, delete or hide partitions, back up and restore copies of the MBR, as well as sort the partition entries. This version of MBRwizard also includes support for repairing the MBR, change partition types, update of the Disk Signature, as well as support for GPT disks and secure Disk Wipe.
CheckFolder v1.1.0.6 Compatible with: Win2k/XP Filename: cf1106_setup_eng.exe Size: 414 kb Author: The Dominetrix Team More Details & Downloads
Description: Integrity validation of files in a folder or drive. CheckFolder is a freeware program that allows you to check if all files in a folder or drive can be read. This usefull tool can be used for example to verify that all files copied to a CD or DVD are ok.
VisDir Free Disk Space Finder 1.2 Compatible with: Win9x/NT4/ME/Win2k/XP Filename: visdir12.exe Size: 619 kb Author: SB-Software More Details & Downloads
Description: This free user-friendly utility hepls you visualize which programs on your hard drive are using too much disk space. It creates a navigable pie-chart visualization of the space utilization on your computer. This utility is a great helper for when you get one of those messages from windows letting you know that you've run out of space, and wanting you to do something about it. This program will help you determine what is using too much space.
Duplicate File Hard Linker 1.1 Compatible with: NT4/Win2k/XP Filename: dfhl_1.1.zip Size: 36 kb Author: Jens Scheffler More Details & Downloads
Description: Small command line tool to reduce the size of duplicate files on one partition. Despite all other known tools the files in this implementation are not being listed, archived or removed but going to be hard linked using NTFS hard links. The tool runs in Windows NT 4.0 / 2000 / XP and 2003 Server and requires a NTFS file system to run on.
Features
Command line Tool for Windows NT4/2000/XP/2003
Links duplicate files in file system using NTFS 'Hard Link' facility. For further information please take a look to Website at Microsoft.
Runs recursive through a tree of folders on one partition
Copares all files byte-per-byte to ensure really only equal files to be hard linked
Check-Mode (defualt) allows listing of all optimization possibilities. In this mode no changes will be done.
Additional aoptions allow control of which parameters of files will be compared, to check attributes and time stamps of files
All read/compare operations were optimized for maximum perfomance and will reach almost the maximum throughput of the physical disk. The system will be loaded only in background.
Description: MountVD is a virtual drive mounter. Once installed - using Windows Explorer (or such like browser) right-click on any folder and select 'Mount Virtual Drive'. Choose a drive letter and the folder will then be mounted as a drive. To unmount right-click on the drive letter and select 'Unmount Virtual Drive'.
A list of previous mounts will be displayed, clear the list or remount with right mouse click.
If the drive still exists after unmounting it, either it is not a mounted drive or a file/app is holding it open.
Mount from Win startup: Set a list of folders to mount, along with their drive letters - and the next time windows boots they will be automaticaly mounted.
Translation packs
English
Afrikaans
French
German
NEW FEATURE
Version 4 now will be coming with Language packs.
Description: WinDirStat is a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool for Microsoft Windows (all current variants). It uses treemaps such as for example SequoiaView does.
It helps you keep your disk clean - a 'must have' for administrators!
Description: PageDefrag uses advanced techniques to provide you what commercial defragmenters cannot: the ability for you to see how fragmented your paging files and Registry hives are, and to defragment them. In addition, it defragments event log files and Windows 2000/XP hibernation files (where system memory is saved when you hibernate a laptop).
HD Tune 2.00 Compatible with: NT4/Win2k/XP Filename: hdtune_200.exe Size: 584 kb Author: EFD Software More Details & Downloads
Description: HD Tune is a hard disk utility which has the following functions:
Benchmark: measures the raw performance
Hard Disk information which includes partition information, supported features, firmware version, serial number, disk capacity, buffer size, transfer mode
Hard Disk Health
S.M.A.R.T. Information (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology)
Power On Time
Error scan
Temperature display
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Description: It is critical to maintain the capacity of your hard disk's space. NaSaÆs e.Purge helps you to do hard disk space maintenance. It helps you to do the job of cleaning so that you can maintain and obtain free space and keep the hard disk sufficient without doing the dirty job yourself.
It deletes files and folders. It's a task scheduler program that operates the task on the background. It performs the job of cleaning when the occurrence due date and time is recurred. Assuming that this program is your cleaning agent.
It manages routinely task as well as specific date and time jobs by performing the tasks according to your schedule settings. Enter the inputs to tell it where exactly the folder location to be managed and what is the type of style of task and when you want it to be executed, the rest... leave it to NaSa's e.Purge.
vSubst 1.7 Compatible with: Win9x/NT4/ME/Win2k/XP Filename: vsubst.zip Size: 17 kb Author: Thomas Bigler More Details & Downloads
Description: Creates drive-letters for any folders on your harddisk. Useful to create virtual CD-drives e.g. on laptops. Allows easy removal of all virtual folders (= Visual 32-Bit-SUBST-Command)
Description: Directory Lister lets you list files in selected directories (hard disks, diskettes, CD-ROMs) into text, HTML or CSV file. It has a large number of options and automated listings are available (for FTP owners). You can: choose which items you want to list - subdirs, size, date, time, attributes, directory names, directory size, full path, crc32 value choose the width of these fields, choose which directories you want to include, choose if you want a text file, HTML or CSV file, choose sort options, choose mask for filenames, generate listing for each processed directory, load and save your settings, list files from command line (for FTP owners).
Description: Mousesoft Directory Size is a quick and easy to use tool to get an overview of folder sizes on your computer. You can select the drive or directory and it displays a list of folders and files, sorted by their size and color code by type. The results can be printed, emailed or exported to text, HTML or Excel. Mousesoft Directory Size can accurately be used on all mapped drives including local hard drives, network drives, CD and DVD drives and removable storage such as USB pen drives. Some features require MS Excel.
DriveZ 1.0.18 Compatible with: Win9x/NT4/ME/Win2k/XP Filename: DriveZ.zip Size: 13 kb Author: Robert Volaric More Details & Downloads
Description: DriveZ is a utility which allows you to make listing out of folder tree contents and to put it on clipboard. Supports explorer context menus, file name mask, extension removal. Just unzip file in its own folder and run.
Emsa DiskCheck 1.0.57 Compatible with: Win9x/NT4/ME/Win2k/XP Filename: DiskCheckN.zip Size: 190 kb Author: EMSA SYSTEMS LTD More Details & Downloads
Description: (No-Nags version, download from top link here only) - Emsa Disk Check is a dual-purpose utility, for disk checking (prescan and full disk reading) and also benchmarking. What it does, is scanning/reading the entire contents of a disk (CD, DVD or hard drive; or even floppy) and show any read errors that may appear, but also show drive speed information, progress statistics etc. It was designed with simplicity in mind, but usefulness for the user.
You can use it to do a full check of the surface of any disks, for example if you have just scratched a disk and want to see if it is still readable, or if you want to check all your cd library for time or usage related faults. You can also use it for drive benchmarking, easily comparing speeds through 'X' speed multiplier factor, in real conditions. You can also scan hard drives or even floppies - and get real condition performance information accordingly with drive performance but also with the way data is stored on it, which obviously impacts on overall performance. Make sur you clean the CD or DVD before doing tests, to remove dirt and ensure tests are accurate. Freeware.
DefragNT v1.90 Compatible with: NT4/Win2k/XP Filename: DefragNT190.zip Size: 62 kb Author: Andrei Gaceff More Details & Downloads
Description: Presents the user with many options for disk defragmenting (including various file sorting criterias) and many informations about the opened partition. It is a visual-rich tool which will even allow you moving a specific portion of a specific file to a specific location.
FAT partition support for Windows NT4, Windows 2000, Windows XP and newer; NTFS partitions supported only beginning with Windows XP.
Now with Unicode international file names support.
NTFS Link 1.0 Compatible with: NT4/Win2k/XP Filename: ntfslink.exe Size: 430 kb Author: Michael Elsd÷rfer More Details & Downloads
Description: NTFS Link is a Windows Shell Extension, which hooks into Windows Explorer Drag&Drop Actions to provide extended functionality for creating hard links and directory junctions on NTFS file systems.
Hard links provide a machanism to keep a file or a directory in more than one locations in a file systems.
It is also possible to create hard links on multiple files and directories in one step.
R-Linux Data Recovery v1.0 Compatible with: Win9x/NT4/ME/Win2k/XP Filename: rlinux_en_10.exe Size: 1.35 mb Author: R-tools Technology Data Recovery More Details & Downloads
Description: R-Linux is a data recovery and undelete utility for Ext2FS (Linux) file system. File recovery after power failure, system crash, virus infection or partition reformation, even for the different file system. Unformat and unerase tool. Creation of image files an entire disk, partition or its part. Such drive image can be processed like regular drive. Recognition and parsing of Dynamic (Windows 2000/XP), Basic and BSD (UNIX) partitions layout schema. Localized names support.
Recovered files can be saved on any (including network) disks accessible by the host operating system.
Description: Freeware disk reporting tool for Windows. You can use Disktective to trace used space within your harddisk and directories. Disktective can now handle disks and folders of 10 Gb or more. With Disktective you can find out the real size of your directories and disks - and see how used space is distributed inside them. Disktective creates reports, prints pie charts, exports to HTML and TreePad files. Also: Windows XP themes, toolbar, online manual, downloadable manual, zero-install (no install or uninstall necessary).
NDIR Color Directory Lister 2.24 Compatible with: Win9x/NT4/ME/Win2k/XP Filename: ndir224.zip Size: 225 kb Author: Daniel D. Miller More Details & Downloads
Description: Changes from previous version:
- Fix a problem with directory tree on Win2K when read from WinNT4 directory.
- Allow ESCAPE key to cleanly exit from reading files in the directory tree. It will display all files that were read up to that point.
Hekko Virtual CD 1.02 Compatible with: Win2k/XP Filename: hekkovirtualcd.exe Size: 1.16 mb Author: Circle of One Software More Details & Downloads
Description: Hekko Virtual CD creates a virtual CD-ROM drive on your Windows PC. This allows you to make images of your favorite CD-ROMs and use them without inserting a CD into a CD-ROM drive. Hekko Virtual CD: 1) improves the speed at which you access data, 2) stops you from having to switch disks in and out of your CD-ROM drive. Use Hekko Virtual CD to easily access your favorite games, favorite music or favorite software programs. Since Hekko Virtual CD uses HekkoScan(tm), nearly any CD can be imaged.
Description: Diskcheckup displays the current values of each drives SMART attributes and thresholds. A warning is issued if TEC (Threshold exceeding Condition) is detected.
JDN Reserve v2.2 Compatible with: Win9x/NT4/ME/Win2k/XP Filename: reserve.zip Size: 490 kb Author: JDN Toronto More Details & Downloads
Description: JDN Reserve is freeware for Windows that enables you to clean your drives in minutes instead of hours. It doesn't actually do any cleaning. It just enables you to do it more quickly. JDN Reserve only takes a second to run and you can always delete any or all of the reserved files quickly and without any problems. No matter whether you want to create one gig or 1,000 gigs, now you can do it in just a split-second.
What does it mean to reserve space and why is that a useful thing to do? With the recent dramatic rise in identity theft, people are becoming aware of a serious Windows security problem. Here is the problem in a nutshell:
When you delete a file, it is not really deleted. Its name is removed from the directory but its data lingers on your drive. So people can retrieve the data and that is one of your greatest vulnerablities. When you delete data, it becomes vulnerable.
People now use wiping or scrubbing utilities to ensure all deleted files are fully erased. But there is a problem with those utilities. They take hours to run and that discourages people from cleaning as often as they should. But there is an answer.
Suppose you have a 60 gig drive and 50 gigs are unused. It will take several hours to wipe those 50 gigs. But once they have been wiped, why waste hours and hours wiping them again and again? That is a colossal waste of time. Clean the drive once and then reserve most of the clean 50 gigs, leaving free only what you need in the near future. From then on, when you clean the drive, you will only have to clean a tiny area and it will only take a few minutes instead of a few hours. That is what JDN Reserve is all about.
JDN Reserve never takes more than a second to run because it doesn't actually write files. It just creates them so that the space cannot be used for anything else. And you can always delete any or all of the reserved files or reserve more space, depending on your needs.
JDN Reserve may also have some application in reducing disk defragmentation.
Description: Ever wondered why your hard disk is full? Or what directory is taking up most of the space? When using conventional disk browsing tools, such as Windows Explorer, these questions may be hard to answer. With SequoiaView however, they can be answered almost immediately. SequoiaView uses a visualization technique called cushion treemaps to provide you with a single picture of the entire contents of your hard drive.
Disk Investigator 1.2 Compatible with: Win9x/NT4/ME/Win2k/XP Filename: dskinv.exe Size: 528 kb Author: Kevin Solway More Details & Downloads
Description: Disk Investigator helps you to discover all that is hidden on your computer hard disk. It can also help you to recover lost data. Display the true drive contents by bypassing the operating system and directly reading the raw drive sectors. View and search raw directories, files, clusters, and system sectors. Verify the effectiveness of file and disk wiping programs. Undelete previously deleted files.
VirDir Manager 0.9 Compatible with: Win9x/NT4/ME/Win2k/XP Filename: vdir.exe Size: 2305 kb Author: Digital Widget More Details & Downloads
Description: VirDir helps you manage your system's files and folders more effectively. With VirDir you can easily eliminate having to deal with long directory paths. VirDir lets you map your favorite directory and network paths to drive letters, letting you access them quickly and easily.
Ever find yourself typing in the same long path over and over again or constantly clicking through directory dialog boxes? VirDir eliminates that problem!
Zdu 2.4.9 Compatible with: Win9x/NT4/ME/Win2k/XP Filename: zdu-2.4.9.zip Size: 108 kb Author: Andre Jonsson More Details & Downloads
Description: Light and fast disk usage & diagnostic utility. There are two versions, one text and one GUI, independant of each other. Support for FAT(8-16), FAT32, NTFS(4 and 5) and Samba volumes. Network shares supported directly (UNC). Include/Exclude patters can be specified for limiting the scan (text version only) Can list usage based on directory and file extension. NTFS only features: list usage based on owner, include usage from non-standard streams, compressed volumes, sparse files and reparse points are handeled. Displays various disk information. Plus a bunch more nifty features.
Description: DiskTT measures a disk's thruput under 32-bit windows using Windows core read and write functions. Your actual disk perfomance under Windows is determined not only by the speed of your harddrive (as measured well by most disk benchmarks) but also by factors such as the mainboard chipset, UDMA/PIO mode, RAID configuration, CPU speed, RAM size and the quality of drivers. DiskTT simply tries to give you an indication of the amount of Megabytes per second read and write speed you get under your normal Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP environment.
Partition Resizer 1.34 Compatible with: DOS Filename: PRESZ134.ZIP Size: 98 kb Author: John Lagonikas More Details & Downloads
Description: The popular freeware Partitioning program is back! The first free program to resize and move partitions without data loss, is now more complete.
New features include:
Int13 extensions support allows handling of disks up to 2TB (2048GB) of size.
New Resizing/Moving engine, with simpler interface. Move and resize your partitions in one step.
Transparent extended partition resizing (no more confusion with extended partitions).
Command line parameters for accessing advanced options (read-only operation etc.).
Partition resizer is a small DOS executable (run from floppy), which requires no installation, and can perform all these tasks in a short while, giving you the opportunity to re-arrange your disk partitions safely, quickly, and fuss-free.
Test Path 1.3 Compatible with: Win9x/NT4/ME/Win2k Filename: TestPath2_Setup.exe Size: 355 kb Author: Ojars Krumins More Details & Downloads
Description: TestPath is designed to check the files you write/burn on a new CD-R, although you can check any two paths. Now you can be sure that all files that you wrote to the CD-R are there and without write errors. The program reads all the files in the source path and its subdirectories and then compares them (byte by byte) with the files in the destination path. The program will then report the missing files in the destination path and report files with differences. Different comparing options, such as 'compare by file time' and 'do fast comparing' are also available. TestPath is FREE for Personal Use and SHAREWARE for Corporate Use. Please read the license. There are no differences between two versions except the license.
Description: Hide Drives Hide (HDHide) can be use to hide or unhide drive letters A: - Z: on any computer using Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000 operating systems - whether they are actual physical drives on a local machine or logical drives (partitions, server volumes, mapped drives, etc.). Any of these drives can be hidden or unhidden.
The hidden drive letters will not be visible in Explorer or any other application that use the common Windows 'Save', 'Save As', or 'Open' dialog boxes.
HiCDEject 1.0 Compatible with: Win9x/NT4/ME/Win2k Filename: hicdeject10.exe Size: 63 kb Author: K&G Software Group More Details & Downloads
Description: While surveying shareware archives and download sites, you would find
various programs with little functionality, but that still require a lot of
disk space. Furthermore, some of these programs require you to also pay a
registration fee.
For example, we found a program on a few sites that opens and closes the
CD-drive door, but the file size is very large in comparison with the
program's functionality. Also, it was necessary to pay a $10 registration
fee. After thinking about this, we created a prototype of such a program.
As a result of our work you can try out our program HiCDEject. This program
helps control your CD-drive's door with one click of your mouse. The total
size of this program is only 9 KB.
Also, we are glad to offer it to you for FREE.
Type Parser 1.1 Compatible with: Win9x/NT4 Filename: typpar11.zip Size: 389 kb Author: Xarka Software More Details & Downloads
Description: For more advanced users! This utility is used to get information on the usage of your drive, by grouping similar extensions and showing how they are distrubuted on your hard disk. This is a completely different kind of analisis that you have seen! So you can 'discover' forgotten files and then decide if they are worth existing... Also good to get detailed information on users files on small networks. Results can be exported to the clipboard (for Excel, Word, printing etc.)
Directory Sizes 1.0 Compatible with: Win9x/NT Filename: dirsize.zip Size: 135 kb Author: Amir Geva More Details & Downloads
Description: With Directory Sizes will scan and show all directory subtrees and the sizes, then you can investigate if that space usage is warranted. It's simple and very useful.
Letter Assigner 1.1 Compatible with: Win9x Filename: LetAssig.zip Size: 1 mb Author: Vadim Burtyansky More Details & Downloads
Description: Letter Assigner allows to assign any letter to any drive in Windows 95/98 ( with a few non-significant exceptions ). It remebers drives by their serial numbers or by the labels, which provides protection against letter changes after repartitioning or connecting new drives. It also prevents non-bootable situations that may occur when Windows directory is located on a drive other than C. The easy, intuitive interface offers simple methods to choose letters, to move them from one drive to another and to view the free letter set. Letter Assigner also allows to easily view and change device properties for each drive.
Disk Space Pro 1.1 Compatible with: Win9x/NT Filename: diskspro.zip Size: 76 kb Author: Peter Pearson More Details & Downloads
Description: Disk Space Pro shows how much disk space is free on each of your fixed hard disks, as well as the total capacity of each disk and the percentage of free disk space there is for each disk.
Description: 'Displays usage of hard disks and other media in a special, detailed pie chart with concentric rings representing the directory levels. Drive and folder zoom possible. '
DirectDrive 2.0 Compatible with: Win9x/Win2k Filename: ddrv.exe Size: 1.5 mb Author: EgE Software More Details & Downloads
Description: DirectDrive is a freeware product to connect directories with a driveletter. This saves a lot of time because you don't have to scroll through the complete directory tree like: C:\My documents\Prevweb\Products\Addrid\ You only have to select, for exampe, drive M.
All the settings can be saved and loaded, so you can switch between certain settings. DirectDrive will be very useful for many people. Hopefully for you too.