Publisher: RARLAB (1 other programs)
OS Support: Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003
License: Shareware; $29.00 to buy
Date added: 10/12/2006
Last Update: 11/12/2007 | version history
Size: 1.2 MB

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WinRAR archiver is a powerful tool which allows you to create, manage, and control archive files.

It supports RAR and ZIP 2.0 archives, special algorithms optimized for text, audio, graphics, 32-bit and 64-bit Intel executables compression. You can now handle archives directly from Windows Explorer due to the shell integration including drag-and-drop facility and cascaded context menus. WinRAR features wizards for beginners and command line interface for advanced users. It can handle non RAR archives (7-Zip, ACE, ARJ, BZ2, CAB, GZ, ISO, JAR, LZH, TAR, UUE, Z, GZip) management, solid archiving which can raise compression ratio by 10% - 50% over more common methods, particularly when packing a large number of small, similar files.

Using WinRAR you can create multivolume archives, self-extracting archives (also multivolume) using the default or optional SFX modules. You can use a lot of service functions, such as encryption, archive comments, error logging, etc. The program has an inbuilt viewer for viewing the content of text files within archives. You can create compression profiles in order to optimize your activity.

It has a very friendly user interface, so that the menus are customizable and offer access to important archive commands like extract, test, comment, protect, and lock, but also other important tools such as scan, convert, or benchmark and hardware test.

Pluses: There are several versions of RAR, for a number of operating environments: Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, DOS, OS/2, MacOS X. You can test, lock and repair/recover physically damaged archives or volumes allowing to reconstruct missing parts of multivolume archives. You can also take advantage of miscellaneous options such as Background archiving, turn PC off when done, compression estimation.

Among the new features we may mention: new buttons (options) such as: “Define volume sizes…”, “Rename automatically”, “Multithreading” option added to “Benchmark and hardware test” command, new command lines, increased compression speed (5 -15%) for some data types. The publisher states that they fixed some bugs in the multithreaded text compression algorithm.

The speed versus the rate of compression came out as medium compared to WinAce and WinZip: a directory containing multimedia and text files in total size of 104 Mb compressed at a normal rate by WinRAR resulted in a 64 Mb in 51 seconds compared to 76,2 Mb in 17 seconds for WinZip and 64,2 Mb in 1 minute and 11 seconds for WinAce.

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In conclusion: A good compression over a quite short archiving time sets WinRAR in a very good position among the well known archivers. The program is a very good and reliable archiving solution.

Developer: Evgeny Software, Inc. | More programs by this producer
License: Shareware , 59.95 $ to buy [Click here to purchase Advanced CATaloguer Pro]
Size / OS: 2.54 MB, Windows All
Last Updated: November 24th, 2005, 22:31 GMT
Category: C: \ Others \ File/CD/DVD Catalog
· 10 disks per catalogue

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Advanced CATaloguer Pro description
Advanced file cataloging utility, great for mp3 files and digital media. Try it!
Advanced CATaloguer Pro - professional cataloguing software for searching out files stored on all kinds of digital media (from hard drives through all kinds of modern removable media to floppy disks). This utility keeps track of the contents of any CD, DVD, floppy disk, local or network drive, enabling you to quickly find any file.

Advanced CATaloguer Pro supports all kinds of media recognized as drives by Windows and lets users include into the current database individual folders or even files from any media. This feature enables users to create individual catalogs for various kinds of files (e.g. a catalog of music files, a document library, a database of all files related to some project etc.) - even if all files are stored in various directories
on one drive.

Advanced CATaloguer Pro is a software that helps you to catalog MP3 files.

The program features powerful search capabilities: it can perform the search using Boolean expressions, find files by name, description, notes or keywords, using the size and date limits - all this without physically accessing the disks. When a file is located, you can view its properties, open it, or launch Windows Explorer to its parent folder.

Although ACAT Pro has been primarily designed for organizing removable media, it has a number of other uses:

· The Find Duplicates feature lets users locate duplicate documents on the hard drive: in addition to file name, size and modification date/time comparison ACAT Pro compares the files by their CRC32 code, making it absolutely impossible to miss identical or confuse different files.
· ACAT Pro combines powerful search capabilities with file management functions, enabling users to perform operations (move, copy, delete) on groups of certain files (for example, a user can find all documents, modified after a certain date - no matter where they are stored - and copy them to one folder for backup purposes).
· The program’s synchronization features allow using it for monitoring changes on a disks: when a user performs synchronization of data on a disk (or in an individual folder), all new, modified and deleted files are shown.

License:Free to try; $20.00 to buy
Editor’s Rating: 5 star editors rating
Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003 Server
Limitations:5-disk trial
Date Added:October 11, 2004

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From ElcomSoft: Catalog all kinds of media, including floppies, CD-ROMs, and ZIP disks. You can organize volumes, folders, and files into categories; browse ZIP, ARJ, RAR, CAB, ARC, ACE, LZH, and TAR archives; add comments to each file, folder, and disk; search for files and folders using a filename or your own comments (with wildcards), limiting the search results by date, size, and category; search for files in archives; search for duplicated files; generate reports; import descriptions from files; extract descriptions (including ID3 tags) from WAV, MP3, WMA, and Ogg Vorbis files; extract CD information from CDDB; extract descriptions from HTML, Adobe Acrobat PDF, and Microsoft Office files; and check for updates on the Internet. The program has a multilanguage interface (more than 30 languages are supported). Version 1.51 includes an unspecified update that fixes some bugs.

Users’ rating (9 votes) Rate it!
License Shareware / $29.95
Downloads this week 2265
Publisher SoftPrime Development
File size 1667K
windows all

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Advanced File Organizer is a powerful yet easy-to-use cataloging utility that helps you find any file stored on a removable media or on your hard drive in a matter of seconds. Advanced File Organizer supports all kinds of media recognized by Windows as drives: CD-ROMs, DVD-ROMs, Memory Stick cards, ZIP disks, floppies, hard drives, network drives etc. This utility organizes files and folders into a hierarchical tree and lets you handle archive files as ordinary folders. You can add searchable comments to files and folders and retrieve descriptions of Audio CDs from the extensive Internet database. Advanced File Organizer allows sorting files in two ways - by their location or by categories - whichever you find more convenient. Advanced File Organizer features powerful search capabilities (you don’t need even to have a particular disk in the drive to be able to search it) and includes a built-in reporting tool that allows you to create and print reports that summarize information about the indexed media. You can also export search results to the CSV format and analyze them with MS Excel or other tool that supports this format.

Publisher Wizetech Software
File Size 1977 kb
Version 3.36 (history)
Last updated Feb 28, 2007
License Free Trial, $29.95 to buy
Windows Win (All)
Requirements None
Other products All 2 products from this developer
Trial Limitations 30 day trial. Some features disabled.

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Advanced MP3 Catalog Pro makes it easy to remember where you’ve stored your music files, play them with a single click, and even print detailed CD covers. The program’s Explorer-like interface lets you catalog MP3 files on all local and network drives, including CD-ROMs, optical disks, and removable media. You can organize your music collection into categories, and add detailed comments to each music file, folder, and disk. Advanced MP3 Catalog uses industry-standard ID3 tags, or you can add your own information about each MP3 files title, artist, genre, and year, as well as comments. You can search your collection in a simple way or use Boolean logic to search for words and phrases, and even locate MP3 files based upon bitrate, sample rate, channel mode, and date ranges.Additional features include the option to create HTML reports as well as the option to allow friends to view and navigate your collection, using a free companion product, Advanced MP3 Catalog Reader.
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Free Trial, $29.95 to buy

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License Freeware /
Downloads this week 925
Publisher David Vest
File size 1,010K
Date added 02-Nov-2000
Requirements:Windows 95/98/NT/2000

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Agent Ransack is a Freeware professional filesearching utility for finding information on yourhard drive fast and efficiently. Agent Ransackprovides compelling advantages over similar searchtools: - Regular expressions that allow complex rulebased searches. - Immediate contents results view.- Various wizards to walk the user through thesearching process. Users familiar withthe UNIX GREP command will appreciate theability to search the contents of files using regularexpressions and be able to view found contents withouthaving to open the files. And best of all…it’s FREE!

Publisher Likasoft
File Size 4809 kb
Version 4.02 (history)
Last updated Apr 19, 2008
License Free Trial, $25.00
Windows Win (All)
Requirements None
Trial Limitations 30 day trial. Some features disabled

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Archivarius 3000 allows you to index documents and files on your computer, removable drives or local network and enables quick and efficient searching through their content. You can perform simple searches or specify detailed search attributes, including file size, date and more. During the indexing process, the program will extract and save detailed information about documents, allowing you to search and overview documents even if these are physically not accessible (e.g CD not in the drive). The searches can be performed from the application interface or via included web server, allowing you to search the index from any browser on the network. Additional features include scheduled index updates, (web) search logging, document preview with keyword highlighting and more.
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Publisher Argentum Corporation
File Size 1866 kb
Version 2.50 (history)
Last updated Apr 09, 2005
License Free Trial, $35.00 to buy
Windows Win (All)
Requirements None
Other products All 4 products from this developer
Trial Limitations 30 day trial. Some features disabled.

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A multi-featured cataloging utility that helps you maintain archives of various digital content, such as collections of documents, music, graphics, video, software etc. Such content may be distributed over different off-line and on-line media, such as CDs, DVDs, floppies, Zip disks, local and network volumes etc. Although primarily designed for cataloging files and disks, Argentum Infophilia, due to its flexibility, can also serve as a tree-like data organizer or personal tree-like information manager (PIM) to store almost any type of personal or corporate data, such as contacts, notes or products, in a hierarchical way. The program is Internet-enabled and lets you publish your catalogs and data trees in HTML format in an extremely flexible way. The program interface looks very similar to the standard Windows Explorer interface and is therefore easy to learn and navigate.

Publisher Atrise Software Co.
File Size 1117 kb
Version 9.0.0 (history)
Last updated Dec 20, 2007
License Free Trial, $99.95
Windows Win (All)
Requirements None
Other products All 3 products from this developer
Trial Limitations 30 day trial. Some features disabled.

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Everyfind allows you to design a search engine for your web site, intranet, CD, DVD or any portable documentation. The search engine you create does not require any server-side scripts and can run virtually anywhere. It offers customizable search templates, with more than 15 styles to choose from. Consequently, it can be used in many cases when a search engine seems impossible to implement, such as on the homepage of a public server where the use of scripts is not allowed.

Users’ rating (6 votes) Rate it!
License Freeware / $0.00
Downloads this week 6909
Publisher Think Less Do More Services
File size 620K
Date added 11-May-2003
Requires Windows 2000/XP.

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Ava Find - Ava Find speeds up your computing experience by letting you find files instantly
Ava Find speeds up your daily computing experience by letting you find any file on your computer instantly. Open music and video files from any folder using convenient one-click browse buttons. Ava Find can list folders by size instantly, making hard drive clean up simple and easy. The exclusive Scout Bot feature lets you discover newly downloaded files instantly without having to run a search.

Note: Ava Find includes free search functionality. In addition it also includes a 30-day preview of Ava Find Professional features such as the Scout Bot. Network drive search is not included in the free version.