IObit PCtransfer Makes Transferring Files and Settings from One PC to Another Easy

PCtransfer is a new tool from IObit that lets you backup and restore your important documents, browser bookmarks and settings, email messages and contacts, Skype chat records, third-party programs and settings, photos, videos or any file you wish just with a click. This portable tool is perfect for transferring files from a PC to a new installation.

Find Matching Driver For Unknown Device in Windows Device Manger

Unknown Device Identifier is a useful tool, which helps us identify unknown devices (labeled yellow question mark or yellow exclamation mark) in Windows Device Manger and helps to find the matching driver for the device on the internet or directly from the manufacturer’s website just with a click.

Backup Wi-Fi Network Profile With Wi-Fi Network Backup Manager

As its name implies, the Wi-Fi Network Backup Manager lets you backup your Wi-Fi Network SSID and password into an XML file. You can use this file to transfer your Wi-Fi network profile to a new computer.

HDClone: Hard Disk Backup and Migration Tool For Windows

If the existing hard disk’s capacity is too small or filled with lots of files and data, and thinking a way to move them to a large, newer hard disk, HDClone is what you are looking for. You can use this free tool to migrate an existing installation to a new hard disk or for rescuing data.

Sync, Backup and Share Google Docs with Syncdocs

Syncdocs is a free app designed to be an easy to use tool to sync files between your desktop and Google Doc. You can use it for online storage and backup needs (Google Doc offers 1GB of free storage), accessing your files from any computer and Smartphone, and for accessing your Google Docs offline.

Quick Sync Files and Folders

QuickSync is a very intuitive and portable application, which allows you to synchronize files or folders locally. This application is handy, for example, if you want to keep a backup of your important files regularly from C drive to a removable disk.

Re-structure Your Hard Disk With Wondershare Disk Manager Free

Wondershare Disk Manager is designed to be a simple to use application to manage and copy hard disk partitions. Its wizard driven interface helps all level users to re-structure their hard disk for maximum use. You can use it to create, resize, rename, delete, copy, or hide partitions without any complexity.

Backup Windows Personal User Data

Backup Utility is a tiny Windows tool that can help you backup all personal data such as My Documents, Favorites, Desktop, etc with a single click. Therefore, you can use it in emergencies, for example when your system badly damaged.

Download Paragon Backup and Recovery Advanced Free Edition

Paragon Backup and Recovery Advanced edition is a comprehensive backup and restore utility that allows you to backup or restore whole of your data or your entire Windows PC (including the operating system, applications, user settings and all data). This free version offers all the necessary facilities (including support for the system virtualization - P2V) to build a bullet-proof shield against any disaster.

Paragon Backup & Recovery 2010 Free Advanced Edition has the following main features:

1. User friendly, wizard driven interface simplifies even the most complex operations
2. Complete Backup /Differential Backup - Create an exact copy of your PC/ backup only changed data.
3. Backup - FTP servers, CD/DVD/Blu-ray, Network drives as well as the secured hidden hard partition (Backup Capsule)
4. P2V Copy - migrate a live Win2K+ physical system to a virtual environment.
5. Options to restore an entire disk, separate partitions or only files you need from the previously created backup image.

Paragon Backup & Recovery 2010 Free Advanced Edition can be downloaded (93Mb)at Paragon website. You need to register here to get a license to install the software. Comparison between Pro and Free Edition.

Backup, Reset and Restore BIOS Settings

Few months back we have mentioned here about CMOS De-Animator – a simple program that helps us to reset BIOS (clear CMOS memory) to its default state with a click of a button. Now its new version is available with few more options. The new version (v.2.0) has a graphical interface and lets you backup and restore CMOS settings.

So, you can now backup the main CMOS settings to a file, or restore them later. The application supports all 32-bit and 64-bit Windows operating systems.

Of course, it is possible to clear CMOS memory (reset BIOS) by removing battery or by jumper setting on the motherboard, but these options may not always work for all system.

So, if you want to reset BIOS for any reason, CMOS De-Animator is a handy application. You can download it free at source.

Backup & Restore browser bookmarks with Bookmarks Backup

Bookmarks Backup is a tiny utility that allows you to backup your browser’s bookmarks, tabs, favorites and more. This is useful when you reinstalling your Windows or you can transfer it to another PC

This application supports latest release of Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari and Opera

It also allows you to backup your browsers history, saved passwords, open tabs and pages .

To install this utility, Microsoft .Net Framework 3.5 required for Windows XP and Vista. Download Bookmarks Backup from here.

Handy Backup – a complete backup tool for Windows (giveaway 3 licenses to readers)

To keep critical data and files from an accidental loss we need to have a good back up strategy in place. For this we require a good backup tool.

Handy Backup is a well-built, user-friendly, feature rich and automatic backup software that helps you to backup, restore and synchronize files, folders, Windows registry and settings or entire system.

It can also backup contacts, settings and messages of Outlook (2000/2003/2007), Outlook Express, Windows Live Mail, ICQ, Firefox, AOL, etc using special plug-ins.

You can backup data into an external disk, USB, CD/DVD/Blu-ray, Online or FTP servers via a wizard driven interface and can schedule a full backup or incremental backup on a weekly, daily basis or as per your choice.

It also enables data compression, encryption and verification options for secure and convenient backups.

All these can be done quite simply with a wizard driven user interface; you need not to be a computer geek to do that. The program works on Windows 7, Vista and XP.

[The maker of Handy Backup offers readers of Jkwebtalks a full and complete version of their standard edition ($39 value) for free (only 3 licenses). You will also get a free technical support, assistance and help from them.

Interested readers may put a comment here after subscribing to our free email news letter. Already subscribed readers may contact me. Offer ends on Oct 25 and we will randomly select 3 users and the key will send to the winner’s mail]

Download Handy Backup 6.3 (standard edition) from here.

Rollback - a simple backup tool for Windows

There are several freeware tools available for automated data back-up, one such simple, tiny, freeware program is Rollback that allows you to backup your data to another disk.

Rollback is a simple and intuitive application for Windows (XP, Vista and 7) and you can create multiple backup jobs with a few mouse clicks and even schedule it to automatically backup up your data.

With this tool you can have full backup of your data, incremental backup, filter some files (for example: music, image, etc) and folders from backing up and can also schedule your back at pre-defined time. Download Rollback.

Duplicati – A simple and automatic backup tool for Linux and Windows

Losing an important file via accidental deletion, hard drive crashes or virus attacks can be devastating. To keep your critical data from an accidental loss you need to have a good back up strategy in place.

There are numerous applications for data security and preservation. Here is an easy to use, wizard driven, automatic and open source program for backing up your important data.

Program called Duplicati is a very simple to use program. Install and run it. Just follow the instruction given on each window.

1. Choose ‘Setup a new backup’

2. Specify a folder that contains important data (e.g. My documents)

3. Enter a password or generate one and choose an Encryption mode (e.g. AES)

4. Select where to save your backup (USB device, remote server, etc)

5. Choose when and how often your data should run or leave it default(optional).

6. Chose a time that you want to backup the data (optional).

All backups can be encrypted and are digitally signed, so that no other person can read or tamper with backed up data.

Duplicati is avalible for use on Windows 32 bit, 64 bit, and linux. Download from: http://code.google.com/p/duplicati/wiki/Downloads

Hard disk cloning software Acronis True Image free for Western Digital Hard Drive owners

Acronis True Image WD Edition Software helps you to clone your current system drive onto a new hard drive, useful for restoring your OS and data, if it is damaged due to hard disk failure or due to virus or malware attack.

It can backup the operating system or entire disk drive, selected partitions, applications, settings and all of your data.

It will also let you securely destroy any confidential data you no longer need by using any of eight standardized data destruction methods or custom, user-defined methods.

This special edition is available for installing and launching only when a Western Digital HDD is connected. It does not support dynamic and GPT drives as sources and targets for backup, recovery, migration and cloning.

Acronis True Image WD Edition Software supports Windows XP and Vista. File size 121Mb, Version 11. More information and download. [via]

Paragon giving away Drive Backup 9.0 Professional edition for free (only for 3 days)

Paragon Drive Backup 9.0 is one of the highly-rated and easy to use software to backup an entire PC or separate partitions to a local drive or external USB device or a Firewire Device.

Paragon is giving away a free copy of its professional edition of Drive Backup 9 and you can download it (Only for three days) from their promotion page. (You must register to get free serial)

However, you can also download a free edition of Drive Backup 9 (Express Edition) from Paragon.

Requirements: Windows Vista/XP/2000; Intel , 233MHz processor; 128 MB of RAM; Disk space: 100 Mb; Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher.

EASEUS Todo Backup lets you back up entire system or disk partitions

No doubt a backup tool is an important component of a computer system to get the system up and running in the event of a system crash or hardware failure. There are several reasons for a system crash like virus attack, unstable software downloads, hard drive failure, etc.

EASEUS Todo Backup is well-built, free, user-friendly backup software that lets you backup (into an image file) and restore your entire operating system (cloning), or any hard disk partitions (FAT 16/32/NTFS) to protect your system and disk.

You can backup to USB removable disk, Firewire disk as well as to CD/ DVD. However, EASEUS Todo Backup does not have an automatic backup system

A backup tool not only useful in the event of system crash but also equally useful when you want to replace the older smaller hard disk by a newer larger hard disk without reinstalling the operating system and applications once again.

Features of Easeus Todo Backup 1.0:

- Backup your partitions or entire hard drive into an image archive to retain their state.
- Restore from the image archive to its previous archived state.
- Clone a hard disk to replace the old one or transfer to another one.
- Create a bootable CD/DVD with Media Builder

EASEUS Todo Backup undoubtedly an easy to use software. The simple and detailed help file available with the program helps every one (even without having IT knowledge) to backup their entire system and important data.

This free backup software supports Windows 2000 Professional/XP/Vista, 7 and Windows Server 2000/2003/2008. Download (35Mb) EASEUS Todo Backup.

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Backup your entire PC with Paragon Drive Backup 9.0 Free

It is always best to be prepared for the worst, and the worst scenario any computer user will face is loss of data. Drive Backup 9.0 Free Edition is one of the simplest and easy to use software to backup an entire PC or separate partitions to a local drive or external USB or a Firewire Device.

If disaster occurs, it could restore entire PC, separate partitions or any combination of disks and partitions from one archive. It can create bootable USB Flash drive, CD or DVD to recover your PC on demand.

As said above, it is an easy to use program with wizard driven user interface and doesn't ask you bewildering questions – it just backs up your data when and where you tell it, and recovers whenever disaster happens.

Backup Features:
- Backup Entire PC - backup an entire hard disk or separate partitions
- Perform Live Backups - Paragon Hot Backup® technology creates backup images without restarting Windows
- Storage options for your backups - Save backup images to local drives or external USB or Firewire Devices
- Interrupt backup operations if necessary
- Check archive validity of existing archives or when creating new ones
- Supports USB 2.0 hard drives

Download Paragon Drive Backup Free edition (77Mb) (required registration, when installing click ‘Get free license key’ to get your serial number).

Backup your USB flash drives by creating its image

USB flash drives, pen drives or memory drives are of course great data storage devices and has several advantages. The advantages can be its disadvantages too. Flash memory is not secure and stable forever. Data loss or data corrupt from a USB flash drive is a common thing. Moreover USB devices are small in size, therefore very easy to lose or steal.

So it is very important to have a backup of your USB drives on you computer or anywhere else to prevent any possible data loss. Here is a freeware tool that can create exact backup images of USB flash drives.

USB Image Tool is a freeware utility (currently beta) that works with any USB device including flash drives, card readers dig cams, cell phones MP3 players, etc.

Features includes:
- create raw/compressed image files of USB drives
- restore images of USB drives
- show USB device information
- manage favorite USB images

Using this program is quite simple. No installation is required. Just unzip and run the utility (.NET framework 2 required). Click ‘Backup’ and select a location to save the file. Before saving, select a file type; image, compressed image file, etc. You can restore it by using the same utility.

More information and download (211Kb) of USB Image Tool.

East-Tec Backup 2009 free from Softpedia

Combined with East Technologies, Softpedia, the software portal giant, giving away free license for the full version of the award winning backup software East-Tec Backup 2009 for its visitor (This $40 worth special giveaway is valid up to July 31, 2009). East-Tec Backup 2009 is a very easy to use backup program for Windows and features intuitive wizards, automatic backups, data compression, strong military AES encryption and FTP support.

- Create backup of your most important data: backup files, windows registry, mails and user settings.
- allows you to easily backup emails and rules for Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express, Firefox, Opera, Thunderbird, Eudora, Windows settings, system registry and more...- Use any kind of storage device: internal or external hard disks, LAN, CD/DVD, removable media devices ( USB sticks, memory sticks, flash memory, floppy disks, ZIP disks, JAZ, etc.), remote locations using FTP.
- protect your backup privacy with 256-bit AES strong encryption.
- create self-extracting backups and standard Zip archives.

More information about the offer- Similar freeware program GFI Backup 2009