Cool Tools

CCleaner is a freeware system optimization, privacy and cleaning tool. It removes unused files from your system – allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history. Additionally it contains a fully featured registry cleaner.
[25th Sep 2008]
CCleaner v2.12
– Added Google Chrome support.
– Improved cleaning security checks.
– Improved recursive cleaning functions.
– Fixed bug in INI FileKey evaluation routine.
– Updated INI file processing engine.
– Improved system info checks for modern CPUs.
– Various language and translation improvements.
– Minor GUI tweaks.

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If you’re using Internet Explorer 7 you need to be using this.
IE7Pro Home.
Download from Major Geeks.

[25th Aug 2008]
CCleaner v2.11
– Optimized startup and closing of application.
– Improved Registry cleaning on 64-bit OS.
– Improved memory usage on Windows Vista.
– Added System Tray icon status.
– Internal refactoring of code for efficiency.
– Improved Uninstall Tool accuracy with MSI installers.
– Fixed bug in Uninstall Tool on 64-bit OS.
– Fixed bug in INI file folder recursion.
– Fixed bug in INI file OS detection.
– Added Live Messenger cleaning for .SQM files.
– Added Vietnamese translation.
– Minor tweaks and improvements.

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Autoruns v9.33: This Autoruns update adds command-line options for automatically scanning and exporting scan results, as well as a number of bug fixes.

SyncToy 2.0 for Windows is available as a free download from the Microsoft Download Center. The easy to use, customizable application helps you copy, move, rename, and delete files between folders and computers…SyncToy, a free PowerToy for Microsoft Windows, is an easy to use, highly customizable program that helps users to do the heavy lifting involved with the copying, moving, and synchronization of different directories. Most common operations can be performed with just a few clicks of the mouse, and additional customization is available without additional complexity. SyncToy can manage multiple sets of folders at the same time; it can combine files from two folders in one case, and mimic renames and deletes in another case. Unlike other applications, SyncToy actually keeps track of renames to files and will make sure those changes get carried over to the synchronized folder.

This is one of my favorite Cool Tools!
See here for download and info: SyncToy v2.0
See here for announcement and fixes list: SyncToy 2.0 – Released to Download Center
See Creating Backups With SyncToy for a how-to.