8 Free Utilities

CamStudio is a utility for recording screen-casts, interleaving audio and video simultaneously, then producing final content in Web-friendly Flash files for easy, cross-platform consumption.

CDBurnerXP is a free full-featured CDburning program that includes the ability to create ISO files from CDs and DVDs, and it can burn CDs, DVDs, HD DVDs, and Blu-ray DVDs.

Comodo Firewall Pro The program provides a smorgasbord of information and options for advanced users, but it's simple enough for beginners, and runs smoothly and silently in the background.

DriveImage XML enables you create a complete backup image of any logical drive or partition, allowing to to restore your entire operating system along with installed programs, user settings, registry and all.

GParted LiveCD aims to be fast, small in size (~50MB), and use minimal resources to get that disk partitioned the way you want it. GParted LiveCD is based on Gentoo-catalyst, and uses Xorg,the lightweight Fluxbox window manager,and the latest 2.6 Linux Kernel.

JkDefrag is a disk defragmentation and -optimization utility for all modern versions of Windows.

PageDefrag uses advanced techniques to show how fragmented the paging files and the Registry hives are, and to de-fragment them. In addition, it de-fragments event log files and Windows 2000/XP hibernation files (where system memory is saved when you hibernate a laptop).

TestDisk is a free software data recovery utility to help recover lost data storage partitions and/or make non-booting disks boot-able again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software, certain types of viruses or human error (such as accidentally erasing a partition table).