http://windows.fileoftheday.com/ Download a great new Windows shareware or freeware program every day! Auction Tools, Audio, Database, E-mail, Educational, Finance, FTP, Games, Graphics, Internet, Job Search, Networking, Office, Data Recovery, Screen Savers, System Utilities, Web Development, and more! en-us 2004-10-15T11:07:13-08:00 http://windows.fileoftheday.com/archives/recovery_flash_retriever.html Flash Retriever - for flash media data recovery - is a powerful, easy to use tool that helps resurrect lost information from damaged or defective flash memory cards. Even if your flash media has been formatted, Flash Retriever can bring your memories back to life! Accidentally deleted files can also be easily recovered. There are limits to what can be recovered if additional pictures are saved or files are written, so it is important to stop using the media until the pictures or files are recovered. No technical knowledge is required. Works with SmartMedia, Memory Stick, CompactFlash, xD Picture Card, all other flash memory cards (e.g., pen drives, thumb drives), and Sony Mavica camera floppy diskettes. [Download Trial] [Buy Directly]... Recovery Lockergnome 2004-10-15T11:07:13-08:00 http://windows.fileoftheday.com/archives/games_air_strike_2.html Air Strike 2 is a rough, cruel, and intense helicopter 3D action game that makes you fly and fight over desert, water, and industrial areas. One-hundred+ land, air, and water enemy units will make your life worse then Hell. There are five different landscape types, each with a terramorphing feature that tears up the ground in response to your deadly arsenal. If you pass all seventeen levels (plus three bonus levels) and kill all the enemy bosses, please tell us how you did it. Get your fair share of adrenaline with Air Strike 2! [Screenshot] [Download Shareware]... Games Lockergnome 2004-10-14T10:49:30-08:00 http://windows.fileoftheday.com/archives/user_interface_just_navbars.html Tired of text links for your navigation system? Even worse, aren't you tired of having to load up that fancy paint program to make changes to your graphical nav bar only to forget you have to go into your HTML image mapper to start the layout process over for designating where the hotspot links should be?... User Interface Lockergnome 2004-10-13T17:51:44-08:00 http://windows.fileoftheday.com/archives/screen_savers_the_auto_web_view_screensaver.html Cycle through a list of your favorite informational Web sites - and display them as your screensaver. View the latest news, sports, stocks, weather, entertainment, and more. Update the Web page views as often as you like. Includes a scrolling text caption to display the current date and time, a personal message, or status of your GetRight downloads. Link directly to the current Web page being displayed by pressing the spacebar on your keyboard. [Screenshot] [Trial Download] [Buy Directly]... Screen Savers Lockergnome 2004-10-12T22:51:41-08:00 http://windows.fileoftheday.com/archives/system_utilities_top_pc_tools_registry_cleaner.html In light of all the interest in Microsoft's RegClean, I wanted to let you know about an alternative product. I installed and tested an evaluation version of Top PC Tools' Registry Cleaner on my XP Home box. Unlike Microsoft's utility, which deals only with invalid registry keys, Registry Cleaner detects and removes empty keys that lead to registry fragmentation. Here is their description: The registry can grow but it can never shrink back due to its design. When a registry entry is removed, that entry is simply marked as blank but remains in place, introducing a gap into the registry. the registry becomes more and more fragmented over time. Registry fragmentation causes overall system performance to decrease. Systems with a fragmented registry will take longer to boot and will use more memory just for processing the registry, resulting in decreased overall performance as other programs are forced to use much slower virtual memory. To test this product, I installed and ran it first to establish a baseline. It found 330 errors. The scan is very thorough and I like the format of the review list it presented. With the MS version, you have to look in the UNDO files. Next, I ran Microsoft's RegClean, fixed the errors it found, and ran Registry Cleaner again. It only found 298 errors this time, most of them either empty keys, useless file extensions, or references to other things that no longer exist - so this program is much more robust in its ability to repair the registry. Microsoft's left a bunch of things behind. I didn't bother to repair anything that Registry Cleaner found, since the evaluation version is limited to fixing 20 entries: Though Registry Cleaner will search all the invalid entries in the system registry in the unregistered version, you will be able to remove only twenty invalid entries in the unregistered version. To remove all the invalid entries from system registry, you need to buy the full version of Registry Cleaner. That'll cost you US$29.95 plus shipping. Since I don't purchase software simply to review it, I cannot make a recommendation to buy it. I'll see if Top PC Tools will provide a full copy for review. If so, I'll run it through its paces and write a complete test report. If you'd like to evaluate the trial version for yourself, you can download it here [Ken Harthun].... System Utilities Lockergnome 2004-10-11T17:35:02-08:00 http://windows.fileoftheday.com/archives/games_mega_monty.html Mix a roulette wheel with a slot machine and a little bit of draw poker and what do you get? BoxerJam's Mega Monty, a high-energy game of skill, strategy, and of course, luck. Climb through more and more challenging levels as you search for the winning score in a quest for "cash" and points. Mega Monty: the casinos never had it so good! But where's the Rat Pack when you need 'em? [Screenshot] [Download Shareware]... Games Lockergnome 2004-10-08T16:21:26-08:00 http://windows.fileoftheday.com/archives/games_pirates_of_treasure_island.html Avast, ye hearties! Give aid to thee swarthy Captain Gingerbeard and his merry auld crew find th' legendary fortunes o' Treasure Island! Enjoy bedevilishly lovely graphics and swashbuckling concertina music in this game with a unique combination o' brick-matchin' puzzles and thrillin' pirate adventures. Show 'em how we do it on the high seas, hearties! Lay on your backs and haul! Earn your salt, scurvy bilge rats! Hargh! [Screenshot] [Download Shareware]... Games Fogarty 2004-10-07T19:13:44-08:00 http://windows.fileoftheday.com/archives/games_bricks_of_egypt.html Arcade Lab's Bricks of Egypt takes you on a fantastic journey through an undiscovered Egyptian world of traps, lasers, fireballs, gems, and hieroglyphs. This is classic brick breaking action for all ages. Bricks of Egypt is spiced up with rich sets of bricks, bonuses and special effects! [Screenshot] [Download Shareware]... Games Lockergnome 2004-10-06T23:13:54-08:00 http://windows.fileoftheday.com/archives/system_utilities_wintuneup_pro.html As I write this, my kitchen sink is perilously overflowing with dirty dishes, my living room is a minefield of tufts of cat hair, errant shoes, socks, remote controls, DVDs, CDs, textbooks, magazines, and other eyesores, my washroom is covered in fake gorilla fur from a costume I wore to a party the other night, and my bedroom is, well, a place where I wouldn't dare close my eyes long enough to sleep. Simply put, it's an utter mess. But there's now at least one place in my glamorous Hollywood apartment that has recovered from the ravages of clutter entropy, and that's my computer. Thanks, Wintuneup Pro! Multiple, years-old duplicate versions of files squatting on my hard drive (from its days of residing on an old PC) have been evicted into oblivion. The fat has been trimmed from my CPU usage to keep the old thing chugging along at a decent clip. Junk files have been sorted and exorcised with merciless efficiency. Pesky installments that began on bootup without my permission have been thrown out of sight to serve my needs only when I specifically call upon them - no sooner! My Internet connection was analyzed and settings were reconfigured for a proper balance of resources. For security, optimization, configuration, analysis, and overall positive performance overhaul, I've found Wintuneup Pro to be the most affordable utility this side of getting a new computer. [Free Trial | Buy Directly]... System Utilities Fogarty 2004-10-05T00:14:55-08:00 http://windows.fileoftheday.com/archives/games_ww2_pacific_heroes.html Take off from massive aircraft carriers to shoot down enemy fighters, torpedo Japanese war ships, or man anti-aircraft artillery defending against enemy raids in the high-end, console-like WW2: Pacific Heroes by Oberon Media, featuring twenty pulse-pounding missions and spectacular 3D scenery! [Screenshot] [Shareware Download]... Games Lockergnome 2004-10-04T18:09:32-08:00 http://windows.fileoftheday.com/archives/games_beeline.html Go on daring adventures with a small bee! Guide the bee through the fields of honeycombs filling them with honey. Feel like an expert skillfully passing levels and catching bonuses for figuring out puzzles. Wind your way through the hive tunnels to find the exit, and smother hapless beekeepers by swarming with the rest of your hive to show the puny humans your queen is boss! Okay, maybe we were kidding about the beekeepers, but it would be a great feature for Beeline II, no? [Shareware Download]... Games Fogarty 2004-10-01T15:07:57-08:00 http://windows.fileoftheday.com/archives/games_word_craft.html If you like Flip Words, you'll love this fast 'n' furious race against time and temperature! Spell as many words as possible using letters that get hot when you formulate a word. Words disintegrate to reveal new letters. But think fast because tiles cool off and harden up completely. Your grid freezes and suddenly it's game over! It's almost like a political debate, but more fun! [Shareware Download]... Games Lockergnome 2004-09-30T23:00:45-08:00 http://windows.fileoftheday.com/archives/screen_savers_3d_matrix_screensaver_inside_the_matrix.html Do you want to see what's inside the Matrix? Well, you don't need to take the red pill and you'll always be able to return. This brand new 3D Matrix Screensaver will take you there in no time. Your screen will become the gate to numerous worlds of the Matrix. They will fly by, and as you get closer, you'll be able to decipher the code and see what they are like! By Terminal Studio. [Shareware Download]... Screen Savers Lockergnome 2004-09-29T13:53:26-08:00 http://windows.fileoftheday.com/archives/games_slingo_deluxe.html If you like slots and you like bingo, you'll love Slingo Deluxe. Accumulate the highest number of points by trying to cover all the numbers on your game card in twenty spins or less. Use the jokers to master the board and watch out for the devil because he'll steal your pants... er, points! The Slingo experience appeals to anyone who enjoys playing games, winning prizes, and having fun. [Shareware Download]... Games Lockergnome 2004-09-28T13:35:22-08:00 http://windows.fileoftheday.com/archives/games_pharaohs_treasure.html Over the ages, buried treasures from Egypt's glorious past have been tragically lost for millennia only to be unexpectedly unearthed to the delight of scholars and gawkers, alike. In the spirit of this ancient civilization, Pharaohs' Treasure is a fast and addictive puzzle game. Line up ancient Egyptian treasure pieces of the same type into rows or columns to remove them and get more pieces to appear. Each level has a certain number of lines to remove before the time ends to be able to move to the next level. [Download]... 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