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File Renamer - Renaming your files very easy

I found very useful this program for renaming files or folders. I tried many of them and this one was the best choice until now, for me. Let's see what it does: First you have to choose files or folders you want to rename. Optionaly you can filter the results from the interface, for show files with specified extension. Next box is for the strings you want to use for replacements. A good thing is that will remember next time you open it, the last string you used. You can also add more file extensions to be in the list. For adding files there are two ways. You can use Choose Files button or just drag&drop files directly in the interface from windows. You can select individual files from open dialog box, remove or add individual files from file list. One other nice thing is it has "infinite undo" function. So if you want to redo, you can do a lot of steps back. For the one who want to go deeper or to automate some actions it has the option to make your own scripts for mo...

Unlocker - Locked files or folders in windows? This is the solution - the best till now!

This is a cool, simple and very useful solution to delete the annoying files that don't want to stop or to be deleted. It answers the next errors: - Cannot delete files or folders: Access is denied - There has been a sharing violation. - The source or destination file may be in use. - The file is in use by another program or user. - Make sure the disk is not full or write-protected and that the file is not currently in use. In action: It works as an extension in explorer, allowing us to get rid of error messages such as error when trying to delete files or folders, when the file are currently used by other softs. This application removes file-access restrictions, killing the process Note: 5/5 Licence: free for personal or commercial use (you can donate to help improving or not) Compatible: Windows 2000 / XP / 2003 / Vista Size: 237 KB DOWNLOADS: Unlocker or go to author's page

Faststone Image Viewer - free viewer (very complex tool)

This is another soft i use from some years and i am very satisfied with it. It has a lot of functions that can help us to identify the quality of an image. You can quickly see image filename, location, type, size (units), resolution, attributes, print size, dpi, EXIF, Histogram, jpg comment It is a very flexible program that allow us to do many things. It uses less resources and don't load any craps into memory. It has a menu in every side of the screen. Just reach with the mouse at the end of the screen (up, down, left or right) and it will appear that menu. When move the mouse away it dissapear. This was the first thing that made me love it's easy use. Next in it's menu we can find: - batch convert or rename - screen capture - remove metadata from files - shortcut for editing with external programs - copy or move to folder directly from context menu - print, email - rotate, resize, resample, crop board and draw board (last to let us to cut picture or to draw on it) - dual...