My selection of Windows utilities

FreeCommander is the perfect explorer replacement in terms of file management  :

• Fast
• Customizable (1 pane/ 2 panes , with or without folders treeview, vertical or horizontal split , ...)
• Folder Sync option
• FTP management
• Easy access to system folders

Homepage : http://www.freecommander.com/




Alternatives :


A43 explorer : less customizable for my taste ; not supported anymore
Cubic explorer : not as light as FreeCommander
ExplorerXP : not so many features

Cobian Backup is a software that wil perform all the tasks that you expect from a professional backup system :

• Multi threaded
• Scheduler
• Local or network destinations
• Can run as application or background service
• Copy options : Complete,Incremential,Differential
• Volume Shadow Copy 
• Support for 7zip compression
• SQX compression
• Backup FROM and TO a FTP server
• SSL servers supported
• Strong encryption: Supported methods are Blowfish (128 bit), Rijndael (128 bit) and DES (64 bit)
• Backup to multiple destinations
• A backup history is displayed
• Remote backup

Homepage:    Cobian Main page