Impressive and free antivirus and antispyware package
Platform : Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP
Type:
Manufacturer: Paragon Software
Size: 11MB
Rating: 5
Verdict: A great antivirus and antispyware program at no cost
System Requirements:
Partitioning your hard drive is an invaluable way to optimise the use of disk
space, improve performance, or create a dual-boot PC so you can install another
operating system. Just don't use Windows own partition tools to do the job, as
they're destructive, wiping the data from whatever drive you working on: you're
much better off using a safe alternative like Paragon Partition Manager 2005.
If your drive is starting with a single partition, for instance, then
Partition Manager 2005 can resize it in a few mouse clicks. It's able to create
primary or extended partitions, and can format them in a range of file systems:
FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, Ext2FS, Ext3FS, ReiserFS and L-Swap2. And if you want to
take full control, then Partition Manager 2005 even lets you choose the cluster
size for the drive, and the number of sectors allocated to boot code.
It's then possible to create new partitions in the empty space, merge
partitions together, or move them around on the hard drive. And if you made one
or more partitions a little too small and it's now short on disk capacity, then
use the Redistribute Free Space wizard to even things up.
Even if you couldn't care less about partitions, there may still be functions
here that you'll find useful. There's a Copy Hard Disk option, for example,
useful if you've bought a new drive. The program can convert your file system
from NTFS to FAT32, and there's even an option to defragment the NTFS Master
File Table (MFT), boosting performance in a way that can't be achieved by normal
defragmentation tools.
Ignore the ‘time limited demo’ reference on this page. To obtain your serial
code, head to
http://registration.paragon.ag/pm2005
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Partition Manager 2005 is only one of many drive-related Paragon products. The
range also includes Drive Backup, a powerful disk imaging and cloning tool that
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