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Recuva (pronounced "recover") is a freeware Windows utility that can help you to restore your files, which have been accidentally deleted from your computer. This includes files accidentally emptied from the Recycle bin as well as images and other files that have been deleted by user error from memory cards or external devices, such as MP3 players. With Recuva you can even rescue files that have been 'lost' due to bugs, crashes or viruses!
Key Features include:

• Simple to use interface - just click 'Scan' and choose the files you want to recover.
• Easy to use filter for results based on file name/type.
• Simple Windows like interface with List and Tree view.
• Can be run from a USB thumb drive.
• Restores all types of files, including office documents, images, video, music, email etc.
• Supports FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, exFAT, NTFS, NTFS5 , NTFS + EFS file systems.
• Restores files from removable media such as digital cameras, memory sticks, CF cards, Smart Media Cards, SD cards, etc.)
• Restores files from external ZIP drives, Firewire and USB hard drives.
• Lightweight and fast.

Unlike most file recovery tools, Recuva can restore files from damaged or newly formatted drives. With greater flexibility Recuva has a better chance of recovering your data. Recuva comes with an advanced deep scan feature that scours your drive to locate any traces of files you have deleted.
Recuva also has a secure overwrite feature that enables you to destroy a file, so that it cannot be recovered using normal software recovery tools. Using industry and military standard deletion techniques to make sure your files stay erased, Recuva’s secure overwrite feature ensures your data remains as private as possible.
Overall, Recuva is a superior file recovery solution that supports numerous file types, and it can recover your data from any re-writeable media, such as memory cards, external hard drives, and USB drives. It is lightweight, easy to use and, because it is from Piriform, the creators of CCleaner, and Speccy, it is free!

SyncBack has established itself as world-class in the field of backup and synchronization software. Whether you're a beginner or advanced user, at home or work, SyncBack ensures your most valuable asset, data, remains protected.

• Backup - Protect your data.
• Restore - Recover your lost files easily.
• Copy Open Files - Backup live documents.
• Versioning - Keep previous versions.
• Incremental Backups - Does what is required.
• FTP and Email - Online access.
• Performance & Throttling - As fast as can be.
• Synchronize - Work with 2 or more computers.
• Secure - Keep confidential data private.
• Compression - Keep your files small.
• Automation - Set it and forget it.
• Advanced Customization - A superb array of options.
Supported operating systems include Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP. Both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows are supported.

WinZip is the most trusted way to work with compressed files. No other compression utility is as easy-to-use or offers the comprehensive and productivity-enhancing approach that has made WinZip the gold standard for file-compression tools.
You can quickly and securely zip and unzip files to conserve storage space, speed up e-mail transmission, and reduce download times. State-of-the-art file compression, strong AES encryption, compatibility with more compression formats, and new intuitive photo compression, make WinZip the complete compression and archiving solution.
Building on the favorite features of a worldwide base of several million users, WinZip adds new features for image compression and management, support for new compression methods, improved compression performance, support for additional archive formats, and more. Users can work faster, smarter, and safer.
This is a 45-day trial version.

7-Data Card Recovery is an effective tool to recover lost, deleted, corrupted or formatted photos, video, files from various memory card types including SD Card, MicroSD, SDHC, CF (Compact Flash) Card, xD Picture Card, and Memory Sticks.
Supported card types include:

• Secure Digital card, SD card, SDHC, miniSD, MicroSD (TransFlash) card.
• Compact Flash card, CF Type I, Type II, MicroDrive, CF card.
• Memory Stick, Memory Stick Pro, Duo, Pro-HG, XC, Micro(M2).
• MultiMedia card, MMC card.
• SmartMedia, flash card, xD Picture card.
• Cellular phone, mobile phone memory card and digital media recovery.
• MicroSD or MicroSDHC card used by Android smart phone.
• USB flash drive digital image.

Supported image file types include:

• 3d Studio Max file(.max), ANI file(.ani), Adobe Illustrator file(.ai).
• Bitmap file(.bmp), COREL Draw file(.cdr), Corel Draw Corel RAVE Image file(.clk).
• Corel Draw Vector Image file(.cmx), Canon Raw graphics file(.crw).
• Cursor file(.cur), AutoCAD Drawing file(.dwg), AutoCad DX File(.dxf).
• Enhanced Metafile(.emf), Encapsulated Postscript file(.eps).
• Freehand 10 file(.fh11), GIF graphics file(.gif), Icon file(.ico).
• JPEG Graphics file(.jpg.jpeg), Portable Network Graphic file(.png).
• Adobe Photoshop file(.psd), Paint Shop Pro file(.psp), Q uattroPro 7 File(.qpw).
• Corel Presentation File(.shw), Tagged Image File(.tif).

Supported video file formats include:

• 3GP Multimedia file(.3gp), Audio Streaming Format file(.asf), AU file(.au).
• Audio Video Interleave file(.avi), Musical Instrument Digital Interface file (.mid).
• MOV Multimedia file(.mov), MP3 Music file(.mp3), MP4 Multimedia file(.mp4),ShockWave Flash file(.swf).
• WAVE Multimedia file(.wav), WMF Multimedia file(.wmf).

If you need to recover almost any type of data from almost any type of card then 7-Data Card Recovery is a lightweight tool with a simple user interface that even novice users will be able to understand.

7-Data Recovery Suite Free is a small, lightweight data recovery app that is able to recover data from hard disks, memory cards, and flash drives, whether that be lost or deleted photos, files, or data from partitions.
7-Data Recovery Suite Free is a complete data recovery solution for rescuing files under almost any conditions, including accidentally deleted files, damaged or formatted hard drives, lost/deleted partitions, photos or videos lost from local drives, memory cards, or cameras. It can even recover data lost from mobile* devices.
Key Features include:

• Recover data from both local drives and mobile storage devices**.
• Recover documents, emails, photos, videos, audio files and more.
• Recover 1 GB data for free with the Free Edition.

7-Data Recovery Suite Free is a handy app to have stashed away in your arsenal. The interface is clean, although a little dated, and it is easy to use with a simple button style menu system. You simply choose the type of recovery you wish to undertake; complete recovery, deleted recovery, digital media recovery, lost partition recovery, or Android recovery, and then follow the simple instructions.
*Supports Android OS devices. **Supported storage devices include: DE HDD, SATA HDD, SCSI HDD, FireWire HDD, SSD, USB HDD, External HDD, Hardware RAID, Floppy drive, USB flash drive, Compact flash card, Secure Digital card, Memory card/Memory stick, Micro card, Zip drive, and iPod.

Abelssoft Backup is a great piece of software, which lets you back up your important data to a safe location in case of corruption, accidental damage, or some other form of unexpected data loss.
It has some powerful configuration options, which allow you to personalize every aspect of backing up your data.
Abelssoft Backup has a modern, minimalistic interface. It has a simple wizard that walks you through your backup process in several simple steps. Once you have configured the app, you can then apply the same settings in the future.
Key features include:

• Selective backup: choose the files to save and a title for the backup. The most common file types can be selected from a predefined list.
• Automation: choose the time, when an automatic backup should start, or alternatively, Abelssoft Backup can start as soon as you connect your backup drive to your computer.
• Password protection: you can protect your backups by using a password. By using a password nobody else is able to restore your data without knowing it.
• Simple Restore: simply restore your backups when needed. Just choose a backup and a restore point, and your data will be restored within minutes.
• Emergency Backup: Abelssoft Backup supports 1:1 drive images, which allow you to mirror everything, or a selection of your pictures, music files and videos on NTFS formatted partitions.

Overall, Abelssoft Backup is a good backup solution. It is able to keep your backups up to date automatically, or manually. It has a number of configurable options to choose from, and it has an intuitive interface to work with. It is relatively lightweight and consumes minimal system resources.

Abelssoft Undeleter is a great tool that is able to recover deleted, formatted or inaccessible data from your computer’s hard drive. With it, you can recover documents, photos, music, videos, emails, folders, and other files from Windows based computers.
The app has a wizard-like interface which guides you through all the steps you need to successfully retrieve your files. To start, simply select the drive, either a single drive or several drives. Next up, specify the format you need to recover, i.e. .JPEG for images, .MP3 for music, .DOC for documents or choose from a user-defined list of extensions.
As soon as the analysis has been completed, you can explore a detailed list with all the recoverable files, which match your search criteria. Information such as original path, size and recovery state is displayed for you.
You are then able to select all the files that you are interested in, choose the destination folder that you wan them recovered to and then initiate the recovery process. After this, all you need to do is wait until the restoration is complete.
Key Features include:

• Intuitive interface.
• Recover lost files.
• Deep scan*.

Abelssoft Undeleter supports multiple storage devices including external hard drives, USB drives, SD cards, MP3/MP4 players and digital cameras etc.
Overall, Abelssoft Undeleter’s interface makes it easy to navigate for all users, both novice and expert. The app comes in handy to all those looking to quickly retrieve all the documents they lost due to accidental deletion, even if the files are no longer located in the Recycle Bin.
*Pro version only.

Acronis True Image 2017 is a new, multi-platform edition of the trusted backup tool. The application can work with both local and cloud storage, and can be configured to backup your whole disk or just single files or folders. It brings faster disk imaging technologies, supports data migration and the ability to backup virtual machines.

Key features include:

• Full system image backup.
• Cloud backup to a secure online location.
• Easy and fast recovery.
• Personal key encryption technology that protects your backups.
• Data migration (PC).
• Parallels compatibility and virtual machine backup.
• Smart scheduling.
• Ease of use.
• Advanced backup modes.
• Support of most storage media.
• Full system restore from the cloud.
• Certified for Windows XP, 7, 8, and 10.

As you would expect from a firm that has been making backup solutions for well over a decade, Acronis has hit the mark again with the 2017 edition of their renowned backup application.
With Acronis True Image 2017 you can protect your PC's data should anything unfortunate happen. With a full system backup in place, you can keep all your data safe even if your computer is lost, stolen or damaged. You can backup locally or remotely to the cloud, and then access your data anytime and from anywhere you need.

Aiseesoft FoneTrans is an iOS data transfer and management app for the Mac platform. The software can transfer all kinds of data and media, including Contacts, Photos, Music and Videos, between your Mac and your iOS device, and is a superb alternative to using iTunes.
Key Features include:

• Manage files between PC and iOS devices.
• Transfer files from PC/iOS devices to iOS devices.
• Sync files to PC from iOS devices.
• Export iOS device files to iTunes.
• Supports Photos, Music, Contacts, Voice Memo, Movies, TV, Music Videos, Podcasts, iTunes U data, Ringtones, Audio Books, Camera, Playlists, Albums, Books, ePubs, and PDFs.
• Upscale lower resolution video to 4K.

In order to transfer data from your PC and your iOS device, simply connect your device to your PC with USB cable, and wait the app to detect your device. Then, choose the file type you want to transfer, such as Contacts, Photos, etc. and then hit ‘Export’ ‘Export to XX’ in order to transfer files between your connected devices and your PC.
If you have more than one iOS device and own a PC, and you need to keep all your devices synced, then Aiseesoft FoneTrans is a useful tool to have. The interface is easy to navigate with a single window, which shows you all your connected devices. The app is relatively lightweight and has a shallow learning curve.

Android Data Recovery Pro is a file recovery app for your Android device. The app has been designed to enable you to quickly recover data such as contacts, messages, call history, photos, videos and other documents from all kinds of Android devices.
You could lose data by rooting your device or by accidentally deleting something. You may have an issue with a factory reset or maybe you have tried to flash a ROM or root your device and it hasn't worked properly? Whatever the issue, you don't need to panic as this app works well for all Android OS based phones and tablets.
Key Features Include:

• Support for multiple data recovery options such as; contact recovery, SMS, and call history etc.

• Retrieve lost data from deleting, factory reset, flashing ROM or rooting.

• Restore photos, videos, archives, PDF, Word files or apps.

• Preview before recovery.

• Two connection options; via Wi-Fi or USB Cable direct to your PC.

Android Data Recovery Pro supports numerous Android based phone manufacturers, such as Samsung, HTC, LG and Motorola. The app also supports various kinds of tablet manufacturers, including Google, Samsung, Asus and Sony.
Android Data Recovery Pro is compatible with various Android OS, including Android 2.3, 3.0, 4.1, 4.3 and Android 4.4.x. and runs on Windows 10/8.1/8/7/XP/Vista.

Any Data Recovery Pro has been designed for recovering lost data, such as photos, videos, documents, which have been mistakenly deleted from various storage devices, such as external hard drives, USB flash drives, and memory cards. The application supports numerous file types including as .doc, .xls, .rar, .jpg, .png, .rmvb, .zip, .mp3, and .mp4 etc.
Any Data Recovery Pro not only recovers data from hard drive, USB flash drive, etc. with FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS file systems, but it can also supports Mac file system (HFS, HFS+), and Linux file systems (EXT2, EXT3).
Key features include:

• Recover more than 550 file types.
• 2 recovery modes.
• Support all file systems including FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, HFS, HFS+, EXT2,EXT3,and EXT4 partitions.
• Preview photos and listen the audio files before recovering.
• Optionally recover selected files.

Any Data Recovery Pro is a good utility to help you recover lost files from corrupted, re-sized, deleted or dead partitions, and you can retrieve data from various storage media such as USB flash drives, and SD cards. The interface is both clean and easy to navigate, and the vast array of supported file types makes Any Data Recovery Pro a good tool to own.

AOMEI Backupper Standard will protect your data by applying incremental and differential backups of your system. The application has many useful features, including scheduled backups and the ability to encrypt and compress backups. With AOMEI Backupper Standard you can back up entire hard disks or specified partitions and create system images to keep your operating system and applications safe.
Key Features Include:

• Backup features include: System Backup. Files/Folders Backup. Disk Backup. Partition Backup.
• Restore features include: System Restore. Files Restore. Selective File Restore. Disk/Partition Restore.
• Clone features include: Clone Disk. Clone Partition.

Supported storage devices include:IDE, SATA, SCSI disk, SSD, USB external hard drives and removable flash drives, hardware RAID, including RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 10.Network-Attached Storage (NAS) and Shared Network drives. Hyper-V, Virtual box, VMware virtual disk are also supported.

Apowersoft Phone Manager is a mobile management application that is fully compatible with both iOS and Android. It allows you to manage, transfer, view, restore, and backup mobile or tablet data including messages, contacts, apps, bookmarks, call logs, wallpapers, songs, and videos.
Key features include:

• Auto device recognition.
• Transfer all files from phone devices to PC and vice versa.
• Supports iOS and Android.
• Manage photos, music, videos, SMS and contact data.
• Backup all kinds of data from your devices to PC.
• Restore mobile data from PC backups.
• Multi phone display support.

Overall, Apowersoft Phone Manager is a useful and reliable application that can help you clean up your mobile device, add or remove data, and back up your device to your PC, simply and easily.

Archive Recovery from SysInfo Tools Software has recovery support for multiple types of archive files, including .ZIP (32 & 64), .RAR, .TAR, .TAR.Gz and .7z.
With Archive Recovery you can fix any level of corruption from archive files, and resolve errors such as 'Unexpected end of archive. For those users who utilise both Windows and Mac OS the app supports ZIP archive files created on both systems.
Addresses errors such as:

• 'The file or directory is corrupt and non-readable'.
• 'Invalid data into a Zip file'.
• 'ZIP file is corrupt'.
• 'The archive is corrupt'.
• 'CRC (Cyclic Redundancy Check) error" appears on the monitor screen'.
• 'Cannot open file: it does not appear to be a valid archive'.
• 'Expected ZIP file header not found'.

Archive Recovery lets you restore maximum possible data from corrupt archives in their original form. It's an easy-to-use app that requires no prior technical expertise.
Key Features include:

• Perform successive recovery of multiple compressed archive file formats.
• Enhanced support for .ZIP (32/64), .7-ZIP, .RAR, .TAR and .TAR.GZ files for recovery.
• Exclusive support for recovery of .ZIP files larger than 2GB.
• Archive file recovery tool support .ZIP files created on MAC OS.
• Advance scanning mode for .TAR and .TAR.Gz archives.
• Recover corrupt archive files more than 1 TB (1024 GB).
• Supports batch recovery of corrupt archive files.
• Save extracted files in a separate folder (optional feature).
• Compatible with Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, 2003, XP, 2000 and earlier versions.

Overall, Archive Recovery has a simple user interface with basic layout that is easy to navigate by all users.
Please note, the trial version of the app provides a preview of the files that are able to be recovered. To enable recovery of that data, please consider purchase.

Auslogics File Recovery is an effective tool for to ‘undelete’ files that you may have lost by accident or due to to a virus attacking your system.
Auslogics File Recovery is a specialized app that can retrieve your files, which, for all purposes, are considered lost from your computer. The app’s interface is clean and intuitive and can be navigated by anyone. Simply select the target volume (or the Recycle Bin), and the app will search for any files that you need. Key Features include

• Intuitive interface.
• Powerful scanning engine.
• Search filter.
• Multi-language support.

If you need to search for specific files, you can configure Auslogics File Recovery to filter your searches by means of pictures, music, video, documents, last date of modification, and filename etc. You can also configure the app to perform a deep scan, skip zero-sized files, and skip temporary files and system files as well.
Whilst scanning, you can see a progress bar, along with the a total number of found and processed files. After completion, you can view the name, status, date of modification, size, type and location for every item that it finds.
Overall, Auslogics File Recovery is a reasonable app that can recover almost anything you care to try to find on your PC. The interface is easy to understand and the intuitive layout makes it simple to navigate. The only downside is the amount of system resources it uses up trying to scan for your missing files. That having been said, it does complete scans in a reasonable time frame, but this, obviously depends upon the size of your hard drive and your system specification.

Bandizip is an all-in-one Zip Archiver. It can handle most popular compression formats, including Zip, 7z, and Rar. It is both lightweight and lightning fast, utilizing a rapid Zip algorithm for compression & extraction with fast drag and drop functions, high speed archiving, and multi-core compression.
Key features include:

• Support for Unicode to display international characters.
• Bypass files that don't compress well using the "High Speed Archiving" function.
• Extract files to the destination folder directly using the fast drag & drop function.
• Create self-extracting files (.EXE) and multi-volume (split) archives.
• Optional archive encryption using ZipCrypto and AES 256.
• Context Menu access including the preview archive function.
• Create or extract multiple zip files simultaneously from windows explorer.

Bandizip suports ZipCrypto and AES 256 encryption algorithms for higher security. It also has support for split compression to certain sizes, such as 10MB or 700MB. Besides Windows standard split compression formats such as zip, z01, and z02, it securely supports ALZ, EGG (alz, a01, a02, and vol1.egg, vol2.egg, 7Z(7z.001, 7z.002, and RAR (part1.rar).
Bandizip is lightweight, has numerous support features and utilizes super quick Zip algorithms for compression and expansion. If you want to change your current Zip utility then Bandizip is a great tool to try.

Beyond Compare 3 is the ideal tool for comparing files and folders on your Windows system. Visualize changes in your code and carefully reconcile them.

• Compare Files, Folders
  Beyond Compare allows you to quickly and easily compare your files and folders. By using simple, powerful commands you can focus on the differences you're interested in and ignore those you're not. You can then merge the changes, synchronize your files, and generate reports for your records.
• Specialized Viewers
  Beyond Compare includes built-in comparison viewers for a variety of data types. Compare .csv data or HTML tables in a Data Compare session, or images in a Picture Compare session.
• 3-way Merge
  Beyond Compare's new merge view allows you to combine changes from two versions of a file into a single output. Its intelligent approach allows you to quickly accept most changes while carefully examining conflicts.
• Synchronize Folders
  Beyond Compare's intuitive Folder Sync interface lets you reconcile differences in your data automatically.

Backing up your data is important. Very important. There are hundreds of apps that can perform this task, but not all have the features that come with BitReplica, from Auslogics.
BitReplica is a solid app that lets you create backups, schedule backups, use full, incremental and differential backups. You can store backups locally on your hard drive, backup to external devices and make backups and store them in the cloud.
BitReplica allows you to make back up files from almost any storage device you can think of, not just your hard drive. BitReplica supports HDDs, SSDs, USB flash drives, and networked drives, to name a few.
Key Features include:

• Create multiple backup profiles.
• Supports Cloud storage.
• Schedule backups.
• Supports full, differential and incremental backups.
• Extended restore options.
• Back up fro any storage media.

Working with BitReplica is easy. You can backup anything you need to; images, documents, apps, photos, video files, and music. Whatever you need to backup, you can. The app allows you to set up separate backup profiles with different schedules for different file types. In this way you can create separate archives for work and for home. The app is also highly configurable with options to base backup rules upon how frequently you modify specific files.
BitReplica also allows you to configure some advanced options when scheduling backups. You have the option to exclude files from your backups by file type or by file attribute, check files in a backup, or even launch specific apps.
Overall, BitReplica is good, all-round backup utility. It is solid, supports various devices, and it is highly configurable and can be used in a variety of different environments. The learning curve is shallow as the interface is intuitive and can be navigated by all kinds of users.