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20 Great Low-Cost Utilities

These tools can address a host of problems, ranging from cluttered hard disks to sluggish performance. Most are free or offer a free trial period.

Richard Baguley

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Click to view File Splitter.PowerDesk 6 Standard This handy little utility makes operations like moving, renaming, and otherwise manipulating files easy. It's a big improvement over Windows Explorer. The developer offers a free standard version and a more-advanced $40 version.

The File Splitter This simple, free utility takes a file and chops it up into smaller chunks, automatically creating a program that can restore the original at the other end. It's great for e-mailing large files.

MasterSplitter Large files (typically, those over 10MB) won't make it through your e-mail server. This program splits them into more manageable chunks, and automatically creates a batch file to reassemble them. It has more features than The File Splitter, but it nags you to register and pay $13.

DoubleKiller Got duplicates? This free program hunts down and eradicates duplicate copies of files, freeing up valuable disk space.

Click here to view full-size image.Clonemaster This utility searches for duplicate files on your hard drive, network drives, and removable media; it's a powerful program. You can give it a spin with its 30-day trial, after which it costs $40.

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