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Want to clean up garbage data in Windows, studying astronomy, or simply backing up data? Here you can find various free programs for these tasks and many more.

1. SWEEPI 5.4


Clean-Clean Windows
Activity in your Windows influence garbage data on the emergence of the system and your privacy. Use Sweepi with one click solution to resolve the issue. You can choose from a variety of profiles and a tool - "QuickClean" Sweepi also optimize your system automatically.

Tips1: Data that can be removed easily using a special program. If you want to delete the document forever, open the "Sweepi Slicer" through the "Start | ... | YooApps | Sweepi | Tools." Select the file and also override the hard disk is blank on all partitions.

Tips2: Before you dispose registry, you should make a backup for the guard. Sweepi provides a function that can be activated through the "Info | Registry Backup". With these functions, and save a backup copy of it. If you want to create a registry backup each time you run Sweepi, enable the option through the "Settings | CleanUp".

2. Planetarium 2.5


Let's Learn Astronomy!
There is no need to take pains to Planetarium to see the stars in the sky. Install it on your PC Planetarium. Planetarium program with the simulator and a virtual solar system, you can display a group of stars in the sky at night from various locations on earth. The withdrawal "time machine", you can see the stars in the cluster range of time from 1760 until the year 9999. The program is the development of a DOS program in 1992 is very suitable for students or children who want to study astronomy.

Tips1: To have a picture on the screen like the original, you need to set the time zone: Click on "Ort" and select the nearest big city. This program automatically adjust the coordinates. Check also whether the time (hours) have been set correctly.

Tips2: Although the background music played by Planetarium initially sounded interesting, the long run you may be bored hearing. Turn off the music is just by clicking the option "Do not play music" through the "Config | Preferences".

3. ARECA BACKUP 6:07

Full Data Backup
Hard disk crash can cause loss of all data. Areca Backup to create backup copies of data and sensitive method supports incremental and differential.

Tips: Before the men's first-start the backup, you need to create a "Group" (order) and select the source will be: how, click on the "Edit | New Group" and give a name. You can set the configuration through the "Edit | New Target".

4. REN'PY

Creator Visual Novels
Make a game is a complicated job and take control of annual and programming languages. Ren'py is a mini program for the user to design a common point and click adventure in Python. Interface is quite intuitive, so easily understood by users.

Tip: After installation, open the sample game is to find out what can be done with this open source program. For that, click the "Demo" and click through these mini-games.

FDISK Tutorial

The Basics of Fdisk:
Primary partitions are the only one that are bootable. They're always the C: drive when active. Normally you can only have one (more with some special tricks etc.) Extended partitions are needed when you want more than one partition. You can only have ONE Extended partition. Logical Drives come into the Extended partition. They are handy since you know that you can only have one Primary and one Extended so you can get more than only two partitions. They would be your D:, E:, etc. drives.

First you need to reboot your system with the Boot Disk inserted.

1.At the A: prompt start "FDISK."

2.If asked to use Large Disc support say Yes.

3.The first screen looks like this:

Create Dos Partition or Logical Drive
Set Active Partition
Delete Partitions or Logical DOS Drives
Display Partition Information
Change current fixed drive. (In case you have two or more Hard Drivess)
So, to prepare you hopefully did a backup from your data. You did, didn't you ?!

4.Next we need to remove the existing partitions. So go to 3.

5.Next screen like this:

Delete Primary DOS
Delete Extended DOS
Delete Logical Drives
Delete Non-DOS
Delete always in the following order

Logical (All) > Extended > Primary (Last)

6.Go back to first screen after all partitions have been removed.

7.Now we need to setup our new partitions. Go to 1.

This screen looks like this:

Create Primary DOS
Create Extended DOS
Create Logical DOS Drives
Here we create in the following order

Primary > Extended > Logical Drives.

8.First create the Primary. If asked to use all space say No and enter the amount you wish for the C: drive. It should be set automatically to be the (only) Active partition. If not it may ask you or you have to select "2. Set active partition" from the main menu.

9.Next create the Extended Partition. Use all space left.

It probably advances automatically to the next step, creating the Logical DOS Drives.

10.Enter the amount you wish for the D: partition and than the rest for the third partition.

Think first about the size for the partitions.

OK now we're finished with FDISK so just exit it. Next you need to reboot with the disc still inserted and Format all partitions (the C: partition might need to be formatted with "format c: /s", check the Win95 tip). Another reboot and you can go ahead and install Windows.

When your system supports booting from CD just insert the Windows CD and reboot. The setup will start.

If not, follow these steps:

Win98: insert Boot Disk and CD, reboot, choose "2. boot with CDROM support" and once you're at the prompt change to your CD-drive letter (depends on your partition setup) and enter "setup".
Win95: You must format the C: partition with "Format C: /s"!. Next install your CDROM driver, reboot, insert the Win95 CD, change to the CD-driveletter, enter "setup".
I hope I made no mistakes.

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