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Do you have thousands of photos, documents, songs etc on your hard drive? If you do, you’ll likely have duplicates all over the place. In this guide you’ll learn how to search for duplicates and delete them; thus, saving you space and keeping you organized.

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ReNamer is a very powerful and flexible file renaming tool, which offers all the standard renaming procedures, including prefixes, suffixes, replacements, case changes, as well as removing contents of brackets, adding number sequences, changing file extensions, etc.

For advanced users, there is a PascalScript rule, which let users program their very own renaming rule. This program allows you to combine multiple renaming actions as a rule set, applying each action in a logical sequence, which can be saved, loaded, and managed within the program. In addition, it has an ability to rename folders, process regular expressions, is Unicode capable, and supports variety of meta tags, such as: ID3v1, ID3v2, EXIF, OLE, AVI, MD5, CRC32, and SHA1.

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This guide is included as part of the Windows Guides File Organization series. Please visit the main page if you would like to learn why this guide may be useful.

D-FileMU Renames Your Files Effortlessly

Posted by Rich On November - 11 - 200830 COMMENTS

I don’t remember when I first started using D-File Mu, but it is an invaluable tool for me. I use it all the time and I recommend it to anyone. It may take a little getting used to, but it’s not too complicated and works very well. In this guide, you’ll learn how to set rules and batch rename your files without going near the command prompt.

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Vista Battery Saver Saves Your Battery in Vista

Posted by Rich On October - 3 - 200810 COMMENTS

If you use Vista on a laptop, you may find your battery life isn’t great. I updated my computer from XP to Vista about over a year ago and I must say I noticed a significant (10%+) loss in battery life. Honestly, I don’t mind, but I’ve been testing Vista Battery Saver for a couple of weeks and now I want to share it with www.mintywhite.com readers.

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Recuva Recovers Lost Data on Your Drive

Posted by Rich On September - 26 - 200816 COMMENTS

recuva recovers your files 00 Recuva Recovers Lost Data on Your Drive
I lost some photos recently and after trying a few different recovery programs, I came across Recuva. My problem was solved and now I want mintywhite readers to use this great software. Get yourself a free copy below.

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Completely Erase Your Hard Drive with Wipe Disk

Posted by Rich On September - 5 - 200824 COMMENTS

wipe disk 00 Completely Erase Your Hard Drive with Wipe Disk

Plan to sell your PC soon? Left one out on the driveway before? You may be exposing sensitive data to anyone who comes across it.

Think formatting your hard drive is enough to remove your sensitive data? Think again.

Wipe disk is by far the best piece of data erasing software I have ever found. Wipe disk will completely rewrite the data on your drive, making it physically impossible to ever retrieve the original data.

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