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Acronis Migrate Easy 7.0

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So finally you got your hard disk drive the way you like it. Unfortunately, it's now full and you have to upgrade to a new hard disk. You think you are facing a large re-installation project which is likely to take several days of tedious work. Use Migrate Easy to move across your old data and files.

Requires: Windows 2000 or XP

Office Custom UI Editor

Freeware

The 2007 Microsoft Office System has an all-new "ribbon" interface which developers can customize in many ways. One of the ways to extend the ribbon is to insert an XML part into an Office Open XML document that defines your custom UI. With this approach, you can add new groups and controls, hide existing ribbon elements, and define callbacks to handlers that you write in managed code.

Requires: Windows XP or Vista

VNC Personal Edition

Trial Software

Remote control software which allows you to view and fully interact with one computer desktop (the "VNC server") using a simple program (the "VNC viewer") on another computer desktop anywhere on the Internet. The two computers don't even have to be the same type, so for example you can use VNC to view a Windows Vista desktop at the office on a Linux or Mac computer at home.

Requires: Windows 98SE, 2000, Me or XP

JAWS 9.0.515

Trial Software
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Visual screen reader that works with your PC to provide access to todayÆs software applications and the Internet. With its internal software speech synthesizer and the computerÆs sound card, information from the screen is read aloud. Also outputs to refreshable braille displays.

Requires: Windows 2000, XP or Vista

Paragon Drive Copy 8.5

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Solution to deploy new hard drive, migrate data and applications online, create bootable backup copy of a hard drive or its partitions. Paragon Drive Copy is based on innovative Hot Copy technology. Due to this technology all your applications remain online during data migration without significant performance delays. Easy to manage and understand interface in Windows XP style and unique One Button Copy Wizard.

Requires: Windows 98SE, 2000, Me, XP or Vista

Windows Easy Transfer Companion

Freeware

Enables you to automatically transfer your most important programs from your Windows XP-based PC to your new Windows Vista-based PC. The software will move more than 100 of the most popular programs, as well as many others that you may have installed. Note that this version only works with the US-based version of Windows.

Requires: Windows XP or Vista