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FirstDefense-ISR
$69 - Horizon DataSys Inc.

FirstDefense-ISR is an Instant System Recovery solution that has been designed for enterprise and mid-range servers and mission critical workstations, running Windows 2000, XP, and Server 2003 operating systems. FirstDefense-ISR functions transparently and allows administrators to quickly restore their systems to any complete predefined configuration. No special hardware is required. Furthermore, you do not require special CMOS, or additional disk partitions to be created. FirstDefense-ISR works on single or multi-partitioned systems, fully supporting RAID 0, 0+1, 5, and/or in clustering environments.

FirstDefense-ISR performs full-system backups for the purpose of immediate system recovery. The concept was developed as a result of years of listening to IT professionals concerned about having to deal with non-recoverable Windows blue screens, service pack installs going awry, and critical files becoming corrupted. These occurrences render the system unbootable and data is inaccessible until the problem is repaired.

FirstDefense-ISR periodically (and transparently) takes snapshots of the current state of the user?s system and applications software. It has the capability of storing up to ten point-in-time snapshots. Following a system crash, the user can immediately fall back to the most recent and uncorrupted snapshot. This reduces the MTTR to virtually zero and enables users and IT staff to instantly repair system crashes without the loss of productivity that results from extensive downtime.

Ability to create and maintain up to 10 "point-in-time" system snapshots. Each snapshot is bootable with no rebuild required.

Differential (changed files only) copy engine for fast snapshot updates.

Data Anchoring feature makes data files available to any snapshot that is booted.

Ability to create a compressed snapshot using NTFS file compression for a significantly smaller snapshot.

Ability to archive snapshots to another device.

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First Alert Service Monitor
$29.99 - ElectraSoft

Monitors Internet Services and alerts the user with a variety of methods if down. Always know whether or not your web site or other network services are up or down with First Alert Service Monitor.First Alert Service Monitor will check your site or other services as often as you have it configured to. If one of your services stops responding, you will be notified in the ways you have configured and the down time will be logged. If you pay a firm to host your site or service, you should be able to get at least a partial refund from your site hosting company if any serious down time occurs. Save money with First Alert Service Monitor! If one of your Internet Services goes down, you will be alerted by any or all of these many alarms. Select Alerts include: [Error Sound], [Plays your choice of WAV files (once or repeatedly)], [Show Alert Message box], [Send Email at Beginning of Alert], [Send Email at Ending of Alert], [Page you, Phone you], [Execute a Program]. You can use the First Alert Service Monitor [Execute Program] option to fix the problem in many cases. If your site or service does go down and then come back up without you knowing about it, First Alert Service Monitor will send you emails documenting the events date and time from down to up again.

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Registry First Aid
$27.95 - Rose City Software

New 6.0 - It's faster, finds more problems than others and is even easier to use! People's Choice Winner 2003 Shareware Industry Conference! Tired of Windows crashing? Sick of having software lock up on you or taking forever to load? The problem could be all of those incorrect registry entries caused by software installations and un-installations that went awry!

Not all software un-installations do a complete job leaving behind numerous nagging file references in the Windows registry pointing to files that no longer exist. In time, you can end up with hundreds of these files that may slow down your computer and cause software to lock up, requiring a hard reboot of your computer.

Also, if you've moved your programs from one drive to another, you can break the file links that a program needs. Registry First Aid will find these files and folders that you've moved on your hard drive and help you correct the registry entries that point to them.

Registry First Aid scans registry for orphan file/folder references, finds these files or folders on your drives that may have been moved from their initial locations, and then corrects your registry entries to match the located files or folders. In addition, if your registry has links to files of deleted applications, Registry First Aid will find these invalid entries and remove them from your registry. With Registry First Aid, your Windows registry will be always clean and correct, helping your programs load faster and speeding up your computer.

Registry First Aid allows you to:

- find invalid file/folder references in Windows 9x/NT/2000/ME/XP registry;
- select drives and paths where to search registry referenced files/folders;
- select found matches to make corrections to invalid registry entries;
- delete incorrect registry references to previously un-installed files or folders;
- create undo files in RegEdit4 format, so you always can restore Windows registry to the original state.

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DC Binding Recordset
$79 - EgyFirst Software, inc.

DC Binding Recordset is easily one of the first applications to let you manipulate data form in any way you want. This software integrates seamlessly into your project and lets you call the form functions whenever you need them - this way, don't need to spend so much time creating about codes. Best of all, you can reuse DC Binding Recordset again and again on all of your programs. DC Binding Recordset works with Visual Basic, Visual C++, and other such COM-based environments. It is another product of Egyfirst Software, Inc., one of the leading software developers in its region. A part of the Dynamic Components (DC) family of software, DC Binding Recordset is yet another 'must-have' if you are programmer serious about making your life easy. DC Binding Recordset lets you effortlessly navigate database records (first, previous, next, and last) on top of adding, editing, saving, or deleting them. In a few clicks, DC Binding Recordset lets you set the links or relationships between and among database tables. DC Binding Recordset also allows you to set up a search functionality - all in a few minutes. The codes are already created for you, so just include them in your project. You do not need to be an advanced programmer in order to install and fully use Binding Recordset. Its setup program automatically registers the DC_DataManger10.dll file on your system. To integrate it into your project, simply select 'add reference' from the project menu. Click the 'browse' button to locate all of these DLL 1- your DC_BindingRecordset10.DLL 2- AxInterop.MSDataGridLib.dll 3- Interop.MSDataGridLib.dll 4- adodb.dll which all of them by default are located in c:windowssystem32. This application can be yours for just a little less than $200 - a very small price to pay considering all the time you will save from using it.

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Oracle Query Analyser
$29 - FirstCMS Limited

Oracle Query Analyser is a professional development tool aimed at software developers exposed to the data services tier of n-tier software applications. The product allows rapid transact SQL development against an Oracle database through an intuitive Windows graphical user interface.

Dictionary object browser
Rowset restriction support.
Export query results to variety of formats including CSV, HTML
SQLNet / Netx compliant.
Quick table and view data access.
Query favorites for quick access to saved queries.
Multiple query windows.
View current database sessions.

Linux and Solaris versions available soon.

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SmartMenus
$25 - FirstCMS Limited

SmartMenus is aimed at ICT professionals who need to open files with many different applications, quicly and easily depending on the situation. SmartMenus empowers you with the flexibility to associate any Windows application with one or many different file types using a simple to use graphical interface. SmartMenus launches the application you require by selecting it off a menu when you right click on a particular file.

Features

Map file types to variety of applications.
Fast access to suitable application for the task at hand.
Comprehensive file type listing.
Complements Windows file associations whilst preserving the integrity of these associations.
Rename the menu captions for an application.
Change the application mapping dynamically whilst preserving the associated file types.
30 day free trial with free upgrades to next version(s) for registered users.

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