The 10 Best Free Hard Drive Utilities

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The 10 Best Free Hard Drive Utilities Here are our favorite free utilities for partitioning, monitoring, and optimizing hard drives (as well as a few inexpensive for-pay alternatives). Despite some high-end features, they won't bust your budget. - Laura Blackwell, PCWorld App Reviews From Download This WinOptimizer 8 Tunes Your PC a Number of Ways...For a Price All-in-one tuneup tool WinOptimizer 8 has more modules than you'll ever use. Share: Yataghan: A Clean Gothic Font With a Dangerous Edge Daniel Midgley?s Gothic display font Yataghan draws inspiration from a lethal form of weaponry. Share: Organize E-mail With Outlook Add-In Single Click Filing With Single Click Filing for Outlook, organizing your Outlook email into folders has never been so easy. 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