Freeware

A collection of free software tools, batch-files and shell-extensions.

Contents

1. MS-DOS batch-files.
   1. Printable directory listing.
   2. 'Cabinet' file listing.
   3. Backup the Windows registry.
   4. Empty Windows' Temp folder.
2. Windows 95 shell-extensions.
   1. Open a DOS box.
3. Recommended free software
   1. HTML-Kit.

MS-DOS batch-files

Printable directory listing.

Do you wish that Windows would let you print a directory/folder listing? Well now it does with the help of this simple to use batch-file.

'Cabinet' file listing.

What exactly is in those 'cab' files on the Windows CD? Find out with this simple batch-file.

Backup the Windows registry.

The chances are that sooner or later the Windows registry will become corrupted. Back it up regularly with this batch-file.

Empty Windows' Temp folder.

Often, temporary files are left in Windows' Temp folder. These can take up a lot of space if not cleared out periodically. This batch-file will deal with those files in one go.

Back to Contents.

Windows 95 shell-extensions

Open a DOS box.

I got sick of not being able to open a DOS box directly into the folder that I was looking at in Explorer. I hunted around and came up with this. It's not an original idea, but I find it so useful that I felt that I just had to include it here.

Back to Contents.

Recommended free software

HTML-Kit

If you need an HTML editor, you could do far worse than to try this one. I recently stopped using my text editor for writing these pages because I needed a better, and faster, method. After trying many other editors I discovered HTML-Kit. Read my impression of this little gem, and then visit it's home page.

Back to Contents.