Full commercial software for free

I’ve found some more free commercial software available for a limited time:

Register Here and Receive the CD Key to Fully Install CyberLink YouCam 1 available from2009/11/19 to 2010/03/20:
http://www.cyberlink.com/prog/event/bundle/index.do?nEventId=2099

 
This is only used for CyberLink MediaShow 4 DE available from 2009/11/01 to 2010/03/31: http://www.cyberlink.com/prog/event/bundle/index.do?nEventId=2122


CyberLink PowerDirector available from 2009/09/30 to 2010/02/05: http://www.cyberlink.com/prog/event/bundle/index.do?nEventId=2101


CyberLink PowerDVD available from 2009/10/01 to 2009/11/30: http://www.cyberlink.com/prog/event/bundle/index.do?nEventId=2119 


Paragon Total Defrag 2010 free until 29Nov2009:  http://www.paragon-software.com/free/giveaway.html


Here’s another site that you would want to keep your eye on: http://dottech.org/category/freebies

You want to create a copy of your current hard drive without having to reinstall everything: clone it – Solved!

I’ve often been asked how to replace a suspect hard drive before it fails completely without having to reinstall all the programs and then copy all the data back onto it… well, here’s a free OpenSource solution that clones your hard drive quickly – no, very quickly!

 

CloneZilla is a super-fast cloning tool that can clone one system to another, or one-to-many (over the LAN) using multi-casting (or broadcasting) technology.

Clonezilla, allows you to do bare metal backup and recovery.

Clonezilla Live is suitable for single machine backup and restore.

Clonezilla SE (Server Edition) is for massive deployment, it can clone many (40 plus!) computers simultaneously.

Clonezilla saves and restores only used blocks in the hard disk which increases the clone efficiency.

Clonezilla supports many file systems including GNU/Linux,FAT, NTFS, HFS+, and more; no matter if it’s 32 or 64 bit.

See here for screen shots: http://clonezilla.org/screenshot/

See here for downloading Clonezilla and instructions on how to create a bootable CD: http://clonezilla.org/clonezilla-live/

I’m sure this will save you lots of time and trouble – consider donating to Clonezilla here: Donate

Update on 28Nov2009:
Here’s another great article listing the “5 Ways to Clone and copy your hard drive” (all free tools) covering: Paragon’s Drive Backup Express (Windows), DriveImage XML (Windows), CloneZilla (cross platform), XXCLONE (Windows), EASEUS Disk Copy (cross platform).

So, you need an old version of the Java Runtime Engine (JRE)… look in the archive – SOLVED

Took me a while, but finally found the JRE that I was looking for (and a lot more) I was looking for JRE 1_5_0_15 for Windows.
Here’s the Sun Java Technology Products Download page (archive): http://java.sun.com/products/archive/

As you can see, there is all sorts of information listed: J2EE toolkits, JDBC drivers, JDK, SDK, J2RE, JCE, JSSE, JFC, Swing, and more.
Use the pull-down menus to select what you need to download and press “Go”, then the next window will allow selection of your operating system, then download the file:

If you have multiple versions of the JRE on your computer, then use the control panel’s “Java” icon to control which JRE is used by which browser:

In the “Java Control Panel”:
Click on the “Java” tab, then configure the ‘Java Applet Runtime Settings’ by clicking the ‘View’ button and ticking the JRE version that your browsers should use. 

Then configure the ‘Java Application Runtime Settings’ by clicking the ‘View’ button and ticking the JRE version that WebStart JNLP (Java Network Launching Protocol) files should use:

So, there’s no need to UNinstall the latest version of the JRE if you need to use an older version :)