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Advanced LAN Pump lets you send files over the network with pause/restart options, automatic error recovery, even a queue for sending a list of files. Great for copying lots of data, particularly over WiFi networks, where the standard Windows copy function is just not robust enough to deal with intermittent network interference and failures.

Note: This program has gone payware. Last available freeware version available via the download link.

Drive Speed Checker benchmarks the read, write and seek speed of your disk drives.

NOTE: website offline; linking to archive.org.

eXpress CheckSum Calculator is great for verifying the integrity of files downloaded from the Internet. Similar utilities install new shell menus and/or tabs, which I dislike, because experience have shown that badly written shell utilities will make Windows Explorer less stable. Why sacrifice system stability when you can use small, simple utilities like these instead?

ZIP password finder is a tool for recovering ZIP archive passwords. It uses brute force search to compute the password that will unlock the given ZIP file. Since this is a CPU intensive task, the tool allows you to specify the maximum password length as well as the search space (alpha only, alphanumeric, lower or uppercase only etc.) in order to reduce the total computation time.