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Need to copy large folders form one network folder to another location? Here a nice tool that compare files and folders and copy only changed files.

The tool called Copy Changed Files has a a simple interface to copy files from one location to another using using filters or comparison criteria based on date and time or binary compare option.

Password Security Scanner is a free password tool that allows to test the security of passwords stored locally.

Nirsoft is a well known collection of portable applications for Windows. There are hundreds of different utilities developed, like password recovery utilities, network monitoring tools, web browser tools, Internet related utilities or programmers tools.

This helpful portable tool allows you to check quickly the current status for any computer. It extracts hardware and software details of all components of the PC, shows installed software with version and product key.

License : Freeware

MyUninstaller tool is helpful to find the correct uninstall string for whatever installed software application.

This portable tool shows a list of all installed application with a lot of details and additional information that the standard Add/Remove applet doesn't display: product name, company, version, uninstall string, installation folder, etc.

I'd like to celebrate the perfect date ( 11:11:11 - 11/11/11 on my time zone ) on Symantec Connect  !

Parkdale, free and portable utility to quickly perform a speed test on disks, cdroms and network shares. Helpful to investigate how and where are bottlenecks in local and network connections.

The program has two different modes:

BlockAccess - The test data is read from/written onto the disk directly without using the filesystem.

I have collected some informative videos published on youTube , that you may find helpful to see Symantec Workspace Virtualizazion in action.

Here the a short list of examples about how to install , configuring and use Symantec WV.

Installation and configuration:

A nice resource to create strong passwords is Wolfram Alpha search engine. This site will generate a random password for you with a full description about the time it would take to crack the password and other interesting security information.

DriverBackup is a nice small free tool for easily backup and restore your system drivers. The basic commands are easy, select All, OEM or Third part drivers and start the backup.