Robert J Turner

If you like making your own DVD’s but find you cant get everything you want on one disk may I suggest you buy Nero 6 and get hold of the freebee below:

DVD Shrink 3.2.0.15
1.07MB (Freeware)

DVD Shrink is a freeware tool for fitting a DVD-Video disc on a single DVD-R.

DVD Shrink will also burn your backup DVD, if you have installed the latest version of Nero. If you already possess alternative burning software and prefer to stick with it, then you can still use DVD Shrink. The output from DVD Shrink can be saved as files on your hard drive, which you can then burn with software of your choice.

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Absolutely great application, I had some Video’s I shot on a Sony Handycam and they were copied to the computer and were some silly size, uncompressed MPG format, I had about 6 hours worth of footage. I simply setup my disk to how I wanted it, it was way oversize for the DVD but I told it to write to a directory and then I ran the application above and ran its compression function on the directory and told it to back it up to a CD and voila, worked like a charm, 6 hours of home video on a DVD and very little noticable loss of quality and sound.

Definitely you should donate to the developers if you use and find it worthwhile.

I would recommend that if your looking for temporary file and history clean-up programs to stop your computer from becoming overweight, putting on those unwanted bytes around the harddrive you need the following programs:

CleanUp! - A Steven J Gould creation.

Features and benefits

Covers your tracks on the Internet. CleanUp! deletes traces of you Internet activity that get stored on your hard disk. These things include:

* Browser cache
* Browser History
* Cookies
* Bookmarks and Favorites. Deletion of these is optional and disabled by default.

Supports all popular browsers. CleanUp! provides full support for the three most popular browsers used under Windows: Internet Explorer (versions 1.x-6.x), Netscape Navigator/Communicator (versions 1.x-6.x), Mozilla (1.x), Firefox (1.x) and Opera (versions 2.x-6.x).

Supports all popular newsreaders. Newsreaders including Microsoft Internet Mail and News, Outlook and Outlook Express, Netscape Communicator and Operas newsreader are all supported. CleanUp! optionally empties the newsgroup caches for each of these and can, also optionally, remove all subscriptions to newsgroups.

Removes Windows files tracking your use of the computer. This includes things such as removing “MRU lists” (storing a list of your Most Recently Used files) for various applications, emptying the Recent Documents folder, deleting entries from the Run and Find Computer dialogs, emptying Recycle Bins, emptying temporary folders, removing some unneeded registry entries, optionally resetting the high scores for Windows games, and more.

Supports other applications too. Almost all Windows applications store information on your hard disk about your use of the program - even if this is as minor as an MRU list. CleanUp! includes support for a variety of commonly used Windows applications.

Runs on 32-bit Windows. The same version of CleanUp! runs on Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT 4.0 Workstation, Windows NT 4.0 Server, Windows 2000 Professional, Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2000 Advanced Server, Windows XP Home, Windows XP Professional and Windows 2003 Server.

Future proofed. What does this mean? By supporting user-defined (i.e. custom) directories and file specifications, CleanUp! 3.0 (and later) will be able to handle cleaning up of temporary files created by newer browsers and Windows applications.

Secure file deletion. You can optionally choose to “Wipe Clean” files as they are deleted. This takes a little longer but instructs CleanUp! to overwrite the files several times before deleting them. This makes it almost impossible to recover those files from the hard disk using even the most advanced data recovery techniques, ensuring you the greatest degree of privacy.

Free. That’s right, you can keep on using this program and it won’t expire. You are offered the chance to register CleanUp! and pay a price you think it is worth. Think of this payment as a tip - so please contribute something. This payment will help with the continued development of CleanUp! and allow me to make a living. This payment can be as low as $5 or as high as you wish. If you find CleanUp! useful and continue to use it, please register. See below for details.

Fast. Remove hundreds, even thousands of files and free up many megabytes, and sometimes gigabytes of disk space all in a matter of minutes.

Simplicity. A clean, simple interface - designed for novices, with an Options dialog allowing some flexibility for more experienced users.

Privacy information. There is no spy-ware contained in this program. We do not monitor your actions or e-mail. When you register this program, we will not give your e-mail address or personal details to anyone.

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The Other Program is …

CCleaner

CCleaner (Crap Cleaner) is a freeware system optimization and privacy tool. That removes unused and temporary files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster, more efficiently and giving you more hard disk space. The best part is that it’s fast! (normally taking less that a second to run) and Free.

Cleans the following:

* Internet Explorer Cache, History, Cookies, Index.dat.
* Recycle Bin, Temporary files and Log files.
* Recently opened URLs and files.
* Third-party application temp files and recent file lists (MRUs).
Including: Firefox, Opera, Media Player, eMule, Kazaa, Google Toolbar, Netscape, Office XP, Nero, Adobe Acrobat, WinRAR, WinAce, WinZip and more…
* Advanced Registry scanner and cleaner to remove unused and old entries.
Including File Extensions, ActiveX Controls, ClassIDs, ProgIDs, Uninstallers, Shared DLLs, Fonts, Help Files, Application Paths, Icons, Invalid Shortcuts and more… Backup for registry clean.
* Windows Startup tool.

If you like and use this software then it is polite to make a donation to the author.