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FREE Missing Pieces Downloadable Applications 
Missing Pieces started originally as a consulting firm, specializing in programming useful custom applications. Continuing that tradition, Missing Pieces offers these FREE applications that solve every day problems in simple and useful ways. Feel free to install them and use them, free of charge! Enjoy.
Had a problem with Symantec/Norton blocking Missing-Pieces apps? Symantec/Norton has now certified and endorsed ALL Missing-Pieces apps!
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"In light of further investigation and analysis, Symantec is happy to... add your software to its database of known clean files in order to reduce the possibility of false positives."
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If you have any trouble with Symantec/Norton products, just update your Symantec product, via Live Update, and please try installing the Missing-Pieces app again. Symantec apologizes for any inconvenience. (so does Missing-Pieces, but Symantec was the problem! ;-)
If you EVER have trouble with ANY security app blocking any Missing-Pieces install, PLEASE call or email about it! They will be reprimanded immediately! Missing-Pieces is trying to HELP them, for gosh sakes! :-)
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Clear Junk™
Clear Junk™ is an application that finds those hidden junk piles in the backyard of your PC's hard drives and offers to clear them of all their junk, safely, and quickly. Whether you are running Windows XP, Vista or Windows 7, Clear Junk will know where the junk piles are kept and, give you a list of areas that are safe to clear.
Your system is full of junk. No, not your son's selection of music, your spouse's list of items to eventually get on e-Bay, nor all those videos you were really gonna get to soon. No, Junk files are the scores & scores of files left around by surfing the web, installing software,
running software, uninstalling software, and writing the next great American... whatever. Literally thousands of files that are just not needed any more, are hanging around on your system
, clogging it up, like plaque in your arteries.
These files fill up your hard drive. They slow down your system. And they slow many things you run on your system, everything from your favorite websites, to your important applications, even to your antivirus software. Why? Because these files make it harder to get to the files you DO
want to get to, either by increasing the number of files that have to be searched to get to 'your' files or by forcing your files to be broken into smaller pieces when they are stored and accessed.
But worst of all, these files provide a wonderful hiding spot for viruses and spyware to hide and prosper in. Like varmints in your backyard, viruses and spyware love piles of junk and debris in out of the way places, so they can easily hide and multiply, unseen. So long before you know they are there, they have grown to nearly impossible-to-get-rid-of numbers.
But that was before Clear Junk™!
You may have remembered a tool in Windows called 'Disk Cleanup'. Clear Junk was created BECAUSE Disk Cleanup doesn't do its job! Disk Cleanup doesn't go into most of these areas! It leaves behind thousands of files that can injure or at least slow down your system!
Since Clear Junk™ will get rid of junk files that don't have to be anti-virused or defragged and thus helps all your other utilities, you'll want to put Clear Junk at the front of your usual cleanup routine!
A good monthly (or bi-weekly, if you have teenagers ;-) recommended cleanup routine would look like this:
- Run Clear Junk - clear all the junk files out
- Run your Anti-Virus - get rid of any viruses left (AVG, is a good one & free)
- Run your Anti-Spyware - get rid of any spyware, not considered viruses (Spybot & Ad-Aware are free and good)
- Now run Disk Defragmenter with the least amount of files to defrag!
In this way, ALL your utilities will run the fastest and with the least resistance. ALL with Clear Junk helping!
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Show File™ 
Show File™ will show you what's inside all your files, quickly, easily & with lots of options!
From picture files, like JPG, GIF and PNG, to text documents, html webfiles and PDFs, Show File will show you your documents. Stretch Show File to any size, to zoom way up on your pictures or choose
from options to show your files at exactly the size they are. Its YOUR choice in Show File! If the file can't be displayed, Show File will pop your file out for your system to try & load up in its own application!
Show File starts you off where everybody has something to show,
My Documents, but you can go anywhere you want with it. Navigate to any
account on your system, any drive. Look at your CDs, DVDs, thumb drives, picture cards from your camera or even any network drive you can get to. Show File will show you what's there, the way YOU want to see it!
And with a right-click, you can print any file; copy the file itself or just its pic to paste somewhere else; or Show File can even set any picture to be your Desktop Background, withOUT having to go to the
desktop to set whether it is centered, stretched or tiled!
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