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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 7
- Date added: October 08, 2009
- Total Downloads: 26,852
- Downloads last week: 235
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 24 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
Move, rename, or delete locked files at your next system boot with this effective and easy-to-use freeware utility. EMCO MoveOnBoot's no frills interface has a combination of a drag-and-drop window and text buttons. It won't win any design awards, but it makes the app simple to operate. Help is included, but even inexperienced users will have this program mastered in minutes.
It can't get much easier to work with the locked files. You merely drag the problem file to the interface and the app displays a prompt dialog. Radio buttons list each of the program's options. Click the action you need performed, and press OK. MoveOnBoot will delete, move, or rename files or folders. The app also offers an easy method to bypass the prompt dialog. If you need to perform the same action on multiple files, you can simply call up a drag-and-drop window for that action and drop all your files there. All it takes to perform the actions is to boot your system.
The interface helpfully lists all actions to be performed on next boot and includes a log of previously performed actions. ECMO MoveOnBoot simplifies a function experienced users find difficult, and it does it in a way that even novices will understand. This is freeware everyone will need at some point, and it's a good addition to any user's toolbox.
Publisher's description
From EMCO :MoveOnBoot is a simple utility that helps you to manage locked file system resources. It allows you to rename, move or delete any file and folder, locked by system or another application. MoveOnBoot doesn't terminate processes that hold locks, to unlock resources. Instead, it utilizes a much safer approach - it uses standard Windows mechanism for file system resources management immediately after the system restart, but before launching services and applications. This approach prevents resources locking by system processes and applications, so they can be renames, moved or deleted with no problems.
What's new in this version:
Version 2.1.1 contains a fix for potential input/output error while processing locked files.
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Version: EMCO MoveOnBoot 2.1.1
"Destroyd my System - Major Bug Found!!"
Pros: Nice Gui....
Cons: Major Bug Found!!!
If you select some files in, for example F:\WINDOWS, if you have dualboot, It will remove thoose files on C:\WINDOWS instead!!Summary: This COULD be a good software, but that MAJOR BUG, is so serious, that it can't be ignored that it ever hapened!
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Version: EMCO MoveOnBoot 2.1.1
Pros: * works as advertised
Cons: * 19+ MB???
Summary: I cannot imagine why anyone would download 19+ MB worth of this program when other utilities like KillBox do pretty much the same thing in 91 KB.
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Version: EMCO MoveOnBoot 2.1.1
"What a big help in cleaning up my hard drive."
Pros: I am not exactly a novice or an expert when it comes to a computer - and made some progress in battling a run away norton protect recycle bin - but this allowed me to reclaim all of the free space on my hard drove - Thank you very much.
Cons: None as far as I am concerned.
Summary: The norton recycle bin had taken over my hard drive - I reclaimed a good portion using window washer to shred a good portion of the files in the bin - uninstantiated norton completely - restricted the size of the recycle bin and still could not remo... read more >>
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