4 tools that aid password recovery

Recovering lost password may seem quite easy when it has to do with our email password (like yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail etc.) We simply request for password change, answer a few authentication question and that is it. But it has to do with local files, however, er it becomes more complicated.

Here are few utility tools that can be extremely helpful. 

Wep key spy

1. Wireless Wep Key Password Spy.

This is about the simplest tool in the list. It has just one goal: find your passwords wherever they are stored on your hard drive. Scanning doesn't take a lot of time and it's nice to know that Wireless WEP Key Password Spy can provide additional information, like your IP address and MAC address. It is quite easy at the same time a smart tool to use.

RAR password unlocker

2. RAR Password Unlocker

Password-protected archives are still being used to store or transfer important documents. The snag here is that these archives may be many and using one password for all of them is not secure. The more passwords you use, the higher your chances to lose or forget one or more of your key phrases. RAR Password Unlocker is here to help you.

Unfortunately at this point, unless you register the software you will not be able to copy the password. However, the tool works perfectly well and you will get your desired result.

Messenger Key

3. Messenger Key

Messenger Key as the name says that speaks for itself. It works with Google Talk, ICQ, MSN or Yahoo Messenger applications. It is very simple to use: you choose the exact messenger you forgot the password and wait for the tool finish its job. Make sure you read the manual before you start using the app as it might turn out a bit more potent than it appears to be.

Passware Kit

4. Passware Kit Basic

This tool has a file search feature looks very similar to the one in RAR password unlocker, but more refined: Passware Kit was able to find the protected archive that RAR Password Unlocker couldn't locate. The application actually works with a number of different files, so if you have this one you will likely do without others on the list.

As you may have been anticipating, it is expensive compared to the rest listed here, but surely lives up to the money it's asking. Though the interface is cramped with different tools, it's easy to navigate around it. The program picks the best applicable password recovery method for every file with detailed explanations on each of them. Moreover, you can also watch the recovery process itself.

In Summary, irrespective of which method you may attempt in order to redeem your password, it is important to remember not to panic: take your time and solve the problem step by step. Just choose the appropriate tool and get your desired result. Today’s world is full of opportunities and possibilities to approach any issues from different angles, so there is always a way as long as there is a will to recover your lost password.

Internet Explorers Warn about insecure connections.

Insecure Connections 

Living on-line is another word to our day-to-day life in this 21st century, we live in the world of online registrations and payments. A lot of forms are being filled-in on daily basis online. It has become an integral part of our life.

It is so common that the average user hardly thinks about the security of personal data being sent or pays a deaf ear to the warnings. 

While most of the larger companies provide their clients with a secure encrypted HTTPS connection – every now and then you can still stumble upon a form in HTTP. 

This could lead to a serious data leakage – from a password on a forum to your social security or credit card number being stolen. 

Both Google and Mozilla integrated more prominent HTTP warnings in the recent updates for their respective browsers.

Firefox Warning

This feature has already been applied in the beta version of the latest Mozilla browser but with the recent official release of Firefox 51, it became available to a much larger number of users. 

Going forward every time you come across an HTTP page asking for a password you will see a grey padlock crossed with a red strike. 

If you click on the padlock you’ll see a warning: “Logins entered on this page could be compromised.” 

This is a much welcomed change as previous versions of Firefox simply lacked such a feature – displaying a green padlock for protected HTTPS connections and no notification for HTTP whatsoever.

chrome warning

Google Chrome has taken a similar but with a more clear approach. The browser displays an information icon with a note “Not secure” in case of a not trustworthy HTTP connection. 

This warning appears not only for HTTP sites asking for login or password information but also anytime your credit card details are required. 

This is just another step in preventing personal data leakage for Google Chrome users. Further plans include displaying such a warning in incognito mode and eventually labeling all HTTP pages as not secure.

3 Amazing new whatsapp features

New Recall feature

RECALL

Recall permits you to have a sent message returned to you unread, as long as you make the request for the message's return before it had been opened. thus if you called your boss a greedy old fool in a WhatsApp message, and then find out that he's about to give you a raise, you can take back your message as long as your boss hasn't read it yet.

New edit feature

EDIT

Another feature being prepped is called Edit. Just like Recall, this can enable you to make some changes to a sent post as long as it is unread. Remember the message you sent to your boss calling him a greedy old fool? Instead of asking for the message back, you can modify it so that the boss becomes a generous, diligent leader.

Group Tracking feature

TRACK

While first two features were caught on the android Beta, there is rumour about another new WhatsApp feature found on both the android and iOS Beta (version 2.16.399 and version 2.17.3.28 respectively) of the electronic messaging app. called Live Location tracking, this feature allows you to trace the whereabouts of your group members in real time. The tracking can be kept on for a minute, 2 minutes, 5 minutes, or indefinitely. This comes in handy if you are supposed to meet the group at a certain location and time, and you wish to ascertain how far from the destination everyone in the group is. The live streaming also can be disabled so that your cluster members cannot learn where you are at any given moment.

Group Tracking

The Live Location tracking is disabled by default, which implies that WhatsApp needs to activate it when it's ready to be launched.

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Gmail Tightens Security:To Block JavaScript Attachments

Gmail to block javascript attachment

Google has declared that Gmail will soon begin blocking any emails that have JavaScript attachments. The IT giant expressed that for the past 2 years, .JS files are the biggest source of malware distribution, therefore this measure will help make the e-mail service a lot safer, particularly for inexperienced users. The modification will take effect on the 13th of February, so after that date all people who need to share JavaScript files will have to be compelled to do so via Google Drive.

As far as i am concerned this is actually a great plan, particularly since Google's cloud storage service offers an easy-to-use option for sharing JavaScript files. moreover, Gmail is already blocking quite some few formats known for being used in malware distribution like .BAT, .EXE, .COM or .PIF and i did not see too many folks complaining about them, so .JS are going to be just another addition to the list.

In case you are inquisitive what makes JavaScript files so dangerous, it is the fact that they are generally used to download different malware on the victim's pc, particularly ransomware. The code can be easily obfuscated, which makes it terribly hard to identify and since the Windows Script Host service can execute the files directly, they are also very hard to stop.

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Waymo takes the veil off Their self-driving Technology

waymo auto drive

Waymo, the robocar spinoff of Alphabet, has finally taken the veil off a self-driving system loaded to the gills with sensors designed in house. And that’s the key purpose, said Waymo CEO John Krafcik yesterday at the Detroit auto Show.

“It was the eminently-quotable computer scientist Alan Kay who said, ‘people who are very serious about software should build their own hardware,’ ” Krafcik said. Beside him on the stage next stood a self-driving hybrid minivan from fiat Chrysler equipped with Waymo’s technology. Krafcik same the minivans would hit public roads in california and Arizona later this month.

The Kay quote was revealing: Kay pioneered graphical interfaces at Xerox PARC’s unreal plan manufactory within the Seventies, and far of that employment was later embodied within the Apple MacIntosh. As Krafcik noted, the Apple style philosophy has splendidly stressed maintaining management over hardware similarly as software package. There’s no higher thanks to defend an invention’s status as a premium product, commanding correspondingly fat profit margins.

autonomous drive

The Waymo sensors are divided among many categories:

Three lidar sets cover short, medium and long distances, using lasers to estimate distances and put detected objects into elaborated, three-dimensional maps. the actual advantage of measuring device is in its ability to evaluate distances.

The existing top tower contains the medium distance detector that scans a full 360 degrees round the car; years past, once Waymo was called the Google automobile project, this detector was equipped by Velodyne for a few North American country $75,000 apiece. Krafcik same Waymo’s own lidars all value simply ten p.c the maximum amount. (Velodyne has additionally lowered its costs within the in the meantime.)

A short-range measuring device covers areas beside the machine that will otherwise are in the shadow of the top detector. And a long-range lidar, that Krafcik said was the first of its kind, works with the top device to enhance resolution.

“Imagine having the ability to examine a helmet, however, 2 full soccer fields away,” he said.

Eight vision modules—cameras, essentially—exploit this technology’s ability to acknowledge shapes; they cover the entire area around the car, along with a ninth module that faces forward and provides additional resolution.

“We can detect little objects, like construction cones, far away, even when we’re cruising down a road at high speed,” Krafcik said. “And with a wide dynamic range we can see in a dark car parking zone, or move into the blazing sun, or any condition in between.”

Radars are salted round the car to present an identical theater-in-the-round impact. radar is the one sensor that sees simply through fog, rain and snow.

Waymo auto drive

“Conventional radars have also been designed to focus only on vehicle movements. However, our fully self-driving cars need to safely navigate around all road users, from cars to pedestrians to cyclists,” he said. “So, we’ve configured our radars so that they’re way more sensitive to these slower moving objects.”

Exactly what proportion of Waymo’s self-driving prowess comes from such hardware—rather than improved software package and road mapping—isn’t clear. Krafcik did say that there’s been a major decline within the have to be compelled to “disengage,” the word Waymo uses to explain what the human baby minder will once he takes back the wheel from an automobile that’s gotten into difficulties.

“In 2016, while we drove many thousands more miles, our rate of disengages per thousand fell, from 0.8 in 2015 to 0.2 today. That’s a four-time improvement in the performance of our self-driving systems in twelve months,” he said.

What role fiat Chrysler is playing in the creation and testing of the vehicle is unclear. what's clear is that Waymo wants to provide the entire motorcar industry with packages that can be fitted to just about any vehicle. Honda has recently shown interest in just that possibility.

 

Google's auto drive car

Other carmakers, however, have opted to partner with another tech supplier—as Audi has done, with Nvidia—bought tech companies themselves, as General Motors did last year, with its $1 billion acquisition of Cruise Automation, and generally to develop the most components of a robocar themselves, as Ford and daimler do.

Waymo, in imitating Apple’s policy of seamlessly integrating hardware and software, may hope to thus reap a number of Apple’s margins. Steve Jobs famously maintained tight control so as to provent his company’s products from degenerating into mere commodities. And commodification is the main threat that roboticization holds for the auto industry at the moment.


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Apple releases iOS-style 'Night Shift' mode in the new MacOS Sierra 10.12.4 developer beta

Macbook

Apple today seeded the first beta of an upcoming MacOS Sierra 10.12.4 update to public beta testers for testing purposes, two days after seeding the first 10.12.4 beta to developers and three days after releasing MacOS Sierra 10.12.3.

Beta testers who have signed up for Apple's beta testing program will receive the 10.12.4 MacOS Sierra beta through the Software Update mechanism in the Mac App Store.

Those who want to be a part of Apple's beta testing program can sign up to participate through the beta testing website, which gives users access to both iOS and MacOS Sierra betas. Betas should not be installed on a primary machine due to the potential for instability.

Night shift

MacOS Sierra 10.12.4 brings iOS's popular Night Shift mode to the Mac, allowing users to cut down on blue light exposure. Believed to affect sleep by upsetting the body's circadian rhythm, blue light is thought to be more harmful than yellow light.

With Night Shift, the Mac's display automatically shifts from cool to warm at sunset and then shifts back at sunrise. Users can also set custom times for the display's colors to shift, or toggle the effect on manually. A Toggle to turn Night Shift on is available in the Notification Center, and Siri can also be used to activate the feature. MacOS Sierra 10.12.4 also includes Shanghainese dictation support, cricket scores for Siri, and PDFKit improvements.

How to add extra security to your Facebook account

facebook office

Facebook introduced a new password protection method for its users yesterday. Starting today, Facebook accounts can be further safeguarded with USB security keys, which add an extra layer of insurance against malicious hacker attacks.

For the newbies, USB security keys are physical dongles that you tap into your computer's USB port. Facebook users can acquire one of these devices and register them to their accounts. 

These keys have several important benefits, such as complete protection from phishing and man-in-the-middle attacks, as hackers would need both your password and physical token to gain access to your account.

Using a USB security key is easy and straightforward –insert the device in your USB port and after you type in your password, all you have to do is tap the button on the dongle and you're good to go. Only the latest versions of Google Chrome and Opera support the feature but other big browsers such as Mozilla are actively working on implementing it. 

As for smartphones, the mobile version of Facebook can be safeguarded by handsets that have NFC.

USB dongle

Facebook relies on security keys that support the U2F (universal two-factor) standard.

These tokens can use USB, NFC or Bluetooth to provide two-factor authentication across a variety of services. Apart from Chrome and Opera, the same device can be used with Dropbox, GitHub and Gmail accounts. 

Many other businesses are adopting the standard, as it is backed by the FIDO Alliance, which includes massive corporations such as Google, Microsoft, Samsung, PayPal, American Express, MasterCard, VISA, Intel etc.

Range Rover SVAutobiography Dynamic features.

Range Rover SVautobiography

Jaguar Land Rover opened its Special Vehicle Operations division some of years ago, it is obvious that a performance Range Rover was high on its goals. The interesting question has been, how good would it be? The first SVO product, the Range Rover Sport SVR, was quite an extreme machine. Would the full-fat version eclipse it?

The new Range Rover SVAutobiography Dynamic holds short of using the full SVR title of its slightly smaller sporting sibling, and keeps the name of its luxurious offshoot, the SVAutobiography. Going forward, there are two special models at the top of the Range Rover heap: the long wheelbase SVAutobiography and this new, short wheelbase, more powerful SVAutobiography Dynamic.

The new model, available for order now, starts life with the rest of the aluminium Range Rovers at Solihull, but diverts to the new SVO plant at Oxford Road, near Coventry, for paint and special fettling. It uses the same 542bhp 5.0-litre supercharged engine as the Sport SVR – also with a mighty 502lb ft of torque on tap – though the mode of delivery has been “civilised” slightly with a different throttle map. The top speed is 155mph and the 0-60mph time is a highly impressive 5.1sec.

SVO interior

Looks and features

The Dynamic rides 8mm lower on a unique-spec, all-independent suspension that features updated air springs and dampers, modifications to its active anti-roll control (in effect, an automatically adjustable anti-roll bar that only really works when you’re cornering) plus slightly quicker steering. Buyers get a choice of 21 or 22in wheels; previous test car ran on mighty 245/45R22 tyres.

There’s a package of exterior changes that identifies an SVAutobiography Dynamic: new side vents, detail changes to grille, front bumper and bonnet, and impressive red Brembo brake calipers visible through the alloy wheels. At the rear the biggest giveaways are a unique SV badge and an impressive set of four round exhaust tailpipes. Inside, the Dynamic gets diamond quilted leather seats and special trim with a choice of four special ‘colour pathways’.

Picnic Pews

There’s no mistaking the Dynamic’s new sense of purpose on the road. The steering instantly feels quicker and firmer in the driver’s hands, and impressive new roll control is noticeable in the very first corner. The ride is firmer – perhaps even jittery by Range Rover standards on some difficult UK back-roads – but it holds short of the unashamed sportiness of the Range Rover Sport SVR, helped by more subtle tuning of its hydraulic anti-roll control that allows the Dynamic much of the standard Range Rover’s suppleness in a straight line.

Super charged 5.8L V8 engine

It’s still a very comfortable carriage for four: JLR is hoping to compete harder, especially on export markets, with the successful Bentley Bentayga, which has clearly identified a demand at the top end of large, luxurious, high performance SUVs.

SVautobiography Rear view

Like the Sport SVR, the car gets better the faster you go. The engine revs smoothly but with a delicious V8 growl from low revs (also noticeable but not offensive to bystanders) with the eight-speed automatic gearbox as an excellent ally, and there’s big power out of corners that belies the weight of a full-size, fully equipped Range Rover. The seats grip well in corners and the whole car has stability to burn. Fast touring across Europe will be meat and drink to the Dynamic.

Skoda's New 7 Seat SUV revealed

The Skoda Kodiaq Scout, an off-road-styled version of Skoda's new seven-seat SUV, has been revealed before its public debut at the Geneva motor show.

Skoda Kodiaq Scout

As with the Octavia Scout, the Kodiaq Scout gets a lot of underbody protection. as well as making the car less vulnerable to damage when off-roading, this is additionally the most notable visual difference to the regular Kodiaq, with it projecting from beneath the front and rear bumpers. It's silver in colour and visually divided into three sections.

The Scout also gets model-specific styling accents including silver trim round the front grille, side windows and wing mirror housings, and silver roof rails.

Other additions include model-specific 19in alloys, a tinted rear window and side windows, and Scout badges on the car’s front wing.

Kodiaq Interior

Four-wheel drive and a DSG automatic gearbox are standard, as is off-road Assist, which adjusts the throttle response, dampers and diff lock for better traction. Hill-Hold and Hill-Descent controls are also standard.

Buyers get the choice of all but the least powerful version of the 1.4-litre TSI petrol engine, the 125PS.

The four available engines are therefore two petrols, the 1.4 TSI 150PS (148bhp) and the two.0 TSI 180PS (178bhp), and two diesels, the 2.0 TDI 150PS (148bhp) and a pair of.0 TDI 190PS (187bhp).

Specification is based on the regular Kodiaq’s SE trim, and includes cruise control, Driving Mode select (Eco, Comfort, Normal, Sport, Individual, Snow), air conditioning, a multifunction wheel, led ambient lighting in ten colours, a Swing infotainment touchscreen, a DAB radio, an eight-speaker stereo and Alcantara seats.

Skoda & seat SUV

Safety systems are similar as on the regular Kodiaq, with front and rear Park Assist cameras, Crew protect Assist, blind spot detection, rear traffic alert, and automatic emergency breaking (AEB) with pedestrian detection coming as standard.

The Kodiaq Scout features a fractionally accumulated ground clearance of 194mm. Off-road, it has a ramp angle of 19.7deg, and approach and departure angles of 22.0 and 23.1deg, severally.

Prices are expected to be slightly more than that of the regular Kodiaq; the equivalent seven-seat SE-trim model with the 1.4 TSI 150PS engine costs £26,245.

9 Most essential CMD Console Commands.

Here is a list with some of the command prompt commands that I found to be either extremely helpful or terribly fascinating.

1.Tasklist

tasklist

Tasklist command, which acts pretty much just like the task manager, displaying all the processes that are currently running on your Windows. (Just type "tasklist" in the console and press Enter.) The list contains the name, PID, Session Name, Session Number and Memory Usage of each entry on the list. If you were wondering why the PID is useful, I'll tell you. You can type "taskkill -PID <ID number>" and terminate the respective process. (For example, if you take a look at the image to the right, if I typed killtask -PID 508 the console would terminate the Winlogon process.

2.Assoc

Assoc 

Assoc is a very simple yet handy command which gives you detailed information about all the current associations between file types and the applications on your PC. In simple terms, you can easily find out which application is set to automatically open each extension using this instruction. If you type "assoc" into the console and then press Enter, you will see a list with every extension along with the program designated to deal with it, while if you type "assoc .doc=" you will see which of your applications opens your .DOC documents. (The second example works with any of the extensions you saw in the complete list.)

3.Cipher

Cipher

If you didn't already know, when you ask Windows to delete a file or a folder, the operating system doesn't really erase the data but instead marks it as inaccessible, and the space it occupies will be seen as free. However, till the several disk sector (where the file is) gets overwritten, the info continues to be redeemable. Cipher may be a very cool command that instructs your computer to write all the deleted files from a nominal location (drive or folder), therefore creating them more durable to retrieve. Here's AN example of a way to use it: "cipher /w:c" (this can write all the deleted files from your C partition). And you do not ought to worry, this command solely overwrites the files marked as deleted, departure all the other files on your pc just as they're.

4. Powercfg

powercfg

In case if you didn't figure it from its name, Powercfg is a command which gives you information and helps you manage your computer's power-related settings. For example, typing "powercfg /a" in the CMD console and pressing Enter will display all the power-saving options that are currently available to you. As I said, you can also manage these setting: "powercfg /sleep off" will disable the sleep command for your PC. Additionally, you can use "powercfg /devicequery s1_supported", which will display a list with all the devices on your network that support connected standby (meaning that they can remotely put your computer to sleep or wake it). Lastly, "powercfg /lastwake" will show you which connected device woke up your PC the most recently.

5. Netstat

Netstat

In case if you think you have been infected with some sort of Trojan, or if you're thinking that that somebody else is additionally connected to your computer you'll check things out by using Netstat. This command displays your current ip along with a list of all of your opened ports and connected ip addresses, Moreover, the console will tell you if each of the listed ports ar listening, established or closed. (This time we don't need an example; simply type the command into the prompt window and press Enter.)

6. Ping

Ping

Out of all the available commands, Ping is the one i use more often. This instruction permits you to send a data package to a given URL or ip address and check how long it takes for it to return to your pc. In easier terms, this command can assist you verify if you have a working link an internet site or another laptop on your network and also verify how well that connection is working. Here are 2 examples of how to use it: "ping 196.168.1.1" (for an informatics address) or "ping -t web.google.com" (for a website; -t means this command won't stop mechanically and can need you to manually turn it off).

Additionally there are 2 more closely related commands which might assist you out in case something seems to be wrong. If a ping does not return and you want to figure out what's the matter, you'll find out wherever it stops by using the Pathping. This command can show you each hop through which the packet is bounced until it reaches its final destination, therefore enabling you to see precisely where the connection breaks. (Example: "pathping web.google.com".) just in case you wish to find out which of the hops is particularly slow you'll use Tracert. This command works a similar as Pathping, however additionally displays the time it takes for the package to arrive to every of the hops on the manner. (Example: "tracert web.yahoo.com".)

7. Ipconfig

ipconfig

Ipconfig is a command you'll often use to quickly get info related to your network / web connection and the hardware that makes it possible. If you sort ipconfig /all into the console and press Enter, you'll see a comprehensive list of data as well as your mac address, your ip address, the server's ip address, the DNS server address, the Subnet mask, etc. what is more, in case if you get a warning message saying that there is an science conflict on the network, you'll be able to sort ipconfig /release (then press Enter) followed by ipconfig /renew to force the software package to present you a replacement science address. Lastly, you'll be able to use ipconfig /flushdns to refresh the DNS address, but you'll rarely would like this.

8. systemfile checker

system file checker

System File Checker (sfc) is a command that instructs your Windows to check and repair the system files. in order to use this instruction you will need to give the command prompt console administrator privileges, but the function is quite helpful, because it tries to automatically replace missing system files and repair those that are corrupted. To use this command type "sfc /scannow" into the CMD console and press Enter.

9. shutdown

shutdown

In Windows 8 and Windows 8.1, the Command Prompt console can also be used to shut down your PC. I know that there are easier ways to do this, but if your type "shutdown" into the console your computer will be shutdown. However, when used with additional parameters, this command can actually be useful. For example, typing "shutdown /r /o" and pressing Enter will instruct your PC to restart and automatically open the Advanced Options Start Menu on startup (it's the place where you can choose to start your Windows in Safe Mode).

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How to Manage Your Hard Disk Drive Partitions

Open HDD

The hard disk is the hardware part where the data is kept. Basically, everything you store on your pc is there: the operating system, applications, files, etc. A partition is a logical division of the disk drive that is capable of acting like an individual entity. on paper, you can have only one single partition on a hard disk however that is terribly harmful as anytime you'll need to format the drive (and it'll happen), you will lose all the information. 

This is why knowing a way to create, delete, extend or shrink partitions is very helpful. Here's what you need to know:

windows control panel

Managing Disk Partitions with Windows administrative tool.

Windows ships out with its own partition management tool so you do not have to be compelled to install another software if you do not need to. 

This guide is created for Windows 7 because it is the most popular in the world at the moment, however, if you've got a different version of the operating system, things are not very totally different. in order to access the partition manager, you will have to go to 

control panel --> administrative Tools and a new window will be automatically launched. Once there, click on the Disk Management button in the Storage category (in the left column).

 After a brief period of your time, during which the tool identifies your hard disk and its partitions, you will have full access to manipulate with anything you wish. 

However, do not fiddle with drive C: (or whichever other partition you utilize to boot) as you may lose the software system alongside all the data on it. 

Moreover, having a bootable recovery disk at hand could also prove to be prudent.

Windows Computer Management

While in the Disk Management window, right-clicking on a drive allows you to shrink, extend, delete, format or modify the letter of that respective partition:

• Shrinking a partition can decrease the amount of space on it while the excess left will be remodeled into unused space (which is afterward transformed into a brand new partition)
• Extending a partition permits you to extend the storage area of the desired drive, however, requires you to have unused space at your disposal,
• Deleting a partition will utterly remove the individual drive and all the data stored on it, transforming into unused space.
• Formatting a partition is a process that makes the individual drive "usable" for Windows. It transforms unused space into an area that the operating system can work with. In most cases, you will have to make a choice from FAT32 and NTFS (modern operating systems utilize the latter).
• Changing the letter is self-explanatory. It lets you modify the letter of the individual partition. just in case you have a large number of drives, this might help you easily distinguish between the ones you use for booting, for applications of for movies. Certain letters could also be reserved for specific devices so you will not be able to use them.

One fact to remember is that each operating system will steal space when making partitions. What I mean is that if you've got 500GB of unused area, partitioning it will result in a drive with a slightly smaller capacity. The more partitions you create the extra space will disappear (will be reserved by the software system, rather) and while the proportion of the space that goes missing is insignificant, if you work with huge amounts of space (>TB), you'll notice a few of missing GB.

Managing Disk Partition with third-party Applications.

paragon partition manager

Paragon Partition Manager is another reliable option. Although the link I provided says shareware, the application has a free trial version called Paragon Partition Manager 14 Free. What is very cool about this application is that it had been designed to assist users manage their partitions without risking data loss, thanks to its proprietary technology. Partition Manager 14 Free only offers basic functionality (creating new partitions, deleting existing ones, resizing drives and formatting them), however, regular users will not need much more than that,  Adding to that its well-designed interface and the many wizards that will assist you in your tasks, and you have got a free partition manager that anyone can use.

EaseUS Partition master

The free version of EaseUS Partition Master (called Home Edition) is one of the most effective solutions that you will find. Besides the usual functions, like making new partitions and deleting, resizing or shrinking them, this tool may also perform a couple of neat tricks, like moving or hiding and unhiding your drives (all without risking data loss). Furthermore, this tool offers a copy wizard which will provide you with a very simple way to extend a partition while additionally keeping all of your files intact. EaseUS Partition Master will simultaneously work with 32 storage devices, supports drives of up to 4TB and is even capable of performing operations on partitions specific to Linux system} operating systems (EXT2/EXT3).

MiniTool Partition Wizard

Minitool Partition Wizard Home Edition another efficient partition manager. This tool can assist you create, extend, shrink, delete, format, modify drive letters and replica disk partitions. Another really fascinating feature is that the application is capable of converting your FAT32 drives into NTFS partitions. Additional functionality includes the ability to test the disk surface, rebuild the Master Boot Record (MBR), and a 1GB data recovery tool.