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Windows only: Snowbird is a tiny, portable file explorer packed with features that fits nicely into a flash drive toolkit. In our testing, Snowbird was quite responsive and, compared to Windows Explorer, extremely fast when dealing with network locations. There’s a built-in copy handler which, while not as robust as the dedicated copy handlers in our Hive Five , offers error correction and the ability to pause transfers.

Windows/Mac/Linux: Navigating through your hard drive contents can be slow and tedious at times, requiring double-click after double-click as your drill through your filesystem. Hawkscope addresses that by showing the contents of your drive—quickly—via a dynamic popup menu. While running, Hawkscope sits in your system tray (or your menu bar if you’re on a Mac)