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Are you still compressing and archiving your data as zip files?
In that case you might want to have a look at 7-Zip.

Not only does 7-Zip compress better. The free open-source product comes with a complete file manager, command line utility, and documentation.

FileZilla is a very handy and free FTP client, probably the best out there. One of its features is to provide an option to remember the passwords used for FTP connections.  It goes without saying that the passwords are stored encrypted.

But what if you need to retrieve one of them again?

For that purpose, Andrea Giammarchi has developed the Filezilla Password Recover software. He offers it for free.

With the indexing services in Windows, Microsoft have tried to help the user find files and content more quickly.

That's a nice attempt, and it may speed up things for some people. However, if you don't search in your files and mails on an hourly basis, the two Microsoft search services are more of a hassle than help. For files without registered filename extensions they don't work at all.