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MeinPlatz Portable MeinPlatz Portable is a useful application that is designed to help you scan your hard drive and view the files in order to locate lost disk space. The results of the scan can easily be exported to plain text, XLS, HTML or CSV files. MeinPlatz ‘My Place’ also has a print function with integrated [more...]
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.NET Framework Cleanup Tool When you need to remove .NET from your system to fix a problem, then use the .NET Framework Cleanup Tool to complete uninstall it. Featured in this article QA518 - Questions and Answers E246 - Error Repair for the .NET Framework E245 - Errors Resolved with the .NET Framework [more...]
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3D Traceroute 3D Traceroute is a software application designed to help you analyse network connections from one location to another. It offers details about the host name and IP address for each recorded network node, and generates statistics in a 3D display. Featured in this article N530 - Network Tools to Resolve Difficult Problems [more...]
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AccessEnum Use AccessEnum to check the NTFS access rights and to find holes in your permissions. Featured in this article F88 - Free Professional Tools from Sysinternals [more...]
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Active SMARTSave your system from a hard drive failure with ActiveSMART. It monitors the health status of your disks, their temperature, performance and warns you about any problems detected. You can also check how your hard drive space is being used by your files and programs. Featured in this article H370 Hard Drive Tools: Tuning and [more...]
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ActiveX Compatibility Manager This utility allows you to easily disable or enable ActiveX components running on Internet Explorer. The program is a standalone executable, and it doesn’t require any installation, just copy the executable file to any folder you like and run it. The main window lists all ActiveX components that are currently available for enabling/disabling. For [more...]
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Adobe Flash Player Uninstaller Adobe’s Flash Player is one of the most widely deployed browser add-ons since it is required to view lots of different online content, such as embedded video files. It is also one of the most frequently cited web security problems, and seems to need to be constantly updated to find new security bugs that [more...]
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ADRC Data Recovery Software Tools ADRC Data Recovery Software Tools contains a collection of DIY data recovery tools that supports a wide variety of drives and file systems. The software incorporates an extremely simple interface with novice users in mind. The software zooms in to do only critical recovery functions with minimum complexity so one can recover the data [more...]
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AdRestore AdRestore is a tool for Windows Server which you can use to restore Active Directory Objects. Featured in this article F88 - Free Professional Tools from Sysinternals [more...]
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Advanced Internet Management If you have an Internet connection that has a fixed amount of download data per month, you probably know how difficult it is to keep track of usage and ensure that you do not hit your cap. If you do, you’ll either get a reduced server, or be forced to pay for more data. [more...]
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Advanced Uninstaller Advanced Uninstaller helps you uninstall and remove unwanted programs and folders from your computer quickly and easily. Where the built-in and sluggish Windows Add or Remove Programs option fails, Advanced Uninstaller can pick up the slack. It’s also a very compact program and doesn’t require any installation. Featured in this article I6 - Installation [more...]
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AdvancedRemoteInfo AdvancedRemoteInfo allows you to gather various information about a remote Windows PC on the network. It includes information about hardware, installed software, network configuration, shares and printers, users and much more. Featured in this article N530 - Network Tools to Resolve Difficult Problems [more...]
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AleGr MEMTEST AleGr MEMTEST is a program for testing the RAM of PCs built on Intel 386 or higher processor. [more...]
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Ariolic Disk Scanner Ariolic Disk Scanner is a read-only hard disk testing utility; it writes no data to your disk. It sequentially reads hard disk sectors and shows the results as series of colour blocks – every block on the disk picture corresponds to a set of hard disk sectors. A green block means that all the [more...]
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Ashampoo Uninstaller Platinum Suite Ashampoo UnInstaller Platinum Suite works by creating two ‘snapshots’ of your system, one before you install an application and another one directly afterwards. When you tell the program to uninstall the application, it loads the previously created log file and uses the information it contains to restore everything on your system to its previous [more...]
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ASoft .NET Version Detector More and more programs are based on the Microsoft .NET framework-based, and depend on having the right version of .NET installed on your PC. However, sometimes it may be hard to tell which version of the .NET package is installed. ASoft .NET Version Detector allows you to check which versions are installed with a [more...]
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ATTO Disk Benchmark If it takes a lot of time to read or write data to your hard drive, there could well be a problem with the drive. If this is the case, you’ll find out by benchmarking your drive to measure its performance. ATTO Disk Benchmark is a software tool designed to help you measure the [more...]
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Auto Reboot Remover A very simple tool that prevents Windows from automatically restarting once updates and hotfixes have been installed. Useful if you want to leave your computer while updates install but don’t want to reboot it. Featured in this article V16 - Vista: Configuring Windows for Maximum Comfort [more...]
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Axence nVision Free Edition The more PCs you have on your network, the harder it is to manage. You often need to find settings from each PC, such as their MAC address, but that means going to each PC in turn and digging through the configuration to find what you need. The answer is to do what the professionals [more...]
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BatteryCare BatteryCare is a very useful piece of software designed to optimise the use and capacity of your laptop battery. It monitors the battery’s charge and discharge cycles and informs you when a full discharge would be useful. It also offers several power plans which can be configured and activated automatically, a very low CPU [more...]
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BatteryMon BatteryMon is a battery monitoring software solution. It has been designed as an easy-to-use Windows based application that allows users to monitor the performance of laptop batteries and uninterruptible power supplies (UPS). You can: graphically see the charge and discharge rate, diagnose problem battery cells with detailed statistics, compare and measure your batteries performance [more...]
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Belarc Advisor Belarc Advisor builds a detailed profile of your installed software and hardware, missing Microsoft hotfixes, anti-virus status, CIS (Center for Internet Security) benchmarks and displays the results in your web browser. All of your PC profile information is kept private on your PC and is not sent to any web server. Belarc Advisor is [more...]
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Belarc Advisor Belarc Advisor builds a detailed profile of your installed software and hardware, missing Microsoft hotfixes, anti-virus status, CIS (Center for Internet Security) benchmarks and displays the results in your web browser. All of your PC profile information is kept private on your PC and is not sent to any web server. Belarc Advisor is [more...]
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Bill2s Process Manager Bill2s Process Manager is a comprehensive task management tool. You can view all processes running on your PC, along with detailed information about each one. Using the program, you can create rules for each process, view usage and performance figures and much more. Featured in this article O8 - Optimise System Resources for Peak [more...]
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BIOS Displays information about your BIOS, including BIOS extensions and beep codes; lets you find the BIOS passwords (Award and Ami); and discover the Award BIOS universal passwords. [more...]
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BIOS Agent 3.3 A performance trace visualisation tool for use with XP systems. [more...]
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BIOS Backup ToolKit BIOS Backup ToolKit is a nice little tool for saving your current BIOS. It requires no installation, just run the .EXE file and information about your current BIOS is displayed, including the vendor and version. You can then save your BIOS to your hard drive very easily with a couple of mouse clicks. Featured [more...]
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BIOS Wizard A great program to get your BIOS ID number and discover some other interesting things about your BIOS. Featured in this article W8 - Windows Ultimate Error Troubleshooter [more...]
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Bluescreen View BlueScreenView scans all the minidump files created during so-called ‘Blue Screen of Death’ crashes and displays the information in a table. In the table you can view, for each crash, the date/time of the crash and details of the driver or module that possibly caused it. BlueScreenView also marks the drivers found in the [more...]
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BlueScreenView BlueScreenView scans all the minidump files created during so-called ‘Blue Screen of Death’ crashes and displays the information in a table. In the table you can view, for each crash, the date/time of the crash and details of the driver or module that possibly caused it. BlueScreenView also marks the drivers found in the [more...]
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BluetoothView BluetoothView is a small utility that runs in the background, and monitors the activity of Bluetooth devices around you. For each detected Bluetooth device, it displays the following information: Device Name, Bluetooth Address, Major Device Type, Minor Device Type, First Detection Time, Last Detection Time and more. BluetoothView can also notify you when a [more...]
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Boot-US 2.0.6 Universal boot manager, user-friendly installation under any operating system. [more...]
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ChromeHistoryView ChromeHistoryView is a handy utility that reads the history data file of Google’s Chrome web browser and displays a list of all the web pages you’ve visited in the specified time frame. Alongside each visited web page, the following additional information is displayed: URL, Title, Date/Time Visited, Number of visits, Referrer, and Visit ID. [more...]
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Clonezilla Clonezilla is a partition or disk drive clone tool similar to Norton Ghost. It enables you to save your cloned drive as an image so you can restore it to another machine. Featured in this article D101 - Data Protection on Your PC H130 - Hardware Tuning for a Faster PC D100 - Data [more...]
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CMOSPwd Discover any User or System passwords that have been set that are preventing you from accessing your BIOS. Featured in this article B151 - BIOS Errors Solved with Ease B150 - BIOS Fixes to Eliminate Errors [more...]
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Complete Internet Repair Complete Internet Repair is a set of tools designed to resolve common online problems and get your connection up and running again. It can deal with issues that include failed connections following adware/spyware removal, DNS lookup problems, limited network connectivity and many more. It is very easy-to-use and features handy information about each function, [more...]
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Connection Checker Connection checker is a small utility that will help you to detect very quickly whether your connection to the Internet functions or not. Featured in this article P28 - PC Servicing for a More Reliable Windows [more...]
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CPU Stability Tester CPU Stability Test allows you to torture test your computer’s Central Processing Unit (CPU) to find out if it is over-clocked. The program supports multi-processor systems, features automated crash handling and counting, includes stability rating and it lets you disable the screen saver. Featured in this article H16 - Hardware: Solve Tricky Device Problems [more...]
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CPU-Z CPU-Z is an application that can provide an impressive amount of information related to your hardware resources. Every time the application is launched, it automatically scans your computer for changes and displays all the information within a single, tab-based window. This way, you can easily read data relating to the CPU, motherboard, memory or [more...]
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CPU-Z G1 Hardware components govern how fast your computer is. The better the specification of your machine, the more complex applications and games you can run smoothly. With so many different hardware components available to buy, you might simply have no idea which individual chips are installed in your system. CPU-Z G1 can help by allowing [more...]
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CrystalDiskInfo CrystalDiskInfo lets you view numerous details about your hard disk drive. It supports S.M.A.R.T. and also provides numerous other useful information including temperature, firmware, interface and more, all presented in a variety of attractive graphs and tables. Featured in this article H17 - Hard Disk: Overhaul Your PCs Key Data Store TT210 - Top [more...]
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CrystalDiskInfo CrystalDiskInfo lets you view numerous details about your hard disk drive. It supports S.M.A.R.T. and also provides numerous other useful information including temperature, firmware, interface and more, all presented in a variety of attractive graphs and tables. Featured in this article H606 - Hard Drive: Essential Maintenance H120 - Hardware: Check Device Life Expectancy [more...]
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CurrPorts CurrPorts will display the list of all currently opened TCP/IP and UDP ports on your PC. For each port in the list, information about the process that opened the port is also displayed, including the process name, full path of the process, version information of the process and the user that created it. It [more...]
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Cyber-Ds Autodelete Autodelete can automatically delete files in a specific folder that are of a certain age, specified by the user. It checks the file dates by modification time and removes those that haven’t been used in the determined period. A useful tool to run every time Windows starts to delete temporary and other unneeded files. [more...]
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DataAdvisorDataAdvisor quickly assesses the integrity of your hard disk drive, file structures, and computer memory by finding problems that could cause data loss. This comprehensive diagnostic tool can be used to both diagnose current problems and/or as part of a regular maintenance program to identify potential problems that could lead to data loss. Featured in [more...]
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DataRecovery 2.4.6 DataRecovery is a useful tool to undelete accidentally removed files, even if they have been removed from the Recycle Bin. Key features of the program include the ability to ‘undelete’ all files in a specified directory, recovery of files from FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS file systems and the ability to ‘wipe out’ already deleted [more...]
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DeadPix Portable DeadPix Portable is a lightweight application designed to identify and quickly fix dead pixels on your screen by cycling through multiple colours. There are two main components that make up DeadPix Portable: the pixel locator and the fixer. You can choose the colour that will cover the entire screen in order to spot the [more...]
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Device Doctor Device Doctor is a simple and easy-to-use Windows application that scans your computer’s hardware and checks the Internet to see if there are new drivers available for your devices. It also locates drivers for devices listed as “unidentified…” in the Windows Device Manager. Featured in this article H13 - Hardware: Discover Your PCs Hidden [more...]
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Device Doctor Portable Device Doctor Portable is a smaller version of the program which requires no installation; just double-click on the .EXE file and it runs straight away, making it perfect for storing on portable drives. Featured in this article W77 - Windows 7: The Ultimate Troubleshooter P29 - Printing: Printer Problems Resolved in Minutes [more...]
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DevManView DevManView is an alternative to the standard Windows Device Manager. It displays all your devices and their properties in flat table, instead of a hierarchy. In addition to displaying the devices of your local computer, DevManView also allows you view the devices list of another computer on your network. Featured in this article TT713 [more...]
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DIAG DIAG is a system information diagnostic program. You can get nearly all information about your hardware and software without opening your computer. Most components can be tested and/or benchmarked. Featured in this article W590 Windows Annual Check for 2013 O6 - Optimisation: Tweak Your Vista or XP System [more...]
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Dial-A-Fix Dial-a-fix is a collection of ‘known fixes’ that have been compiled over the past years that really knock out some serious Windows problems, all with one or two clicks. Dial-a-fix tackles issues with SSL/Cryptography, Windows Update, Microsoft Installer, and many miscellaneous shell problems. [more...]
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DirectX Buster DirectX Buster allows you to uninstall all DirectX versions from the 5.x to the 9.x release very easily. This tool has been especially created for DirectX 9 on Windows XP. It removes DirectX 9 and installs the original DirectX 8.1 from the Windows XP CD. Featured in this article D450 - DirectX for Windows [more...]
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DirectX Eradicator DirectX Eradicator deletes all DirectX files from your PC, whatever version of Windows you are using. The freeware version removes various files and folders of the DirectX versions 2 to 9c from your system including the registry entries so that you can then install an older version of DirectX on your system. Featured in this [more...]
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Disk Investigator Disk Investigator lets you view everything on your computer’s hard drive (including hidden files). It can also help you to recover lost data, display the true drive contents, view and search raw directories, files, clusters, and system sectors and verify the effectiveness of file and disk wiping programs. [more...]
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DiskCheckup for Windows Me/98 DiskCheckup allows the user to monitor the SMART attributes of a particular hard disk drive. SMART (Self Monitoring Analysis & Reporting Technology) is an interface between a computer’s BIOS (basic input/output system) and the computer hard disk. It is a feature of the Enhanced Integrated Drive Electronics (EIDE) technology that controls access to the [more...]
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DiskCheckup for Windows Vista/XP/2000 DiskCheckup allows the user to monitor the SMART attributes of a particular hard disk drive. SMART (Self Monitoring Analysis & Reporting Technology) is an interface between a computer’s BIOS (basic input/output system) and the computer hard disk. It is a feature of the Enhanced Integrated Drive Electronics (EIDE) technology that controls access to the [more...]
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DiskProbe You can use DiskProbe to replace the Master Boot Record, repair damaged partition table information, and repair or replace damaged Partition Boot Sectors or other file system data. The tool can also save Master Boot Records and Partition Boot Sectors as files. They can then be replaced if the sectors become damaged at a [more...]
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Display Driver Uninstaller Removing a faulty graphics card driver is the first step to repairing many graphics faults. Unfortunately sometimes the process doesn’t work correctly, and you end up with a driver stuck on your PC that you cannot remove. Display Driver Uninstaller can be used whenever you cannot uninstall a graphics driver using the standard method [more...]
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Display Driver Uninstaller Display Driver Uninstaller is a lightweight utility designed to help you immediately uninstall NVIDIA, AMD and Intel display drivers. Since there is no installation involved, you can extract the program files to any part of your hard drive and just click the executable to run. At startup, Display Driver Uninstaller warns you that it plans [more...]
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DLL Explorer 3.0 Displays the current state of your operating system, with regards to the use of EXEs, DLLs, and OCXs. [more...]
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DLL Informant Shows every DLL on your system, and indicates all of the applications that use them. [more...]
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DLL Killer DLL Killer will locate and delete redundant DLL files. Removing these can free-up a lot of wasted disk space, so give your system a periodic scan to find the unnecessary DLLs cluttering up your system. Featured in this article D490 - DLL Errors in XP/Vista/7 Solved Quickly [more...]
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DLL Orphans When you uninstall programs that share DLLs they often leave the entries in the Windows Registry and/or files that can cause other uninstall problems and bloat the Registry. DLL Orphans will search your computer and present a list of “orphaned” DLL files that are not being used, along with the corresponding Registry entries that [more...]
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DLL Show DLL Show is a small system utility that displays a list of all running processes and their DLL dependencies. This program does not create a shortcut on either your desktop or Start Menu. To run this package, look for the file DLLShow.exe located inside the folder created during the install process. Featured in this [more...]
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DLL Toys 2004 R5 DLL Toys is a suite of tools that together can search for unused DLL files, display the dependent DLLs for selected .exe files, examine running processes and modules and backup DLLs that you have removed or deleted. [more...]
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DLLArchive AnalogX DLLArchive is a useful program to help you decide whether to delete DLL files. When you are uninstalling a program and are asked if you also wish to remove its DLL files, the program searches through all the files on your system and lets you know if any of them contain references to the [more...]
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Double Driver Double Driver is a very simple and useful tool which not only allows you to view all the drivers installed on your system but also allows you to backup, restore, save and print all chosen drivers simply and reliably. Double Driver analyzes your system and lists the most important driver details such as version, [more...]
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Dr Hardware Dr. Hardware is among the most advanced system information programs and has been on the market for 15 years now. Dr. Hardware covers your whole machine and includes not only the common items (like processor detection etc.) but also some more sophisticated tests such as hardware sensor, ATA/S-ATA/Atapi and network analysis. It also comes [more...]
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drdosmin.zip Create a bootable CD or USB Stick to update your BIOS. Featured in this article B13 - BIOS Problem-solving for Optimal Performance [more...]
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DriveGLEAM DriveGLEAM is a hard drive activity indicator for your desktop that works by imitating the hard drive LED on-screen. It proves very useful if your computer case is hidden or the hard drive light is broken. The program features independent indicators for each drive or partition and allows you to monitor both read and [more...]
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DriveImage XML DriveImage XML is an easy to use and reliable program for imaging and backing-up partitions and logical drives. The program allows you to: save logical drives and partitions to image files; browse these image files and view and extract files; restore the image files to the same or a different drive; copy directly from [more...]
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Driver Collector Manage the DLLs on your PC and delete any orphan or redundant files. [more...]
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Driver Detective Scan your PC for out of date drivers. Featured in this article S418 - Service Pack 2014: Windows Annual Update [more...]
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Driver FixIt Check your Windows system for driver errors using a special Microsoft tool, and automatically apply fixes. Featured in this article D845 - Driver Replacement for Hardware Stability [more...]
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Driver Magician Lite Driver Magician Lite is a useful driver backup program. It identifies all the hardware in your system, extracts their associated drivers from the hard disk and backs them up to a location of your choice. When you format and/or re-install/upgrade your operating system, you can restore all your device drivers just as easily as [more...]
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Driver Reviver Driver Reviver is a great tool for ensuring all your computer’s hardware has the latest driver installed. It quickly scans your devices and then scans a very large driver database, enabling you to download the latest drivers easily. Keep your computer up-to-date in just a few easy clicks. Featured in this article D14 - [more...]
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Driver Sweeper Driver Sweeper is a fast tool for deleting drivers installed on your system. You can also backup the driver configuration, in case you delete anything by mistake and need to restore it later. The program also features a handy option for saving the configuration of your desktop icons. Featured in this article D14 - [more...]
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Driver Wizard Make sure your Windows drivers are up to date with this useful update program. [more...]
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DriverEasy 3.11.3.34316 DriverEasy is an easy to use application that will help you detect and download your missing or outdated drivers. If you’re suffering from an annoying driver related error, use this tool to repair the problem. Driver Easy will save you the time and energy hunting around for the latest drivers for your PC, as [more...]
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DriverView DriverView utility displays the list of all device drivers currently loaded on your system. For each driver in the list, additional useful information is displayed: load address of the driver, description, version, product name, company that created the driver, and more. Featured in this article TT909 - Top 10 Tools TT511 - Top 10 [more...]
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DUMo If you want to make sure your hardware components will not crash while you are working on your PC, you need to check their drivers and ensure that you have their latest versions installed on your computer. DUMo is a user-friendly application that you can use whenever you want to examine the drivers on [more...]
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E 940 – External Hardware: Tips for Safe UsageThese days, it should be possible to simply connect a hardware device to your PC and have it working immediately. But whether it’s a brand new device or one you’ve used before, things don’t always go that smoothly! Did you remember to install the driver before connecting the new device? Are you using the right [more...]
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EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard lets you recover up to 1 GB of files lost via deletion, disk partition loss or software crash. It can recover files with their original filenames and storage paths. In some cases, the program can even restore files following a Windows reinstall. [more...]
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EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard lets you recover up to 1 GB of files lost via deletion, disk partition loss or software crash. It can recover files with their original filenames and storage paths. In some cases, the program can even restore files following a Windows reinstall. Featured in this article TT811 - Top 10 [more...]
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Easy Disk Drive Repair Easy Disk Drive Repair is an easy to use maintenance tool which you can use to detect potential hard drive errors and prevent data loss. The scanning process is quick and it gives you a warning each time an error is encountered. Fixes are applied in real time, so that when the analysis process [more...]
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Easy Uninstaller A fast, advanced, powerful, and easy-to-use replacement for the Windows Add/Remove Control Panel. [more...]
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eDATA Unerase Personal Edition Restore files that have been deleted through normal methods, including accidental deletions from the Recycle Bin. [more...]
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Error Messages for Windows Error Messages for Windows is a small utility that will allow you to look up MS Windows error code numbers and display a descriptive message explaining what the numeric code actually means. If you have software programs that produce numeric error codes you can now find out what they really mean. Error Messages for [more...]
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Everest Home Edition Everest Home Edition is a system information tool that can provide information on practically every single piece of hardware hidden underneath your PC case, be it the motherboard, the display adapter or a multimedia device. Featured in this article T680 - Tools to Build a Better Windows System [more...]
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Everest Ultimate Edition This essential package benchmarks and reports on your system capabilities including: CPU, FPU, disk and memory benchmarks, advanced hardware monitoring and diagnostic capabilities. [more...]
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FiletypeID When you download a file from the Internet, or receive a document as an email attachment, it’s quite likely that you won’t have a program installed on your computer that can open it. The first step to rectifying that problem is to find out what type of file you have. The file extension can [more...]
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Firewall Fix It[DownloadButton-17627] Automatically diagnose and fix problems with Windows Firewall using this tool. Featured in this article QA618 - Questions and Answers [more...]
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FolderChangesView FolderChangesView is an application which helps you easily monitor changes to your folders, drives and network shares. This tool is portable, meaning that you can skip the installation process. By copying the program files on a USB flash drive, it is possible to use this utility on any computer you have access to. When first [more...]
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FreeUndelete Restore software and files that have been accidentally deleted. [more...]
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Fresh Diagnose Fresh Diagnose is a complete and comprehensive tool for diagnosing and benchmarking your computer. It supplies lots of information about both the hardware and software system of your computer; its multimedia system, installed devices and resources. Also included are several benchmark tests to find out the capability of your hardware. It also supports printing [more...]
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FS Guard FS Guard can independently monitor services and directories in the background. When a service is stopped or crashes, fs guard can independently send notification via e-mail. Featured in this article N530 - Network Tools to Resolve Difficult Problems [more...]
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geProductKey Finder 1.0 Some software, including most Microsoft products, does not allow the user to view registration codes, cd keys or serial numbers, once the software is installed. This makes it problematic if the user loses the CD cover or registration information. geProduct Key Finder allows you to view and save CD keys or serial numbers of [more...]
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GetDataBackGetDataBack will recover your data if the hard drive’s partition table, boot record, FAT/MFT or root directory are lost or damaged. It can also try and recover data even when the drive has been formatted, fdisk has been run or a power failure has caused a system crash. Featured in this article H370 Hard Drive [more...]
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GPU-Z GPU-Z is a lightweight utility which displays a wide range of information about your PC’s video card or adapter, including the chipset, memory speed, GPU chip information and more. It supports both NVIDIA and ATI based GPUs and requires no installation, just run the .EXE file to see the information instantly. Featured in this [more...]
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H 585 – How to Avoid Hacked WebsitesHave you noticed that you receive fewer phishing scams by email than you did a few years ago? That’s because criminals have moved on to bigger targets – and, sadly, easier ones: the websites themselves. Hardly a month goes by without our hearing that another website has been hacked and had all its customer information [more...]
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Hardware Compatibility List (HCL) The HCL is a useful link for checking which of your favourite applications and devices are compatible with Windows. Featured in this article U450 - Upgrade from Windows XP to Windows 8/7 D840 - Driver Problems Correctly Solved [more...]
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HDD HealthHDD Health is a compact tool which monitors your hard disk drives and alerts you when temperatures get too high, disk space gets too low, or signs point to impending disk failure. HDD Health then issues pop-up, audible, or e-mail alerts in any combination you choose. Featured in this article H120 - Hardware: Check Device [more...]
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HDD Thermometer Prevent a hard drive crash by using an effective cooling system for your PC. You should monitor the temperature of your hard drive usng HDD Thermometer and if you find it is getting too hot, improve the cooling of the system. Featured in this article C120 - Checklists for Solving Hardware Problems [more...]
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Hmonitor Hmonitor tracks system and CPU core temperatures, voltages and cooling fans to ensure your PC does not overheat. By quickly catching an overheated computer, you can prevent system instability or permanent damage. The program has a small ‘footprint’ and runs in the task tray, continually monitoring system stability. Featured in this article P28 - [more...]
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Hnet Info Processor Hnet Info is a large system product that offers complex tools for managing the intranet/internet to a wide range of people. The software includes professional products like net analysis/the structure of intranet/internet, remote management, maintaining and scanning of HW/SW devices, components for communication, IP telephony, e-mail client, FTP client, FTP server, web download, benchmark [more...]
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HW Monitor HW Monitor checks more than just the processor, and can also create log files or monitor Windows system resources. On motherboards with the correct sensors, the tool reads temperature values from the CPU, motherboard, graphics card and hard drive, as well as the fan speeds and various voltages on the motherboard. Featured in this article [more...]
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HWiNFO32 HWiNFO32 is a powerful system information utility designed especially for detection of hardware. HWiNFO32 offers professional hardware information and diagnostic tools which support the latest components, industry technologies and standards. The utility is targeted to recognise and extract the largest possible amount of information about a computers hardware, making it suitable for users searching [more...]
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IEFix A general purpose repair utility for Internet Explorer, to be used when Internet Explorer has been corrupted by a virus or faulty plug-in. It repairs Internet Explorer by registering its core DLL files and re-installs using the IE.INF file. [more...]
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iKnow Process Scanner Use iKnow Process Scanner to get full information about the processes running on your PC. The software is a process lister that will show you all the things running on your system. To get detailed information on any process, all you need to do is to double-click on its name in the program window. [more...]
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IObit Uninstaller IObit Uninstaller helps you uninstall and remove unwanted programs and folders from your computer. Where the built-in and sluggish ‘Windows Add or Remove Programs’ option fails, IObit Uninstaller works as always and picks up the slack. It features a very attractive user interface, allowing you to remove programs quickly and easily. Featured in this [more...]
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IObit Uninstaller 1.1 IObit Uninstaller helps you uninstall and remove unwanted programs and folders from your computer. Where the built-in and sluggish ‘Windows Add or Remove Programs’ option fails, IObit Uninstaller works as always and picks up the slack. It features a very attractive user interface, allowing you to remove programs quickly and easily. Featured in this [more...]
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IsoBuster Rescues data/files from scratched CDs and copies them on to your hard drive. It also permits direct access to the content of CD image files. Featured in this article CL885 - Checklist: Solve the Top 3 CD/DVD Errors R040 - Rescue Deleted Files T680 - Tools to Build a Better Windows System [more...]
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JavaRa JavaRa is an effective way to deploy, update and remove the Java Runtime Environment (JRE). It can assist in repairing or removing Java when other methods fail. Featured in this article TN918 - Tips and News TN917 - Tips and News TN414 – Tips and News [more...]
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KeyboardTest KeyboardTest is an easy-to-use Windows-based application that allows users to quickly check that all the keys on their computer keyboard are functioning correctly and look at the internal scan codes being generated by the keyboard. This is primarily useful when used on laptops, since their keyboards cannot be easily or cheaply replaced. Featured in [more...]
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KLS Mail Backup KLS Mail Backup is an easy to use backup program that allows you to backup and restore your Windows Mail, Outlook Express, Mozilla Thunderbird and Firefox profile files and contacts. The backup files are stored compressed in standard .zip files. Featured in this article E25 - Email: Secret Steps to Cure Problems [more...]
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L 561 – Lost Files? Don’t Panic!You know for a fact that you saved that letter you wrote to your bank, but where on earth is it? You’ve spent 20 minutes clicking through all your folders and it still hasn’t turned up! We all find ourselves in this situation once in a while, and looking for a lost file can be [more...]
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LanBench LANBench is a simple LAN / TCP Network benchmark utility. It is designed for testing network performance between two computers and is based on Winsock 2.2. LANBench tests TCP performance only and is designed for minimal CPU usage so that the pure performance of your network can be fully tested. Featured in this article [more...]
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LiveKd With LiveKd, you can use the Microsoft kernel debuggers to examine a live system. Featured in this article F88 - Free Professional Tools from Sysinternals [more...]
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LogrepLight LogrepLight is a useful application that was designed in order to provide you with a simple means of quickly analysing log files – essential when you are troubleshooting a problem. All you have to do is select the log file and the type then pick the attributes that will be analysed as well as [more...]
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LSP Fix LSP Fix is a utility which can repair a specific type of problem associated with certain Internet software. This type of software is known as a Layered Service Provider or LSP, a piece of software that can be inserted into the Windows TCP/IP handler like a link in a chain; however, due to bugs [more...]
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M037 – Malware: Practical Steps to Prevent InfectionWhy would you invite malicious software to install itself on your PC? Well, you certainly wouldn’t do it knowingly – nobody wants a malware infection! But you might do it in the belief that you’re installing something trustworthy and safe. In this article, I’ll show you how easily this can happen, and I’ll explain the [more...]
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M3 Format Recovery Free It’s very easy to accidentally format a drive and lose data that you need stored on it. M3 Format Recovery Free is a simple utility that can help you restore data that was lost after a drive format, as well as accidentally deleted items and information that was destroyed by a system crash. The application [more...]
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Magical Jellybean Keyfinder v2.0.1 The Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder is an open source utility that retrieves the Product Key used to install Windows from your registry and allows you to print or save your keys for safekeeping. It works on Windows 95, 98, Me, 2000, XP, Vista, Server 2003, Server 2008, Office XP, Office 2003, and Office 2007 [more...]
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Mail Repair MailRepair is a fully featured Thunderbird 2.0 extension that will search through your mail folders and find concantenated emails (where one email effectively dissapears into another), and allow you to repair them. [more...]
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MBProbe Monitors voltages, temperatures and fan speeds using hardware monitoring chips available on many modern motherboards. [more...]
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MemTest MemTest checks the integrity of your PC’s RAM, ensuring it can reliably write to and read information from memory. The program is useful for checking old or new RAM works correctly or for those who have ‘overclocked’ their RAM to get better performance. Featured in this article C120 - Checklists for Solving Hardware Problems [more...]
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Memtest 86+ Memtest86+ is a standalone memory diagnostic tool that runs from a CD on system boot. It executes a series of numbered test sections to check for errors. The execution order for these tests is arranged so that errors will be detected as rapidly as possible. Memtest86+ supports all types of memory and can be [more...]
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Microsoft Printer Troubleshooter[DownloadButton-20540] Automatically fix printing issues such as a printer not working, inability to a new install printer, unable to connect to a network printer and other printing errors. Featured in this article TN614 - Tips and News [more...]
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Microsoft Sound Fix ItUse Microsoft Sound Fix It to repair computer sound problems when your computer cannot play audio or when sound is muted in Windows. It makes numerous checks automatically, which include your driver software is working, your device is enabled and more. Featured in this article CL660 Checklist: Sound Problems Quickly Solved in Windows [more...]
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Microsoft Update Fixit There are many things that can go wrong with Windows Update, from incorrect registry settings to a problematic BITS service. When things do go wrong, your PC is at risk from hackers, since the security is not up to scratch. The Microsoft Update Fixit will repair the most likely Windows Update problems at the [more...]
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MicrosoftFixIt.Devices.Run.exe Check your Windows system for driver errors using a special Microsoft tool, and automatically apply fixes. Featured in this article D820 - Driver Errors in Windows [more...]
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MicrosoftFixit50052.msi When you connect a new USB device to a computer that has no USB devices, Windows may not detect the new device. Featured in this article TN414 – Tips and News [more...]
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Moo0 SystemMonitor Moo0 SystemMonitor is a great piece of software that enables you to watch over system resource usage of your PC. It can display information about 13 components in your computer, including CPU, memory and detailed HDD usages. Moo0 SystemMonitor will help you identify any problems that affect the performance of your system. Featured in [more...]
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MoveFile MoveFile allows you to schedule files to be renamed or deleted at the next Windows re-boot. This can be useful for deleting malware files which cannot be deleted in Windows Explorer. Featured in this article F88 - Free Professional Tools from Sysinternals [more...]
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MSXML 3.0 SP4 The MSXML 3 SP4 is required by ActiveX, and without it you will receive error messages when trying to run ActiveX controls. Cure the problem by installing this add-on to Windows. Featured in this article A110 - ActiveX: The Top 10 Errors [more...]
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MyEventViewer The Windows Event Logs contain all kinds of useful troubleshooting information, but they can be difficult to work with using the default Event Viewer in Windows. MyEventViewer is an application that can help you browse and manage the Event Logs. This program is a simple alternative to the Windows Event Viewer and comes with just [more...]
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NetFxRepairTool This tool detects and tries to fix some frequently occurring issues with the setup of Microsoft .NET Framework or with updates to the Microsoft .NET Framework. Featured in this article E246 - Error Repair for the .NET Framework E245 - Errors Resolved with the .NET Framework [more...]
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Netstat Viewer Netstat Viewer is a useful Graphical User Interface for the Windows Netstat utility which enables you to access it without having to run the command prompt from the Windows Start menu. [more...]
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Network Monitor II Network Monitor II is a Windows tool that provides you important information about your current network connection. You can view the network traffic and information about your IP address directly on your desktop without installing other network monitoring tools, or having to resort to the command line. Also displayed are details about bandwidth usage, [more...]
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NetworkProcMonitor NetworkProcMonitor is a lightweight network monitoring application built specifically to help users view the processes that are currently running on a local or remote computer, and obtain details about the process ID and name. The utility comes in handy when you need to solve network problems, as it enables you to monitor which applications [more...]
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NetWorx NetWorx is a simple and free, yet powerful tool that helps you objectively evaluate your bandwidth situation. You can use it to collect bandwidth usage data and measure the speed of your Internet or any other network connection. NetWorx can help you identify possible sources of network problems, ensure that you do not exceed [more...]
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nLite nLite is a tool for pre-installation Windows configuration and component removal of your choice. Optional bootable image ready for burning on media or testing in virtual machines. With nLite you will be able to have Windows installation which upon installation does not include, or even contain on media, the unwanted components. Featured in [more...]
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NSoftware Repair Tool for Outlook Express Repair Tool for Outlook Express is a standalone Outlook Express (OE) email recovery application that is capable of repairing OE messages whilst preserving the original folder structure. [more...]
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Ntfs Drive Protection Ntfs Drive Protection is tool designed to secure your NTFS drives to prevent unauthorised users from accessing them. It comes with a user-friendly interface based on a small window with a simple and intuitive design, where your removable drives are automatically identified and listed at startup. After selecting a drive from the drop-down menu, [more...]
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NTFSInfo NTFSInfo displays extensive information concerning NTFS volumes, including the location and size of the Master File Table (MFT) and the MFT-zone, as well as the NTFS Metadata file size. Featured in this article F88 - Free Professional Tools from Sysinternals [more...]
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O&O UnEraseO&O UnErase analyses your hard drive and finds accidentally deleted system files and then gives you the chance to recover them with the full version. Featured in this article H371 - Hard Drive Tools for Performance and Security H370 Hard Drive Tools: Tuning and Security [more...]
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OFFICE 11.ADM (for Office 2003) The Office 2003 policy template files enable you to set Office related security policies using the Group Policy snap-in. These policy settings provide the ability to block file format settings to prevent users from opening or saving specific file types and file formats in Microsoft Office Excel 2003, Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003, and Microsoft [more...]
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OFFICE 12.ADM (for Office 2007)[DownloadButton-xxxxx] The Office 2007 policy template files enable you to set Office related security policies using the Group Policy snap-in. These policy settings provide the ability to block file format settings to prevent users from opening or saving specific file types and file formats in Microsoft Office Excel 2007, Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007, and Microsoft [more...]
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OFFICE 13.ADM (for Office 2010) The Office 2010 policy template files enable you to set Office related security policies using the Group Policy snap-in. These policy settings provide the ability to block file format settings to prevent users from opening or saving specific file types and file formats in Microsoft Office Excel 2010, Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2010, and Microsoft [more...]
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Open Expert Enables you to specify any number of suitable applications for each file type. [more...]
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Optimisation Fix it use Fix it to automatically troubleshoot and repair Windows performance problems. Improve, optimize and speed up Windows computers and make slow running PCs faster by turning off troublesome features. Featured in this article T980 Tuning Tips for Extra Windows 7 Performance [more...]
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P 084 – PC Maintenance in Simple StepsGiven the opportunity, modern computers do a lot to take care of themselves. Even so, they do still need a little help in some departments – and, depending on how your use your PC, perhaps you’re not always giving it the opportunity it needs to do its own ‘housekeeping’? In this article, I’ll suggest a [more...]
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P 650 – Printer Trouble: Take Back Control in SettingsAs long as there’s a printer connected to your PC, printing is easy: you just click a Print button and the rest happens automatically. It’s so easy, in fact, that you may never question whether it can be improved! You may be wasting money by printing everything in high quality, or using expensive colour ink [more...]
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Partition Find & Mount Partition Find & Mount lets you recover deleted or lost disk partitions. It is easy-to-use, you don’t need any special knowledge to employ the software, and completely safe – you cannot further damage your system by using Find & Mount. Featured in this article T43 - Tools: Essential Free Tools for Windows Users [more...]
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Partition Saving (CD image) Partition Saving boot disk allows the saving, restoring and copying of elements of storage device. An element can be a whole hard disk, a floppy disk, the Master Boot Record (first sector of hard disk containing boot code), the partitions table or a partitions. This permits saving hard disk contents for restoration later in [more...]
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Partition Saving (floppy image) Partition Saving boot disk allows the saving, restoring and copying of elements of a storage device. An element can be a whole hard disk, a floppy disk, the Master Boot Record (first sector of hard disk containing boot code), the partitions table or a partition. Featured in this article D16 - Disaster Recovery: Protect [more...]
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PC Inspector File RecoveryPC Inspector File Recovery 4 is a data recovery program that supports the FAT 12/16/32 and NTFS file systems. It can recover files even when a header entry is no longer available and supports the saving of recovered files on network drives. The program finds partitions automatically; even if the boot sector or File Allocation [more...]
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PC Inspector Smart Recovery If you have unintentionally deleted or formatted pictures, videos or sound files on your removable drive or have pulled it out during a write operation, don’t worry: PC Inspector Smart Recovery can easily, quickly and reliably reconstruct the lost data. Using the software is very easy with the friendly interface. [more...]
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PC Inspector Smart Recovery If you have unintentionally deleted or formatted pictures, videos or sound files on your removable drive or have pulled it out during a write operation, don’t worry: PC Inspector Smart Recovery can easily, quickly and reliably reconstruct the lost data. Using the software is very easy with the friendly interface. Featured in this article [more...]
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PE Builder Create a bootable CD/DVD for system recovery, adware removal and error correction. [more...]
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PicoZip Recovery Tool PicoZip Recovery Tool is an easy-to-use program that can help you recover lost or forgotten passwords from password protected Zip files created by compression utilities like PicoZip, WinZip and PKZip. It offers a simple but intuitive user interface and supports normal and self-extracting Zip archives. [more...]
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PingPlotter Freeware PingPlotter Freeware is a small Windows application whose purpose is to help you trace the route between you and a user-defined IP address (such as a website, VoIP provider, or online gaming server). The tool continuously gathers and records information about the network status. The interface lets you specify the address that you want [more...]
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Pocket KillBox KillBox is a tool that allows you to delete files that are in use. If the file is running, KillBox will attempt to end the process and delete it. For more difficult files that have loaded DLLs or are services, the “Delete on Reboot” feature will use the native Windows function for deleting or [more...]
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Port Query Port Query is a command line utility that you can use to help troubleshoot TCP/IP connectivity issues. The utility reports the port status of TCP and UDP ports on a computer you choose, helping you to check which ones are active and which are firewalled. Featured in this article N350 - Network Problems Solved [more...]
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Port Query UI A graphical user interface to control the Port Query tool. Featured in this article N350 - Network Problems Solved Quickly [more...]
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Portable CPU Stability Test Portable CPU Stability Test is a handy utility for testing the stability of your system. The program allows you to enforce a stress test on your computer’s CPU, HDD, RAM, and caches amongst other things. It supports multi-CPU systems, automated crash handling and counting and produces a stability rating, and also lets you disable [more...]
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Portable Data Recovery Portable Data Recovery is a handy piece of software that allows you to easily recover lost and accidentally deleted files. It can even recover files that have been deleted from the recycle bin. The complete application is less than 500k extracted, so it will fit on even the tiniest of USB thumb drives. Portable [more...]
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Portable Wise Data Recovery The latest version of Portable Wise Data Recovery is an easy to use application that provides you with an effective way to recover lost or damaged data from your PC. To recover lost data you just need to select the drive that contained the data, then click Scan button. Portable Wise Data Recovery analyzes [more...]
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PPTP Ping Using PPTP Ping, you can test whether PPTP Network Traffic, can be successfully exchanged between a client and a server, which can help when you need to troubleshoot problematic network connections. PPTP Ping is installed as part of the Windows XP support tools, which can be installed on Vista and Windows 7 systems by [more...]
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PrcView 5.2.15 Explore and debug the processes running under Windows. [more...]
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Printer Tester Printer Tester is a small utility designed for testing any printer you like. This latest version gives you more power and more possibilities to test your printers by providing 52 tests in total, divided into 5 categories, along with enhanced functionality that includes test previewing, colour coverage control and more. Just select one category [more...]
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Prio (32-bit version) Prio enhances the standard Processes tab in Windows with useful tool tips containing detailed information about each running process: its name, manufacturer, version and full path to the executable file. It also shows which system services are currently running in each process. Prio adds a check box specifying whether the priority of this application [more...]
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Prio (64-bit version) Prio enhances the standard Processes tab in Windows with useful tool tips containing detailed information about each running process: its name, manufacturer, version and full path to the executable file. It also shows which system services are currently running in each process. Prio adds a check box specifying whether the priority of this application [more...]
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Process Hacker Process Hacker is a feature-packed tool for monitoring and manipulating processes and services on your computer. The program helps you view and manage the processes and their threads, modules and memory of your computer. It features a simple tree view for displaying processes, with comprehensive information and full control over each. Featured in this [more...]
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Process Hacker Process Hacker is a feature-packed tool for monitoring and manipulating processes and services on your computer. The program helps you view and manage the processes and their threads, modules and memory of your computer. It features a simple tree view for displaying processes, with comprehensive information and full control over each. Featured in this [more...]
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Process Monitor Process Monitor is an advanced monitoring tool for Windows that shows real-time file system, Registry and process/thread activity. It combines the features of two legacy Sysinternals utilities, Filemon and Regmon, and adds an extensive list of enhancements. Its uniquely powerful features will make Process Monitor a core utility in your system troubleshooting and malware [more...]
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ProcFeatures The ProcFeatures (now renamed CoreInfo) applet reports if the Physical Address Extensions and the No Execute buffer overrun protection options are supported by your processor and Windows. Featured in this article F88 - Free Professional Tools from Sysinternals [more...]
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PropertyEditor PropertyEditor is a system enhancement tool that lets you configure lots of properties for a selected file, folder or hard disk quickly and refreshingly easily. With PropertyEditor in place, you can configure the context menu for the selected files, change icons for the selected files and folders, create a report about the content of [more...]
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PsExec Using PsExec processes can be executed with restricted user rights. Featured in this article F88 - Free Professional Tools from Sysinternals S34 - Security: Boost Protection with Sysinternals Tools [more...]
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PsFile PsFile displays the remotely-opened files. Featured in this article F88 - Free Professional Tools from Sysinternals [more...]
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PsInfo With PsInfo you will find detailed information (number of processors, installation date, core build, type of installation) about your local PC and remote systems. Featured in this article F88 - Free Professional Tools from Sysinternals [more...]
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PsLogList PsLogList shows the entries in the Event Logs. Featured in this article F88 - Free Professional Tools from Sysinternals [more...]
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PsService With PsService, all background services are listed and can even be started, stopped and restarted. Featured in this article F88 - Free Professional Tools from Sysinternals [more...]
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PsSuspend With PsSuspend, local and remote processes can be paused and restarted again. Featured in this article F88 - Free Professional Tools from Sysinternals [more...]
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PsTools PsTools is a collection of command line programs for listing the processes running on local or remote computers, running processes remotely, re-booting computers, dumping event logs, and more. Featured in this article F88 - Free Professional Tools from Sysinternals [more...]
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Puran File Recovery Puran File Recovery is a handy and reliable application designed to search for lost or deleted files and restore them. The tool is able to scan a wide array of devices, including hard drives, memory cards, removable drives, CDs/DVDs and mobile phones, meaning that however you lost your data, you should be able to [more...]
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Recuva Recuva is a great Windows utility to restore files that have been accidentally deleted from your computer. This includes files emptied from the Recycle bin as well as images and other files that have been deleted from digital camera memory cards or MP3 players. It will even bring back files that have been deleted [more...]
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Remove Empty Directories Remove Empty Directories (RED) is a tool for removing empty folders from your computer. Often when you uninstall software, there are still empty directories left behind that can clog up your system. RED searches for all empty folders and gets rid of them in a few mouse clicks. It will display the folders about [more...]
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ReStartMe ReStartMe is designed to let you select currently running processes, and have them monitored; if one of them closes then ReStartMe will restart it automatically. Regardless of whether the program(s) chosen were closed properly or crashed, ReStartMe will run them again. Essential when you need to leave something running on your PC unattended for [more...]
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Revo Uninstaller Revo Uninstaller helps you to uninstall software and remove unwanted programs installed on your computer even if you have problems uninstalling and cannot uninstall them from “Windows Add or Remove Programs” control panel applet. Featured in this article R100 - Rescue Your System with Windows PE T44 - Troubleshooting: Prevent Errors Getting Out of [more...]
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Roadkil’s Unstoppable Copier Roadkil’s Unstoppable Copier recovers files from disks with physical damage and allows you to copy files from disks with problems such as bad sectors, scratches or just give errors when trying to read data. The program will attempt to recover every readable piece of a file and put the pieces together; using this method, [more...]
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S 973 – System Restore and PC RepairsYou start your computer one day and you’re faced with a barrage of error messages that won’t go away. Or you install new software and it causes Windows to run at a snail’s pace. If you can’t find any other solution, it’s time to turn to the System Restore feature in Windows 8.1, 7 and [more...]
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Sardu Use SARDU to create a multiboot USB stick with Windows 7, 8.1 and 10 installers and all Windows Recovery Disks easily and other utilities in a few minutes. It is very easy to use; all you have to do is choose which restore features you need, click the USB icon and the tool does [more...]
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SDelete SDelete is a secure deletion program which you can use to overwrite your confidential files, and clean-up free memory space used by previously deleted files. Featured in this article F88 - Free Professional Tools from Sysinternals S34 - Security: Boost Protection with Sysinternals Tools [more...]
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ShareEnum ShareEnum allows you to scan shared folders on your network and view their security settings to close security holes. Featured in this article QA1013 - Questions and Answers F88 - Free Professional Tools from Sysinternals S34 - Security: Boost Protection with Sysinternals Tools [more...]
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ShellFolderFix ShellFolderFix is an application for Windows 7 that manages shell folder windows, so that they remember their size and position. Featured in this article W13 - Windows: Add Lost Features for Free [more...]
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SiSoft Sandra Lite 2012 SiSoftware Sandra (the System Analyser, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant) is an information & diagnostic utility. It should provide most of the information (including undocumented) you need to know about your hardware, software and other devices, whether hardware or software. Featured in this article W310 - Windows Tuning with Free Tools [more...]
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SMART Vision SMART Vision reads and analyses the SMART (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) status of your hard drive at each computer startup and Windows launch, as well as constantly at regular intervals. After each analysis, the right-hand corner of Windows Control Panel will display an icon indicating the results so you can keep a constant [more...]
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SmartBackup V3.6.2 An inexpensive, fast and easy to use back-up software. [more...]
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Soft4Boost Any Uninstaller Microsoft recommend that you use the Programs and Features Control Panel to remove software from your system. The drawback of this is that doing so can still leave remnants of programs on your system. Soft4Boost Any Uninstaller solves that problem by removing programs and also scanning your computer for leftover files and registry entries, [more...]
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Soft4Boost Any Uninstaller Microsoft recommend that you use the Programs and Features Control Panel to remove software from your system. The drawback of this is that doing so can still leave remnants of programs on your system. Soft4Boost Any Uninstaller solves that problem by removing programs and also scanning your computer for leftover files and registry entries, in [more...]
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SoftPerfect File Recovery SoftPerfect File Recovery is a free and useful tool to restore accidentally deleted files from hard and floppy disks, USB flash drives, CF and SD cards and other storage media. It supports the popular file systems such as FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS and NTFS5 with compression and encryption. If your important files disappeared and [more...]
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Start Killer Start Killer removes the Start button from your taskbar, giving you additional space for your open programs. When you close Start Killer the Start button is again shown. Though the Start button is removed, you can still open Start menu using CTRL+ESC or WIN key. Featured in this article TT711 - Top 10 Tools [more...]
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SuperF4 SuperF4 closes the foreground program when you press Ctrl+Alt+F4, different from when you press Alt+F4 which merely asks the foreground program to exit, allowing it to decide for itself what to do. You can also shutdown a process by pressing Win+F4 and then clicking the window with your mouse, which also allows you to [more...]
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Sync By using Sync, data that is in the disk cache is permanently transferred to the disk. Featured in this article F88 - Free Professional Tools from Sysinternals [more...]
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Sysinternals Tools The Sysinternals tools are widely used by professional system administrators, and provide valuable help on a daily basis. You don’t have to be an expert to use these useful tools on your own PC. Many Sysinternals tools, covering system analysis, management and troubleshooting, can help you to quickly and successfully solve all kinds of [more...]
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System Information Viewer System Information Viewer is a compact software utility that you can use to find out your PC’s hardware configuration, including details such as the processor, memory, graphics card, and other components. System Information Viewer shows the current resources usage, physical memory, paging file and file cache sizes, CPU and GPU utilisation, along with other details [more...]
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System Restore Point Creator Create and manage System Restore Points quickly and easily, all from a free simple program. No more drilling through multiple menus in Windows just to create a System Restore Point, now all you have to do is run this program and that’s it. Follow the simple program layout and you have your System Restore [more...]
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System Stability Tester System Stability Tester began as a system stressing and benchmarking tool for overclockers. The program tries to test the system’s stability by calculating up to 128 millions of Pi digits. The testing process includes the creation of two or more threads. After each step of the calculation, the results of all the threads are [more...]
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SysTweak Advanced Registry Optimizer Back up your registry, scan for erronious entries and restore your system after a crash. [more...]
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Task ForceQuit Pro Task ForceQuit Pro will enable you to quickly view all the active applications from your taskbar and close them with a single click. It is much quicker than the Windows Task Manager and runs quietly in the background until needed. Featured in this article TT313 Top 10 Tools TT312 - Top 10 Tools [more...]
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TCP-Z TCP-Z increases the number of ‘half-open’ connections, i.e. outbound TCP connection attempts, permissible per second under Windows. This should enable you to download faster and run more Internet programs at the same time. The program also offers a neat little graphical display of the number of established connections you have. Featured in this article [more...]
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TcpLogView TcpLogView is a tiny, portable software application that allows you to keep track of opened TCP connections, so you can keep an eye on which applications are using your Internet connection. The program’s interface shows you all the details of your open network connections, including the connection date and type, local and remote address, remote [more...]
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TCPView TCPView is a Windows program that will show you detailed listings of all TCP and UDP endpoints on your system, including the local and remote addresses and state of TCP connections. Featured in this article T650 TCPView: Perfect Network Control F88 - Free Professional Tools from Sysinternals [more...]
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TestDisk TestDisk is powerful free data recovery tool. It was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software, certain types of viruses or human error (such as accidentally deleting a Partition Table). Partition table recovery using TestDisk is really easy. Featured in this [more...]
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Toolbox Toolbox contains six small but useful utilities to help you better organise your desktop. As well as a calculator with unit conversion function, Toolbox also contains a small weather App and a clock App, and well as a built-in web browser and tool to connect you to multiple social networks. Featured in this article [more...]
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TotalUninstall TotalUninstall is an installation monitor and advanced uninstaller in one great package. You can use to it to completely remove programs from your computer, even when there is no entry in the Add/Remove Programs Windows applet. Additionally, TotalUninstall monitors any changes made to your system when new software is installed. Featured in this article [more...]
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Trinity Rescue Kit Recover your PC when it won’t boot with this essential rescue kit. Trinity Rescue Kit provides many useful tools, such as the ability to reset your Windows password if you forget it, and remove viruses using 4 different virus scan products (ClamAV, AVG, F-Prot, BitDefender) integrated in a single uniform command line with online [more...]
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TuffTEST-Lite The first PC diagnostic software product that can automatically test the major hardware components of any Intel-based, or compatible, desktop PC. [more...]
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U 435 – Understanding Command PromptIt’s not something most of us use by choice, but there are certain technical aspects of Windows that can only be accessed using the Command Prompt. More pressingly, if Windows won’t start and you have to use a recovery drive, you might find yourself forced to get acquainted with the Command Prompt to stand any [more...]
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UltimateShutdown UltimateShutdown is a nice little program that lets you specify when your computer should shut itself down. Control is by a simple interface where you type in minutes when the computer should shut down to start the countdown. It’s a very lightweight tool that uses next to no memory. Featured in this article TT110 [more...]
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Undelete 360 Undelete 360 is an excellent file recovery utility, essential when a drive has been damaged or a file accidentally deleted. Simply launch the software, select the drive or drives you wish to search and the software will show you all the files it can attempt to recover. Then just click the file you want [more...]
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UNetbootin UNetbootin allows you to create bootable Live USB drives for without burning a CD. You can either let UNetbootin download one of the many distributions supported out-of-the-box for you, or supply your own ISO file. Featured in this article U510 - USB: The Perfect Rescue Stick [more...]
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Uniblue Local Cooling If you’ve ever wondered how much power your computer consumes, power management tool Local Cooling is here to help you out. The power management tool is very easy to configure. Under the General tab you can choose a pre-selected power saving mode or create a custom mode. You will be able to monitor your [more...]
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Unknown Device Identifier Unknown Device Identifier enables you to identify hardware components listed as “Unknown Device” in the Windows Device Manager; those with the telltale yellow question mark next to them. The program provides a detailed summary about each unknown device, including the manufacturer’s name, OEM name, device type and more. You can then use this information [more...]
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Unknown Devices Have you ever seen the ‘Unknown Devices’ listed in the Device Manager tool and wondered what they are? Now you can find out with this tool! Featured in this article D19 - Device Manager: Fix Serious Hardware Errors [more...]
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USB Drive Disabler USB Drive Disabler is a simple utility that does exactly what it’s name suggests. Simply double-click on the .exe file, choose to disable or enable USB drives, reboot your computer and your choice will be implemented. Featured in this article S41 - Security: Quickly Deal with USB Viruses [more...]
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Watchdog-O-Matic Watchdog-O-Matic is a ‘watchdog’ program that monitors and diagnoses problems and issues with your key software. Watchdog-O-Matic automatically solves any problem the monitored application(s) encounters and it will restart the program if it crashes or hangs. It is especially useful if your system is operating as a server and you can’t monitor it physically. [more...]
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Who’s Locking? Who’s Locking? is a system tool which tells you the processes that are locking a DLL file; useful for when trying to copy a DLL file, only to be greeted with an ‘access denied’ message. You can run the program direct from the .EXE file or via the context menu in Windows. Featured in [more...]
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Whois Whois displays the details of an Internet address owner. You can search either by DNS name or IP address. Featured in this article F88 - Free Professional Tools from Sysinternals [more...]
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WinAudit Freeware WinAudit is a software programme that audits just about every aspect of your computer and displays the results as a web page, which can be saved in a number of standard formats. The program is easy to use and requires no installation: it is designed to produce a comprehensive audit with one click of [more...]
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Windows 10/8.1 Update Repair Tool If you’re having problems with Windows Update, make sure you’re connected to the Internet, and then download and run the Windows Update Troubleshooter for your version of Windows. Featured in this article U857 - Update Errors Solved with a Secret Tool [more...]
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Windows 2000 Boot Disk 1 Installer These boot disks can be used to setup a new hard drive, scan an existing hard drive for errors, install or re-install Windows, upgrade your PC’s BIOS, run DOS utilities and much more. You will download an .exe file that can be saved to floppy disk. [more...]
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Windows 2000 Boot Disk 2 Installer These boot disks can be used to setup a new hard drive, scan an existing hard drive for errors, install or re-install Windows, upgrade your PC’s BIOS, run DOS utilities and much more. You will download an .exe file that can be saved to floppy disk. [more...]
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Windows 2000 Boot Disk 3 Installer These boot disks can be used to setup a new hard drive, scan an existing hard drive for errors, install or re-install Windows, upgrade your PC’s BIOS, run DOS utilities and much more. You will download an .exe file that can be saved to floppy disk. [more...]
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Windows 2000 Boot Disk 4 Installer These boot disks can be used to setup a new hard drive, scan an existing hard drive for errors, install or re-install Windows, upgrade your PC’s BIOS, run DOS utilities and much more. You will download an .exe file that can be saved to floppy disk. [more...]
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Windows 98 SE Boot Disk Installer These boot disks can be used to setup a new hard drive, scan an existing hard drive for errors, install or re-install Windows, upgrade your PC’s BIOS, run DOS utilities and much more. You will download an .exe file that can be saved to floppy disk. [more...]
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Windows Debugging Tools Use the Debugging Tools for Windows to debug drivers, applications, and services on Windows systems. Debugging Tools for Windows includes WinDbg, a powerful debugger with a graphical interface and a console interface, as well as the console-based debuggers NTSD, CDB, and KD, as well as DEBUG.EXE. Featured in this article S820 - STOP Error: [more...]
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Windows Driver Kit (WDK) The Windows Driver Kit (WDK) is a software toolset from Microsoft that enables you to debug memory crashes using WinDbg and other debugging tools. Featured in this article TN115 - Tips and News [more...]
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Windows Me Boot Disk Installer These boot disks can be used to setup a new hard drive, scan an existing hard drive for errors, install or re-install Windows, upgrade your PC’s BIOS, run DOS utilities and much more. You will download an .exe file that can be saved to floppy disk. [more...]
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Windows Repair “Windows Repair is an all-in-one repair tool to help fix a large majority of known Windows problems including registry errors and file permissions, along with various issues with Internet Explorer, Windows Update, Windows Firewall and others. A handy interface groups the functions using 4 tabs; select your desired options on each, click ‘Start’ and [more...]
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Windows Repair Even if you only use one or two main applications on your system, you’ll notice how the machine’s performance deteriorates over time, even through normal usage. There are plenty of tools that will help you solve this and a whole host of other Windows problems, but how do you know which one to use? [more...]
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Windows Repair Toolbox Windows Repair Toolbox includes most third-party applications and Windows utilities you might need to repair any Windows problems in one small application. Featured in this article TT818 - Top 5 Tools [more...]
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Windows Update Blocker Microsoft release updates for Windows all the time, so it is no surprise that sometimes errors occur. If a problem update is installed, even if you remove it, Windows will keep trying to install it. Windows Update Blocker is a lightweight application that can help you manage the update service more efficiently and block particular [more...]
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Windows Update Blocker Microsoft release updates for Windows all the time, so it is no surprise that sometimes errors occur. If a problem update is installed, even if you remove it, Windows will keep trying to install it. Windows Update Blocker is a lightweight application that can help you manage the update service more efficiently and block [more...]
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Windows Update Fixit There are many things that can go wrong with Windows Update, from incorrect registry settings to a problematic BITS service. When things do go wrong, your PC is at risk from hackers, since the security is not up to scratch. The Windows Update Fixit will repair the most likely Windows Update problems at the click [more...]
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WindowsUpdateDiagnostic.diagcab Use the Windows Update Automated Troubleshooter to detect and solve Windows update issues automatically. Featured in this article U851 - Updates: Errors Solved Quickly [more...]
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WinMend Folder Hidden WinMend Folder Hidden is a great little tool for making files or folders invisible, both on local or removable drives. Hidden data can be displayed and unhidden only when the user enters the valid password; the data is completely invisible to other programs or on other operating systems. Featured in this article U7 - [more...]
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WinObj WinObj is the ultimate Object Manager namespace viewer. Featured in this article F88 - Free Professional Tools from Sysinternals [more...]
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WinPatrol V15.9.2008.5 WinPatrol is a compact but very comprehensive system monitor and information tool. You can view Startup programs, hidden files, scheduled tasks, services and much more, all via the program’s attractive user interface. Featured in this article T35 - Tools: Ultimate Windows Software Environment T75 - Tips & Tricks: Ultra-fast Windows Bootup [more...]
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WinPing The PING command is one of the standard tools for solving network problems. The command prompt is however not very easy to use. This problem is solved by the free WinPing tool which gives you a GUI interface to all the PING functions. Featured in this article TN813 - Tips and News [more...]
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WinRescue 2000 Back-up and restore registry and initiation files for Windows 2000. [more...]
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WinRescue 95 Back up and restore registry and initiation files for Windows 95. [more...]
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WinRescue 98 Back-up and restore registry and initiation files for Windows 98. [more...]
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WinRescue Me Back-up and restore registry and initiation files for Windows Me. [more...]
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WinRescue XP Back-up and restore registry and initiation files for Windows XP. [more...]
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WinSock Fix WinSock Fix offers a last resort if your Internet connectivity has been corrupted due to invalid or removed registry entries. It can often cure the problem of lost connections after the removal of Adware components or improper uninstall of firewall applications, or other tools that modify the XP network and Winsock settings. Featured in [more...]
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Winsock Repair Windows socket (Winsock) settings can be changed or corrupted over time by malicious and even legitimate software. For example, you will be able connect to the Internet, but the packets wont transfer back and forth, or errors such as ‘Page cannot be displayed’ may occur when using Internet Explorer. The Winsock Repair application is [more...]
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WinSockXPFix WinSock XP Fix offers a last resort fix if your Internet connectivity has been corrupted due to invalid or removed registry entries. Featured in this article S35 - Solve Problems Caused by Security Software [more...]
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Wireshark Wireshark is a free and open-source packet analyser. It is used for network troubleshooting, analysis, software and communications protocol development, and education. Featured in this article W705 - WLAN: Perfect Security N530 - Network Tools to Resolve Difficult Problems [more...]
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XP Quick Fix XP Quick Fix is a portable, small and fast tool for fixing 25 different Windows problems. Using XP Quick Fix is very simple: just run it and click on the button with the relevant fix; clicking a fix button is safe and will not harm even a properly configured computer. Quick Fix is a [more...]
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XP SysPad With XP SysPad, you can easily access hundreds of Windows system utilities and view a variety of system monitoring information. You can also recover your Windows 2000/XP product key, find your IP address, execute web queries, monitor any running system process, launch any program, search for files and more. For convenience, it can also [more...]
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XP TCP/IP Repair If you have recently removed adware or spyware from your computer you may find that your Internet connection has stopped working. This is usually because the infection has damaged the Internet settings in your registry. XP TCP/IP Repair will fix the broken settings getting your Internet connection working again. [more...]
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