Toolbox utilities and essentials

[~PJ~]

Schematics and manuals - free download

http://www.eserviceinfo.com/

[Beast100]

You can pretty well do all system tests at www.pcpitstop.com

[Copper]

free alternative to partion magic


http://partitionlogic.org.uk/

[kltsin]

free alternative to partion magic


http://partitionlogic.org.uk/

looks cool have you tried it out?

[ma102ma]

I have. It's been stable enough for me. Might be worth a look if you want to move to using OSS.

[jaycee]

http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html

The 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.

[Wayfarer]

Process Explorer.

It's Task Manager+++

It shows what's running which program; especially useful when you're trying to track down a Windows service that's taxing your CPU.

http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/P ... lorer.html

[michael_burkebanned]

Want to monitor the frame rates in all games ? Try this.


FRAPS :-


http://files3.majorgeeks.com/files/4926 ... APS282.EXE

[Mi An]

I find it is the most hassle-free way of ensuring ALL components are working together. It is also very useful for when an HDD dies on you and you need to try to rescue files from it.

Knoppix and the aforementioned memtest are my most used tools when building systems.

Knoppixhas saved my data twice now when NTFS got corrupted and windows wouldn't touch it. It also comes in a convenient travel size (called Feather Linux, fits on mini-CD)

http://featherlinux.berlios.de/download.htm

Some versions of Knoppix have Gparted (a GNU partition editor) on them, but here's an indepentent distro as well:

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php

[~PJ~]

Diagnostic tools for all sorts of HDDs