Toolbox utilities and essentials
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You can pretty well do all system tests at www.pcpitstop.com
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.
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.
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
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
Want to monitor the frame rates in all games ? Try this.
FRAPS :-
http://files3.majorgeeks.com/files/4926 ... APS282.EXE
FRAPS :-
http://files3.majorgeeks.com/files/4926 ... APS282.EXE
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)skydive wrote: 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.
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
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