Archive for the ‘Hardware’ Category
RAMDisk
RAMDisk is the right product for you if you have a disk I/O bound application that is small enough to fit in main memory. RAMDisk is also great for storing frequently accessed data such as temp files, page files and database index files. RAMDisk is freeware up to 4GB disk sizes.
- Speed up Internet page load times
- Control what files and programs are stored into memory (loaded at boot time)
- Create temporary disks for added security
- Speed up disk-to-disk activities such as video encryption and audio ripping
- Accelerate databases
- Reduce compile times
You can Download RAMDisk here.
TuneUp Uilities 2010
TuneUp Uilities 2010 is a suite of award-winning Windows XP, Vista and 7 PC tools that will deliver comprehensive, simple and fast PC maintenance, repair & optimization. TuneUp Uilities 2010 gives you 1-Click maintenance and automatic maintenance and the control to turn off unneeded background applications. TuneUp Uilities 2010 gets you the tools to optimize system startup and shutdown and repair and optimize your Windows Registry file.
Unlike conventional tuning tools that only offer static optimization techniques, TuneUp Utilities 2010 takes an intelligent approach, analyzing the configuration of individual PCs to determine the best tuning measures to perform based on the user’s specific requirements. TuneUp Utilities 2010 enables users to optimize their PC in a way that would otherwise require a high level of effort and extensive technical expertise. As well as carrying out routine tasks, users can also benefit from the extensive expert know‐how that is integrated into the software.
TuneUp Utilities 2010 contains the new Turbo Mode to increase the performance of users’ PCs. This allows consumers to switch off a large number of unnecessary background processes-with a single click.
New Start Page:
The core of TuneUp Utilities 2010, the new Start Page provides ‘at‐a‐glance’ information about important computer system settings, automatically highlights trouble spots and offers quick options that can be executed directly to solve them.
Selective optimization with TuneUp Speed Optimizer:
The TuneUp Speed Optimizer analyzes the settings of the operating system, installed applications and hardware, as well as the user’s patterns of use. Using this analysis, the TuneUp Speed Optimizer determines the optimization potential of each individual PC. The “Quick Optimization” option lists and explains all measures for optimizing the system’s performance that can be performed without limiting the functionality of the computer. The user can then either execute all of the measures with a single click of the mouse or individually initiate each one. The additional “Performance Advisor” offers suggestions for further acceleration of the system, clearly explaining the possible courses of action, as well as their effects. This prevents the optimization from being static and inaccurate.
TuneUp StartUp Manager:
The TuneUp StartUp Manager shows which programs are automatically started when the computer is turned on. TuneUp StartUp Manager includes a database that is continuously updated by TuneUp’s computing experts with useful information on what each program is, and whether it can be turned off safely.
TuneUp Uninstall Manager:
The list of all installed applications on the computer is now populated much faster and can be sorted by each application’s size, latest access date, or date of installation. It also displays information about usage history, enabling the user to easily remove any applications that are no longer needed.
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Multi Password Recovery 1.2.4 (+ Portable)
Multi Password Recovery (MPR) – multifunctional password decryption, removal and auditing solution for Windows. MPR instantly finds and recovers passwords from more than 80 popular applications (FTP, E-mail clients, IM, Browsers and so on). It can also delete stored passwords, shows passwords hidden under asterisks, copies SAM file and can generate new passwords. Under W2K/XP/2K3 MPR is able to process blocked for reading files.
FTP clients:
- Windows/Total Commander 4.x, 6.x
- FAR Manager 1.6x, 1.7x
- WS_FTP 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 Home/Pro, 2007
- CuteFTP Home/Pro (mostly all versions)
- FlashFXP 1.x-3.x
- FileZilla 2.x
- FTP Commander Pro/Deluxe (mostly all versions)
- FTP Navigator (mostly all versions)
- BulletProof FTP Client 1.x, 2.x
- SmartFTP 1.x, 2.x
- TurboFTP 5
- FFFTP 1.x
- CoffeeCup FTP 3.x
- Core FTP 2.x
- FTPExplorer 7.x
- Frigate3 FTP 3.x
- UltraFXP 1.x
- FTPRush 1.x
- SecureFX (mostly all versions)
E-mail Clients:
- Outlook Express 6.0
- Outlook 2000 (MSO 2000), 2002 (MSO XP), 2003 (MSO .NET)
- Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0, 1.5.x
- The Bat! v. 1.x, 2.x, 3.x
- Becky 2.x
- Eudora/Eudora Light (mostly all versions)
- Gmail Notifier (mostly all versions)
- Mail.Ru Agent 4.x
- Opera Email Client
- IncrediMail (mostly all versions)
- Group Mail Free (mostly all versions)
- Vypress Auvis 2.x
- PocoMail 3.x, 4.x
- Forte Agent 3.x
- iScribe/nScribe 1.x
- POP Peeper 3.x
- Mail Commander 8.x
Browsers:
- Opera 6.x, 7.x, 8.x, 9.x
- Mozilla Browser 1.7.x
- Internet Explorer 4, 5, 6, 7
- Mozilla Firefox (mostly all versions)
Dialers:
- Windows Remote Access Service (RAS), VPN and Dial-up passwords
- EType Dialer 1.x
- MuxaSoft Dialer 3.0, 4.0, 4.1
- FlexibleSoft Dialer 2.x-4.x
- Advanced Dialer 2.x
- Dialer Queen 1.x
- VDialer 3
Download managers:
- Download Master 4, 5
- GetRight 5
- FlashGet (JetCar) 1.6, 1.71, 1.8
- Internet Download Accelerator 5
Internet
- QIP 2005
- Miranda IM 0.2.x, 0.3.x, 0.4.x, 0.5.x, 0.6
- ICQ 99b-2003b, Lite 4, Lite 5
- MSN Messenger 1.x-7.x
- Windows Messenger
- Yahoo! Messenger 3.x-6.x
- &RQ 0.9
- Trillian 0.x, 2, 3
- AOL Instant Messenger (older versions), 6.x
- AIM Pro
- GAIM 1.x
- Odigo 4
- IM2 (Messenger 2) 1.5.x
- SIM 0.9
- Google Talk (mostly all versions)
- PSI (mostly all versions)
- Faim 0.1
- Windows Live Messenger
- Excite Private Messenger 1.x
- Gizmo Project (mostly all versions)
- Pidgin (mostly all versions)
Other
- Registration key from Win2k & XP
- ClubTimer 2.2-2.7
- Punto Switcher 2.5-2.9
- WinVNC 3.x
- Screen Saver Win9x
- ASP.NET Account
- Remote Desktop Connection
- The Bee 1.x
- FreeCall 3.x
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R-Drive Image 4.7 Build 4718
R-Drive Image is a potent utility providing disk image files creation for backup or duplication purposes. A disk image file contains the exact, byte-by-byte copy of a hard drive, partition or logical disk and can be created with various compression levels on the fly without stopping Windows OS and therefore without interrupting your business. These drive image files can then be stored in a variety of places, including various removable media such as CD-R(W)/DVD, Iomega Zip or Jazz disks, etc. R-Drive Image restores the images on the original disks, on any other partitions or even on a hard drive’s free space on the fly. To restore system and other locked partitions R-Drive Image is switched to the pseudo-graphic mode directly from Windows or bootable version created by the utility is launched from CD disc or diskettes. R-Drive Image is one of the best backup and disaster recovery solutions to prevent losing your data after a fatal system failure.
Using R-Drive Image, you can completely and rapidly restore your system after heavy data loss caused by an operating system crash, virus attack or hardware failure. You can also use R-Drive Image for mass system deployment when you need to setup many identical computers. In other words, you can manually setup one system only, create an image of the system, and then deploy it on all other computers, saving your time and costs. If you need to restore only certain files from a disk image, you can connect that image as a virtual disk and copy those files directly from the disk imageusing Windows Explorer or any other file utility.
R-Drive Image features:
* A simple wizard interface – no in-depth computer management skills are required.
* On-the-fly actions: Image files are created on-the-fly, no need to stop and restart Windows. All other disk writes are stored in a cache until the image is created. Data from image files are restored on-the-fly as well, except on a systempartition. Data to the system partition can be restored either by restarting R-Drive Image in its pseudo-graphic mode directly from Windows, or by using specially created startup disks.
* Image files compression. Image files can be compressed to save free storage space.
* Removable media support. Image files can be stored on removable media.
* Network support. R-Drive Image bootable CD version supports disk image file creation and restoration over Microsoftnetwork (CIFS protocol).
* Pseudo-graphic mode. Restart to the pseudo-graphic mode directly from Windows to restore data to the system and other locked partitions. No need to use startup disks any more.
* Extended List of the supported devices. The list of hardware supported by R-Drive Image bootable versions has been extended. VIEW THE LIST
* USB 2.0 devices support in the pseudo-graphic mode. With hard drives prices constantly going down, an external IDE-USB 2.0 HDD case with an appropriate hard drive is an ideal (fast and reliable) solution for notebooks and sealed PCs to backup system and other partitions that can be restored only in the pseudo-graphic mode. Do not use numerous unreliable CD discs and slow CD/DVD recorders any more. Remember: with the incremental backup, this hard drive is not to be too large.
* Bootable version. Special bootable disks (either 2 floppy disks or one CD) can be created to restore data to the system partition.
* Individual files and folders restoration. A disk image can be connected as a read-only virtual drive and its content can be viewed and copied.
* Image files splitting. Drive images can be split into several files to fit a storage medium.
* Image Protection. Disk image files can be password-protected and contain comments.
* File system conversion. The file system of the restored disk can be converted to another one (FAT16 to FAT32 and vise versa.).
* New partition creation. Data from a disk image can be restored on a free (unpartitioned) space on any place on a hard drive. The size of the restored partition can be changed.
* Partition replacement. Data from a disk image can be restored on other existing partitions. R-Drive Image deletes such partitions and restores data on that free space.
* Disk to Disk copy. An entire disk can be directly copied on another one.
* Image files verification. You may check if your image files are good before you store them or restore data from them.
* Scheduler. A time for disk image creation may be scheduled and the process can be run in unattended mode.
* Script creation for frequent or unattended actions. Such scripts for creating an image file and appending data to an existing image file are created from the R-Drive Image interface the same way the actual action is performed. Scripts are executed from a command line and such command can be included to any command file.
* Action Report. When disk image is successfully created or the action fails the report can be automatically sent over e-mail or an external application can be launched.
New R-Drive Image features in version 4.x :
* Windows Vista and 64 bit processors support. New R-Drive Image version supports all Windows Vista operating systems and 64 bit processors.
* Acceleration of image creation and disc copy operations. Asynchronous I/O and distributed the zlib compression library were added among different processors. As a result, users can see up to 200% speed gains in image creation and disc copy operations.
* Differential image creation. When the incremental/differential backup is being created, the differential image can be created by comparing the current data with the 128-bit hash of the original data without reading the main image. That speeds up the process of creating the incremental/differential image in any case, but also no need to change the original discs when writing the image to CD/DVD discs.
* Incremental image creation mode. In the previous versions the differential mode was available only.
* A bootable module can be written to a CD/DVD disc together with the image data. Thus it is possible to create one CD/DVD disc to boot and to restore the system.
* Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) support. In order to create a point-in-time snapshot of a database, the servers like Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL and Oracle are notified before backup process begins. The technology allows synchronizing the servers’ database and creating the correct copies of quick-changeable data.
* Dynamic Disks and BSD slices support. Dynamic disks and BSD slices can be backup, restored and copied. The feature is supported in both Windows and bootable versions of R-Drive image. You may create an image of one disk or a volume of any type and then restore the image back to a dynamic or basic disk. However when such image is restored you may not change a size or other characteristics of the target disk. When you restore a dynamic disk image to a basic disk, the basic disk remains basic and is not converted to the dynamic disk.
* A flexible control over CD/DVD writing. That allows limiting the writing speed and cashing in the ISO file.
* Improved file format of the image created by the application.
* Writing to NTFS partitions. Now the R-Drive Image bootable version (based on the Linux kernel) supports writing to NTFS partitions as well as R-Drive Image Windows version.
You can Download R-Drive Image 4.7 here.
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USB Flash Security 3.2.1
Lost or stolen mobile devices are a growing data security threat, yet there’s no need to panic over sensitive data falling into the wrong hands if it’s protected. That’s where USB Flash Security from Kashu System Design comes in. It’s a free USB security utility for mobile devices.
USB Flash Security’s compact, tabbed interface displays all installed disk drives on your PC, but the software will only install on those drives with USB access. It’s a keep-it-simple layout: there’s a display window, file menus for Operations and Help, Exit and Update buttons, and the Install command bar, but that’s it. We inserted a USB flash drive, and USB Flash Security immediately identified it. Selecting the drive for installing the software called up a password creation wizard that has an interesting option to set your password hint to display when you hover the cursor. We installed the software, removed the drive, reinserted it, and copied some files to it, calling up the password entry dialog. We entered the password and gained access to the USB drive’s volume, transferred the files, ejected the drive, and reinserted it again. Clicking the drive displayed the USB Flash Security executable, which we then clicked to recall the password entry dialog. We entered the password and gained access to the data. We like the fact that the password entry field doesn’t automatically appear when you try to access the drive since there’s no reason to help thieves figure things out.
Kashu is a Japanese developer that is entering the global software market, and its documentation is written in somewhat fractured English that
occasionally takes some figuring out. However, the Help file is not only clear and concise but helpful as well. All told, USB Flash Security is an easy-to-use tool that offers effective password protection for mobile data devices.
You can Download USB Flash Security here.
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Partition Wizard Home Edition 5.2
MiniTool’s Partition Wizard Home Edition is a free disk utility that adds powerful partition management capabilities to both 32-bit and 64-bit
Windows installations. It can create, delete, resize, format, copy, convert, and hide partitions; change drive letters; convert dynamic disks back to basic disks; and perform critical tests and maintenance duties. It supports most disk types, including removable storage devices like flash drives and memory cards.
Partition Wizard’s interface resembles recent Windows editions, with a familiar blue-toned navigation pane and color-delineated bar graphs for each disk partition. It opened with a detailed display of our system’s disks and partition information, including a flash drive in a USB port. We opted to test Partition Wizard on the flash drive since there’s no lack of tools for managing hard-drive partitions, but they don’t always handle removable drives so well. We ran our little flash drive through its paces, gaining quick familiarity with this powerful but easy-to-use software. We like the Operations Pending window, which collects all selected procedures, awaiting your Apply or Undo command. Another nice touch is a Wizard file menu for quickly accessing the program’s wizard-based copy and recovery tools. We clicked Format Partition to reformat our flash drive’s FAT partition as NTFS, and then clicked Apply to initiate the change, which called up a caution message about open applications. Clicking Surface Test called up a dialog with the familiar animated block map display, whereas the Wipe Partition control offers several levels of disk-wiping. Simple commands like labeling partitions or changing drive letters are handled by small pop-ups, and more-powerful tools, like Copy Partition, offer much greater levels of detail and control. You can also download a free bootable, burnable CD ISO image that lets you boot into Partition Wizard to manage partitions without limitations, including functions like merging partitions and rebuilding Master Boot Records.
Partition Wizard Home Edition is a great example of the sort of freeware that can both simplify and enhance Windows’ capabilities. It’s an all-in-one disk partition manager that earns our top recommendation.
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SIW Technician’s Version 2009-10-22
Windows offers a lot of sources of PC information, most of it scattered throughout your system. Gabriel Topala’s SIW (System Information for
Windows) gathers all that information in a single interface. SIW Technician’s Version displays detailed specifications for your hardware, software, and network, including real-time monitoring of CPU, RAM, and network usage. It includes several useful extras, such as the ability to retrieve and display passwords and software serial numbers and key codes. Best of all, it’s free for noncommercial users. It doesn’t access or make any changes to your properties or settings; it just displays the most detailed system information imaginable in one central location.
One great thing about SIW, right off the bat: it’s completely portable, requiring no installation to run, and it’s only 1.53MB in size, so it fits on a wide range of portable devices. SIW will run not only from USB flash drives and other portable devices but also from a network drive or domain log-in script. It has a familiar Windows-style interface, with taskbar, left-hand explorer panel, and main view. What at first seems a dizzying array of information in the navigation panel is in fact a well-organized layout, with expandable views for Software, Hardware, and Network, each with related items grouped by function; for example, under Hardware are entries for Devices, Video, and Ports as well as System Summary, Motherboard, Printers, and other related items. There are even properties settings for Logical Disks and Battery. The file menu and taskbar each contain many useful settings and some extras, such as the Eureka password retrieval tool.
There’s a coffee cup icon on the taskbar labeled Buy Me a Coffee that links to the developer’s PayPal page; SIW is Portable Freeware, but tips are accepted. Even then, SIW is one of the best bargains in software, and highly recommended.
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Download Speccy
Speccy will give you detailed statistics on every piece of hardware in your
computer. Including CPU, Motherboard, RAM, Graphics Cards, Hard Disks, Optical Drives, Audio support. Additionally Speccy adds the temperatures of your different components, so you can easily see if there’s a problem!
- Processor brand and model
- Hard drive size and speed
- Amount of memory (RAM)
- Graphics card
- Operating system
At first glance, Speccy may seem like an application for system administrators and power users. It certainly is, but Speccy can also help normal users, in everyday computing life.
If you need to add more memory to your system, for example, you can check how many memory slots your computer has and what memory’s already installed. Then you can go out and buy the right type of memory to add on or replace what you’ve already got.
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Download CPU-Z Freeware
CPU-Z Freeware
CPU-Z is a freeware utility that gathers information on some of the main devices of your system. CPU-Z does not need to be installed, just unzip the files in a directory and run the .exe. In order to remove the program, just
delete the files. The program does not copy any file in any Windows directory, nor write to the registry.
CPU
• Name and number.
• Core stepping and process.
• Package.
• Core voltage.
• Internal and external clocks, clock multiplier.
• Supported instructions sets.
• All cache levels (location, size, speed, technology).
Mainboard
• Vendor, model and revision.
• BIOS model and date.
• Chipset (northbridge and southbridge) and sensor.
• Graphic interface.
Memory
• Frequency and timings.
• Module(s) specification using SPD (Serial Presence Detect) : vendor, serial number, timings table.
System
• Windows and DirectX version.
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