Saturday, August 27

Soluto Benchmarking

Soluto's goal is to bring an end to the frustrations PC users encounter. Soluto developed technology that tackles this problem from two different directions: Frustration detection: Our patent-pending low level driver technology detects when you're aggravated by your PC and tells you which request is causing it. Power of the crowd: Soluto harnesses the power of the crowd to study which performance really eliminate frustrations and improve user experience,...

Fraps Benchmarking

Fraps is a universal Windows application that can be used with all games using DirectX or OpenGL technology. In its current form Fraps performs many tasks and can best be described as: Benchmarking Software - See how many Frames Per Second (FPS) you are getting in a corner of your screen. Perform custom benchmarks and measure the frame rate between any two points. Save the figures out to disk and use them for your own reviews and applications. Screen...

3DMark06 Benchmarking

3DMark06 is the worldwide model in complex 3D game performance benchmarking. A fundamental tool for every company in the PC industry as well as PC users and gamers, 3DMark06 uses advanced real-time 3D game workloads to measure PC performance using a suite of DirectX 9 3D graphics tests, CPU tests, and 3D trait tests. 3DMark06 tests include all new HDR/SM3.0 graphics tests, SM2.0 graphics tests, AI and physics driven single and many cores or processor...

3DMark05 Benchmarking

3DMark05 is the a version of the very popular 3DMark series. By combining full DirectX 9.0c support with fully new tests and graphics, 3DMark05 continues the legacy of being industry standard level. It is the first standard to require a DirectX9.0 acquiescent hardware with support for Pixel Shaders 2.0 or higher! By combining high quality 3D tests, CPU tests, feature tests, image quality tools, and greatly more, 3DMark05 is a premium benchmark for...

3DMark03 Benchmarking

3DMark03 is a computer benchmarking tool to decide the performance of your computer's 3D graphic rendering and CPU workload processing capabilities for gaming and other applications. 3DMark03 is the first version that ropes Microsoft DirectX 9.0 and introduces several new features. The graphics tests cover a range of rendering techniques and DirectX 9 features. As a complete package, 3DMark03 consists of: 4 graphics tests 2 CPU tests - low resolution...

3DMark Vantage Benchmarking

3DMark Vantage is the new industry standard PC gaming concert benchmark from Futuremark, newly intended for Windows Vista and DirectX10. It includes two new graphics tests, two new CPU tests, several new feature tests, and support for the latest hardware. 3DMark Vantage is based on a completely new rendering engine, developed specifically to take full advantage of DirectX10, the new graphics API from Microsoft. Note: 3DMark Vantage requires Windows...

UltraDefrag Defragmentation

UltraDefrag is a powerful disk defragmentation tool for Windows. It is the first open basis defragmenter with full support of system locked files defragmentation. Actually all files counting registry hives and paging file can be processed by UltraDefrag through the Windows boot process.     Boot Time Defragmentation: This feature provides an ability to defragment any system files. with page file, registry hives, hiberfil.sys file...

O&O Defrag Defragmentation

O&O Defrag 2000 is a freeware Windows defragmentation tool. It is totally integrated into the Microsoft Management Console as a snap-in and can be used to replace the benchmark Windows 2000/XP defragmentation software. Partitions can be analyzed and by hand defragmented with the SPACE defragmentation purpose. You have now the option of showing clusters in the "faded" mode: the clusters are displayed in a brighter or darker color according to...

MyDefrag Defragmentation

MyDefrag (formerly JKDefrag) is a disk derangement and optimizer for Windows 2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/X64. Completely automatic and very easy to use, fast, low overhead, with several optimization strategies, and can handle floppies, USB disks, memory sticks, and anything else that looks like a disk to Windows. Included are a Windows version, a command line version (for scheduling by the task scheduler or for use from administrator scripts), a screensaver...

Defraggler Defragmentation

Most defrag tools only allow you to defrag an entire drive. Defraggler lets you specify one or more files, folders, or the whole drive to defragment. When Defraggler reads or writes a file, it uses the exact same techniques that Windows uses. Using Defraggler is just as safe for your files as using Windows. At a glance, you can see how fragmented your hard drive is. Defraggler's drive map shows you blocks that are empty, not fragmented, or needing...

Auslogics Disk Defrag Defragmentation

Auslogics Disk Defrag is a compact and fast defragmentation tool that prop ups both FAT 16/32, and NTFS file systems. It's supplied with complex disk optimization techniques, which will remedy your system lethargy and crashes caused by disk fragmentation. Disk fragmentation leads to system slowdowns, PC crashes, slow startups and shutdowns. Auslogics Disk Defrag is designed for fast defragmentation of present hard disks. Features: Defrag and optimize Free...

Friday, August 26

If you've ever been unable to delete a file in Windows, and can't figure out what program's using it, Unlocked is the solution. Have you ever seen these Windows error messages? Cannot delete folder: It is being used by another person or program Cannot delete file: Access is denied The file is in use by another program or user. Make sure the disk is not full or write-protected and that the file is not currently in use. There has been a sharing violation. The...

Tweak UI Cleaning and Tweaking

Tweak UI is a free user interface customization application. It provides a simple graphical user border for performing tweaks that otherwise would require editing the registry. Tweak UI allows you to customise the user interface of the Windows operating system. Users with older, slower computers can turn off many aspects of the operating system's eye candy, such as waning menus, drop shadows, and cursor shadows. Tweak UI also includes numerous...

Eraser Cleaning and Tweaking

Eraser is an advanced security tool for Windows which allows you to completely remove responsive data from your hard drive by overwriting it several times with warily selected patterns. When you delete a file, the operating system does not actually remove the file from the disk; it only removes the reference of the file from the file system table. The file leftovers on the disk until one more file is created over it, and even after that, it might...

CCleaner Cleaning and Tweaking

CCleaner is a freeware system optimization, solitude and cleaning tool. It removes vacant files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online performance such as your Internet history. Additionally it contains a fully featured registry cleaner. But the best part is that it's fast (normally taking less than a second to run) and contains NO Spyware or Adware! :) Cleans...

Autoruns Cleaning and Tweaking

Autoruns shows you what programs are configured to run during system boot up or login, and shows you the entries in the order Windows processes them. These programs include ones in your start-up folder, Run, Run Once, and other Registry keys. You can configure Auto runs to show other locations, including Explorer shell extensions, toolbars, browser helper objects, Win logon notifications, auto-start services, and much more. Auto runs goes way beyond...

SpeedFan System Info

SpeedFan is a program that monitors voltages, fan speeds and temperatures in computers with hardware monitor chips. SpeedFan can even access S.M.A.R.T. info and show hard disk temperatures. SpeedFan supports SCSI disks too. SpeedFan can even change the FSB on some hardware (but this should be considered a bonus feature). SpeedFan can access digital temperature sensors and can change fan speeds accordingly, thus reducing noise. SpeedFan can find...

Speccy System Info

Speccy will give you detailed figures on every piece of hardware in your computer. Including CPU, Motherboard, RAM, Graphics Cards, Hard Disks, Optical Drives, Audio support. as well Spicy 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 request for system...

Sandra Lite 2011 SP4c System Info

SiSoftware Sandra (the System ANalyser, Diagnostic and treatment Assistant) is an information & indicative 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. It works along the lines of other Windows utilities, however it tries to go past them and show you more of what's really going on. Giving the user the ability to draw...

Process Explorer System Info

Process Explorer shows you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded. The Process Explorer show consists of two sub-windows. The top window forever shows a list of the at this time active processes, including the names of their owning accounts, whereas the information displayed in the bottom window depends on the mode that Process Explorer is in: if it is in handle way you'll see the handles that the process certain...

GPU-Z System Info

GPU-Z is a lightweight utility designed to give you all information about your video card and GPU. Support NVIDIA and ATI cards Displays adapter, GPU and display information Displays overclock, default clocks and 3D clocks (if available) Validation of results No installation required Support for Windows 2000 / XP / Vista (both 32 and 64 bit versions are supported) GPU-Z 0.5.4                   ...

Folder Size System Info

Folder Size for Windows adds a new column to the Details view in Windows Explorer. The new column shows not only the size of files, but also the size of folders. It keeps track of which folders you view, and scans them in the locale so you can see complete size of all files within the folder. Features:     Don't switch to another program to see folder sizes. It's always there when you're viewing your folders (even in Open and Save...

EVEREST Home System Info

EVEREST Home Edition is a freeware hardware diagnostics and memory benchmarking answer for home PC users, based on the award-winning EVEREST Technology. It offers the world's most precise hardware information and diagnostics capabilities, including online features, memory benchmarks, hardware monitoring, and low-level hardware in order. This product has been discontinued by it's makers, Lavalys, so no more kind will be added from version 2.20. However...

CPU-Z System Info

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 index and run the .exe. In order to take away 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. Internal and external clocks, clock multiplier. Supported instructions...

Thursday, August 25

Nmap Diagnostics

Nmap ("Network Mapper") is a free and open source (license) utility for network exploration or security auditing. Many systems and network administrators also find it useful for tasks such as network list, managing service upgrade schedules, and monitoring host or check uptime. Nmap uses raw IP packets in novel ways to decide what hosts are accessible on the network, what services (application name and version) those hosts are offering, what functioning...

Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer Diagnostics

Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA) 2.0 is an easy-to-use tool that helps small and average businesses resolve their security state in harmony with Microsoft safety recommendations and offers specific remediation guidance. Improve your security administration process by using MBSA to detect common security misconfigurations and missing safety updates on your computer systems. Built on the Windows Update Agent and Microsoft Update transportation,...

Event Log Explorer Diagnostics

Event Log Explorer is an effective software solution for viewing, monitoring and analyzing actions recorded in Security, System, Application and a new logs of Microsoft Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 operating systems. Event Log Explorer very much extends standard Windows Event Viewer monitoring functionality and brings many new features. Multiple-document or tabbed-document user interface depending on user preferences. Favorites computers and their logs...

TrueCrypt Data Encryption

TrueCrypt is a software system for establishing and maintaining an on-the-fly-encrypted drive. On-the-fly encryption means that data are mechanically encrypted or decrypted right before they are loaded or saved, without any user interference. No data stored on an encrypted volume can be read (decrypted) without using the correct password or accurate encryption key. Until decrypted, a TrueCrypt volume appears to be nothing more than a series of random...

Password Safe Data Encryption

Password Safe allows you to manage your old passwords and to without difficulty and quickly make, store, organize, retrieve, and use complex new passwords, using password policies that you control. Once stored, your user names and passwords are just a little clicks away. Using Password Safe you can sort out your passwords using your own customizable references - for example, by user ID, category, web site, or location. You can choose to store all...

KeePass Data Encryption

KeePass is a free open source password manager, which helps you to manage your passwords in a safe method. You can put all your passwords in one database, which is locked with one master key or a key file. So you only have to keep in mind one single master password or select the key file to unlock the whole file. The databases are encrypted using the best and most secure encryption algorithms at present known (AES and Twofish). KeePass is really...

AxCrypt Data Encryption

AxCrypt is used to share and work with stored documents, and e-mail attachments, in a secure mode. If your pass reside on a document sharing service, intranet or file server AxCrypt is particularly well suited and will usually flawlessly integrate, and make sharing and storing sensitive data as easy as not protecting it. AxCrypt is great for protective your documents such as private letters, correspondence, job information, medical information,...

Wednesday, August 24

ZoneAlarm Free Firewall

ZoneAlarm Free Firewall blocks hackers from sensitive your home PC by hiding your computer from voluntary network traffic. By detecting and preventing intrusions, ZoneAlarm Free Firewall keeps your PC free from viruses that slow down concert, and spyware that steals your personal information, passwords, and financial data.     Essential firewall protection     Be invisible to others online     New interface...

Sygate Personal Firewall

 Free for personal use, Sygate Personal Firewall provides best of breed security in a user friendly interface, protecting your PC from hackers, trojans and DoS attacks. Features include full-ICS support, protocol driver level protection, enhanced logging, and more. Sygate Personal Firewall delivers inconspicuous, highly configurable, enforceable rule-based sanctuary policy by constantly functioning in the background of your PC. Policies regarding...

Sunbelt Personal Firewall

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