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Is your computer sluggish? Did your brother change the administrator's password on the computer and forget it? Did you lose your favorite pictures when the hard drive crashed? There are many tools that can help you maintain and troubleshoot computers. Following is a list of FREE tools that I suggest you check out. |
| Software Tools | Benefits |
| SIW | System Information for Windows is a system information tool that gathers extensive information about your computer systems properties, hardware and settings. |
| Belarc | Belarc builds a detailed profile of your installed software and hardware, missing Microsoft hotfixes, anti-virus status,and benchmarks then displays the results in your Web browser |
| Hirens BootCD |
Hiren's Boot CD is a Live CD (bootable) that contains a laundry
list of useful tools. |
| Drivers Guide | Drivers Guide makes it
easy to find drivers, manuals, firmware and related support
utilities. It has both free and paid support options. |
| CCleaner |
CCleaner is an excellent free system optimization, privacy and cleaning tool. It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history. It also contains a fully featured registry cleaner. |
| Ubuntu | Ubuntu is one of many linux distributions. The ISO can be downloaded and burned to CD. You can use your bootable CD to help troubleshoot problems and recover files installed on your hard drive. You can also install Ubuntu onto your hard drive using the bootable CD. |
| Glary Utilities | Glary Utilities does so much and it’s free. There are a lot of useful tools for cleaning up a computer and keeping it secure. |
| GParted LiveCD |
This is good partitioning
software that allows you to create, revise, or delete partitions
for your computer. It is especially useful when your Operating
Systems does not build in the option to resize your partitions. |
| SysInternals Suite | Sysinternals provides many good tools and they have been rolled into one download in the Sysinternals Suite. |
| Subnet Calculator | Subnets are an important part of Networking. This subnet calculator helps you determine your subnets. |
| Nlite | This software allows you to islipstream the latest service pack, and create a bootable, unattended CD for installation for Windows XP. It includes an easy to use GUI interface that makes it easy to use |
| Vlite | This tool allows you to remove Windows Vista components, integrate drivers, and create an unattended bootable ISO that can be burned to a CD. |
| PC Decrapifier | Removes unwanted and preinstalled software from Vista and XP |
