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Posted in PC Maintenance, Utilities on May 18th, 2008
Process Lasso is your introduction to BitSum Technologies. They make a whole bunch of really useful software and utilities. From their website:
Process Lasso is a unique new technology intended to automatically adjust the allocation of CPU cycles so that system responsiveness is improved in high-load situations. It does this by dynamically temporarily lowering the priorities […]
Posted in PC Maintenance, Utilities on Mar 6th, 2008
Process Explorer is a free utility from Microsoft. It’s an add-on extension of the Task Manager that is included with the Windows Operating System. This utility gives more in-depth information regarding any processes running on a computer system. It enables the user to view which dll’s or exe’s are running and the amount of resources that […]
Posted in PC Maintenance, Security, Virus/Spyware Removal on Mar 5th, 2008
I have been reluctant to post Lavasoft’s legendary application Ad-Aware, because of the aggressive shareware route Lavasoft has been pushing lately. Lavasoft does offer Ad-Aware 2007 has a completely freeware version for download. I had to use Ad-Aware for the first time in a year today on a friends PC and I must say that the application is still as […]
Posted in PC Maintenance, Utilities on Feb 23rd, 2008
Memtest86 is an excellent little program for testing your system memory. I’m feeling a bit lazy tonight so here’s an excerpt from their website:
Memtest86 is a thorough, stand alone memory test for x86 architecture computers. BIOS based memory tests are a quick, cursory check and often miss many of the failures that are detected by Memtest86. […]
Posted in PC Maintenance, Security, SysAdmin, Utilities, Virus/Spyware Removal on Feb 18th, 2008
Root-kits are a relatively new threat on the modern Internet and no other company has a better root-kit removal tool than F-Secure and their “Blacklight” utility. What exactly is a root-kit you ask? Here’s a definition from Wikipedia to help get you started:
A root-kit is a program (or combination of several programs) designed to take fundamental control (in […]
Posted in Backup/Recovery, Data Storage, PC Maintenance, SysAdmin, Utilities on Feb 10th, 2008
Cobian Backup is a nice and simple utility for scheduling Windows backups. Cobian Backup is far superior than the default backup utility that comes bundled with Microsoft Windows. Cobian Backup supports .ZIP compression and 256-bit encryption which make is very good for data archiving and long-term storage. You can also use it to schedule backups to shared network drives and have email notifications sent to alert […]
Posted in Networking, PC Maintenance, SysAdmin on Feb 9th, 2008
RealVNC has been around for awhile now and provides a simple remote server and viewer package for any desktop PC. The VNC project is particularly popular in the Linux community for providing remote access to Linux desktops. RealVNC is a nice alternative to Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) in Windows as it provides “overlay” access […]