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 […]
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MediaCoder is an opensource project hosted at Sourceforge.net. The software enables you to convert almost any media file to one of many media formats available. This is an excellent software for audio enthusiasts who need to quickly convert Flac to MP3 to Ogg to … you get the picture. From their website
MediaCoder is a free universal batch […]
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Cryptainer LE is the freeware version of Cypherix’s Cryptainer product. The software is very handy for encrypting sensitive data to send via email. You can also create a 25mb encrypted partition on your PC to store private documents like spreadsheets and .PDF’s . Cryptainer is very easy to use and I use it as a quick and […]
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Ajax Whois is an easy to use website to aid in domain lookups and WhoIs information. You can specify a search of 7 of the most popular top level domains at one time. The site is based on Ajax programming which means all of your queries are delivered in real-time as you type them out, this makes Domain […]
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Internet and network connectivity in Windows XP is notorious for being easily disabled and corrupted from minor tweaks to the registry and winsock settings. Removing software, scanning for and deleting spyware can cause these registry corruptions which prevent Windows XP from accessing the network. It seems that the frequencies of corruption have declined since the […]
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Windows Defender is a free program that helps you stay productive by protecting your computer against pop-ups, slow performance and security threats caused by spyware and other potentially unwanted software. Windows Defender no longer supports Windows 2000 as mainstream support ended in June 2005.
The above passage is from the Microsoft website. In a nutshell, Windows Defender […]
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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 […]
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