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| Windows
NT Boot Utility | 
BootPart
for
WinNT
by
Gilles
Vollant
allows
booting
of
foreign
operating
systems
under
NT |
Memory Defragment | 
FreeMem
(Standard
version
is
free)
by
Meikel
Weber
lets
you
control
how
much
memory
is
available
to
your
applications[f2.org copy of version 4.1 (243 Kbyte)] |
Hogwash
by
Zap
frees
up
fragmented
memory | |
| Antivirus | 
AntiVir
Personal
Edition
[4.2 Mbyte] |
The
English-language
shareware
version
of
F-PROT
antivirus
is
free
of
charge
for
anyone
using
it
on
his/her
privately
owned
computer.
[Version
3.12b
is
1.6 Mbyte]
[Product Info]
[Download] | |
IPE
(InoculateIT
Personal
Edition)
from
Computer
Associates
has
been
discontinued
[Noted
June
2002] | |
Ad-Aware
is
a
free
program
that
removes
spyware
installed
by
unscrupulous
net
applications
and
browser
plugins. | |
CWShredder
is
a
free
program
that
removes
the
CoolWebSearch
spyware. | |
| Defrag | 
DK-Lite
(10 Mbyte)
is
a
disk-defragmenting
tool
for
Windows
NT
4.0 |
| Exe / DLL Info | 
PE
Analyzer
by
Johannes
Plachy
gives
information
about
.EXE
and
.DLL
files,
showing
imported
libraries,
exported
symbols
;
useful
for
determining
dependencies |
DependencyWalker
scans
any
32-bit
or
64-bit
Windows
module
(exe,
dll,
ocx,
sys,
etc.)
and
builds
a
hierarchical
tree
diagram
of
all
dependent
modules,
listing
all
functions
exported
by
each
module,
and
which
functions
are
actually
being
called
by
other
modules. | |
Process
Explorer
by
Mark
Russinovich
from
sysinternals.com
lets
you
examine
processes,
CPU
usage,
DLLs
used,
files/directories
opened.[f2.org copy of process explorer 6.01 for Win9x,ME,NT,2K,XP (102 Kbyte)] | |
Clean
System
Directory
identifies
likely
unused
system32
.DLL
files
;
optionally
moves
them
to
another
directory | |
 Application Relocator | 
Change-Of-Address
updates
.INI
files,
shortcuts
and
registry
entries
when
you
move
an
application
from
one
directory
to
another.NOTE: [Apr 2003] PC Magazine now requires a paid subscription for access to their formerly free software downloads. Some PCMag utilities may still be directly downloaded from other sites around the web. NOTE: [Jan 2004] At the request of Ziff-Davis (publisher of PC Magazine) I have removed a link to an external site hosting the file coa32.zip 297K which I had found via an FTP Search Engine. |
| CPU stats | 
Intel's
Process
Frequency
/
ID
utility
will
tell
you
what
sort
of
processor
you
have
and
(if
it's
not
too
ancient)
how
fast
it
runs |
| Startup / Shutdown | 
Startup
Manager
by
Brad
Stowers
enables
&
disables
auto-start
programs
in
the
the
startup
folders,
registry
&
WIN.INI
file.[Note: 2003-05-21 The CubLea review of Startup Manager (http://www.cublea.net/software/effess/startman.html) is sadly defunct]
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Add/Remove Programs | 
InCtrl4
takes
snapshots
of
the
registry,
disk
&
.INI
files
before/after
program
installation
so
you
can
find
out
exactly
what's
changed,
and
get
rid
of
programs
with
flaky
uninstall
scripts.NOTE: [Apr 2003] PC Magazine now requires a paid subscription for access to their formerly free software downloads. Some PCMag utilities may still be directly downloaded from other sites around the web. NOTE: [Jan 2004] At the request of Ziff-Davis (publisher of PC Magazine) I have removed a link to an external site hosting the file inctrl4.zip 804K which I had found via an FTP Search Engine. NOTE: [Jan 2004] At the request of Ziff-Davis (publisher of PC Magazine) I have removed a link to an external site hosting the file inctrl5.zip 772K which I had found via an FTP Search Engine. |
UnClean
by
Neil J. Rubenking
detects
broken/useless
uninstall
entriesNOTE: [Apr 2003] PC Magazine now requires a paid subscription for access to their formerly free software downloads. Some PCMag utilities may still be directly downloaded from other sites around the web. NOTE: [Jan 2004] At the request of Ziff-Davis (publisher of PC Magazine) I have removed a link to an external site hosting the file unclean.zip version 2 872K which I had found via an FTP Search Engine. NOTE: [Jan 2004] At the request of Ziff-Davis (publisher of PC Magazine) I have removed a link to an external site hosting the file unclean.zip version 1 170K which I had found via an FTP Search Engine. | |
RegCleaner
by
Jouni
Vuorio
lets
you
poke
around
with
registry
entries,
looking
at
file
associations,
uninstall
info
etc.,
and
generally
tidy
up
after
badly-uninstalled
programs.
A
command-line
interface
is
available
for
batching
commands.[f2.org copy of RegCleaner version 4.3 (541 Kbyte)] Note: Recent versions of RegCleaner are not freeware -- you can find them at www.macecraft.com/ Version 4.3 was distributed as freeware. Thanks to John Spence for sending me version 4.3 and telling me about this program. | |
| Security | 
DComBobulator
can
disable
(or
re-enable)
the
windows
DCOM
/
Port
135
'feature',
which
doesn't
do
much
except
leave
your
computer
open
to
external
attack.[f2.org copy of dcombob.exe version 2.0 (29 Kbyte)] |
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