I’ve been using “Powerquest Partition Magic” (a non-distructive partitioning program) for sometime now. Here is a great free and opensource tool that replaces P-Magic. Gparted is a non-destructive that pretty much has the look and feel of P-Magic. The only difference I see is P-Magic runs in DOS and Gparted runs on a Linux GIU. Both good programs but Gparted is free!!!
Don’t you hate it when you buy a new pc and it has preinstalled all kinds of programs you will never use. Even worse half of them start up when your computer starts and slows your new fast computer down to a craw. The PC Decrapifier will uninstall many of the common trialware and annoyances found on many of the PCs from big name OEMs. You get to see the list of items it detects and then choose what will be removed automatically.
Here a free download that any pc tech or serious enthusiast should have in they’re tool kit. Ultimate Boot CD is the best set of tools for Windows XP out there and you don’t have to pay anything for them. The UBCD has 9 anti-spyware tools, anti-virus tools, 4 CD burning applications, password recovery, network tools, registry tools, benchmarking tools and much, much more, See full list!
Programs and and services the run in the background on your computer can kill your system performance. Process Explorer is a very good way to see what is going on on your computer. You can see all the programs and services that are turned on and see if it is something you may turn off. Very useful and it’s free!
The Ultimate boot CD 4Win
is a PC toolkit on a CD which is invaluable to any PC professional or
enthusiast. Here are instructions how to fit the UBCD on to a USB
stick.
In an earlier post I told you about the “Ultimate Boot CD” and all its great utilities but I had not used it. I was at a customer’s house yesterday and his computer would not boot. It said that it could not find some necessary system files. To attempt to fix this you usually have to boot from the Windows CD, start the “Recovery Console” then do a whole series of DOS commands. After doing this you reboot and maybe Windows will start maybe it won’t. It usually won’t! Yesterday I booted to the UBCD not even knowing what tool I might use. I looked through the menu and found “File Recovery”. This is the description… “Data recovery for damaged files and erased partitions”. I started the tool. After a very shore time it was finished. I restarted Windows booted with no problem. This was a real time saver and it really made me look good in the customers eyes. Big thanks to the UBCD people.