SYSTEM
Autoruns
This utility, which has the most comprehensive knowledge of auto-starting locations of any startup monitor, shows you what programs are configured to run during system bootup or login, and shows you the entries in the order Windows processes them. These programs include ones in your startup folder, Run, RunOnce, and other Registry keys. You can configure Autoruns to show other locations, including Explorer shell extensions, toolbars, browser helper objects, Winlogon notifications, auto-start services, and much more. Autoruns goes way beyond the MSConfig utility bundled with Windows Me and XP
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BGEye (MUST HAVE)
BGEye renders system information as the desktop wallpaper. The information is rendered as a variable array of elements, together with icons, onto a pre-defined background, before being saved as a bitmap and temporarily set as the wallpaper. It renders new wallpaper every 60 seconds (or less). You can choose optionally from the following to be rendered: User-defined Title Text, User Name, Local Date and Time, Computer Name, Computer Uptime, CPU (Model, Manufacturer etc), CPU Clock Speed (MHz), Graphics Card (Model, Manufacturer etc), Audio Card (Model, Manufacturer etc), Network Card, USB Device, RAM Load, Local Disk Drives (Total space and load), Remote (Networked) Disk Drives (Total space and load) etc and a lot more.
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Cain and Abel 4.9.2
Cain & Abel is a password recovery tool for Microsoft Operating Systems. It allows easy recovery of various kind of passwords by sniffing the network, *****ing encrypted passwords using Dictionary, Brute-Force and Cryptanalysis attacks, recording VoIP conversations, decoding scrambled passwords, revealing password boxes, uncovering cached passwords and analyzing routing protocols.
The program does not exploit any software vulnerabilities or bugs that could not be fixed with little effort. It covers some security aspects/weakness present in protocol´s standards, authentication methods and caching mechanisms; its main purpose is the simplified recovery of passwords and credentials from various sources, however it also ships some “non standard” utilities for Microsoft Windows users.
Cain & Abel has been developed in the hope that it will be useful for network administrators, teachers, security consultants/professionals, forensic staff, security software vendors, professional penetration tester and everyone else that plans to use it for ethical reasons. The author will not help or support any illegal activity done with this program. Be warned that there is the possibility that you will cause damages and/or loss of data using this software and that in no events shall the author be liable for such damages or loss of data.
Please carefully read the License Agreement included in the program before using it.
The latest version is faster and contains a lot of new features like APR (Arp Poison Routing) which enables sniffing on switched LANs and Man-in-the-Middle attacks. The sniffer in this version can also analyze encrypted protocols such as SSH-1 and HTTPS, and contains filters to capture credentials from a wide range of authentication mechanisms. The new version also ships routing protocols authentication monitors and routes extractors, dictionary and brute-force *****ers for all common hashing algorithms and for several specific authentications, password/hash calculators, cryptanalysis attacks, password decoders and some not so common utilities related to network and system security.
Note: This software can be detected as riskware by some antivirus scanners. Some softwares detect it as Sign of “Win32:Cain-B [Tool] has been found
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SIZE: ~5.3MB
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Cute Partition Manager v0.9.8
Cute Partition Manager is an advanced hard disk partition management utility.
Using Cute Partition Manager, you can easily add, edit, delete and manage the partitions in your computer. Free product support is available at http://www.cutepm.com. Most of the hard disks have plenty of space and can easily accommodate more than one operating system. In order to have multiple operating systems, you need to partition your hard disk with a partition management utility like Cute Partition Manager.
Cute Partition Manager is very easy to use. It lets you preview the changes before you save them. It lets you edit the boot flag, partition type and other advanced parameters. It gives you total control of your system during the partition process. For example, it lets you remove all existing partitions and install all the operating systems from scratch.
It supports all versions of Windows (9x,ME,NT,2K,XP,Vista), DOS, Linux, etc.
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SIZE: 232KB
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DEAD PIXEL TEST
Almost every digital camera offers from time to time a nasty error viewable as white dots on your images. This error, caused by cheap and expensive camera models is called “dead” or “hot” pixel. Dead Pixel Test is a free utility and enables you to easily test your digital camera for dead and hot pixels.
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DIRECTX 9.0C APRIL 2007
Microsoft DirectX is a group of technologies designed to make Windows-based computers an ideal platform for running and displaying applications rich in multimedia elements such as full-color graphics, video, 3D animation, and rich audio. DirectX 9.0c includes support for Pixel Shader and Vertex Shader 3.0, along with many new features across all technologies, which can be accessed by applications using the DirectX 9.0 APIs. This download provides the DirectX 9.0c end-user redistributable that developers may include with their products. The redistributable license agreement covers the terms under which developers may use the redistributable. This version of DirectX 9.0c is for Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003.
The DirectX 9.0c runtime cannot be uninstalled. It is recommended that Windows users create a ´system restore´ point before installing.
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Disk Heal v1.43
Disk Heal is a useful tool that performs many useful functions including tweaks, fixes disk problems and more! Visit the ´features´ page on the home page for an extensive description of all its features.
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SIZE: 410KB
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DriverMax – for Windows Vista and Windows XP
DriverMax
Note: DriverMax only works on Windows Vista and Windows XP (all service packs).
DriverMax is a new program which allows you to easily reinstall all your Windows drivers. No more searching for rare drivers on discs or on the web or inserting one installation CD after the other. Simply export all your current drivers (or just the ones that work ok) to a folder or a compressed file. After reinstalling Windows you will have everything in one place!
Most of the situations when Windows is running slower are caused by faulty driver installations. Windows stores all versions of older drivers just in case you want to go back; sometimes it messes up older versions with more recent ones. The Export Wizard will only export the drivers you select by copying the needed files to a folder or a compressed ZIP file.
After reinstalling Windows all drivers will be back in place in less than 5 minutes – sparing you of searching, inserting disc after disk and losing precious time. The Import Drivers wizard allows you to install all the drivers that you exported earlier. The entire operation might take up to 5-10 minutes.
Just one single computer restart will be required after all drivers are reinstalled!
DriverMax is able to display a complete report of all drivers (versions, release dates) installed on your system. This feature can also be very useful when you want to analyze the differences between the drivers installed on different machines.
Snapshots
http://www.innovative-sol.com/drivermax/snapshots.htm
Download- Mirror 1
Download- Mirror 2
PS: This is a freeware. U only need to get registration key from the site.
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Everest Home v2.20.466
Everest Home Edition is a system information and benchmarking tool with full hardware & software information. It comes with a built-in hardware database and physical information for CPU, motherboard, hard disks, optical drives, chipset and much more. The information can be displayed on-screen, printed, or saved as a report in HTML or text format. The built in diagnostics module can help you find potential problems, by higlighting them in the report and also includes links to manufacturers web sites, driver updates and more. An easy to use report wizard allows you to create detailed reports in the format of your choice.
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SIZE: 4.2mb
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HDD Low-Level Format Tool 2.36.1181
This freeware utility will let you do a Low-Level format on your HDD. It will format your HDD and re-certify a SATA, IDE, or SCSI hard-disk drive with any size of up to 262144 GB. This utility works with external USB or Firewire HDD; Flash Cards are supported as well. This Low-Level Formatting will erase partitions and every bit of user-data.
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Partition Find and Mount 2.2.1
Partition Find & Mount implements a new concept of deleted or lost partition recovery. It works in the most convenient way possible — by locating and mounting partitions into the system, thus making those lost partitions available to you like any generic disk volume. Partition Find & Mount will also work in case any Boot Record (including the Master Boot Record) is missing, damaged or overwritten.
Features:
* Easy to use. You do not need special knowledge to use the software.
* 3 modes of partition search
* Non-standard disk layouts are supported
* All versions of NTFS and FAT are supported
* Allows to create and mount images
* Safe to your data. There is no possible way you could get things worse.
Lost important data? Give it a try. Partition Find & Mount is free for personal use!
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SIZE: 1.62MB
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Process Explorer
Process Explorer gives you detailed information of a process; that includes its icon, command-line, full image path, memory statistics, user account, security attributes and more geeky mumbo jumbo. If required you can see the DLLs that a process has loaded or check what OS resource it uses. A search feature allows you to track down a process right down to the last resource it is using (a file, registry key, etc) or you may also opt to view only a list of processes that have a DLL loaded. In a nut shell, it s kinda a next level of the Task Manager.
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SS Registry Fixer 2.0
Registry Fixer scans the Windows registry for incorrect or obsolete information and allows you to safely clean and repair registry problems with a few simple mouse clicks. Your applications run faster, your operating system loads quicker.
Windows Registry is an important part of your computer system. With regular use of window registry keeps growing, and will attracts unnecessary information that will make the system cluttered. Thus for the better performance and to ignore spyware and adware, you need to clean registry with regular interval.
Everybody needs Registry Fixer. Problems with the Windows Registry are a common cause of Windows crashes and errors. By using a registry fixer regularly and fixing registry errors your system will be more stable and help to improve your system performance.
Features:
* Scan the Windows registry for errors
* Clean and fix registry errors
* Improve registry performance and consistency
* make a backup of the Windows registry
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SIZE: 588 KB
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System Vault v1.12
System vault is a free useful utility that lets you hide files and folders and protect it with a password. In addition it is capable of deleting the MRU (most recently used) items for some common programs
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SIZE: 228KB
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TestDisk 6.8 Beta
TestDisk is a powerful free data recovery utility. TestDisk was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software, certain types of viruses or human error (such as accidentally erasing your Partition Table).
TestDisk is a free and useful program which queries the BIOS ( DOS/Win9x) or the OS ( Linux, FreeBSD) in order to find the Hard Disks and their characteristics ( LBA size and CHS geometry). TestDisk does a quick check of your disk´s structure and compares it with your Partition Table for entry errors. If the Partition Table has entry errors, TestDisk can repair them. If you have missing partitions or a completely empty Partition Table, TestDisk can search for partitions and create a new Table or even a new MBR if necessary.
However, it´s up to the user to look over the list of possible partitions found by TestDisk and to select the one(s) which were being used just before the drive failed to boot or the partition(s) were lost. In some cases, especially after initiating a detailed search for lost partitions, TestDisk may show partition data which is simply from the remnants of a partition that had been deleted and overwritten long ago.
TestDisk has features for both novices and experts. For those who know little or nothing about data recovery techniques, the command line parameters /log and /debug can be used to collect detailed information about a non-booting drive which can then be sent to a tech for further analysis. Those more familiar with such procedures should find TestDisk a handy tool in performing onsite recovery.
TestDisk can find lost partitions for all of these file systems:
* BeFS ( BeOS )
* BSD disklabel ( FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD )
* CramFS, Compressed File System
* DOS/Windows FAT12, FAT16 and FAT32
* HFS and HFS+, Hierarchical File System
* JFS, IBM´s Journaled File System
* Linux Ext2 and Ext3
* Linux Raid
o RAID 1: mirroring
o RAID 4: striped array with parity device
o RAID 5: striped array with distributed parity information
o RAID 6: striped array with distributed dual redundancy information
* Linux Swap (versions 1 and 2)
* LVM and LVM2, Linux Logical Volume Manager
* Mac partition map
* Novell Storage Services NSS
* NTFS ( Windows NT/2K/XP/2003 )
* ReiserFS 3.5, 3.6 and 4
* Sun Solaris i386 disklabel
* Unix File System UFS and UFS2 (Sun/BSD/…)
* XFS, SGI´s Journaled File System
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SIZE: 2.03MB
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Ultimate Boot CD for Windows v3.05
UBCD4Win is a bootable CD which contains software that allows you to repair, restore, or diagnose almost any computer problem. Our goal is to be the ultimate free hardware and software diagnostic tool. All software included in UBCD4Win are freeware utilities for Windows®.
UBCD4Win is based on Bart´s PE©. Bart´s PE© builds a Windows® “pre-install” environment CD, basically Windows® booted from CD. We include many free hardware and software diagnostic tools that allow you to fix almost any problem you will face with your computer.
With network support, the ability to modify NTFS volumes, recover deleted files, create new NTFS volumes, scan hard drives for viruses, etc. this project includes almost everything you need to repair your system problems. This project has been put together to be the ultimate recovery cd and not a replacement OS (Operating System).
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SIZE: ~184.2MB
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WinDirStat
Its a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool . It shows every type of file on ur hard drive in colored coated graphic fashion.Not really important but nice to have just to see what takes up space on ur hard drive.
http://windirstat.sourceforge.net/
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XP SySpad
Discover Window’s “Hidden Applications! Recover lost product key of Windows & MS-Office
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