utilities

Hello which program is the best to use for my OCZ VERTEX 2 SSD so i can watch the lifetime of my solid state drive? I found this SSDLife download page - freeware, professional and portable version downloads. but im not sure if its good.Can you suggest some useful tools like the one above?

At the moment I am using an xcopy command to copy all files with a certain extension to another folder. As the number of files in this folder increases I'd like to organise them into sub folders and have the directory structure mirrored. However I don't want the entire folder contents copied...

Greetings all. I attempted to backup my systems the other day when I recieved an error code. After searching this forum, It was determined that the code made reference to the fact that a necessary service was not running, in this case the Task Scheduler. I have used the Services program (as an...

Re: Control Panel Was a time when going to CP would show all its content, all its individual components. But, can go to CP & see 'categories' & maybe, wonder which has the item sought, @ that moment. CP @ the bottom-left corner is as such. CP from All Apps is the same. However, you may...

Built an windows xp machine for mother Inlaw. Has worked fine for two years. Scan for malware and viruses four times a month for her, running avast anti virus. The last week when windows is ldleing and you go to use it. It will ask for a pass word. There was no pass word for this account. So I...

I have a printer connected to my network via ethernet. It is a Brother MFC-J825DW PC1 - no problem - I find and install the printer using the "add a printer" option under "devices and printers" that I have used without issue in the past. PC2 - PROBLEM - when using "add a printer" the correct...

Hi all, As Microsoft has removed all the codes to prevent third party developers to create utilities/software to reenable the start button in Windows 8, I would like to know your opinions about that. After the release of the final verison of Windows 8, do you think the developers somehow...

I just added it and so far, things seem to be running normally. I will assume Microsoft decided to leave it out in order to shrink the install footprint of Windows 8 for mobile devices.... I was a little surprised when the RP was shown to not include Windows Media Center. Since I had...

As I have discussed elsewhere, previously, there is less necessity to add certain software, plug-ins, utilities & such w/ Windows8. Between it & what is or will be current browsers (like IE10) a lot, that wasn't, native, now is. In many cases things, that act as apps, are seemingly redundant...

Hi folks Just purchased a new Samsung notebook. Used Speccy and here's what it reports: Operating System MS Windows 7 64-bit SP1 CPU Intel Core i7 2720QM @ 2.20GHz 50 °C Sandy Bridge 32nm Technology RAM 8.00 GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 665MHz (9-9-9-24) Motherboard SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD...

There is some little software around to take ownership of files and folders in Windows 7. When I was installing Windows 7 Ultimate, I took ownership of all I could find. Then a few things no more worked and I had to reinstall... Luckily, I had almost only the basic installation done. I and...

Fixes an issue in which SUA utilities end unexpectedly when you use them together with wildcard characters in Windows 7 or in Windows Server 2008 R2. More...

Please, note the following is the command line for disc check in Windows8. It is slightly different than w/ prior OSs. chkdsk /scan cmd, Run as Admin is recommended. Link Removed Cheers, Drew

I have been researching this problem for days, and Windows 7 seems to be a common factor, hence this post. I have a Maxtor Central Axis network drive that I have used for a number of years for backups. I reorganised it a while back and recently decided to do some housekeeping and empty the old...

Hi I have a drive, that shows reallocated sectors. I have taken this drive, and low level format/Write Zeroes, ran stress test for several days, the drive is performing well. Have done several error scans, all is well. I need to clear the Glist/Plist, within the drives firmware. i don't...

CCleaner is one of the best freeware disk cleanup utilities available. Strangely enough, the program does not announce to users that it can actually be configured to run whenever (and as often) as you want via Task Scheduler. To do this, you first need to configure CCleaner the way you'd like...

Over the past couple of months I have been getting blue screens a few times a week. Attached I have a screenshot from bluescreenview giving an overview, as well as each minidump file and info on my RAM from CPUZ. I have also included my msinfo32 extract file for reference. Any suggestions on...

Hi All, googling for BSOD memory_management brought me here -- it appears that this forum has the right kind of engineers (helpful and knowledgeable). Lenovo Laptop T410 (about 1 year old). CORE i5 M520@2.4 GHz. 4 GB ram and windows 7 enterprise 64-bit. 100 GB solid state disk only (no...

Needing to resize digital photos i have recently taken. WinXP had a great little tweaker toy for this...i can't seem to find it in Win7. Is there a small program to do this. In WinXP all one had to do was right click on the image and voila, one could instantly resize an image. Cheers and beers...

Hi I have purchased my share of utilities,tune up and maintance software since i got my windows 7 home premium 64bit.And i must be a slow learner,because every single time,i has ended very suddenly with:re-install windows because of errors in OS.I forgot to mention one type of software:Driver...