utilities

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...

I am looking for some sort of daily reminder that is in the computer where I can input the data when I want and it will alert me when the day arrives about appointments or bills to pay etc. It seems such an obvious and simple thing that I would have thought it would be in win 7 somewhere. If so...

I know that in Windows XP, IPV6 enables anonymous IP addresses to be generated by default every 5 seconds. This is per RFC 3041 and can be found in Windows XP Help and Support under IPV6 utilities: ipv6 gpu AnonRegenerattime. My question is: does Windows 7 also enable this same capability...

By Paul Thurrott With developers now tearing up the Windows 8 developer preview and looking for hidden gems, we’re going to soon see an amazing number of utilities aimed at improving the Windows 8 experience and, in some cases, making it work more like its predecessors. While I can’t endorse or...

Hello everyone.I have been told that you can decompress the registry,is it true and is it worth it?:confused:

Ok so basically I have the following motherboard GA-Z68MX-UD2H-B3. The current bios is at version F5. Every time I try to flash to version F9 I get following BSOD error "Special Pool Detected Memory Corruption". I am using Gigabytes @bios flash utility. Not really much else to say other...

hello everyone does anyone have an oppinion about free alternatives to REGISTRY BOOSTER 2011 what is the best choice and why KIND REGARDS CASI

Hello everyone is there any oppinions about the freeware GLARY UTILITIES. I have just used it and i do not know if i dare to reboot,if my pc do not start ever again any feedback will be appriciated.Kind Regards CASI.:distrust:

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Mark Russinovich and Aaron Margosis: Introducing Windows Sysinternals Administrator's Reference | Channel 9

Many of you use Sysinternals tools to help you manage computing responsibilities ranging from monitoring/understanding process activity with Process Explorer to debugging Win32 code with DebugView. With over 70 utilities to choose from, Sysinternals tools cover a wide swath of computing, from...