utility

  1. VIDEO Dave's Garage: Optimize Your Hard Drive and Extend Data Life - Including SSDs with SpinRite!

    In the video "Optimize Your Hard Drive and Extend Data Life," Dave from Dave's Garage demonstrates how to replace and format the hard drive in a PDP-11 minicomputer. He guides viewers through mounting the drive on RT-11 and RSX-11M operating systems. Additionally, Dave discusses the use of...
  2. Revamp Your Windows 11 Experience with WinSetView: The Ultimate File Explorer Tool

    The evolution of Windows has often drawn a mixed bag of reactions from users, especially when it comes to the File Explorer experience. Windows 11, while fresh and modern, has left some users longing for the simplicity and familiarity of its predecessor, Windows 10. Thankfully, a new utility has...
  3. Upgrade to Windows 11 Using Rufus 4.6: Bypass Compatibility Checks

    If you've recently tried to upgrade your trusty Windows 10 rig to Windows 11 only to be thwarted by Microsoft's stringent hardware requirements, fear not! There's a knight in shining armor, and its name is Rufus—a beloved utility that just received a new version capable of bypassing those pesky...
  4. Bypass Windows 11 Compatibility with Rufus 4.6: A Practical Guide

    Microsoft has always had its fair share of security and hardware restrictions, especially with the release of Windows 11. If you've been excited about upgrading your old Windows 10 PC, only to have Microsoft's stringent criteria say "no thanks," fear not! A fresh release of the popular Rufus...
  5. Windows 11 How to Convert EML files to PDF With Attachments?

    You can use the DRS EML to PDF Converter software to easily convert EML files to PDF with attachments. This tool is designed with advanced features that help to convert multiple EML files to PDF format at once in just a few clicks. The interactive GUI makes it easy to use by all users without...
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    Small utility for controlling access of programs to the network.

    Can anyone advise a program for monitoring installed software that tries to access the internet? Firewall in interactive mode can do this too of course, or Task Manager too, I'm looking for something specialised, with logging or statistics etc. Thanks for the tips Peter
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    Windows 10 What is best tool to Convert Decimal to ASCII or ASCII to Decimal and vice versa?. Please suggest a tool.

    Hi everyone, I hope everyone will be fine here. I got a free online decimal to ascii converter. I used alot of tools but i got this tool. Please give suggestions for improvement in this tool. I want your quality suggestions. Regards: Alxender.
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    Windows 10 How to send a exit program signal to a program prior to Windows shutdown

    Good morning all, I use a folder lock program which allows me to hide / unhide personal folders. I start the software, enter my code and the folders are then displayed. The software sits as a small icon down by the clock while the PC is on. In order to relock the folder, i then have to...
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    Windows 10 Convert MBR to GPT without Data Loss

    Convert MBR to GPT without Data Loss ,using AOMEI Partition Assistant . Is it that easy ? . Has anyone used AOMEI Partition Assistant , is it instant do you have to restart .
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    Windows 11 Device manager

    Other devices -PCI -SM Bus These are needing drivers. I did not install my mother boards Asus utility as I thought it might be malware and included bloat like Norton which can be unchecked. All worked well except this one item I wet to ASUS and saw utilities but there are 9 drivers listed and I...
  11. Install and use a scanner in Windows 10

    Learn how to install a scanner and use it to scan pictures and documents in Windows 10. Continue reading...
  12. USBview shows more ports than exist. Why?

    While troubleshooting a misbehaving USB port on my Toshiba Satellite Windows 10 laptop, I installed the USBview utility for the first time ever. The port magically came back to life but I am curious: my laptop has 3 USB ports (2 of USB2.0 ,one of USB3.0) but the USBview screen shows seven USB...
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    Windows 10 check disk utility keeps running after every startup - Fixes applied without solving.

    Hi Guys, This one is really getting on my nerves as the check disk utility keeps running after every startup. Even after applying below solutions. What else can you propose? Am i facing a failing SSD? It's an SSD that hasn't been used much. C:\Windows\system32>fsutil dirty query c: Volume - c...
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    Windows 10 Prgm crashes because of missing *.ocx and *.ocx.mui files in WinPE - Manual assignment possible?

    I used a utility for years without problems on Win7 and Win10. Recently I wanted to add it now to an USB flash drive which boots into a Windows 10 WinPE environment. Unfortunately the tool crashes with the popup notification: "The code execution cannot proceed because hhctrl.ocx was not...
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    Windows 10 How to install an UEFI-based ISO (bootable with DVD) on an USB flash?

    I have an UEFI-based ISO file for a tool on windows (This tool is NOT a WinOS but a separate utility tool). If I burn this ISO onto a DVD and boot it on an UEFI computer (without Secure Boot) everything works. However If I put this ISO with e.g. Rufus onto an USB flash drive then the USB flash...
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    Windows 10 Hp 4560

    Printer is not printing in color even though I have color selected. I had this problem before and it was fixed but I had to completely reinstall Windows 10 and lost the info. Ink is fine. Tried another set of cartridges to make sure it wasn't the ink and it did the same thing. Microsoft has...
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    Copying (Backup) data files to an external drive.

    I have several external drives attached to my Desktop machine. One has Genealogy files, one is for Backups, another is for archiving Photography. When I work on the Genealogical files I like to bring an entire family folder onto the desktop, enter the current research and then have it copied...
  18. Windows 10 MIGWIZ errors going from 7 to 10

    I used windows 7's easy transfer to save all my files (PC was Windows 7 Pro, 64 bit) Upgraded to a Win 10 pc Used migwiz (usmt 3( with zero results) Using usmt 4, I got this: Aside from the word "might" spelled wrong, I get tons of errors. I have the migwiz utility, and all related files in...
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    diskspd \ Mass Storage

    Anyone familiar with the diskspd utility? I have had success with it testing server storage but how would I test a mass storage device like a Compellent Storage\Cluster? Can I create an iscsi connection to the storage from the server
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    Windows 10 Having To Confirm SLEEP Command

    Since the new update, when I click my "Sleep" shortcut, or hit the related hotkey, I also have to confirm in a popup box that I want Rundll32 to "make changes to my device, thus totally negating the utility of having a one touch hotkey. Is there some way the avoid this second step and let the...