How To Do Things Easily

Here is a list for some geeks to repair or fix there PC or upgrade there box with some new and old softwares and programs , which are very useful . Some of them are Demo but they are functional . Most of them are free and secure to use ..

If you know of a good repair, security, optimisation tool then let us know.

Anti-Virus

• AVG FREE Anti-Virus – Excellent anti-virus software
• Avast FREE Anti-Virus – Another good anti-virus
• Avir FREE Anti-Virus – Another good anti-virus
• Kaspersky Anti-Virus Products
• Norton products from Symantec — complete protection for your PC.
• Free Trial – Trend Micro AntiVirus plus AntiSpyware 2008
• McAfee Stinger – Free virus, trojan etc remover
• F-Secure Security 2008
• Panda ActiveScan 2.0

Alternative Operating Systems To Windows

• Ubuntu Server – A full FREE file, mail, web, authentication and more server
• Ubuntu Desktop – A full FREE desktop operating system with built in office and internet features
• Xubuntu – Light weight, fast linux distro
• FREE BSD – A UNIX OS

Anti-Spyware / Malware

• Adaware 2008 FREE – Popular, FREE adware scanner
• Spybot Search & Destroy FREE – Popular, FREE adware scanner
• Windows Defender – System scanner FREE from MS
• Bit Defender FREE Edition
• CWShredder
• CCleaner
• Hijack This – Tool for removing BHO’s

Backup Utilities

• Download a FREE TRIAL of Acronis Disk Director 10.0 – Complete disk management software suite
• Download Now! Acronis True Image 11 – Complete PC backup and restore software

Boot Disks / CDs

• Bart PE – Popular, easy to build boot CD
• UBCD4WIN – Our favourite boot CD easily put on to USB
• Active Boot Disk
• Madboot
• Winbuilder
• Vista PE
• Knoppix

CD / DVD Utilities

• Imageburn – CD / DVD / ISO Burning – FREE image burning software

Disk Utilities

• Auslogics Disk Defrag
• Eraser – wipe / delete a hard disk
• Page defrag – defrag your pagefile
• Dirms – defrag
• Contig – defrag contiguous files
• Sea Tools – Seagate / Maxtor utility
• Fujitsu HDD Drivers / Utilities
• Samsung HDD Utilities
• Hitachi HDD Utilities
• Western Digital Data Life Guard Tools
• HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool
• FDisk for drives larger than 64GB
• DELPART – Partition deleter
• FPsys 1.3 Recover Data From Lost Partitions
• Gparted - Partition tool
• FREE version of Acronis True Image Home – For Maxtor / Seagate drives

Hardware Utilities

• CPU-ID – Info on your CPU, Mainboard, Memory etc
• Core Temp
• Speedfan
• Belarc Advisor – Hardware info / auditing
• Motherboard Monitor
• Everest FREE Edition – Hardware info / monitoring
• 3D Mark – Benchmarking software
• Microscope Diagnostic Software
• CTBIOS 1.5 May Identify Your MotherBoard Maker
• Memtest – Test your memory modules for faults / errors
• Driver Clean Professional – Clean out old driver files

Monitoring

• Nagios – Open Source host, service and network monitoring program
• Cacti – Cacti is a complete network graphing solution
• Monitor Websites, Servers, Visitors and more

Networking / Internet / Web

• TCPview – TCP and UDP endpoints on your system
• ShareEnum – Scan file shares on your network and view their security settings to close security holes
• Whois – See who owns an Internet address
• Wireless Key View
• Angry IP Scanner – IP address / port scan
• Hamachi Virtual Private Network (VPN) Software
• Net Stumbler – WIFI Monitoring / info tools
• WPA PSK (Raw Key) Generator
• Wireshark – Network monitoring
• Winsock Fix – Repair TCP/IP errors
• FREE Proxy – Open source, feature packed Proxy server software
• Safe / controlled browsing / child protection – Excellent, FREE program for protecting children
• Xampp - FREE Apache, MySQL web server for Windows, ideal for testing websites before going live

Password (Admin / User / BIOS)

• Password Age – Password Age (formerly ‘machines’). Displays the age of the password for user and computer accounts. For computer accounts, this information can be used to determine if the computer is no longer being used. For users, it can be used to determine which accounts are not being used or have expired.
• Admin / User password reset

Portable Apps – Run programs from your USB stick

• ClamWin Portable – Anti-virus on the go
• Command Prompt Portable
• Open Office Portable
• Full suite of apps including: web browser, email client, office suite, calendar/scheduler, instant messaging client, antivirus, audio player, sudoku game, password manager, PDF reader, minesweeper clone, backup utility and integrated menu

Registry

• Auslogics Registry Defrag
• Erunt

Remote Control

• TightVNC
• Logmein FREE Remote Control
• Control your Home or Office PC from Anywhere with RADMIN: Fast, Secure and Affordable Remote Control Software. Try it Free!
• Teamviewer - Free remote control for Windows and MAC

Security

• PC Security Check
• RootkitRevealer – Scan your system for rootkit-based malware
• Rootkit Analyser
• Sunbelt Personal Firewall
• Netveda Personal Firewall
• Back Track – Bootable CD based on Linux distro for wlan security auditing

System Tools

• PC Tools Software
• Sysinternals – Suite of PC monitoring / repair tools
• Rescue Me – Anti-Virus and system repair utilities
• EzPCFix
• Process Tamer
• Empty temp folders
• Norton removal tool
• Win Info – A nice utility showing information about your NT installation including: version, build number, installation date, and whether it is a full or time limited version.
• Revo Uninstaller – Advanced Uninstaller
• Auslogics Boostspeed – A system optimiser that works
• WhoCrashed – Windows Crash Dump Analyser

Virtualisation

• Virtual PC 2007 – Run multiple computers with different operating systems within a host computer
• VMWare Server
• VM Player – Run virtual machines on your Windows or Linux PC with VMware
• Virtual Appliances – FREE ready made virtual machines
• Ready made, FREE, Virtual machines

Windows

• nLite – Customise / automate your Windows XP installs
• vLite – Customise / automate your Windows Vista installs
• Windows Automated Installation Kit
• Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor
• Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer 2.1
• XP SP2 Deployment Tools
• XP SP2 Support Tools
• Vista 32 bit recovery disk (requires torrent client)
• Vista 64 bit recovery disk (requires torrent client)
• Windows Steady State – Lock down Windows computers for public use
• Windows 7 – New OS from MS