The Sysinternals web site was created in 1996 by Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell to host their advanced system utilities and technical information. Microsoft acquired Sysinternals in July, 2006. Whether you’re an IT Pro or a developer, you’ll find Sysinternals utilities to help you manage, troubleshoot and diagnose your Windows systems and applications. If you have a question about a tool or how to use them, please visit the Sysinternals Forum for answers and help from other users and our moderators.

AutoRuns shows you what programs are configured to run during system bootup or login. These programs include ones in your startup folder, Services, Run, RunOnce, and other Registry keys. You can highlight an entry and click the "jump to" button to launch Regedit with the selected entry. In addition to startup programs, Autoruns also displays a list of Services, Scheduled Tasks, Winsock Providers, Internet Explorer BHOs and more - each of them can also be enabled/disabled.

• Rain is extremely useful CPU Cooling Software. It reduces the CPU usage during idle conditions and thus keeps the CPU cool and enhances the performance of the PC. Rain is particularly useful for Win 98/ ME. For higher versions of Windows OS the CPU cooling feature is built in with the OS, and this utility need not be installed. Rain is very stable is very useful with AMD processors, as this cooling ability may further improve the performance of the AMD processors. [No need to use Rain with Win2000/NT/XP]

• Download Express is the best download manager available today. When you click on a link that leads to a file download, the windows default file download message is replaced with the Download Express screen and the files is downloaded in several pieces at a time to enhance download speed, and thus reducing the download time substantially. Although the Beta versions are still under development, and work for a limited period only. Yet they are worth using as your default download manager. For details on this products you can visit http://www.metaproducts.com/ We recommend that you must try this download software at least once. [Software Review: TrustMeher]

FreeRAM XP Pro    [  RAM  Optimizer ]

[Homepage]  [Freeware]  [541 KB]  [Win98 & above]

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• FreeRAM XP Pro includes automatic memory monitoring and optimization; advanced tray support; fast, threaded freeing with a stop option; multiple system metric monitors; a simple and attractive GUI; memory reporting and diagnostic logging; real-time memory information; and more. FreeRAM XP Pro's AutoFree feature intelligently scales how much RAM is freed with your current system status, thus optimizing RAM without slowing down your computer. FreeRAM XP Pro has been designed to be easy to use yet highly customizable by computer novices and experts alike. Version 1.40 introduces a major new feature RAM-cuts, or RAM-freeing shortcuts; a few fixes; and a minor enhancement in adding the ability to hide the memory mode portion of the display.
   

• "description": RamBooster is a program that frees up Ram. This is done by forcing Windows to remove all the data that is not currently needed from the memory. Some advantages of this are: -No more lock-ups -Some applications load as much as 40% faster -Prevents blue screens -Makes websurfing faster, especially if you visit sites with heavy graphics. Ram Booster does not modify your system in any way.  [Review Ram Booster Web site]
   

RAM Idle LE 1.1    [  RAM  Optimizer ]

[Download]  [Freeware]  [Size: 1 MB]

• Publisher's Description
  RAM Idle LE is a smart memory management program that will keep your computer running more efficiently, faster, and longer. The program intelligently manages the free RAM that is available to Windows, and prevents your computer from running progressively slower over time. The program's System Info capability presents you with detailed information about your system. This data can be instrumental in determining if you have the system requirements to install new hardware or software.  Whether you're a business person who needs to make your computer run more efficiently, a student who enjoys playing a computer game from time to time without degrading the computer's performance when you resume your studying, or a home user who wants to avoid purchasing new hardware by giving your current system a performance tune-up, RAM Idle LE will help keep your computer running more efficiently.
  A utility that makes more physical memory available to your system. It automatically assigns more memory to the program you’re currently using, and reduces the amount of memory allocated to other open applications. Minimum Requirements. Win 95/98/NT, 1MB HDD. [Update on 15th Aug 2003]

AnalogX CacheBooster Version: 1.0

[Homepage]  [Download]  [Freeware]  [219 KB]

• AnalogX Cache-Booster allows you to tweak your hard-disk caching to help achieve the best possible performance from your system. Of course, different types of programs require different settings - Cache-Booster comes configured with many of the most common uses (File Server, gaming, multimedia, power user etc.) which will automatically reconfigure themselves for your system, plus, if you are an advanced user, you can even add your own custom configurations. Optimize your computer's performance by configuring it to suit your needs. Windows 9x only.
   

Free Online Virus Scan [Panda Antivirus]

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• Click the link to check your computer for viruses. No need to download and install bulky software (you'll only be asked to download a couple of very small necessary ActiveX controls), everything is done online. Highly-recommended!

• Selected by both PCWorld and Windows2000 magazine as the best antivirus product on the market.

Add-Remove Pro    [  Add Remove Softwares from PC ]

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• Add/Remove Pro v. 2.08 - displays the entries in the Add/Remove Programs list of Windows Registry, checks if each is valid, and uninstalls the selected program or removes the entry from the list. Requires Windows.

• Maybe no one is like me, but you should see my Windows Add/Remove Programs list. It is full of broken links. The only way to remove them is to open up the Registry and try to figure out where the Uninstall entries are. I'm too lazy to do this more than once a year, so I wrote Add/Remove Pro. Just run Add/Remove Pro and it will show you which links are bad. Press the Remove Entry button to remove the entry. If you would like to uninstall a program, press the Uninstall Program button.

SwissKnife 3.06   [ Hard Disk Partition Manager ]

Homepage | Download | Freeware : Size : 3.38 MB

SwissKnife is a hard drive partition management tool to create, delete, full format and quick format your parttion your IDE hard drives upto 120GB. Supports Internal, External like parallel, PCMCIA, USB, Firewire interfaces. Supports FAT16 and FAT32 partitions. Creates Fixed and removable disk format types. Change your drive icons. Note : Will not allow to partition boot disk for data safty. Note : You need to download 7 files and one Batch file to same folder and then run the batch file to merge all the files and create a setup.exe. Now run the executable to install.

CPU-Z      [ Get all information about your CPU / MB /RAM ]

Homepage  |  Download  Freeware : Size : 298 KB

• This wonderful small utility will give you all information about your Processor, Cache memory, RAM, Mother Board just with the click of a Button. You can also print the report in HTML format. Very Cool Tool if you need information about any PC, without opening the hood. It may take some time to load as the program required thorough checking of the PC to gather information .[Added on 05 June 2005]

PC Wizard 2005  [ Get all info about your PC Hardware Devices]

Homepage  |  Download   Freeware : Size : 1.9 MB

• Best Small tool to get all information about your Installed Hardware devices on the PC like Printers, Video Cards, HDD, Bluetooth Devices Sound Card, Local & Network Tools, Modem Network Server, Connexion, Firewall, ...) Security Agents, PocketPC & SmartPhone Devices  and many more It takes time to load on PC as requires thorough checking at startup. [Added on 05 June 2005]

• We have removed the Netsonic, Naviscope and Web accelerator from this PC Tools section..

WinGuard Pro 2003 Free    [ Lock any program or file ]

[Homepage]  [Download]   [Freeware] [Size: 536KB]

   NEW WinGuard Pro 2003
Lock programs like Control Panel, Windows Explorer, Internet
Over 25 built-in programs or 50 if using Premium
Add your own programs for locking
Block software installations
Lock out all Internet or downloads and help prevent viruses
Set timer delays, and totally blank the screen in emergencies
Lock files and folders with the optional addon
Plus lock DOS, Windows Startup, Desktop, and more
It's FREE, no adverts, nag screens, restrictions of any kind
Download the FREE Edition Here

• WinGuard Pro Free gives you the ability to lock down any program, window, or file on your computer with a password. It also allows you to lock down the Desktop, My Computer icon, Internet Access, Block people from installing software, the Shutdown menu, Boot Keys, and even block access to the entire computer. It is fully configurable with password time delays, screen blanking, and so on. It has over 50 common built in programs like Control Panel, Windows Explorer, Add or Remove Programs, Internet Explorer, Run, the list is endless, and you can even add your own programs, windows and files to the list. As your security needs grow, you can then start adding more items to its list to make your PC fool proof. [Windows All] [Date Updated: 10/03/2003]

• Tick is a wonderful small utility to monitor your TCP/IP internet connection. It calculates the time that you have spent on the Internet. It can keep a log of your daily/ monthly internet use and display the details. Also Tick displays a Clock on the top of the windows screen, so every time you connect, you know how much time you have spent on Internet connection. For details view Features.

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• FTP Check is a small utility program which checks the file size and the disk space utilized on your web space. Through FTP check you can always find how much web space you are using for your web sites, out of the space allotted to you, in case your server administrator does not provide you this Stat.

• Do You want to find out the broken Hyperlinks on your Web site, like the bad or dead links for which web pages/files do not exist on the server and which give the user a  404error page. Use this utility to get a list of all the working and non-working Hyperlinks of you web site. You can also run Xenu on your Hard Drive to examine the backup of your web site to find the broken links locally. It is faster and easier. Use Menu: File> "Check URL" to examine a web site, and Menu: File> "Check URL List" for local files of your PC.

AM-DeadLink   [ Check dead broken hyperlinks of your website ]

[Homepage]  [Download]  [More Products]  [Freeware] [546 KB]

AM-DeadLink is an easy to use Freeware-Tool which detects dead links and duplicates in your Browser-Bookmarks. If a Bookmark has become unavailable you can delete it from your Browser. AM-Deadlink checks Bookmarks from Internet Explorer, Opera and  Netscape.  When AM-DeadLink detects dead links it is recommended to validate the result before deleting the bookmarks from the browser. In some cases a server can send an error-message when the site is temporarily not reachable.

Use this wonderful little utilities to unmask or show the hidden password which is always shown with such ******* characters on your computer while using softwares like  FTP Clients etc. Just drag the pointer to the password and it reveals all. Great!!!

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• AVG antivirus free is perhaps the only best and Free antivirus software available around. This protects your PC against most of the Virus and other worms. Mostly the home and office PC users are to face REDLOFF.HTT which comes through mostly the xxx sites. AVG deals with REDLOFF and successfully quarantines the files. But this virus attack can damage the HTML files on the system, and webmasters need to take care. AVG Free Edition is the well-known anti-virus protection tool. AVG Free is available free-of-charge to home users for the life of the product! Rapid virus database updates are available for the lifetime of the product, thereby providing the high-level of detection capability that millions of users around the world trust to protect their computers. AVG Free is easy-to-use and will not slow your system down (low system resource requirements). Updated on : 05 December 2004.

Download      [Freeware] [Size: 27KB ]

• Mail2Convert is one of the very rare lost utilities that cleans and converts the forms that are received with Outlook Express as attachment,  particularly  when you have the <Form method post="mailto:some-e-mail address">. This little wonder cleans the unnecessary characters that are embedded in the form while it is sent. Just cut & paste the contents of received mailform in one pane and click convert, and it should be done. Although this technique is now replaced with cgi-scripts, but we prescribe this to save this little piece of wonder from extinction. 

 Eraser 5.6   [ Remove sensitive data from PC HDD ]

• Eraser is an advanced security tool (for Windows), which allows you to completely remove sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it several times with carefully selected patterns. The patterns used for overwriting are based on Peter Guttmann's paper 'Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid-State Memory' and they are selected to effectively remove magnetic remnants from the hard drive. Other methods include the one defined in the National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual of the US Department of Defense and overwriting with pseudorandom data. You can also define your own overwriting methods. Top reviews from the most popular software sites and magazines confirm that Eraser is one of the best security tools available for Windows. [Freeware] [Size: 1.08MB] [OS: Windows (All)] [Date Updated: 17/01/2003]

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• Deleting a file with Windows or with other programs will leave the file contents on your hard disk, easy to be recovered by anyone that has access to your computer. East-Tec File Shredder securely destroys (shreds) sensitive and private files beyond recovery. Simply drag and drop files to the shredder icon on your desktop, or select the files you want to destroy directly from the Windows Explorer right-click menu. Your sensitive files will be gone for good and nobody will be able to recover your valuable corporate trade secrets, business plans, personal files, photos or confidential letters. East-Tec File Shredder overwrites and verifies the destruction of every bit of the file, making recovery impossible. [Windows XP/2000/NT/Me/98/95] [Date Updated: 28/10/2002]

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• The www.PCbyvideo.com  provides complete information on computer Hardware maintenance, step by step. You can also download the wonderful video's showing how to configure and maintain the various PC components like Hard Drives, Mother Boards, processors, RAM etc.