Computer System Tools
This page provides resource links to free Computer System Tools. All software is "to the best of my knowledge" free from viruses, worms, trojans and spyware. To insure files are always safe to open, select "Save to Disk (or Save)" and virus scan "all" downloads prior to opening or installing. To insure software is spyware free, "scan" your system with a "spyware scanner".
PageDefrag uses advanced techniques to provide you what commercial defragmenters cannot: the ability for you to see how fragmented your paging files and Registry hives are, and to defragment them. In addition, it defragments event log files and Windows 2000/XP hibernation files (where system memory is saved when you hibernate a laptop).
EVEREST Home Edition is a system diagnostics and benchmarking tool for home users. It offers the world's most accurate system information and diagnostics capabilities, including memory benchmarks, hardware monitoring, and low-level hardware information.
Fresh Diagnose is an utility designed to analyze and benchmark your computer system. It can analyze and benchmark many kinds of hardware, such as CPU performance, hard disk performance, video system information, main board information, and much more.
MBSA is the free, best practices vulnerability assessment tool for the Microsoft platform. It is a tool designed for the IT Professional that helps with the assessment phase of an overall security management strategy. MBSA Version 1.2.1 includes a graphical and command line interface that can perform local or remote scans of Windows systems.
Belarc Advisor builds a detailed profile of your installed software and hardware, including Microsoft Hotfixes, and displays the results in your Web browser. All of your PC profile information is kept private on your PC and is not sent to any web server. It requires Internet Explorer 3 or Netscape 3 or higher. Also runs on Opera, Mozilla Firefox .
Easy to use Backup program with many features including backup disk spanning to CDR and CDRW. Back4WinXP shareware version is also available and provides additional features.
This program is a data recovery program that supports the FAT 12/16/32 and NTFS file systems. Some features include; finds partitions automatically, even if the boot sector or FAT has been erased or damaged (does not work with the NTFS file system), recovers files with the original time and date stamp and recovers files, even when a header entry is no longer available.