System Utilities

Revision as of 14:00, 5 August 2008

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ASPI Tools

• ASPI Check
• ForceASPI

Benchmarking

• GoldMemory (RAM)
• HD Speed (HDD)
• MemTest86 & MemTest86+ (RAM)
• Prime95 (CPU/RAM)
• SiSoft Sandra (suite)
• SuperPi (CPU)

Boot / Partition Utilities

• Partition Saver
• RAMDisk
• Ranish Partition Manager
• Ultimate Boot CD
• Ultimate Boot CD for Windows

Cloning

• G4L
• G4U

Data Recovery

• Disk Investigator
• File Recovery
• PC Inspector

Defrag Tools

• Buzzsaw (on-the-fly defrag)
• Dirms (command-line defrag) Instructions here
• PageDefrag (offline page defrag)
• Intel Desktop Utilities (89MB but includes Diskeeper Lite Version 8)
• UltimateDefrag Freeware Edition
• Auslogics Disk Defrag

Emulators

Emulation comparisons

• EmuTOS (BeOS, Unix, Windows) (latest version here)
• Qlay (DOS, Linux, Sinclair QL, Win95)

File Systems

• Ext2 Installable File System (Ext2 and Ext3 access for Windows systems)
• NTFSPro (NTFS readonly access for Win9x)

GUI Customisation / Control

• AutoSizer (automatically resize windows)
• Codename: Dashboard (Sidebar)
• Desktop Sidebar
• Fast Launcher (Quick Launch client)
• Flyakite (OSX theme - alternative download at OSX-e.com )
• MouseImp Pro Live! 2nd mouse button scroll, etc)
• Iconoid (MS Windows desktop icon manager)
• Konfabulator
• LClock (Tray clock customisation)
• ObjectDock customizable dock that sits on your desktop, effects similar to the compositing of Windows Vista
• Longhorn Transformation Pack (themes)
• SmartbarXP (Sidebar)
• Startup Control Panel
• TClock Lite (Tray clock customisation)
• TClockEX (Tray clock customisation)
• Wizmo (Windows Gizmo - uncommon, useful miscellaneous functions)
• XPize (icon replacement)
• Y'z Shadow (adds transparency & shadow effect)

HDD Monitor / Tools

• Data Lifeguard (Western Digital HDD Diagnostics)
• DiscWizard (Seagate HDD installation utility)
• HDD Health
• PowerMax (Maxtor GDD diagnostics)
• Seatools (Seagate HDD diagnostics)
• SequoiaView (graphical HDD space usage)
• SpaceMonger (graphical HDD space usage)
• WinDirStat (disk usage statistics & cleanup tool)

Macro & Clipboard Tools

• Clipboard Magic
• CLCL Text & graphics
• PSPad (macro recorder, syntax, spell check, etc)
• Yankee Clipper

Optimisation / Tweaking

• Cacheman
• X-Setup

Password Managers

See OCAU Wiki.

Registry Tools

• Cacheman
• ERUNT
• jv16powertools
• NTRegMon (monitor)
• NTRegOpt
• RegCleaner
• RegShot (registry snapshot)
• Windows Configurator

Remote Control

• Internet Remote Control (auto modem disconnect over LAN)
• RealVNC
• Synergy
• TightVNC
• UltraVNC

Shell Replacement

• BB4Win
• CoreShell
• Geoshell
• LiteStep
• Serenade
• SharpE
• xoblite

System Monitoring / Information / Tools

• 8RDAVCore (nForce2 MBs)
• BartPE (Preinstalled Environment bootable liveCD)
• Belarc Advisor
• BIOS Agent
• CCleaner (removes unused and temporary files)
• CPU-Z
• Driver Cleaner Professional Editon
• MBProbe
• Motherboard Monitor
• Overclockulator (System)
• Process Explorer
• SpeedFan
• StatBar
• SysUptime
• uGuru (Abit)
• Uptime ScreenSaver
• WCPUID

Video

• 3DAnalyzer (video card manipulation utility)
• MultiRes (display adapter settings)

Misc

• AutoPatcher (MS-Windows updates, patches & registry tweaks)
• ClrCMOS (clear CMOS)
• FlashMenu (Abit BIOS windows flash tool)
• KeyTweak (keyboard re-mapping)
• Magical Jellybean Key Finder (product key retrieval)
• NetRun (run program upon detection of internet connection)
• nLite (MS-Windows 2000/XP/2003 installation customiser)
• Scrujtico (extract icons from .exe, .dll, etc)
• Serious Samurize (programmable multi-function interface)
• VCool (CPU cooling via software)
• VMplayer (runs full 32- and 64-bit applications and operating system environments, virtual machines)

Non-Windows Operating systems

AMIGA BASED:

• Amiga Research Operating System 20060207 or compatible with AmigaOS 3.1

DOS BASED:

• [1] or Atari TOS
• MiNT is Now TOS
• FreeDOS
• 4dos [2]
• FreeGEM
• [3] or DR/GEM

LINUX BASED:

• Distrowatch (Linux distros)
• Linux Kernel
• Sinclair ZX Spectrum emulator for Linux/UNIX

OTHER:

• BSD
• Haiku (formerly OpenBeOS )
• ReactOS (MS Windows compatible)