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GENERAL UTILITIES - FREEWARE LINKS

Category Program Name URL
Anti-Virus Microsoft Security Essentials http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/support.aspx?mkt=en-us
Anti-Spyware/Trojan Super Anti-Spyware http://www.superantispyware.com

 

ADMIN SCRIPT UTILITIES

 

File Name

Size

Date

Notes

Choice.exe

35 kb

  Choice allows for menus in scripts

DelPart.exe

121 kb

12/21/02

Deletes WNT/W2K/WXP partitions.  Dangerous - USE AT OWN RISK

Diskpart.exe
Sample

    Allows scripting of NTFS volume/partition creation
USE AT OWN RISK

Robocopy.exe

95 kb

06/17/03

Win2k/XP version 4.0.1.96

Wait.exe

    "WAIT 30" is 30 seconds

ADMIN ESSENTIALS

TCPView

98 kb

5/25/05

Views TCP ports on current device

ProcessExplorer

536 kb

5/25/05

View processes/kill errant apps

WinRAR 3.42

1.13 MB

5/25/05

ZIP utility that can automate self-extracting packages

Autoruns

49 kb

7/6/04

From Systernals, this looks at all things automatically run when launching Windows 2k, XP.  Be careful with this!

Bootdisk 98 SE

780 kb

7/6/04

Bootdisk for Windows 98 SE.  Run from initial bootup to troubleshoot/re-load Windows.  CD-ROM Support

CAB SDK

460 kb

09/23/04

Microsoft utility that creates/modifies .CAB files.  Run from DOS command line only.

VNC-3.3.6.exe

563 kb

12/03/02

Remote Access software similar to Timbuktu.  Freeware

HDTach - HDD Tester

1.29 MB

12/29/03

Tests hard drive performance.  DO NOT DO WRITE TESTS!!!  WILL ERASE YOUR HARD DRIVE