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The software listed here is all suitable for IBM Compatible (Intel x86) Personal Computers running Microsoft Windows. Most of the websites feature at least one product that is free for personal use, and they have numerous other excellent products to cover virtually every scenario.
The authors range from talented individuals to large collaborative groups, from small companies to colossal multinationals, but they all have one thing in common - excellent software!
Warning
Some of these tools manipulate data at a low level.This is exactly what an experienced technician requires, but is dangerous in the hands of an amateur - proceed with caution and at your own risk!
I use these tools to ensure the integrity of my clients’ systems and data, but some of them can be used for illegal purposes!
Some of the websites can lead you down the darker backstreets and alleyways of cyberspace - proceed with caution and at your own risk!
I do not condone or encourage any illegal activity, and emphasise that you are responsible for ensuring that you have valid licenses for all the software that you install or run!
I accept no responsibility for consequences arising from the use of information provided on this page.
| Website | Author | Product | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
Boot, Optical & ISO Images | |||
| Build & Mount | |||
nu2 |
Bart Lagerweij | PEBuilder | Bart’s Preinstalled Environment (BartPE) Bootable Live Windows CD/DVD |
Daemon Tools |
Daemon Tools | Virtual CD/DVD-ROM Emulator from an ISO Image | |
| ISO Images | |||
MemTest86+ |
The x86-secret team | MemTest86+ | Bootable Image(s) for Testing Random Access Memory |
 Offline NT Password & Registry Editor |
Peter Nordahl | Offline NT Password & Registry Editor | Bootable Image(s) for Resetting NT Passwords |
| KNOPPER.NET | Klaus Knopper |  |
Live Linux on a Bootable CD |
 Ultimate Boot CD |
Various | Ultimate Boot CD | Well - it’s the Ultimate Boot CD - isn’t it? |
| Rip & Burn | |||
CDBurnerXP Pro |
Stefan Haglund, Fredrik Haglund, Florian Schmitz | CDBurnerXP Pro | Excellent General Purpose CD/DVD Burner |
CD Copy |
Marcus Barth | CD Copy | Audio CD Ripping & Burning Utility for Windows |
mrbass.org |
LIGHTNING UK | DVD Decrypter | Rip Encrypted DVD Video Files |
| DVD43 | Captain Red | DVD43 | On-the-fly DVD Decryption Software |
DVDIdle.com |
Fengtao Software Incorporated | DVD Region+CSS Free | On-the-fly CD/DVD Decryption |
| ISORecorder | Alex Feinman | ISORecorder | Create ISO Images and write them to CD/DVD |
ImgBurn |
LIGHTNING UK | ImgBurn | Well - it’s The Ultimate Image Burner -isn’t it? |
Hard Disk Utilities | |||
| Clean, Defragment & Maintain | |||
DIRMS |
DirMS | Disk Defragmentation for Windows | |
| BuzzSaw | On-the-fly Defragmentation for Windows | ||
| Steven R. Gould |
CleanUp!
|
Thorough CleanUp! of Windows files | |
| Copy, Image & Recover | |||
| TeraByte Unlimited | CopyWipe | Copy or wipe hard disks | |
| Runtime Software | DriveImage XML | Backup & Restore images of partitions and logical drives | |
| DiskInternals |  Linux Reader |
Read, create images and mount images of Ext2 & Ext3 Linux file systems | |
R-Tools Technology |
R-Linux | Recover data from Ext2 Linux file systems | |
 Stellar Information Systems |
Stellar Phoenix FAT & NTFS | Recover files from FAT & NTFS partitions | |
| Manufacturers | |||
 Fujitsu |
Fujitsu Hard Drive Utilities | Fujitsu Hard Drive Utilities | |
Hitachi |
Hitachi Hard Disk Drive Utilities | Hitachi Hard Disk Drive Utilities | |
Maxtor |
MaxBlast & PowerMax | Maxtor Hard Disk Installation & Diagnostic Utilities | |
Seagate |
DiscWizard & SeaTools | Seagate Hard Disk Installation & Diagnostic Utilities | |
Western Digital |
Data Lifeguard Diagnostic & Tools | Western Digital Hard Drive Installation, Diagnostic & Copy Tools | |
| Partition | |||
| Cute Partition Manager | Cute Partition Manager | Advanced Partition Manager | |
| Probe, Monitor & Scan | |||
 Windows SysInternals |
Mark Russinovich | SysInternals File & Disk Utilities | Comprehensive range of disk utilities for FAT & NTFS |
PANTERASoft |
HDD Health | Hard Disk Health Monitoring, Notifcation & Prediction for Windows | |
HDDGURU |
HDDScan | Low-Level Hard Disk Drive Diagnostics for Windows | |
| MHDD | Sophisticated Bootable Low-Level Hard Disk Drive Diagnostics | ||
Simpli Software |
HDTach | Low Level Hard Disk Benchmark | |
Salvation Data |
HDD Scan & Repair | Bootable Images to Scan & Mark Bad Sectors | |
| Multimedia | |||
| Adobe |  Adobe Reader |
Adobe Reader for viewing Adobe Acrobat PDF documents | |
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Adobe Flash Player | ||
 Adobe Shockwave Player |
Adobe Shockwave Player | ||
IrfanView |
Irfan Skiljan | IrfanView | Image Processing for Windows |
| apple |  QuickTime |
Apple QuickTime media player | |
Real |
RealPlayer | RealPlayer media player | |
VideoLAN |
The VideoLAN Team | VLC (Video LAN Client) media player | VLC media player |
Network | |||
| Browser | |||
| Mozilla.com | mozilla.org |  Firefox |
Mozilla Firefox web browser |
| lynx.browser.org | Lynx text browser | Text-only web browser | |
 Whisper Technology |
FTP Surfer | FTP (File Transfer Protocol) browser | |
Netscape |
Netscape Browser | Netscape web browser | |
Opera |
Opera Software | Opera Browser | Opera web browser |
| Download | |||
eMule |
The eMule Team | eMule | Peer-to-Peer File Sharing |
BitTorrent |
BitTorrent | BitTorrent | Peer-Assisted File Sharing of Torrents |
µTorrent |
Staminus | µTorrent | Peer-Assisted File Sharing of Torrents |
ITSTH |
IT-Services Thomas Holtz | Easy2Sync for Outlook | Comprehensive Message, Contact and Calendar synchronisation for Outlook |
| Mozilla.com | mozilla.org |  Thunderbird |
Mozilla Thunderbird email client |
| HTML Editors | |||
Nvu |
Nvu Developers | Nvu | Graphical and textual HTML editor |
 Crystalfibers.Com |
Martijn van IJperen | Matrix Y2K | HTML Editor |
 W3C |
Dave Raggett | HTML Tidy | Tidy HTML to W3C standards |
| Monitoring | |||
Axence |
Free Axence NetTools | Network monitoring for Windows | |
| Gonsoft Network Studio | 1st Net Scanner | IP (Internet Protocol) Address and Port Scanning for Windows | |
| Servers | |||
 The Apache Software Foundation |
ASF Development Infrastructure | Apache HTTP Server Project | Apache HTTP Server |
SolarWinds |
SolarWinds TFTP Server | TFTP Server for Windows | |
| Miscellaneous | |||
CGSecurity |
Christophe Grenier |  CmosPwd |
Decrypt the CMOS Password to access the BIOS Setup |
OpenOffice.org |
 Sun microsystems |
OpenOffice | Fully-featured Office Suite |
| AumHa Freeware Portal | Jim Eshelman | AutoEnd.zip | Registry tweak to make XP shut down quickly, and many other FAQs, patches and utilities |
AutoHotkey |
AutoHotkey | Record & run mouse & keyboard macros for Windows | |
 MOON VALLEY software |
Autorun.inf Editor | Autorun.inf Editor for Autoplay CD | |
| Bulk Rename Utility | Jim Willsher |  Bulk Rename Utility |
Very flexible Windows utility to rename files and folders |
| HackingSpirits | Tr0y a.k.a. Debasis Mohanty | Defeating WGA Check | Temporarily bypass Windows Genuine Advantage check |
TILER.com |
FreeMeter | Comprehensive System Resource Meter | |
Ramesh’s Site |
Ramesh Srinivasan | HTMLEditor.vbs | Add an HTML Editor entry and set default programs |
Windows SysInternals |
Mark Russinovich | SysInternals Process Utilities | Comprehensive range of process utilities for Windows |
NirSoft |
Nir Sofer | RegScanner | Advanced Registry Scanner |
| Simpli Software |
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JAM Software |
Joachim Marder | TreeSize | Browse files & folders with size information |
| Grig Software | Igor Green | WinDiff | Graphical Comparison between Files & Folders |
TNTmax |
Fabio Pinto | WinSockXPFix | Fix the WinSock settings on Windows XP |
RARLAB RARLAB  |
Alexander Roshal | Product | Description |
| ITSTH |
IT-Services Thomas Holtz | Easy2Sync for Files | File Synchronisation for Windows |
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February 16 2023 15:09:14.