Okay for those of you that are more computer savey you all know what it is like to have a friend or family plead for help because their computer is too slow or just not working right. Well in an attempt to make this easier on everyone post what portable software you use to help fix the computer. Please also put a link to where it can be gotten from.
My tool kit includes:
Genreal Cleaning
CCleaner - Crap cleaner. A good general cleaning tool. Will clean the registry, windows temp folders, internet catches for Internet Explorer and Firefox, and several other cool features. Website
Defraggler - A computer defragger. Much nicer interface than windows default. It also shows you more about the data and how it's stored. Website
File Recovery
Recuva - A file recovery program made by Piriform. Website
Password Revovery (I can't count how many passwords I've recovered because they couldn't remember them when they needed them.)
MessenPass - Will recover passwords for any messenger acount even from third party connectors like Pidgin. Website
Mail PassView - Recovers email usernames and passwords for most email programs. Warning this program is often labeled a virus (false positive) Website
SniffPass - Will watch your internet connection and will tell you all the info you need about pop3, smtp, and a few other connections. Mostly just user names and passwords. Website
Other
ProduKey - Shows you the product key of the OS, any MS office installed, IE, and any extras you might have made by Microsoft. Website
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Tim
//sorry, couldn't help myself, most of mine are already posted elsewhere, I have to look it up and add to it//
Things have got to get better, they can't get worse, or can they?
You just have to copy and paste. But fine I'll fix it.
Release Team Member
Do you have PA launchers for each one?
Ed
However they all work fine under the portableapps menu. Single .exe's and no installation requred. So they're great even if they aren't .paf'ed
Release Team Member
Someone told me about ophcrack. Too bad it's not portable.
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oph crack? like this one?
(The page you linked was a 404)
If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port,
and the bus is interrupted as a very last resort,
and the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort,
then the socket packet pocket has an error to report
go to it's source forge page and download liveCD that is portable
Slackware 12 for system
MCP (For XP and Server 2003)
Network + Certified
aim is "nycjv321" (minus quotes)
I meant run-off-your-flash-drive portable.
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Another handy utility: Aida click
Optimism is a moral duty - Karl R. Popper
I found: http://portablefreeware.com/?id=699
It's an integrity checker!
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A sampling of my toolkit:
(All of these can be easily found via google, plus, I'm too lazy to post links.)
-Brute Benchmark: Benchmarking tool. available at www.portablefreeware.com
-CPU-Z: system info tool.
-Caffeine: A simple app, Caffeine works by simulating a left shift key up event every 59 seconds, thus preventing your computer from going into sleep mode.
-DTaskManager: More advanced version of the standard Window's Task Manager
-Roadkil's Monitor Test: Displays test patterns for use when performing monitor repairs. Displays pure colours and white screens for colour tuning or finding missing colours, grid lines for focusing and setting the image dimensions correctly. A must for any monitor repair person or checking the quality of a monitors display.
-Roadkil's Unstoppable Copier: Recovers files from disks with physical damage.
-Roadkil's Disk Wipe: Securely erases the contents of a disk replacing it with random data or leaving the drive completely blank.
-Roadkil's Disk Image: Creates and writes disk images files to hard and floppy disks.
-Roadkil's Raw Copy: This program copys a disk as a raw image from one drive directly to another. This utility is designed for people who have faulty drive and want to transfer the data directly to another drive without doing a file by file copy.
-Remove WGA: A small utility that enables you to remove the Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications tool
-Resource Hacker: You should know about this already...
-WhoLockMe: Find out what processes are locking a file.
-Universal Extractor: Extracts files from any type of archive, whether it's a simple zip file, an installation program, or even a Windows Installer (.msi)
-WinContig: an easy-to-use stand-alone defragmentation tool. Useful for defragging individual files.
Please Make TiLP Portable