Programs that will help you

[Twisted]

Here Are Some Good Programs:

Temp Monitoring :
Dtemp,
http://private.peterlink.ru/tochinov/
Motherboard Monitor, http://mbm.livewiredev.com/
speedfan, http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php

Displaying Specs On Desktop:
samurize, http://samurize.com/
coolmon, http://coolmon.arsware.org/

Benchmarking:
Sandra, http://www.sisoftware.net/
3DMark03, http://futuremark.com/products/3dmark03/
3Dmark01,http://futuremark.com/products/3dmark2001/

Tweaks
TweakXp , http://tweakxp.com
X-Setup , http://www.xteq.com
Tweak UI, http://download.com.com/3000-2341-2830963.html?tag=lst-0-1


Burn In
Prime 95, http://www.mersenne.org/freesoft.htm
Folding @ Home, http://folding.stanford.edu
Seti @ Home, http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/
Toast , http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/attachment.php?s=&postid=145456

Firewalls + Proxies
Zone Alarm, http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/home.jsp
Proxy +, http://www.proxyplus.cz/
WinProxy, www.winproxy.com

more to come

please post here with a program you think should be added.

[wdd1040]

How about 3dmark2001?
http://futuremark.com/products/3dmark2001/
-added

[CCW]

Twisted, monitoring ;)

EDIT - congrats on becoming a mod yesterday :toast:

[Twisted]

thanks ccw

[IFMU]

Few suggested proggies

Stability testing
Prime95
Toast
Folding@Home
Seti@Home

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Super-Pi

[Twisted]

ok..will add those

[Twisted]

whats the link for Toast?

[IFMU]

Originally posted by Twisted
whats the link for Toast?
Uh, herr, um... heh.... yea well Im honestly not to sure. I save most of these progs and keep them around for the next time I need it. Found it on a site though...

Tweakuk was one (http://www.tweakup.dk/fil_arkiv/294dc48804ef471e5475c883cf10e5f4/filelib/bench/toast.exe)
Kinda getting harder to find now-a-days it would seem...?!

Well lemme add in the copy Ive got here... not sure otherwise really.

[Peckers]

DTemp is a good program to monitor you hdd-temps.

http://private.peterlink.ru/tochinov/

[Ulfar]

Well, xplite is a good program to remove most of the M$ crap that comes with xp.
http://www.litepc.com/xplite.html
it might not be free but well worth it.

[klokker]

WebTemp
http://www.coolhardware.de

Creates these statistics:
http://www.wassergekuehlt.de/coolhardware/notebook/stats.png

Shareware. There's a free time UNlimited and a registered version available.

[shadowing]

Are there any temp. monitors for Linux? I would like to have one to monitor this pc's temps...

[agenda2005]

Are there any temp. monitors for Linux? I would like to have one to monitor this pc's temps...

Yes! gkrellm. If you type it in google it will take you to the website for download, but configuring it on your system can sometimes be a pain in the butt. You need to have lmsensor running on your Linux distro before gkrellm can work.

[s81o]

RMClock (http://cpu.rightmark.org/products/rmclock.shtml) :toast:

[tinker77]

Hey, thanks for those links guys.....

[MrSeanKon]

Software

1) MemTurbo (www.memturbo.com) --> Clear and defrag your RAM.
2) Window Washer (www.webroot.com) --> Cleans all garbage files.
3) Tweak Power Pack (www.tweaknow.com) --> Optimize your system.
4) WinBoost & MemMonster (www.magellass.com) --> Similar programs.
5) Cpu Idle (www.cpuidle.com) --> It cools your CPU (in some cases) :rolleyes:
6) --> Advanced Registry Optimizer (http://www.systweak.com) Clean your Registry.
7) Diskeeper (www.diskeeper.com) --> Faster defrag (oh my!)
8) --> Freeware program for throtting (http://www.panopsys.com/ThrottleWatch.zip)
9) --> Conversion program (http://www.snapfiles.com/get/convert.html)
10) Acronis True Image (http://www.acronis.com/) --> Program like Norton Ghost but it is better!
11) Hard disk life (http://www.hddlife.com/) --> Check your hard disk.

Some programs are shareware.


Sites with software
1) Benchmarks.ru (http://www.benchmarkhq.ru/english.html)
2) Majorgeeks (http://www.majorgeeks.com)



Tools for Benchmarking, Audio/Video/codecs and general software
Just see the stickies click here (http://octech.gr/forum/viewforum.php?f=26) and happy downloading. :)

[Alante]

Firewall:

- http://www.agnitum.com/products/outpost/download.php Outpost Firewall PRO

Video Card Tweaking::

- http://www.guru3d.com/rivatuner/ RivaTuner/Nvidia

- http://www.techpowerup.com/atitool/ ATITool/Ati

HDD Last Hope:

- http://www.floborecoverysoft.com/ Flobo Floppy Bad Sector Repair

- http://www.abstradrome.com/hdd.html HDD Regenerator

[Monkeywoman]

Honestly THEE best program you can get if you own a Logitech G15 keyboard

Features:
* Customizable display of weekday, date and time.
* Shows number of unread mails as icons (max 5) (if your mail client supports it)
* Displays CPU usage (supports up to four CPU's, both Intel and AMD).
* Shows the memory load.
* Shows inbound (top) and outbound (bottom) network traffic volume
* Shows network inbound/outbound network load over the last ten seconds, and/or total data sent and received.
* World clock with daylight savings support and user selectable time zones
* Speaker switcher, switch between speakers and headphones with a click
* Displays sound volume and speakers muted status
* Stopwatch with lap time (click to start/lap, long-click to reset/stop)
* Detects unresponsive programs and allows you to kill them
* TeamSpeak2 integration: Shows speakers, player count (channel with large font, server with small font), arriving and leaving players, mic mute status, self speaking status, channel changes. Click to mute/unmute mic. Long-click to show who's in the active channel.
* WinAMP integration: Shows new song name when song changes. Shows remaining play time and average bitrate. Click to re-display current song.
* Foobar2000: supports the WinAMP spam component.
* FRAPS integration: Shows the current FPS.
* SpeedFan integration: Shows user selectable values from SpeedFan (temperatures, fan speeds, voltages).
* iTunes integration: Shows new song name when song changes. Shows remaining play time and average bitrate. Click to re-display current song.


download from here; http://6plut.se/files/G15/lcdsirreal267.zip

developer site; http://forum.goteamspeak.com/showthread.php?t=32017

[trekie86]

Thanks for all of the great app suggestions.

[topdog5050]

thanks for the programs.

[PaganII]

FileHippo for programs/drivers may be faster if you have dialup. No flashy front page.
http://filehippo.com/

[=SOC= Admiral]

Excellent Anti Virus called Threatfire

http://www.threatfire.com/

[Power5]

What is a good overclock utility for CPU in windows? Want to OC a name brand PC with locked out BIOS.

[wevsspot]

Free antivirus
Avira (personal favorite) http://www.free-av.com/en/download/index.html
AVG (2nd place personal favorite)
Avast

ATi Video Card BIOS Mods and Flashing
RBE (Radeon BIOS Editor) http://www.techpowerup.com/rbe/
Winflash http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/1122/Winflash_2.0.1.2.html

nVidia Video Card BIOS Mods and Flashing
NiBiTor http://www.mvktech.net/component/option,com_remository/Itemid,26/func,select/id,126/
nvFlash http://www.mvktech.net/component/option,com_remository/Itemid,26/func,select/id,126/

Got another for removing old/unused USB associations from your Windows machine, but I'll have to find it on one of my backup drives.

Disk Defragmenter
Auslogics Disk Defragmenter http://www.auslogics.com/en/software/disk-defrag/

Malware Removal
Malwarebytes http://www.malwarebytes.org/

Graphics Driver Cleaning
Word to the wise - do not use DriverCleanerPro on a Windows 7 machine for removing left over/junk ATi files. Instead use DriverSweeper
http://downloads.guru3d.com/Guru3D---Driver-Sweeper-(Setup)_d1655.html

[s1nykuL]

Extracting files from install packages.

If you want to test a new program, but don't want it installing to the system or making changes to your *pristine* registry.

This is a great utility for extracting the files from install packages.
Universal Extractor:
http://legroom.net/software/uniextract

The bundled Inno setup unpacker is not always the latest version.
The latest version can be found here:
http://innounp.sourceforge.net/

Just overwrite innoup.exe in the Universal Extractor bin folder.


For troubleshooting windows problems.

Sysinternals Suite:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb842062.aspx
is an awesome set of tools for monitoring system changes and processes in real time. Including file reads/writes and registry reads/writes.

[Kenjiwing]

Is it possible to get an updated version of this?

[walshlg]

this is so out of date, any new recs and/ or links?

[ultraelf]

AVG for antivirus
LiteManagerFree for remote control pc's
CCleaner for optimization of the system