No, not for calculating the best way to work during rush hour. PRTG Freeware Edition is a relatively simple way to monitor up to three devices for bandwitdh usage, such as your router (internet traffic), server or suspected issue. PRTG…
A nice and tidy one page collection of free security related programs, including anti-virus, firewall and anti-spyware. Security-Ops
This is a very nice simple undelete utility, in the vein of the old DOS command. It brings up what you can try and retrieve, you select the files and that’s about it. No install needed, just run the EXE.…
While this is written for Linux the creators of GParted have a Live CD version that works very well. I suggest you know what you’re doing with partitions before you get into this, but GParted does everything you would need…
PC Magazine just gave an Editor’s Choice to Comodo Personal Firewall, a free product that was rated better than ZoneAlarm. Perusing their site reveals a free anti-virus client, free password manager and free S/MIME certificate for Outlook. Worth trying for…
After a bunch of users have logged onto a system those profiles start to bog things down. Microsoft released the abovementioned utility to clean up after those errant profiles and speed up the restart/shutdown process. User Profile Hive Cleanup Service
I love Notepad since it’s bundled with every version of Windows and gets the job done. Microsoft has posted a little “how-to” to use Notepad for a personal log: add .LOG to the top of the document and every new…
The name says it all. AMD has come to the rescue of those who experience software issues running two cores. The utility synchronizes the time stamp counter on both cores and works with processor affinity issues. AMD Dual-Core Optimizer
A second great app you didn’t know you needed; I noticed it when I was looking up Vanilla. Filebrowser lets you build albums of your online files, for a quick and easy reference of what you’ve actually got sitting there…