If you are using Windows and your computer is taking longer than normal to start-up, then you may have a virus/spyware issue or you may just need to run a registry repair to clean out some of the unneeded entries. Overall, registry repair tools can fix Windows errors, crashes, and improve performance. Here are some completely free registry repair programs designed for Windows.
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Categories: Performance, desktop, utilities Tags: anti-spyware, anti-virus, clean, crash, free, registry, repair, tools, windows
As storage and file sizes have been increasing, the storage limits on CD and DVD media has not. HJSplit, a free software utility, allows you to quickly and easily split large files into two or more parts for burning to a CD or DVD. Another great use for HJSplit is to split up a large file in two or more parts prior to emailing it as an attachment that may get rejected due to email size limits. Further, HJSplit runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac so if you split a large file in Linux, it can be re-joined on a Windows machine and vise-versa.
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Categories: desktop, file, server, utilities Tags: burn, email, file, free, join, large, split, tools, unzip, utilities, zip
When dealing with many Windows computers/servers and multiple license keys, you may need a quick and easy way to determine what key you have used on a particular system. Windows Product key Viewer, a free utility by RJL Software, will allow you to do just that and without installing anything.
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Since I do a decent amount of work with Linux, I often find that I need to work with various types of compressed files, such as TAR and RPM, on Windows computers. 7-Zip is a great free Open Source program that can easily zip/unzip almost any type of compressed file with a simple right-click of the mouse and is also a very good add-on for Windows. The more you begin to work with Linux, the greater this need becomes as almost everyone is using a Windows computer somewhere in the mix. For example, if you were using a Windows machine with Putty (a free Open Source SSH client) to administer a Linux server, you could easily work with Linux compressed files for back and forth transfer.
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Categories: desktop, utilities Tags: compress, exe, gz, gzip, linux, rpm, save money, small office home office, soho, tar, unzip, windows, winzip, zip
Over the years, I have always had a copy of the Ultimate Boot CD (UBCD) available to me in the event that I needed a useful set of tools to perform various computer/server tasks. For example, to clone a hard drive that is about to kick it, to recover a lost Windows password, to setup a desktop for dual boot with multiple operating systems, and even to securely format a computer that is about to be recycled. In short, the UBCD is a bootable CD that contains a number of free Open Source software utilities that can be directly compared to a toolbox complete with a handful of carefully selected tools.
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