System/Benchmarks And Diagnostics
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Process Lasso
Process Lasso improves system performance, responsiveness, and stability during high loads through dynamic adjustments to process priority classes. It can also automatically terminate undesired processes, apply default priorities and CPU affinities to processes, limit the number of instances a process can have, and log all processes. It is not a task manager replacement, but does have task manager like capabilities to compliment its primary functions.Process Lasso is free for home and academic use,...
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Glary Utilities
Glary Utilities offers numerous powerful and easy-to-use system tools and utilities to fix, speed up, maintain and protect your PC. It allows you to clean common system junk files, as well as invalid registry entries and Internet traces. You can manage and delete browser add-ons, analyze disk space usage and find duplicate files. You can also view and manage installed shell extensions, encrypt your files from unauthorized access and use, split large files into smaller manageable files and then rejoin...
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Advanced SystemCare
Advanced SystemCare (formerly Advanced WindowsCare) is a comprehensive PC care utility that takes a one-click approach to help protect, repair and optimize your computer. It provides an all-in-one and super convenient solution for PC maintenance and protection. This program is available free of charge.
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System Explorer
System Explorer gives you detailed informations about Processes, Startups, Explorer, IE Addons, Uninstallers, Windows, Services, Drivers, Connections and Opened Files. Action History for monitoring processes activities. Making of Registry & Files snapshots for easy comparing of system changes. Result of comparation is displayed in tree view and text list. Can be used for analysation of product installers/uninstallers (like Total Uninstall). Performance graphs for monitoring usage of system resources in...
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Unlocker
Unlocker is a Windows Explorer extension allowing you with a simple right-click on a file or folder to get rid of error message such as error deleting file or folder, cannot delete folder: it's being used by another person or program. Simply right click the folder or file and select Unlocker. If the folder or file is locked, a window listing of lockers will appear. Select the lockers and click Unlock and you are done.
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IObit Smart Defrag
Disk fragmentation is generally main cause of slow and unstable computer performance. Smart Defrag helps defragment your hard drive most efficiently. Smart Defrag not only defragments computer deeply but optimizes disk performance. With "Install it and forget it" feature, Smart Defrag works automatically and quietly in the background on your PC, keeping your hard disk running at its speediest.
open source
MediaInfo
MediaInfo supplies technical and tag information about a video or audio file. It provides general information for multimedia files like: title, author, director, album, track number, date, duration, etc. It also provides more specific information for audio files such as: codec, aspect, fps, bitrate and more, and information for video files such as: codec, sample rate, channels, language, bitrate and more. This information can be exported as text, CSV or HTML.
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SIW
SIW is a Read-Only / Display-Only System Information tool that gathers detailed information about your system properties and settings. It is a utility that includes detailed specs for Motherboard, BIOS, CPU, Devices, Memory, Video, Drivers, Ports, Printers. It displays information about Operating System, Installed Programs, Processes, Services, Serial Numbers, Users, Open Files, System uptime, Users, Network, Network Shares, and more, as well as real-time monitors for CPU, Memory, Page File usage and...
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Bill2's Process Manager
Bill2's Process Manager is a free software for Windows 2000, XP and Vista, for multicore PC. You can create rules to set priority and affinity for all processes. Rules are automatically applied when a process is detected. Include complete perfs and stats window, and many options in a clear and easy to use GUI.
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Process Hacker
Process Hacker is a free and open source process viewer with powerful process termination and memory searching/editing capabilities. It can show you information about processes, services, modules, handles, and more.
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HWiNFO32
HWiNFO32 is a professional hardware information and diagnostic tool supporting latest components, industry technologies and standards. It's are targeted to recognize and extract the most possible amount of information about computer's hardware which makes it suitable for users searching for driver updates, computer manufactures, system integrators and technical exteperts too. Retrieved informations are presented in a logical and easily understandable form and can be exported into various types of reports.
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Process Monitor
Process Monitor is an advanced monitoring tool for Windows that shows real-time file system, Registry and process/thread activity. It combines the features of two legacy Sysinternals utilities, Filemon and Regmon, and adds an extensive list of enhancements including rich and non-destructive filtering, comprehensive event properties such session IDs and user names, reliable process information, full thread stacks with integrated symbol support for each operation, simultaneous logging to a file, and much...
open source
Memtest86+
Based on the well-known original memtest86 written by Chris Brady, memtest86+ is a port by some members of the x86-secret team. Our goal is to provide an up-to-date and completly reliable version of this software tool aimed at memory failure detection.
open source
WinVer
WinVer is a simple replacement of the WinVer tool included in Windows operating system. It performs the same job as the original, but is highly optimized in size, being almost 10 times smaller. There are no external dependencies needed.
freeware
CrystalDiskInfo
CrystalDiskInfo is a HDD health monitoring utility. It displays basic HDD information, monitors S.M.A.R.T. values and disk temperature.
freeware
CPU Speed Professional
CPU Speed Professional is a small, standalone application that measures the actual speed of your Intel or AMD central processor unit (CPU). It features a stunning interface with elegant animations and screen transitions. Click the 'Test My Speed' button and watch as CPU Speed ramps up your computer's processor to full throttle.
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Memtest86
Memtest86 is thorough, stand alone memory test for x86 architecture computers. BIOS based memory tests are a quick, cursory check and often miss many of the failures that are detected by Memtest86.
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KillProcess
KillProcess can terminate almost any process on a computer including any service and process running in the system. Even protected Microsoft system processes can be terminated. All of this can be done in the matter of milliseconds. The speed that it can kill your applications with is determined by your computer speed and is not restricted by any other settings within the OS itself.
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Process Tamer
Process Tamer is a tiny and efficient utility that runs in your system tray and constantly monitors the CPU usage of other processes. When it sees a process that is overloading your CPU, it reduces the priority of that process temporarily until the usage returns to a reasonable level.
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BlueScreenView
BlueScreenView scans all your minidump files created during 'blue screen of death' crashes, and displays the information about all crashes in one table. For each crash, BlueScreenView displays the minidump filename, the date/time of the crash, the basic crash information displayed in the blue screen (Bug Check Code and 4 parameters), and the details of the driver or module that possibly caused the crash (filename, product name, file description, and file version). For each crash displayed in the upper...
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TMonitor
TMonitor will display the active clock of each individual thread of a processor. At the moment, it only works with Intel Core 2 and Core i3/i5/i7 processors.
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WhoCrashed
Whenever a computer running Windows suddenly reboots without displaying any notice or blue screen of death, the first thing that is often though about is a hardware failure. In reality, most crashes are caused by malfunctioning device drivers and kernel modules. In case of a kernel error, most computers running Windows do not show a blue screen unless they are configured to do so. Instead these systems suddenly reboot without any notice.
WhoCrashed shows the drivers which have been crashing computer with...
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Intel Processor Identification Utility
Intel Processor Identification Utility was developed to identify the processor inside a system, assuring the processor contains intended technologies and is operating at the tested and rated frequency intended by Intel Corporation.
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CRP (Control Running Programs)
CRP (Control Running Programs) is a solution that will control all running programs within your windows session. In the section "Instance Controlling", you can specify how many instances of a particular program will run at the same time, preventing memory overflow and instant program spawning from other programs. In the section "Instance Launching", specific programs will be launched once they have been closed, either by accident, from the user or the task manager. In the section "Instance Memory",...
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Dead Pixel Tester
Dead Pixel Tester - TFT screens have thousands of pixels, on a 1024x768 monitor, there are three cells for each pixel - one each for red, green, and blue - which amounts to nearly 2.4 million cells (1024x768x 3 = 2,359,296). There's only a slim chance that all of these will be perfect; more likely, some will be stuck on (creating a "bright" defect) or off (resulting in a "dark" defect). Simply select a color then closely inspect your monitor in each of the primary colours checking for pixels that are not...
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Lamark
Lamark is an updated remake of the popular 80s and 90s benchmarking tool Landmark Speed Test. When launched, it starts performing a continuous series of speed tests, including CPU, FPU and Memory. Results are normalized acording to an Athlon XP 2400+ where CPU and FPU runs at 2000 Mhz, and memory has a bandwith of 266 Mhz.