Tools that should be on every techie thumb drive Part 1.
Posted in Uncategorized on August 18th, 2008 by adminTools that should be on every techie thumb drive.
This is a list of tools I personally run and some that were recommended to me via twitter post a few weeks back. Enjoy part one and soon I will be posting part two so if you want to add your own tools to this list leave them in the comments. Also not that it will happen but if this somehow gets on digg could someone be so kind to drop this list in the comments there? This being a wordpress blog and not very stable I would hate it if people couldn’t see the list.
ccleaner: http://www.ccleaner.com Good util for cleaning the registry and removing privacy files. Good to run after your done with a clients system.
AVG: http://www.grisoft.com Are you working on a machine where the user didnt think they needed a virus checker? First slap them on the back of the head and then install AVG.
autoruns: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx See everything set to autostart on a system and you will soon realize how much junk people install on their systems.
spacemonger: http://www.sixty-five.cc/sm Get a nice visual image of all the files on a system and notice the giant avi file they downloaded which is filing up the harddrive. They swear they never saw that file before but you know better.
Memtest86: http://www.memtest86.com/ Could it be the RAM? did you swap it out? do you have enough ram and patience to figure out what is bad and where? I don’t.
TrueCrypt: http://www.truecrypt.org Do you wear a tin foil hat? Are you reading this through a proxy server just in case? Is the lone gunman and 9/11 conspiracies monthly delivered to an unnamed PO box around the corner? IF so then you should encrypt all of your drives and thumb drives.
SysInternals: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/default.aspx not so much a single app but a collection of apps from microsoft. Also they let you run most of them directly from the web http://live.sysinternals.com/
avast: http://www.avast.com another free virus checker because you should always get a second opnion.
CPU-Z: http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php OK so you just want to know what type of RAM chips are in there or the tempature or while model and serial number of the processor they have. I dont think there is an easier way than this.
BGinfo: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897557.aspx Want to be the cool guy in the server room? Run this app and it will put a ton of text containing all sorts of stats on the desktop background. No so many geek points for the home user but all the I.T. guys will think your the master of MSPaint.