Here’s a nice collection of Freeware Links.
Windows XP Home and Professional Service Pack 3 Service Configurations by Black Viper
Useful guidelines on what WinXP services can be disabled so as to free up more memory.
Results and comments – matousec.com
Interesting and useful test of various firewalls – you will be surprised at the results.
PCWinTech – Tools & Information For Geeks
Cleanmem works in a matter of about 5 sec. It uses a windows api call that is in Windows 2000,xp,2003,Vista & 2008
that tells windows to cleanup the workspace of a processes thus freeing up any memory the process no longer needs. Other memory cleaners end up forcing the memory into the page file slowing down your system.
This tool does not. The API call frees up unused memory from programs, when a program needs the memory again it can simply take it back instead of forcing the memory out of ram and into the page file.
50 Windows Tips & Tricks – Computeractive
Here’s some useful tips & tricks
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Importing folders – MozillaZine Knowledge Base
This article gives step by step instructions for how to import folders from another profile for a new user who has never installed an extension. It assumes you’re using Windows but you should still be able to follow the instructions using a file manager on another operating system.
Sysinternals Suite
The Sysinternals Troubleshooting Utilities have been rolled up into a single Suite of tools. The Suite is a bundling of the following selected Sysinternals Utilities:, AccessChk, AccessEnum, AdExplorer, AdRestore, Autologon, Autoruns, BgInfo, CacheSet, ClockRes, Contig, Ctrl2Cap, DebugView, DiskExt, DiskMon, DiskView, Disk Usage (DU), EFSDump, FileMon, Handle, Hex2dec, Junction, LDMDump, ListDLLs, LiveKd, LoadOrder, LogonSessions, NewSid, NTFSInfo, PageDefrag, PendMoves, PortMon, ProcessExplorer, Process Monitor, ProcFeatures, PsExec, PsFile, PsGetSid, PsInfo, PsKill, PsList, PsLoggedOn, PsLogList, PsPasswd, PsService, PsShutdown, PsSuspend, RegDelNull, RegJump, RegMon, RootkitRevealer, SDelete, ShareEnum, SigCheck, Streams, Strings, Sync, TCPView, VolumeID, WhoIs, WinObj, ZoomIt
All you need to know about the system. Features: Detailed information 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 time. Easy check of suspicious files via VirusTotal. Easy search details about file/process via online databases. Easy access to System Utilities
XP Syspad is a Windows system monitoring utility that allows easy access to Windows system information and Windows system utilities, such as the individual control panel applets, as well as putting the “hidden” applications in Windows at your fingertips. XP Syspad also recovers lost Windows & MS-Office product keys