Great URLs for useful Windows stuff

[Rik]

Thanks, David,

[Simon]

Another    Thanks David!

[drummer]

Noreen's Acronis thread reminded me of this link I found the other day:

http://www.acronis.co.uk/mag/pcpro/ati8pe

In a nutshell, it's Acronis TI v8.0 and it's completely free, so it might be useful for someone thinking of trying Acronis but not prepared to fork out thirty quid.  The registration form isn't intrusive but it does require a working email address for the serial number.  Tried it myself and it works (download, installation and boot-disk creation) but I wouldn't bother with it if you use Vista.

[Rik]

Thanks, Drummer. 

[Cookiemonster]

Here's one for everybody who likes Tweaking. I found this site a while back and it's very good at tweaking all things regarding Windows, especially useful at stopping all the cr** that windows loads at boot. Have fun...

TweakHound

[Rik]

Nice one, Jester.  

[Rik]

Thanks to Noreen for this, VueScan operates with a wide range of scanners often allowing them to be used with Vista when the manufacturer isn't providing updates.

http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html

Free trial version, then $40 at time of posting.

[Noreen]

One thing to note is that VueScan doesn't work with wireless connections or parallel-port connections.

[Rik]

Does it support SCSI, do you know?

[Noreen]

It only works with SCSI, USB and Firewire connections, Rik.

[Rik]

Good old SCSI, it was a brilliant interface and much under-used, imo.

[madasahatter]

Here's one for everybody who likes Tweaking. I found this site a while back and it's very good at tweaking all things regarding Windows, especially useful at stopping all the cr** that windows loads at boot. Have fun...

TweakHound

Nice link Jester, but worth noting it's only for the XP peeps.  8)

[Sebby]

Good old SCSI, it was a brilliant interface and much under-used, imo.

A friend of mine had a SCSI hard drive back in the late 90s and I thought it was the coolest thing. I remember it was quite a beast, perhaps 10k RPM, and very fast compared with the IDE drives most others were using.

And he had a SCSI Jaz drive, I think. That was another device I thought was fantastic.

[Rik]

I had SCSI drives, tape streamers and scanners, Sebby. They were brilliant, the fastest 'in class' you could buy, but the cost was very high (and the cables very bulky).

[Sebby]

How things have changed, and that's only in my years.

[Rik]

SCSI was up against MFM HDs initially, then IDE, and it scored massively over both. Once S-ATA arrived, it really became a 'luxury' item, used in servers for the main part.

[Glenn]

Deleted Piclens util has already been posted

[gyruss]

Sys Internals

Some excellent utilities on here for the serious geek among us

[Rik]

 

[john]

Apologies if any of the links below have already been posted :

http://www.computerhope.com/index.

http://http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk

http://oreilly.com/ (not just for windows, also search for Windows hacks on the O'Reilly site)





Edit: Hyperlink sorted

[Rik]

Don't apologise, John, better twice than never. 

[john]

Thanks Rik, I've just noticed that the last link isn't correct, it should be http://oreilly.com/

[Rik]

It is now.

[Glenn]

http://www.tweakguides.com/TGTC.html have been updated to include XP SP2 & Vista SP1

[Rik]

Thanks, Glenn.