Great URLs for useful Windows stuff

DorsetBoy · Feb 25, 2007, 13:32:54

A list of addresses for tweaks,security,free software,old versions,antispyware advice etc.....

Happy browsing

http://majorgeeks.com/page.php?id=12

http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm

http://www.dnsstuff.com/

http://www.snapfiles.com/help/missingfiles.html

http://www.firewallleaktester.com/leaktest11.htm

http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/

http://www.321download.com/LastFreeware/index.html

http://www.grc.com/default.htm

http://www.spywarewarrior.com/uiuc/resource.htm

http://www.netrn.net/spywareblog/

http://www.spywarewarrior.com/rogue_anti-spyware.htm#trustworthy

http://aumha.org/a/parasite.htm

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http://win.softpedia.com/

http://www.fwnetwork.com/

http://www.nonags.com/

http://ziphie.org/gallery/view_album.php?set_albumName=miscwall&page=3

http://meesoft.logicnet.dk/Analyzer/

http://www.opensourcelist.org/oss/suggestedapplications.html

http://www.pcnet-online.com/

http://www.search-this.com/search-engine-decoder/

http://www.softlookup.com/author.asp?ID=11825

http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/

http://www.techsupportalert.com/best_46_free_utilities.htm

http://eeggs.com/

http://majorgeeks.com/page.php?id=12

cavillas · Feb 25, 2007, 13:47:35

Perhaps this cold be a pinned thread.

DorsetBoy · Feb 25, 2007, 15:24:37

More URLS for Windows,tweaks ,tips,security,how to's etc..........

Hours of reading here

http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_how_tos.htm

http://freepctech.com/pc/xp/xpindex.shtml

http://www.techarp.com/default.aspx?location=9

http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_sp2_slipstream.asp

http://www.winsupersite.com/

http://www.onecomputerguy.com/windowsxp_tips.htm

http://www.onecomputerguy.com/windowsxp_tips.htm

http://www.msfn.org/index.php?

http://unattended.msfn.org/unattended.xp/

http://*****.com/content/ms-hidden-files.shtml

http://www.windowsitlibrary.com/Content/69/01/4.html

http://www.data-recovery-reviews.com/toc.htm

http://www.bootdisk.com/utility.htm

Glenn · Feb 25, 2007, 15:46:29

Well 12 really,
http://www.onecomputerguy.com/windowsxp_tips.htm is there twice

It should help a few people though, including me at work

DorsetBoy · Feb 25, 2007, 15:50:54

Oh well 12 then

.....trouble was the edit function wasn't there.

Still they can always read that page twice

Rik · Feb 25, 2007, 17:31:53

Quote from: cavillas on Feb 25, 2007, 13:47:35
Perhaps this cold be a pinned thread.

It is now, merged and pinned! My first job accomplished.

Lance · Feb 25, 2007, 17:36:52

Well done Rik, you're doing your job well already!

Rik · Feb 25, 2007, 17:39:44

LOL. It probably won't last...

RobMc · Feb 25, 2007, 21:00:38

Don't forget sourceforge.net for open source programs.

Rob.

DorsetBoy · Mar 20, 2007, 18:21:33

Over 1000 tricks

Hours of fun here,reading for a wet weekend

They have added a news section too with Vista Central.

Rik · Mar 20, 2007, 18:32:04

Great stuff, Dorset. I'll add it to your other sticky.

mrapoc · Mar 20, 2007, 22:32:39

http://www.tweakxp.com/

RobMc · Mar 21, 2007, 09:48:40

Windows Sysinternals have some really useful free utilities. I've had them on my usb pendrive for years as they can be very useful for diagnosing problems.

For a bit of fun the Bluescreen Screen Saver has given me hours of fun when put on colleagues desktops when they have been away without locking their pcs

Rob.

jimc · Mar 21, 2007, 16:10:06

and of course

http://portableapps.com/

RobMc · Mar 21, 2007, 16:40:42

Not sure that this is the right place to put this, but hey

I've been using BartPE for a long time now and although you have to do a bit of work to get it working I find it brilliant.

It's basically a way of booting a pc from a cd and getting a functional Windows interface from the cd alone. So if you have a pc that won't boot into windows, stick the cd in boot from it and you can access your hard disk. This really saved me once when a cockup occurred when rebooting after installing some software. Basically I just could not log in. So booted using BartPE cd and copied my important files onto a USB HDD.

Rob.

Rik · Mar 21, 2007, 16:51:12

You might be interested to know that Acronis get customers to use BartPE when they have a problem with their CD not booting properly in a machine.

DorsetBoy · Mar 21, 2007, 16:57:49

You can also use any good LINUX Live CD for this,I have rescued files and restarted windows systems a plenty using Linux.

Rik · Mar 21, 2007, 16:59:34

Perhaps we should have a library here, with all the useful downloads available??

RobMc · Mar 22, 2007, 18:50:56

Another useful site: the How-To Geek.

Rob.

trelales · Jun 26, 2007, 20:44:21

Nice post but far too many sites to do each one justice.

All of you get together and select the top 3

Thanks

Rik · Jun 27, 2007, 11:31:05

I doubt we could narrow it to a choice of three, it depends on what you're looking for as to which site is best. Computers are never as simple as we'd like.

RobMc · Jun 27, 2007, 11:42:05

I agree. Sometimes the links in themselves aren't useful directly (for oneself) but can lead you to somewhere useful. For example, I tried the portable apps link given by jimc, but for one reason or another the product didn't suite my needs but it did give me a link to XAMPP from Apache Friends which allows me to run an Appache website with php and mySQL on my local pc with very simple configuration which has been great for my web development business. I may not have come across this if I hadn't followed the links in this thread.

Rob.

Moley · Feb 18, 2008, 12:43:51

Would like to add a personal

for the freeserifsoftware one - exactly what I was looking for this morning

Rik · Feb 18, 2008, 12:53:13

Not bad for a thread that's been dormant for 8 months.

david666 · Mar 10, 2008, 14:04:06

This is very good site for free/trial stuff.

http://www.filehippo.com/