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CCleaner : Prune your Windows registry and delete temporary files

June 19th, 2010 No comments

Thought of getting rid of Internet footprints?

Your search ends here, CCleaner

CCleaner

Those who are familiar with Redmond giant’s OS might know, in course of time Windows registry and temporary files make your hard disk bloated. It’s a pain to delete the files manually or to prune the registry. CC cleaner is a free utility to clean up the mess and optimize your PC. It takes care of Temporary files, history, cookies, Auto-complete form history, index.dat etc.

Download CCleaner

My FOSS friends, don’t be disappointed, my next post is about a power tool to optimize your Linux box.

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DriveGLEAM : Indicates read/write of your hard drives

April 14th, 2009 No comments

DriveGLEAM is a free utility which indicates read/write activity for your hard drives in the system notification area (also known as the system tray). It also supports output via the parallel port so that you can for example use a red led for write and a green led for read access.

drivegleam

Features:

  • Monitor physical disks or partitions (or both)
  • Allows for CPU, RAM , VRAM usage display in tray.
  • Read / Write / ReadWrite and Idle status indicators
  • Indicators in tray or the parallel port, output directly to LED’s, Just place some LED’s on top of your monitor and enjoy real monitoring of read/write status realtime 😉 (no special hardware required)
  • Keyboard scroll lock LED option.
  • Uses very few resources (including cpu usage)
  • Very stable.
  • Does not "hook" into your system
  • Standalone, does not require a install.

dgleam  When you are in a work group where other systems are accessing your shared files, you can easily find out which is accessed the most

Download DriveGLEAM for:

Windows XP

Windows 2000

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GParted: Free HDD Partitioning Utility

April 10th, 2009 1 comment

"GParted" is short for Gnome Partition Editor. This is an industrial-strength package for creating, destroying, resizing, moving, checking, and copying partitions and the filesystems on them; it lets you do just about anything and everything with drive partitions. This is very useful for creating space for new operating systems (such as when you wish to upgrade to Vista, which occupies a great deal of space), to reorganize disk space (such as redistributing it for specific purposes such that one partition may store software, one for music, one for videos, and one for games), to copy data that resides on the hard drive, or to simply mirror one partition with another (disk imaging or cloning).

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You can do everything mentioned above without losing the data on the drive.

GParted is available for download from http://gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php; it is freeware, available in three different versions — binary, LiveCD, and LiveUSB, but we suggest you download the LiveCD version, since it is the most versatile — and it can be converted into a Live USB version if required.

 

 

You can right-click on a partition and click on Information to get detailed information about the partition or drive in question.

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