Useful utilities ...

**MIG-31** · Sep 10, 2003, 11:47 AM

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Originally posted by Optimummind
You can find No Ads here: http://www.southbaypc.com/NoAds/

thanks.

krazy1 · Oct 10, 2003, 10:15 PM

Automate V5

Do you do the same sequence everytime you start your PC?? Turn on the PC, Log in, Start your e-mail, turn on the audio player, browse to your favorite website....

Well with Automate just turn on your PC, log in and walk away and all the above will be done for you. This app has literaly TONS of options. I have it set at work so when I log in it automatically logs me into my e-mail prog and then starts my audio player and starts the music. It is a fun and cool prog to use. I even set it up so that when I hit alt+D it takes my browser right to Driver Heaven.

GUNNIX · Oct 15, 2003, 01:43 AM

www.gpure.tk is my site with the freeware I consider most useful.

From that list I definately recommend :
-Rampage to manage and free up ram (a must in win9x)
-F-Prot DOS , Antivirus , I love how small and useful it is. It's blazing fast
- Foxmail , I love the free mail program , it's very secure and easy to use
-Qtracker , to browse the gameservers and streaming music servers
-Mplayer , I love that Mediaplayer , it doesn't require any codecs to be installed. Works with most videofiles.
-Burnatonce
-.... I lov all those apps

The not freeware program that I really recommend as well is http://www.astonshell.com , it makes windows so much easier

PangingJr · Jan 5, 2004, 10:22 AM

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XXCOPY, a Versatile File Management Utility
http://www.xxcopy.com/index.html#download

Summary of the XXCOPY Features
http://www.xxcopy.com/index.html#summary

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Core FTP Liteâ„¢ - a free FTP client http://www.coreftp.com/

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with SSH/SFTP, SSL/TLS, browser integration, site to site transfers, drag and drop support, file viewing, file editing, transfer resuming, firewall support, custom commands, URL parsing, and much, much more! Core FTP gives you a fast, easy, reliable way to update and maintain your web pages. It also provides a secure method (via SSL or SFTP) to upload and download files from FTP servers. Check out the list of features and you'll find almost every FTP feature you need. There are no popup ads or advertising, and you're never asked or reminded to register.

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CWShredder (Cool Web Shredder) http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html

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A small utility for removing CoolWebSearch (aka CoolWwwSearch, YouFindAll, White-Pages.ws and a dozen other names). Spybot S&D tends to forget essential parts of the hijack, so until it updates, you can just this to completely remove the hijack. Updated to remove the new variants once they come out.

This tool will find and destroy all traces of the
CoolWebSearch (CWS) hijacker on your system. This
includes:

* Redirections to CoolWebSearch related pages
* Redirections when mistyping URLs
* Redirections when visiting Google
* Enormous IE slowdowns when typing
* IE start page/search page changing on reboot
* Sites in the IE Trusted Zone you didn't add
* Popups in Google and Yahoo when searching
* Errors at startup mentioning WIN.INI or IEDLL.EXE
* Unable to change or see certain items in IE Options
* Unable to access IE Options at all

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SplashKiller - http://www.digitallis.co.uk/pc/SplashKiller/index.html

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SplashKiller lets you hide those splash screens that appear when an application is loading.

It saves you from having to:

1. Find a 'no splash screen' option (if one exists) in the application.
2. Modify your registry to turn off a splash screen.
3. Hack the application itself to remove the splash screen.

There may be some splash screens that SplashKiller doesn't hide, and there might possibly be some windows that aren't splash screens that SplashKiller will hide by accident. But, at the moment, SplashKiller is hiding all the splash screens on the authors PC (which is the main reason it was written).

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WMI Scriptomatic. (The Scriptomatic Tool)

More info and D/L - http://www.microsoft.com/technet/tre...s/wmimatic.asp

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Registry Compactor ($19.95) - http://www.elrise.com/registrycompactor.htm

Quote:

Registry Compactor will optimize, compact and defragment your registry. With Registry Compactor you will:

* Improve overall system performance...
* Reduce the amount of time it takes your system to boot...
* Save memory by compacting the registry...
* Protect your privacy by permanently erasing previously deleted entries...
* Prevent registry corruption by building a fresh copy of the registry...

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PureText - http://stevemiller.net/PureText/
(D/L - http://stevemiller.net/downloads/puretext20_x86.zip)

Quote:

Have you ever copied some text from a web page, a word document, help, etc., and wanted to paste it as simple text into another application without getting all the formatting from the original source? PureText makes this simple. Just copy/cut whatever you want to the clipboard, click on the PureText tray icon, and then paste to any application. Better yet, you can configure a Hot-Key to convert and paste the text for you. The pasted text will be pure and free from all formatting.

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Agent Ransack - http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/default.aspx

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Agent Ransack is a free tool for finding files and information on your hard drive fast and efficiently. When searching the contents of files Agent Ransack displays the text found so you can quickly browse the results without having to separately open each file!

Agent Ransack provides compelling advantages over similar search tools:

* Regular expressions that allow complex rule based searches.
* Immediate contents results view.
* Various wizards to walk the user through the searching process.

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Restoration - http://hccweb1.bai.ne.jp/~hcj58401/
(D/L - 193 KB - http://hccweb1.bai.ne.jp/~hcj58401/REST2514.EXE)

Quote:

Restore files which are deleted from the recycle bin or deleted while holding down the Shift key by mistake. Conversely, this program has another function that makes it almost impossible to restore all deleted files. You can use it after deletion of confidential documents, embarrassing files and so on.

You don't have to install it, so it doesn't leave any garbage in the PC.
(You can also run it from a floppy disk.)
Even if a file seems to be restored, there is no guarantee that the contents are correct.
After you run the program, please check the files.
You can probably restore it correctly if the drive has enough free space
and if it's just after deletion.
If you restore a folder, there is no guarantee that all files or folders which used to belong to the folder will be in it.
If you can't find them in it, please search and restore them one by one.
If you still can't find them, it's impossible to restore them.
It will be almost impossible to restore any deleted files if you run the complete deletion function.
To be exact, fragments of deleted files can be in last clusters of existing files or allocated and unwritten files.
(Note that this function is not suitable for TOP SECRET information.)
Even if you find the information of completely deleted files, their contents must be erased.
If you want to erase the information too, please run the function again.

When you use the restoration function, I don't think you will encounter any damage due to bugs, since the function doesn't write anything to physical sectors.
However, the complete deletion function replaces physical sectors.
Therefore, I confirmed that it worked without any problems by testing many times.
As there is a rare possibility of damage or loss, please run the function at your own risk.

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PangingJr · Jan 6, 2004, 12:21 PM

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AllHelp.bat (Batch file) - Create a (HTML) help file for "all" NT 4/2000/XP commands

(see the file in text - http://www.robvanderwoude.com/files/allhelp.txt)
(D/L a ready to use - http://www.robvanderwoude.com/files/allhelp.zip)

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PangingJr · Jan 30, 2004, 01:15 PM

Info...

Speed up your internet connection with DNS caching
http://www.webattack.com/dns.html

To configure Windows to use the local DNS server in Windows XP
http://www.webattack.com/dns_setupxp.html

DNS Frequently Asked Questions
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=291382

Domain Name System
http://lists.gpick.com/pages/Domain_Name_System.htm

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Program...

TreeWalk DNS (BIND-PE) - http://www.ntcanuck.com/
(D/L - http://www.ntcanuck.com/downloads.htm)

Quote:

TreeWalk DNS is a Domain Name Server program which fetches and converts Web Site names into addresses your computer needs so that your browser, email, icq, and ftp programs can surf the Web. For Microsoft WindowsÂ® XP /2000 /.NET /2003 workstations or servers.

You need TreeWalk DNS if:

1. Accurately (resolving) Web Sites is a problem
2. In order to capture or debug DNS routing Data
3. For faster repeat visits to Sites (cached lookups)
4. You want to custom configure DNS settings and Servers
5. An Internet Service Providers (ISP) DNS Server is slow or offline

Features:

1. Updates automatically (data)
2. Runs as a Win32 service
3. Custom plugins available
4. Realtime debugging ability
5. Automatic install and setup
6. Accepts Bind9 configurations
7. DNS caching server (default)
8. Auto-installs on small LAN's
9. Control Panel (with debug options)
10. Custom plugins for 1,000 additional TLD's
11. Uninstall procedure returns original settings
12. Reduce "not found", "404", and "DNS error" messages
13. A workstation can be modified to work as a full DNS server
14. Persistent caching (optional) keeps data between sessions)
15. Program installer fits on one floppy disk (portable setup)

Or...

FastCache v1.01 -
http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/network/fc.htm

Quote:

As long as there's an Internet, everyone is going to want to do things faster. Browse the web, ping servers, download files, whatever. Every time you go to a new website, or a website you haven't been to in a day or so, your computer needs to locate the server again using DNS. Each DNS request can take anywhere from 50 milliseconds, to even a second or more, but most are in the 100 to 200 millisecond range. Want to save a couple hundred milliseconds Probably not, but what about a couple million or more That's what AnalogX FastCache is all about.
AnalogX FastCache is a caching DNS server that runs on your local machine and handles any DNS request that your computer makes, from Internet Explorer to your favorite FTP client. Once a query is made, FastCache will override the normal timeout for the item with one that you specify, so instead of saving a query for a couple of seconds, it can save it for a couple of days. Now every time you ask for it again while it's in the cache, it gives it to you instantly. You can read more about DNS, and how to configure your machine to run FastCache in this article at WebAttack.

Or...

ExtraDNS 3.0.4 - http://www.extratools.com/
** Not Free - Fully operational for 30 days

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What is ExtraDNS?

ExtraDNS accelerates your Internet connection by caching DNS requests.
Whenever you access a page on the world wide web, fetch your E-mail, request a file via FTP or
access any other resource on the Internet, your computer will have to find out the IP number that corresponds to the address of the site you want to access. Each request needs to be sent to your DNS server across your Internet link. Depending on the speed of your connection, other line activity and DNS server load it may take several seconds before a reply is being received. It is but after this reply that your application can actually start loading the requested data. When a web page is being loaded, DNS requests need to be send for each additional screen element that are part of the page (images, banners etc.).

What is ExtraDNS doing?
ExtraDNS intercepts DNS requests and stores replies in a fast indexed database. The next time
your system needs to resolve the same address, ExtraDNS instantly supplies the reply from its
database. There are no more delays when loading a Web page or accessing your mail server.
In addition, ExtraDNS overcomes the limitations of the windows operating system and can manage
up to 10 different name servers.

How does ExtraDNS work?

ExtraDNS tells your system to request DNS information from the ExtraDNS application rather
then sending requests out to the Internet.
When ExtraDNS receives a request two cases may happen:

1. The answer was found in the database

- ExtraDNS will send the requested information instantly to the application.

- Nevertheless the request will be send to the Internet DNS server.

- Once a reply is received, ExtraDNS will compare the answer with the information
in its database, and update any records if required.
This assures that the cache database is always up to date, and you will not receive
outdated information from the cache.

2. No matching entry is found in the database

- ExtraDNS will send the request to all available DNS servers that are configured.
ExtraDNS will inquire all servers simultaneously. This will result in a much faster
reply compared to the standard windows system where requests are send to the
next server only when the previous did not reply.

- Your application will receive the response from the first server to respond.

- ExtraDNS will add the information to its database.
For more information about the way ExtraDNS works, please also read the frequently asked
questions section on page 10 of this document.

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Once you've the program installed and configured, check your firewall again..
http://grc.com/port_53.htm - Click Probe This Port(Probe Port 53).

PangingJr · Jan 31, 2004, 10:40 AM

Online port lookup or D/L for offline use. - http://lists.gpick.com/portlist/lookup.asp

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In addition to the online port lookup facility ... "Dave's Port Reference is available for download as a Windows HTML Help (.chm) file. The help file is available in two formats, double page, like the web site, and single page, with the lookup at the top of the port list. I prefer the two page format so that I can do a quick port lookup without having to wait for the huge port list to load. My friend Sven wanted a single page version, so I built him one and include it here. Take your pick or get them both and decide later."

Example..

Port Lookup: 666

Type: TCP
Keyword: doom
Description: doom Id Software
Trojans: Attack FTP, lpdw0rm, Shadow Phyre, ServU, Satans Back Door - SBD, NokNok, Cain & Abel, Back Construction, BLA trojan, th3r1pp3rz (= Therippers), BackConstruction

Type: UDP
Keyword: doom
Description: doom Id Software
Trojans: Bla, Noknok

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Online look up...
The Giant Port List - http://www.keir.net/portlist.html

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PangingJr · Jan 31, 2004, 11:21 AM

We have a very good guide for how to Remove/Clean up the spywares -
Removing Spyware - By Zerodamage
http://www.hardwareheaven.com/guides/spyware/index.htm

Here's some info for you to Block or Shield it,
by using Windows Uility - Hosts file,
at first you cannot block all of them but it'll be lesser or even no more,
just have to keep the file updating.

Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts File..
Dealing with Unwanted Spyware and Parasites..
Dealing with Unwanted Pop-ups..
and more..
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm

Blocking ads on the Internet with a list of ad server hostnames and IP addresses
http://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/

PangingJr · Jan 31, 2004, 01:09 PM

Intrusion Analyser for ZoneAlarm/ZoneAlarmPRO and BlackICE Defender

VisualZone - http://www.visualizesoftware.com/
http://visualize.phenominet.com/visu...visualzone.htm
(D/L - http://visualize.phenominet.com/visu...e_download.htm)

Quote:

VisualZone does for ZoneAlarm and ZoneAlarm Pro what VisualICE does for BlackICE. Although truly one of the best software firewalls around, ZoneAlarm does an even worse job of gathering and displaying information about attacks than BlackICE.
Meet VisualZone: the end to all your questions! The information that is collected during the intrusion is complemented by all the information ZoneAlarm missed. And ZoneAlarm misses a lot! But don't worry, VisualZone finds all available information you're looking for.

VisualICE Report Utility - http://www.visualizesoftware.com/vis.../visualice.htm

Quote:

VisualICE Report Utility is an intrusion analysis tool, purpose built to be used with BlackICE Defender from Network ICE, without doubt one of the best intrusion detection systems around. But however great a product, there is always room for improvement. BlackICE does an absolute bang-up job of detecting intrusions and keeping hackers out. That's what it was built for and that's what it does, period. Yes, period! Because that's ALL it does. So what do you do if you would like to know more about what the hacker tried to do? Or who he is? Or where he's from? Or how to report him to the proper authorities?

pr0digal jenius · Apr 15, 2004, 11:18 PM

SpywareBlaster 3.1 is out (google it and its easy to find..but i think the URL is www.javacoolsoftware.com)

PangingJr · May 2, 2004, 08:06 AM

NTREGOPT v1.1b (178 KB) - Registry Optimization for Windows NT/2000/XP
http://home.t-online.de/home/lars.hederer/erunt

Quote:

Originally from the program's readme.txt

Introduction
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Similar to Windows 9x/Me, the registry files in an NT-based system
can become fragmented over time, occupying more space on your hard
disk than necessary and decreasing overall performance. You should
use the NTREGOPT utility regularly, but especially after installing
or uninstalling a program, to minimize the size of the registry files
and optimize registry access.

The program works by recreating each registry hive "from scratch",
thus removing any slack space that may be left from previously
modified or deleted keys.

Note that the program does NOT change the contents of the registry in
any way, nor does it defrag the registry files "on-disk" (as the
PageDefrag program from SysInternals does). The optimization done by
NTREGOPT is simply compacting the registry hives to the minimum size
possible.

Version history
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v1.1b
- NTREGOPT is now compatible with Windows 2003 Server and Windows XP
Service Pack 2
- Fixed a problem where the registry hives could not be optimized on
some systems

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Autoruns v4.03 (40 KB)
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/fr...autoruns.shtml

Quote:

Originally from the program's web page

Introduction

This applet shows you what programs are configured to run during system bootup or login. These programs include ones in your startup folder, Run, RunOnce, and other Registry keys. You'll probably be surprised at how many executables are launched automatically.

PangingJr · May 20, 2004, 12:33 PM

NirSoft ( http://nirsoft.cjb.net/ ) - freeware utilities - http://freehost14.websamba.com/nirsoft/utils/index.html

IconsExtract v1.30 (19 KB) - http://nirsoft.mirrorz.com/

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Description
The IconsExtract utility scans the files and folders on your computer, and extract the icons and cursors stored in EXE, DLL, OCX, CPL, and in other file types. You can save the extracted icons to ICO files (or CUR files for cursors), or copy the image of a single icon into the clipboard.

WinUpdatesList v1.00 (35 KB) - http://nirsoft.mirrorz.com/

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Description
WinUpdatesList displays the list of all Windows updates (Service Packs and Hotfixes) installed on your local computer. For hotfix updates, this utility also displays the list of files updated with these hotfixes. In addition, it allows you to instantly open the Web link in Microsoft Web site that provides more information about the selected update, uninstall an update, copy the update information to the clipboard, or save it to text/HTML/XML file.

TurnFlash v2.10 (6.6 KB) - http://nirsoft.mirrorz.com/

Quote:

Description
Many Web sites today use the Macromedia Flash component for creating animated ads. These ads consumes additional bandwidth and sometimes even slow down your computer. Unfortunately, Internet Explorer doesn't provide a simple way to disable the Flash component. Furthermore, if you refuse to install the Flash component, Internet Explorer will constantly ask you to install Flash in each time that you enter into a Web page that contains a Flash object. This utility allows you to easily disable and enable the Flash component in Internet Explorer browser (Version 5.00 and above). When you disable flash with this utility, all new windows in Internet Explorer will be opened without using the Flash component. The disabling of Flash doesn't affect the windows that are already opened. While the Flash Component is disabled, Internet Explorer will not ask you to download and install it. However, the disabling of the Flash component might cause a script error in some Web pages. Be aware that in Windows NT, 2000 and XP, this utility will not work if you don't have permission to write to the Registry keys of Internet Explorer.

IECookiesView v1.60 (42 KB) - http://nirsoft.mirrorz.com/

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Description
IECookiesView is a small utility that displays the details of all cookies that Internet Explorer stores on your computer.
In addition, It allows you to do the following actions:
Sort the cookies list by any column you want, by clicking the column header. A second click sorts the column in descending order.
Find a cookie in the list by specifying the name of the Web site.
Select and delete the unwanted cookies.
Save the cookies to a readable text file.
Copy cookie information into the clipboard.
Automatically refresh the cookies list when a Web site sends you a cookie.
Display the cookies of other users and from other computers.
Open the IECookiesView utility directly from Internet Explorer toolbar.
Change the content of a cookie !
Export your cookies to Netscape/Mozilla cookies file.
Block specific Web sites from using cookies through the cookies blocking mechanism of Internet Explorer 6.0.

grog · May 31, 2004, 05:46 AM

Cygwin:

http://www.cygwin.com/

Cygwin give Windows the ability to run GNU based applications.
Cygwin is really a full enviorment and I don't think I could live without it in Windows XP.

Best of all it is totally free.

I have over 1.3GB of GNU software loaded and running under WindowXP PRO right now.

* Want to learn C++, Perl or SED ? How about a full featured compiler (GNU) for free.
* Want to use or learn X-Windows but do not want to install Linux?
* Need to connect to another system using SSH?

Several of my test machines are running Linux with no keyboard or mouse. I connect to them using SSH and bring up 'X' though the secure connection. Real easy to do and best of all I have all the tools to do it and it did not cost a single dime.

Programming from the 'X' enviorment is very nice. Source code level debuggers are included such as DDD. Full X-Emacs and enhanced versions of VI.

Full BASH shell programming with or without 'X'.

You may run 'X' from seperate XTERM windows right from the Windows desktop or you can run full 'X' sessions including KDE and GNOME desktops (KDE and GNOME are not included with Cygwin so you have to download them as seperate items, twm is included howerver).

Most of the Linux enviorment is duplicated as much as possible. You can even do this:

$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
type : primary processor
cpu family : 15
model : 4
model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+
stepping : 8
brand id : 0
cpu count : 0
apic id : 0
cpu MHz : 2002
fpu : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clfl mmx fxsr sse sse2

$ uptime
22:11:17 up 3 days, 3:41, 0 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

You can also download GNU source programs and recompile them under Cygwin.

Many project sources can be found on http://freshmeat.net/ and http://sourceforge.net/
But will all that has been already compiled for Cygwin you may not even need to compile the programs.

We will do one quick example.

http://freshmeat.net/projects/ifstat/

About:
ifstat is a tool to report network interface bandwith just like vmstat/iostat do for other system counters. It can monitor local interfaces by polling the kernel counters, or remote hosts' interfaces using SNMP.

Sounds like a cool program so lets download it.

Download ifstat-1.1.tar.gz
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Next go to Cygwin and un-tar the image.
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$ tar zxf ifstat-1.1.tar.gz

Now lets go to the source files.
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$ cd ifstat-1.1

Now lets configure the sources for our system. Almost every GNU project does it this way.
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$ ./configure
creating cache ./config.cache
checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... yes
checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) is a cross-compiler... no
checking whether we are using GNU C... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/time.h... yes
checking whether time.h and sys/time.h may both be included... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking for ctype.h... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/param.h... yes
checking for sys/mbuf.h... no
checking for net/route.h... no
checking for net/if.h... yes
checking for net/if_var.h... no
checking for net/if_types.h... no
checking for sys/socket.h... yes
checking for sys/ioctl.h... yes
checking for sys/sockio.h... no
checking for net/soioctl.h... no
checking for sys/termios.h... yes
checking for errno.h... yes
checking for signal.h... yes
checking for stdarg.h... yes
checking for limits.h... yes
checking for fcntl.h... yes
checking return type of signal handlers... void
checking for sigaction... yes
checking for snprintf... yes
checking for proc interface in /proc/net/dev... no
checking for kstat_open... no
checking for kstat_open in -lkstat... no
checking for net/if_mib.h... no
checking for SIOCGIFDATA and ifdatareq... no
checking for SIOCGIFDATA and ifreq.ifr_data... no
checking for sys/sysctl.h... no
checking for net/if_dl.h... no
checking for sysctl... no
checking for kvm_openfiles... no
checking for kvm_openfiles in -lkvm... no
checking for nlist.h... no
checking for sys/dlpi.h... no
checking for sys/dlpi_ext.h... no
checking for stropts.h... no
checking for sys/mib.h... no
checking for dlpi streams interface... no
checking for win32 GetIfTable interface... yes
checking for net-snmp-config... no
checking for net-snmp/net-snmp-config.h... no
checking for ucd-snmp/ucd-snmp-config.h... no
updating cache ./config.cache
creating ./config.status
creating Makefile
creating config.h

No problems so lets compile it.
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$ make
gcc -I. -g -O2 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -c ifstat.c -o ifstat.o
gcc -I. -g -O2 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -c drivers.c -o drivers.o
gcc -I. -g -O2 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -c data.c -o data.o
gcc ifstat.o drivers.o data.o -liphlpapi -o ifstat

Now we can install it.
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$ make install
/usr/bin/install -c -d -m 755 /usr/local/bin
/usr/bin/install -c -s -m 755 ifstat /usr/local/bin/ifstat
/usr/bin/install -c -d -m 755 /usr/local/man/man1
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ifstat.1 /usr/local/man/man1/ifstat.1

Now we can find out all about our new utility by doing a man on the name.
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$ man ifstat

Lets try our new utility. Since this is a network status tool lets get some network activity going 1st.
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$ ifstat -tTb
Time 3Com Gigabit LOM (3C940) - Packet Scheduler Miniport Nortel IPSECSHM Adapter - Packet Scheduler Miniport Total
HH:MM:SS Kbps in Kbps out Kbps in Kbps out Kbps in Kbps out
22:35:59 1325.20 38.23 0.00 0.00 1325.20 38.23
22:36:00 1313.93 37.62 0.00 0.00 1313.93 37.62
22:36:01 1326.52 38.88 0.00 0.00 1326.52 38.88
22:36:02 1267.09 42.58 0.00 0.00 1267.09 42.58
22:36:03 942.63 35.16 0.00 0.00 942.63 35.16
22:36:04 1326.52 38.88 0.00 0.00 1326.52 38.88
22:36:05 1313.57 37.62 0.00 0.00 1313.57 37.62
22:36:06 1315.24 37.89 0.00 0.00 1315.24 37.89
22:36:07 1326.16 39.67 0.00 0.00 1326.16 39.67
22:36:08 1323.88 38.28 0.00 0.00 1323.88 38.28
22:36:09 1311.91 37.77 0.00 0.00 1311.91 37.77
22:36:10 1324.84 38.84 0.00 0.00 1324.84 38.84
22:36:11 1314.53 37.57 0.00 0.00 1314.53 37.57

Well we have added one utility by compiling an open source project and running under WindowsXP PRO.
The neat thing is this same program will also run under Linux as well. You can create programs that will run under both OS's this way yourself.

I know, you want to do windows GUI programs. You can do that to.

I will create a simple program for you to see how easy this is.

$ cat hello.c
#include <windows.h>
int STDCALL
WinMain (HINSTANCE hInst, HINSTANCE hPrev, LPSTR lpCmd, int nShow)
{
MessageBox (NULL, "Hello, Windows!", "Hello", MB_OK);
return 0;
}

$ gcc hello.c -o hello

$ ./hello

We should see a hello dialog on the screen.

Oh, you can also Pascal and Fortran. There are also projects like CSharp for doing C# work and even .net is supported.

Hope that is enough information to give you an idea what Cygwin is about.
BTW: Cygwin is a RedHat project in case you wondered.

Greg

grog · May 31, 2004, 05:51 AM

Next pick.

Microsoft Visual C++ Toolkit 2003

http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/vctoolkit2003/

* Microsoft C/C++ Optimizing Compiler and Linker. These are the same compiler and linker that ship with Visual Studio .NET 2003 Professional!
* C Runtime Library and the C++ Standard Library, including the Standard Template Library. These are the same static-link libraries included with Visual Studio.
* Microsoft .NET Framework Common Language Runtime. Visual C++ can optionally build applications that target the Common Language Runtime (CLR).
* Sample code. The toolkit includes four samples designed to showcase the powerful new features of the 2003 version, including new optimization capabilities, features to improve code-security and robustness, enhanced ISO C++ standards support, and the ability to use the .NET Framework library and target the CLR.

And best of all its free!
Yes you can use the latest Microsoft C compiler and tools to build .net programs.
No Visual Studio but full compiler and libs.

Greg

grog · May 31, 2004, 06:03 AM

Next pick.

Microsoft DirectX 9.0 SDK

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...st/directx.asp

Want to program in DirectX then the SDK is the answer. Best of all its free.

Check the requirments before downloading this one.

Includes a lot of great samples to get you started.

Greg

PangingJr · Jun 4, 2004, 10:32 AM

xp_emegencyutil.exe - http://www.dougknox.com/ (Windows XP Utilities)

Quote:

This small VB 6 utility will create a usable backup copy of Taskmgr.exe, MSConfig.exe and Regedit.EXE in a new folder, called C:\EmergencyUtils. The new copies will be named Taskmgr1.exe, MSConfig1.exe and Regedit.com.

These programs are extremely helpful, and usually necessary in helping to rid your computer of a viral infection. Many virus programs will intercept these programs, based on their original file name, and prevent them from running. The alternate copies will not encounter this problem. Simply navigate to the C:\EmergencyUtils folder and double click the file you need to run.

To use: Download the xp_emergencyutil.zip file and save it to your hard drive. Double-click the xp_emergencyutil.zip file and extract xp_emergencyutil.exe to your hard disk. To run the EXE just double click it, there is no installer. You will have the option of running the programs automatically, after the copies are created.

Operating Systems: WindowsÂ® XP and WindowsÂ® Server 2003 only. Requires VB 6 Runtime Libraries, included in WindowsÂ® XP.

PangingJr · Sep 1, 2004, 02:46 PM

Useful utilities but not free.

UserMonitor 1.6 - http://www.neuber.com/usermonitor/index.html
(15 computer license $49 )

Quote:

supervise student computer control network clients

This classroom and computer lab software is perfect for teachers, instructors or administrators.

Monitoring
UserMonitor shows you what the other network computer users see on their display screen. All used programs are also listed (with path detail) in real time. Including History function. Teachers can get a warning message when a student uses a unauthorized software.

Demonstration
UserMonitor is brilliant for the lesson as well as trainings at the computer! Instructors can transfer their display screen to all pupil computers screens or blank student screens to demonstrate something.

Helping
You can write messages to any computers in the network or close unwanted programs.

Security Task Manager 1.6 - http://www.neuber.com/taskmanager/index.html
(Single user license $29 )

Quote:

Security Task Manager displays detailed information about all running processes (applications, DLL's, BHO's and services).
For each process, it improves on Windows' Task Manager, providing:
file name and directory path
security risk rating
description
start time
CPU usage graph
embedded hidden functions
e.g. keyboard monitoring, browser supervision or manipulation
process type
e.g. visible window, systray program, DLL, IE-plugin, service

The Security Task Manager recognizes also virtual driver software, services, BHO and other processes hidden from the Windows task manager.

SpyProtector
With the full version, you also receive this additional software for protecting your computer and Internet privacy:
prevents keyboard and mouse monitoring
and stops keylogger or other hacker tools
warns when registry is changed
and protects you from Trojans that surreptitiously add an autostart key
eliminates the traces of your internet activity
e.g. cookies, cache, history, typed URLs and temporary files
eliminates the traces of your work on computer
e.g. recent used file list of programs (Word, ACDSee, PDF, WinZip, Media player)

HawgsHead · Sep 16, 2004, 02:44 PM

Best de-fragger I have EVER seen!!!It defrags the 4 HD's on my Alienware machine in about 45 scconds.The 1st time you defrag it will take 2-3 minutes or so.Then click the"Set it and Forget it" mode and forget about it.It will defrag whenever the screen saver kicks in,or any time of day you choose.....Sorry,I ment to put this in the :"Useful Utilities" column.

Vampyromaniac · Sep 16, 2004, 06:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by HawgsHead

Sorry,I ment to put this in the :"Useful Utilities" column.

merged for you

Shinjikun · Sep 16, 2004, 06:54 PM

I don't know if this app was mentioned in this thread all ready but I use this small freeware app called Disk Cleaner. It basically automates cleaning certain folders or preset caches on your hard drive and is very usefull. You can write your own 'plug-ins' and customize what it cleans. Small and helpfull.

Disk Cleaner

nitolbot · Sep 19, 2004, 09:20 AM

Astonshell.
Its probably the most robust desktop enhancer I came acroos. You can d/l one of the many themes other ppl created modify them as much as you want or create one of your own from scratch.

SphereXP
A small pr0g which turns your desktop into a virtual 3d sphere. Not really THAT useful but has a fun novelty value & think every1 should check it out atleast once.

Ati Tool. But im assuming every1 who has rad.s here use Omega drivers so ya guys should already have it

PangingJr · Oct 25, 2004, 10:08 PM

InstallWatch / InstallRite
http://www.epsilonsquared.com/

InstallWatch ( http://www.epsilonsquared.com/installwatch.htm )
records modifications made to your PC during the installation of software, hardware, or configuration changes.

InstallRite ( http://www.epsilonsquared.com/installrite.htm )
(which includes all the features of InstallWatch) provides "application cloning" as opposed to "disk cloning", simplifying software distribution.

Louie6666 · Oct 26, 2004, 07:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ctrl-Alt-Del

InstallWatch / InstallRite
http://www.epsilonsquared.com/

InstallWatch ( http://www.epsilonsquared.com/installwatch.htm )
records modifications made to your PC during the installation of software, hardware, or configuration changes.

InstallRite ( http://www.epsilonsquared.com/installrite.htm )
(which includes all the features of InstallWatch) provides "application cloning" as opposed to "disk cloning", simplifying software distribution.

Hmm I really wanted to give these ago..but it seems there dns2go account is suspended...oh well will try locating them elsewhere....They sound reaaly useful

PangingJr · Oct 26, 2004, 07:46 PM

Hmm, the links are working fine from my end just now..

Louie6666 · Oct 26, 2004, 08:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ctrl-Alt-Del

Hmm, the links are working fine from my end just now..

lol yep its fine my end now...too which is nice

Callandor · Nov 13, 2004, 12:16 PM

Shutdown machine V1.0

http://www.download.com/Shutdown-Mac...-10138258.html

Quote:

[COLOR=Red]Software Publisher's Description[/COLOR]

Ever wanted to shut down your computer when your not around? Shutdown Machine is a timer that shuts down your computer at a time you choose. You can select the time with the date and time picker or by setting the amount of seconds to wait directly. Shutdown Machine is simple and completely free.

Advanced WMA workshop V2.01

http://www.litexmedia.com/?from_WMAWorkshop

Quote:

Powerful audio converter with easy-to-use interface and lots of useful features. Now you are able to convert WAV, OGG, WMA, MP3 from one format to another with only one program! Built-in powerful and fast CD ripper can rip your CDs in all popular audio formats. With suppot of WMA 9 you receive all WMA 9 features like CBR, VBR, loseless and two-pass encoding. Another nice feature - full ID3v2 tag support helps you never to loose your track information.

^You'll find a hell 'o lot of other useful media utilities there, like Fast CD Ripper 1.7, All To WMA Converter 1.77 and Acoustica MP3 CD Burner 3.01.

RadLight SE 3.03 (bloody good for playing vids, quality is just amazing!!!

)

http://www.download.com/RadLight-SE/...ml?tag=lst-0-2

Quote:

[COLOR=Red]Software Publisher's Description[/COLOR]

RadLight is your ticket to entertainment! RadLight is an application developed to offer you blazing fast and high quality playback of DivX and other multimedia content. A brand new version of RadLight is filled with tons of new exciting features. Introducing advanced streaming technology that enables you to preview music or video prior downloading, screenshots and bookmarks capability, remote controllers support or favorite folders feature this version gives you the best multimedia experience ever. Features include: advanced streaming technology; AC-3 sound support; blazing fast video playback; playback of DivX, AVI, OGG, ASF, MPEG, WMV, MOV, MP3, WAV and other; screenshots capability; bookmarks; favorite folders; video profiles; stunning OSD menu; multilanguage audio support; support for 18 subtitle formats; pan scan scan; customizable aspect ratios; vertical and horizontal stretch; vertical and horizontal offset; WinLirc remote control. Known third-party applications bundled with this download include New.Net and the Save!

Editor's note: This download includes adware. Adware may record your surfing habits, deliver advertising, collect private information, or modify your system settings. Pay close attention to the end user license agreement and installation options. For more information on adware and spyware, please visit our Spyware Center.

Send To Toys 2.1 (very flippin useful, I can't live without it!, 100% yay, 0% nay votes on site!!! I'm lovin' it!!!

)

http://www.download.com/Send-To-Toys...ml?tag=lst-0-1

Quote:

From the developer: "Send To Toys is an enhancement of the Send To system menu. 'Add to Send To menu' and 'Remove from Send To menu' allow you to personalize the Send To system menu for drives, folders, and programs. Send To 'Clipboard (as name)' copies the name of the file or files to the clipboard (hold down the CTRL key to change the settings for this extension). Send To 'Command Prompt' opens a DOS console window, setting the current directory to the selected folder. If the selection is a file, the folder containing the file will be the active directory and the name of the file will be typed for you at the prompt.
"Send To 'Favorites' adds a shortcut to your Favorites list (hold down the CTRL key for the 'Add Favorite' dialog). Send To 'Folder...' sends a file or files to another folder, you will be shown a dialog box that lets you choose where the files should be copied (to move the files press and hold down the SHIFT key). Send To 'Run...' sends a file or files to the Run command dialog."

Neh neh oh neh neh, oh neh neh, man I just love the apps above

I deeply appologise if any one of the apps. above has been posted already, but I read the entire thread, and I didn't see any of them. May have missed one all the same!

PS: Wonderfull job you're doing here on DH Ctrl-Alt-Del, you make me feel like pressing those keys right now for now flippin reason man!!!

OldBuzzard · Nov 13, 2004, 12:52 PM

LogiGamer for the MX series meeses. If you have an MX mouse and game this is almost a must have. It's good for non-gaming applications.

Get it here: http://www.logigamer.com/

Callandor · Nov 14, 2004, 02:43 PM

Blind Write 5 - Get it >>here<< --------> (not free)
================================

Quote:

-Brand new easy to use interface featuring one-click style
-Supports graphic themes allowing you to customize the look and feel
-New reading and writing engine supporting both CDs and DVDs
-Works with most hardware, hightly optimized for the finest CD/DVD writers
-Supports a large number of formats: BlindWrite 4.x (.BWT), CloneCD (.CCD), Iso images (.ISO), Cuesheet/Binary (.CUE/.BIN), Alcohol (.MDS)
-Multi-language support (English, French, German, plus others)
-Voice notifications for program events
-Extended log information for easy technical support
-Compatible with Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/2003

Screenshots>>>

================================

I've found that Alchohol is really good for backin up CDs, however, I suggest Blind Write if you're new to the art of backing discs up as Alcohol can be a little technical at times.
Blind Write is also very powerful, however, and can be used in ways that even Stephen Hawking probably wouldn't even know about. I must say, I esp. like the pcouffin plugin that it comes with, much better than the standard Windows one anyday.

Randy P · Nov 29, 2004, 12:09 AM

I was wondering what you guys consdier to be great/good/crappy software for the pc. I had Norton System Works, but this weekend it all died and errors galore...too many to get into now. The Symantec guys said it was a common problem with a complicated solution.

Anyway, I thought Speeddisk, Windoctor (fixes common Windows errors) and one button checkup were all wonderful.

Do you gentlemen know of any programs like this....I am personally boycotting norton from here on out. So any other similar products which have similar programs like the above mentioned would be greatly appreciated.

By the way I switched to McAphe Antivirus.

pr0digal jenius · Nov 29, 2004, 01:27 AM

TweakXP is great for tweakign your windows settings, and as far as virus protection, I use a firewall, not an AV program(I use blackice)

for spyware, I use Spybot 1.3, Spywareblaster 3.2, and Adaware SE

Oct 10, 2003, 10:15 PM	#92
krazy1 Live from the Dungeon Join Date: May 2003 Location: Between the SubWoofers Posts: 1,395 Rep Power: 0	Automate V5 Do you do the same sequence everytime you start your PC?? Turn on the PC, Log in, Start your e-mail, turn on the audio player, browse to your favorite website.... Well with Automate just turn on your PC, log in and walk away and all the above will be done for you. This app has literaly TONS of options. I have it set at work so when I log in it automatically logs me into my e-mail prog and then starts my audio player and starts the music. It is a fun and cool prog to use. I even set it up so that when I hit alt+D it takes my browser right to Driver Heaven. __________________

Oct 15, 2003, 01:43 AM	#93
GUNNIX DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 157 Rep Power: 0	www.gpure.tk is my site with the freeware I consider most useful. From that list I definately recommend : -Rampage to manage and free up ram (a must in win9x) -F-Prot DOS , Antivirus , I love how small and useful it is. It's blazing fast - Foxmail , I love the free mail program , it's very secure and easy to use -Qtracker , to browse the gameservers and streaming music servers -Mplayer , I love that Mediaplayer , it doesn't require any codecs to be installed. Works with most videofiles. -Burnatonce -.... I lov all those apps The not freeware program that I really recommend as well is http://www.astonshell.com , it makes windows so much easier __________________ XP 2200+TB ,Radeon 9100(290/290) ,256mb DDR 266mhz,... stripped an tweaked (lite98pro and HyperOS) Win98se using Aston shell

May 31, 2004, 05:46 AM	#103
grog Roxy Music Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 623 Rep Power: 64 System Specs	Cygwin: http://www.cygwin.com/ Cygwin give Windows the ability to run GNU based applications. Cygwin is really a full enviorment and I don't think I could live without it in Windows XP. Best of all it is totally free. I have over 1.3GB of GNU software loaded and running under WindowXP PRO right now. * Want to learn C++, Perl or SED ? How about a full featured compiler (GNU) for free. * Want to use or learn X-Windows but do not want to install Linux? * Need to connect to another system using SSH? Several of my test machines are running Linux with no keyboard or mouse. I connect to them using SSH and bring up 'X' though the secure connection. Real easy to do and best of all I have all the tools to do it and it did not cost a single dime. Programming from the 'X' enviorment is very nice. Source code level debuggers are included such as DDD. Full X-Emacs and enhanced versions of VI. Full BASH shell programming with or without 'X'. You may run 'X' from seperate XTERM windows right from the Windows desktop or you can run full 'X' sessions including KDE and GNOME desktops (KDE and GNOME are not included with Cygwin so you have to download them as seperate items, twm is included howerver). Most of the Linux enviorment is duplicated as much as possible. You can even do this: $ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD type : primary processor cpu family : 15 model : 4 model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ stepping : 8 brand id : 0 cpu count : 0 apic id : 0 cpu MHz : 2002 fpu : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clfl mmx fxsr sse sse2 $ uptime 22:11:17 up 3 days, 3:41, 0 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 You can also download GNU source programs and recompile them under Cygwin. Many project sources can be found on http://freshmeat.net/ and http://sourceforge.net/ But will all that has been already compiled for Cygwin you may not even need to compile the programs. We will do one quick example. http://freshmeat.net/projects/ifstat/ About: ifstat is a tool to report network interface bandwith just like vmstat/iostat do for other system counters. It can monitor local interfaces by polling the kernel counters, or remote hosts' interfaces using SNMP. Sounds like a cool program so lets download it. Download ifstat-1.1.tar.gz ---------------------------------- Next go to Cygwin and un-tar the image. ---------------------------------------------------- $ tar zxf ifstat-1.1.tar.gz Now lets go to the source files. ---------------------------------------- $ cd ifstat-1.1 Now lets configure the sources for our system. Almost every GNU project does it this way. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ $ ./configure creating cache ./config.cache checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking for gcc... gcc checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... yes checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) is a cross-compiler... no checking whether we are using GNU C... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for ranlib... ranlib checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking for sys/time.h... yes checking whether time.h and sys/time.h may both be included... yes checking for unistd.h... yes checking for ctype.h... yes checking for sys/types.h... yes checking for sys/param.h... yes checking for sys/mbuf.h... no checking for net/route.h... no checking for net/if.h... yes checking for net/if_var.h... no checking for net/if_types.h... no checking for sys/socket.h... yes checking for sys/ioctl.h... yes checking for sys/sockio.h... no checking for net/soioctl.h... no checking for sys/termios.h... yes checking for errno.h... yes checking for signal.h... yes checking for stdarg.h... yes checking for limits.h... yes checking for fcntl.h... yes checking return type of signal handlers... void checking for sigaction... yes checking for snprintf... yes checking for proc interface in /proc/net/dev... no checking for kstat_open... no checking for kstat_open in -lkstat... no checking for net/if_mib.h... no checking for SIOCGIFDATA and ifdatareq... no checking for SIOCGIFDATA and ifreq.ifr_data... no checking for sys/sysctl.h... no checking for net/if_dl.h... no checking for sysctl... no checking for kvm_openfiles... no checking for kvm_openfiles in -lkvm... no checking for nlist.h... no checking for sys/dlpi.h... no checking for sys/dlpi_ext.h... no checking for stropts.h... no checking for sys/mib.h... no checking for dlpi streams interface... no checking for win32 GetIfTable interface... yes checking for net-snmp-config... no checking for net-snmp/net-snmp-config.h... no checking for ucd-snmp/ucd-snmp-config.h... no updating cache ./config.cache creating ./config.status creating Makefile creating config.h No problems so lets compile it. --------------------------------------- $ make gcc -I. -g -O2 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -c ifstat.c -o ifstat.o gcc -I. -g -O2 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -c drivers.c -o drivers.o gcc -I. -g -O2 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -c data.c -o data.o gcc ifstat.o drivers.o data.o -liphlpapi -o ifstat Now we can install it. --------------------------- $ make install /usr/bin/install -c -d -m 755 /usr/local/bin /usr/bin/install -c -s -m 755 ifstat /usr/local/bin/ifstat /usr/bin/install -c -d -m 755 /usr/local/man/man1 /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ifstat.1 /usr/local/man/man1/ifstat.1 Now we can find out all about our new utility by doing a man on the name. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- $ man ifstat Lets try our new utility. Since this is a network status tool lets get some network activity going 1st. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- $ ifstat -tTb Time 3Com Gigabit LOM (3C940) - Packet Scheduler Miniport Nortel IPSECSHM Adapter - Packet Scheduler Miniport Total HH:MM:SS Kbps in Kbps out Kbps in Kbps out Kbps in Kbps out 22:35:59 1325.20 38.23 0.00 0.00 1325.20 38.23 22:36:00 1313.93 37.62 0.00 0.00 1313.93 37.62 22:36:01 1326.52 38.88 0.00 0.00 1326.52 38.88 22:36:02 1267.09 42.58 0.00 0.00 1267.09 42.58 22:36:03 942.63 35.16 0.00 0.00 942.63 35.16 22:36:04 1326.52 38.88 0.00 0.00 1326.52 38.88 22:36:05 1313.57 37.62 0.00 0.00 1313.57 37.62 22:36:06 1315.24 37.89 0.00 0.00 1315.24 37.89 22:36:07 1326.16 39.67 0.00 0.00 1326.16 39.67 22:36:08 1323.88 38.28 0.00 0.00 1323.88 38.28 22:36:09 1311.91 37.77 0.00 0.00 1311.91 37.77 22:36:10 1324.84 38.84 0.00 0.00 1324.84 38.84 22:36:11 1314.53 37.57 0.00 0.00 1314.53 37.57 Well we have added one utility by compiling an open source project and running under WindowsXP PRO. The neat thing is this same program will also run under Linux as well. You can create programs that will run under both OS's this way yourself. I know, you want to do windows GUI programs. You can do that to. I will create a simple program for you to see how easy this is. $ cat hello.c #include <windows.h> int STDCALL WinMain (HINSTANCE hInst, HINSTANCE hPrev, LPSTR lpCmd, int nShow) { MessageBox (NULL, "Hello, Windows!", "Hello", MB_OK); return 0; } $ gcc hello.c -o hello $ ./hello We should see a hello dialog on the screen. Oh, you can also Pascal and Fortran. There are also projects like CSharp for doing C# work and even .net is supported. Hope that is enough information to give you an idea what Cygwin is about. BTW: Cygwin is a RedHat project in case you wondered. Greg __________________ Dell UltraSharp 2405FPW 24" LCD Philips 47" 1080p 47pfl7422d/37 LCD ASUS M3A32-MVP Deluxe/WiFi BIOS 1406, AMD Phenom 9600 Agena 2.3GHz, G.SKILL 8GB(4 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 (PC2 6400) ASUS EAH4850 TOP/HTDI/512M PCI Express 2.0 Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Elite Pro Sound Card, 1TB Hard Disk storage Thermaltake Tai-Chi VB5001SNA Black/ Silver Computer Case with liquid cooling AeroCool GateWatch-SV Silver GateWatch with LCD display, PC Power & Cooling 510 SLI-PFC 510W APC Back-UPS XS 1000 UPS, 1000 VA, 600 Watts Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate SP1 64-bit VM's (Fedora, RHEL4..etc) Klipsch ProMedia Ultra 5.1

May 31, 2004, 05:51 AM	#104
grog Roxy Music Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 623 Rep Power: 64 System Specs	Next pick. Microsoft Visual C++ Toolkit 2003 http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/vctoolkit2003/ * Microsoft C/C++ Optimizing Compiler and Linker. These are the same compiler and linker that ship with Visual Studio .NET 2003 Professional! * C Runtime Library and the C++ Standard Library, including the Standard Template Library. These are the same static-link libraries included with Visual Studio. * Microsoft .NET Framework Common Language Runtime. Visual C++ can optionally build applications that target the Common Language Runtime (CLR). * Sample code. The toolkit includes four samples designed to showcase the powerful new features of the 2003 version, including new optimization capabilities, features to improve code-security and robustness, enhanced ISO C++ standards support, and the ability to use the .NET Framework library and target the CLR. And best of all its free! Yes you can use the latest Microsoft C compiler and tools to build .net programs. No Visual Studio but full compiler and libs. Greg __________________ Dell UltraSharp 2405FPW 24" LCD Philips 47" 1080p 47pfl7422d/37 LCD ASUS M3A32-MVP Deluxe/WiFi BIOS 1406, AMD Phenom 9600 Agena 2.3GHz, G.SKILL 8GB(4 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 (PC2 6400) ASUS EAH4850 TOP/HTDI/512M PCI Express 2.0 Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Elite Pro Sound Card, 1TB Hard Disk storage Thermaltake Tai-Chi VB5001SNA Black/ Silver Computer Case with liquid cooling AeroCool GateWatch-SV Silver GateWatch with LCD display, PC Power & Cooling 510 SLI-PFC 510W APC Back-UPS XS 1000 UPS, 1000 VA, 600 Watts Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate SP1 64-bit VM's (Fedora, RHEL4..etc) Klipsch ProMedia Ultra 5.1

May 31, 2004, 06:03 AM	#105
grog Roxy Music Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 623 Rep Power: 64 System Specs	Next pick. Microsoft DirectX 9.0 SDK http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...st/directx.asp Want to program in DirectX then the SDK is the answer. Best of all its free. Check the requirments before downloading this one. Includes a lot of great samples to get you started. Greg __________________ Dell UltraSharp 2405FPW 24" LCD Philips 47" 1080p 47pfl7422d/37 LCD ASUS M3A32-MVP Deluxe/WiFi BIOS 1406, AMD Phenom 9600 Agena 2.3GHz, G.SKILL 8GB(4 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 (PC2 6400) ASUS EAH4850 TOP/HTDI/512M PCI Express 2.0 Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Elite Pro Sound Card, 1TB Hard Disk storage Thermaltake Tai-Chi VB5001SNA Black/ Silver Computer Case with liquid cooling AeroCool GateWatch-SV Silver GateWatch with LCD display, PC Power & Cooling 510 SLI-PFC 510W APC Back-UPS XS 1000 UPS, 1000 VA, 600 Watts Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate SP1 64-bit VM's (Fedora, RHEL4..etc) Klipsch ProMedia Ultra 5.1

Jan 6, 2004, 12:21 PM	#95
PangingJr Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 5,989 Rep Power: 69	------------------- AllHelp.bat (Batch file) - Create a (HTML) help file for "all" NT 4/2000/XP commands (see the file in text - http://www.robvanderwoude.com/files/allhelp.txt) (D/L a ready to use - http://www.robvanderwoude.com/files/allhelp.zip) -------------------

Jan 31, 2004, 11:21 AM	#98
PangingJr Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 5,989 Rep Power: 69	We have a very good guide for how to Remove/Clean up the spywares - Removing Spyware - By Zerodamage http://www.hardwareheaven.com/guides/spyware/index.htm Here's some info for you to Block or Shield it, by using Windows Uility - Hosts file, at first you cannot block all of them but it'll be lesser or even no more, just have to keep the file updating. Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts File.. Dealing with Unwanted Spyware and Parasites.. Dealing with Unwanted Pop-ups.. and more.. http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm Blocking ads on the Internet with a list of ad server hostnames and IP addresses http://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/

Apr 15, 2004, 11:18 PM	#100
pr0digal jenius Delete Me Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 14,648 Rep Power: 0	SpywareBlaster 3.1 is out (google it and its easy to find..but i think the URL is www.javacoolsoftware.com)

Sep 16, 2004, 02:44 PM	#108
HawgsHead Rest In Peace Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Danville Virginia.The United States of America"In the God of Abraham,Isaac and Jacob We Trust" Posts: 2,012 Rep Power: 0	Executive Software Disckeeper Pro...... Best de-fragger I have EVER seen!!!It defrags the 4 HD's on my Alienware machine in about 45 scconds.The 1st time you defrag it will take 2-3 minutes or so.Then click the"Set it and Forget it" mode and forget about it.It will defrag whenever the screen saver kicks in,or any time of day you choose.....Sorry,I ment to put this in the :"Useful Utilities" column. __________________ Rig specs to the left in the boxes....X-Box 360 w/Hitachi 42" HDTV....If Darwins theory of evolution is true then why are monkeys still monkeys?It takes much more faith to believe in Darwin's theory over the Genesis account of creation.

Sep 16, 2004, 06:54 PM	#110
Shinjikun 第3 子供 Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Nerv HQ Posts: 1,319 Rep Power: 0	I don't know if this app was mentioned in this thread all ready but I use this small freeware app called Disk Cleaner. It basically automates cleaning certain folders or preset caches on your hard drive and is very usefull. You can write your own 'plug-ins' and customize what it cleans. Small and helpfull. Disk Cleaner __________________ Xfire: [Shinji1225 \ Status] A7N8X-E Deluxe Athlon XP 2500+ (@ 2.2 GHz 11x200 MHz FSB) Corsair TwinX XMS 1GB PC3200 Dual Channel (2-2-3-5) [color=red]ATi [/color][color=white]Radeon 9500 Pro (@ 330\310) \ [/color][color=white]Omega Catalyst Drivers v2.5.90[/color] [color=white]Ultra X-Connect 500W PSU[/color]

Sep 19, 2004, 09:20 AM	#111
nitolbot DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 8 Rep Power: 0	Astonshell. Its probably the most robust desktop enhancer I came acroos. You can d/l one of the many themes other ppl created modify them as much as you want or create one of your own from scratch. SphereXP A small pr0g which turns your desktop into a virtual 3d sphere. Not really THAT useful but has a fun novelty value & think every1 should check it out atleast once. Ati Tool. But im assuming every1 who has rad.s here use Omega drivers so ya guys should already have it

Oct 25, 2004, 10:08 PM	#112
PangingJr Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 5,989 Rep Power: 69	InstallWatch / InstallRite http://www.epsilonsquared.com/ InstallWatch ( http://www.epsilonsquared.com/installwatch.htm ) records modifications made to your PC during the installation of software, hardware, or configuration changes. InstallRite ( http://www.epsilonsquared.com/installrite.htm ) (which includes all the features of InstallWatch) provides "application cloning" as opposed to "disk cloning", simplifying software distribution.

Oct 26, 2004, 07:46 PM	#114
PangingJr Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 5,989 Rep Power: 69	Hmm, the links are working fine from my end just now..

Nov 13, 2004, 12:52 PM	#117
OldBuzzard DH's oldest Geek Join Date: May 2003 Location: Oberlin, OH Posts: 2,781 Rep Power: 141 System Specs	LogiGamer for the MX series meeses. If you have an MX mouse and game this is almost a must have. It's good for non-gaming applications. Get it here: http://www.logigamer.com/ __________________ When looking for a reason as to why things go wrong, never rule out sheer STUPIDITY

Nov 29, 2004, 12:09 AM	#119
Randy P HardwareHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Canada Posts: 476 Rep Power: 48 System Specs	Great Utilities I was wondering what you guys consdier to be great/good/crappy software for the pc. I had Norton System Works, but this weekend it all died and errors galore...too many to get into now. The Symantec guys said it was a common problem with a complicated solution. Anyway, I thought Speeddisk, Windoctor (fixes common Windows errors) and one button checkup were all wonderful. Do you gentlemen know of any programs like this....I am personally boycotting norton from here on out. So any other similar products which have similar programs like the above mentioned would be greatly appreciated. By the way I switched to McAphe Antivirus.

Nov 29, 2004, 01:27 AM	#120
pr0digal jenius Delete Me Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 14,648 Rep Power: 0	TweakXP is great for tweakign your windows settings, and as far as virus protection, I use a firewall, not an AV program(I use blackice) for spyware, I use Spybot 1.3, Spywareblaster 3.2, and Adaware SE