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General Software Discussion / Best Free Software - PC Mag

« on: March 28, 2009, 05:35 PM »

For those interested in PC Mag's take on good free software, see: PC Mag Review

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Post New Requests Here / IDEA: File lister

« on: November 02, 2007, 12:46 AM »

I know that this is fairly trivial - boring even - but let me explain the purpose.  With a list of files on the hard drive, you can discover RootKits.  First, run the lister under your normal boot O/S.  Then boot to a C/D or key drive and run it again.  RootKits stealth their files so that they are not seen by normal scans by AV programs, but that means that they do not show up on a normal file list.  But, if the same list is created using an O/S that is not infected from a CD or key drive, the files will be on that list.  Ideally, the list would be in the form Drive:\Directory\\FileName.Ext and the list would be saved as a text file.  In a perfect world, the utility would have the ability to compare the lists and generate a difference list.  I seem to have picked up a fairly mean rootkit somewhere - it has crashed IceSword and prevented the new Comodo Firewall from completely installing.  I have also had trouble running Sysinternals' Autoruns, so I will have to do this in a fairly elementary fashion.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Paragon Hard Disk Manager 8 Free! (exp Nov 4)

« on: October 27, 2007, 05:03 PM »

Go to: http://www.computera....uk/hdmanager8/index
Ignore the first line and click on "Click here to register your product".  Then download the file (23 Mb on disk).  This is an older version but a great deal for the price.  It also can be built into UBCD4WIN with a supplied plug-in.

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Found Deals and Discounts / GiveAwayoftheDay

« on: October 03, 2007, 05:06 PM »

StarBurn - a CD/DVD burning suite that includes Blu-ray and HD-DVD and a number of authoring and copying tools is today's GAOTD.  It looks pretty good from the quick perusal of the reviews, and you can always uninstall it - it doesn't cost anything if you don't like it.
http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/starburn

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Post New Requests Here / Idea: Multiple Start menus

« on: July 29, 2007, 04:16 PM »

Finding stuff on the start menu is a pain, especially for people with a couple of pages of stuff.  I thought that if you could access several start menus with say Ctrl+Winkey, Shift+Winkey, Alt+Winkey, you could have different types of software organized into easily scanned groupings - preferably with the programs starting by pressing a hotkey - say the first letter of the name of the program, or a definable letter in the name of the program.  Windows98 used to have the option of using the "&" in the name of the program to define the hotkey of your choice to launch a program.  I know that this competes with FARR, but I find that I don't always remember the name of the program that I want to run, so a browsable menu suits me better.  It also appeals to the neat freak in me.