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TweakHound's Super XP Tweaking Guide

 

Make your own free Tweaking Toolbox

Put the programs you like from this list into it's own folder in the Start Menu. (Right click on Start > choose Explore and Explore All User > create a folder named "Tweaks" in whichever one on the 2 folders you want the new menu item in > move the folders you want into that folder)

This is a collection of some of the best  freeware available. If you've got a suggestion for this page, contact me.

* Denotes my favorites.

Tweakers

System Info

Hardware Tweaking

Internet/Network

*X-Setup - Tweaker, for Power Users.

Download:

Old free version

New “Pro” version, not free.

 

TweakUI - Microsoft's own tweaker.

 

 

*SIW – Excellent system into tool.

 

SANDRA Lite 2005.SR2 – Info, download

 

Everest – System info tool.

 

WCPUID - Displays the CPU information of your personal computer. Shows Frequency, Multiplier, Chipset Info. etc ...

Rage3dTweak - ATI video card tweaker.

 

NVTweak – Nvidia video card tweaker.

 

 

Zone Alarm – firewall

 

*TCP Optimizer – Internet/network tweaker.

 

Dr. TCP - Internet/network tweaker.

 

SpyBot S&D - Spyware finder

 

Ad-aware - Spyware finder

 

System Cleaners & Utilities

Other Good Stuff

*CCleaner – System cleaner. Changed it’s name from Crap Cleaner to the more politically correct one. I liked the old name better!

 

CleanCache – System cleaner.

 

*Driver Cleaner - Removes ATI and nVidia files (among others)that uninstall missed.

 

PageDefrag - Defrags Page file and Registry hives.

 

Firefox - Free, feature-rich browser with built-in pop-up blocker. Said to be more secure than IE.

 

Thunderbird - Free, feature-rich email program. Said to be more secure than Outlook Express.

 

IZArc - Excellent archive utility (for ,zip files etc.). 

 

*SyncToy – Excellent backup tool from Microsoft, "helps you copy, move, rename, and delete files between folders and computers."

 

 

 

 

 

 Cool Web Sites 

*Warp2Search*

[H]ardOCP

Dailyrotation

Freshnews.org

FreewareFiles

 


 

 
 Software I Use 

 

 

I use True Image 11.0

for all my OS backups and Disk Director 10.0 for all my partitioning and dual-boot requirements.

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