{"id":2534,"date":"2009-01-12T18:34:02","date_gmt":"2009-01-13T01:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/?p=2534"},"modified":"2013-04-23T11:24:27","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T18:24:27","slug":"lee-recommends-computer-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2009\/01\/12\/lee-recommends-computer-programs\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee Recommends Computer Programs"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve written about this before<\/a>. Here is the latest installment…<\/p>\n

Astra32<\/a> – \u00a0comprehensive information about the configuration of your system…. to help you get rid of driver problems for Windows<\/p>\n

Open PLS in WMP<\/a>: This lets you listen to streaming audio like SomaFM<\/a> in Windows Media Player<\/div>\n

Combined Community Codec Pack<\/a>: This lets Windows Media Player play pretty much any video format including DVDs. You install it and it JUST WORKS :-)<\/p>\n

HOW TO – Put DVDs on the iPhone – the super simple way<\/a>. Use Handbrake<\/a><\/p>\n

How to archive your DVD collection. Use DVD Decrypter v 3.5.4.0 by Lightning UK! (find it at your favorite warez site) The author’s original site doesn’t work anymore<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Sysinternals File and Disk Utilities<\/a>: \u00a0These tools are great! I’ve only listed the first couple categories of tools here. There are more, check it out.<\/p>\n

When you are logged onto a computer via VNC, it can be hard to tell if the hard drive is busy since you can’t hear it remotely. Run DiskMon and you can see it!<\/p>\n

Here’s the full list of disk tools:<\/p>\n

AccessChk: This tool shows you the accesses the user or group you specify has to files, Registry keys or Windows services.<\/p>\n

AccessEnum: This simple yet powerful security tool shows you who has what access to directories, files and Registry keys on your systems. Use it to find holes in your permissions.<\/p>\n

CacheSet: CacheSet is a program that allows you to control the Cache Manager’s working set size using functions provided by NT. It’s compatible with all versions of NT.<\/p>\n

Contig: Wish you could quickly defragment your frequently used files? Use Contig to optimize individual files, or to create new files that are contiguous.<\/p>\n

DiskExt: Display volume disk-mappings.<\/p>\n

DiskMon: This utility captures all hard disk activity or acts like a software disk activity light in your system tray.<\/p>\n

DiskView: Graphical disk sector utility.<\/p>\n

Disk Usage (DU): View disk usage by directory.<\/p>\n

EFSDump: View information for encrypted files.<\/p>\n

FileMon: This monitoring tool lets you see all file system activity in real-time.<\/p>\n

Junction: Create Win2K NTFS symbolic links.<\/p>\n

LDMDump: Dump the contents of the Logical Disk Manager”s on-disk database, which describes the partitioning of Windows 2000 Dynamic disks.<\/p>\n

MoveFile: Schedule file rename and delete commands for the next reboot. This can be useful for cleaning stubborn or in-use malware files.<\/p>\n

NTFSInfo: Use NTFSInfo to see detailed information about NTFS volumes, including the size and location of the Master File Table (MFT) and MFT-zone, as well as the sizes of the NTFS meta-data files.<\/p>\n

PageDefrag: Defragment your paging files and Registry hives!<\/p>\n

PendMoves: See what files are scheduled for delete or rename the next time the system boots.<\/p>\n

Process Monitor: Monitor file system, Registry, process, thread and DLL activity in real-time.<\/p>\n

PsFile: See what files are opened remotely.<\/p>\n

PsTools: The PsTools suite includes command-line utilities for listing the processes running on local or remote computers, running processes remotely, rebooting computers, dumping event logs, and more.<\/p>\n

SDelete: Securely overwrite your sensitive files and cleanse your free space of previously deleted files using this DoD-compliant secure delete program.<\/p>\n

ShareEnum: Scan file shares on your network and view their security settings to close security holes.<\/p>\n

Sigcheck: Dump file version information and verify that images on your system are digitally signed.<\/p>\n

Streams: Reveal NTFS alternate streams.<\/p>\n

Sync: Flush cached data to disk.<\/p>\n

VolumeID Set Volume ID of FAT or NTFS drives.<\/p>\n

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Here are the network tools on Sysinternals<\/p>\n

AD Explorer: Active Directory Explorer is an advanced Active Directory (AD) viewer and editor.<\/p>\n

AD Insight: AD Insight is an LDAP (Light-weight Directory Access Protocol) real-time monitoring tool aimed at troubleshooting Active Directory client applications.<\/p>\n

AdRestore: Undelete Server 2003 Active Directory objects.<\/p>\n

PsFile: See what files are opened remotely.<\/p>\n

PsTools: The PsTools suite includes command-line utilities for listing the processes running on local or remote computers, running processes remotely, rebooting computers, dumping event logs, and more.<\/p>\n

ShareEnum: Scan file shares on your network and view their security settings to close security holes.<\/p>\n

TCPView: Active socket command-line viewer.<\/p>\n

Whois: See who owns an Internet address.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve written about this before. Here is the latest installment… Astra32 – \u00a0comprehensive information about the configuration of your system…. to help you get rid of driver problems for Windows Open PLS in WMP: This lets you listen to streaming audio like SomaFM in Windows Media Player Combined Community Codec Pack: This lets Windows Media […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery","category-product-recommendations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2535,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2534\/revisions\/2535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}