COMPUTER MONITORS

API Monitor

Monitors and displays API calls made by applications. It's a powerful tool for seeing how Windows and other applications work or tracking down problems that you have in your own applications.
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BatteryLog

Software tool for tracking your laptop's battery consumption.
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BIOS-Info

Displays the chipset, manufacturer and model number of your motherboard. This information is vital If you want to upgrade your BIOS, if you make the wrong BIOS upgrade your system could stop booting.
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Chip

A benchmark utility written in assembly language. It measures several aspects of your CPU. Because this program doesn't use Intel-optimized codes, the results are very interesting, see the true power of a CPU.
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Disk Analyzer

Utility that allows you to analyze hard disk space. Easy and fast, with just a few clicks of your mouse you can make analysis of the selected drive or directory.
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DriveSpaceChek

Sits on your desktop and shows you how much space is used/free on your hard drives. Press the associated button to get a more detailed summary. Will report network drives and removable media. Supports FAT32 drives.
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Fibonacci

Utility for DOS performance benchmarking.
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Filemon

Displays all file system activity on a system. Filtering and search capabilities for exploring the way windows works, seeing how applications use the files and DLLs, or tracking down problems in system or application configurations.
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FreeMeter

Very good program for monitoring computer system performance. The things that can be monitored include: disk space use, cpu utilization, memory use, page file use, network traffic, disk transfer rates, and running processes.
FreeMeter

Hardware Monitor

Program for monitoring temperatures, voltages and fan speeds on motherboards with LM78 and winbond W83781D hardware monitoring chips.
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i-Bench

A comprehensive, cross-platform benchmark that tests the performance and capability of web clients (any combination of hardware and software to retrieve content from the web). From a mac with a T1 connection to a wireless handheld device to a pc laptop running linux to web tv.
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ListDLLs

Lists the DLLs that are currently loaded, including where they are loaded and their version numbers.
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MBProbe

MBProbe is a program which monitors voltages, temperatures and fan speeds using hardware monitoring chip(s) available on many modern motherboards.
MBProbe

Memory View

Views the entire contents of the 640K conventional memory. Not for the inexperienced.
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ModemHelp Diagnostic

Utility that identifies the modems installed in a computer. It collects configuration information about the modem, tapi, dun, web browser, and installed printer drivers. Rather than performing any actual diagnostics, the program appears to retrieve information from the registry. Easy to use and displays a great deal of information that could be helpful in the diagnosis and resolution of support problems.
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Portmon

Utility that monitors and displays all serial and parallel port activity on a system. It has advanced filtering and search capabilities that make it a powerful tool for exploring the way windows works, seeing how applications use ports, or tracking down problems in system or application configurations.
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PrcView

Process viewer utility that displays detailed information about processes running under Windows. For each process it displays memory, threads and module usage. For each DLL it shows full path and version information. PrcView comes with a command line version that allows you to write scripts to check if a process is running, kill it, etc.
PrcView

Process Monitor

An advanced monitoring tool that shows real-time file system, registry and process/thread activity.
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Sandra Lite

One of the better system analyzer/diagnostic/reporting assistant tools. It provides more information than some commercial diagnostic shareware. Sandra Lite is the freeware version.
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ShowFreeSpace

Shows you how much free disk space you have on hard drives.
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StartupMonitor

A small utility that runs transparently (it doesn't even use a tray icon) and notifies you when any program registers itself to run at system startup. It allows you to stop useless programs from running every time you start your computer.
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Stats

Utility that collects disk statistics, including file types, file ages, age distribution, and file size distribution. Works over multiple disk drives. All graphs are 3D. Turn boring disk space statistics into animated 3D graphs.
Stats

Treesize

Tells you what is on your hard drive. Tells you the size of a folder, including all sub-folders. You can expand this folder and you will see the size of your sub-folders.
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WCPUID

Good program that will tell you almost everything you want to know about your cpu. Shows internal/external clock, multiplier, cache info, agp info, etcetera.
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Windows Memory Diagnostic

Tests the random access memory (RAM) on your computer for errors. If you are experiencing problems with a computer, this will let you know if there are problems with the RAM or the memory system of your motherboard.
Windows Memory Diagnostic