TightVnc is remote administrator for windows and linux. Also there is clone form Mac osX – OSXvnc. TightVnc developed on VNC base and is opensource freeware soft. Whenever I need to connect to my personal home pc from work, I user TightVNC:
I was using Radmin before, but is it shareware and functionality very similair to TightVNC. Good thing, that this vnc is crossplatform. So you can connect from windows to linux pc and so on.
You can download TightVNC here
HINT: If you need to send “Ctrl+Alt+Del” to remote windows desktop, press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Del.
FREEping is one of theese little programs, which do that. Its freeware Windows GUI based ping with popup alerting and statistics.
Thats what authors say about FREEping:
- 100% Freeware
- Used by thousands of network administrators
- Small footprint, 1 executable file and 1 text-based configuration file
- Automatically gathers statistics while active
- Ping as many TCP/IP addresses as you want
- Popup alerts
My first impression was quite good, because I had to check ~50 IP’S are they dead or alive. So I downloaded, installed, formed .ini file with the list and watched action.
Everything was fine, I found dead hosts (or they were blocking ping).
So, this program is small, customisable, free, no trash in registry, uses standart .ini file (easy to form big list).
You can download it here: FREEping
Main tool which I use to get rid of parasites in Windows (such as spyware, viruses, toolbars and other annoying ActiveX) is HijackThis or HJT. It shows potentialy dangerous registry records, startup items and so on. But be careful – it also shows good items, eg. flashget plugin for IE, windows updates, all startup items. So you need to know what each record or app do. When I’m in doubt, I look at exe, dll files’ properties and if there is no description, search filename in google. And some forums such as http://www.merijn.org/
If you dont know how to use HJT – read tutorial and be very carefull, do registry backups!
You can download HijackThis here Official HJT page
And if you have no VB runtime libraries you can download them here VB runtime libraries download
UPDATE: accidently found this page. Great hijackThis log analyzer. Usefull for hjt begginers.
If you ever needed to save lots of pages of website, you know, that best solution for that is offline browsing soft. Web grabbers or whatever theyre named :)
They crawls through links in that site and downloads html’s, images and other stuf (depends on options mostly). I tried Teleport-Pro, its fast and simple, but its shareware, so I needed to find free alternative. And this program is called HTTrack.
Its fast, free (GPL), easy-to-use, opensource offline browser utility. It has lots of options and also simple wizard. It fits and beginners’ and proffesionals’ needs. There are Windows and *nix like system versions. So I recommend you to use this app.
When starting some apps in Windows 95 you get error: A required .DLL file, WS2_32.DLL, was not found. It caused because of old windows socket libraries. To update to winsock2 just download Windows Socket 2 Update from http://www.microsoft.com/windows95/downloads/.
After this update, I noticed, that copy/paste or drag/drop from explorer was disabled. That was old pain form me, because at my work there are still some pc’s with windows 95 who had this problem. But seemes, that after Microsoft DUN 1.3 and Winsock2 Year 2000 Update everything was fixed.
