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Device Remover is the Best Windows Device Manager Alternative

T.J. Mininday — Fri, 15 May 2009 16:42:00 +0000

One of the many built-in Windows system tools that still lacks in many ways, is the Windows Device Manager. Getting to the deep down details of the hardware installed on your system can be annoying via the default Windows method. I’ve previously seen many alternatives to other utilities within Windows, but none in particular for the Device Manager. That’s why Device Remover caught me off guard, and I was pleasantly surprised.

Device Remover is an incredibly in depth Windows Device Manager alternative that gives you many more features than the one built-in. Easy removal, driver views, troubleshooting and mass editing of multiple devices makes this easily one of the best of it’s kind out there. The best part of it is that it appears to be compatible with every version of Windows, XP and beyond, including Windows 7.

It’d be a great utility to have on a small or large network for quick troubleshooting of hardware devices on a Windows PC.

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Analyze Windows DMP Files / Crash Dumps with WhoCrashed

T.J. Mininday — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 03:18:27 +0000

Windows troubleshooting can be a serious pain. Booting into safe mode, normal mode, msconfig, registry edits, bad hardware, on and on and on. Sometimes it rolls into a huge continuous loop with no sight of an end. This is especially true when it comes to the Blue Screen of Death (BSOD). A quick flash of a blue screen with nothing more then unreadable code, typically in relation to a hardware driver.

WhoCrashed from Respendence Software analyzes the DMP file created during a Windows crash dump and displays in a nice easy-to-read format, which makes troubleshooting much easier.

It displays each of the hardware drivers that are crashing your system so that you can remove one-by-one each of these problem child PC parts. This makes life easier for administrators.

WhoCrashed requires the Windows Debugging tool which will be installed with it, if it isn’t already present.

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TrueCrypt is the Easiest way to Encrypt Your Hard Drive

T.J. Mininday — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 02:02:04 +0000

Keeping your data safe from the outside can prove difficult these days. There are already so many tools out there that can easily bypass the Windows administrator password. And with that your files are immediately open to the entire world to browse and peruse.There a few options out there to protect yourself against these types of offenses, but none quite as easy as TrueCrypt.

TrueCrypt creates a virtual hard drive on your PC for you to store confidential data for no other to look at without the encrypted pass phrase. It’s all done on the fly and automatically, without any user intervention.

The virtual drive can be buried deep within your system away from anyone even being able to identify between random data and the virtual encrypted disk. It’s truly an amazing product if you are specifically worried about keeping your data safe away from a laptop thief.

Other features include:

Encryption of an entire drive such as flash or any other drive.
Two levels of “Plausible Deniability”.
Unidentifiable volumes. Drives cannot be distinguished from random data.
Encryption algorithms include: AES-256, Serpent, and Twofish.

Check it out, it’s the easiest, quickest and cheapest encryption solution out on the web today.

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