Monitor System Temperature, Fan Speed and Voltages from inside Windows
This is a great little free utility called Hwmonitor that allows you to view the health sensors in your system (Temperature/Fan Speed/Voltage) from within Windows
SVCHost – What are they all doing (SVCHost Viewer)
It can be really annoying when you look in task manager and see a few processes are SVCHost.
What are they all doing?
Well this is a handy utility called SVCHost Viewer which gives a detailed display on what exactly all those SVCHost processes are doing
Online Reference Library £/€/$
Safari books online is like having your own technical reference library available 24 hours a day 7 days a week.
You are not only able to view books and video’s online but also download chapters via pdf download and get discounts off the print version of the books.
To see a demo of Safari books online click the link below
To sign up, starting with a ten day free trial click the link below
The main Safari web page can be found here
Costs
There are two different types of subscription
Safari Bookshelf
This allows you to access ten titles per month
£11.99/€14.99/$22.99
Safari Library
This allows you unlimited access to the books
£22.10/€27.99/$42.99
Boottimer – Check the boot time of your pc
Nice little utility that will, after your pc has rebooted, display how many seconds it took to boot.
Autoruns – Find out what runs at startup
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Autoruns is a great program from Sysinternals (Now Microsoft) which displays what programs run at startup. Very useful
Windows Services
What do the individual windows services actually do?
Which ones can I safely disable?
This site is superb and covers everything you need to know (covers Windows 2000/XP/Vista)
Online Scanner for portable device usage on your pc or network
Handy on-line utility to shows what portable devices have been connected or are connected to your pc or pc’s on your network
Magical Jellybean Keyfinder
Find your installation serial number for Microsoft Software
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