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Speccy v1.32.740

billon on 10 Oct 2019
  • 15MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 21 May 2018
  • Suggested by guinness

Speccy is an advanced System Information tool for your PC including processor brand and model, hard drive size and speed, amount of memory (RAM), graphics card, operating system details and even system temperatures.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: Administrator rights
Stealth: ? No. HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\Root\LEGACY_CPUZ140
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract:
  1. Download the installer and extract Speccy.exe or Speccy64.exe (for 64-bit OS), and optionally Lang directory to a folder of your choice
  2. Create a blank text file in the same folder, paste the following:

    #PORTABLE#

    and save it as portable.dat
  3. Launch Speccy.exe or Speccy64.exe
Similar/alternative apps: HWiNFO
What's new? See:
https://www.ccleaner.com/news/release-announcements
Latest comments
snibsnib on 2015-01-24 02:49

The current filesize is noted as 15KB, it should be closer to 14.3MB uncompressed

webfork on 2015-01-24 19:48

snibsnib: thanks, verified and updated entry

Checker on 2015-01-24 20:19

@ snibsnib: Sorry for my typo ... and corrected ;)

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ErrorMsg v1.3

webfork on 29 Mar 2018
  • 61KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 23 Sep 2010
  • Suggested by guinness

ErrorMsg lets you quickly look up Windows error codes, providing a more human explanation. The program is ideal for developers who work in a Windows environment and need insight into system issues.

NOTE: Site offline, linking to archive.org mirror.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: None
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch ErrorMsg.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: Error Lookup, Windows Error Lookup Tool
What's new?
  • Added version info to .exe file.
  • Recompiled to remove msvcr100.dll dependency.
  • Pressing F1 now shows "About" Box.
Latest comments
fang-face on 2018-03-28 15:51

website not available any more.

MIKLO on 2018-03-29 11:28

I was able to go to website with no trouble :) I'm curious if this ErrorMsg software will work in terms of telling what the problem is.
MIKLO

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HDDScan v4.0

lwc on 7 Aug 2021
  • 8MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 3 Dec 2017
  • Suggested by AlephX

HDDScan is a feature-rich disk diagnostics tool with a variety of low-level tools. It supports IDE/SATA/SCSI hard disk drives, RAID arrays, SSD drives, external USB/Firewire hard disks, flash cards and can scan the surface, view SMART attributes, adjust AAM, APM (Power Management), monitor temperature etc.

Note the program shouldn’t be run from a read-only device/media.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: Avoid starting program from read-only device such as a CD or write-protected flash device.
Stealth: ? Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch HDDScan.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: PassMark DiskCheckup, CrystalDiskInfo
What's new?
  • New Look.
  • Windows 8-10 support.
  • Multiple bugfixes.
Latest comments
Ruby on 2010-12-10 06:56

@hugh_h You can try GMER http://www.gmer.net/ Scroll to the downloads there's also and mbr and userland rootkit detector.

nunz on 2013-06-16 22:30

Latest official link:
http://hddscan.com/download/HDDScan-3.3.zip

Non malicious web site according to virus total (checked with 38 site checkers)
Non malicious files according to virus total. Clam claims it could be a PUA but only because it performs low level analysis of a hard drive (which of course is its role in life).
My company, virusbusters, has used this program for over four years now with no issues. It has passed every antivirus scan of our systems and we run hundreds of them
The file is a zip file and opens in 7-zip and using windows XP compressed file explorer.

webfork on 2016-01-12 22:43

This program worked beautifully in testing an old external hard drive that was behaving strangely. Instead of relegating it to a secondary backup drive, it now looks to have plenty of life left.

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BatteryCat v1.5

__philippe on 20 Sep 2017
  • 7MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 28 Jul 2017
  • Suggested by joby_toss

BatteryCat is able to display all relevant information about the battery of your laptop and has one outstanding feature: you can save the current health state of the laptop's battery and thus monitor the long term development (degradation) of the battery.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
License: GPL v2
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch start_batterycat.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: BatteryInfoView
What's new? See:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/batterycat/files/windows_portable/

PCI-Z v2.0

billon on 4 Jan 2019
  • 2MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 17 Jul 2017
  • Suggested by bbanelli

PCI-Z is designed for detecting unknown hardware on your Windows based PC. It will help you determine vendor, device and certain details about device even if you don't have drivers installed. Software uses The PCI ID Repository, a public repository of all known ID's used in PCI devices: ID's of vendors, devices, subsystems and device classes. It is used in various programs (e.g. The PCI Utilities) to display full human-readable names instead of cryptic numeric codes.

You can find drivers for your operating system without a problem! Find drivers for your WiFi cards, audio cards, network cards or any other PCI peripheral.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: None
Stealth: ? Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package according to your system and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch PCI-Z.exe.

Optionally, update PCI ID database to the latest snapshot.
Similar/alternative apps: Unknown Devices
What's new?
  • Significant code changes and speedups, improved pci.ids database handling.
  • Support for online verification!
  • Verbose PCI device status.
  • Various other code improvements.