Disk Thruput Tester (DiskTT) is a benchmarking tool analyzing the throughput of any disk. This is important because your actual disk performance is determined, not only by the speed of your hard drive as measured by most disk benchmarks, but also by the main board chipset, AHCI/UDMA/PIO mode, RAID configuration, CPU speed, RAM size, and the quality of drivers.
The program measures sequential read/write and random access speeds in megabytes/sec. You can set the size of the test file, the folder on the target disk to which test data will be written, cache settings, etc. Existing data on the target disk is not affected.
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Runs on: | Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP |
Writes settings to: | None |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: | Download DiskTT.exe to a folder of your choice and launch. |
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Changes up to v2.10 release 16 - Changed: get true free RAM on x64 systems. - New: added the read/write mode to the random access test. The random read/write test alternates between read and write after each seek, so 5% of the file is randomly read and another 5% is randomly altered. - Changed: increased the possible block size up to 100MB (99999KB); expect a write error on XP and older when using a >64MB blocksize. Changes up to v2.02 release 15 - Reduced the number of random reads to 10%. - Fixed freeze of progress bar updates and resulting 'program not responding' messages under Vista/7.Changes up to v2.02 release 15 - Reduced the number of random reads to 10%. - Fixed freeze of progress bar updates and resulting 'program not responding' messages under Vista/7. - Set programs priority to 'high' as an effort to minimize reported differences between measurements (if effective at all). |
H2testw allows you to test storage devices for one of a variety of possible defects or errors. It is particularly useful for detecting mislabeled / fake flash memory devices, looking at the actual versus reported capacity.
Note that the author recommends backing up the content on the device before running H2testw.
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Runs on: | Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 |
Writes settings to: | None |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: | Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch h2testw.exe. |
Similar/alternative apps: | USB Memory Stick Tester |
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Ionut
on 2011-03-29 10:12
good program!
NickR
on 2015-04-06 17:36
@moronoxyd I agree
Cereal_Nommer
on 2018-06-28 12:59
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@moronoxyd @NickR |
Disk Investigator displays the true drive contents by bypassing the operating system and directly reading the raw drive sectors. You can view and search raw directories, files, clusters, and system sectors, verify the effectiveness of file and disk wiping programs, and undelete previously deleted files.
Functional on 64-bit systems.
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Runs on: | WinXP / Vista / Win7 |
Writes settings to: | Windows registry but given the nature of the application, I think it can be accepted as portable. |
Dependencies: | Administrator rights |
Stealth: ? | No. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\SolwaySoftware\DiskInvestigator |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: |
Alternatively, uniextract the installer. |
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Visual Subst allows you to associate the most accessed directories with virtual drives. It uses the same API like the console subst utility, but makes it easier to create and remove virtual drives with a friendly user interface. Visual Subst can also restore the virtual drives at startup.
NOTE: Program became shareware, linking to Softpedia for the last freeware version.
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Runs on: | Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: | Download the ZIP package and extract a folder of your choice. Launch VSubst.exe. |
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Ayatar
on 2023-01-28 16:41
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Works on Windows Server 2019. Used it to map to Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, and OneDrive. Had to download old versions of Box and OneDrive to make it work, but that is not the fault of Visual Subt, it was a limitation with Server 2019. |
AutoStart creates an icon in the system tray for each external memory device connected to the system. Right-clicking on this icon opens a context menu that allows you to conveniently perform various related functions (explore, search, eject, properties).
Left-clicking opens the drive in Explorer by default but the default application can be specified in the "shell" parameter of AUTORUN.INF. AutoStart also comes with a rudimentary launcher that is functional if you have a small number of applications stored on your memory stick.
Note: Main download site is offline, download link pointing to Softpedia.
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Runs on: | Win2K / WinXP |
Writes settings to: | None |
Unicode support: | No |
License: | Freeware/Open Source |
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Ryan McCue
on 2006-11-30 01:35
I wouldn't call the the launcher "rudimentary". It works great and I actually find it better than other menus.
Sugeng Wigiyantoro
on 2008-02-15 20:57
I like to try and download free software. In this site i can take many free software. Thank you...
Midas
on 2014-03-18 16:18
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Still available from Softpedia. Tested, works as expected. Shame about the lack of Unicode support, but still extremely handy. |
Stream Explorer is a utility that reveals file streams within NTFS filesystems. It will show you the number, type, size and content of streams for each file or folder selected.
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Runs on: | WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 |
Writes settings to: | None |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
Unicode support: | No |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: | Download the installer and extract to a folder of your choice. The application files are located in the {app} subfolder. Launch StreamExplorer.exe. |
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Andrew Lee
on 2021-02-08 04:20
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Website is offline. I have redirected the website to Internet Archive, and download to freewarefiles.com. |
vSubst helps assign virtual drive letters to any folder on your hard disk. It is a graphical interface for the SUBST command. The limitations are:
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Runs on: | Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 |
Writes settings to: | None |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: | Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch vSubst.exe. |
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Rodders_Dublin
on 2009-08-02 13:51
vSubst is handy little gadget.
Ernesto
on 2009-08-03 00:01
I am amazed that this programme has come hre this late, I have been HAPPILY using it for years!
Jack
on 2009-08-12 13:36
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You can also share a folder and permanently map a drive to that share. This way your driveletter survives reboots. |
Simplified Virtual Floppy Drive (VFD) mounts image files (*.img) as new browseable computer resources. View, edit, rename, delete, create, or launch files on a virtual floppy as well as format.
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Runs on: | WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 |
Writes settings to: | None |
Dependencies: | Administrator rights |
Stealth: ? | No |
Path portability: | Automatic relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc) |
License: | Freeware/Open Source |
How to extract: | Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch vfdwin.exe. |
Drive Manager enables drive identification/information, hiding drive letters, and substituting drive letters for folders. For drive identification, it displays vendor information so that multiple CD/DVD drives and removable drives (such as USB memory drives) can be differentiated by their vendor and product ID.
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Runs on: | Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 |
Writes settings to: | None |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: | Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch DriveMan.exe. |
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si
on 2009-02-10 12:31
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Great, just the job for finding out the serial number of my USB stick - it works, clean and simple. |
HDD Health monitors hard disks from the system tray using various S.M.A.R.T sensors (Self Monitoring and Reporting Technology), alerting you of impending failure via email, pop-up messages, net messages or event logging.
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Runs on: | Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Dependencies: | Administrator rights |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
License: | Freeware |
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Similar/alternative apps: | Crystal Disk Info |
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appsuser
on 2012-03-06 13:10
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The website says this is compatible only up to XP, the README file says it's compatible up to Vista. When I tried it on my Win 7 Ultimate 64-bit computer, it didn't display any of my hard drives in the main window and only two hard drives under the partition tab. It's probably not 64-bit compatible. (v3.3 Beta) |