If you use Sysinternals you will probably be interested in WSCC, Windows Service Control Center, which is a frontend for Sysinternal and Nirsoft Utilities, that includes everything in one bucket. It sure makes it easy to keep all those utilities updated.
http://www.portablefreeware.com/?id=1666
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that sure looks like spam.
But some of the harmonics tell me not to pull the trigger on it...
But some of the harmonics tell me not to pull the trigger on it...
This link may give you more information and not look so suspicious, if that's what you are referring to???
http://www.kls-soft.com/wscc/index.php
http://www.kls-soft.com/wscc/index.php
Take a look at that "Hi" reply up there, you'll see what I was talking about. Don't follow that URL, though.
Gotcha! Since the URL was below a divider line I assumed it was part of his signature and pressed right on by.
WSCC!!!
I'm shocked at the lack of response to the large number of excellent tools available from these authors. WSCC puts the icing on the cake by putting the tools at your fingertips and providing a little button that will upgrade ALL of them.
wattayawant???
WSCC!!!
I'm shocked at the lack of response to the large number of excellent tools available from these authors. WSCC puts the icing on the cake by putting the tools at your fingertips and providing a little button that will upgrade ALL of them.
wattayawant???
WSCC is great. I have been using Nirsoft utilities for years. It's safe, with all my respect. Nevertheless it may be blacklisted by antivirus/-spyware/-malware. These are false positives, if only you don't think that keeping a password recovery program or any hacking tool on your system poses a threat by itself.
Hey, does anyone know of a utility that will tell me who owns an open COM port?
This stupid program let loose a host of password viruses. Whoever posted this as a good all-in-one program is wrong?
some of the links posted by members here lead to sites that have a poor reputation according to Web-Of-Trust. But then, amateurs probably don't need to be getting involved with some of those powerful utilities, so they rate the site as bad; when it is just misuse by the user that is the problem?
jesuskid1, I'm sorry I missed your cry! May I suggest that you watch this video from YouTube....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb4qJ5Za6zY
My point, when you fall in a vat of choclate don't yell fire? Your post titled WSCC and complaining of viruses would have received attention much faster had it been titled "VIRUS Alert".
I could have rapidly responded that the virus alerts you received were all "false positives" and were no cause for alarm.
In my case I get an alarm on "Netpass" from Avast whenever I download the app. To prevent the whistle from blowing and scaring hell out of me, before I download or upgrade WSCC, I go to the icon for Avast in Systray, right-click to get the context menu, and "Disable for 10 mins" so Avast won't ring the bell. Problem solved! I use Avast... you may use a different A/V app so the procedure may be different? In any case, the survival rate for "false positives" is roughly 100%. YMMV
My point, when you fall in a vat of choclate don't yell fire? Your post titled WSCC and complaining of viruses would have received attention much faster had it been titled "VIRUS Alert".
I could have rapidly responded that the virus alerts you received were all "false positives" and were no cause for alarm.
In my case I get an alarm on "Netpass" from Avast whenever I download the app. To prevent the whistle from blowing and scaring hell out of me, before I download or upgrade WSCC, I go to the icon for Avast in Systray, right-click to get the context menu, and "Disable for 10 mins" so Avast won't ring the bell. Problem solved! I use Avast... you may use a different A/V app so the procedure may be different? In any case, the survival rate for "false positives" is roughly 100%. YMMV
most of my false positives come from AdAware now. But then, I like it too. If I'm using pen-testing utilities I simply let it quarantine upon scan, so the malware can't use the file against me! Then I let it out to use it once more.
Shame I don't see here the first SysInternals tool I ever installed (soon after it was created): Ctrl2Cap. If you care about typing efficiently for many years, you'll get rid of the CapsLock key and move the Ctrl key up. It's just about the simplest SysInternals tool, but it was very important for me.
Au contrare, my friend, it is still included with Sysinternals. Did you download sysinternals, nirsoft utils and wscc? They are all available from the page I posted above.
also
> Process Monitor
for watching registry, disk IO, etc. events
if you want to see just how busy a system is
start Process Monitor and enable the Auto Scroll item (Ctrl+A)
> Process Monitor
for watching registry, disk IO, etc. events
if you want to see just how busy a system is
start Process Monitor and enable the Auto Scroll item (Ctrl+A)
I would like it better if the links actually WORKED. Both links led to page 3364.
http://www.kls-soft.com/wscc/index.php
contains all three links for WSCC, Sysinternals and Nirsoft utils. I just checked in IE and Chrome and it works fine in both!
"WSCC uses the included WSCC Console to execute command line applications.
WSCC is portable, installation is not required. Extract the content of the downloaded zip archive to any directory on your computer.
WSCC Portable Edition is designed for use on the PortableApps.com Platform.
WSCC U3 Edition is designed for use on the U3 smart drives and integrates itself into the U3 launchpad.
This edition of WSCC supports the following utility suites:
Windows Sysinternals Suite (including support for Sysinternals Live service)
NirSoft Utilities
Windows Sysinternals Suite download and Licensing FAQ website.
NirSoft Utilities download website.
WSCC - Windows System Control Center download.
Windows Sysinternals is property of Microsoft Corporation.
NirSoft Utilities is property of Nir Sofer."
contains all three links for WSCC, Sysinternals and Nirsoft utils. I just checked in IE and Chrome and it works fine in both!
"WSCC uses the included WSCC Console to execute command line applications.
WSCC is portable, installation is not required. Extract the content of the downloaded zip archive to any directory on your computer.
WSCC Portable Edition is designed for use on the PortableApps.com Platform.
WSCC U3 Edition is designed for use on the U3 smart drives and integrates itself into the U3 launchpad.
This edition of WSCC supports the following utility suites:
Windows Sysinternals Suite (including support for Sysinternals Live service)
NirSoft Utilities
Windows Sysinternals Suite download and Licensing FAQ website.
NirSoft Utilities download website.
WSCC - Windows System Control Center download.
Windows Sysinternals is property of Microsoft Corporation.
NirSoft Utilities is property of Nir Sofer."
Of the top 10, I'd say Autoruns is an absolute must. Besides tracking down Malware, it's also a great way of temporarily speeding up a computer to work on, especially on a computer running Vista with just 1GB of RAM as you can temporarily disable all the main processes, e.g. the 'Run', 'Task Scheduler', 'Browser helper objects' entries and so on and reboot the computer so there is little running. Once finished, then re-enable them all or even gradually to find out which start-up processes have the most impact on resources/performance.
One utility I'm surprised didn't get a mention is TCPView. This highlights TCP connections being made, dropped and which are established by which processes. If you notice a lot of Internet/network activity from a computer, this will quickly reveal the culprit.
One utility I'm surprised didn't get a mention is TCPView. This highlights TCP connections being made, dropped and which are established by which processes. If you notice a lot of Internet/network activity from a computer, this will quickly reveal the culprit.
Agreed, tcpview is very handy for that. My Top 2 which are not listed are PSEXEC and PROCMON
Bash has all these tools built-in. So why aren't these useful apps integrated into the OS or better yet a command-line installer for ease with official repositories like yum or apt? It's 5am. I'm asking too much and haven't slept a wink. I'm flooooooaaaating in dream land which exists nowhere and yet somewhere much like a cloud. But is it beautiful a nimbus cloud or high flying stratus cloud. Or worse! A dark cumulo-nimbus pregnant with potential rain? I'm sorry. It's now 5:03am and not a wink of sleep yet. ROFL!!
a mix of Valerin, melatonin with theanine, and benadryl. I sleep like a baby for at least 7 hours!
Of course - if you're tripping - I digress!
Of course - if you're tripping - I digress!
Filemon, Regmon, and TCPView are great tools from the SysInternals folks.
love this.
a tantalizing but possibly dangerous use: can i contig the $Logfile or the $MFT files?
HYH
a tantalizing but possibly dangerous use: can i contig the $Logfile or the $MFT files?
HYH
The PSTools referenced here (and others) have come in very handy. FYI, there's also a front end GUI available (called 'fepstools') that makes using the tools even easier. Of course, it's also easier to accidentally reek havoc because it stores your last command, so be cautious when using it. Don't want to reboot someone's PC, then accidentally reboot a server at another time because you forgot to switch commands. Not that I've done that personally or anything......
Download PSTools, then look for 'fepstools' (can be found by Googling.)
Download PSTools, then look for 'fepstools' (can be found by Googling.)
Pagedefrag! And it sure seems like Windows 7/64 bit could use it too.
An awesome list, in addition to these, I use Hirens Boots CD 12.0. http://www.hirensbootcd.org/download.html?start=8 Saved me lots of trouble on a number of occassions
As others have already stated, one should not tread the murky waters of the web without Autoruns firmly entrenched into your bag of tools.
One of its best features, and one not mentioned in this thread is the Compare feature. It's a rare day indeed I forget to create a baseline compare save following a new pc reload. It's hard to fool a quality pre-web-connect log of data such as Autoruns provides.
One of its best features, and one not mentioned in this thread is the Compare feature. It's a rare day indeed I forget to create a baseline compare save following a new pc reload. It's hard to fool a quality pre-web-connect log of data such as Autoruns provides.
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