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Service Tuner Service Tuner is a utility that lets users tweak the start-up state of the background services using presets. It is also capable of saving the current start-up state of all services, as well as restoring that saved state at a later ... time. Lastly, users have the options to start/stop, uninstall, and change their start-up state on the fly through a customizable tab. http://www.hiren.info Smart NTFS Recovery Smart NTFS Recovery is a data recovery tool for the Windows operating system that supports the NTFS file system. The software easily recovers data from hard disks and any type ... (view more)

Ventrilo Ventrilo is a "next-gen" step in Voice over IP (VoIP) group communications software. By offering surround sound positioning and special sound effects, the program provides the option to fully customize how the user wishes others to hear ... sounds during a VoIP conversation. Ventrilo offers high sound quality and minimal use of CPU resources. http://www.ventrilo.com Smart NTFS Recovery Smart NTFS Recovery is a data recovery tool for Windows operating system that supports the NTFS files system. The software easily recovers data from hard disks and any type of storage media: ... (view more)

Ntfs Ratio NTFS offers file based compression but the compression rate isn't displayed anywhere. For any folder on an NTFS volume, NTFSRatio shows the size and the compression rate of this folder and also of its subfolders. Compression and ... decompression can be done inside NTFSRatio with immediate review of the result. Results can be printed or exported. NTFSRatio can be called from the Explorer context menu of any folder. http://www.jam-software.com/freeware/index.shtml Pimp Fish Basic PimpFish empowers you to save any material you see on any website, download faster, share stuff easily and ... (view more)

A recent question raised a red flag in my mind. I think most, if not all, of you read my 'brief' description of about what happened to the missing 32 MB on a 512 MB Thumb Drive: Available Space Misreported by USB drive? Allow me to explain in ... greater detail. On a hard drive, thumb drive, or any other storage device in common use, the capacity displayed on the carton is the maximum 'raw' or usable number of bytes the device can hold. However, a device that 'says' it can hold 512 MB of data will not display the number 512 MB after it has been formatted. As stated in the previous article , some ... (view more)

Yesterday's feature article was about file recovery after a hard drive crash. File recovery after hard drive crash? In a nutshell, I outlined some steps one might take in order to recover files from a corrupt hard drive. I also asked Infopackets ... Readers if they knew of any good freeware or commercial file recovery software which could undelete / recover lost data. Here are some of the responses I received: Haukur B. and Pippe both recommended a program called "PC Inspector File Recovery". From the web site: " PC Inspector File Recovery is a data recovery program with support ... (view more)

This issue of the Gazette is dedicated to "tying up a few loose knots" from our ongoing discussions about Hackers and Security threats . First, I'll give you all an update to Gazette issue dated October 10, 2002 (Windows Security Threat -- NTFS ... Alternate Data Streams ). To recap: an anonymous reader (John Doe) sent in an email that discussed a potential security risk in Windows which might allow a hacker to take a screen capture of a computer with the NTFS file system installed. I realize that this article was a bit on the "technical side", but I did my best to clear up ... (view more)

Since we're on the hot topic of hackers and hacking lately, I thought I'd share with you another great resource that Eric B. sent me. The web site is called myNetWatchman . The myNetWatchman program (agent) gives users a heads-up that they have a ... security problem, if their system becomes infected with an Internet Worm virus. There's also some super-cool reading on their web site (RE: ' Windows Forensics ') which shows how multiple non-hostile applications combined can lead to a hacking threat. I'm not going into great detail because I don't want to spoil it for you; however, I will say that ... (view more)