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HobRes32 Video Card and Monitor Resolution Control HobRes32 release 2 beta 6 Have you ever needed to control your video card and monitor resolutions without all of the grief associated with the Windows 16 bit “Quickres”. For a small, compact little program written in C++, this one does exactly what …

Snadboy Revelation If you have arrived here through a search engine, and you do not see a menu to the left, click here! Snadboy’s Revelation just might save you a heap of trouble some day. It’s a simple, one-function utility, but is free and easy to use. It enables you …

By Sysinternals.com Introduction Regmon is a Registry monitoring utility that will show you which applications are accessing your Registry, which keys they are accessing, and the Registry data that they are reading and writing. All of this is presented in real-time. This is an advanced utility, and it takes you …

Windows Shut Down Manager For Windows 9x and Windows NT Very much like another shutdown manager that we posted a month or so ago, this shutdown manager will allow you to automate the tasks you want to perform before Windows actually shuts down. There are a few differences between this …

WEMedia Talking Browser v1.0 We often find tools and neat little programs that make the things everyone does, from the everyday user to the IT professional, easier to do. It’s not often that each of us, as part of the human race, takes a moment and reflects on how easy …

The Registry Toolkit   By Funduc Software Many times computer users have minor problems with their computers that can be easily resolved with minor changes or corrections made to the Windows registry. However, it can get expensive to take your computer to a technician or have one visit you just …

Qcheck Have some networking problems, such as transfers and traffic taking forever? Trying to find the bottlenecks and problems can be troublesome, especially when “Ping” doesn’t provide the type of information you really need. Qcheck is a networking troubleshooting utility that not only replaces “Ping”, but adds an abundance of …

If you have arrived here through a search engine, and there’s no menu to the left click here! Craig Hampel, Rambus Inc To get high performance from high-speed systems, you need high-performance memories. Carefully analyze the EDO, SDRAM, and RDRAM system-timing parameters to see which memory type delivers the performance …

Latencies, latencies… What makes DRAM slow or fast? As SDRAM is a multi-bank architecture, the chipset can leave a certain row of a certain bank, which has been accessed before, “open”. If the next request accesses the same row, the chipset does not have to wait until the sense amps …

How We Test System Performance, The Benchmark Software We Use, And Why We Do It This Way! How we test system performance: In order for you to understand how we test the performance of the computers we build, you must first understand our design concepts and the philosophy behind them. …