Freeware Tools

HDD Scan 3.3

HDDScan is a utility for hard drive diagnostics for RAID arrays, Flash USB and SSD drives. This can test storage device for errors (Bad-blocks and bad sectors), show S.M.A.R.T. attributes and change some HDD parameters such as AAM, APM, etc.
HDDScan can be useful for performing the regular health test for your drive and predicting its degradation, so you will be able to prevent data loss and backup your files before you will have to contact the data recovery service.
This can also be used as the hard disk temperature monitor and reading/writing benchmark – performance graph is displayed for every test.

(Download Size: 1.17 MB)


HDHacker 1.4

HDHacker saves, visualizes, and restores the MBR (from a physical drive), the BootSector (from a logical drive) or any specified sector from any disk (even removable drives). It can be used, for example, to save and restore a particular boot manager (such as LILO, for example) before a new Windows setup (which, obviously, overwrites it). An MBR and BootSector backup can also be useful for simple precautionary purposes too, since sometimes viruses or other OS setup like Linux could overwrite and/or alter the MBR/Boot Sectors, making it impossible to start up previous OS and/or access datas stored on the disk.
(Download Size: 52 KB)


MBR Utility 1.05

This MBR Utility allows you to manipulate a drive's master boot record (MBR) via the command line. For example, MBR is capable of deleting all the partitions in a MBR, zeroing out a MBR, installing a standard MBR, and more. This program can run under DOS, Linux and Windows.
(Download Size: 86 KB)


PLoP Boot Manager 5.0.14

The Plop Boot Manager is a small program with many features. Boot different operating systems harddisk, floppy, CD/DVD or from USB, it can boot from an USB/CD/DVD even without BIOS support.
Features:

  • CD/DVD boot without BIOS support (IDE)
  • PCMCIA CardBus support to enable boot from USB PC-Cards
  • USB boot without BIOS support (UHCI, OHCI and EHCI)
  • Start of the boot manager from harddisk, floppy, USB, CD, DVD
  • Floppy boot
  • Different profiles for operating systems
  • Define up to 16 partitions
  • Boot countdown
  • Hide partitions
  • No extra partition for the boot manager
  • Hidden boot, maybe you have a rescue system installed and the user should not see that there is another system installed
  • Password protection for the computer and the boot manager setup
  • Backup of partition table data
  • MBR partition table edit
  • Textmode user interface 80x50
  • Graphical user interface 640x480, 800x600, 1024x786, 1280x1024
  • Starting from Windows boot menu
  • Starting from LILO, GRUB, Syslinux, Isolinux, Pxelinux (network)
  • It can be used as PCI option ROM in your BIOS
  • Access the whole USB hard disk (up to 2TB) even when the bios has a 128 GiB limit
  • Start the networkcard bootrom from the boot manager to boot from the network
  • You can run the boot manager over the network

(Download Size: 2.53 MB)


Angry IP Scanner 2.21

Angry IP scanner is a very fast IP address and port scanner. It Scans IP addresses in any range as well as any their ports.
It is cross-platform and does not requiring any installations, it can be freely copied and used anywhere.
Angry IP scanner simply pings each IP address to check if it's alive, then optionally it is resolving its hostname, determines the MAC address, scans ports, etc.
It also has additional features, like NetBIOS information (computer name, workgroup name, and currently logged in Windows user), favorite IP address ranges, web server detection, customizable openers, etc.
Scanning results can be saved to CSV, TXT, XML or IP-Port list files. (**** zip password: hiren.info)

(Download Size: 103 KB)


SmartSniff 2.07

This is a Network monitoring utility that allows you to capture TCP/IP packets that pass through your network adapter, and view the captured data as sequence of conversations between clients and servers. You can view the TCP/IP conversations in Ascii mode (for text-based protocols, like HTTP, SMTP, POP3 and FTP.) or as hex dump. (for non-text base protocols, like DNS).
Under Windows 2000/XP (or greater), SmartSniff also allows you to capture TCP/IP packets without installing any capture driver (with some limitations), by using 'Raw Sockets' method.
(Download Size: 91 KB)


WifiInfoView 1.25

This tool displays wireless networks information including Network Name (SSID), MAC Address, PHY Type (802.11g or 802.11n), RSSI, Signal Quality, Frequency, Channel Number, Maximum Speed, Company Name, Router Name/Model and more.
When you select any wireless network in the upper pane of this tool, the lower pane displays the Wi-Fi information elements received from this device, in hex format.
WifiInfoView also has a summary mode, which displays a summary of all detected wireless networks, grouped by channel number, company that manufactured the router, PHY type, or the maximum speed.
This utility works on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows Server 2008.
(Download Size: 246 KB)


WirelessNetView 1.50

This is a small utility that runs in the background, and monitor the activity of wireless networks around you.
For each detected network, it displays the following information:

  • SSID
  • Last Signal Quality
  • Average Signal Quality
  • Detection Counter
  • Authentication Algorithm
  • Cipher Algorithm
  • MAC Address
  • RSSI
  • Channel Frequency
  • Channel Number

(Download Size: 50 KB)


Calcute 11.5.27

This is a compact, capable, free calculator for Windows. Replace your regular Windows calculator with this unobtrusive scientific tape calculator. Sleek and functional, it improves upon traditional calculators with some unique abilities. In single-line mode, dock it conveniently right above your taskbar for ready access.
You can make Calcute big or small. The work area is where you enter all calculations and receive results. It can be set to single-line mode to look like a plain calculator. It can be set to multi-line mode for more editing flexibility. You can show the calculator buttons or hide them. Use the Preferences menu options as shown here. Or use the faster equivalent shortcuts: use Alt-S to toggle single-line mode on and off; use Alt-B to toggle calculator buttons on and off.
(Download Size: 135 KB)


Don't Sleep 3.03

This small tool is useful when you want to temporarily suspend power management and prevent system shutdown, Standby, Hibernate, Turn Off and Restart.
Especially when old Programs run on Windows-7 or Windows Vista. Here's more aggressive power-saving features with new rules.
But not only that, it also prevents loggin off the computer, and the deactivation of the monitor or activation of the screen saver.
Of course you can also manually disable all the options and then activate again, but with Don't Sleep one can save now many hand moves and also save time! And it's easier than ever.
This program also has a timer when you can choose what you want to do after the timeout and it will turn off the PC for you.
(Download Size: 43 KB)