January 21st, 2010 by Aseem Kishore
Have you found the perfect color for a part of your website on someone else’s website? Color Detector is a free tool that provides a quick and simple way for you to get the Hex and RGB codes for any color you see on the screen. Download Color Detector at http://www.cosmin.com/colordetector/. Installing Color Detector Color [...]
January 19th, 2010 by Aseem Kishore
You have probably found yourself wondering at some point how, even though you have a 500 GB hard drive, you have no space left on it. Where did all that space go? SpaceSniffer is a portable freeware program that can answer that question. It shows you a graphical representation of how folders and files are [...]
January 15th, 2010 by Aseem Kishore
In the performance of IT tasks, we have encountered problems and limitations with the Windows Task Scheduler when trying to use it to run batch files on a schedule. It is not reliable and its capabilities are limited. We were searching online for a free replacement for the Task Scheduler when we came across Pycron. [...]
January 4th, 2010 by Aseem Kishore
Looking for a good partition manager for your computer? One of the best programs out there is GParted. It’s open-source and supports just about every file system out there including FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, HFS, UFS, XFS, and more. Basically, your hard drive is divided into one or more segments called partitions. Usually, once you create [...]
December 15th, 2009 by Aseem Kishore
The Windows ping command is probably one of the most commonly used commands for IT Administrators! It’s used to check that network connections between two machines are working or that a computer/server is up and running. Even though I like the ping command, I would prefer a tool that is more powerful. That’s where a [...]
October 27th, 2009 by Aseem Kishore
Because of the popularity of my previous article on Help Desk Geek entitled 99 ways to make your computer blazingly fast, I’ve decided to write another list post with 99 items, but this time on Windows freeware programs that you may have not heard of. If you search for “best freeware programs” or “top freeware [...]
July 30th, 2009 by Aseem Kishore
Ever wanted to know exactly how many computers are connected to your wireless network? Want all the MAC addresses and IP addresses for the computers connected to your wireless network? If so, then you are probably doing so for security reasons. Wireless networks are constantly being hacked in order to gain access to confidential information. [...]
July 2nd, 2009 by Aseem Kishore
I always am needing to know which ports are being used by my computers. Whether it is for security reasons or for debugging port accessing programs, Advanced Port Scanner is a small, quick, easy-to-use and robust port scanner for Windows. It is multithreaded, so on relatively new machines you can scan ports in just a [...]
May 25th, 2009 by Aseem Kishore
Ever download a file off the Internet that included a “checksum” with it? A checksum is a way to ensure that a file has not been altered in any way from the original version. Many websites provide checksums along with their setup files so that you can be sure of the integrity of the file. [...]
April 18th, 2009 by Aseem Kishore
One issue that you run into a lot when working in a corporate IT environment is dealing with users who cannot properly eject their USB drives. Normally, instead of just unplugging a USB drive, it’s a best practice to go to the Safely Remove Hardware dialog and stop the device. When you click Stop, Windows [...]