Applications

Welcome to this site which contains a number of free software applications you may find helpful.

Ian Mutch (Rochdale, North West England, UK)

APPLICATIONS

You can scroll down the page to view the applications or they are listed in the left hand menu.

SOME OF THE APPLICATIONS ARE HOSTED AT SOFTPEDIA

 

CONTIG CONTEXT SETUP

Contig is a powerful command line defragmenter from Sysinternals. CONTIG CONTEXT adds Contig to the right click context menu of files and folders allowing you to defrag any file or folder, including subfolders, with one click. No knowledge of command lines is required.

To defragment a whole drive go to My Computer on XP, or Computer on Vista. From the right click menu click Contig.

Contig is the work of Mark Russinovich. Details can be found at

http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/File-Management/Contig.shtml

 

IE DROPMYRIGHTS SETUP

When using the shortcut to IE DROPMYRIGHTS, which is created by the installer, you will be using Internet Explorer with reduced rights. This makes it more difficult for malware to be installed on your computer, though not impossible. Internet Explorer is not altered in any way, you are simply using it with reduced rights when you use the IE DROPMYRIGHTS shortcut.

In order to install Windows Updates direct from Internet Explorer, you should use your normal Internet Explorer shortcut. Also, if you are updating Flash, you should use your normal shortcut.

DropMyRights was written by Michael Howard and details can be found at

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms972827.aspx

You can use Process Explorer at

http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/System-Info/Process-Explorer.shtml

to confirm that you are running Internet Explorer with reduced rights. (Right click iexplore.exe>Properties>Security. It will show BUILTIN\Administrators Deny,Owner.)

 

FIREFOX DROPMYRIGHTS SETUP

As above but for Firefox.

 

THUNDERBIRD DROPMYRIGHTS SETUP

As above but for Thunderbird

 

SEAMONKEY DROPMYRIGHTS SETUP

As above but for SeaMonkey.

IE RUN & CLEAN SETUP

When using IE RUN & CLEAN, Internet Explorer is opened in the usual way. When you close Internet Explorer the following items will be silently cleaned.

Temporary Internet Files.
Cookies.
History.
Form Data.

Passwords are not removed.

Internet Explorer is not modified in any way.

IECC SETUP

You need to have CCleaner installed in its default directory.

IECC opens Internet Explorer in the usual way. When you close Internet Explorer, CCleaner will carry out a silent cleanup.

Simply tick the required boxes in CCleaner that you wish to be cleaned and it will be done automatically.

Useful if you have family members who forget to run cleanup tools.

You will see the CCleaner icon flashing in your System Tray as it performs the cleanup.

Internet Explorer and CCleaner are not modified in any way.

 

REGEDIT PSEXEC SETUP

PsExec is a powerful tool from Sysinternals which, in this instance, opens Regedit with higher than normal privileges.

This allows you to delete otherwise stubborn registry keys, eg. legacy keys.

Normal regedit privileges

Regedit PsExec Privileges

PsExec is the work of Mark Russinovich. Details can be found at

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Network-Tools/Telnet-SSH-Clients/PsExec.shtml

SYSTEM32 REAL TIME MONITOR SETUP

This tool enables you to monitor your System32 Folder in Real Time.

System32 Real Time Monitor is an installation medium for foldermon from DiamondCS, a command line program. It enables you to use foldermon without requiring any knowledge of command lines.

In this instance, foldermon monitors the Windows\System32 Folder in real time for :

Any new files created
Any files deleted
Any change to a file name
Any change to a directory name
Any change to the attributes of a file
Any change to the size of a file
Any change to the last write time of a file

foldermon is part of the freeware Console Tools from DiamondCS. DiamondCS permit and encourage the use of foldermon as an included component of other applications.

SYSTEM32 CHECKER SETUP

Uses FileCRC written by David Pochron. By clicking the UPDATE DATABASE shortcut, created by the installer, FileCRC will create a database of the executable files (eg. .exe .dll .sys) contained within the System32 folder and its subfolders. The creation of the database will only take a few minutes and the database file size will typically be less than 500KB.

The CHECK DATABASE shortcut, created by the installer, allows you to see which, if any, files have been modified or deleted.

You can update the database at any time by clicking the UPDATE DATABASE shortcut.

 

WINDOWS DEFENDER START STANDALONE EXE

Assumes you have Windows Defender installed in it's default directory. It also assumes that you do not run Windows Defender in real time and that you have set the Windows Defender service to manual rather than auto. It also assumes that you have set the Automatic Updates service to manual rather than auto.

WINDOWS DEFENDER START starts the Windows Defender service and opens Windows Defender. When you close Windows Defender, its service will be closed and, if you carried out an update, the BITS service and the Automatic Updates service will be closed and both set to manual startup.

WINDOWS DEFENDER SCAN, WINDOWS DEFENDER UPDATE & SCAN, and WINDOWS DEFENDER UPDATE STANDALONE EXE'S follow the same principles as above.

The zip file containing these applications was identified as a Trojan by a small minority of the security vendors listed at VirusTotal. None of the applications include any sort of malware and the Virus Total results are false positives.

FDCOPY SETUP

FDCopy provides a convenient method to copy files and folders to other FirstDefense-ISR snapshots. It is useful even if you use anchored data.

For use in conjunction with the original FirstDefense-ISR (not FirstDefense-ISR Rescue) where up to ten snapshots can reside on Drive C.

Upon installation of FDCopy a folder named FirstDefenseNew will be created in your Program Files Folder. There is a subfolder within this folder named Shared.

Place the files and folders that you wish to copy to your other snapshots in the FirstDefenseNew\Shared Folder and click on the FDCopy shortcut.

All the files and folders within the shared folder will be copied to your other snapshots and when booting into those snapshots you will find them in C:\Program Files\FirstDefenseNew.

They will also be copied to the FirstDefenseNew folder of your current snapshot and deleted from the Shared folder leaving that folder ready to be used again.

FirstDefense-ISR Forum at Wilders

http://www.wilderssecurity.com/forumdisplay.php?s=10d84719a28a20dee8e5490863f9cdd7&f=84

 

SHOW HIDDEN SETUP

A more convenient way to Show hidden files and folders and protected operating system files.

Show Hidden adds Show and Hide Context Menu items to your folders.

Right click any folder and choose Show, then refresh the desktop, or folder you are in, by right clicking an empty space and clicking Refresh. All your hidden files and folders will now be shown. Choose Hide, and refresh again, to hide the files and folders.

Alternatively, you can use the shortcuts, again refreshing the desktop or folder you are in.

If you prefer to use the shortcuts only, you can remove the Context Menu items by using the Remove Context Menu Items shortcut in the Show Hidden Programs Menu.

 

Ian Mutch (Rochdale, North West England, UK)