Active Hard Disk Monitor is a hard drive health monitoring software that displays information about a computer system’s hard drive state. It analyzes and displays S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) information provided by compatible hard drives. Other features are hard drive performance monitoring and control, bad sector scanning as well as event logs and [...]
4 Applications That You Do Not Know (But Should)
Most computer users are happy with what they got. They use the same set of computer programs day in day out without spending a thought on the thousands of software programs that might be better suited for their needs. The majority are using the same programs. Winamp for music, Firefox for web browsing, Windows Media [...]
Analyzing drive health with SpeedFan
Analyzing drive health with SpeedFan is a guest post by Rarst who is running his own tech blog Rarst.net, a blog about software and IT-related web resources. Definitely worth adding to a RSS News Feed reader.
SpeedFan is well known program in the category of system monitoring. It is a very good tool for controlling CPU [...]
Monitor CPU Core Temperatures
I lost count of how many applications in Windows provide the functionality to display the temperature of the CPU. I have been using Speedfan for this purpose for well over two years by now but have to admit that Speedfan does not make it that easy to find out which temperature belongs to which component [...]
Use Speedfan to control temperatures
Speedfan has been released in a new version yesterday which added support for many new technologies such as full Vista 64 bit support. The basic functionality could be described the following way. Speedfan monitors temperature levels of core system units such as cpu and hard drives and puts out warnings if they do reach a critical level.
Top Xp Freeware that every user needs part 3
What ? Part 3 ? You said that there would be only two parts in the top xp series. I know that I said that but I wanted to write a third part because of the nice comments that the other two parts recieved. (access part 1 and part 2) This time I will write about the lesser known tools, special purpose ones that most users do not need but some can’t live without. I thought it would be nice to give those tools some exposure as well, they are great and they deserve it.
Speedfan Freeware
I have a very noisy fan at the back of my pc tower. It spins to fast and therefor makes to much noises. There are various ways to reduce a fans speed and one of them is using the free software speedfan.
