FREE Computer Support Tools
A big list of FREE tools and services to help repair, secure, clean, monitor, audit, backup and optimise your PC / Laptop / Server.
Business users should check the license agreement first as a lot of these tools are for non-commercial purposes only.
We can also supply the paid for versions of any tool / program at discounted prices
They are ALL the tools you need for a perfectly functioning machine and we would advise sticking the one's you need on a USB flash drive.
Anti-Spyware / Malware: Tools for spyware / malware protection and removal
These tools will help protect you from malware / spyware etc.
- SuperAntiSpyware - An EXCELLENT ANTI MALWARE TOOL
- Malware Bytes - Anti Malware - our favourite
- Adaware FREE - Popular, FREE adware scanner
- Spybot Search & Destroy FREE - Popular, FREE adware scanner
Anti-Virus: Tools for virus prevention and removal
These tools will help protect you from viruses / trojans etc. They will also remove most infections.
Only install ONE on your system
- AVG FREE Anti-Virus
- Avast FREE Anti-Virus
- Avira FREE Anti-Virus
- Bit Defender FREE Edition
- PC Tools Anti-virus Free Edition
- Microsoft Security Essentials - New, FREE security suite from MS.
- ClamWin
Online Anti-Virus Scanners:
Online Anti Spyware / Malware Scanners:
Useful when you cannot get other scanners to work
- a-Squared Web Malware Scan Helped us clean machines when other scanners would not start - Requires IE
Anti-Virus Live Boot CD's:
Ready made .ISO files from leading security companies such as Kaspersky, F-Secure, Panda, Avira, etc. Burn to CD, boot your system and scan
- Kaspersky Rescue CD
- Bit Defender Rescue CD
- F-Secure Rescue CD
- Avira Rescue CD
- Trinity Rescue Kit CD
- Panda Rescue CD
- Dr Web Live CD
Anti-Virus / Security Suite Removal Tools:
These tools will remove traces of unwanted anti-virus programs / security suites.
- Avira AntiVir Registry Cleaner - Removes Avira AntiVir
- AVG Removal Tool - Tool for removing AVG should you need it
- Norton removal tool
- Kaspersky Removal Tool
- McAfee Consumer Product Removal Tool
Alternative Operating Systems To Windows:
Don't want to be restricted to Windows with its costs and license limitations?
- Ubuntu - Desktop and Server Linux OS - Includes Live CD
- FREE BSD - A UNIX OS
- Wubi - Test drive Ubuntu under Windows 98, 2000, XP, Vista
Backup Utilities: Tools for creating system / data backups and images
- FREE version of Acronis True Image Home - For Maxtor / Seagate drives
- Drive Image XML - FREE Drive Image Tool For Home Use
- Macrium Reflect Free - Another FREE Disk Imaging Tool
- Titan Backup 1.5 - FREE Backup tool
- Toucan - Portable data backup, sync and security tool
- Clonezilla - FREE backup solution for both clients and servers
- Acronis True Image - FREE Western Digital drives edition
- EASEUS Disk Copy - FREE Hard drive cloning bootable CD
- EASEUS Todo Backup - Backup and hard drive cloning program for Windows
- FBackup - File backup for Windows
Browser Protection:
- IE-Spyad - puts over 5000 sites in your restricted zone so you'll be protected
- SpywareBlaster
- SpywareGuard - Realtime spyware protection
- NoScript - prevent malicious scripts from running in FireFox
- Malware Search - Add on for Firefox to research files, DLL's, URL's BHO', CLSID's etc for malware
- McAfee SiteAdvisor - Award-winning, free protection that uses intuitive icons to give you safety and phishing advice before you click on a risky site.
Boot Disks / Live CDs: Tools that can be booted from CD - Useful when target system won't boot
- Bart PE - Popular, easy to build boot CD
- UBCD4WIN - Our favourite boot CD easily put on to USB
- Active Boot Disk
- Madboot
- Winbuilder
- Knoppix
- Gparted Live CD
- Ophcrack Live CD - Windows Password Cracker
CD / DVD Utilities: Tools for burning files to CD / DVD
- Imageburn - CD / DVD / ISO Burning - FREE image burning software
- Nero FREE Version - The excellent Nero FREE for home use
Child Protection / Parental Control:
- K9 by Blue Coat - Excellent, FREE parental control
Clean Temp / Junk Files Tools:
- TFC - Recommended if you use Internet Explorer / FireFox Auto Complete feature for website passwords etc
- ATF CLeaner
Create bootable USB drive tools:
- UNetbootin - create Linux based bootable USB drives within Windows or Linux
- WinToFlash - Create bootable USB drives based on XP, Vista, Windows 7
- HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool
- Linux Live USB Creator
Data Recovery:
- Recuva - Deleted File Recovery
- Active Partition Recovery
- Find and Mount - Data recovery tool
Deployment: Tools for automating the deployment of Windows operating systems
- nLite - Customise / automate your Windows XP installs
- vLite - Customise / automate your Windows Vista installs
- Windows Automated Installation Kit
- XP SP2 Deployment Tools
- Windows Auto Installation - Another tool for automatic deployment
- Unattended - Another deplotment tool
- Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2010
- Windows Automated Installation Kit for Windows 7
Disk Defragmentation Tools:
- Auslogics Disk Defrag
- Page defrag - defrag your pagefile
- Dirms - defrag
- Contig - defrag contiguous files
- Smart Defrag - Excellent for Vista
- Defraggler
- JkDefrag Portable - A portable disk defragmentation tool
- MyDefrag
Disk Partition Utilities:
Easeus Partition Master - A brilliant partitioning tool
Disk Utilities:
- Eraser - wipe / delete a hard disk
- Sea Tools - Seagate / Maxtor utility
- Samsung HDD Utilities
- Hitachi HDD Utilities
- Western Digital Data Life Guard Tools
- FDisk for drives larger than 64GB
- HDDScan - Freeware low-level formatting tool
- HDD Low Level Format Tool
- HD Tune - HDD Monitoring Tool
- Active@ Hard Disk Monitor - HDD Monitoring Tool
- MHDD - Bootable DOS HDD low level formating tool
Encryption - Tools to encrypt / secure your data:
Firewalls:
Only install ONE on your system
- Sunbelt Personal Firewall
- Netveda Personal Firewall
- Comodo Firewall and Antivirus
- Zone Alarm Free Firewall
- PC Tools Firewall Plus
Hardware Utilities:
- CPU-ID - Info on your CPU, Mainboard, Memory etc
- Core Temp
- Speedfan
- Belarc Advisor - Hardware info / auditing
- Everest FREE Edition - Hardware info / monitoring
- 3D Mark - Benchmarking software
- Memtest - Test your memory modules for faults / errors
- Driver Clean Professional - Clean out old driver files
- Windiag - Windows Memory Diagnostic Tool
- PC Wizard - Hardware Identifier
- Microsoft Device Manager Error Codes
- CDGone - Script for CD / DVD drives missing from My Computer / Device Manager
- Guru3D Driver Sweeper - Remove leftover display (ATI / nVidia etc) / sound drivers
Mac:
- SuperDuper - Mac boot drive maker
- DasBoot - Mac boot CD maker
- Mac NTFS 3G - Read / write to NTFS drives on the Mac
Monitoring:
- Nagios - Open Source host, service and network monitoring program
- Cacti - Cacti is a complete network graphing solution
- Monitor Websites, Servers, Visitors and more
Networking / Internet / Web / Wireless:
- TCPview - TCP and UDP endpoints on your system
- ShareEnum - Scan file shares on your network and view their security settings to close security holes
- Whois - See who owns an Internet address
- Wireless Key View
- Angry IP Scanner - IP address / port scan
- Hamachi Virtual Private Network (VPN) Software
- Net Stumbler - WIFI Monitoring / info tools
- WPA PSK (Raw Key) Generator
- Wireshark - Network monitoring
- Winsock Fix - Repair TCP/IP errors
- FREE Proxy - Open source, feature packed Proxy server software
- Xampp - FREE Apache, MySQL web server for Windows, ideal for testing websites before going live
- OpenDNS - Controlled browsing / web filtering
- Router guides / port forwarding - Covers just about every make / model of router
- Vistumbler - WIFI monitoring for Vista
- Net Tools - A huge suite of Network / System Admin tools - ALL the tools you'll ever need.
- Cisco Network Magic - FREE for Linksys hardware users
Password: (Admin / User / BIOS)
- Password Age - Password Age (formerly 'machines'). Displays the age of the password for user and computer accounts. For computer accounts, this information can be used to determine if the computer is no longer being used. For users, it can be used to determine which accounts are not being used or have expired.
- Admin / User password reset
Portable Apps: - Run programs from your USB stick
- ClamWin Portable - Anti-virus on the go
- Command Prompt Portable
- Open Office Portable
- Full suite of apps including: web browser, email client, office suite, calendar/scheduler, instant messaging client, antivirus, audio player, sudoku game, password manager, PDF reader, minesweeper clone, backup utility and integrated menu
Product Key Finders:
- Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder - For Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, Server 2003 / 8, Office 2003 / 7
Registry:
Remote Control:
- TightVNC
- Logmein FREE Remote Control
- Teamviewer - Free remote control for Windows and MAC - One of the best out there
Security:
- PC Security Check
- Back Track - Bootable CD based on Linux distro for wlan security auditing
- SubInACL -Admin tool that enables administrators to obtain security information about files, registry keys, and services
- Microsoft Security Assessment Tool (MSAT)
- Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer 2.1
Software Updates:
- Keep all your software up to date with FileHippo Updatechecker.
System Tools:
- StartupLite
- Sysinternals - Suite of PC monitoring / repair tools
- Process Tamer
- Win Info - A nice utility showing information about your NT installation including: version, build number, installation date, and whether it is a full or time limited version.
- WhoCrashed - Windows Crash Dump Analyser
- WinDbg - - Debugging Tool For Windows
- SysRestorePoint - Create a system restore easily
- BgInfo - Displays desktop info such as name, IP, version etc
Virtualisation:
- Virtual PC 2007 - Run multiple computers with different operating systems within a host computer
- VMWare Server
- VM Player - Run ready made virtual machines on your Windows or Linux PC with VMware
- Virtual Appliances - FREE ready made virtual machines
- VeeDee Eyes / Virtualbox Ready made, FREE, Virtual machines
- VMware ESXI Now FREE
- Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 -FREE
- XP and Vista Ready Made VMs
- Microsoft Hardware-Assisted Virtualisation Detection Tool
- Turnkey Linux Virtual Appliances
- VMC to Hyper V Import Tool
- Windows Server Virtualization Calculator
Windows:
- Windows Steady State - Lock down Windows computers for public / limited use - Good for malware prevention
- AVG Script For Windows Steady State
- Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor - Is your system ready for Windows 7
- Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools
- Windows Server 2003 Admin Pak
- Windows 7 USB DVD Tool - Install Windows 7 on netbooks without a DVD drive
- Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit - evaluate and mitigate application compatibility issues before deploying Windows 7, Windows Vista®, a Windows Update, or a new version of Windows® Internet Explorer® in your environment.
- Windows 7 recovery disks
- System Update Readiness Tool - Fixes Windows Update errors in Vista, Server 2008, 7
Last Updated (Sunday, 30 May 2010 14:36)

Computer Repair - Support Tools