If you are a system admin who manages lots of computers on a network, having a tool to help is must have. If you are in the market for something like this, check out Spiceworks. Spiceworks is the complete network management & monitoring, helpdesk, PC inventory & software reporting solution to manage Everything IT in small and medium businesses. This tool...

Spyware, by its nature, tends to ‘phone home’. That is, it gathers information about you and then transmits it secretly to another location. The traditional way to combat this is to have a bunch of monitoring utilities or scanners to detect this, but a more advanced way is to simply gather the data yourself and track it down. A tool to help do this...

If you do not already have a utility to monitor your system’s vital statistics (or are just looking for another one), then a utility you might want to check out is CoolMon. CoolMon is a free utility that can monitor (among other things):Processor usage Number of active threads Used/Free/Total Memory Used/Free/Total page file Used/Free/Total disk...

As you probably know, your hard drive is the most important and fragile component of your computer. Since it houses all your data, your system basically “lives and dies” by the health of your hard drive. Perhaps the most important indicator in a hard drive is the S.M.A.R.T. check which is built in to virtually all models. This check is a way for your...