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Extract Forensic Data From Computers With OSForensics

Rainbow tables are pre-computed tables, used for reversing cryptographic hash functions, which are often used for cracking password hashes. Computers which rely on password authentication require a mechanism to determine if the entered password is correct. One can store a cryptographic hash of the password to protect the stored information because such hashes are difficult [...] (more…)

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Tweak Every Aspect Of Windows 7/Vista/XP With TweakNow PowerPack 2009

There are tons of options and features that you can tweak in Windows operating system, such tweaking requires some serious modifications to the registry and other settings. Apart from tweaking, some features are build deep inside Windows and are difficult to access on daily basis. Back in January we reviewed an app to tweak Windows [...] (more…)

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How To Perform Benchmark Test On Your Hard Disk, USB Drive, And CD/DVD Rom

Have you ever wondered why your transfer speed is so slow when copying the files from an external hard disk, USB, or CD/DVD Drive? There could be a possibility that it is not working properly, recently, my old USB was given problems while reading and writing files. The best way to determine would be to [...] (more…)

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Find Files And Folders That Take Up Most Space In Your Hard Disk

To free up some hard disk space you need to delete the files and folders that take up most space. But how would you find such files and folders? Since there is no build-in tool in Windows, the only way is to manually check the properties of every file and folder. This process is obviously [...] (more…)

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Increase Or Decrease Your Hard Drive Cache Memory With CacheBooster

When you get a slow performance when running an application, it can be due to two reasons, hard drive cache and system memory. We have already solved the problem of system memory with MaxMem, now what about Hard disk cache? AnalogX CacheBooster is a free tool for Windows that lets you tweak the hard disk [...] (more…)

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How To Stop Your External Hard Disk From Going Into Sleep Mode

Some external hard disks automatically go into sleep mode after a few minutes of inactivity. This is definitely not the case with my latest Western Digital 3200ME external hard disk, but it does happen with majority of other external hard disks made by various manufacturers. Going automatically into sleep mode is a bit absurd, and [...] (more…)

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How To Find And Recover Your Lost Files In Hard Disk, USB Drive, Or Memory Card

What if your Digital Camera memory card gets accidently formatted? Or worse an important office file from your hard disk or USB drive gets deleted. Fret not, since these deleted files are still recoverable. DiskDigger is a free portable app that lets you recover all lost files of any type(image, document, video, data, etc). Run [...] (more…)

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How To Copy DVD Or Blue-Ray To HardDisk For Free

Many DVDs come with copy protection thus making it impossible to copy it to hard disk with ordinary DVD copy software. DVDFab HD Decrypter is an excellent tool that removes all copy protection from the disk and copies the content to the hard disk instantly. It also has support for HD-DVD, and Blue-Ray disks. It [...] (more…)