This page is at http://www.marsops.com/utilities.htm - Home: www.maropt.com

http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/2/ AVGfree – soon to be offered with Vista.

http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/ BartPE – boot XP on a CD with the GUI.

http://www.ccleaner.com/ CCleaner – Useful for deleting index files and more.

http://www.cpuid.com/index.php CPUID - x86 CPU Technical Information and utilities.

http://www.dslreports.com/tools - Dsl Reports tools - Speed test, DrTCP, etc.

http://www.ethereal.com/ - Ethereal; a network protocol analyzer (packet sniffer).

http://www.wireshark.org/ - New name for Ethereal

http://www.winpcap.org/ - WinPcap – required using Ethereal.

http://grc.com/default.htm - Gibson research Corp - Spinrite, shields-up etc.

http://www.memtest.org/ - Memtest – bootable iso available, advanced multi-pattern testing.

http://www.merijn.org/programs.php - Home of HiJack This – BHO removal tool.

http://www.kaspersky.com/remoteviruschk.html - Online single file AV scanner – You submit file

http://www.lavasoft.de/products/ad-aware_se_personal.php Lavasoft Adaware PE - free

www.maropt.com/files/WinsockXPFix.exe WinsockXPfix – fix network connectivity damage.

www.maropt.com/files/wintop.zip Wintop – check running processes on Win98.

http://www.nirsoft.net/ - password utilities and more.

MessenPass: Recovers the passwords of some Instant Messenger programs:

Mail PassView: Recovers the passwords of email programs such as Outlook.

Dialupass: Password recovery tool that reveals all passwords stored in dial-up entries. (VPN)

Asterisk Logger: Recovers passwords stored behind asterisks (****) characters.

http://marsops.com/files/Rnav2003.exe Rnav2003.exe removal utility.

http://www.safer-networking.org/en/home/index.html Spybot Search and Destroy – Careful!

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/default.mspx - Sysinternals - bought by Microsoft

Filemon, Procmon, Autoruns, Root Kit revealer and more.

http://www.v-com.com/product/System_Commander_Home.html Manage partions and OS, free trial.

http://www.drivesnapshot.de/en/ Snapshot – create drive image – quick and easy to use, free trial.

http://www.webroot.com/ Webroot Spysweeper – 30 day trial does not remove but it is a useful check.

If you want to use an external USB drive with Win98 but need the Mass storage drivers:

http://www.technical-assistance.co.uk/kb/usbmsd98.php Installing USB Devices on Win98.

http://www.slax.org/download.php bootable iso of linux slackware - uses KDE desktop by default.