Here you will find "heavy duty" utilities making it possible to create back up copies of basically everything on your system and the means to restore these copies in the event of catastophic system failure. "Murphy's Law" states that what can go wrong, will... the second law says it will happen at the worst possible time. You have been warned, make those copies today!!

Enhance the things you can do when you use the RIGHT-click button of your mouse, trackball, etc. These programs let you add or remove items from the right-click menus.

A very quick and simple way to tell your computer to do something or access a tool. In WinXP Microsoft has included a lot more command line tools for basic admin tasks.

Windows provides a list of the basic details and specification of your system hardware but these programs can tell you a lot more. What patches you have & what are missing; list of all processes currently running; which program has a particular file or directory open & a whole lot more too.

The Windows console (formerly called the DOS prompt) provides a way to run utilities in areas where the average user never goes & also takes full advantage of the XP operating system.

System doing strange things, think you might have a virus, need to know what your system is doing "behind the scenes" ? These tools will make it very easy to watch and montior every aspect of the functioning of your system both hardware and software.

The Central Processing Unit is 99.9% of the heart of any computer system. Monitor CPU activity, see what processes are eating resources & slowing things down, benchmark your CPU, control process priorities with these tools.

Every computer follows a very particular sequence of instructions and events when it comes to starting up and shutting down. This may not necessarily be the most efficient sequence for your system. If you want more control over what happens and when these utilities will help.

Each hardware device on your system needs a piece of software to make it work properly with everything else - a Device Driver - see which ones your system uses; find ones that Windows tells you are missing.

Every separate program running on a system is treated as an individual task. Think of these tools as giving the system not only a "To Do" list but one which includes what tasks to do in what order and when, including when to start and stop.

Memory, usually referred to as RAM, is the computer hardware that remembers all of the instructions for processing tasks. Problems with too little memory can usually be solved by adding more memory to the system, monitoring the use of memory with tools such as these can be part of the process of tracking how effectively the memory you have at present is being used.

Need for speed combined with the pursuit of perfection. If this describes you and you are one of those who cannot resist tinkering under the hood, then these goodies are for you.

The Registry in a Windows computer is the most crucial part of the software operating system, it's the master list / directory of instructions and information settings that control everything. In the process of being in continuous use it gets cluttered up with electronic dust & cobwebs. It needs regular cleaning and here's a selection of tools that do precisely that.