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Scandisk & Defrag

Overview Scandisk and Defrag are important utilities that come with Windows, to help you tune up your Windows filesystem and make sure it's running properly. Scandisk checks your drive to make sure there aren't any problems with it, and Defrag (short for Disk Defragmenter) organizes your filesystem to help Windows read files faster.

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Publisher	PuterGeek.Com	File Format	HTML
Date Published	November 2000	Downloads	33
Format	White Papers
Topics	Computer Testing Equipment, Desktop Systems - PCs

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Improve Availability and Resiliency with Software Infrastructure Testing by IT Operations

Does your company know how the next software patch or configuration change will impact uptime? An alarming number of companies cannot be completely sure what any change will do to...

Publisher:
StackSafe

Tags:
monitoring systems

TechNet Webcast: Mitigating Application Issues Using Shims (Level 400)

The presenter of this webcast explores many of the compatibility issues that the Windows team has experienced at customer sites in the context of what can be fixed without updating...

Publisher:
Microsoft Tips

Tags:
computer testing equipment

TechNet Webcast: Making Windows Vista Application Compatibility Testing More Predictable (Level 300)

When helping the customers accelerate their deployments of the Windows Vista operating system by assisting with application compatibility, it was found that there are a number of technical skills to...

Publisher:
Microsoft Tips

Tags:
computer testing equipment

Automate performance testing to predict system behavior and improve application performance

Learn how the Diagnose and Tune iterative phases go beyond measuring system performance and take load testing to another level. Here, the focus is on pinpointing problems to help resolve...

Publisher:
Hewlett-Packard (HP)

Tags:
monitoring systems

Best Practices for Implementing Automated Functional Testing Solutions

This paper presents a brief overview of the advantages of automating functional testing, explaining how you can meet tighter release schedules, verify that business processes function correctly, and ultimately generate...

Publisher:
Hewlett-Packard (HP)

Tags:
monitoring systems

Paid-for Napster launches

The reception given the new Napster - developed and marketed to the tune of tens of millions of dollars by parent company Roxio - may be one of the best indicators of the paid market's attractiveness to a generation of computer users raised on...

Linux kernel suffers Trojan horse hack

When BitKeeper exports the source code to other servers, it checks the integrity of every file, matching a digital fingerprint of its official version of the file with the version on the remote machine.

Virus alert: Bacros goes back to the future

It infects local filesystem files by renaming all .txt files as .exe. If it infects a PC, the virus will delete all files from the victim's hard drive on Christmas Day. On the first of any month, the virus will overwrite all gif files with a gif...

Channel:
Malware

Longhorn Server will 'fix itself on the fly'

Essentially, "self-healing" means Microsoft's defrag and chkdsk, or check disk, tools are running in the background. The system can fix itself on the fly if there is a bad sector on a hard disk or even a processor that is showing a high rate of...

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Scam repeats

The disk would either appear to be empty or it would contain a lot of files. Those on the 'dark side of the force' would leave a floppy disk in a coffee shop, hotel lounge or office. Some unsuspecting victim would pick up the disk and of course...

Channel:
Malware
Tags:
malware

Mac OS X flaw: US gov adds warning

The US computer emergency response team (US-Cert) issued an alert last week, reporting a failure in the way OS X handles corrupted disk image files - for Macs, the '.dmg' file format. A disk image file is a digital representation of the contents...

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