Make often enough there are problems and then you have to Essential NetTools a nice package to monitor your network and test

As the administrator of your PC and your home network, you can best use some help, for example in the form of free tools. We create for you a selection of 25 little-known but very handy freeware.

A home network is very convenient, as long as nothing goes wrong. Make often enough there are problems and then you have to Essential NetTools a nice package to monitor your network and test. This suite has brought together a range of different tools in a graphical interface, each one designed to help you manage and troubleshoot your network. Each tool is moreover directly accessible via a button in a panel.

There are classics among which a home system "will recognize it as Traceroute , Ping , NetStat and Port Scan . There are more, we describe a few short. Hosta Live periodically checks whether a device or service is accessible, NSLookup you use to perform DNS queries and to convert IP addresses to hostnames and vice versa and SysFiles is a tool for editing system files. Want to know which wireless adapters and available Wi-Fi networks are, you use WiFiMan andFor a list of all active processes you can contact ProcMon . All available tools are also outlined briefly the site.

An uncluttered suite with each one useful network tools.
healthy distrust
Not all makers of free programming tools exclusively for pleasure or idealistic considerations. There are those who hope in this way is to earn, for example by wrapping their software in an installation tool that other, unwanted software, it tries to install. Be always alert during the installation (free) programs! Do not choose just a normal , default or recommended setup but always look for custom or advanced setup . The latter installation modes you get namely often remove the opportunity uncheck unwanted extras.

We all freewares this article www.virustotal.com checked. This site checks every time a program with several dozen online virus checkers. As long as one or two (lesser known) antivirus tools to pull the alarm, there is usually nothing to worry about. You will do well, however, that control itself still has to carry out, even if you have run an up-to-date antivirus tool on your system. It could happen that a newer version of the program (which came online after this writing) still has crept anything suspicious.

Tip 2: Network Problems
AC Adapter Repair All In One 1.2

Essential NetTools may conveniently suite for those who want uitvlooien a lot from its network, power adapter Repair All In One is specifically designed with your network connection problems to solve almost automatically. Granted, this tool can ultimately little more than the built-b Windows -Tools, but it gets you a lot easier. The program has only one window. You indicate the recovery operation you want to run and with one press of a button you put the tool to work. You can include rapidly renew the DHCP address, modify the DNS data to Google DNS or empty the DNS cache. Your network (adapter) should really sit heavily in the node you want to find a solution with this tool.

Tip 3: Data Analysis
Glass Wire 1.1

Glass Wire describes himself as a 'firewall software. That in itself is correct, but those who thereby presenting a program that his network with complex lines and Internet should regulate, it nevertheless sees it wrong. Wire glass is in fact a user-friendly and smart-looking tool that can bring meticulously map out your network traffic and can be protected. The program shows you include a chart with all the incoming and outgoing network traffic, which you can easily zoom in on the desired time period and can divide traffic into application and protocol.

If you are interested in the big picture of your network traffic, you use the Tab Usage , where the data is neatly divided into applications, hosts, and traffic type. Tab Firewall offers little more than a graphical shell around the Windows firewall, but you can from here have already blocking the network access of a specific application. Click on the tab Alerts , you get a (chronological) overview of relevant reports that have to do with your network. Determine through its settings itself states what type of notifications you want to receive. Tab Network , you can ignore if you use the free version. In the paid version you see here the newly added network devices.

What application contacts the server and how many data which stoked?
Tip 4: Service Optimization
Easy Service Optimizer 1.1

Also, when you start not own programs, there are often dozens of processes and services running in the background. You notice it when you open the Windows Task Manager or services.msc module startup. All these parts of course take some system resources.

Easy Service Optimizer will check which services are running on your system and lists services that - based on the known lists of Black Viper - "optimizable" are. That means that they are not necessary in every situation (for Windows), and optionally can be switched off. There are four scenarios. Default is the status of the services as they are configured by default in Windows. Safe is the configuration which is (according to BlackViper) can be safely used by 95% of the users. Tweaked goes a step further and turn out even more services, normally even without unwanted side effects. Extreme (or Bare-bones at Black Viper) most services switches off and just trying out if you know what you are doing and what services you can miss. Incidentally, it is also possible to remove services from the list: they are not removed from your system, they just dive no longer in the list of 'optimaliseerbare' services.

Tip 5: Additional options
Easy Context Menu 1.6

The default context menu (also right-click menu) of Windows Explorer is a convenient starting to copy files or folders such as whether to rename. Now we are not exactly in favor to extend this menu with a long list of options, as this often means slower performance or less stability in the worst case.

Addressing Easy Context menu (from the makers of Easy Service Optimizer, tip 4) seduces us though. After unzipping the downloaded zip archive you start the version for your system (32 or 64 bit). There is an allocation made for the right-click menu of six situations: including your desktop, folders and files. To add items to the menu, you have plenty of options (we counted nearly a hundred). We'll give you a handful of examples: Memory reduce , Restoration queue for the printer , Hibernate , Icon Change and Owner are . To add an item to the context menu of Windows Explorer by simply placing a check mark. Added items show of course also simply remove again.

Tip 6: Configuration Backup
CloneApp 1:07

When you reinstall Windows, such as your current installation is no longer burning ahead, you automatically lose all configuration settings for your installed applications. Highly annoying and so it is for such a scenario CloneApp more than welcome. This tool - which you as the administrator must boot - could in fact create a simple backup of the settings of over 200 apps / applications for Windows. Difficult than to indicate the desired applications in a list and start CloneApp clicking is not. The backup end standard in a subfolder of the CloneApp folder. With the press of a button What is being backed up bowl can actually know exactly what it is in such a backup. Is your program is not listed, you can still try your luck in the plug-in list on the site of the creators or try using Custom to specify what you want to post in the backup. A Restore button ensures that the backed-up settings are neatly put back on your system.

Very handy: backup the configuration of your installed applications.
Tip 7: Registry Backup
RegBak 1.5

You know that the Windows registry contains nearly all the important settings for your system hardware components and software. So you'd better ensure an up-to-date backup in case something goes wrong. Now you can do this more or less could do that from the registry editor, but with RegBak involves a lot more comfortable. Once you hit the button New Backup creates a complete backup is pressed all registry hives. Which is then properly added to your list of previously created backups. Via the settings window, you choose the name and location of the backup files, and it is possible to specify how many backups you want to keep, for example, only the five most recent or the backups from the last month. Backup restore you obviously do using the button Restore . It is of course a little more difficult as your Windows unbootable, but know that you also using the Windows Recovery Console can still appeal to the backups.

A complete registry backup is not a luxury.
Tip 8: Backup Gmail
Upsafe Gmail Backup 1.0.3

I myself have about 12,000 e-mails in the inbox of my Gmail sit account, and that I would lose not really like. Do you want to lose your Gmail messages under any circumstances. Upsafe Gmail Backup is the perfect solution. With this tool, you make include local backups of all your Gmail messages, including attachments. The first can of course take a while, but subsequent backups take much less time, given the "incremental" backup program does so only secures new messages. You can manually start a backup, but it is also possible to set a task scheduler that ensures that periodically for a secure backup. But there is more: Messages and attachments view, you can also do it from the tool and with the built-archive function gives you desired final messages from the cloud. You hereby themselves the criteria, such as messages to or from a specific person with a specific keyword and / or to a certain date. Restore messages to the Gmail cloud can indeed.