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for success in IT Instructor's free faves |
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of Volt Services List of free software tools that the instructor likes and uses |
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General hardware tips, tricks & reviews |
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| Tom's Hardware Guide | Has Tom sold out? |
| SlashDot | The site Bill Gates doesn't want you to see. |
| System Optimization | Yet more hardware stuff. |
| Thresh's Firing Squad | Gaming oriented. |
| ArsTechnica | A test of your inner geek. |
| AnandTech | Yet more, more hardware stuff... |
| HardOCP | A personal favorite. |
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BIOS info |
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| BIOS Survival Guide | Not completely up to date but lots of good info on obscure settings. |
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Drivers, & much, much more |
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| WinDrivers | Full-featured drivers site. Now in "pay per view" format. Arggghhh! |
| DriversZone | Free drivers site with good archives. |
| DriverHeadquarters | Easy sign-up for free username and PW |
| FCC Search | Search for manufacturer and device type by FCC compliance |
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Secret Weapons |
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| Boot Disk Dot Com | Hey buddy, need a boot disk?. Not as cool as it used to be... |
| MS KnowledgeBase | All things MSFT |
| Device Manager Error Codes | The meaning of those strange error codes that pop up in the "Device Mangler." From the MSKB. |
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Shopping Guides |
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| PriceScan | Check out the latest & the lowest. |
| Pricewatch | Check out the latest & the lowest. |
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General Glossaries |
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| PCGuide | Just about everything you need to know & more. |
| WhatIs | Lotsa nerd-words and links. Very helpful. |
| Wikipedia | Ditto |
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Tools |
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| SYSCHK | DOS-based system
information. This is a self extracting archive file. |
| HDTach | You asked for it. Here is a program to help benchmark your hard drives. This shareware version does all you need to view your hard drive's performance in Win9x. |
| BIOS Wizard | Check your BIOS for compliancy. |
| CrashIt | Crash Windows whenever you want to - rather than when it wants to. |
| Notes about my copies of the above tools (SYSCHK, HDTach, BIOS Wizard, Crashit): Because of BCC server paranoia I had to rename these self extracting archives. Once you click the link, choose to save the application to disk rather than run it. It will then try to arrive at your computer with a final extension of <dot>z. Rename the file by removing just the <dot>z. Once you download it, double click on it to run the self extracting archive. | |
| WinTop | Great
System monitor from MSFT powertoys. This is a ZIPed archive file. |
| ATM | Another Task Manager - like WinTop on steroids! Only for the proficient or insanely curious. This is a ZIPed archive file. |
| Online A+ Tests and notes | |
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Some of these sites also
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| A braindump is when someone takes a test and then rushes out to their car (or where ever) and writes down all they can remember about the test questions. There are many of these sites out there on the net. This one has fairly current "dumps". BEWARE - manay of the answers may not be correct. Pay more attention to the questions and then go out and and VERIFY the answers. | |