Dan the Computer Man

Your Computer's Best Friend
In-home computer repair in the San Antonio area

Technical Information

Hard Drives and Equipment

Wiztree hard drive space analyzer or Direct download
CrystalDiskMark drive tester and benchmarker (see also CrystalDiskInfo and CrystalCPUID)
Seagate SeaTools
Western Digital Data Lifeguard Diagnostic
HD Tune hard drive tester
Heidi Eraser to wipe secondary drives from Windows
HDShredder (for completely destroying all data on a hard drive)
Acronis Drive Monitor
SanDisk SSD Dashboard
CPU-z to identify system components
SpeedFan for system temperatures
Furmark GPU stress test

Internet Speed Tests

Fast.com
Speedtest.net
Speakeasy.net

Removing Viruses

Sysinternals Tools - see what's happening in your computer
Process Explorer
AutoRuns
TCPView

Removing Antiviruses

Norton Remove and Reinstall Tool and Direct link
How to remove McAfee products and (Direct link) to McAfee Consumer Product Removal tool
avast! Uninstall Utility (Direct link)
Uninstall AVG

Bluescreen Stop Errors

Carrona's complete BSOD Index (archive)
Carrona's complete BSOD Index (original, now broken)
BlueScreenView from Nirsoft, Direct download 32 bit and 64 bit

Fixing Windows Services

Tweaking.com, automated tool to repair lots of problems in Windows.

Miscellaneous

SMS gateways (for texting from email to a cell phone)
Country code top-level domains
Area codes and Area code lookup
Currencies
Languages
Hosts file to filter out ads and garbage

Discs

Ultimate Boot CD for tons of hardware tests etc. etc. (see Mirror Sites for download links)
Puppy Linux, a live boot CD
Active@ ISO Burner to burn any ISO file to CD or DVD
RapidCRC for verifying downloads

Dan's Technical Notes

Tips, Commands, Fixes
Viruses, Microsoft KB articles, Email, ISPs
Software & Websites
Long Procedures, Registry Keys