Shane's Toolbox
What is Shane's Toolbox?
For all my little apps I make to help with a problem or to fix something, I add
to this page (All of these tools are FREE). These are not full blown programs,
they are tools to get a job done. Any small app or tool I make will find its
home in my toolbox :-)
-Shane
Questions or problems? Post it here :-)
http://forums.pcwintech.com/index.php?board=35.0
Physical Disk Speed Monitor
This program I made to help see how a hard drive is doing. When a customers
machine is running rather slow, seeing the current speed of the drive helps in
multiple ways. By seeing the speed of the drive I can tell if something is using
the drive heavily or do a simple copy and paste test of a large file to see how
the drive does. Normally a slow drive is a sign that it is time to replace it.
Example: I have a drive that is rated at 75mb/s and with nothing else using the
drive I can only max it out at 25mb/s, this is a sign the drive is failing and
needs replaced. (Always make sure the right drivers are installed in the system
as well for the hard drive controllers :-)
Other possible uses are to measure the drive speed when using a program.
This program requires .Net 2.0
Detect Multiple Routers
This program I made to help users determine if they are behind multiple routers.
When port forwarding being behind more than one router will keep port forwarding
from working without some extra configuration. This tool now makes that easier
for the user. The program looks for known private IP's along the route the
computer takes to the internet.
Repair IE
This tool will reregister all of Internet Explorers files. Many of my programs
use IE to load web pages, some times IE can be broken. This has been found to
help fix IE quite well :-)
Repair MDAC
Same as the repair IE tool. This will repair the MDAC on a system by
reregistering the files. Some of my programs use a MS Access database and MDAC
is needed for my program to read and write to the databases.
Test MDAC
This will test the MDAC on a system by
connecting to a database and reporting any errors (All test results are stored
in the log.txt file). Some of my programs use a MS Access database and MDAC
is needed for my program to read and write to the databases.
Repair Network
This small app will repair your network.
I use this app when I need to renew my IP address, clear the DNS cache because a
network share or webpage isn't loading (Because the DNS cache is either corrupt
or outdated) and so fourth.
