Installable or Portable Software to view your GPU specification and performance.
Prime95 Software for CPU stress testing
Performing a stress test is simple:
- Download the software and unzip the files to your desired location.
- Run the Prime95 executable and select “Just Stress Testing” when asked.
- The default options are sufficient to do a well balanced stress test on the system.
HWiNFO – Professional System Information and Diagnostics Software
Comprehensive Hardware Analysis, Monitoring and Reporting for Windows and DOS. https://www.hwinfo.com/
Portable, 32bit and 64bit versions.
Windows 10 Update Assistant and Media Creation Tool
If you need to create Windows 10 installation media – DVD or USB drive or you need help with an update go to this Microsoft web-page.
Kingston USB 3 Memory Stick (Multi-Gigabyte choice of capacity)
Micro-sized tough all metal enclosure with high speed USB 3 interface, usually your device will have a blue insert in the socket if it can run at the higher speed.
Links for 64 Gb – 32 Gb – 16 Gb sizes
Apple iCloud App Specific Passwords for Email
When your apple email password doesn’t work when adding an account to a non-apple third-party devices and apps.
You need to use an App Specific Password which you can generate from your Apple ID Account Page
Read more: Link to Apple Support
Free Screen Recording & Streaming Presentation Software
OBS – Open Broadcaster Software can be used to capture video and audio from your streaming devices and your desktop.
If you already have Microsoft Office then Powerpoint might be another alternative:
Microsoft Windows Tool to Fix Install and Uninstall issues
Fix problems that block programs from being installed or removed
- Corrupted registry keys on 64-bit operating systems
- Corrupted registry keys that control the update data
- Problems that prevent new programs from being installed
- Problems that prevent existing programs from being completely uninstalled or updated
- Problems that block you from uninstalling a program through Add or Remove Programs (or Programs and Features) in Control Panel
Windows 10 Freezes and Unresponsive soon after log-on – Problem Fix – uninstall McAfee Anti Virus
The symptoms for this problem are that Windows 10 suddenly freezes shortly after logging in. The screen stops updating, the mouse and keyboard are unresponsive. The particular PC seen with this was a Toshiba Satellite C70-A with Pentium Processor. When restarted in Safe Mode the machine ran and repsonded normally. The issue was caused on this particular machine by McAfee LiveUpdate Anti Virus. By uninstalling the McAfee software in Safe Mode and restarting everything was back to normal. On this this machine the McAfee subscription had already expired.
If you suspect this may be a problem and you have enough time to start the task manager [CTRL+SHIFT+ESC] look for a McAfee Scanner service taking a high percentage of your CPU time!