System Utilities

There’s a small but persistent annoyance that desktop PC users have lived with for years. Laptop owners have it easy: a brightness slider in the […]

AntiMicro turns a game controller into a keyboard and mouse. It reads every button, trigger, and stick on your gamepad and turns each one into […]

Driver Signature Enforcement Overrider (commonly called DSEO) is a small Windows utility that disables the kernel’s requirement for digitally signed drivers, letting you load unsigned […]

CmosPwd is a small command-line utility that recovers or clears the BIOS password stored in a system’s CMOS memory. The use case is narrow but […]

Most users never think about USB drivers because Windows handles them automatically. Plug something in, Windows finds the right driver from its database or downloads […]

Canon MF ToolBox is the scanning front end for Canon’s MF series of laser multifunction printers. It is a single window with a row of […]

Every memory module carries a small chip describing itself. Manufacturer, part number, the speeds it supports, the timings for each of them, the voltages required […]

UltraUXThemePatcher modifies a small set of Windows system DLLs to let the operating system load third-party visual styles that aren’t digitally signed by Microsoft. Out […]

Ventoy changes how you make a bootable USB drive, and once you understand the trick it pulls, going back to the old way feels absurd. […]

HP CoolSense is a thermal policy switch for HP laptops, and its trick is that it does not just watch temperature. It reads the motion […]

FreeMove solves a specific, nagging problem. Your system drive is full, a big program is hogging space on it, and you want that program on […]

A homebrew-enabled Wii runs its games happily from a USB drive, but getting a shelf of disc images onto that drive in a shape the […]

Memory Cleaner does two specific things to your system memory. It trims the working set of running processes, asking the operating system to release memory […]

The system’s disk checking tool has always been a command with a handful of switches, and the switches have names that explain nothing to anybody […]

MSI Dragon Center gathers the controls for an MSI gaming machine into one window. Performance profiles, fan behaviour, RGB lighting, display colour modes, a hardware […]