T&T Links List

Post by **U4EA** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 11:57 am

Welcome to the Official T&T links list. Links marked with a

are new links as of the last update. If you have a link you would like to add, simply post it below and I will compile the list once I get a few new ones. When you notice your link has been added, please delete your post.

Thanks To:
Survivor, FragaGeddon, Underpants?, bitWISE and all of Q3W

Last Update: All links verifed as of Sun 09/05/2021 - SoM

Store Front

Australia

AusPC Market - Reliable site .. can be a bit pricey...
i-Tech - Always get my optical drives from them...
ARC Computers - Excellent place for Sydney people (5 stores in Sydney)...

Canada

ATIC Computers - Canadian store...
Mike's Computer Shop - Vancouver BC
MemoryExpress - "Best prices in Canada"
Canada Computers - Canadian Store

UK

eBuyer - Similar to Outpost
Overclockers UK - Especially mid/high end and overclocking related hardware
AriaPC - UK general parts and electronics store

USA

FrozenCpu - all-purpose computer shop
Tigerdirect USA - Online only
Newegg - Great all-purpose computer shop
Monoprice - all-purpose store

Manufacturers

Falcon NW - Custom PC builder
Alienware - Custom PC builder owned by DELL
Western Digital - Hard Disk Mfr
Seagate - Hard Disk Mfr
Via - Chipset Mfr
AMD - CPU-GPU Mfr
Intel - CPU Mfr
nVIDIA - GPU Mfr

Anti-Virus

VirusTotal - Web based virus scanner
Avast Home Edition - a lesser known anti-virus
AVG Antivirus - Free download Anti-Virus, with full commercial ver available
Bit Defender - yet another anti-virus program
McAfee - Makers of McAfee anti-virus & virus Stinger (free)
Panda - Anti-Virus software
TrendMicro - Free online virus scan

Spyware Blocking/Cleaning

Microsoft Security Essentials - guards against viruses, spyware, and other malicious software
HijackThis - the popular spyware cleaner
BHODemon - protects you from Browser Helper Objects
AdAware - the popular Lavasoft spyware cleaner
mvps.org Hosts File - Hosts file that blocks adverts
Spybot Search&Destroy - The best spyware cleaning tool available (100% free)
SpywareGuard - Another spyware cleaning tool
Malwarebytes - Free Anti-Malware
Jotti - Upload file to scan for malware

Firewalls & Gateways

Bandwidth control - gives you full bandwidth management capability
Zone Alarm - one of the more popular Win32 firewalls

News

TechPowerUp - Tech news/reviews
Tech Report - Tech news/reviews
Gamers Nexus - Hardware news
AnandTech - Hardware news/reviews
Tom's Hardware - Hardware news/reviews
Guru3D - Hardware news/reviews
Hexus - UK based hardware news/reviews
The Register - Top UK news
Blues News - Articles on mice
Slashdot - News for nerds
ExTreme OverClocking - Good Review site for the o.c. scene
Whirlpool Guides - DDR Memory Guide

Tutorials/FAQ

SearchNetworking - Great information on networking
ASCII Table - Great table of the ASCII character list with corresponding
Microsoft - Microsoft Support page
DSLReports - The place to go for broadbrand info and diagnostics
BIOS Beep Codes - List of common beep codes from the POST
Tourist In Paradise - Linksys WRT54GL Routers: Improving Performance + Forums

Drivers/Utilities

InSpectre - check Spectre & Meltdown protection
Hiren's BootCD-PE - Bootable USB Diagnostic tools
Plop Boot Manager - boot from USB if motherboard doesn't support it
Asus Power Supply Calculator - power supply calc
Second Copy 2000 - Handy backup utility
RivaTuner - nVIDIA card tweaking tool
MajorGeeks - CNET Downloads, for the geek
Windows Compact Disk Management Script - Create a script that handles all the necessary upgrades one might want to do with a Windows NT/2000/XP CD.
NTFS Reader for DOS - Great tool for file recovery
XP PowerToys - official tweaks for Windows XP
Recuva - Hard Drive Recovery
Who Crashed - Comprehensible crash dump analyzer
HWMonitor - Check your PC temps
Macrium Disk Imaging & Cloning -Free edition
DriveImage XML Backup Software - Backup Utility
AIDA64 - PC Benchmark/Diagnostics
VeraCrypt - VeraCrypt replaced TrueCrypt
Ninite - Install and Update all your programs at once
NirSoft - lots of handy utilities
DLL-Files - get missing .dll files
TestDisk - recover partitions/make non-booting disks bootable again

Quake

Quake 3 Console Commands - All cvars for Quake 3 Arena

Misc

Molecular Expressions - Cool pictures of various objects at high magnification
Newgrounds Portal - Great collection of flash entertainment
Ninjai - The Little Ninja - Amazing Flash series
Overclocked Remix - Awesome archive of classic video game music mp3s
OpenSpeedTest - HTML5
Speedtest - Bandwidth Test
How Stuff Works - Learn something
Wolfram|Alpha - Computational Intelligence

WWW Host

Netfirms - Web hosting company

Image Editing

Krita - Digital Painting

Photopea - Online Image Editor

Let's Enhance - AI Image Enhancer

Gigapixel AI - Photo Enlargement using AI

Post by **U4EA** » Fri Feb 11, 2005 11:41 am

Updated. Btw, I'd appreciate it if you guys would help weed out bum links, preferably with updated links that work.

Post by **U4EA** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 5:28 am

Completed the list, now just gotta verify all the links.

Post by **Dr_Watson** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 12:12 pm

U4EA wrote:Updated. Btw, I'd appreciate it if you guys would help weed out bum links, preferably with updated links that work.

i used to do that periodically... but i dont have mod powers anymore... so

Post by **Survivor** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 4:40 pm

direct link to download trial version http://www.tune-up.com/download/tu2004/
link to site http://www.tuneup.com/
cleans registry and optimizes some things like internet connection. 30 day trial.

Everest home edition freeware
http://www.lavalys.com/products.php?lang=en
http://www.lavalys.com/products/downloa ... n&pageid=3
Along the likes of sisoftsandra or what was it called and wcpuid. Very nice program to check internals and such

Post by **Survivor** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 5:48 pm

Store Front
overall no probs

Anti-Virus
Avast it automatically redirects to here http://www.avast.com/eng/updates.html

Spyware blocking/cleaning
Hijack This error. Correct site here http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html

Hpguru's Hosts File not present. Random googled host file http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm

IE/SPYAD moved https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/ehowes/www/resource.htm

Firewalls & Gateways
Zonealarm changed to http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/c ... ist_za.jsp

Tiny Firewall gives error site here http://www.tinysoftware.com/home/tiny2? ... n=tf6_home

Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer
Not present, no new link found.

News
The register usa not present no new link found.

Reactor critical not sure about this one could someone check it out.

Tutorials/FAQ
Tweak Arena says it's under construction ask brisk? >edit: http://www.planetquake3.net/tweak/index2.html

Thermal Paste Info error, i think it's this http://www.insideproject.com/mambo%204. ... view&id=93

MS TCP/IP port list removed

Removing startup apps moved to http://www.sysinfo.org/startuplist.php

Drivers/Utils
Asus moved http://www.asus.com/support/download/do ... uage=en-us

PowerVR moved http://www.powervr.com/Downloads/index.asp

Ali Motherboards not found

Kazaa lite dead

Guillemot Drivers drivers accesable from main page http://uk.guillemot.com/

Windows compact disk management moved http://berns.cae.wisc.edu/files/wincd/wincd.html

Via 4-n-1 alternative http://www.viaarena.com/default.aspx?PageID=2

Drive imager file not present me thinks didn't search further.

Quake
http://www.kan.org/michael/Quake/scripts.htm scripting new

The quake3world movie source. Sadly lost maybe ask raw if he can somehow retrieve it?

Misc
The internet help desk not there anymore

Online conversions says under construction suspect dead

The Shizit dead

Webspace
No probs

Post by **U4EA** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 11:43 pm

Survivor, thanks so much for that :lub: :icon14: .. I'll update the original post soon.

Post by **U4EA** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 8:06 am

Survivor wrote:Reactor critical not sure about this one could someone check it out.

Yea, it seems to have died. It's currently showing up as if it's been taken over by a squatter of some type.

Survivor wrote:The quake3world movie source. Sadly lost maybe ask raw if he can somehow retrieve it?

I think Don Carlos is building it up again in the Quake III Movies & Demos section. We can update this one as and when they get something up.

Apart from this, I've deleted all the dead links and updated the others. Thanks again for your help :icon25: :icon14:

Post by **Underpants?** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 9:54 pm

http://www.ss64.com/nt/index.html
XP commands for the 4

Post by **Kills On Site** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 11:11 pm

http://jscustompcs.com/power_supply/ - Computer Power Watt Need Calculator

Post by **Oblivi0.on** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 8:45 pm

http://phair.csh.rit.edu/~drwatson/misc/dmmh_xp.html

Post by **Survivor** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 10:40 pm

Well that and then this program. It's a very small mp3 player which can play files without installing. My uncle recommended it to me after i asked about a simple player do play music at the school(nazi)comps. Links though are bound to go down and the official site seems to be russian. Maybe someone can save it?

STP MP3 Player (209 kb) Freeware, no install required starts in taskbar. supposed to work from floppy or usb drive, I'll get back on that.
scroll towards the bottom for downloadlinks.
http://www.webattack.com/freeware/gmm/fwmp3players.html
http://www.paltalk-hilfe.de/download/index.htm

Post by **axbaby** » Sun Mar 13, 2005 1:18 pm

haven't installed XP for well over a year
my system boots almost as fast as the day 1.
windows never crashes..my system only crashes when my watercooler runs out of wawa.
my most treasured program ..everyone should use it.
JV16Powertoolz link: http://www.jv16.org

Post by **Scourge** » Sun Mar 13, 2005 3:42 pm

U4EA wrote:
I think Don Carlos is building it up again in the Quake III Movies & Demos section. We can update this one as and when they get something up.

I saved a copy of the old movies & demos thread. If you want I could upload it and provide a link.

edit: Well here it is at any rate. Hope it's useful in some way.

Movies and demos

Post by **prince1000** » Sun Mar 13, 2005 8:37 pm

axbaby wrote:haven't installed XP for well over a year
my system boots almost as fast as the day 1.
windows never crashes..my system only crashes when my watercooler runs out of wawa.
my most treasured program ..everyone should use it.
JV16Powertoolz link: http://www.jv16.org

and in case u need to reinstall and want to slipstream use this:

http://www.autopatcher.com/autostreamer.html

the download link doesn't work and is not for the latest version but this is:

http://mhtools.knoware.nl/raptor/autost ... reamer.exe

it outputs to .iso so simply burn image w/nero.

Post by **U4EA** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 7:47 am

Nice, we got a lot of new links so I'll be updating the post at some point over the next few days :icon14:

Post by **Tormentius** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 7:08 pm

BIOS tweaking guide update, as submitted by SoM:

SoM wrote:http://www.adriansrojakpot.com/Speed_De ... _Index.htm

enjoy :icon14:

Post by **prince1000** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 11:15 pm

don't know if this fits here but free pdf reader/editor

http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php

Post by **Survivor** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 6:08 pm

http://www.pcpitstop.com
Easy pc-checkup site. requires no account just choose anonimous.

Post by **bork[e]** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 8:43 pm

Some of the sites I've been using since loading up windows 2k pro:

http://www.speedguide.net/read_articles.php?id=1404 (win2k tweaks)
http://www.speedguide.net/read_articles.php?id=157 (connection tweaks)
http://www.speedguide.net/ports.php (vulnerable ports)
http://www.speedguide.net/ports_common.php (Commonly Open Ports)
http://www.pcworld.com/howto/article/0, ... 111,00.asp (random tweaks)
http://arstechnica.com/guides/tweaks/memory-1.ars?56125 (more random tweaks)

edit: Some are for 2k & Xp, but for the most part those are all windows 2000 tweaks.

Post by **Foo** » Tue Oct 18, 2005 7:27 am

UK Hardware sites:
http://www.overclock.co.uk (NOT OVERCLOCKERS) - General hardware. Good pricing solid delivery. No problems
http://www.scan.co.uk - General hardware. Again good prices solid delivery. Have spent 1000s with them.

Post by **Survivor** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 12:27 pm

the list for services.msc in dmmh's guide is missing. Anyone have a backup?

Post by **FragaGeddon** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 8:24 am

Store Front

Canada

Tiger Direct - Computer Parts, Components, Laptop Computer Parts, Desktop Computers and Notebooks

Post by **FragaGeddon** » Sun Jan 15, 2006 12:41 pm

Survivor wrote:the list for services.msc in dmmh's guide is missing. Anyone have a backup?

dmmh had to remove it because the asshole at darkviper bitched about it.

Post by **Underpants?** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 5:43 pm

Excel/Word/Access/Powerpoint replacement
http://www.openoffice.org
1. Corners with effortless agility and more horsepower than office XP
2. built-in PDF converters
3. Compatible with most office 95-2002 documents (doesn't like mail merge all that well but WHO FUCKING USES MAIL MERGE FOR HAIRY GENITAL'S SAKE.)
4. free
5. free