gPodder – Free audio & Video podcast downloader in Windows

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gPodder is a simple, free opensource software (licensed under GPLv3) to download free audio and video content (“podcasts”) from the Internet and watch it on your computer or on the go on your mobile or iPod. gPodder can support [...]

sc utility – control Windows Services from command line

SC is a simple command line utility that can be used to communicate, control or query the Service Control Manager in Windows. “sc” should work in Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2003/2008. “sc” is quite powerful that it can control services locally and on remote systems. “sc” can query details, start,stop, configure [...]

TreeSize – Free Disk Space utlization reporting tool for Windows

TreeSize is a simple but cool utility with little to no overhead on your system to quickly report on ths space utlization of disk(s) in your system. Tree size quickly scans the various folders in the selected drive and then arranges the parent folders in descending order of space usage in explorer style structure so [...]

Enable/Disable response to ICMP Type 17 address request messages in local network

Networked Computers can send ICMP Type 17 messages to know the subnet mask of the local network. Only hosts configured to be routers or gateways can respond to these messages. By default Windows hosts do not respond to ICMP Type 17 (Address request) messages as restriced by RFC 1122.

DHCP & Static IP Settings in Windows Registry

Have you ever wondered where the network configuration settings like IP Address Subnet mask or the same settings provided by your DHCP server (propably your home broadband router) on a network interface or a wireless interface are stored on your computer?
Undoubtedly, these are stored in the Windows registry. While there is no need to change [...]