Peakdesign
... the Utilities. Free. These are tools we made for our own needs. If
they help you too, great. If you get a headache reading this stuff, go to
blondes.com.
Click to download, save to disk. More coming.
Please report bugs, delight, complaints to:
development@peakdesign.com
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| PDTrace A graphical network trace utility with a chart etc. Cool toy. 330 kb zipped
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Wondering where your internet connection
bottlenecks are, and how data travels on the 'Net? Want to test the speed of your new
connection? You need a Traceroute program. You enter a target address, like www.whitehouse.gov, and click Trace. This utility
shows the route taken, shows time to intermediate hops in a grid, saves the target
addresses you've traced to for re-use, and displays a graph of response times. It also can
copy the results into the clipboard so you can write learned complaint letters to your
provider. Zipped Win32 executable and 4 support files. Unzip together to a new folder. Version 1.039 6/10/1999 |
| PKWinver Just shows you exactly what type and version of Windows you are running. 150kb zipped.
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This seemingly simple question is actually never well answered in any of the standard Windows thingies. There is such a thing as the formal platform and version number, buried deep within the registry. Programmers especially need to know this when they test setup scripts and such. Just unzip and run it anywhere. |
| ShowMan Adds a menu to the Explorer to display used disk space in the selected disk or directory. 240kb zipped
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Disk space may be cheaper, but there's
never enough. Want to know what's eating your disk space? This graphical utility shows a
pie chart of usage, directory by directory, including NTFS compressed files and folders,
allocated space versus nominal file sizes, etc. You can double-click on folders to drill
down deeper. No installation required. Standalone executable, unzip somewhere and run
once. It will add a handy "Usage Pie Chart" right-click menu option to the
Windows Explorer that will show you exactly who the disk-hogs are. Version 2.257 7/3/1999. Bug: Compressed Mac files on NTFS partitions are not accurately measured. Who cares? If Steve Jobs pays us, we'll fix it. |
| EnumServ Shows active vs. inactive Services and Drivers under NT/2K/XP (only). 43 Kb
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Background services and drivers
under Windows NT/2K/XP run outside user space, so talking to them requires a little indirection. This
is a command line application to show their status. Option switches
(shown upon command execution with no parameters) include -s for services, -d for drivers,
-a for active, -i for inactive. Thus "enumserv -sa" shows active services,
-di shows inactive drivers, etc. All switches should be entered together, following
the - or / delimiter. No need to unzip, the file is simply a 43k executable, not
a compressed EXE. Not applicable to Win95/98/Me. Version 1.2 7/30/1997. |
| DragReg Lets you drag and drop ActiveX (i.e. COM) files to register and unregister components and system ActiveX files. 174 Kb zipped
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Although end users occasionally have a
need to do this explicitly, e.g. to repair a broken configuration, system administrators and
developers of ActiveX/COM objects (like us) really need this. We
usually waste a LOT of time struggling with the system as to
which version of which COM object is the currently active one. This is a direct cure. Different
COM server types (.DLL, .OCX, .TLB, .EXE) require different registration procedures, so we
created this single program that handles all formats in a clean and transparent way. You
can even drag and drop several files onto the Register or Unregister region, and they are
all handled at once. This is a zipped Win32 executable. No installation required, it's
standalone, just unzip somewhere handy. |
| StraightUpNYC Palm Pilot self-installing subsidized app. The birth of a whole nother sickening new trend. An editable list of NYC hot spots with a Banner Ad and stuff. 50kb, self-installing.
Q: What is a Palm
Pilot? |
OK, this is not really a
Tool tool. It was actually a beta (of a tOoL) for a decidedly commercial venture
called StraightUpNYC.
Be at the PC you HotSync on, click on
the image on the left, and tell it to "Open" or "Run this program from its
current location". Yeah, yeah,
you'll get all the "No Authenticode Signature" warnings. Keep
going. Have
faith. Then
just HotSync your PalmPilot. Bingo. Version 0.91 9/28/1999. |
Want a Quick FAQ?
Q: Do these Utilities run under Windows 95 or 98?
A: In principle, unequivocally, probably. Unless they say NT/2K/XP only. We do all our work on Windows 2000, not 9X, because we value reliability. But, hey, these tools appear to work OK under Win9X.
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