What are the best tools for .....?

Question

can you ell me what are the best tools for password recovery, file recovery and other things like diagnostics etc. I want to start offering people my services localy as an ICT Repair guy and already am employed as such, I just want to branch out and offer better services. This is a legit thing so please only give sensible answers.

Answer 1

Restoration and PC Inspector File recovery are free
http://www.snapfiles.com/reviews/Restoration/restoration.html
http://www.filehippo.com/download_file_recovery/
better
File Scavenger
http://www.snapfiles.com/reviews/File_Scavenger/filescavenger.html

Sysinternals has some excellent tools
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities.html
WinAudit is a great auditor
http://www.pxserver.com/WinAudit.htm
SIW - system info tool (free)
http://www.gtopala.com/
CPU-Z
http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php
WinSpeedUp is an excellent optimizer
http://www.scriptsoft.de/english/winspeedup.php
Similarly, Advanced windowscare - free
http://www.snapfiles.com/reviews/Advanced-WindowsCare/WindowsCare.html
CCleaner - all round cleaning utility and free registry cleaner
http://www.ccleaner.com/
Everest Free Edition - now unsupported but a great system diagnostic tool
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4181.html
Fresh Diagnose - for benchmarks and diagnosis (free)
http://www.snapfiles.com/reviews/Fresh_Diagnose/freshdiagnose.html
FreshUI - optimizer and tweaker (free)
http://www.snapfiles.com/reviews/Fresh_UI/freshui.html
What's running - excellent free process viewer
http://www.whatsrunning.net/whatsrunning/main.aspx
All-in-one Secretmaker - free swiss army knife utility
http://www.secretmaker.com/
Winsock Xp Fix
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/winsockxpfix.html

hope you find some of these useful

two sites you should scour for other utilities are snapfiles and majorgeeks

Answer 2

Winternals is a great set of tools. I also use the freeware utilites available at sysinternals.com. Lost passwords are best left lost. Reset them and move on.