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Brink's Tools
A log of all the useful tools I've come across to solve technical problems I've come across. Indexed as best as possible to help you find what you need!
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This site is meant to be an index of all the tools I have used and what they're good at.
Search this page with tags (simple words related to what you want to do) to find tools related to what you want)
This includes free alternatives of paid programs like adobe Premiere and After Effects.
(Search the name of the program you want to replace to find an alternative)
If all else fails, you can just scroll.
Windows Media Creation tool
tags: Windows boot errors, windows running slowly, creating a windows install disk, create restore disk
MiniTool Partition Wizard
tags: Getting pesky USB drives to format properly in windows,
Cloning a single partition or entire disk to another drive, USB drive errors, Sata drive errors
Formatting, Format. see also: Windows Disk Management (Right click windows icon), CloneZilla
Tags: What's taking up all my storage? drive is full, full drive, sort media by type
Display Driver Uninstaller (DDU)
tags: Graphics Driver errors, uninstall graphics driver, uninstall nvidia driver,
uninstall AMD driver, reinstall video card driver
tags: see devices on network, device ip address, router ip address, see new devices on network,
see missing devices on network, network devices,
tags: Overclock Intel CPU, Overclock from Windows, Easy Overclock, Overclocking,
tags: Adobe Premiere, Sony Vegas, Final Cut Pro, mild After Effects replacement (Some point tracking), Blackmagic Fusion (now rolled in as part of Resolve)
tags: Windows Key, Microsoft Office Key, Key finder, List Installed Programs
tags: control program network usage, limit internet speed, see program network speed, block internet access for program. see also: GLASSWIRE
Glasswire
tags: Internet graph, block program to internet, see also: NETLIMITER
tags: Clone disk, Clone entire disk, clone windows install, PERFECT clone, Copy disk to disk
Clone disk to SSD, clone.
See also: Minitool partition wizard,
Windows Disk Management (Right click windows icon)
tags: Data Recovery, Bad Sector, Dying disk, dead hard drive, Recover data, Find lost data
WARNING: Do NOT use this program on physically damaged disks, as it will attempt to read the disk and cause more damage. Take/send the disk to Drive Savers, Louis Rossmann's NYC location, or a similar hard drive recovery location.
tags: repair guides, repair tools, teardown, electronics internals, internal photos, screwdriver kit