CDCheck
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2000/XP Download Homepage Rating:4/5 - 697K
This program checks your CD-ROM (or some other media) and tells you which files are corrupted. It can also do a binary compare with copy on disk.

CD/DVD Diagnostic
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2000/XP Download Homepage Rating:5/5 - 1.1Mb
The CD/DVD Diagnostic program is designed to assist in determining the contents of a CD-ROM, CD-R/W or DVD. It has several useful displays that provide substantially more information than Windows or many CD mastering programs. Also, it gives you the ability to examine all of the sessions on a multi-session disc without requiring additional software. For CD-RW discs this program provides some data recovery capability. If you have a CD-RW disc with inaccessible files, CD/DVD Diagnostic may be able to access them where other programs cannot.

CD/DVD Capabilities Viewer
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP Download Homepage Rating:4/5 - 148K
Freeware
This utility displays capabilities of your CD/DVD drive (including CD/DVD Burners) not normally viewable from within Windows.

CDRom Drive Analyzer
OS: Win95/98/NT  Download Homepage Rating:4/5 - 243K
Freeware
CD-ROM Drive Analyzer Program was developed to test CD-ROM drive performance. In addition, this program will be useful for testing CD-ROM disk quality.

CDSpeed32
OS: Win95/98/NT/DOS/Unix  Download Homepage Rating:4/5 - 63K
CDspeed32 is a 32-bit multithread program for measuring CD-ROM sectors reading speed.

CD WinBench 99
OS: Win95/98/NT      Homepage    Rating: 5/5
CD WinBench 99 is a new ZD benchmark that focuses on CD-ROM operations and provides an overall comparative measure of a PC's CD-ROM subsystem's performance under Windows. Very good!

DISCInfo
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP Download Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 219Kb
Freeware
DISCInfo is a program to display hardware informations from an IDE/SCSI device under Windows operating system. The most useful thing of the program is to show useful informations about CD/DVD-ROM devices. With the latest version program is also capable of using identified info about a CD/DVD drive to pass parameters to main firmware page and look for the firmware update files on it.

DVD Speed 99
OS: Win95/98/NT      Download  Rating: 4/5 - 165K
And this is a benchmark for DVD-ROM Drive! It also performs Transfer Rate Test, Random, 1/3 and full seek test, CPU utilization test, Burst rate test, ect.

GpBench/CD
OS: Win95/98/NT4/2000         Download     Rating: 3/5 - 585Kb
Another program that measures the performance of your CD- or DVD-ROM drive.

Intel Media Benchmarks
OS: Win95/98       Download  Rating: 4/5 - 20Mb
The Intel Media Benchmark measures Video, Image Processing, 3D Graphics, and Audio performance on Windows 95/98 computer systems.

MultimediaMark 99
OS: Win95/98       Download Rating: 5/5 - 12.9Mb
MultimediaMark 99 is a benchmark that focuses on testing multimedia performance of modern PC in a "real world" environment.

Nero CD Speed
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XPDownload HomepageRating: 5/5 - 247K
Freeware
CD Speed is a CD-ROM benchmark which can test the most important features of a CD- and/or DVD-ROM drive. It performs Transfer Rate Test, Random, 1/3 and full seek test, CPU utilization test, Burst rate test, DAE quality, spinup/spindown time, ect.

Nero InfoTool
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP Download Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 147Kb
Freeware
This is an utility which analyses and displays the most important information about a CD-ROM drive, disc, configuration and software. The information can also be printed or saved to a text file.

NetInfo
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2000 Download Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 1.6Mb
Shareware
NetInfo is an award-winning ultimate network toolkit. NetInfo provides all the tools you need to help diagnose network problems and get information about users, hosts and networks on the Internet or on your Intranet. Among its key features: Local Info, Connections, Ping, Trace, Lookup, Finger, Whois, Daytime, Time, Quote, HTML, Scanner, and more! Besides, NetInfo includes the utility called IPMonitor, used to verify the network connectivity of a list of user-defined hosts.

PassMark SoundCheck
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2000/XP  Download  Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 351K
Shareware $18
PassMark SoundCheck is a Windows based application that allows users to test their PC sound card, speakers and microphone. Verify that your sound card can record and playback sounds at various sample rates. Check the capability of your speakers to reproduce the highest and lowest frequencies (and your capability to hear these frequencies). Create perfectly formed test tones and loop them back into your sound card to look for distortion.

RightMark 3DSound
OS: Win9x/Me/2k/XP  Download Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 1.9Mb
Freeware
RightMark 3DSound is a sound test, which has the following features: DirectSound-diagnostics: the conclusion is hardware supported functions for the selected DirectSound-device; check of presence of EAX1, EAX2, EAX3 support; subjective test of DirectSound3D positioning, with vertical plane support; EAX2, EAX3 reverb, occlusions and obstructions; CPU utilisation test at various number DirectSound- and DirectSound3D-buffers, and also with EAX2 reverb; special statistical data processing of CPU utilization, with average and dispertion values.

RightMark Audio Analyzer 5.0
OS: Win9x/Me/2k/XP  Download  Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 628Kb
Freeware
RightMark Audio Analyzer will test your sound card's acoustic properties, like a distortion factor, amplitude-frequency characteristic, noise level, dynamic range, et cetera. In order to work properly, it requires a full-duplex card.

RightMark Audio Analyzer
Acoustics Testing Edition
OS: Win9x/Me/2k/XP  Download Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 378Kb
Freeware
This is an edition of RightMark Audio Analyzer intended for acoustic systems testing. RMAA-AE based on the same RMAA core. There are two kinds of special testing signal in the program: music noise and swept sine. For acoustic systems testing it is advisable to use a card with exellent AFC and a special measurement microphone (for example, BEHRINGER ECM8000).

ScanCD
OS: Win95/98/NT         Download     Rating: 5/5 - 188K
Use ScanCD to perform media test of your CD-ROM disks. During testing all kinds of errors are being looked for.

SoundCheck
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 2.2Mb
Freeware
This program provides a suite of helpful test utilities for testing the audio functions on your PC, such as Wave Input/Output, MIDI, CD Audio, etc. In addition to these tests there are configuration and troubleshooting tips to help you when you are having problems with your system.

Windows XP CD-R/RW Properties
OS: WinXP  Download Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 260Kb
Freeware
Windows XP CD-R/RW Properties is an utility that allows you to view details about your CD-Recorder and the media that is inserted into the drive. This utility will show you which of your CD/DVD devices Windows XP has installed CD Recording support for.

ZD Audio Winbench 99
OS: Win95/98       Download  Rating: 5/5 - 3.89 Mb
Audio WinBench 99 measures the performance of a PC's audio subsystem, which includes the sound card and its driver, the processor, the DirectSound and DirectSound 3D software, and the speakers.

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