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Backup WHS online with keepvault

November 24th, 2009 / No Comments » / by Chris

http://www.keepvault.com/products.php

Posted in: Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, Windows XP, windows home server

Game Key Revealer

November 13th, 2009 / No Comments » / by Chris

Game Key Revealer retrieves the CD-Key and Serial for installed games on computer. If you lost legal CD-Keys or Serials of your purchased games, you can find them with help of Game Key Revealer.

Source: Game Key Revealer

Posted in: Games, Software, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP

Bluescreen view

August 18th, 2009 / No Comments » / by Chris

BlueScreenView scans all your minidump files created during ‘blue screen of death’ crashes, and displays the information about all crashes in one table. For each crash, BlueScreenView displays the minidump filename, the date/time of the crash, the basic crash information displayed in the blue screen (Bug Check Code and 4 parameters), and the details of the driver or module that possibly caused the crash (filename, product name, file description, and file version).
For each crash displayed in the upper pane, you can view the details of the device drivers loaded during the crash in the lower pane. BlueScreenView also mark the drivers that their addresses found in the crash stack, so you can easily locate the suspected drivers that possibly caused the crash.

Sourcew: nirsoft

Posted in: Software, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP

Make Firefox 3 or 3.5 look like the Firefox 3.7 new theme mockup

July 27th, 2009 / No Comments » / by Chris

not much else to say!

Source: Download Squad

Posted in: Software

Fences .98 beta

July 20th, 2009 / No Comments » / by Chris

Fences is a one-of-a-kind program, allowing you to draw labeled shaded areas on your desktop, which become movable & resizable containers for your desktop icons. These groups can help bring organization and consistency to your computer’s desktop

This update brings a number of fixes and compatibility updates. Most notably we have drastically increased the support and performance of Fences on Windows 7. Regardless of which version of Windows you are using, Fences is the ultimate way to keep your desktop organized.

Fences can be downloaded for free via Impulse, or at the Fences website.

Posted in: Software, Windows 7, Windows Vista

Monitor registry/file changes during installs

July 16th, 2009 / No Comments » / by Chris

need to know what the <whatever trialware> installer put on your system? Try WhatChanged?

WhatChanged is freeware and is simple to use. It is able to scan and compare what are new registry keys or files that have been added. To use this tool, there are only two simple steps that you need to perform. First, you need to select items which you want to trace, either files or registry or both, then click Step #1: Get Baseline State button to get snapshot of registry or files before changes as a baseline. To know what items have been captured, you can get it from the output file generated at the same folder as WhatChanged tool. Secondly, once you have done the installation, click Step #2: Find what changed since Step #1 button. It will then compare and find out differences between the snapshot of before change and after change. The finding is generated in the text file which you can get it at the same folder as the WhatChanged tool. From the finding, you will know what are the new registry keys or files being added during the installation. If you find they still exist after you have uninstalled the software, then you can go and delete them manually since you already know and confirm they are no longer needed anymore.

Download

Posted in: Software, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, Windows XP

AVI Move to Folder Utility

July 15th, 2009 / No Comments » / by Chris

This little utility adds a new context menu (right mouse click on AVI file(s) or on a folder containing AVI files) to Windows®™ and simply movies any AVI file to its own directory/folder.

Lets say you have myfile1.avi, my file2.avi, yourfile3.avi, your_file 4.avi in a folder called movies. After installing the utility, simply right mouse click on the folder and you will see a new option as seen in the images below. Select the "Move AVIs to own folder" option and the utility will create a new sub folder for each AVI file using the name of the file as the folder name. i.e. your_file 4.avi would be moved to \movies\your_file 4\your_file 4.avi from \movies\your_file 4.avi. Alternatively, If you only want to move say three AVI files, you can highlight the files you want to move, and then simply right mouse click on the selected files and select "Move to own folder". The same process happens, each file has a sub folder created using each file name and each file is moved to the respective folder.

Source: www.simplify-i-t.com

Posted in: Media Center, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP

x64 Components addon

July 1st, 2009 / No Comments » / by Chris

This release contains x64 versions of the Haali media splitters and a stable release of the subtitle render, DirectVobSub for x64. This release is designed to compliment the 32bit release packages. The x64 Components addon requires the 32bit release to be installed as a prerequisite.

The latest release contains a 64bit Settings Application which enables the user to choose a different splitters ‘on the fly’ for specific filetypes. The application will also allow you to choose from 10 different speaker configurations from ’same as input’ and all the way up to full 7.1 channel output.

Some Useful Information

2 versions of Windows Media Player exist on x64 systems

• There is a 32bit version stored in \Program Files (x86)\
• and a 64bit version stored in \Program Files\

The Settings Application will allow you to choose the system’s default player.

Observation noted

One other aspect of Windows Media Player(s) on x64 systems needs to be mentioned. If you associate a particular filetype to open with WMP while the system default is set to use the 64bit player, that filetype will always open the 64bit player when double-clicked. This occurs even if you change the system default back to using the 32bit player.

changelog:

- Unify the installers into a single package
- add DirectShow testing and file renderer
- Update FFDshow to rev 3020
- it is important to UNINSTALL you old version

Source: Start64

Shark007’s codecs

Posted in: Windows 7, codec

Windows 7 Gmail notifier application

June 2nd, 2009 / No Comments » / by Chris

Neowin member daty2k1 has released a Windows 7 Gmail application.

The notifier is similar to the current official Google notifier application that sits in the system tray and notifies users of new messages in their Gmail inbox.

This version of the notifier is tuned for Windows 7 only and runs as a task bar application:

When the application detects a new mail it shows the following notifications:

Posted in: Software, Windows 7

Enable multitouch on synaptics touchpad

June 2nd, 2009 / No Comments » / by Chris

Posted in: Software, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, Windows XP