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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

Microsoft Security Essentials final

September 29th, 2009 / No Comments » / by Chris

Finally, after a year-long development phase, Microsoft Security Essentials has been publicly released. If you can’t wait to get your hands on Microsoft’s latest security software, you don’t need to wait any longer.

Download: Windows XP (32 bit)
Download: Windows Vista & Windows 7 (32 bit)
Download: Windows Vista & Windows 7 (64 bit)

Posted in: Windows 7, Windows Vista

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

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.

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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

How to Create Bootable USB Drive to Install Windows Vista/7?

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

This tutorial will help you in creating a bootable USB drive of Windows Vista which you can use to install Vista in any system. It might become very useful when you don’t have access to DVD drive.

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Posted in: Windows 7, Windows Vista

launch UAC restricted programs at startup with Task Scheduler

June 12th, 2009 / No Comments » / by Chris

When you start Microsoft Windows Vista have you encountered a warning message in the notification area like the one shown in Figure A that indicates that Vista has blocked a startup program? The reason that this type of warning is displayed is because Vista discovered a program that has User Account Control (UAC) restrictions in either the startup process or logon process. When this happens, Software Explorer blocks the program and displays the warning message in the Notification area.

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Posted in: Windows 7, Windows Vista

Enable multitouch on synaptics touchpad

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

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