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Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi series driver 2.18.0015

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I guess hell has frozen over! Creative has released new X-Fi Drivers for Windows 7. The last set was released in June of last year.
Download Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi series driver 2.18.0015

Take note of the following:
* This download currently supports Windows 7 only. Support for Windows Vista and Windows XP will be available at a later date.

This download supports the following audio devices only:
* Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer Fatal1ty® Professional Series
* Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum Fatal1ty Champion Series
* Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic
* Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer
* Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum
* Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty
* Sound Blaster X-Fi Elite Pro
* Sound Blaster X-Fi

Fixes:
Resolves the following issues:
* System taking more than two minutes to shut down.
* PowerDVD® DX 8.3 (Dell® version) not working properly.
* Passthrough of Dolby®/DTS® audio to an external decoder not working with Windows Media Player 12.

Requirements:
* Microsoft Windows 7 64-bit or Windows 7 32-bit
* Sound Blaster X-Fi audio devices listed above

Cool Downloads, etc.

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There have been a few cool software releases over the last few days so I thought I would post them.

1 – The late, great X-Setup has gone belly-up. They made the last version available for free. See MajorGeeks for the install version or the portable version. The key is in the ReadMe.txt file.

2 – Paragon’s Partition Alignment Tool & Whitepaper is free for a limited time. ( “solves misalignment problems on 4K hard disk drives, SSD, RAID, SAN and in virtual environments” ) Head over to The Windows Club for download and info. I’ve not had a chance to test it.

3 – OpenOffice 3.2.1 final has been released (unofficially at this point). See MajorGeeks for the download.

4 – RAMMap v1.0. This shows everthing you want to know about your memory use. I downloaded this a few weeks ago and haven’t had much time to play with it. One thing I’ve noticed is that if you run it from a drive other than the drive your OS is on some anomalies will show. This will eventually make it to the Cool Tools section. Go to Sysinternals for download and info.

5 – PerfectDisk 11 Service Pack 2 (Build 174) has been released. Download it from within the program. See the PerfectDisk blog post for more info.

6 – Firefox and Thunderbird updates that were supposed to be out already should be out any day now. So keep an eye out for that.

CCleaner 2.32 Released

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Download CCleaner (slim)

CCleaner v2.32.1165
* Added support for Microsoft Office 2010.
* Added Opera search field history cleaning.
* Added Real Player SP cleaning.
* Added “Analyze” and “Clean” context menu options to rule tree parent nodes.
* Added “Restore default settings” button to Advanced Options.
* Improved Opera favicons cleaning.
* Improved support for Media Player Classic.
* Improved cleaning of shortcuts on 64-bit machines.
* Improve localization support.
* Fixed bug with Russian translation.
* Minor bug fixes.