PageDefrag can defragment the Windows page file, Registry hives, event logs, and the hibernation file (the area on disk where memory is saved when a notebook jumps into hibernation mode). The program optimizes these files during the PC’s bootup sequence before they’re in use.
ProcessExplorer v11.0 Released
We’re excited to announce the release of Process Explorer v11, which introduces major startup and UI performance improvements, new columns and process details for Vista I/O priorities, memory priorities, and Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) DLL and executable attributes, an enhanced security properties page that shows raw SID values, fully asynchronous thread symbol resolution, integration with UAC, and more!
Process Explorer shows you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded.
Three Really Cool Vista Visual Tweaks
Vista Service Pack 1
🙄 Not until next year.
Apparently XP SP3 will follow that.
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Beta Overview (MS Whitepaper, pdf)
While Microsoft’s continued requests for businesses to not wait for SP1 before deploying Windows Vista may seem self-serving, this week’s revelations about the feature set of the service pack suggest that this advice is sound. Windows Vista SP1 looks like a solid and necessary update, but it will not dramatically impact the end user at all. If you’re a Windows enthusiast, Vista SP1 is more a curiosity than something to get excited about. It will not include anything interesting or compelling, in an end user sense, such as a new Media Center version. (Which is also overdue, incidentally.) Hopefully, this will end the speculation. I only wish Microsoft had been this upfront about SP1 months ago. It’s been a long time coming.
Ad-Aware Now Vista Compatible
Ad-Aware is an excellent Anti-Spyware product. There is a free version and a “pay-for” version.
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Cool Tool Of The Week
I’ll be trying to introduce you to a different program every week. This week:
WinToolsXP & WinToolsVista… [Read more…] about Cool Tool Of The Week
Time To Run Windows Update
Vista has a bunch of updates & XP may have one or two for you (depending on your configuration).
Mark Russinovich – Vista Multimedia Playback and Network Throughput
THE Windows Guru explains the problem in depth. Good read.
Microsoft responds to Vista network performance issue
Little League World Series
I just watched the finals and caught several games this week.
What a pleasure to watch baseball (or any sport) being played the way it should be played. Those kids are all fantastic ball players and play with a passion that is lost in professional sports. Congratulations to the team from Columbus, Georgia for winning the series. Congratulations to the team from Kawaguchi, Japan as runner-up.