Cool Tools

Firefox 3.6.4 Official

June 22, 2010, 17:09(EDT) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

Firefox 3.6.4 has been released. Download it or update from within the program (Help > Check for Updates).

Firefox 3.6.4 provides uninterrupted browsing for Windows and Linux users when there is a crash in the Adobe Flash, Apple Quicktime or Microsoft Silverlight plugins.
If a plugin crashes or freezes, it will not affect the rest of Firefox. You will be able to reload the page to restart the plugin and try again.
Firefox 3.6.4 also fixes the following issues found in previous versions of Firefox 3.6:
* Fixed several security issues.
* Fixed several stability issues.

Thunderbird 3.0.5

June 18, 2010, 10:59(EDT) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

Download Thunderbird 3.0.5 or update from within the program (Help > Check for updates).

What’s New in Thunderbird 3.0.5
* This release improves the performance of indexing messages and accessing profiles stored on a network.
* This release also improves the unread email notification on Mac OS X.
* Several fixes to the user interface.

Acronis Disk Director 11 Home

June 15, 2010, 13:37(EDT) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

Acronis has released the much anticipated and overdue Disk Director 11 Home.
The main feature of this version that most of us have been waiting here is Windows 7 support!
Buy the Full Version
or
Buy The Upgrade

See this page for a feature list and screenshot.

Autoruns v10.01

June 15, 2010, 11:21(EDT) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

Autoruns v10.01: This fixes a bug in the Registry jump-to function for HKCU registry paths.

Microsoft (Sysinternals) Freeware Updates

June 9, 2010, 07:09(EDT) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

Microsoft (Sysinternals) freeware apps updated including Autoruns v10, Process Explorer v12.04, and Sigcheck v1.7.
See this Sysinternals blog post for download and info.

Cool Downloads, etc.

June 2, 2010, 14:38(EDT) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

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

May 26, 2010, 17:14(EDT) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

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.