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ShellRunas v1.0, Autoruns v9.13, Process Explorer v11.10 Released

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Sysinternals Freeware updates and 1 new program:

ShellRunas v1.0: ShellRunas provides functionality similar to that of the Runas tool to launch programs as a different user via a convenient shell context-menu entry. This makes it more convenient than Runas for heavy Explorer users.

Process Explorer v11.10: This Process Explorer update adds a number of enhancements, including support for high DPI, display of paging and standby list sizes on Vista, and display of cycles consumed on threads tab on Vista. It also reports the COM object running inside of Dllhost processes and the tasks running inside of Vista Taskeng host processes in the process view hover tooltip.

Autoruns v9.13: Fixes bug where Autoruns could crash when looking at the icon properties of third-party DLLs.

Jalbum releases new site for personalized photo sharing

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Jalbum sent over this Press Release:

Today, Jalbum.net launches a new site for sharing of photo albums. The new site will enable the extensive Jalbum community to share their created albums, connect with others and explore thousands of album appearances.
Albums can have any look
The endless customization possibilities of Jalbum’s web album software has attracted millions of users who enjoy the control of the output of their online photo presentations. Since Jalbum albums can have any look, the new site will be a place to browse both great photos and the multitude of presentations that users produce with the software.
Photo albums can be placed on any site
With Jalbum, the photo albums can be entire web sites by themselves. Once an album is created, users may publish them to Jalbum’s free hosting alternative or any other site. The new community site will display albums that are hosted anywhere. Jalbum users will always have control of their content which includes the ability to move albums from one site to another. Jalbum will never copyright user images.
“- The Jalbum community is passionate about the presentation of photos. With the release of our new site, we are providing a better way of sharing albums created with our software. As our users often express an interest via images, this site will make it easier for them to connect with likeminded” said David Ekholm, Jalbum’s founder.

More Core's

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Interesting reading for Geeks.

Virtualization – Intel Hexes AMD
While AMD stumbles around trying to get its first errata-free Barcelona quads out two years behind Intel, Intel is off planning the launch of its six-core Dunnington microprocessor, a hex, if you will, the last of the expected Core 2-based Xeon server chips before it switches over to the Nehalem microarchitecture capable of supporting eight or more cores.

Intel, Microsoft, Uncle Sam sink big money into multicore
“With multicore, it’s like we are throwing this Hail Mary pass down the field and now we have to run down there as fast as we can to see if we can catch it.”…That’s a pretty good summary of where the software folks are at with the rapidly increasing core and thread counts that are coming out of the hardware side of the computing industry, which is why two recently announced research institutes are hoping to cook up a steroid injection that will boost the metaphorical runner’s speed.

AMD Pushes Multi-Threaded Computing With Open Source Move
To maximize the performance of multi-core processors requires multi-threaded code. “Going multi-core won’t automatically raise application performance,” Forrester analyst James Staten told LinuxInsider. “Single-threaded applications that are not multi-core-ready will not benefit much from the new generation of processors.”

CCleaner v2.05.555 Released

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CCleaner is a freeware system optimization and privacy tool. It removes unused files from your system – allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history.
v2.05.555
– Updated Index.dat cleaning in Vista.
– File scanning performance increase on NTFS drives.
– Improved exception handling methods.
– Fixed IE cache folder location bug.
– Uninstaller tool now exports foreign languages correctly.
– Fixed bug where IE temp files could be incorrectly listed.
– Performance improvements to secure deletion.
– Tweaks to Uninstall tool detection.
– Minor GUI changes.
– Minor bug fixes.

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about vLite…

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vLite is a tool for customizing the Windows Vista installation before actually installing it.
Main features are:
* hotfix, language pack and driver integration
* component removal
* unattended setup
* tweaks
* split/merge Vista installation CDs
* create ISO and burn bootable CD/DVD
Windows Vista from Microsoft takes a lot of resources, we all know that. vLite provides you with an easy removal of the unwanted components in order to make Vista run faster and to your liking. This tool doesn’t use any kind of hacking, all files and registry entries are protected as they would be if you install the unedited version only with the changes you select. It configures the installation directly before the installation, meaning you’ll have to remake the ISO and reinstall it. This method is much cleaner, not to mention easier and more logical than doing it after installation on every reinstall.

There has been a bit of news about vLite floating around this week. Let me state first off that although I’ve used nLite (this is for XP), I haven’t used vLite. Simply because it wasn’t out of beta when I installed Vista.
– Paul Thurrott and Information Week seem to have just discovered this tool. Exactly how have they not heard of this before??? 🙄
–Microsoft comes out and says don’t use it.

nlite is an excellent product and I’ve no doubt that vLite meets those same standards. Yes, it isn’t for n00bs. Yes, you should know what you are installing, uninstalling, tweaking. Yes, this means you may have to take some personal responsibility and do a little research. Gasp! Oh the horror!
Anywho, I say go for it.
vLite
nLite

JkDefrag v3.34 Is Out

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JkDefrag is a disk defragmenter and optimizer for Windows 2000/2003/XP/Vista/X64. Completely automatic and very easy to use, fast, low overhead, with several optimization strategies, and can handle floppies, USB disks, memory sticks, and anything else that looks like a disk to Windows…JkDefrag is completely free, no cost, no time limit.

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