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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.
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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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CCleaner 2.04.543 Is Out

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v2.04.543
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– Added system tray icon when background cleaning.
– Added minimize to system tray option.
– Optimized file deletion routines.
– Improved Firefox file analysis speed.
– Added text status info for slow cleaning processes.
– Added program icons to the uninstall tool.
– Fixed bug with saving window location when maximized.
– Fixed bug with 64bit OS registry keys.
– Fixed cookie issue with foreign language usernames.
– Fixed bug with running CCleaner as a scheduled task.
– Added Netscape 9.0 support.
– Updated Antivir and Foxit Reader cleaning.
– Minor GUI tweaks and fixes.
– Other minor bug fixes.

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