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SIW 1.71 is available
SIW is an advanced System Information for Windows tool that gathers detailed information about your system properties and settings and displays it in an extremely comprehensible manner.
New Vista Video
Vista Sucks! (may not be safe for work)
Windows Update automatically changing user settings (again)
After Patch Tuesday this week (October 9), some Windows Vista users noticed something strange: Windows Update had changed their Automatic Update settings and rebooted their machines automatically without their consent.
Story at ZDNet
FWIW, it didn’t happen on the 2 machines I have Vista installed on…
Cool Tool Of The Week: SyncToy
SyncToy 1.4 for Windows Vista is available as a free download from the Microsoft Download Center. The easy to use, customizable application helps you copy, move, rename, and delete files between folders and computers.
This is a FREE program from Microsoft. I use this program religiously and highly recommend it.
Works on XP & Vista.
Download & Info
See also: Synchronizing Images and Files in Windows XP Using Microsoft SyncToy
Tweaking Windows Vista – A guide to Tweak & Optimize Vista
I’ve just finished Version 1.5 of Tweaking Windows Vista – A guide to Tweak & Optimize Vista.
Hope ya like it!
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Tweaking Windows Vista
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Thanks,
Eric
Time To Run Windows Update
Updates available for 2K, XP, 2K3, Vista, IE 6, IE 7, Outlook, Outlook Express, etc…
Top 10 Wi-Fi Boosts, Tweaks and Apps
No doubt you’ve got a home wireless network or you’ve connected to hotspots at the local coffee shop or airport—but are you getting the most out of your Wi-Fi? Whether you want to strengthen, extend, bridge, secure, sniff, detect, or obscure your signal, today we’ve got our top 10 best Wi-Fi utilities and tweaks for the power wireless user.
IE7Pro
Nice add-on for IE7 users with added script blocker cookies and temp files cleaned automatically.
Please check it out.
http://www.ie7pro.com/
Update and Blog on ProcessMonitor v1.25
ProcessMonitor v1.25: Minor bug fixes.
ProcessMonitor Blog on “The Case of the Failed File Copy”: Check out Mark’s new blog where he uses Process Monitor to uncover the root cause for a file copy error. Process Monitor is uniquely useful for exposing file, registry, and process activity within Windows.