Windows Vista

CCleaner 2.0 Final Is Out

September 12, 2007, 14:54(EDT) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

CCleaner v2.00.500 has been released and is the first 2.0 version to be marked as “final” (non-beta).

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.

Full list of features.
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***Only the standard build is available as of this writing. Be sure to uncheck the Yahoo toolbar during install!

ATI Catalyst 7.9's Are Out

September 10, 2007, 15:57(EDT) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

ATI has new drivers out for XP & Vista (32 & 64-bit).

Cool Tool Of The Week – SIW

September 6, 2007, 14:36(EDT) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

This is one of my all-time favorite tools. Anyone who works on or with computers will at some point or another find this tool indispensable.
System Information for Windows – “Everything you want to know about your PC”.
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TechNet Magazine Spotlight on PageDefrag

September 5, 2007, 14:55(EDT) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

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.

More at Technet

ProcessExplorer v11.0 Released

September 5, 2007, 14:52(EDT) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

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

September 5, 2007, 14:35(EDT) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

How To Get Glass Notifications, 3D Animated Icons and Large Taskbar Thumbnails in Windows Vista. Pretty neat eye candy.

Vista Service Pack 1

August 29, 2007, 19:20(EDT) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

🙄 Not until next year.

Apparently XP SP3 will follow that.

Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Beta Overview (MS Whitepaper, pdf)

Ed Bott

Mary Jo Foley

Paul Thurrott

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.