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nLite 1.4.5 Final

May 8, 2008, 14:21(EDT) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

Fully updated for XP SP3. nLite home page.

Tagged With: Cool Tools, Windows XP

The Freeware XP Machine

May 8, 2008, 14:10(EDT) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

New article up.

The Freeware XP Machine

Comments go in the articles comment section.

Tagged With: Cool Tools, Freeware, This Site, Windows XP

Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 Official

May 1, 2008, 14:01(EDT) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

Download it from the T-Bird home page. Fixes 2 security issues.

Tagged With: Cool Tools, Freeware

CCleaner v2.07.575

April 28, 2008, 13:20(EDT) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

– Firefox 3.0 support added.
– Fixed bug where figures were missing for KB/MB sizes.
– Fixed bug where some IE cookies were being missed.
– Improved scan time accuracy.
– Internal memory management improvements.
– Registry settings moved to HKCU\Software\Piriform\CCleaner.
– Fixed bug where CC could get locked in System Tray.
– Renamed MSN Messenger to Windows Live Messenger.
– Added MS Office Picture Manager to applications.
– Fixed uninstaller tool bug on 64-bit OS.
– Minor GUI improvements.
– Minor bug fixes.

Download CCleaner v2.07.575 (slim).

Tagged With: Computer News, Cool Tools, Freeware

AVG Free 8.0

April 26, 2008, 14:08(EDT) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

AVG Free 8.0 is now available. Get it from FreewareFiles.
Press Release

Tagged With: Computer News, Cool Tools, Freeware, Security

PerfectDisk 2008 Service Pack 2 (Build 52)

April 20, 2008, 13:02(EDT) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

# New Feature
* Improved boot time defragmentation performance — up to 5 times faster. Results will vary based on number of files, file sizes and drive size.

[Read more…] about PerfectDisk 2008 Service Pack 2 (Build 52)

Tagged With: Computer News, Cool Tools

Sysinternal Tools Updated

April 16, 2008, 18:56(EDT) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

Bugfixes
Updates: Process Explorer v11.13, Process Monitor v1.31, and Handle v3.31

Tagged With: Computer News, Cool Tools

ReNamer 5.25 Released

April 9, 2008, 22:38(EDT) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

ReNamer is a (FREE)very powerful and flexible file renaming tool.
Download

Tagged With: Cool Tools

Sysinternals Process Explorer v11.12, Process Monitor v1.30 Released

April 8, 2008, 13:58(EDT) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

Process Explorer v11.12, Process Monitor v1.30, Handle v3.31, and a new blog post from Mark

Process Explorer v11.12: This update includes a number of minor enhancements and bug fixes, including support for tracking commit and non-paged pool limits.

Process Monitor v1.30: This major update adds support for importing and exporting filters, records system information in log files, presents more information about specific operations, includes translation of additional operation error codes, and tracks CPU and memory activity that it displays in a revamped process summary dialog.

Handle v3.31: This update unifies the drivers used by Handle and Process Explorer.

Marks Blog: “The Case of the System Process CPU Spikes” – See Mark’s latest blog entry where he demonstrates how he used Process Explorer to track down a device driver causing CPU usage spikes.

Tagged With: Computer News, Cool Tools, Freeware, Windows Vista, Windows XP

SIW 2008-04-02 is available

April 2, 2008, 15:13(EDT) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

SIW – System Information for Windows is a free tool that gives you detailed system specs.

4/1/2008
* Added “Security” module.
* Added WinPE 2.1 Support.
* Added U3 Support.
* Enhanced “Updates” module. It shows “Installed Updated” and “Missing Updates”. The “Missing Updates” module will connect to windowsupdate.microsoft.com
* Enhanced “Ports” module.
* Added detection of Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007. Thanks to Jan Romanowski.
* Fixed “/silent” option.
* Support for new hardware and software.
* Support for the latest Intel and AMD CPUs.
* Updated device database.
* Minor improvements.
* Bugfixes.

Download & Info

Tagged With: Computer News, Cool Tools, Freeware, Windows Vista, Windows XP

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