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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

IE7Pro 2.2 Released

March 31, 2008, 12:06(EDT) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

IE7Pro is a must have add-on for Internet Explorer, which includes a lot of features and tweaks to make your IE friendlier, more useful, secure and customizable.
Changelogs: IE7Pro 2.2 (Mar 31,2008):
1.Added Support for Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1
2.Added support for Left Mouse button in Mouse Gestures.
3.Open module API
4.Support block https AD
5.MiniDM now shows details of the current download jobs in the tip from tray icon
6.New Action: Go to parent directory
7.Livebookmark can recover last version
8. Update switch from backgroud to page mode.
9. Fix Bug: Adblock change “<>” to “<<" 10. Fix Bug: "javascript:" alike url don't pop new tab

Download & Info

Tagged With: Computer News, Cool Tools, Freeware

Firefox 2.0.0.13 Official

March 25, 2008, 18:30(EDT) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

Firefox 2.0.0.13 is now officially out (security update).
Hit up the Firefox Homepage to download or go to Help > Check for updates in Firefox.
OpenSUSE users, it is available in the repos.

Tagged With: Computer News, Cool Tools, Freeware

CCleaner v2.06.567 Is Out

March 25, 2008, 13:29(EDT) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

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.
[25th March 2008]
CCleaner v2.06
– Added Google Firefox Toolbar history cleaning.
– Winapp.ini is now embedded in the main EXE.
– Added ability to override default embedded INI files with:
winsys1.ini, winreg1.ini and winapp1.ini.
– Updated ability to append to default embedded INI files with:
winsys2.ini, winreg2.ini and winapp2.ini.
– Updated system info code to support Win2k8.
– Improved IE History cleaning with .DAT files.
– Improved accessibility features of treeview control.
– Removal of version history from About screen.
– Options section checkboxes resized to fit caption text.
– GUI tweaks including Piriform logo change.
– Minor performance improvements.

Download CCleaner (slim)

Tagged With: Computer News, Cool Tools, Freeware

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