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

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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.

SIW 2008-04-02 is available

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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.

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IE7Pro 2.2 Released

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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

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CCleaner v2.06.567 Is Out

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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.
[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)

Speedtest.net

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I haven’t been there in quite some time so I’ve no idea when it changed, but…
Speedtest.net has improved quite a bit and has an awesome looking interface.

What is Speedtest.net?
Speedtest.net is a free broadband speed test with servers located all over the world. Compare your results with others and easily share them.

Here is my result. What’s your internet speed?

IE7Pro 2.1 Is Out

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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. IE7Pro includes Tabbed Browsing Management, Spell Check, Inline Search, Super Drag Drop, Crash Recovery, Proxy Switcher, Mouse Gesture, Tab History Browser, Web Accelerator, User Agent Switcher, Webpage Capturer, AD Blocker, Flash Block, Greasemonkey like User Scripts platform, User Plug-ins and many more power packed features. You can customize not just Internet Explorer, but even your favorite website according to your need and taste using IE7Pro.

Se the IE7Pro homepage for info & download.

ShellRunas v1.0, Autoruns v9.13, Process Explorer v11.10 Released

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Sysinternals Freeware updates and 1 new program:

ShellRunas v1.0: ShellRunas provides functionality similar to that of the Runas tool to launch programs as a different user via a convenient shell context-menu entry. This makes it more convenient than Runas for heavy Explorer users.

Process Explorer v11.10: This Process Explorer update adds a number of enhancements, including support for high DPI, display of paging and standby list sizes on Vista, and display of cycles consumed on threads tab on Vista. It also reports the COM object running inside of Dllhost processes and the tasks running inside of Vista Taskeng host processes in the process view hover tooltip.

Autoruns v9.13: Fixes bug where Autoruns could crash when looking at the icon properties of third-party DLLs.