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.
Windows XP
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.
New XP Nvidia Drivers
Get’em at MajorGeeks:
ProcessMonitor v1.24, BgInfo v4.11 Released
Process Monitor “is an advanced monitoring tool for Windows that shows real-time file system, Registry and process/thread activity.”
Version 1.24 “Fixes a bug in the new Registry hooking feature.”
BgInfo “automatically displays relevant information about a Windows computer on the desktop’s background, such as the computer name, IP address, service pack version, and more.”
Version 4.11 “comes with a couple bug fixes and now supports images that span multiple monitors! In addition there are bug fixes for both large wallpaper centering and correctly identifying “Windows XP x64” installations.”
Download & Info
CCleaner 2.01.507 Is Out
[28 Sep 2007]
CCleaner v2.01
– Fixed bug where some IE Temporary files were not removed.
– Fixed bug with IE7 Recently Typed URLs cleaning.
– Fixed C++ exception on Desktop shortcut scanning.
– Installer now works on 64-bit OS Recycle Bins menus.
– Optimized IE Temp files cleaning speed.
– Improved index.dat cleaning on XP.
– Fixed Registry Cleaner as “Fix All” sometimes wouldn’t work.
– Keyboard shortcuts now work correctly in Registry section.
– Files winsys.ini and winreg.ini are now embedded in the EXE.
– Fixed bug where Autoupdate check could cause an exception.
– Fixed minor bug in restoring screen position and size.
– Lots of internal improvements to reliability and speed.
– Minor UI tweaks.
Download
***Only the standard build is available as of this writing. Be sure to uncheck the Yahoo toolbar during install!
Stealth Windows update prevents XP repair
A silent update that Microsoft deployed widely in July and August is preventing the “repair” feature of Windows XP from completing successfully.
Ever since the Redmond company’s recent download of new support files for Windows Update, users of XP’s repair function have been unable to install the latest 80 patches from Microsoft.
More info and the work-around can be found at Windowssecrets.com.
Sysinternals Freeware Updates
Updates: ZoomIt v1.7, Process Monitor v1.23, PsExec v1.86
ZoomIt v1.7: Coming fast on the heels of v1.6, v1.7 of this small and powerful screen zooming and annotation tool adds better straight-line support with auto-snapping and the ability to draw arrows.
Process Monitor v1.23: This update adds a new option, /WaitForIdle, to better support scripted execution. It also adds the /HookRegistry switch for forcing Process Monitor to use Registry hooking on Vista, which enables Process Monitor to see SoftGrid virtual Registry operations.
PsExec v1.86: This update supports launching processes in “nt authority\network service” and “nt authority\local service” accounts.
A Look At Acronis True Image 11
This article has been retired. See A Look At Acronis True Image 2009.
Cool Tool Of The Week – AutoRuns
MSConfig on steriods! It’s a must-have.
This utility, which has the most comprehensive knowledge of auto-starting locations of any startup monitor, shows you what programs are configured to run during system bootup or login, and shows you the entries in the order Windows processes them. These programs include ones in your startup folder, Run, RunOnce, and other Registry keys. You can configure Autoruns to show other locations, including Explorer shell extensions, toolbars, browser helper objects, Winlogon notifications, auto-start services, and much more. Autoruns goes way beyond the MSConfig utility bundled with Windows Me and XP.