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Archive of posts tagged Tips
ToolTip: Soluto–Improve your Windows Boot Performance
Hey here’s another cool application that can help improving Windows startup boot times. The Application is called Soluto and can be downloaded from here. Using Soluto is a no-brainer, just install it, and reboot. Soluto will show you the applications that are executed during the Windows Boot process and then allows you to either pause [...]
Troubleshooting Windows Update
Issues with installing Windows Updates? Then have a look at the following Microsoft Support Articles: KB971058 How do I reset Windows Update components? KB947821 Description of the System Update Readiness Tool for Windows Vista, for Windows Server 2008, for Windows 7, and for Windows Server 2008 R2
ToolTip: Hardlink Scanner
Here’s another nice utility I found today called Hard Link Scanner. Hard Link scanner is a command line tool that scans directories for hard linked files. Download Hard Link Scanner from here
ToolTip: Link Shell Extension
Earlier this week I wrote about using Hard Links. By doing my research on this subject I came across the Link Shell Extension utility. As the name says the utility extends the shell with additional options to create hard and symbolic links. So if you don’t want to type commands at the command prompt to [...]
ToolTip: Fiddler HTTP Debugging Proxy
During an Application Compatibility webcast I attended recently the presenter mentioned the Fiddler Tool. There are many network traffic monitoring Tools out there, but if you are just after capturing HTTP traffic, this one should get your attention. Fiddler is a Web Debugging Proxy which logs all HTTP(S) traffic between your computer and the Internet. [...]
VMWare Workstation 7 – New Pause Feature
As I wrote in my earlier post this month, VMWare published a Release Candidate for VMWare Workstation 7. One of the most interesting new features (to me) is the Pause feature that is described as following: The pause feature causes a virtual machine to cease operation temporarily, without powering off or suspending. Use the pause [...]
Windows 7 secrets
Tim Sneath has written a must read article on his blog called “the bumper list of Windows 7 secrets“. The article describes many new handy features included within Windows 7. I take the freedom of copying one Secret into this post as it works well on Windows Vista too, and is really a must know for [...]
