Windows 7 Performance Tools - Performance Tools Kit 4.1.1
Internet Explorer 8 will be not only an apex of performance, but also the next major iteration of the Windows client, according to Microsoft.
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1.9.2008 20 Hidden Windows Vista Tools
The default installation of Windows Vista weighs in at approximately 8 GB. In fact, Microsoft's latest operating system won't even install with less than 15 GB of space available on the hard drive.
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30.9.2007 Top 10 Windows Freeware tools for 2005
As we head into 2005’s home stretch, I thought I’d do a round-up of my top 10 pieces of Windows Freeware for 2005. Some of these aren’t new, but certainly what I’d consider essential. Some on the other hand, are new. I’ve tried to avoid the instantly popular ones like Firefox and Opera, although I did give way to Winamp and Konfabulator in the end. But hey, it’s my top 10. If you don’t like it, post your own.
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12 Hidden Windows Vista Network Tools
Thanks to Steve Jobs for this article. Windows Vista delivers an impressive line up of network tools that can be used to keep the operating system connectivity on a short leash. The total of 12 command-line tools can be used to manage all aspects of Vista networking.
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4.6.2007 Fixing Windows Vista 3 - Top Troubleshooting Tools
Do you think Windows Vista is slow, crash-prone, or unreliable? Join the crowd. Over the past year, reviews of Windows Vista by mainstream media outlets, the technical press, bloggers, and ordinary users have been, for the most part, scathing.
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7.5.2008 Vista System Tools Survived into Windows 7 M1
Microsoft already confirmed that Windows 7 will have Windows Vista as its foundation. Like it or not, Windows 7 will be nothing more than an evolution of the current Windows client.
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27.6.2008 Download Windows Live Tools for Visual Studio 2008
Microsoft has made available for download the July 2008 Community Technology Preview of the Windows Live tools for Visual Studio 2008.
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29.7.2008 New Tests and Tools Cooking for Windows 7 Server Clustering Features
In parallel with the Windows 7 client, the successor of Windows Vista, Microsoft is also building the next iteration of the Windows server operating system.
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9.8.2008 Microsoft Delivers Final Versions of Free Deployment Tools for Windows Vista
Microsoft Corp. today announced the availability of six new deployment tools that will help expedite businesses’ migration to Windows Vista™. The recently released tools are the Microsoft® Solution Accelerator for Business Desktop Deployment (BDD) 2007, the Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT) 5.0, Windows Vista Hardware Assessment 1.0, the Volume Activation Management Tool, the Key Management Service for Windows Server® 2003 and Virtual PC 2007.
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20.2.2007 Download Windows 7 RTM UI Accessibility Tools and Automations for Vista SP3
Following the general availability of Windows 7, Microsoft has started backporting bits and pieces of its latest Windows client to previous releases of the operating system.
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2.11.2009 VOATK TOOLS V2.0 Final
Thanks to maxdata for this download. Starter, Home Basic, Home Premium, Business Enterprise and Ultimate for Windows Vista 32bit and 64bit.
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18.5.2007 Ballmer: Enterprise Tools Market Ours For the Taking
It's not often that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer talks development tools. But Ballmer is all fired up about the pending Visual Studio Team System and future potential enterprise tool revenues.
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20.11.2005 Microsoft July Security Patch Tools
The Extended Security Update Inventory Tool is used to detect security bulletins not covered by MBSA including MS04-028 ..
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13.7.2006 Microsoft Makes Vista Migration Tools Available
Microsoft offers six free tools for corporate users to assess, plan, test, and deploy Windows Vista.
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24.2.2007 Microsoft Delays Virtualization Tools Rollouts
In a blog posting this morning, Microsoft general manager for virtualization strategy Mike Neil revealed his company will be pushing back some milestone dates for some of its key virtualization products.
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12.4.2007 PC Tools ThreatFire 3.0.0.15 Beta
ThreatFire is an easy-to-use application designed to protect your computer against malware such as trojans, spyware, rootkits, keyloggers, and buffer overflows by intelligently detecting and blocking behavior consistent with that of malware.
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19.8.2007 Windows 7 Beta Doesn't Play Nice with Windows Azure Cloud OS Tools
The promise for Windows 7 is that it will deliver an evolution when it will come down to stretching into the Cloud compared to its precursor, Windows Vista.
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16.1.2009 Google offers Web Analysis Tools for free
Google is offering webmasters full-featured, powerful analytics package from Urchin to determine how many people are visiting their sites, to view the source of referrals to your site and what they're clicking on.
In March, Google acquired Urchin Software and promptly lowered the monthly cost of the company's hosted Web analytics service, Urchin On Demand, from $495 to $199. Today, the search company is re-branding Urchin under the name Google Analytics and making it available to everyone for free.
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14.11.2005 Microsoft tools keep bad Office files at bay
Microsoft released a pair of tools on Monday that help protect computers from Office 2003 files containing malicious software code.
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23.5.2007 Windows 7 and Windows 8 Bring New Performance Analysis and Diagnostics Tools
Microsoft insisted to put Windows Vista at least on par, if not on a superior level compared to Windows XP in terms of performance throughout 2007, in a strategy that proved little efficient
even though it also spanned to Vista SP1 and XP SP3.
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21.5.2008 The next generation of Microsoft application building and Web authoring tools
What are these new tools?
The Microsoft Office and Server & Tools teams are proud to announce the introduction of two great new tools for application building and Web authoring in 2006.
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11.4.2006 Academic Resource Kit – Free Tools and Resources from Microsoft
Whether you want to build an AJAX-based web application, or a Windows game, the Academic Resource Kit is a great place to start.
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9.2.2008 Tools to Automate RapidShare Downloading for Free Users With No CAPTCHA
RapidShare CAPTCHA has always been hacked no matter how tough they made it. Usually whenever RapidShare updates their CAPTCHA, it only took a few days for third party download tools to auto recognize it. One of the toughest CAPTCHA was with cats and dogs in them and it took 3-4 weeks to be cracked. A few days after the cats and dogs CAPTCHA has been cracked, RapidShare installed a new CAPTCHA system called TEABAG_3D.
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8.7.2008 Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office IntelliSense Code Snippets
IntelliSense code snippets allow developers to easily create and distribute their own customized code libraries. Using the Visual Studio Integrated Development Environment and the power of IntelliSense, inserting these commonly used pieces of code is an effective way to enhance your productivity.
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18.1.2006 Microsoft Remote Server Administration Tools - RSAT for Vista Released
Microsoft Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) enables IT administrators to remotely manage roles and features in Windows Server 2008 from a computer running Windows Vista SP1.
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25.3.2008 Microsoft Visual Studio Code Name "Orcas" Community Technology Preview - Development Tools for WinFX
Overview
The Microsoft Visual Studio Code Name "Orcas" Community Technology Preview - Development Tools for WinFX (CTP) provides developers with support for building WinFX applications using the final released version of Visual Studio 2005.
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20.1.2006 Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Mobile Edition Server Tools
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Mobile Edition (SQL Server Mobile) is the compact database for rapidly developing applications in both native mode and the .NET Compact Framework that extend enterprise data management capabilities to devices.
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26.11.2005 Surf The World For Free WiFi Radar & WiFi Tools
Surf The World For Free WiFi Radar & WiFi Hack Tools ( Snip The WiFi Sopt , Brake Its Security , And Surf The Universe ) Surf The InterNet Freely Charged.
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29.3.2007 Vista SP1, and then Windows 7, Windows 8 and Non-Windows Midori
2008 saw the release of Windows Vista Service Pack 1, Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Windows Server 2008, but Microsoft's journey on the Windows path is far from over.
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5.8.2008 Windows 7 RC Brings Windows XP Mode Beta and Windows Virtual PC Beta
The Release Candidate of Windows 7 will bring with it the first Beta development milestones for Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC.
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29.4.2009Zango Drops Lawsuit Against PC Tools
Adware company Zango has voluntarily withdrew its lawsuit against security software company PC Tools, which Zango accused of illegally removing its
software from users' PCs without their express permission. The move follows a court's refusal to grant Zango a temporary restraining order...
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28.08.2007Vista To Shed Some of its Dark Side
Thanks to rev23dev for
the heads up on this one...
If you're like me,
you've played with almost
every build of Vista/Longhorn
you could get your little paws
on. The last build I had a
chance to use was RC1, and
several of my top 'Vista
annoyances' were still
present:
- My unsigned
(and rather awesome) kX
drivers no longer work
properly with my Audigy sound
card
- Daemon
Tools/Alcohol 120% still
didn't work. (Thankfully the
folks over at Daemon Tools
recently fixed that)
- I
couldn't stand the dark
looking UI for more than 3
days. (I'm going to miss
patching my uxtheme.dll so
very much. kol, bant,
StefanKa, and b0se have kept
my XP install looking awesome
for years)
Well looks
as though Microsoft has
listened to some of the 'dark
UI' cries and released the
following statement on their
'shell:revealed' blog:
"In the end, we
decided that we like the black
and think it is the right
thing to do, but we want to
respect the user's color
choice for users who bother to
make a change. So -
starting in today's build, we
have significantly backed off
the amount of black that is
mixed in with the user's
color for maximized
windows. This is not
particularly noticeable with
the default color, but with
the more intense colors like
Red and Orange, you will
appreciate the
difference."
Hopefully this will result
in an improved UI experience
for everyone.
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04.10.2006Microsoft releases update to RSAT tools for Windows 7
Those of you who are brave enough to run Windows 7 RC at work, in a domain environment, as a systems administrator will be interested to know that
Microsoft has released updates for the Remote Server Administration Tools package for Windows 7 RC. These tools allow system administrators to
manage remote, network connected, Windows servers and services such as Active Directory, Group Policy, File & Print servers, etc, from a Windows 7
machine. Microsoft previously made a beta version of their RSAT tools available for users of Windows 7 Beta.
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08.05.2009Internet Explorer 7 Now Available to Pirates
Microsoft has released a minor update to Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP, removing the requirement for users to be validated through the company's
Windows Genuine Advantage program. This means those with non-legitimate or pirated copies of Windows can now upgrade their browser...
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05.10.2007Windows Communication Foundation Tools for ITPros
Allan da Costa Pinto: Did you know we have time saving, ITPro tools for WCF? They ship via the Windows SDK or Visual Studio 2008. From what I hear,
these aren't your regular sample grade SDK utilities from Microsoft - they have full product level support from Microsoft. Currently, the only known
dependency is having .NET installed and the product team seems to smile when you install the tools via the SDK or VS on a dev machine and copy the
tools to other machines where they are needed. Nice!
So what are these tools?
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09.11.2007Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 7
Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 7 enables IT administrators to manage roles and features that are installed on remote computers that
are running Windows Server 2008 R2 (and, for some roles and features, Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2003) from a remote computer that is
running Windows 7.
It includes support for remote management of computers that are running either the Server Core or full
installation options of Windows Server 2008 R2, and for some roles and features, Windows Server 2008. Some roles and features on Windows Server 2003
can be managed remotely by using Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 7, although the Server Core installation option is not available with
the Windows Server 2003 operating system.
This feature is comparable in functionality to the Windows Server 2003 Administrative
Tools Pack and Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows Vista with Service Pack 1 (SP1).
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12.08.2009Windows Command Reference
The Windows command-line tools are used to perform various tasks related to Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003, and Windows Server 2008.You can use
the command reference to familiarize yourself with new and enhanced command-line tools, to learn about the command shell, and to automate command-line
tasks by using batch files or scripting tools.
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08.03.2008Adware Purveyor Withdraws PC Tools Complaint
Zango, a controversial maker of adware software, has withdrawn its legal complaint against PC Tools. The adware maker had previously demanded that PC
Tools' security software stop removing its software as these removals allegedly happened without the user's express consent. In a blog posting,
Zango explained that it dropped the suit because PC Tools made changes to its software and no longer removes or blocks its software, although the
security firm maintains it was already in the process of reclassifying the adware application prior to the lawsuit.
PC Tools, which had
previously dismissed the suit as a cry for attention, hailed the move as a victory, claiming that Zango conceded defeat. The security vendor linked
the withdrawal to a preliminary ruling, when a judge denied Zango's demand for a temporary injuction against PC Tools. The Federal Trade Commision
had previously fined Zango $3 million last year for unfair and deceptive business practices, and while the firm promised to stop its illegal
practices at the time, security experts have repeatedly charged that the firm continues to violate the terms of the settlement.
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29.08.2007Microsoft and Novell unveil cross-platform monitoring tools
In another expansion to their 18-month-old interoperability agreement, Microsoft and Novell introduced software tools designed to let systems
administrators monitor Linux, Unix, and Windows servers from within Windows...
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01.05.2008Five command line tools to detect Windows hacks
Ed Skoudis: Let's face it, Windows machines get hacked, and in some environments it happens a lot. Fortunately, Microsoft has built numerous tools
into Windows so administrators and power users can analyse a machine to determine whether it's been compromised. In this tip, which is the first of a
two-part series, I'll cover five useful command-line tools built into Windows for such analysis.
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10.03.2008Microsoft Delivers Final Vista Deployment tools
Microsoft Corp. today
announced the availability of
six new deployment tools that
will help expedite
businesse's migration to
Windows Vista. The recently
released tools are:
-Solution
Accelerator for Business
Desktop Deployment
2007.
-Application
Compatibility Toolkit
5.0.
-Windows Vista
Hardware Assessment
1.0.
-Microsoft
Volume Activation 2.0
tools.
-Virtual PC
2007.
Windows Vista was built from
the ground up to simplify how
people work together, find
information, reduce IT costs,
improve security and enable
mobile environments, said
Shanen Boettcher, general
manager of Windows Client
Product Management at
Microsoft. With the
availability of these new
tools, there is nothing
holding back businesses from
making the move to Windows
Vista and immediately taking
advantage of those
benefits.
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22.02.2007Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 7 RC
Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 7 RC enables IT administrators to manage roles and features that are installed on remote computers that
are running Windows Server 2008 R2 (and, for some roles and features, Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2003) from a remote computer that is
running Windows 7 RC. It includes support for remote management of computers that are running either the Server Core or full installation options of
Windows Server 2008 R2, and for some roles and features, Windows Server 2008. Some roles and features on Windows Server 2003 can be managed remotely
by using Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 7 RC, although the Server Core installation option is not available with the Windows Server
2003 operating system.
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06.05.2009Hidden Vista tools
If Sven Hallauer ever has a moment to reflect in his Redmond office, he can feel quietly pleased with himself.
As the release
manager for Vista, he had overall responsibility during the development period for the success of the ˜Most Secure Windows Ever project.
For Hallauer, however, the flexibility of the new operating system is just as important as the security features. In particular, Vista is
equipped with far better admin tools than previous versions. Previously, administrators were forced to add tools from Resource Kits, but now Vista
comes with a lot of tools already on board, as well explain later.
You can tell just by looking at the increased minimum hardware
requirements that theres a lot more in the new version of Windows. It used to be possible to keep an installation of Windows 95 under 200MB, but Vista
requires 40 times more hard disk space. Even in comparison to Windows XP, Vista needs five times more space.
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27.09.2007Installing and Using the Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) for Vista
There are some things in life that will always be the same. Taxes will be due April 15 (in the US). The United States of America will always celebrate
Independence Day on July 4th. Grant will always be buried in Grants Tomb. And, Microsoft will continue to make decisions and provide solutions that
make us all shake our heads. If you run Windows Vista, you were shaking your head and in many cases, very upset about the situation of not having the
proper tools to perform administration of your Windows Server 2003 or Windows Server 2008 network and Active Directory environment. Now, with the
recent release of the Remote Server Administrative Tools (RSAT), the wait is over. This article describes some idiosyncrasies, installation steps, and
tools that are available in the new RSAT for Windows Vista.
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20.08.2008Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio March 2009 CTP
Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio extend Visual Studio to enable the creation, building, debugging, running and packaging of scalable
services on Windows Azure. Installation includes the Windows Azure SDK.
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19.03.2009Mozilla collecting all web tools together in one directory
If you're a web developer, you'll hopefully be aware that there are many helpful (and free) tools designed to progress your quest for an epic
website; the only problem with this, though, is that you have to find them. There is currently no centralized directory for all such tools, but
Mozilla's fed up of this, and has set out to build one of their own, according to MoMB (via the folks at TechCrunch). Mozilla has posted an entry
on their official blog regarding the new site, with Ben Galbraith saying, "There are an immense number of tools that have been created to help web
developers. Unfortunately, you might never know this; there's no central index of these tools.
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10.07.2009Windows Performance Tools Kit v4.1.1 Update Available
The Windows Performance Tools (WPT) Kit contains performance analysis tools that are new to the Windows SDK for Windows Server 2008 and .NET Framework
3.5. The WPT Kit is useful to a broad audience, including system builders, hardware manufacturers, driver developers, and general application
developers. These tools are designed for measuring and analyzing system and application performance on Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, and
later.
Version 4.1.1 is an update to WPT Kit v.4.1.0, which was released as part of the
Windows Server
2008 SDK. Version 4.1.1 contains fixes for the following issues:
- Windows Performance Analyzer does not start when
double-clicking an ETL file.
- Windows Performance Analyzer does not perform power state transition analysis.
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11.02.2008Windows malfunctions after bloatware uninstalled from Toshiba laptop
These days, desktops and laptops from just about every manufacturer under the sun will ship with several bloatware titles like unwanted media or
security applications. Toshiba seems to place a bit of importance on the applications (useful or not) that ship with its computers, so important that
technical support blamed the owner of one laptop for the malfunction that occurred.
Most users are unhappy with the numerous
bloatware and trialware that ship with a new computer and removing those applications can be a time consuming process.
The Consumerist reports on one Toshiba owner that was in the process of removing those applications presumably from Windows
Vista, when the laptop experienced a blue screen of death (BSOD) error.
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22.12.2007Google releases tools for throttle-spotting
Google evangelist and Net patriarch Vint Cerf this week unveiled three tools that ordinary Net users can use to see whether their ISPs are choking up
on their bandwidth. The research and evaluation tools add more fuel to the reinvigorated Net-neutrality debate...
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29.01.2009Microsoft Deployment Tools Smooth the Way for Upgrades to Windows Vista
Study shows businesses can achieve up to 135 percent return on their deployment investments using the right deployment methods and tools, and
Microsoft launches the Springboard Series initiative to share best practices for software migration...
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