I recently downloaded a software DVD ISO image from a vendor’s website, burned it to DVD, and tried copying it to a server. No luck, the DVD was bad. That was the second DVD, the burn on the first DVD failed outright. Since I didn’t really need a physical DVD except as a way to [...]
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AutoRuns for Windows is a free utility from Microsoft (that they inherited when they bought SysInternals). It shows absolutely everything that starts when Windows starts and when you logon. It doesn’t just show the programs, it goes deeper to show the DLL’s loaded. There’s 15 different categories, from “Logon” to “Network Providers”.
The screenshot below shows [...]
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Have you noticed in Taks Manager that the svchost.exe process has multiple instances and uses a lot of memory, it may even be the biggest memory user on your Windows PC. Have you then tried to figure out what it does? In this KB article Microsoft says it’s
…a generic host process name for services that [...]
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[Updated 3/17 to reflect that the web download files are encrypted.]
I’d asked to be notified by Mozy when they had a Mac client available, and earlier this week I got an e-mail from them that a beta was available. Although Apple’s Backup.app has done OK for me (all my test restores have worked but I’ve [...]
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Windows Defender, Microsoft’s anti-spyware utility, has been updated, left beta and had it’s production release. It remains free. The Windows Defender beta software running on my PC notified me of the updated version. When I clicked on the link to download it just brought me to Microsoft’s Windows Defender web page. When clicking on the [...]
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FileZilla is a open source (GPL License) FTP program. It supports FTP and SFTP. It’s a Windows only program (Windows 2000 and Windows XP). There’s a FileZilla client and a FileZilla server. I’ll be installing both on my Windows XP SP2 box. The client will mainly be used for accessing my website. The server will [...]
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