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Here’s a handy little app that I just stumbled across thanks to MakeUseOf: CNET’s TechTracker. If you use a lot of desktop applications, you may have trouble keeping up with which programs are in need of an update. Not only do updates deliver critical bug fixes and security patches, they often deliver great new features and improvements, too. But keeping up with tons of apps – especially if they’re shareware or freeware programs – can be difficult. That’s where TechTracker comes in.

The Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) for Windows 7 RTM have been released to microsoft.com. These include the Hyper-V tools for remote management of Windows Server 2008 R2 and Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2.

Once you install the update, you can enable one or more of the following tools from the Control Panel under Programs, Turn Windows features on or off.

Download Here : http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=7d2f6ad7-656b-4313-a005-4e344e43997d&displaylang=en

ScriptCryptor lets you quickly produce standalone, royalty free applications from your VBS or JS files. VBScript or JScript files will be converted into EXE files, the source of your scripts will be encrypted with Blowfish algorithm. Once converted, they cannot be modified or viewed by other users.

ScriptCryptor Compiler also lets you set various resources in the .EXE file, such as its description, the company name, version information and even the application icon. In additional, you may include any files to compiled exe file and use it during execution.

Download Here: http://www.abyssmedia.com/downloads/scriptcryptor.exe

Quick Batch File Compiler convert your batch files into actual program (.EXE format) in one click. This program may be run on Windows 2000/2003/XP/Vista without any limitations. An .EXE file is much harder to casually reverse-engineer, so this could be a way to conceal a particular batch file’s operations from an end user. Content of your batch file will be encrypted and protected from changes.

Quick Batch File Compiler also lets you set various resources in the .EXE file, such as its description, the company name, version information and even the application icon. In additional, you may include any files to compiled exe file and use it during execution.

Download here: http://www.abyssmedia.com/downloads/quickbfc.exe

Autoruns v9.4:
This Autoruns update shows manual start Windows services, fixes a bug that affected the display of autostart locations that could include multiple startup registrations, and fixes a bug in the Jump To functionality on 64-bit Windows.

BgInfo v4.15:
Bginfo now supports access to 64-bit registry keys in custom fields, fixes a bug with oversized wallpaper on multiple monitor configurations, and sets its default output directory to %TEMP%.

ZoomIt v3.03:
Fixes a GDI handle leak that could cause Zoomit’s drawing functionality to eventually stop working.

Download here: http://download.sysinternals.com/Files/SysinternalsSuite.zip

Input Director is a Windows application that lets you control multiple Windows systems using the keyboard/mouse attached to one computer. It is designed for folks who have two (or more) computers set up at home and find themselves regularly sliding from one system to the other (and wearing out the carpet in the process!). With Input Director, you can share a single keyboard/mouse across a set of systems. You switch which system receives the input either by hotkey or by moving the cursor so that it transitions from one screen to the other (in a very similar fashion to a multi-monitor setup). The idea being that you can position the monitors from two or more systems in a row and use a shared keyboard/mouse to control all of them.

Input Director also supports a “shared” clipboard, in which you can copy data onto the clipboard on one system, transition across to another and paste.

Input Director requires Windows 2000 (Service Pack 4), Windows XP (Service Pack 2), Windows 2003 or Windows Vista. The systems must be networked.

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http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2009.04.utilityspotlight.aspx

Back in the November 2006 issue of TechNet Magazine, I wrote about a handy little utility called Robocopy GUI (see “Utility Spotlight Robocopy GUI“). This simple tool was written by a Microsoft engineer named Derk Benisch, and all it really did was create a graphical interface for the very popular Robocopy command-line utility, which provided file copying capabilities far beyond what was built into Windows. Believe it or not, more than two years later, the Robocopy GUI article remains the single most popular piece of content we’ve ever published, having been viewed well over 220,000 times.

Needless to say, this speaks far more to the value of the tool than to the quality of my writing. Nevertheless, it also makes perfectly clear just how crucial certain simple tasks are in our day-to-day lives, and how staggering an impact even a small improvement in performing those critical tasks can make.

In this case, we’re discussing the simplest of tasks: copying files. Except copying files is not always that simple. What if you’re copying thousands of files across a slow connection? What happens if your network hiccups and interrupts the copy? What if you want to make sure that you preserve particular file attributes, such as a Last Modified date, but not other attributes, like security descriptors? What if you want to filter the files you’re copying from source to destination based on filename or extension?

If any of these apply to you, the simple Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V combination probably won’t cut it. And though Robocopy GUI certainly improves on that basic functionality, it still has some limitations in terms of granular control and usability. What you need is RichCopy.

RichCopy is a free utility that comes to us from Ken Tamaru of Microsoft. The tool was first developed in 2001 and has been updated regularly to keep pace with evolving needs. Trust me when I tell you, this is the answer to all your file copying needs. What you’ll find most striking the first time you take RichCopy out for a spin is that it’s a multithreaded copying tool. That means that rather than copying one file at a time in serial order, RichCopy can open multiple threads simultaneously, allowing many files to be copied in parallel and cutting the total time required to complete the operation several times over. You can also pause and resume file copy operations, so if you lose network connectivity at any point, you can just pick up where you left off.

Of course, these are really just the simplest features of RichCopy. As Figure 1 shows, you also get a vast array of granular controls that allow you to customize all of those fancy aspects of your file copying that I talked about earlier—filtering files, saving attributes, adjusting cache size, and so on. If you regularly copy lots of files over the network or between various storage devices, these features will significantly ease your daily life.

Figure 1 RichCopy offers a number of granular controls that allow you to tailor file copying to your needs 

Remember, as with all of our free utilities, RichCopy is provided as-is, and it’s not supported by Microsoft.

Download Here: HoffmanUtilitySpotlight2009_04.exe

The key new scenario which we wanted to support was creating custom PowerGUI-based consoles : branding them, locking them down, distributing to administrators (e.g. helpdesk), and then having automatically updated whenever you make changes to the central configuration.

The main pieces of this scenario were:

1.  Lockdown mode: this allows you to disable and/or hide any functionality in the PowerGUI admin console. Simply open the file quest.powergui.Lockdown.xml in PowerGUI profile folder (%appdata%\Quest Software\PowerGUI ). You can just replace all true with false (in that case users won’t even be able to click an action or change order of columns), or be more granular.

2.  Central configuration update: Redirections.xml from PowerGUI profile folder lets you make PowerGUI pull its configuration and/or lockdown information from another location (e.g. file share). PowerGUI also checks for the configuration version, which lets you force the UI update whenever you change anything in your custom console.

3.  Ability to change the welcome page to something more meaningful for your organization.

And then there are multiple smaller changes:

4.  Multiline comments for PowerShell v2 (<# #> ).

5.  Icons in the grid and dynamic nodes.

6.  Multiple bugfixes based on reports we got from our community forum s. We’ll hopefully follow-up on all of them next week.
Download PowerGUI here: http://powergui.org/downloads.jspa

Internet Explorer Collection 1.2.0.0 is released.

Internet Explorer Collection contains multiple IE versions, which are standalone so they can be used at the same time.

Internet Explorer Collection can now also be used in new Windows versions like Windows 7 and is compatible with the latest updates and Service Packs too.

Conditional Comments work exactly the same as in the native versions. The original version number is shown in the User Agent string. The version number can be found in the window title too.

Because Internet Explorer Collection is populair amongst web developers, it also includes the Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar. This Explorer Bar provides a variety of tools which make troubleshooting websites easier. The Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar is compatible with Internet Explorer 5.0 and higher when using Windows 2000 or higher.

Internet Explorer Collection contains the following versions of IE:
- Internet Explorer 1.0 (4.40.308)
- Internet Explorer 1.5 (0.1.0.10)
- Internet Explorer 2.01 (2.01.046)
- Internet Explorer 3.0 (3.0.1152)
- Internet Explorer 4.01 (4.72.3110.0)
- Internet Explorer 5.01 (5.00.3314.2100)
- Internet Explorer 5.5 (5.51.4807.2300)
- Internet Explorer 6.0 (6.00.2800.1106)
- Internet Explorer 6.0 (6.00.2900.2180)
- Internet Explorer 7.0 (7.00.5730.13)
- Internet Explorer 8.0 (8.00.6001.18372)

More information: http://finalbuilds.edskes.net/iecollection.htm

Download: Internet Explorer Collection 1.2.0.0 (54.5 MB, 57.154.852 bytes)
MD5 Hash: 968b2c1752abea2bc18f245172f3990b
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Windows® SteadyState 2.5 is now available on Windows XP and Windows Vista. Whether you manage computers in a school computer lab or an Internet café, a library, or even in your home, Windows SteadyState helps make it easy for you to keep your computers running the way you want them to, no matter who uses them.

Windows SteadyState runs on genuine copies of Windows XP Professional, Windows XP Home Edition, Windows XP Tablet PC Edition, Windows Vista Business, Windows Vista Ultimate, Windows Vista Home Basic, Windows Vista Home Premium, and Windows Vista Starter. And, Windows SteadyState is offered free of charge to Windows Genuine Advantage customers!

Windows SteadyState Features Windows SteadyState includes the following features to help you manage your shared computers:

• Getting Started – Provides the initial steps to help you during your first time use of Windows SteadyState.
• Windows Disk Protection – Help protect the Windows partition, which contains the Windows operating system and other programs, from being modified without administrator approval.Windows SteadyState allows you to set Windows Disk Protection to remove all changes upon restart, to remove changes at a certain date and time, or to not remove changes at all. If you choose to use Windows Disk Protection to remove changes, any changes made by shared users when they are logged on to the computer are removed when the computer is restarted
• User Restrictions and Settings – The user restrictions and settings can help to enhance and simplify the user experience. Restrict user access to programs, settings, Start menu items, and options in Windows. You can also lock shared user accounts to prevent changes from being retained from one session to the next.
• User Account Manager – Create and delete user accounts. You can use Windows SteadyState to create user accounts on alternative drives that will retain user data and settings even when Windows Disk Protection is turned on. You can also import and export user settings from one computer to another—saving valuable time and resources.
• Computer Restrictions – Control security settings, privacy settings, and more, such as preventing users from creating and storing folders in drive C and from opening Microsoft Office documents from Internet Explorer®.
• Schedule Software Updates – Update your shared computer with the latest software and security updates when it is convenient for you and your shared users.

Download :  http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?Fa…ang=en

Visionapp released their Remote Desktop 2009 (vRD) version and it’s awesome! The new version offers a lot of new features like mulit protocol support – VNC, SSH, ICA, RDP and Telnet , connection protocol, Server import via AD or CSV, Server tools to logoff user or restart Servers and much more!.

For me visionapp Remote Desktop is a program that I use every day and will not miss anymore. Check out the short promo video www.visionapp.com/vRD_Video_EN

or go directly to the try out

Download : http://www.visionapp.com/vrd09-download.html

TreeSize Professional is a powerful and flexible harddisk space manager. Find out which folders are the largest on your drives and recover megabytes on them. TreeSize Professional shows you the size, allocated and wasted space, the number of files, 3D bar and pie charts, the last access date, the file owner, the NTFS compression rate and much more information for several folders or drives you choose. It also lets you search for old, big and temporary files. The application has an intuitive Explorer-like user interface and it is fast and multithreaded. You can print detailed reports or export the collected Data to Excel and to an HTML, XML or ASCII file. TreeSize Professional can be started from the context menu of every folder or drive.

More information about TreeSize Professional

For Windows 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, 2008 and 7:
TreeSize Professional 5.2.0 build 484 (6.70 MB, 7.029.225 bytes)
MD5 Hash: e9f3233be54fdb40453b077f852cdec5
For Windows 98, 98 SE, ME, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, 2008 and 7:
TreeSize Professional 5.1.0 build 404 (5.35 MB, 5.617.135 bytes)
MD5 Hash: 086abe9f1fc8ab71f6deceabf573c19a
For Windows 98, 98 SE, ME, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, 2008 and 7:
TreeSize Professional 4.3.2 build 335 (5.67 MB, 5.954.952 bytes)
MD5 Hash: 354f92a099b4c0cc66b6fd98152c2f02
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K-Lite Codec Pack is a collection of codecs and related tools. Codec is short for Compressor-Decompressor. Codecs are needed for encoding and decoding (playing) audio and video. This Codec Pack is designed as a user-friendly solution for playing all your movie files. You should be able to play all the popular movie formats and even some rare formats.

The K-Lite Codec Pack has a couple of major advantages compared to other codec packs: It it always very up-to-date with the latest versions of the codecs; It is very user-friendly and the installation is fully customizable, meaning that you can install only those components that you really want; It has been very well tested, so that the package doesn’t contain any conflicting codecs; It is a very complete package, containing everything you need to play your movies; and has different packages.

Full contains even more codecs. It also has encoding support for various formats. This package is for power users and people who do their own encodings.

Download: K-Lite Codec Pack Full 4.6.2

DeviceLock allows network administrators to specify which users can access which devices (ports, floppies, MOs, etc.) on the local computer. Once DeviceLock is installed, administrators can assign permissions to LPT ports, CD-ROMs, COM Ports, or any other device, just as they would to any share on the hard disk. Network administrators may use DeviceLock to flush a storage device’s buffers and to get extended information about devices and NTFS partitions.

Download: DeviceLock 6.3 Build 18503

KeyPass is a versatile password manager that types your passwords for you. it works with any browser or application, including web browsers, terminal emulators and corporate services. KeyPass stores all your sensitive information in an encrypted database. The information is encrypted using 448-bit blowfish algorithm and a master password is required to unlock the information in the database. KeyPass can be installed on external storage devices such as keychain-size USB flash drives.

Download: KeyPass 4.7.6

KeePass Password Safe 1.13 is also released.

Today you need to remember many passwords. You need a password for the Windows network logon, your e-mail account, online passwords, etc. The list is endless. Also, you should use different passwords for each account. Because if you use only one password everywhere and someone gets this password you have a problem… A serious problem. The thief would have access to your computer, e-mail account, etc. Unimaginable.
KeePass Password Safe is a free open-source password safe and manager which helps you to manage your passwords in a secure way. You can put all your passwords in one database, which is locked with one master key and/or a key-disk. So you only have to remember one single master password and/or insert the key-disk to unlock the whole database. The databases are encrypted using the best and most secure encryption algorithms known today (AES and Twofish).

More information about KeePass Password Safe

KeePass Password Safe 1.13 (1.34 MB, 1.408.521 bytes)
MD5 Hash: e0b71db4c133683d42c2fc0e0e02bab8
KeePass Password Safe Taalmodule Nederlands 1.13 (15.6 kB, 16.064 bytes)
MD5 Hash: aa441f94900329b7befbe5aa85749d5d
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BWMeter is a powerful bandwidth meter and monitor which measures and displays all traffic on your network. It can analyze the data packets (where they come from, where they go, which port and protocol they use). This makes it possible to distinguish between local and internet traffic for example. It can create statistics for all computers in your network, measuring and displaying all internal networ k traffic as well as download and upload from the internet. You can even define filters which show your transfer with certain Internet addresses. It is ideal for home users to get an overview of how much bandwidth they use, as well as small to large businesses, where one computer can maintain the statistics of downloaded / uploaded data of all computers in the network. The product is easy to configure and offers a rich set of options and features for beginners as well as experts and network administrators.

Download: BWMeter 4.1.4