Category «Software Tips»

Updated Sysinternals utilities

I’ve mentioned Sysinternals a couple of times before. They make fantastic system utilities for Windows operating systems, and were recently acquired by Microsoft. On Monday, their blog posted that there is a new Active Directory utility, and 3 updates to other utilities. Most of the tools are particularly useful in an environment where there are …

New Paragon Drive Copy 8.5

Paragon Software has released a new version of their Drive Copy software, version 8.5: Paragon Software Group, the technological leader in innovative data security and data management technology, announces the release of Drive Copy 8.5 – the ideal software for real-time hard disk copy, personal data and applications migration, disk-to-disk backup, basic and advanced hard …

Total Defrag 2007

Paragon Software (the makers of Partition Manager) have released a new hard drive defragmentation utility called Total Defrag 2007. I received a press release with some of the details: Paragon Software Group, the technological leader in innovative data security and data management technology, announced the release of Paragon Total Defrag 2007, the most advanced hard …

Moleskinsoft Clone Remover 2.3

I received this press release the other day from Moleskinsoft: Moleskinsoft today announces the release of version 2.3 of Moleskinsoft Clone Remover – an efficient utility designed to search for various duplicate files in your PC and delete unnecessary file copies. Moleskinsoft Clone Remover 2.3 finds duplicate files of different types, including music (mp3), image …

TestDisk – powerful cross-platform disk recovery tool

I heard about this on Download Squad… The nightmare scenario: your computer won’t boot. The drive seems healthy otherwise; you can access it when booting from another drive, but for some reason your drive absolutely refuses to boot. Take heart, it’s possible that it can be fixed by TestDisk, a very powerful cross-platform partition recovery …

59 Ways to Supercharge Windows

From PC Magazine: Yes, Windows Vista is finally here. And, yes, it’s packed with all sorts of brand-new applets that would seem to spell doom for countless third-party software utilities, including ZIP tools, photo managers, desktop search engines—and the list goes on. But that doesn’t mean Vista will end up squashing the entire utility market. …

Photoshop CS3 Video-book

I’ve received a couple of emails from Andrei Doubrovski regarding his Photoshop Video Books: Andrei Doubrovski, a professional photo restoration artist and technician, has released version 6.0 of video-book “As Simple As Photoshop”. This course offers you an original method of a quick but total immersion into the Photoshop environment. Are you looking for Photoshop …

Paragon Hard Disk Manager 8.5

I’ve reviewed several products from Paragon in the past. They just recently released Hard Disk Manager 8.5. It is Windows Vista compatible, and allows you to perform various partition operations (resize, remove, copy, etc) as well as perform backups and restores. I haven’t tried the product, but I’ve been impressed with their previous products, so …

Vista Remote Desktop Connection Authentication FAQ

The latest version of the Remote Desktop Connection software from Microsoft supports Windows Vista. There are a few different features with it that my be causing you some frustration. A good place to start is at the Terminal Services Team Blog. They have a Vista Remote Desktop Connection Authentication FAQ that answers some useful questions …

Undelete plus – New Version – And Still Free

I found this a while ago through a link from Pirillo’s Picks. Undelete Plus is a free utility that tries to recover previously deleted files. I tried it out for the first time today on my 1 GB USB drive. It took about 5 minutes to scan the drive. It scanned what it said were …