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Rescuezilla: open source backup, restore and recovery environment?

From Ghacks.net: Rescuezilla is a free open source disk imaging solution that supports data backups, restores and recovery actions. The application is operating system agnostic, as it needs to be put on an optical disc or an USB drive; one of the benefits that comes out of that, is that may access the application at …

Microsoft Windows and Office ISO Download Tool

I haven’t tried this myself yet, but ghacks posted about a program called Microsoft Windows and Office ISO Download Tool. It makes it pretty easy to download ISOs of all of the different Windows versions. You still need a licence key to activate them properly, but if your computer didn’t come with a restore CD, …

Convert Windows XP to a virtual machine with VirtualXP

Ghacks has a nice article about a tool that will convert a Windows XP computer to a virtual machine VirtualXP is a free for personal use software that can turn an existing Windows XP system into a virtual machine that you can run on a newer version of Windows afterwards. It works by converting the …

A few great links from ghacks

I follow the ghacks blog, and over the last few weeks, there have been several sites that I’ve booked mark. Rather than take any credit for finding these sites and/or programs, please click through to the ghacks website to read the original postings Zero Install: portable app catalog software for multi-user systems MediaTab adds media …

Give Easy Context Menu a try

Ghacks recently posted some information about a program called Easy Context Menu that lets you put all sorts of options in a context (right-click) menu. It looks interesting. I’m going to give it a try…

NTFS Permissions Reporter

I work as an IT Manager at a company, and we have a mixed Novell/Microsoft network. We are slowly phasing out the Novell portion of the network, and are dealing more and more with Microsoft permissions. The permissions options used to be complicated, but as new generations of server operating systems come around, things get …