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Find all your drivers with Double Driver.
Jul 24th
Do you hate looking for and downloading drivers on every re-format?
Well if you can get to your desktop you should be able to run Double Driver and copy your drivers off your machine to a USB stick and then restore them right back into your fresh clean formatted system! We covered something a little while ago for backing up and restoring printers/print drivers.
Combine these two small apps with the Windows Files and Settings Transfer Wizard and you have yourself a powerful tool kit.
With Double Driver you can view which drivers are installed in your system and you can backup the drivers you choose, save and print the drivers list, and more.
Double Driver is freeware. Feel free to use and give this program to anyone you know. Your donation or feedback would be greatly appreciated.
_TheBackUpAdmiN_
Check out this Extended Task Manager for Windows.
Jun 29th
The Extended Task Manager provides additional Windows process management features and information about disk activity and network port usage.
The new “Disk I/O” chart allows you to monitor which applications utilize most of your disk at the moment:
Features:
* Displays disk input/output activity with information about related applications
* Displays network port activity with IP addresses of external computers
* Displays information about applications that utilized most of the CPU or memory at any time presented on the charts
* Displays all files locked by a select process.
* Finds all processes locking a specified file.
* Includes “Summary” tab for quickly assessing the overall state of the Windows system
* Allows freezing individual Windows processes
* Offer various visual and functional improvements over the standard Windows Task Manager
http://www.extensoft.com/?p=free_task_manager
[Molly via EeeUserForums]
Simple Trick to Keep Your Computer from Locking Up
Jun 21st
How many times have you been working on your Windows computer and without warning it locks up. Unfortunately many of us will say that this happens much more than you’d like. One of the key reasons that your computer locks up is due to a non-responsive program, in other words a program or file running just gets stuck.
Fortunately, windows has an option that allows you to get one step closer to avoiding those very annoying lockups. This isn’t a cure-all, but can be helpful. This only requires a simple tweak to your registry. Here’s how…. (note: I always make a backup of my registry before making changes, so I recommend you do this first but not required).
1) Go To Regedit: Start -> Run -> Type: Regedit
2) Find the correct directory: HKey_Current_User -> Control Panel -> Desktop
3) Find the correct file: Look on the right side and scroll down to find WaitToKillAppTimeout. You’ll notice that this likely says 20000 today. That’s the time in miliseconds that it waits before it stops an application that has locked up. That’s 20 seconds! But we’ll change that…..
4) Modify the File: Double click on WaitToKillAppTimeout. You’ll then get a new window that allows you to edit the “Value Data”. I changed mine to 1000 (1 second). Then click “OK” to complete the modification.
5) Close out of the registry. Click the big x on the top upper right.
6) You’re done….
One step closer to a finely tuned machine.
Kerry enjoys writing about a variety of topics. Her favorite website is CallCatalog.com which is a reverse phone directory website that allows you to lookup and report unwanted phone calls. You can also read her blog which discusses phone number privacy issues.
SpiceWorks 4.0 Beta – now available.
Jun 3rd
It is no secret that your trusty neighborhood admin uses Spiceworks to keep his networks under control. I have heard from a lot of you out there in AdminLand that are using it as well.
Michele from Spiceworks just gave me a shout that the new version is officially in Beta. We wanted you to be one of the first to know that Spiceworks version 4.0 Beta has just been released – which you can download now & play with here: 4.0 Beta Group
You can check out the new bells and whistles in this video here: http://spiceworks.com/tv/?cat=previews&video=40-Preview-1
SOME COOL NEW 4.0 HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE:
- Network Map – Allows you to see and graphically navigate the details of your network as well as determine the connections that exist between your devices.
- Events Collaboration – You can now see the most common events, collaborate with others and find out the best way to troubleshoot the issue (all decided by Spiceworks users – yet another way that Spiceworks is making IT ’social’)
- New Customizable End User Portal – Now you can have a custom intranet up and running in no time! Create the “face” of your IT organization by adding new pages and content areas, changing color schemes, even re-arrange the page layouts. Learn More
- Updated UI – Our fresh new UI helps you speed through your day! In addition to faster load times, the inventory "icon view" now shows more items (plus has a new handy drop down menu of common useful actions) and the tabs on the left-side navigation panel have been moved to the top for better accessibility. Read More
- Help Desk Now Supports Collaboration - One of the most requested help desk features! Collaboration allows you to cc: your boss or someone else on a ticket….and keep them informed as you work on the ticket. Learn More
- Tickets Anywhere – Now, you can work your tickets from any email client simply by including special commands in the body of the email. You can create, work, assign, and even close a ticket from anywhere! Learn How
For more details on the new 4.0 features visit the 4.0 Beta Group
And of course we want to support the awesome free software from Spiceworks so here is a little link love for them…
Free Network Monitoring Software for Network Management
If you download and try it out let us know how it goes for you!
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