Mar 26
Microsoft has been in the computer software realm just about, as long as computers have been on the consumer market. Back in the early days of computing, before Windows, Microsoft … Continue reading
Mar 26
This article was written on September 05, 2007 by CyberNet.
Process Explorer is one of the must-have apps for any Windows power user. It doesn’t require any installation for you to use it, and it can show you things like which application has a specific file or folder open. Honestly this is something that I’ve always hoped would ship with Windows as an “advanced” mode option, but I’m just grateful that Microsoft has continued to keep this project alive.
Today marked another milestone for the application with the introduction of Process Explorer 11. There’s several improvements for Vista users, and here’s the more complete list:
- New treelist control for better UI responsiveness
- Asynchronous thread symbol resolution on threads tab of process properties
- More flags on groups in security tab and SID display
- Thread IDs on threads tab
- On-line search uses default web browser and search engine
- Vista ASLR column for processes and DLLs
- Vista Process and thread I/O and memory priorities in process and thread properties
- Vista Process and thread I/O and memory columns
- PROCESS_QUERY_LIMITED_INFORMATION support on process permissions on Vista
- Run as limited user runs with low IL on Vista
- Reports information for all object types on Vista
- Show details for all processes elevation menu item on Vista
- Supports replacement of task manager on Vista
- /e to launch elevated
- /s switch to select a process at startup
- Compiled w/ASLR, DEP
- Faster startup
- Miscellaneous bug fixes and minor improvements
If you’ve decided that you want to replace the Task Manager with the Process Explorer it’s just two-clicks away. After you have Process Explorer open just go to the Options Menu, and choose “Replace Task Manager” from the list:
You can undo that operation at anytime by using the same item in the Options Menu, but I have a feeling that you’ll grow accustomed to the sea of details that Process Explorer provides you with. So go ahead and try it out…there’s no installation required and it runs on nearly all versions of Windows.
Process Explorer 11 (only for Windows 9x/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista)
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Mar 25
This article was written on June 13, 2006 by CyberNet.
Firefox Menus take up a large portion of the navigation bar, and if you are like me then you rarely use those menu options. I go there every once in awhile to adjust settings or configure extensions, but I doubt I use the menus more than once per day.
That is where Tiny Menu comes in. It allows me to collapse all of the menus into one menu option. This gives me more room on my toolbar and doesn’t make it feel so cluttered. Maybe you are thinking to yourself that you use one or two of those menus and you don’t want to use this extension because it be too much of a hassle. Well, all you have to do is configure the options and tell it which menus you want it to collapse and which ones you don’t. Easy huh?
With the help of this extension I have been able to cut my Firefox down to just two toolbars, the navigation bar and my tabs bar. My navigation toolbar just has the address bar, navigation buttons, Google Bookmarks extension, and the search box. Thanks to Tiny Menu I was able to get rid of my toolbar clutter.
Install Tiny Menu Firefox Extension
Tiny Menu Homepage
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Mar 25
In a move we’re guessing might not rub the remote computer access competition the right way this week, NVIDIA is letting it be known that Remote GameStream abilities are coming … Continue reading
Mar 25
Support for the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 800M collection of graphics processors is now ready alongside several other sets of processing hardware for the NVIDIA GameStream experience. What this means for … Continue reading
Mar 25
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Mar 25
This article was written on September 11, 2006 by CyberNet.
Windows Vista RC1 is still doing great for me on each machine that I have it installed on. The first machine that I put it on was my desktop computer that was running Vista Pre-RC1 and I decided to perform an upgrade instead of a fresh install. After the 3-hour upgrade had finished I was able to use Vista RC1 completely. I noticed no issues and was pleasantly surprised. However, because of how long it took to perform the upgrade I chose to do clean installs on my other machines.
Paul Thurrott, however, took an even braver approach by installing Vista RC1 over an XP installation that he had been using for months. Here are a few snippets from the article that he wrote:
I did something scary and thought you might be interested in hearing about it: I upgraded a perfectly serviceable (if dirty) Windows XP installation–complete with months and months of installed applications and data–to see what would happen. The results surprised me.
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So after spending (literally) an entire afternoon backing up and even removing some things in order to have enough free hard drive space (Vista Setup demands 15 GB of free hard drive space just to install the OS), I was ready to take my main XP desktop and sacrifice it in the name of science. Well. In the name of curiosity anyway.
I’m happy to report that it went swimmingly. Indeed, I’m writing this review right now in that very system, using the copy of Word 2003 that was installed in XP many months ago. Like most of the incredibly varied list of applications that was installed on this system, Word works just fine, for the most part. Indeed, I’m surprised by how well the whole thing went.
What it didn’t do was happen quickly or painlessly. Beginning to end, the whole procedure took over 90 minutes, well more than three times the amount of time it took to perform a clean install of Windows Vista RC1 on the same PC. It refused to even install until I removed one particularly difficult application, though it curiously had little inhibition about allowing me to keep a number of other applications around, even though it knew they wouldn’t work either. Here’s what happened.
Yes, the application that he couldn’t get to work was Nero 7. I have also run into that problem and right now I lack any kind of good CD/DVD burning software. I assume that Nero is working hard to make their software work because Roxio just released a Vista-compatible version of Easy Media Creator.
Despite his upgrade taking 90-minutes he seems to be quite pleased with the results. My XP installations are all gone and I am only left with Vista RC1 on multiple computers. They all play very nicely together but my biggest complaint is the forced startup sound. It is definitely starting to get on my nerves.
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Mar 25
There are several elements contributing the the HTC One M8’s ability to last all day in the field with minimal charging. One is the Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 processor’s ability to … Continue reading
Mar 25
This article was written on June 05, 2006 by CyberNet.
Windows IT is reporting that Vista will lose another key feature: PC-to-PC synchronization. Microsoft has already pushed Vista’s deadline back to January and now they are pulling features. Are we ever going to see the product that we have been expecting? Here is what Paul Thurrott had to say about the feature being pulled:
Vista is also losing a major feature, PC-to-PC sync, which Microsoft Co-President Jim Allchin described to me back in January as one of his favorite Vista features. “You really can leave all your documents on a server and use cached copies on the client,” he said. “It’s just synchronizing the files when you make changes, as needed.”
Microsoft just removed the PDF support because Adobe pretty much forced them to, and now this. Hopefully Microsoft doesn’t continually pull features in order to meet their deadlines otherwise they will receive a lot of criticism when Vista actually does get released (on top of the criticism that they are already receiving).
Hopefully we will see the Public Vista Beta 2 before all of the features get pulled 😀 .
News Source: Windows IT Pro
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Mar 25
This article was written on June 06, 2007 by CyberNet.
Web Browser Wednesday
Netscape is the browser that everyone has probably used at one point or another. Don’t try and block it from your memory, it’s okay, there is no arguing that Netscape Navigator was the hot browser of the 90’s.
Last October I took a look at what Netscape 8 had to offer, which included a lot of improvements over prior versions. The most notable feature was that it was based on the Firefox rendering engine. This was also the first time that they moved away from being an entire Internet Suite (browser, email, etc…) and focused solely on being a browser that people would respect.
Netscape 9.0 Beta 1 was just released last night, and they have decided to bring something back that hasn’t been around since version 6! When Netscape 7 launched they decided to remove “Navigator” from the name, but it returns in full glory in Netscape Navigator 9.
So I’ll give you a visual walk-through of a few new features in Netscape 9, some of which should be included in Firefox. Besides having all of the great Firefox 2 features (spell check, session restore, etc…) it also has all of this included:
–URL Correction–
It looks for common mistakes that you would make when typing in a URL. It can autocorrect up to 30 different mistakes, for example, typing “cybernetnewscom” will automatically get changed to “cybernetnews.com”.
–Link Pad–
This is actually such a simple idea, yet incredibly useful because of how they implemented it. Link Pad is a simple sidebar item that will store hyperlinks you drag on to it (or on the icon in the bottom-left corner). It is essentially a bookmark system, yet it is kept separate from your bookmarks to keep things a little more organized. I look at it as a place for “disposable” URL’s that you’ll only visit one time. After you click on a URL, it will automatically be removed from the Link Pad…that’s the best part.
–Extension Compatibility–
All Firefox 2 extensions should now work perfectly in Netscape. Thank goodness! I tried both IE Tab and Tab Mix Plus, two very popular Firefox extensions, and each worked flawlessly. Kudos to the Netscape team for making sure people could still use their Firefox extensions.
–Sidebar Mini Browser–
You can right-click on any hyperlink and choose to open it in the sidebar. Then the sidebar is its own little browser with an address bar as well as back/forward buttons. Split-screen navigating isn’t such a chore now!
–Restart Netscape–
This is the feature I constantly say that Firefox should include! Restarting the browser is as simple as hitting the File Menu and clicking Restart Navigator. All of your tabs and windows are then instantly restored.
–Resizeable Textarea–
Don’t have enough room to type your thoughts? Then feel free to expand the text boxes at your leisure.
–Tab History–
Okay, this feature is priceless. No, it is not the same thing as the History menu in Firefox, although Netscape does include that as well. Basically when you make a link open in a new tab, all of the backward browsing history is copied to that new tab. For example, let’s say you’re searching on Google and you Ctrl+click on one of the links so that it opens in a new tab — while in that new tab, you’ll still be able to go back to the Google search results. If you try the same thing in Firefox, the back button will be disabled because the new tab doesn’t have any “history” to it.
–Other “Okay” Features–
Some of the things in Netscape 9 pertain only to the Netscape.com site, or aren’t that revolutionary. Since I don’t use Netscape.com I thought these features were a little lame:
- Sitemail Notification – This icon will sport an exclamation point when you have new Netscape.com sitemail messages waiting for you.
- In-browser voting – Share your opinions with the world! The icons in the Navigator address bar let you share interesting stories you find and vote on stories shared by others.
- Throbber – By popular demand, the Netscape 7-style throbber is back. Click on it any time to visit Netscape.com.
- Combined Stop/Reload button – To save space in your toolbar, we’ve combined the stop and reload buttons. Because you never need both at the same time, the toolbar will only show the relevant half of the pair.
- OPML Support – Netscape Navigator supports importing and exporting your bookmarks in OPML, a popular format for sharing lists of news feeds.
- News Tracker – The Netscape Tracker sidebar lets you monitor breaking news as it happens, via Netscape.com.
- Friends’ Activity Sidebar – If you are a member at Netscape.com, you can keep tabs on what your friends find interesting. This sidebar lets you view your friends latest votes, comments, and story submissions.
- News Menu and Sidebar – The latest news is built right into the browser, under the News menu. Provided by Netscape.com, you can customize the menu to only contain the news sections you want to monitor. You can also open the News sidebar to always keep an eye on what’s happening.
Despite the overloaded integration with Netscape.com, I would have to say that the Netscape browser is a step ahead of Firefox. I guess it ultimately depends on how you look at it since a lot of the features they included are also offered as Firefox extensions, but they did a great job bringing some unique things into the browser as well. I can see myself using the Link Pad quite frequently, as well as the mini browser in the sidebar.
Netscape Navigator 9 is currently in Beta so you could run into a few bumps while using it, although it did work flawlessly for me. You’ll find the download links here if you’re interested in trying out the free browser (for Windows, Mac, and Linux).
Thanks for the tip Mohan!
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