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Darwin@DesktopEngineer.com (Darwin Sanoy) http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Desktopengineercom-EngineersToolbox/~3/EP1tA9hXYsk/csi-windows_debugging_checklist_mousepad_for_previous_students_of_desktopengineer.com If you've ever taken a class from DesktopEngineer.com or CSI-Windows.com and did not receive one of our cool Debugging Checklist mousepads Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:22:34 CST http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/csi-windows_debugging_checklist_mousepad_for_previous_students_of_desktopengineer.com http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/csi-windows_debugging_checklist_mousepad_for_previous_students_of_desktopengineer.com Darwin@DesktopEngineer.com (Darwin Sanoy) http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Desktopengineercom-EngineersToolbox/~3/mLN8woTsQ2A/_msi_5_test_package_and_30_pages_of_labs DesktopEngineer.com / CSI-Windows.com has released an MSI test package that can help you explore and test the new features of MSI 5 in Windows 7 and MSI 4 in Windows Vista. Read more about it at CSI-Windows.com Wed, 13 May 2009 23:23:50 CST http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/win_7_/_msi_5_test_package_and_30_pages_of_labs http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/win_7_/_msi_5_test_package_and_30_pages_of_labs Darwin@DesktopEngineer.com (Darwin Sanoy) http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Desktopengineercom-EngineersToolbox/~3/xJEIIFespg4/desktopengineer.com_launch_concise_systems_internals_for_windows_training Probably everyone has seen the gurus of Windows systems internals dig deep diagnostic information out of a nasty application crash. We wonder how to get our hands on the "book of knowledge" they use for their magic. DesktopEngineer.com has a new training offering designed to get you started... Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:58:25 CST http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/desktopengineer.com_launch_concise_systems_internals_for_windows_training http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/desktopengineer.com_launch_concise_systems_internals_for_windows_training Darwin@DesktopEngineer.com (Darwin Sanoy) http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Desktopengineercom-EngineersToolbox/~3/Hw5iX7F9v80/acresso_expands_installshield_packaging_suite_to_support_output_to_three_virtualization_formats Feeling daunted by the prospect of ramping up for application virtualization? Acresso has retooled the AdminStudio packaging suite to output to the three primary application viritualization formats. There are many potential benefits to this approach. There were three that struck me as very beneficial.... Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:46:32 CST http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/acresso_expands_installshield_packaging_suite_to_support_output_to_three_virtualization_formats http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/acresso_expands_installshield_packaging_suite_to_support_output_to_three_virtualization_formats Darwin@DesktopEngineer.com (Darwin Sanoy) http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Desktopengineercom-EngineersToolbox/~3/x367uNxmY58/free_excellent_application_monitor_and_control_utility Kiwi Application Monitor provides excellent Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:34:43 CST http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/free_excellent_application_monitor_and_control_utility http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/free_excellent_application_monitor_and_control_utility Darwin@DesktopEngineer.com (Darwin Sanoy) http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Desktopengineercom-EngineersToolbox/~3/2mcj64nyvkY/free_cool_microsoft_setup_chainer_with_a_wacky_name One of the little setup gems unveiled at the Microsoft Professional Developer Conference was a setup chainer ... Wed, 12 Nov 2008 03:55:07 CST http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/free_cool_microsoft_setup_chainer_with_a_wacky_name http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/free_cool_microsoft_setup_chainer_with_a_wacky_name Darwin@DesktopEngineer.com (Darwin Sanoy) http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Desktopengineercom-EngineersToolbox/~3/eIXpA1gaQtI/free_windows_7_microsoft_conference_sessions Microsoft has published all the sessions from the Professional Developers Conference online Thu, 06 Nov 2008 12:53:59 CST http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/free_windows_7_microsoft_conference_sessions http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/free_windows_7_microsoft_conference_sessions Darwin@DesktopEngineer.com (Darwin Sanoy) http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Desktopengineercom-EngineersToolbox/~3/sSVBiZOTSEE/free_speed_up_windows_with_desktopengineer.coms_winservicestuner.vbs I wanted an automated way to optimize the services running on my training VMs and real machines as well Wed, 05 Nov 2008 22:15:19 CST http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/free_speed_up_windows_with_desktopengineer.coms_winservicestuner.vbs http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/free_speed_up_windows_with_desktopengineer.coms_winservicestuner.vbs Darwin@DesktopEngineer.com (Darwin Sanoy) http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Desktopengineercom-EngineersToolbox/~3/18MBGOHKHj8/vistas_aero_interface_is_hard_on_batteries Here's a utility that lets you get some of that battery life back... Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:57:33 CST http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/vistas_aero_interface_is_hard_on_batteries http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/vistas_aero_interface_is_hard_on_batteries Darwin@DesktopEngineer.com (Darwin Sanoy) http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Desktopengineercom-EngineersToolbox/~3/0-AEx1afzVE/sysinternals_live All the sysinternals tools available with a simple click ... Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:30:33 CST http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/sysinternals_live http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/sysinternals_live Darwin@DesktopEngineer.com (Darwin Sanoy) http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Desktopengineercom-EngineersToolbox/~3/6t4n_6Bvdqk/preview_lua_buglight_2.0 The fans of this very helpful tool will be happy to know there was a new preview version released at TechEd... Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:42:10 CST http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/preview_lua_buglight_2.0 http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/preview_lua_buglight_2.0 Darwin@DesktopEngineer.com (Darwin Sanoy) http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Desktopengineercom-EngineersToolbox/~3/eaSLNXsTJlw/released_updated_application_compatibility_toolkit_documentation Application Compatiblity Toolkit has long suffered from insufficient documentation - Microsoft has recognized this and has updated the docs... Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:36:24 CST http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/released_updated_application_compatibility_toolkit_documentation http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/released_updated_application_compatibility_toolkit_documentation Darwin@DesktopEngineer.com (Darwin Sanoy) http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Desktopengineercom-EngineersToolbox/~3/ZqAIw_vSAwQ/new_post_categories_app_mgmt_and_vista We have two new post categories that are linked on the home page - "Application Management" and "Vista"... Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:27:28 CST http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/new_post_categories_app_mgmt_and_vista http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/new_post_categories_app_mgmt_and_vista Darwin@DesktopEngineer.com (Darwin Sanoy) http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Desktopengineercom-EngineersToolbox/~3/oEZJVRpLPXk/released_powershell_scriptomatic A PowerShell version of Scriptomatic has been released ... Mon, 26 May 2008 14:16:06 CST http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/released_powershell_scriptomatic http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/released_powershell_scriptomatic Darwin@DesktopEngineer.com (Darwin Sanoy) http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Desktopengineercom-EngineersToolbox/~3/b4jGo1xLWmE/free_sysinternals_suite It can be rather tedious to download all the cool sysinternal tools individually Tue, 04 Mar 2008 17:41:45 CST http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/free_sysinternals_suite http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/free_sysinternals_suite Darwin@DesktopEngineer.com (Darwin Sanoy) http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Desktopengineercom-EngineersToolbox/~3/6OkJ949ZSgE/free_unlocker_for_in_use_files How many times have you had to completely reboot Windows to get Explorer or some other greed process to let go of a file you needed ... Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:56:20 CST http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/free_unlocker_for_in_use_files http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/free_unlocker_for_in_use_files Darwin@DesktopEngineer.com (Darwin Sanoy) http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Desktopengineercom-EngineersToolbox/~3/4T0fxI8tY5w/free_voptimizer_freeware_version vOptimizer crushes a Virtual Machine's disk size by 20-60% and can increase performance dramatically - they have a freeware version now Fri, 08 Feb 2008 09:16:58 CST http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/free_voptimizer_freeware_version http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/free_voptimizer_freeware_version Darwin@DesktopEngineer.com (Darwin Sanoy) http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Desktopengineercom-EngineersToolbox/~3/oeCwhoLi2qI/windows_steadystate_-_shared_computer_toolkit_grows_up Microsoft has been enhancing their tools for computers that are in shared environments - but for software packagers that are restricted from using Virtual Machine technology Fri, 08 Feb 2008 09:01:22 CST http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/windows_steadystate_-_shared_computer_toolkit_grows_up http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/windows_steadystate_-_shared_computer_toolkit_grows_up Darwin@DesktopEngineer.com (Darwin Sanoy) http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Desktopengineercom-EngineersToolbox/~3/69gl7uLnJPE/thinstall_acquired_by_vmware Thinstall is an extremely robust application virtualization solution. This robustness makes it a natural fit with VMWare's products ... Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:20:42 CST http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/thinstall_acquired_by_vmware http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/thinstall_acquired_by_vmware Darwin@DesktopEngineer.com (Darwin Sanoy) http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Desktopengineercom-EngineersToolbox/~3/yPAod4HwdYI/microsoft_service_pack_blocker_toolkit Sometimes your company is not ready for a specific Microsoft service pack and you live in fear of end users pulling them down through Windows Update ... Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:29:50 CST http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/microsoft_service_pack_blocker_toolkit http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/microsoft_service_pack_blocker_toolkit Darwin@DesktopEngineer.com (Darwin Sanoy) http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Desktopengineercom-EngineersToolbox/~3/t1lmt_zBJyg/make_firefox_do_ie_favorites If you're asking yourself "why would I ever do that?" Sun, 16 Dec 2007 07:31:56 CST http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/make_firefox_do_ie_favorites http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/make_firefox_do_ie_favorites Darwin@DesktopEngineer.com (Darwin Sanoy) http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Desktopengineercom-EngineersToolbox/~3/1KvbBCFPP8o/free_three_undelete_tools You've probably had that sinking feeling that you don't have a recent copy of that file you just deleted ... Sun, 16 Dec 2007 06:33:49 CST http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/free_three_undelete_tools http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/free_three_undelete_tools Darwin@DesktopEngineer.com (Darwin Sanoy) http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Desktopengineercom-EngineersToolbox/~3/SPwejK-xuOs/free_vista_trial_in_a_virtual_machine_-_without_buying_a_copy_of_vista As far as I can tell there has been no official evaluation DVD for Vista since RC1 (correct me if I'm wrong) - you can build a evaluation build of any version of Vista from any Vista media Mon, 10 Dec 2007 15:48:13 CST http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/free_vista_trial_in_a_virtual_machine_-_without_buying_a_copy_of_vista http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/free_vista_trial_in_a_virtual_machine_-_without_buying_a_copy_of_vista Darwin@DesktopEngineer.com (Darwin Sanoy) http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Desktopengineercom-EngineersToolbox/~3/VZQLODRJzIk/pui_-_you_cant_afford_it There is a specific release of a certain piece of software I love to beat up on because it never should have happened... Wed, 28 Nov 2007 14:09:44 CST http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/pui_-_you_cant_afford_it http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/pui_-_you_cant_afford_it Darwin@DesktopEngineer.com (Darwin Sanoy) http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Desktopengineercom-EngineersToolbox/~3/-nfn9bkKTQ4/released_admin_script_editor_3.1 Admin Script Editor has been on a steady path of upgrades and enhancements. If you haven't had a chance to check out the latest features ... Tue, 27 Nov 2007 11:04:34 CST http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/released_admin_script_editor_3.1 http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/released_admin_script_editor_3.1