pWondering if Microsoft fixed their live writer.#160; My post have been showing up in HTML instead of text.#160; This will be a test post./p pIt’s still not working.#160; I have stopped posting blogs because this was my handy tool for posting.#160; Looking into another blog writer./p
Microsoft Windows 8 has Hyper-V
See Building Windows 8 Article
Overview of the Building Windows 8 Article featuring Hyper-V
In this post we talk about how we will support virtualization on the Windows "client" OS. Originally released for Windows Server where the technology has proven very popular and successful, we wanted to bring virtualization to a core set of scenarios for professionals using Windows. The two most common scenarios we focused on are for software developers working across multiple platforms and clients and servers, and IT professionals looking to manage virtualized clients and servers in a seamless manner. Mathew John is a program manager on our Hyper-V team and authored this post. One note is that, as with all features, we’re discussing the engineering of the work and not the ultimate packaging, as those choices are made much later in the project. –Steven PS: We didn’t plan on doing so many posts in a row so we’ll return to more sustainable pace — sorry if we inadvertently set expectations a bit too high. We’re getting ready for BUILD full time right now!!
Hirenrsquo;s BootCD 15.1
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It has a multitude of tools divided into a number of categories like partitioning tools, backup, recovery and BIOS/CMOS tools to name a few./em/p pemWith some simple knowledge about what is contained on the CD, you can use it to repair many problems computer like hard drive failure, virus infections, partitioning, password recovery and data recovery./em/p pstrongPartition Tools/strong/p pIf you need to make changes to the partitions on your computer, there are several applications that provides various levels of functionality for accomplishing this goal. You can both create and delete partitions from your computer, even while there are other partitions on the hard drive you are modifying. You can also resize partitions if needed, to change how much space is allocated to them./p pstrongBackup and Recovery/strong/p pThere are several backup and recovery tools on Hiren’s BootCD. Backup tools like GetDataBack, HDD Scan, Partition Find and Mount, PhotoRec, Recuva, Undelete… let you copy data off of your hard drive and schedule automatic backups to ensure your data is saved to another location. You can also recover deleted data, whether that data was deleted intentionally or accidentally. There are also a few tools that will help you recover data from damaged or corrupted portions of your hard drive if you are unable to recover them through other methods./p pstrongAntivirus Tools/strong/p pA main portion of the disk feature antivirus software. Spybot-Search and Destroy scans a computer for the most likely spyware and removes it. Malwarebytes Anti-Malware finds root kit viruses and Trojans that could affect computers and spread through networks. Super Antispyware is an all-in-one scanner that detects and eliminates all types of viruses. Run one scan at a time. Do multiple scans because one program might find a virus that another program misses./p pstrongTesting Tools/strong/p pHiren’s BootCD provides a variety of tools for testing different aspects of your computer. If you suspect that your RAM is corrupted or that a piece of hardware on your machine is not functioning properly, there are several applications you can run to determine the problems. You can also perform hard drive tests to see whether your hard drive is physically damaged, and get a report on how much longer your hard drive is expected to work./p pstrongPassword Tools/strong/p pPassword recovery and modification tools are also provided on Hiren’s BootCD. You can change the administrator password on Windows machines, and there are utilities for saving passwords for your online accounts in an encrypted format. You can also encrypt your entire hard drive with Hiren’s BootCD so that a password is required to read or write any data from or to your hard drive./p pstrongMini Windows XP/strong/p pTo clear a virus and use a large collection of HBCD tools, choose the Mini Windows XP option. A simple version of Windows XP will load on the computer. It might take a few minutes to load everything because it processes files directly from the CD. Once it has loaded, wait for the Hiren’s Boot disk menu to pop up. Select the “Menu” option and scroll through the programs. The disk features Windows password hackers, registry cleaners and a large collection of antivirus software./p hr / pstrongHiren’ BootCD 14.0 Contents/strong/p pUpdated Fri, May 27, 2011/p pa href=”http://www.hirensbootcd.org/category/all-versions/”All Versions/a/p h4Antivirus Tools/h4 ul liAvira AntiVir Personal (24-05-2011): Free anti-virus and anti-spyware on-demand scanner, detects and removes more than 50000 viruses and trojans (Windows Freeware). /li liComboFix (24-05-2011): Designed to cleanup malware infections and restore settings modified by malware (Windows Freeware). /li liDr.Web CureIt! Antivirus (24-05-2011): A free standalone anti-virus and anti-spyware on-demand scanner (Windows Freeware). /li liGMER 1.0.15: Hidden services, hidden registry, hidden file scanner, Rootkit Detector and Remover (Windows Freeware). /li liMalwarebytes Anti-Malware 1.50.1 (24-05-2011): Anti-malware application that can thoroughly remove even the most advanced malware (Windows Freeware). /li liRemove Fake Antivirus 1.76: A tool to remove virus/malware which disguises itself to be an antivirus and produces fake alert/warnings and urge you to purchase a useless copy of the fake antivirus (Windows Freeware). /li liRootkitRevealer 1.7.1: Rootkit Revealer is an advanced patent-pending root kit detection utility (Windows Freeware). /li liSpybot: Search amp; Destroy 1.6.2 (24-05-2011): Application to scan for spyware, adware, hijackers and other malicious software (Windows Freeware). /li liSpywareBlaster 4.4 (24-05-2011): Prevent the installation of spyware and other potentially unwanted software (Windows Freeware). /li liSuperAntispyware 4.53.1000 (24-05-2011): Remove Adware, Malware, Parasites, Rootkits, Spyware, Trojan, and Worms (a must have tool) (Windows Freeware). /li liTDSSKiller 2.4.17: To remove malware belonging to the family Rootkit.Win32.TDSS aka Tidserv, TDSServ and Alureon (Windows Freeware). /li /ul h4Backup Tools/h4 ul liCloneDisk 1.8.9: All in one tool for MBR, Partition, Disk, VMWare Disk images vmdk/vmx/vhd, and much more (Windows Freeware). /li liCOPYR.DMA Build013: A Tool for making copies of hard disks with bad sectors (Dos Freeware). /li liCopyWipe 1.14: Copy old hard drive to a new hard drive by copying the entire contents of one drive to another, CopyWipe can also help prevent confidential or private data from being recovered, by securely wiping the contents of a drive (Windows/Dos Freeware). /li liDiskImage 1.6: Creates and writes disk images files to hard and floppy disks (Windows Freeware). /li liDouble Driver 4.1: Driver Backup and Restore tool (Windows Freeware). /li liDrive SnapShot 1.40: Creates an exact Disk Image of your system into a file while windows is running (Windows Shareware). /li liDriveImage XML 2.22: Backup any drive/partition to an image file, even if the drive is currently in use, a very good freeware alternative to Ghost / Acronis (Windows Freeware). /li liFastCopy 2.08: The Fastest Copy/Delete Software on Windows (Windows Freeware). /li liG4L Ghost 4 Linux 0.34a: A hard disk and partition imaging and cloning tool similar to Norton Ghost (Linux Freeware). /li liGImageX 2.0.17: ImageX is used to backup/restore WIM images for Windows XP/Vista and Windows 7 (Windows Freeware). /li liImage For Windows 2.62a: Backup and restore utility that creates a snapshot of a selected partition or volume, and saves it to disk, or burns it directly to most DVD+RW+R-R-RW or CD-R/RW drives (Windows Shareware). /li liImgBurn 2.5.5.0: Lightweight CD/DVD/HD DVD/Blu-ray burning application, supports BIN, CUE, DI, DVD, GI, IMG, ISO, MDS, NRG and PDI, Ability to build DVD/HD/BD Video discs from a VIDEO_TS/HVDVD_TS/BDAV/BDMV folder, Unicode folder/file names (formerly DVD Decrypter) (Windows Freeware). /li liInfraRecorder 0.52: An Open source CD/DVD burning software, also create/burn .iso images (Windows Freeware). /li liMacrium Reflect 4.2.2952: Create complete backups of your disk partitions, including operating system, installed programs and all your settings (Windows Freeware). /li liPartition Image: PartImage 0.6.9: Supported filesystem includes Ext2, Ext3, Reiserfs, HFS, HPFS, JFS, Xfs, UFS, Fat16, Fat32 and NTFS (Linux Freeware). /li liPartition Saving 3.90: A tool to backup/restore partitions (SavePart.exe) (Windows/Dos Freeware). /li liRaw Copy 1.2: Useful tool to transfer the data directly from a faulty drive to another drive, built in data recovery function which will also attempt to recover data from bad sectors (Windows Freeware). /li liRegBak 1.0: A light-weight and simple utility to create backups of Windows registry files (Windows Freeware). /li liSeagate DiscWizard 11.8326: Backup drive/partition to an image file, for Seagate owners (Powered by Acronis TrueImage) (Windows/Linux Freeware). /li liSelfImage 1.2.1.92: To create image files of any mounted or unmounted hard disk partition (Windows Freeware). /li liShadowCopy 1.00: Copy all your files and entire system: even if they are locked by Windows (Windows Freeware). /li liSmart Driver Backup 2.12: Easy backup of your Windows device drivers (also works from PE) (Windows Freeware). /li liTeraCopy 2.12: TeraCopy is a compact program designed to copy and move files at the maximum possible speed, providing the user a lot of features includes pause, resume, auto shutdown, verify, error recovery and unicode support (Windows Freeware). /li liWhitSoft File Splitter 4.5a: A Small File Split / Join Tool (Windows Freeware). /li liXXClone 0.58.0: The simple way to clone a Windows disk to another disk, it makes a self-bootable clone of Windows system disk (Windows Freeware). /li /ul h4BIOS / CMOS Tools/h4 ul li!BIOS 3.20: A powerfull utility for bios and cmos (Dos Freeware). /li liAward DMI Configuration Utility 2.43: DMI Configuration utility for modifying/viewing the MIDF contents (Dos Freeware). /li liBIOS Cracker 5.0: BIOS password remover (cmospwd) (Dos Freeware). /li liBIOS Utility 1.35.0: BIOS Informations, password, beep codes and more (Dos Freeware). /li liCMOS 0.93: CMOS Save / Restore Tool (Dos Freeware). /li liDISKMAN4: A powerful all in one utility (Windows/Dos Freeware). /li liKill CMOS: A tiny utility to wipe cmos (Dos Freeware). /li liUniFlash 1.40: Bios flash utility (Dos Freeware). /li /ul h4Browsers / File Managers/h4 ul li7-Zip 9.20: File archiver with a high compression ratio Supports 7z, ARJ, BZIP2, CAB, CHM, CPIO, DEB, DMG, FAT, GZ, GZIP, HFS, IMA, IMG, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MBR, MSI, NSIS, NTFS, RAR, RPM, TAR, UDF, VHD, WIM, XAR, XZ, ZIP and Z formats (Windows Freeware). /li liBulk Rename Utility 2.7.1.2: Rename multiple files, change timestamps and rename using EXIF data with the click of a button (Windows Freeware). /li liDos Command Center 5.1: Classic dos-based file manager (Dos Freeware). /li liDos Navigator 6.4.0: Dos File Manager, Norton Commander clone but has much more features (Dos Freeware). /li liEasyUHA 1.1: GUI Tool to create and extract UHA Archives (Windows Freeware). /li liEverything 1.21: Ultra fast file/folder search tool with ftp/http server (Windows Freeware). /li liExplore2fs 1.08b: GUI explorer tool for accessing linux ext2 and ext3 filesystems under windows (Windows Freeware). /li liExt2Explore 2.2.71: To explore ext2/ext3/ext4 disk/partition, can also be used to view and copy disk and file system images (Windows Freeware). /li liFastLynx 2.0: Dos file manager with Pc to Pc file transfer capability (Dos Freeware). /li liFile Maven 3.5: An advanced Dos file manager with high speed PC-to-PC file transfers via serial or parallel cable (Dos Freeware). /li liFile Wizard 1.35: A file manager: colored files, drag and drop copy, move, delete etc (Dos Freeware). /li liHashMyFiles 1.70: Calculate MD5/SHA1/CRC32 hashes of your files (Windows Freeware). /li liMini Windows 98: Can run from Ram Drive, with ntfs support, 7-Zip, Disk Defragmenter, Notepad / RichText Editor, Image Viewer, .avi .mpg .divx .xvid Movie Player, etc (Windows Commercial). /li liMini Windows Xp: Portable Windows Xp that runs from CD/USB/Ram Drive to repair/recover dead windows operating system. It has LAN and WLAN (Wireless) Network includes 300 WiFi/Ethernet card drivers and can also be customized easily to add your own drivers in HBCD\Drivers folder. Added some USB 3.0 and SATA/SCSI/SAS Storage drivers, Dynamic disk Spanned/Striped/Mirrored/RAID-5 Volume support and VBS/WSH scripting support. Supported keyboard layouts are: United States, United Kingdom, US Dvorak, Turkish Q, Turkish F, Swiss German, Swiss French, Swedish, Suomi Finnish, Spanish, Slovenian, Slovak, Russian, Portuguese, Polish, Norvegian Norske, Netherlands Dutch, Latin American, Italy, Icelandic, Hungarian, Hebrew, Germany, German Switzerland Luxembourg, Francais Cavier AZERTY, Denmark Daenish, Bulgarian Phonetic, Bulgarian, Brazil Portuguese, Brazil Extended Portuguese and Belgium (Windows Commercial). /li liOpera Web Browser 9.64: One of the fastest, smallest and smartest full-featured web browser with an email client (Windows Freeware). /li liSearchMyFiles 1.71: Alternative to ‘Search For Files And Folders’ module of Windows + Duplicates Search (Windows Freeware). /li liTotal Commander 7.56a: A file manager similar to the Windows Explorer features side-by-side file-browsing panes, built-in FTP, archive management, file search/compare/synchronize and more (Windows Shareware). /li liVolkov Commander 4.99: Dos File Manager with LongFileName/ntfs support (Similar to Norton Commander) (Dos Freeware). /li liWinMerge 2.12.4.0: Differencing and merging tool which can compare both folders and files, presenting differences in a visual text format that is easy to understand and handle (Windows Freeware). /li /ul h4Cleaners/h4 ul liATF Cleaner 3.0.0.2: A personal and easy-to-use temp file removal software to clean all user temp folders, Java cache, Opera/Mozilla browser cache, cookies, history, download history, saved passwords etc (Windows Freeware). /li liCCleaner 3.05.1409: Crap Cleaner is a freeware system optimization and privacy tool (Windows Freeware). /li liCleanUp! 4.5.2: Removes junk files from all user profiles that accumulate over time and litter your hard drive (Windows Freeware). /li liCloneSpy 2.6: Duplicate file cleanup tool, can optionaly create hardlinks to save space (Windows Freeware). /li liData Shredder 1.0: A tool to Erase disk and files (also wipe free space) securely (Windows Freeware). /li liDelete Doctor 2.2: Delete Files that are hard to delete, Option to delete on reboot or via UNC Name (Windows Freeware). /li liDuplicate File Finder 3.5: Scans and identify duplicate files, it compares them based on byte for byte comparison ensures 100% accuracy (Windows Freeware). /li liMyUninstaller 1.72: Alternative to the standard add / remove control panel module (Windows Freeware). /li liRevo Uninstaller 1.91: Remove unnecessary files and registry entries left behind by incomplete program uninstallation routines (Windows Freeware). /li liSpaceMonger 1.4: Keeping track of the free space on your computer (Windows Freeware). /li liSpaceSniffer 1.1.2.0: Find lost space on your disks the easy way (Windows Freeware). /li liWinDirStat 1.1.2.80: A disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool for Windows (Windows Freeware). /li /ul h4Editors / Viewers/h4 ul liAtlantis Word Processor 1.6.5.5: Compact, fast-loading, but still powerful and efficient, perfect companion for a wide range of your word processing tasks, supports RTF, MS Word DOC 6.0/95/97/2000/XP/2003 and DOCX (Windows Shareware). /li liHxD 1.7.7.0: Hex Editor provides tools to inspect and edit files, main memory, disks/disk images (Windows Freeware). /li liIrfanView 4.28: A free Image Viewer/Editor/Converter and Optimizer (Windows Freeware). /li liNotepad++ 5.9: A text editor and source code editor supports Unicode files, Regular expression find and replace (also in files), tabbed editing, Syntax highlighting and Drag-and-drop (Windows Freeware). /li liPhotoFiltre 6.5.2: A complete image retouching program (Mini Photoshop) allows you to do simple or advanced adjustments to an image and apply a vast range of filters on it (Windows Freeware). /li liPicture Viewer 1.94: Picture viewer for dos, supports more then 40 filetypes (Dos Freeware). /li liQuickView Pro 2.58: Movie viewer for dos, supports many format including divx (Dos Freeware). /li liSpread32 1.18: Mini Excel with all of the basic features of a spreadsheet program. Run macros, draw objects, generate charts, calculate functions and formulas, reads and writes xls, csv, text, and pxl formats (Windows Freeware). /li liSumatraPDF 1.1: A free, open source, lightweight PDF Reader for Microsoft Windows (Windows Freeware). /li /ul h4FileSystems Tools/h4 ul liAlternateStreamView 1.30: View/Copy/Delete hidden NTFS Alternate Data Streams (Windows Freeware). /li liEditBINI 1.01: To Edit boot.ini on NTFS Partition (Dos Freeware). /li liFileDisk Mount Tool 25: to mount ISO/BIN/NRG/MDF/IMA/IMG images on windows (Windows Freeware). /li liFilemon 7.04: Monitors and displays file system activity on a system in real-time (Windows Freeware). /li liNewSID 4.10: Utility that changes the security ID (SID) for Windows NT, 2000 and XP (Windows Freeware). /li liNTFS Access 2.1: Set NTFS permissions recursively and full access rights to a folder/file owner (Windows Freeware). /li liNTFS Dos 3.02: To read-only access ntfs partitions from Dos (Dos Freeware). /li liNTFS4Dos 1.9: To read and write ntfs partitions from Dos (Dos Freeware). /li liVirtual Floppy Drive 2.1: Enables you to create and mount a virtual floppy drive on your NT/2000/XP/Vista (Windows Freeware). /li /ul h4Hard Disk Tools/h4 ul liActive Kill Disk 4.1.2393: Securely overwrites and destroys all data on physical drive (Dos Freeware). /li liDarik’s Boot and Nuke (DBAN) 1.0.7: Completely deletes the contents of any hard disk it can detect (Linux Freeware). /li liDiskView 2.4: To view graphical map of your disk, allowing you to check where a file is located or, by clicking on a cluster, seeing which file occupies it (Windows Freeware). /li liDiskWipe 1.2: Securely erases the contents of a disk replacing it with random data or leaving the drive completely blank (Windows Freeware). /li liExcelStor’s ESTest 4.50: ExcelStor hard disk diagnostic utility (Dos Freeware). /li liFujitsu HDD Diagnostic Tool 7.00: To check IDE drives for possible defects/problems (Dos Freeware). /li liFujitsu IDE Low Level Format 1.0: Low Level Format Tool for Fujitsu Drives (Dos Freeware). /li liGateway GwScan 5.12: Gateway hard drive diagnostic utility (Dos Freeware). /li liHard Disk Sentinel 1.00.5: Hard Disk health, performance and temperature monitoring tool (Dos Freeware). /li liHDAT2 4.53: The main function is testing and repair (regenerates) bad sectors for detected devices. A freeware alternative of HDD Regenerator (Dos Freeware). /li liHDD Capacity Restore 1.2: This tool allows you to restore factory capacity of any hard drive. it does not read from or write to the user data area or perform any kind of formatting, only alters HDD firmware (HPA and DCO settings) (Windows Freeware). /li liHDD Erase 4.0: Secure erase using a special feature built into most newer hard drives (Dos Freeware). /li liHDD Low Level Format Tool 2.36: Low-level format tool for S-ATA (SATA), IDE (E-IDE), SCSI, USB, Flash Cards and FIREWIRE external drive enclosures (Windows Freeware). /li liHDD Scan 3.3: HDDScan is a Low-level HDD diagnostic tool, it scans surface find bad sectors etc (Windows Freeware). /li liHDTune 2.55: HD Tune is a hard disk health, benchmarking, error scanner and information tool (Windows Freeware). /li liIBM Hitachi Drive Fitness Test 4.16: Quickly and reliably tests SCSI, IDE and SATA drives (Dos Freeware). /li liIBM Hitachi Feature Tool 2.15: Allows you to control some of the features of the the HDD (Dos Freeware). /li liMaxtor amset utility 4.0: Utility for changing Acoustic Management on the hard drives (Dos Freeware). /li liMaxtor Low Level Formatter 1.1: Maxtor’s Low Level Format Utility works on any harddrive (Dos Freeware). /li liMaxtor PowerMax 4.23: Designed to perform diagnostic read/write verifications on Maxtor/Quantum hard drives (Dos Freeware). /li liMHDD 4.6: Precise diagnostic of the mechanical part of a drive, perform Low-level format, Bad Sector Sepair, access raw sectors, manage S.M.A.R.T (SMART) and other drive parameters such as acoustic management, security, Host Protected Area, etc (Dos Freeware). /li liSamsung Disk Diagnose (SHDIAG) 1.28: To diagnose the disk when suspected to have failures (Dos Freeware). /li liSamsung ESTOOL 3.01v: Drive Diagnostic, Automatic Acoustic Management, Enable/Disable SMART etc (Dos Freeware). /li liSamsung HDD Utility(HUTIL) 2.10: The Drive Diagnostic Utility (Dos Freeware). /li liSeaTools for Dos: GUI 2.23 Text 1.10 versions to test Seagate or Maxtor Parallel ATA (PATA and IDE) and Serial ATA (SATA) interface disc drives (Dos Freeware). /li liSmartUDM 2.00: Hard Disk Drive S.M.A.R.T. Viewer (Dos Freeware). /li liToshiba Hard Disk Diagnostic 2.00b: Toshiba hard drive diagnostic utility (Dos Freeware). /li liVictoria 3.33e and 3.52rus: A freeware program for low-level HDD diagnostics (Dos Freeware). /li liVictoria 4.46: Universal program for testing storage devices (Windows Freeware). /li liViVard 1.0: HDD low-level diagnostics, Surface test with remap, SMART-attributes etc (Dos Freeware). /li liWDClear 1.30: Restore/Erases the drive back to a factory condition (Dos Freeware). /li liWDIDLE3 1.05: Modifies the behavior of a Western Digital Green drive to wait longer before positioning the heads in their park position and turning off unnecessary electronics (Dos Freeware). /li liWestern Digital Data Lifeguard Tools 1.22: To perform drive identification, diagnostics, and repairs on most WD drives (Windows Freeware). /li liWestern Digital Data Lifeguard Tools 11.2: For the installation of Western Digital EIDE Hard Drives (Dos Freeware). /li liWestern Digital Diagnostics (DLGDIAG) 5.19: To quickly and efficiently verify the status of the drive (Dos Freeware). /li /ul h4MBR (Master Boot Record) Tools/h4 ul liBellaVista 1.1.0.54: Formerly BCD Editor with lots of options to configure Windows for a developer (Windows Freeware). /li liBoot Partition 2.60: Add Partition in the Windows NT/2000/XP Multi-boot loader (Dos Freeware). /li liBootFix Utility: Run this utility if you get ‘Invalid system disk’ message (Dos Freeware). /li liBootICE 0.9.2011.0406: A boot sector manipulation utility to edit MBR/PBR/BCD (Windows Freeware). /li liBootSect 6.0.6: Boot Sector Manipulation Tool, This tool replaces FixFAT.exe and FixNTFS.exe (Windows Freeware). /li liDiskMan 4.2: All in one tool for cmos, bios, bootrecord and more (Windows/Dos Freeware). /li liFbInst 1.6: A tool to create universal flash boot disk that boots from all computers (Windows Freeware). /li ligrub4dos 2011-04-23: An universal boot loader based on GNU GRUB, can boot off DOS/LINUX or via Windows boot manager/syslinux/lilo or from MBR/CD, builtin BIOS disk emulation (Linux Freeware). /li liGrub4Dos installer 1.1: An universal boot loader GRUB for DOS GRLDR installer (Windows Freeware). /li liHDHacker 1.4: Load/Save/View MBR and BootSector from a physical/logical drive (Windows Freeware). /li liisolinux 4.04: A boot loader for Linux/i386 that operates off ISO 9660/El Torito CD-ROMs in ‘no emulation’ mode (Linux Freeware). /li liMBR SAVE / RESTORE 2.1: BootSave and BootRest tools to save / restore MBR (Dos Freeware). /li liMBR Utility 1.05: To manipulate a drive’s master boot record (MBR) via the command line (Windows/Dos Freeware). /li liMbrFix 1.3: To backup, restore, fix the boot code in the MBR (Windows/Dos Freeware). /li liMBRTool 2.3.200: Backup, verify, restore, edit, refresh, remove, display, re-write and more (Dos Freeware). /li liMBRWizard 3.0.73: Directly update and modify the Master Boot Record (Windows/Dos Freeware). /li liMBRWork 1.08: A utility to perform some common and uncommon MBR functions (Dos Freeware). /li liMemDisk 4.04: To allow booting legacy operating systems, floppy images, hard disk images and some ISO images (Linux Freeware). /li liPLoP Boot Manager 5.0.11: A small program to boot different operating systems harddisk, floppy, CD/DVD or from USB, it can boot from an USB/CD/DVD even without BIOS support (Linux Freeware). /li liRMPrepUSB 2.1.620: Partition and format your USB drive and make it bootable (Windows Freeware). /li liSmart Boot Manager 3.7.1: A multi boot manager (Linux/Dos Freeware). /li liXOSL 1.1.5: A graphical boot manager that supports multi-booting of various operating systems (Dos Freeware). /li /ul h4Ms Dos Tools/h4 ul li1394 Firewire Support: 1394 Firewire Drivers for Dos (Dos Freeware). /li liASUSTeK USB Driver 3: ASUS USB CD-ROM Device Driver Version 1.00 (Dos Freeware). /li liDos tools: Collection of dos utilities extract.exe pkzip.exe pkunzip.exe lha.exe gzip.exe uharcd.exe imgExtrc.exe xcopy.exe diskcopy.com mouse.com undelete.com edit.com fdisk.exe fdisk2.exe fdisk3.exe lf.exe delpart.exe wipe.com zap.com format.com deltree.exe more.com find.exe hex.exe debug.exe split.exe mem.exe attrib.com sys.com smartdrv.exe xmsdsk.exe killer.exe share.exe scandisk.exe guest.exe doskey.exe duse.exe move.exe setver.exe intersvr.exe interlnk.exe loadlin.exe lfndos.exe doslfn.com and more (Dos Commercial). /li liInterlnk support at COM1/LPT1: To access another computer from COM/LPT port (Dos Freeware). /li liSATA Support: SATA Driver (gcdrom.sys) and JMicron JMB361 (xcdrom.sys) for Dos (Dos Freeware). /li liSCSI Support: SCSI Drivers for Dos (Dos Freeware). /li liUniversal USB Driver 2: Panasonic v2.20 ASPI Manager for USB mass storage (Dos Freeware). /li liUSB CD-Rom Driver 1: Standard usb_cd.sys driver for cd drive (Dos Freeware). /li /ul h4Network Tools/h4 ul liAngry IP Scanner 2.21: Scan IP addresses in any range as well as any their ports (Windows Freeware). /li liComplete Internet Repair 0.9.5.955: All in one tool to repair common internet connection issues, it attempts to repair everything internet related on a Windows system (Windows Freeware). /li liCurrPorts 1.87: Displays the list of all currently opened TCP and UDP ports on your computer (Windows Freeware). /li liNetwork Password Recovery 1.31: Recover Windows XP/Vista network passwords / Credentials file (Windows Freeware). /li liPuTTY 0.60 r3: PuTTY Tray is a free and open source terminal emulator application which can act as a client for the SSH and Telnet (Windows Freeware). /li liSmartSniff 1.76: Network monitoring utility that allows you to capture TCP/IP packets that pass through your network adapter (Windows Freeware). /li liTCPView 3.04: Lists TCP and UDP endpoints, including the Local/Remote addresses of TCP connections (Windows Freeware). /li liTFtpd32 3.51: Tftpd32 is for Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) client, including DHCP, TFTP, SNTP and Syslog servers, can also be used for PXE boot (Windows Freeware). /li liWinSCP 4.3.2: A free and open source SFTP/FTP client to secure file transfer between a local and a remote computer (Windows Freeware). /li liXP TCP/IP Repair 1.0: Repair your Windows XP Winsock and TCP/IP registry errors (Windows Freeware). /li /ul h4Optimizers/h4 ul liDefraggler 2.03.282: To defrag your entire hard drive or individual files (Windows Freeware). /li liMyDefrag 4.3.1: Free disk defragment and optimize utility (formerly JkDefrag) for Windows 2000/2003/XP/Vista/Windows 7 (Windows Freeware). /li liNT Registry Optimizer 1.1j: Registry Optimization for Windows NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista (Windows Freeware). /li liPageDfrg 2.32: System file Defragmenter For NT/2k/XP (Windows Freeware). /li /ul h4Other Tools/h4 ul liCalcute 11.5.15: A compact scientific tape calculator with many features (Windows Freeware). /li liDon’t Sleep 2.31: Temporarily suspend power management and prevent system shutdown, Standby, Hibernate, Turn Off and Restart (Windows Freeware). /li liFix NTLDR is missing: Fix ‘NTLDR is missing, Press any key to restart’ for Windows Xp (Dos Freeware). /li liHBCD Customizer 2.0: HBCDCustomizer.exe is a GUI tool to create custom iso images of Hiren’s BootCD (Windows Freeware). /li liHBCD Program Launcher 3.0: Hiren’s BootCD Program launcher (HBCDMenu.exe and HBCDMenu.csv) can be used to launch all these programs from USB/CD (Windows Freeware). /li liMouse Emulator 2.2: You can use your keyboard numpad as a mouse, very useful if your mouse broken or if you are having USB driver problems (Windows Freeware). /li liOn-Screen Keyboard: A utility that displays a virtual keyboard on the computer screen that allows people with mobility impairments to type data by using a pointing device or joystick (Windows Freeware). /li liParted Magic 6.1: Linux based rescue environment with lots of applications to manage partitions, backup and recovery such as GParted, Parted, Partition Image, TestDisk, Partimage, Truecrypt, Clonezilla, G4L, Firefox, ClamAV, GSmartControl, SimpleBurn, dd, ddrescue, with extensive collection of file system tools are also included, supports the following: btrfs, ext2, ext3, ext4, fat16, fat32, hfs, hfs+, jfs, linux-swap, ntfs, reiserfs, reiser4, and xfs (Linux Freeware). /li liUniversal TCP/IP Network 6.5: MSDOS Network Client to connect via TCP/IP to a Microsoft based network. The network can either be a peer-to-peer or a server based network, it contains 98 different network card drivers (Dos Freeware). /li liWinNTSetup 1.5.0.3: Install Windows 2k/XP/2003 x86/x64 from USB/CD under PE/LiveXp, allows you to apply tweaks and choose driveletter for the new Windows installation (Windows Freeware). /li /ul h4Partition Tools/h4 ul lieXtended Fdisk 0.9.3: XFDISK allows easy partition creation and edition (Dos Freeware). /li liFat32 Formatter GUI 1.01: Windows XP cannot format a volume bigger than 32GB with FAT32 (Windows Freeware). /li liGParted Partition Editor 0.8.0: To create, copy, paste, delete, hide, resize or move partitions without losing data, a good freeware alternative to Partition Magic (Linux Freeware). /li liMount Drives 1.0: Auto Mount Drives can be used to mount unmounted/hidden drives (Windows Freeware). /li liPartition Table Editor 8.0: Partition Table and Boot Record Editor (Dos Freeware). /li liPartition Wizard Home Edition 5.2: Free Partition Magic Alternative, Partition Resize/Move/Copy/Create/Delete/Format/Convert, Explore, etc (Windows Freeware). /li liRanish Partition Manager 2.44: A boot manager and hard disk partitioner (Dos Freeware). /li liSmart Fdisk 2.05: A simple harddisk partition manager (Dos Freeware). /li liSPecial Fdisk 2000.03v: SPFDISK is a partition tool (Dos Freeware). /li liSuper Fdisk 1.0: Create, delete, format partitions drives without destroying data (Dos Freeware). /li liThe Partition Resizer 1.3.4: Move and resize your partitions in one step (Dos Freeware). /li liUSB Format Tool: Format/make bootable any USB flash drive to FAT, FAT32, or NTFS partition (Windows Freeware). /li liVolume Serial Number Changer 1.2: Allow you to change the drive’s serial number on FAT, FAT32 and NTFS file systems (Windows Freeware). /li /ul h4Password Tools/h4 ul liATAPWD 1.2: Hard Disk Password Utility (Dos Freeware). /li liAutologon 3.01: Enables you to easily configure Windows’ built-in autologon mechanism, so you don’t have to wait on the login screen (Windows Freeware). /li liBIOS Master Password Generator: Collection of password generator tools to reset BIOS Power on Password / Administrator password on Acer, Compaq, Dell, Fujitsu Siemens, Hewlett Packard, Phoenix, Samsung and other generic brand Laptops (Windows Freeware). /li liBulletsPassView 1.00: Reveal the passwords stored behind the bullet (asterisk) characters in Windows / IE (Updated Asterisk Logger) (Windows Freeware). /li liContent Advisor Password Remover 1.01: It Removes Content Advisor Password from Internet Explorer (Windows Freeware). /li liDialupass 3.16: Find and extract Username, Password, and Domain of DialUp/RAS/VPN networking in Windows (Windows Freeware). /li liKon-Boot 1.0: To bypass Login Password of Windows (32bit, any password) and Linux login as kon-usr (Linux Freeware). /li liLicenseCrawler 1.2.0.98: Find the license keys and serial numbers of your programs (Windows Freeware). /li liMail PassView 1.73: Recovers mail passwords of Outlook Express, MS Outlook, IncrediMail, Eudora, etc (Windows Freeware). /li liMessenPass 1.42: A password recovery tool that reveals the passwords of several instant messangers (Windows Freeware). /li liNTPWD: Utility to reset windows nt/2000/xp administrator/user password (Dos Freeware). /li liNTPWEdit 0.3: Password editor for Windows NT based systems to change or remove passwords for local system accounts (Windows Freeware). /li liOffline NT Password Changer 2011-05-11: Utility to reset/unlock windows NT/2000/XP/Vista/7 administrator/user password (Linux Freeware). /li liPassword Renew 1.1: Utility to set/reset windows NT/2000/XP/Vista/7 (32bit only) passwords (Windows Freeware). /li liProduKey 1.50: Recovers lost the product key of your Windows/Office (Windows Freeware). /li liPST (Outlook) Password Recovery 1.16: PstPassword is a small utility that recovers lost password of Outlook .PST (Personal Folders) file (Windows Freeware). /li liRouter IP/Passwords: The complete list of Default Router Passwords and Default Router IP Addresses, can be useful if you have misplaced the manual or lost your router password (Windows Freeware). /li liSniffPass 1.12: A password monitoring tool that listens to your network, capture the passwords that pass through your network adapter, it works on POP3, IMAP4, SMTP, FTP, and HTTP protocols and recovers lost Web/FTP/Email passwords (Windows Freeware). /li liWebBrowserPassView 1.11: Allows you to view the user names and passwords stored by Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Google Chrome and Internet explorer Web browsers (Windows Freeware). /li liWindowsGate 1.1: Enables/Disables Windows logon password validation (Windows Freeware). /li liWirelessKeyView 1.34: Recovers all wireless network keys (WEP/WPA) stored in your computer by WZC Wireless Zero Configuration (Windows Freeware). /li liXP Key Reader 2.7: Can decode the XP-key on Local or Remote systems (Windows Freeware). /li /ul h4Process Tools/h4 ul liDependency Walker 2.2: Checks for missing/invalid DLL/modules/functions for any exe/dll/ocx/sys (Windows Freeware). /li liIB Process Manager 1.04: A little process manager for 9x/2k, shows dll info etc (Windows Freeware). /li liOpenedFilesView 1.50: View opened/locked files in your system, sharing violation issues (Windows Freeware). /li liPocket KillBox 2.0.0.978: Can be used to get rid of files that stubbornly refuse to allow you to delete them (Windows Freeware). /li liProcess Explorer 14.12: Shows you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded (Windows Freeware). /li liProcess Monitor 2.95: To monitor real-time file system, Registry and process/thread activity, This tool replaces Filemon and Regmon (Windows Freeware). /li liProcessActivityView 1.11: Detailed process access information read/write/opened files etc (Windows Freeware). /li liRKill (24-05-2011): RKill just kills malware processes, imports a Registry file that removes incorrect file associations and fixes policies that stop us from using certain tools (Windows Freeware). /li liRunAsDate 1.10: Allows you to run a program in the date and time that you specify (Windows Freeware). /li liUnlocker 1.9.0: This tool can delete file/folder when you get this message: Cannot delete file: Access is denied, The file is in use by another program etc (Windows Freeware). /li /ul h4Recovery Tools/h4 ul liDataRescue DD 1.0: DrDD is a disk imager intended for data recovery and backup of partially corrupted storage devices, the main advantages are Range Selection and Copy Backward Direction (Windows Freeware). /li liDiskDigger 0.8.3.176: Undelete and recover lost photos, videos, music, documents and other formats from your hard drive, memory cards and USB flash drives (Windows Freeware). /li liDiskGenius 3.2: Restore deleted partition, Rebuild MBR, Rebuild partition table, Recover files, Restore formatted partition, Backup files by partition, Disk clone, Backup partition table, Create/Delete/Format Partitions etc (Windows Shareware). /li liIsoBuster 2.8.5: CD/DVD/Blu-ray and Disk Image File data recovery tool that can read and extract files, tracks and sessions from CD-i, VCD, SVCD, CD-ROM, CD-ROM XA, DVD, DVCD BD and HD DVD and other media as well as a wide variety of disk image formats, it also has retry-mechanisms for damaged CD/DVD (Windows Shareware). /li liPartition Find and Mount 2.31: Partition Find and Mount software is designed to find lost or deleted partitions (Windows Freeware). /li liPartitionRecovery 1.0: A freeware tool to recover accidentally deleted partitions (Windows Freeware). /li liPhotoRec 6.12: Tool to Recover File and pictures from Dos/Windows/Linux (Windows/Dos/Linux Freeware). /li liRecuva 1.40.525: Restore deleted files from Hard Drive, Digital Camera Memory Card, usb mp3 player etc (Windows Freeware). /li liRestoration 3.2.13: A tool to recover deleted files (Windows Freeware). /li liShadowExplorer 0.7: Shadow Explorer allows you to browse the shadow copies created by the Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and retrieve older versions from files you accidentally deleted or altered (Windows Freeware). /li liSmart Partition Recovery 3.3: Find Lost NTFS partitions and restore them back (Windows Freeware). /li liSoftPerfect File Recovery 1.2: To restore accidentally deleted files from hard drive, USB flash drives, CF and SD memory cards (Windows Freeware). /li liTestDisk 6.12: Tool to check and undelete partition from Dos/Windows/Linux (Windows/Dos/Linux Freeware). /li liUnstoppable Copier 5.2: Allows you to copy files from disks with problems such as bad sectors, scratches or that just give errors when reading data (Windows Freeware). /li /ul h4Registry Tools/h4 ul liERUNT 1.1j: The Emergency Recovery Utility NT Registry Backup and Restore for Windows NT/2000/2003/XP (Windows Freeware). /li liFix HDC: Fix the Hard Drive Controller when replacing your motherboard on an XP system (Windows Freeware). /li liGlary Registry Repair 3.3.0.852: An advanced registry cleaner that allows you to safely scan, clean, and repair registry problems (Windows Freeware). /li liRegFromApp 1.21: Monitors/exports the Registry changes made by the selected application (Windows Freeware). /li liRegistry Editor PE 0.9c: Easy editing of remote registry hives and user profiles (Windows Freeware). /li liRegistry Restore Wizard 1.0.4: Restores a corrupted system registry from Xp System Restore (Windows Freeware). /li liRegistry Viewer 4.2: Registry Viewer/Editor for Win9x/Me/NT/2K/XP (Dos Freeware). /li liRegmon 7.04: A monitoring utility that will show you which applications are accessing your Registry (Windows Freeware). /li liRegScanner 1.85: Tool to find/search in the Registry of Windows (Windows Freeware). /li liRegShot 1.8.2: A registry compare utility that allows you to quickly take a snapshot of your registry and then compare it with a second one: done after doing system changes or installing a new software product (Windows Freeware). /li /ul h4Remote Control Tools/h4 ul liAmmyy Admin 2.13: For remote computer access, desktop sharing, file transfer, voice connect remote computer (Windows Freeware). /li liTeamViewer 6.0.10462: Access any remote computer via Internet just like sitting in front of it, even through firewalls (Windows Freeware). /li liTightVNC 2.0.2: Cross-platform Remote Desktop Software to view/control remote pc with mouse and keyboard (Windows Freeware). /li /ul h4Security / Encryption Tools/h4 ul liDiskCryptor 0.9: High speed disk encryption tool to encrypt all disk/partitions, including the system partition encryption support (Windows Freeware). /li liTrueCrypt 7.0a: On-the-fly Linux/Windows disk encryption tool, can create a virtual encrypted disk within a file and mount it as a real disk, can also encrypt an entire HDD/Partition/USB Drive (Windows/Linux Freeware). /li /ul h4Startup Tools/h4 ul liAutoruns 10.07: Displays All the entries from startup folder, Run, RunOnce, and other Registry keys, Explorer shell extensions,toolbars, browser helper objects, Winlogon notifications, auto-start services, Scheduled Tasks, Winsock, LSA Providers, Remove Drivers and much more which helps to remove nasty spyware/adware and viruses (Windows Freeware). /li liHijackThis 2.0.5b: A general homepage hijackers detector and remover and more (Windows Freeware). /li liServiWin 1.45: Alternative Windows Services/Drivers Tool (Windows Freeware). /li liSilent Runners Revision 63: A free script that helps detect spyware, malware and adware in the startup process (Windows Freeware). /li liStartup Control Panel 2.8: A tool to edit startup programs (Windows Freeware). /li liStartup Monitor 1.02: It notifies you when any program registers itself to run at system startup (Windows Freeware). /li /ul h4System Information Tools/h4 ul li3DP Chip 11.03: This tool will help you to find right drivers for your devices and download the latest device drivers with few simple clicks (Windows Freeware). /li liAstra 5.48: Advanced System info Tool and Reporting Assistant (Dos Freeware). /li liBlueScreenView 1.32: Scans minidump files for BSOD (blue screen of death) crash information (Windows Freeware). /li liCPU Identification utility 1.20: CHKCPU.EXE Detailed information on CPU (Dos Freeware). /li liCPU-Z 1.57: It gathers information on some of the main devices of your system (Windows Freeware). /li liCTIA CPU Information 2.7: Another CPU information tool (Dos Freeware). /li liDrive Temperature 1.0: Hard Disk Drive temperature meter (Windows Freeware). /li liGPU-Z 0.5.3: A lightweight utility designed to give you all information about your video card and GPU (Windows Freeware). /li liHWiNFO 5.5.2: A powerful system information utility (Dos Freeware). /li liNavratil Software System Information 0.60.45: High-end professional system information tool (Dos Freeware). /li liPC Wizard 2010.1.961: PCWizard is a powerful system information/benchmark utility designed especially for detection of hardware (Windows Freeware). /li liPCI 32 Sniffer 1.4 (11-04-2011): Device information tool which is similar to unknown devices (Windows Freeware). /li liPCI and AGP info Tool (11-04-2011): The PCI System information and Exploration tool (Dos Freeware). /li liSIW 2010.10.21: Gathers detailed information about your system properties and settings (Windows Freeware). /li liSpeccy 1.09.231: An advanced System Information tool for your PC (Windows Freeware). /li liSysChk 2.46: Find out exactly what is under the hood of your PC (Dos Freeware). /li liSystem Analyser 5.3w: View extensive information about your hardware (Dos Freeware). /li liSystem Explorer 2.8.1: Shows detailed system information about processes, startups, IE addons, drivers, explorer, etc (Windows Freeware). /li liUnknownDevices 1.4.20 (11-04-2011): Helps you find what those unknown devices in Device Manager really are (Windows Freeware). /li liUpdate Checker 1.038: Scans your computer for installed software and checks for newer releases on FileHippo (Windows Freeware). /li liUSBDeview 1.88: View/Uninstall all installed/connected USB devices on your system (Windows Freeware). /li /ul h4Testing Tools/h4 ul liBart’s Stuff Test 5.1.4: Long term heavy stress testing storage devices (Windows Freeware). /li liCPU/Video/Disk Performance Test 5.7: A tool to test cpu, video, and disk (Dos Freeware). /li liDisk Speed 1.0: Hard Disk Drive Speed Testing Tool (Windows Freeware). /li liGoldMemory 5.07: Memory Diagnostic Tests (Dos Shareware). /li liH2testw 1.4: Check your USB Flash memory cards, internal/external hard drives and network drives for errors with this tool (Windows Freeware). /li liHDD Scan 2.8: HDDScan is a Low-level HDD diagnostic tool, it scans surface find bad sectors etc (Windows Freeware). /li liIsMyLcdOK (Monitor Test) 1.02: Allows you to test CRT/LCD/TFT screens for dead pixels and diffective screens (Windows Freeware). /li liMemTest 1.0: A Memory Testing Tool (Windows Freeware). /li liMemtest86+ 4.20: PC Memory Test (Linux Freeware). /li liPrime95 25.11: This will detect for errors in CPU or RAM within a matter of minutes if an overclock is not stable, you can run Torture Test (burn-in) overnight to ensure long-term stability of the hardware (Windows Freeware). /li liSamp;M Stress Test 1.9.1: cpu/hdd/memory benchmarking and information tool, including temperatures/fan speeds/voltages (Windows Freeware). /li liSystem Speed Test 4.78: It tests CPU, harddrive, ect (Dos Freeware). /li liTest Hard Disk Drive 1.0: A tool to test Hard Disk Drive (Dos Freeware). /li liVideo Memory Stress Test 1.7.116: A tool to thoroughly test your video RAM for errors and faults (Windows Freeware). /li liVideo Memory Stress Test CE 1.21: Tests all video RAM accessible by 32-bit CPU address space from a clean environment (Dos Freeware). /li liWindows Memory Diagnostic: A RAM Test tool (Dos Freeware). /li /ul h4Tweakers/h4 ul liDial a Fix 0.60.0.24: Fix errors and problems with COM/ActiveX object errors and missing registry entries, Automatic Updates, SSL, HTTPS, and Cryptography service (signing/verification) issues, Reinstall internet explorer etc. comes with the policy scanner (Windows Freeware). /li liDisable Autorun: A small tweak which disables processing of autorun.inf to protect your PC from usb autorun viruses (Windows Freeware). /li liDisable Compress Old Files: This registry tweak is useful when Disk Cleanup Tool Stops Responding While Compressing Old Files (Windows Freeware). /li liEzPcFix 1.0.0.16: Helpful tool when trying to remove viruses, spyware, and malware (Windows Freeware). /li liFileTypesMan 1.60: File Types Manager for Windows to add, edit, and remove actions in the properties and flags of each file type (Windows Freeware). /li liInstalledCodec 1.20: Disable/Enable Installed Codec drivers and DirectShow filters (Windows Freeware). /li liKeyTweak 2.3.0: A program to Remap Keyboard Layout, you can even customize a broken key to an unused key (Windows Freeware). /li liProtect a Drive from Autorun Virus: Protect your pen drive from being infected when you plug it in an infected PC (Windows Freeware). /li liRemoveWGA 1.2: Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications Removal tool (Windows Freeware). /li liRRT: Remove Restrictions Tool 3.0: To Re-enable Ctrl+Alt+Del, Folder Options and Registry tools etc (Windows Freeware). /li liShell Extensions Manager (ShellExView) 1.65: An excellent tool to View and Manage all installed Context-menu/Shell extensions (Windows Freeware). /li liShellMenuNew 1.01: View/Change the list of all menu items in the ‘New’ submenu of Windows Explorer (Windows Freeware). /li liShow Hidden Devices: Device Manager hides nonpresent devices that are not physically present in the system, but still have configuration information in the Registry (Windows Freeware). /li liTweakUI 2.10: This PowerToy gives you access to system settings that are not exposed in Windows Xp (Windows Freeware). /li liUltimate Windows Tweaker 2.2: A TweakUI Utility for tweaking and optimizing Windows Vista (Windows Freeware). /li liWrite Protect USB Devices: Tweak your PC to make USB Pen Drive, Memory Card or Thumb Drive as Read Only (Windows Freeware). /li liXp-AntiSpy 3.97.11: It tweaks some Windows XP functions, and disables some unneeded Windows services quickly (Windows Freeware). br //li /ul h6Updated Softwares in 15.1:/h6 p3DP Chip 11.10, 7-Zip 9.22, Autoruns 11.0, Avira AntiVir Personal (29-10-2011), BellaVista 1.1.0.66, BlueScreenView 1.40, CCleaner 3.12.1572, CloneDisk 1.9.6, CloneSpy 2.62, ComboFix (29-10-2011), Complete Internet Repair 1.2.8.1283, CurrPorts 1.96, Defraggler 2.07.346, Device Doctor 2.0, Don’t Sleep 2.42, Dr.Web CureIt! 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Where is Microsoft’s Cloud? Inside Tour of Microsoft GFS Datacenter
This video will provide a deeper look at how Microsoft uses secure, reliable, scalable and efficient best practices to deliver over 200 cloud services to more than a billion customers and 20 million businesses in over 70 countries.It provides an understanding at how we view our end-to-end cloud strategy from an infrastructure perspective.
Nanotechnology – a new age weapon against cancer
The following article I find very interesting and insightful. It follows along with my own personal beliefs that the cure for cancer will come through nanotechnology. I’m very excited that they are making some great breakthroughs with this technology. A few years ago I started to write a fictional book about a man who had come up with a cure for cancer through nanotechnology and his life was being threatened by those who had benefited off of victims of cancer for profit off of their medicines. I came across this article and thought I would share it with the world because of my excitement on this subject.
Enjoy,
Michael J. Thomas
See Original Article by Dr Rashmin B. Patel, Parth S. Amin & Mrunali R. Patel
Thursday, July 14, 2011, 08:00 Hrs [IST]
Cancer disease is one of the most deadly diseases and there are several researches going on to cure it, but above all nanotechnology seems to give the best possible results.
Let’s see some introduction about nanotechnology. What is nanotechnology? Well nano means 10-9 mathematically (1 nanometer = 10-9 meter). Nanotechnology (nanotech) is the study of a material at atomic level. Generally, nanotech deals with size between 1 to 100 nanometer particles; the lower limit is set by the size of atoms, since nanotech must build its devices from atoms and molecules and the upper limit is more or less arbitrary but is around the size that has been mentioned above. Certainly, the phenomena which are different in the atomic structure from the larger structure become apparent and can be made use of in the nano device and involves developing materials or devices possessing within that size, but that is not possible without the help of “quantum mechanics”. Nanotechnology is very diverse, ranging from extensions of conventional device physics to completely new approaches based upon molecular self-assembly, from developing new materials with dimensions on the nanoscale to investigating whether we can directly control matter on the atomic scale. Nanotechnology may be able to create many new materials and devices with a vast range of applications, such as in medicine, electronics, biomaterials and energy production.
How small is a nanometer? Well the simplest example can be a nanometer is size of a drop of water compared to the ocean. Two main approaches are used in nanotechnology. In the "bottom-up" approach, materials and devices are built from molecular components which assemble themselves chemically by principles of molecular recognition. In the "top-down" approach, nano-objects are constructed from larger entities without atomic-level control. Areas of physics such as nanoelectronics, nanomechanics, nanophotonics and nanoionics have evolved during the last few decades to provide a basic scientific foundation of nanotechnology. Currently, many researches are going in the field but the major use can be in curing the mighty cancer, as nanomedicine.
The small size of nanoparticles contains properties which can be very useful in oncology, particularly in imaging. A good example is quantum dots. They are nanoparticles with quantum confinement properties, such as size-tunable light emission, when used in conjunction with MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), can produce exceptional images of tumour sites. These nanoparticles are very advantageous compare to currently used materials. Nanoparticles are much brighter than organic dyes and only need one light source for excitation. This means that the use of fluorescent quantum dots could produce a higher contrast image and at a lower cost than today’s organic dyes used as contrast media. However there is a drawback, the quantum dots are made up of toxic materials so they can be harmful.
Properties of nanoparticle
One of the key properties of a nanoparticle is high surface area to volume ratio. It allows many functional groups to be attached to a nanoparticle, which can seek out and bind to certain tumour cells. The size of nanoparticles allows them to preferentially accumulate at tumour sites because tumours lack an effective lymphatic drainage system. Also, the sensor test chips containing thousands of nanowires, able to detect proteins and other biomarkers left behind by cancer cells, could enable the detection and diagnosis of cancer in the early stages from a few drops of a patient’s blood.
The three facts behind the use of nano drug delivery systems are: 1) efficient encapsulation of the drugs, 2) successful delivery of said drugs to the targeted region of the body, and 3) successful release of that drug there. Researchers at Rice University under prof. Jennifer West, have demonstrated the use of 120 nm diameter nanoshells coated with gold to kill cancer tumours in mice. When the tumour cells are irradiated with an infrared laser, which passes through flesh without heating it, the gold is heated sufficiently to cause death to the cancer cells, because the nanoshells are targeted to bond to cancerous cells by conjugating antibodies or peptides to the nanoshell surface.
Nanoparticles of cadmium selenide (quantum dots) glow when exposed to ultraviolet light. When injected, they seep into cancer tumours. The surgeon can see the glowing tumour, and use it as a guide for more accurate tumour removal. In photodynamic therapy, a particle is placed within the body and is illuminated with light from the outside. The particle absorbs this light and gets activated. If the particle is made up of metal, energy from the light will heat the particle and surrounding tissue. The light can also be used to produce high energy oxygen molecules which will chemically react with and destroy the tissues like tumours (chemotherapy). This therapy is appealing for many reasons. It does not leave a “toxic trail” of reactive molecules throughout the body because it is directed where only the light is shined and the particles exist. Photodynamic therapy has potential for a noninvasive procedure for dealing with diseases, growth and tumours.
Recently; UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles) scientists have discovered a way to active the immune system to fight cancer by delivering an immune system-stimulating protein in a nanoscale container called “Vault”, directly into tumours cells (lung cancer cells), harnessing the body’s natural defenses to fight disease growth. The vaults, barrel-shaped nanoscale capsules found in the cytoplasm of all mammalian cells, were engineered to slowly release a protein, the chemokine CCL21(CCL21 – (C-C motif) ligand 21) Homo sapiens), into the tumour. Preclinical studies in mice with particularly lung cancer, showed that the protein stimulated the immune system to recognize and attack the cancer cells, potently inhibiting cancer growth. The new vault delivery system is based on a 10-year, on-going research effort focusing on using a patient’s white blood cells to create dendritic cells, cells of the immune system that process antigen material and present it on the surface to other immune system cells. Another, ULCA’s Dr. Steven Dubinett used a replication-deficient adenovirus to infect the dendritic cells and prompt them to over-secrete CCL21. The early phase study has shown the dendritic cell method is safe, has no side effects and seems to boost the immune response. The research team found T lymphocytes circulating in the blood stream with specific cytokine signatures, indicating that the lymphocytes were recognizing the cancer as a foreign invader. If successful, the vault delivery method would add as a desperately needed weapon to the arsenal in the fight against lung cancer, which accounts for nearly one-third of all cancer deaths in the United States and kills one million people worldwide every year.
Another new way is found by MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) chemical engineers. According to their research a new type of drug-delivery nanoparticle can be developed that exploits a trait shared by almost all tumours: They are more acidic than healthy tissues. Such particles could target nearly any type of tumour, and can be designed to carry virtually any type of drug, says Paula Hammond, a member of the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT and senior author of a paper describing the particles in the journal ACS Nano. Like most other drug-delivering nanoparticles, the new MIT particles are cloaked in a polymer layer that protects them from being degraded by the bloodstream. But in acidic environment the outer layer of the nanoparticle degrades, so it exposes the second layer of the particle which helps to penetrate in all kind of tumour cells. This phenomenon is used in treating the tumour cells as their acidic level differs from normal cells by means that they use more oxygen compare to normal cell because they divide faster than normal cell thus they are more acidic in nature. When the outer layer (made of polyethylene glycol or PEG) breaks down in the tumour’s acidic environment, a positively charged middle layer is revealed. That positive charge helps the nanoparticle to enter the tumour cells. Particles with a positive charge can penetrate the negatively charged cell membrane, but such particles can’t be injected into the body without a "cloak" of because they would also destroy healthy tissues. The researchers are planning to further develop these particles and test their ability to deliver drugs in animals. But it is expected that it could take 5 to 10 years of development before human clinical trials could begin.
A recent research has concluded that nanoparticles can also be used for improved and enhanced effect of natural T-cells in humans. According to a research in, Darrell Irvine from the MIT and his team discovered that they were able to attach 100 nanoparticle capsules to a T-cell without affecting cell’s function. These capsules are filled with interleukins which increase the ability for the T-cells to push forward and attack the cancerous cells. Interleukins are naturally made in the immune system and work as system regulators by keeping the T-cells fighting by adding the additional interleukins. The team then injected these boosted T-cells into mice who were infected with bone and lung cancer. The T-cells immediately swarmed the cancerous cells and were able to stay functional for much longer than the traditional T-cells. In addition, mice treated with regular T-cells died from tumours within a month, while those treated with the boosted cells were had improving health. Because these T-cells are being modified by the nanoparticles, there is no need for them to be genetically modified which is complex and costly. This process also has the potential to speed up clinical trials.
Well this clearly indicates that nanotech can be used as the supreme weapon against the deadly cancer and finally cancer can be cured permanently. There is no doubt that if nanoparticles give 100% success then cancer will be nothing but just a history.
(Dr. Rashmin B. Patel is assistant. prof., AR College of Pharmacy & GH Patel Institute of Pharmacy, Vallabh Vidyanagar 388 120, Parth S. Amin is a student of Ashok and Rita Integrated College of Biotechnology, New Vallabh Vidyanagar, and Mrunali R. Patel is assistant prof. of Indukaka Ipcowala College of Pharmacy, New Vallabh Vidyanagar 388 121)
Microsoft Office 2010 Service Pack 1
Microsoft Office 2010 Service Pack 1
Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Microsoft Office 2010 contains new updates which improve security, performance, and stability. Additionally, the SP is a roll-up of all previously released updates.
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Previewing ‘Windows 8’
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REDMOND, Wash. – June 1, 2011 – Today, at the D9 Conference, we demonstrated the next generation of Windows, internally code-named “Windows 8,” for the first time. Windows 8 is a reimagining of Windows, from the chip to the interface. A Windows 8-based PC is really a new kind of device, one that scales from touch-only small screens through to large screens, with or without a keyboard and mouse.
The demo showed some of the ways we’ve reimagined the interface for a new generation of touch-centric hardware. Fast, fluid and dynamic, the experience has been transformed while keeping the power, flexibility and connectivity of Windows intact.
New CEO for Microsoft “Doctor Mark Russinovich”
There has been a lot of talk lately about the performance of Steve Ballmer and how many shareholders are not very happy with the direction of Microsoft. If there were a CEO replacement that would be worthy to lead Microsoft into the future then it would be Mark Russinovich. He is a very talented individual whom I believe would lead Microsoft to great success in the future.
Microsoft board if you are reading this then take this into great consideration that this technical fellow will lead Microsoft into a new era. It takes an engineer’s mind to see the problem and fix it with a better solution. You have the talent right there before your eyes.
Vote for Doctor Mark Russinovich for CEO of Microsoft!