Hopefully everyone is doing well out in the world. I would like to thank all the readers who visit my web site. Traffic has gone up from 50 unique visitors per day in January to over 200 unique visitors per day in December. The goal of this site is to spread as much knowledge as [...]
Archives for December 2006
Symantec Antivirus: All Faith is Lost
No product has failed me this bad lately, but Symantec Antivirus version 10 certainly has! You might remember my article last year on Symantec Antivirus 10. As I was working on a test box PC and running Process Monitor from Sysinternals, I noticed a rundl132.exe file trying to connect to a bunch of PCs on [...]
To Boldly Go Where No Technican Has Gone Before
Windows likes to hide certain files and folders in its operating systems. As technicians, we sometimes need access to said files and folders. One of the famous ones is where Internet Explorer stores its temporary cache files. This is in the folder C:\documents and settings\local settings\Temporary Internet Files. Upon looking at this folder in Windows [...]
BDD 2007 and Windows Vista
Right now I’m playing with BDD 2007 RC1 with Windows Vista RTM and hopefully will have a write up of how it works within the next few weeks. Unforunately, none of the WinPE stuff (LiteTouch) is booting for me and there is supposedly a hotfix (KB928570) to address all this. Oh the joys of beta! [...]
Utility Review: FreeCommander 2006
There’s tons of neat little utilites on my Tech Files sections and I rarely talk about any of them here on the blog. Here’s one that I recently discovered for file management: Free Commander 2006. Now, I know what you are thinking: why another file manager? I wanted a folder size utility to prune my [...]
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