WindowsBlinds 7 Now Works with Windows 7

Remember WindowsBlinds? Back in the day, this was the go-to tool for customizing your Windows user interface. By allowing far more modifications than any theme or desktop background change would provide, WindowsBlinds became a popular way to give your computer a whole new look and feel. Over the years,...
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Windows Sysinternals Suite Updated and Up for Grabs

At just a month since the last refresh of Windows Sysinternals, Microsoft has introduced a new update designed to kick up a notch a few components of the collection of tools developed by Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell. According to Curtis Metz, program manager, Microsoft Sysinternals, the latest...
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Microsoft® Hardware-Assisted Virtualization Detection Tool

The Hardware-assisted virtualization (HAV) detection tool checks if the computer processor supports HAV and if this setting is enabled. Windows Virtual PC requires processors capable of hardware-assisted virtualization with AMD-V™, Intel® VT or VIA® VT turned on in the BIOS. The HAV detection tool...
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Why doesn’t Expression Web SuperPreview work with Firefox 3.5.5 on Windows XP?

Unfortunately, this particular Firefox update included a change that broke the ability of 3rd party applications, such as SuperPreview, to embed Firefox on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. Those affected by this issue will see the error text:  ”Attempted to read or write protected memory. ...
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Disk 2 VHD converter and utility

Disk2vhd is a utility that creates VHD (Virtual Hard Disk – Microsoft’s Virtual Machine disk format) versions of physical disks for use in Microsoft Virtual PC or Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines (VMs). The difference between Disk2vhd and other physical-to-virtual tools is that you can run...
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