From the category archives:
This week I found a utility that can clean up temp files from your system. It is called BleachBit, and can find and clean temp files created by Windows, Chrome, Firefox and IE: Just so nothing important is deleted, you can get a preview of what it is going to clear out: In addition to […]
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This week the new version of Windows was announced – Windows 10. I just finished installing the preview, and so far things are looking nice. The start menu is back, front and center: As you can see it is a shrunk version of the Windows 8 start screen mixed with the previous start menu. After […]
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By now you should have heard about Shellshock. It is a huge vulnerability in the Bash shell – which is used in many unix based systems. Most of you are running all Windows systems, but I would like you to think for a moment about those black boxes that are running on your network. The […]
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Since Microsoft purchased SysInternals, there has not been much activity out of them over the last few years. A few weeks ago that changed and they released SysMon. It is an interesting tool that I think primarily would be used for research and investigations of malware. At the same time, you might find it useful […]
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As we promised, we are releasing the MSI installer for the Remote Control 5.4 agent. This will allow you to use group policy to push it out. If you are a Remote Control Enterprise customer You can ignore this update…since it can already generate its own msi setup files. What is Remote Control? It is […]
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As you may already know Microsoft will stop supporting Windows XP on April 8th, 2014. What this really means is – no more security patches for XP. What you might not know is starting this Saturday – March 8th, 2014 – users will start seeing a nag window like this: For some organizations, these type […]
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I came across a neat utility this week that you might like. It changes the folder view in Windows (Windows Explorer) so it can have a tabbed view just like in Google Chrome: It is a simple one, but it sure beats having folder windows open all over the place It is called clover, and […]
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This week I ran across something from MS that I think you will find useful. It is called the Microsoft Virtual Academy The site is packed with videos, and ebooks that help train you on the latest technologies from MS. Even if you are not looking to get certified, they are worth taking a look […]
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I can bet your network is like ours. The number of Virtual Machines we have running is double of what we had last year. For a long time now we have used a ‘poor mans backup’. We would shutdown the virtual machines and then robocopy the contents of the VM over to a backup drive. […]
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There are lots of remote administration solutions out there. If you want to easily control computers outside your network, it always includes an annoying monthly fee. It is understandable. Someone needs to run those servers, maintain them, and hide the complexity from you. You are different. You are smart enough to run your own server. […]
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