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Bart’s Preinstalled Environment (BartPE) bootable live windows CD/DVD

The safe mode sometimes is not safe enough when trying to eliminate viruses, recovering files, delete system components, and a lot more.
Microsoft created a PE (Preinstalled Environment) for this special situations. It’s basically a minimal win32 with a few services which is burned in a bootable CD or DVD.
But there’s some limitations in this Windows [...]

More people using Firefox

This is a good one. Today I checked my website statistics for the last year (May 9 2008 -May 9 2009) and among other things this came up: 

1
Firefox
44.88%

2
IE
39.49% 

3
Chrome
6.01% 

4
Opera
5.41% 

5
Safari
2.83% 

6
Mozilla
0.86% 

7
Konqueror
0.11% 

8
Netscape
0.11% 

9
Mozilla Compatible Agent
0.10% 

10
SeaMonkey
0.10%

Which means that, at least the people who visits this site is more aware of the benefits of using Firefox over Internet Explorer.
Safer and faster are the [...]

Windows 7 Release Candidate: Free for a year

People are calling it the longest shareware trial period. Windows 7 Release Candidate will be available thru July 2009 and is set to expire in July 2010, but some sources are saying that Microsoft plans to have the final release  ready for this year’s holidays.
So, What is exactly this version of Windows 7 that is [...]

SpaceSniffer: Visualize your hard drive usage

This is a tool you may want to use everytime you need to free some space in your hard disk, because it shows you each folder represented as squares and the size of each one is proportional to the amount of bytes contained in that folder.
You can also click on each square and see the [...]

Regprot : free registry protector

I like the idea of being in total control of every important modification the Windows registry have. And for that reason I’ve been using TeaTimer, a program that comes with Spybot S&D that warns you every time the registry is going to be modified letting you choose to allow or deny the modification. I really [...]