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Comment on IZArc – The best freeware ZIP utility available? by Andreas Erson

Andreas Erson — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:37:59 +0000

Lukas:
Not sure if this applies in your case but the WinRAR license text states:

“Home users may use their single computer usage license on all computers which are in property of the license owner.

Business users require one license per computer RAR is installed on.”

Good to know if you’re a home user.

Comment on IZArc – The best freeware ZIP utility available? by Lukas Beeler

Lukas Beeler — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:50:57 +0000

I’ve bought two WinRAR licenses a while back, and it still serves me well. I’d prefer if they offered a per-user licensing model, because right now i can only use it on my work laptop and on my desktop. That isn’t all that nice.

Then again, i often use Windows’s integrated Zip functionality on servers and client machines. Many of our customers still have (expired) trials of WinZIP installed, even though the could just use the ZIP-Functionality in XP and up.

Comment on IZArc – The best freeware ZIP utility available? by eraH

eraH — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:18:54 +0000

I like IZArc’s interface better that 7zip. Plus, its free for commercial use, which a lot of other free archivers aren’t.

Comment on OmniPeek Personal – free network monitor, better than Wireshark by Ronald Nissley

Ronald Nissley — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:32:26 +0000

I know you posted this a while ago. Looks like OmniPeek Personal is no longer available. And you can’t get to the trial download without submitting your Rolodex (well, not _quite_ that bad). They’re selling OmniPeek Basic (the most limited edition, not as in Rolls Royce Limited Edition) for about $1200!? Think I’ll stick with Wireshark.

Comment on Free Amazon S3 explorers (file managers) for Windows by Andy

Andy — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:14:56 +0000

If you are to look at JungleDisk please also check out CloudBerry Backup (http://cloudberrydrive.com) – pure Windows Backup solution powered by Amazon S3.

Comment on Raffle: ManageEngine ADManager Plus – Reporting and Delegation by John McIntyre

John McIntyre — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:44:38 +0000

Hi There, Thanks for sharing your thoughts - they're insightful and appreciated indeed. Hey, have you tried the Gold Finger yet? It's a new FREE, SUPPORTED and Microsoft endorsed tool for Active Directory, designed by Microsoft's own Program Manager for Active Directory Security. (We came across it on ActiveDirSec.com.) You can use it to instantly find out which Active Directory accounts are locked out, disabled, expired, have no passwords etc. Gold Finger can be instantly deployed on any domain-joined machine and offers over 200 security reports covering Account, Group, Computer, GPO, Container, OU, Exchange and AD ACL Management. We've been using it for the past three weeks now and it has been immensely useful. It also has an inbuilt search that outdoes most search tools out there. The best part is that it's 100% supported, so if we ever have a problem, we can get FREE support for it. DOWNLOAD LINK: I believe you can download your own free copy from http://www.paramountdefenses.com/goldfinger.php. If you're into AD reporting, this is a very useful tool to have in your toolset. Best wishes, John

Comment on Mount VHD files in Windows 7 and Vista by Michael Pietroforte

Michael Pietroforte — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:29:51 +0000

Thanks for mentioning Gizmo Drive. This looks like an interesting tool. I might review it soon.

Comment on Amazon EC2 AWS Management Console – Bundling AMIs by Michael Pietroforte

Michael Pietroforte — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:25:04 +0000

Thanks! I will post something about making custom AMI’s soon. Hopefully.

Comment on Some more thoughts about the Windows 7 taskbar, a.k.a. Superbar by Michael Pietroforte

Michael Pietroforte — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:20:56 +0000

Fred, what would be the advantage if the thumbnail view would be synchronized instantly? I know, it is cool, but how would these improve the taskbar’s functionality? As to the start menu, I think this is was a major improvement in Vista. You can still navigate to the application, but often it is faster to just start typing the program’s name.

Migration Expert, I think pinning and Quick Launch complete one another. I suppose Microsoft wouldn’t have created this KB artcile if they didn’t receive many complaints about the missing Quick Launch bar. Hopefully it will be added again in Windows 8.

Comment on Free Amazon S3 explorers (file managers) for Windows by Michael Pietroforte

Michael Pietroforte — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:12:32 +0000

Thanks for the comments and the recommendations. I will have a look at JungleDisk and Gladinet although these tools seem to have different purposes as Andy has noted.

Comment on Free Amazon S3 explorers (file managers) for Windows by Andy

Andy — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:32:06 +0000

@Daniel, @Zach, this post is about S3 Managers not other S3 clients. While JungleDisk and Gladinet desktop are great tools (and might have even greater appeal) they are not S3 Management tools like S3 Fox or CloudBerry Explorer, w. The latter are more like development tools for those who want to explore Amazon S3 and develop code against it. They can help setup logging, ACL, view metadata, etc. On the other hand JungleDisk and Gladinet are more of an end-user tools.I can see someone using CloudBerry Explorer and Gladinet Desktop at the same time for different tasks. Hope it makes sense.

Comment on Amazon EC2 AWS Management Console – Bundling AMIs by David

David — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:40:09 +0000

Thanks for the post. As with Bill, I agree that the info you mention isn’t so easy to find, particularly with the Windows AMI. I’ve did a quick search & found a few articles on making AMIs/snapshots but they’re for Linux AMIs.

One thing that would have been better though is if you did a step by step tutorial on making a custom Windows AMI. You only cover that in a more general sense so far.

Comment on Three ways to reset a Windows Vista admin password by flyingfox

flyingfox — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:55:33 +0000

I tried Petter Nordhal-Hagen’s NT Password & Registry Editor and it did exactly what it said it would do. Thank you so much, you have saved thousands of photos from being deleted. I booted from the cd and unlocked the admin account, then rebooted,went into the admin account and changed the password on the other admin account with the lost password. Logged off and logged in with new password and hey presto, it worked. Thanks again

Comment on Free Amazon S3 explorers (file managers) for Windows by Neil Shorey

Neil Shorey — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:20:59 +0000

Thanks for highlighting smestorage.com. I just wanted to point out that you can get the light version of our windows tooling for free at SMEStorage.com and you can sign up for free to use your own Amazon S3 account at OpenS3.com.

The Lifetime cloud package that you point out features a full suite of windows tools which includes a virtual drive, shell integration, sync tools, the same explorer you get for free with the light version, and also MS Outlook integration for email & contact backup, as well as MS & Open Office toolbar integrations.

Comment on FREE: RegAlyzer – a nifty free Registry editor by luzzd

luzzd — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:21:01 +0000

1st:
I have banned RegAlyzer, bcause of missing Multi Key delete. Which advantage has the Select Option, when i didnt use them to delete a bunch of keys, containing the keyword in values?
Pls let Me choose, how dangerous this may be.
Over the Selcector box there are security enough….
2nd:
if Multiple Deleter/Renamer added to program: inherit the Option that containing key or some levels higher Keys allowed to delete. That would be save time
Be well
luzzD

Comment on Free Amazon S3 explorers (file managers) for Windows by Zach

Zach — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:19:44 +0000

Try Gladinet (http://www.gladinet.com) – it maps a network drive to Amazon S3, Google Docs, SkyDrive, Box.net, FTP/Webdav, AT&T Synaptic Storage and more.

Not only can you move your local files to S3, you can backup Google Docs to S3.

If you are not satisfied with S3, you can use AT&T Synaptic for its 3 copies across 2 sites policy (more redundancy – Synaptic competes with S3)

You can protect your S3 credentials with password. The user interface will be the native Windows Explorer since it maps a network drive for you.

Comment on Sysinternals Process Explorer, a better Task-Manager by bboldi

bboldi — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:13:00 +0000

thanks

Comment on Sysinternals Process Explorer, a better Task-Manager by Kimosabe

Kimosabe — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:10:09 +0000

The solution to restore taskmanager on x64 here:
http://forum.sysinternals.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=20869

Comment on Free Amazon S3 explorers (file managers) for Windows by Andy

Andy — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:27:52 +0000

Thanks so much for featuring CloudBerry Explorer in your blog! I just want to make one correction. The latest version does have a Master Password feature that helps you protect your Amazon S3 accounts.

Thanks once again!
Andy

Comment on Free Amazon S3 explorers (file managers) for Windows by Daniel Mundy

Daniel Mundy — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:50:02 +0000

Try JungleDisk (http://jungledisk.com/) – it maps a network drive to Amazon S3, I use this on my laptop with a robocopy backup script. It’s dirt cheap – $2/month + storage costs. I only back up my personal critical data and my monthly bill never goes over $5…