Aug 29, 2007
Tidak seperti RAM, harddisk mempunyai bagian yang bergerak dan oleh karena itu dapat mengalami kesalahan. Cepat atau lambat, cluster dapat terkorupsi, bagian dari file dapat hilang dan sejumlah kesalahan lainnya dapat muncul. Anda mungkin telah melihat bagaimana Windows 98/Me akan menjalankan Scandisk jika Anda tidak melakukan shutdown dengan benar, atau bagaimana Windows 2000/XP akan menjalankan Chkdsk pada situasi yang sama. Kebanyakan orang melewati pengecekan ini, terutama karena bisa memakan waktu yang lama, apalagi pada partisi yang besar. Sebenarnya Anda harus
meluangkan waktu untuk menjalankan keduanya paling tidak sekali-sekali, apalagi jika sistem Anda mulai tua – ini mungkin dapat menghindari Anda dari hilangnya pada masa yang akan datang.
Secara umum, kami sarankan untuk menjalankan Scandisk atau Chkdsk paling sedikit sekali sebulan pada sistem yang lebih tua. Scandisk dapat ditemukan di grup program System Tools, sementara Chkdsk dapat dijalankan dari perintah Run dengan mengetik chkdsk.exe pada sistem XP. Jika Anda menjalankan Scandisk pada sistem Windows 98/Me, pastikan untuk memilih opsi Thorough, yang akan memeriksa permukaan harddisk terhadap semua kesalahan. Akan membutuhkan waktu untuk menyelesaikannya, jadi lakukan pada waktu Anda ada waktu senggang atau pergi ke suatu tempat.
meluangkan waktu untuk menjalankan keduanya paling tidak sekali-sekali, apalagi jika sistem Anda mulai tua – ini mungkin dapat menghindari Anda dari hilangnya pada masa yang akan datang.
Secara umum, kami sarankan untuk menjalankan Scandisk atau Chkdsk paling sedikit sekali sebulan pada sistem yang lebih tua. Scandisk dapat ditemukan di grup program System Tools, sementara Chkdsk dapat dijalankan dari perintah Run dengan mengetik chkdsk.exe pada sistem XP. Jika Anda menjalankan Scandisk pada sistem Windows 98/Me, pastikan untuk memilih opsi Thorough, yang akan memeriksa permukaan harddisk terhadap semua kesalahan. Akan membutuhkan waktu untuk menyelesaikannya, jadi lakukan pada waktu Anda ada waktu senggang atau pergi ke suatu tempat.
Ini terjadi ke setiap orang. Anda secara tidak sengaja menghapus suatu file, mengosongkan Recycle Bin dan sekarang Anda tidak mempunyai backup dan menginginkan file itu kembali. Untungnya Anda bisa saja melakukan itu, tetapi jangan senang dulu. Data yang terhapus biasanya dapat dikembalikan dengan menggunakan applikasi free utility undelete, tetapi itu jika tidak ada data lain yang menempati cluster-nya.
Inilah yang menjadi salah satu alasan kuat perlunya menyimpan data ke partisi lain –tempat OS ter-install biasanya ditulisi dengan banyak data tanpa kita sadari, seperti temporary files misalnya, sehingga bisa membuat data Anda tidak dapat dikembalikan. Jalan terbaik adalah dengan menginstal aplikasi undelete (sebagai contoh File Recovery) sebelum Anda khawatir tentang pengembalian data – menginstalasi utiliti undelete bisa saja menyebabkan file tersebut tidak dapat dikembalikan jika utiliti menggunakan ruang harddisk yang sama.
Untuk mendapatkan applikasi Free Undelete biasa di download disini
Inilah yang menjadi salah satu alasan kuat perlunya menyimpan data ke partisi lain –tempat OS ter-install biasanya ditulisi dengan banyak data tanpa kita sadari, seperti temporary files misalnya, sehingga bisa membuat data Anda tidak dapat dikembalikan. Jalan terbaik adalah dengan menginstal aplikasi undelete (sebagai contoh File Recovery) sebelum Anda khawatir tentang pengembalian data – menginstalasi utiliti undelete bisa saja menyebabkan file tersebut tidak dapat dikembalikan jika utiliti menggunakan ruang harddisk yang sama.
Untuk mendapatkan applikasi Free Undelete biasa di download disini
Aug 26, 2007
Have you ever found yourself frustrated with a Word document you planned to bind?
You know, you're planning to print the document you've spent hours preparing and then put it into a binder, report cover or other type of binding.
The problem arises when you start putting the pages into the binding. The left margin looks smaller than the right or even worse, some of the text is in the binding!
Now what?
One way to fix this is to try manually adjusting the left margin. That is, make it larger so that it accommodates the binding.
This way works, but wouldn't it be easier if you had a place to simply enter the amount of extra space you need for the binding?
Yes, of course it would. And that's exactly what we intend to do today!
What you're looking for is MS Word's gutter.
According to the Office Assistant, the gutter margin is "a setting that adds extra space to the side or top margin of a document you plan to bind. A gutter margin ensures that text isn't obscured by the binding."
Sounds like a perfect solution to me!
(And did you catch the little "bonus?" You can set a gutter margin for either the left side or for the top of a document. This choice puts a little more flexibility into your binding options!)
So, where do we find the wonderful world of gutters?
Why, in the Page Setup section, of course.
With the document you want to bind open, go to the File menu, Page Setup choice.
Next, you're looking for the Margins tab.
The layout of the tab may vary from version to version, but you're basically looking for the same things.
As you make these choices, you should see the preview picture updated each time. The checked area that appears denotes the placement of the gutter.
Notice that the margins around the text are still intact, so once the gutter margin space is in the binding, it will all look evenly spaced.
And finally, for those of you who plan to bind a double sided document, I'm sure you're already extremely concerned over the "left side" issue, am I right?
After all, if you're going to bind double sided pages, sometimes it's the left margin and sometimes it's the right.
So, now what?
Never fear! You're in the right place and the answer is just one choice away.
You're looking for the Mirror Margins option.
In some versions, it's a checkbox and in others, it's found in the Multiple Pages drop down list.
Once you make the Mirror Margins selection, you should see your preview updated to reflect the change.
Hit the OK button when you're done.
Wow! Who knew that with a few changes to the Page Setup window, you could make your already perfect document that much better in its printed form? Yes!
You know, you're planning to print the document you've spent hours preparing and then put it into a binder, report cover or other type of binding.
The problem arises when you start putting the pages into the binding. The left margin looks smaller than the right or even worse, some of the text is in the binding!
Now what?
One way to fix this is to try manually adjusting the left margin. That is, make it larger so that it accommodates the binding.
This way works, but wouldn't it be easier if you had a place to simply enter the amount of extra space you need for the binding?
Yes, of course it would. And that's exactly what we intend to do today!
What you're looking for is MS Word's gutter.
According to the Office Assistant, the gutter margin is "a setting that adds extra space to the side or top margin of a document you plan to bind. A gutter margin ensures that text isn't obscured by the binding."
Sounds like a perfect solution to me!
(And did you catch the little "bonus?" You can set a gutter margin for either the left side or for the top of a document. This choice puts a little more flexibility into your binding options!)
So, where do we find the wonderful world of gutters?
Why, in the Page Setup section, of course.
With the document you want to bind open, go to the File menu, Page Setup choice.
Next, you're looking for the Margins tab.
The layout of the tab may vary from version to version, but you're basically looking for the same things.
- The Gutter field — In this field, enter the amount of extra margin you need added to accommodate the binding.
- The Gutter position choice — Choose between a left or top gutter.
- The Apply to field — Be sure to decide how much of the document needs to have the gutter (for example, This section, This point forward or Whole document.)
As you make these choices, you should see the preview picture updated each time. The checked area that appears denotes the placement of the gutter.
Notice that the margins around the text are still intact, so once the gutter margin space is in the binding, it will all look evenly spaced.
And finally, for those of you who plan to bind a double sided document, I'm sure you're already extremely concerned over the "left side" issue, am I right?
After all, if you're going to bind double sided pages, sometimes it's the left margin and sometimes it's the right.
So, now what?
Never fear! You're in the right place and the answer is just one choice away.
You're looking for the Mirror Margins option.
In some versions, it's a checkbox and in others, it's found in the Multiple Pages drop down list.
Once you make the Mirror Margins selection, you should see your preview updated to reflect the change.
Hit the OK button when you're done.
Wow! Who knew that with a few changes to the Page Setup window, you could make your already perfect document that much better in its printed form? Yes!
So, you're in need of a hard copy from an MS Word file, but you don't need the entire file.
Maybe you just need a page or maybe even just a section or two.
If that is all you need, why are you printing the entire document?
Good question and unfortunately, there's no good answer.
So, let's explore a few ways you can get Word to print only what you need.
To begin, you'll need to go to the Print window (File menu, Print choice or Ctrl + P).
In the Page Range section, you'll find a few choices.
By default, the All choice will be selected, but you could change it to Current page, which will print only the page where the cursor is currently located. You also could choose the Selection option, which prints whatever text was highlighted before you went to the Print window.
Below that, you'll find the Pages option. This is where all the printing flexibility comes in.
In this field, you can enter a combination of information to get Word to print exactly what you want, with nothing more and nothing less.
To print whole pages, you can request them by page number.
--> 2 will print only page two of the document.
--> 2, 5 will print only pages two and five of the document.
--> 3-8 will print only pages three through eight of the document.
--> 3, 4-7 will print only pages three and four through seven.
Okay, so you get the idea with whole pages, but here's a quick bonus.
By entering page numbers in reverse order, such as 7-2, you will get Word to print them in reverse order.
Why reverse order?
Well, if Word prints the last page first, it will be at the bottom of the pile when you take the stack off the printer. That means no more shuffling pages to get them into the correct order!
(You could also set the reverse order option through your Printer's Properties window).
Now, moving on to printing sections. (To do this, you have to work with a document that's been broken into sections by inserting section breaks).
To denote the printing of just a section, use the letter "s," followed by the section number.
For example, if you wanted to print section two of the document, you would enter "s2" in the Pages field.
You can use the comma to separate non-consecutive sections and the hyphen to print a range of sections.
Need to mix the page numbers with the sections?
No problem!
Use the letter "p," followed by the page number and then "s," followed by the section number.
For example, "p2s3" means print page two in section three.
This too can be combined with the comma and hyphen to print both consecutive and non-consecutive parts of the document.
Now, go on and get creative and take control of your printed pages!
If you're someone who frequently inserts the current date and/or time into your MS Word documents or PowerPoint presentations, here's a keyboard shortcut I just know you're going to love!
In MS Word, you can press Alt + Shift + D to insert the current date and Alt + Shift + T to insert the current time.
In MS PowerPoint, if you press either combination, you'll get a window that looks like this:
Now you're free to make choices as to the type of data you put on your slide(s). When finished, click the Apply to All button to put the data on the entire presentation (including the master slide) or click Apply to put the data on the slides that were selected before you began.
What more could you ask for? Time and dates at our fingertips, no mouse required!
In MS Word, you can press Alt + Shift + D to insert the current date and Alt + Shift + T to insert the current time.
In MS PowerPoint, if you press either combination, you'll get a window that looks like this:
Now you're free to make choices as to the type of data you put on your slide(s). When finished, click the Apply to All button to put the data on the entire presentation (including the master slide) or click Apply to put the data on the slides that were selected before you began.
What more could you ask for? Time and dates at our fingertips, no mouse required!
Here's a great keyboard shortcut for repetitive tasks!
I tested it and found that it works great in MS Word and Excel. I also tried it in PowerPoint with very limited success and had no luck in MS Outlook or Outlook Express.
At any rate, in Word and Excel, this one can be a huge time saver.
The trick is all in one key: the F4 key.
The F4 key is set to repeat the last action.
Literally, if you simply hit the F4 key, the program will repeat the last action you completed. That's it. Really. it's that simple!
Ideas for MS Excel:
Let's say, for example, you've just inserted a row or column in Excel using the Insert menu. If you then hit F4, you'll get a second row or column inserted, without all the menu work.
Or, with that same example (inserting a row or column), you could move to another part of the worksheet, hit F4 and have a new row or column inserted in the new location.
Repeatedly hitting the F4 key will continue to repeat the last action, allowing you to insert multiple rows or columns quickly and efficiently.
I found I could get this little trick to work with almost any action I used: bolding, underlining, cell format type, justification, etc.
Ideas for MS Word:
In Word, I found this one to work extremely well. I was able to get the F4 key to repeat text formatting, line spacing, text color changes, indenting, font changes and more.
I even found that I could get the repetition of a "just typed" phrase or sentence in Word. It's much quicker than the old copy and paste routine I often find myself using when I have repetitive statements to make.
(Actually, I could use it a lot when writing this newsletter. I often find myself creating lists of shortcuts that are so similar, I just copy and paste and then just change the relevant information to make my next point. This will really speed up the process).
Bonus Idea:
I also tried this one with the drawing tools and found that it was an excellent way to repeat things, without needing the buttons and menus constantly. I found that the F4 key would duplicate a newly drawn shape, repeat a fill color change in a newly selected shape, change line size and color and so on. Whatever you need, it can do!
The key thing to remember is that it repeats the last action you did. So, if you last drew a circle, it will immediately draw a duplicate circle. If you just changed the format of a cell to be percentages, it will change the format of the next cell(s) you select to percentages. Get the idea?
Yeah, I knew you would!
Give this one a try. It's a really great trick with tremendous potential!
I tested it and found that it works great in MS Word and Excel. I also tried it in PowerPoint with very limited success and had no luck in MS Outlook or Outlook Express.
At any rate, in Word and Excel, this one can be a huge time saver.
The trick is all in one key: the F4 key.
The F4 key is set to repeat the last action.
Literally, if you simply hit the F4 key, the program will repeat the last action you completed. That's it. Really. it's that simple!
Ideas for MS Excel:
Let's say, for example, you've just inserted a row or column in Excel using the Insert menu. If you then hit F4, you'll get a second row or column inserted, without all the menu work.
Or, with that same example (inserting a row or column), you could move to another part of the worksheet, hit F4 and have a new row or column inserted in the new location.
Repeatedly hitting the F4 key will continue to repeat the last action, allowing you to insert multiple rows or columns quickly and efficiently.
I found I could get this little trick to work with almost any action I used: bolding, underlining, cell format type, justification, etc.
Ideas for MS Word:
In Word, I found this one to work extremely well. I was able to get the F4 key to repeat text formatting, line spacing, text color changes, indenting, font changes and more.
I even found that I could get the repetition of a "just typed" phrase or sentence in Word. It's much quicker than the old copy and paste routine I often find myself using when I have repetitive statements to make.
(Actually, I could use it a lot when writing this newsletter. I often find myself creating lists of shortcuts that are so similar, I just copy and paste and then just change the relevant information to make my next point. This will really speed up the process).
Bonus Idea:
I also tried this one with the drawing tools and found that it was an excellent way to repeat things, without needing the buttons and menus constantly. I found that the F4 key would duplicate a newly drawn shape, repeat a fill color change in a newly selected shape, change line size and color and so on. Whatever you need, it can do!
The key thing to remember is that it repeats the last action you did. So, if you last drew a circle, it will immediately draw a duplicate circle. If you just changed the format of a cell to be percentages, it will change the format of the next cell(s) you select to percentages. Get the idea?
Yeah, I knew you would!
Give this one a try. It's a really great trick with tremendous potential!
I love flash drives, whether it’s a jump drive or a flash memory MP3 player, it seems that I always always at least one connected to the system I’m working on. So, I’m always excited when I see a cool new trick or program that I can use my flash drive for. I’m all over it!
Portable programs are applications that actually run in place. For example, from the folder or drive in which they are located. These programs may install a couple of registry entries, but nothing significant or potentially revealing. Due to the fact that these programs run in place and are usually small in size marks them as great applications that can be used on a flash drive.
I ran a couple of download articles awhile back concerning portable programs that could be useful if ran from a flash drive (Portable Firefox, Thunderbird and Sunbird), which I myself have found great use for. It has been awhile however, since I have checked back with the community to see if anything new has come along in the area of portable programs. Well, I should have a long time ago, because there are some really cool programs out there.
For today’s Download of the Week, I’m actually going to showcase a program that I believe will really impress you. It is called Process Explorer. This is actually a program that Steve himself asked me about awhile ago. He sent me an e-mail concerning an article or program that could more easily describe what certain processes are doing in your system. I thought this would be a good idea and spotted this little fella, and I knew immediately that fate had brought us together.
Process Explorer is a process viewer to the tenth degree. You can easily view and identify, not only processes, but also services and DLLs.
Process Explorer’s list of features:
· Process suspend/resume
· Thread details including stacks
· Job object information
· Start time and CPU time process columns
· Option to hide the lower pane
· Kill process tree
· Accurate registry key names for profile unload debugging
· Extensive help file
· Service descriptions on services tab of service process properties dialog
· You can configure custom column selections and save them as easy-to-access column sets
· Image verification option now verifies images in the background
· Process menu includes restart item to kill and then restart a selected process
· Can suspend individual threads on threads page of Process Properties dialog
· The find Window target moves Process Explorer's main window to the back to get it out of the way
· Close Window command uses same End Task functionality as Task Manager
· Show New Processes option scrolls display to make new processes visible, heuristics to detect more image packers
· User name of account in which Process Explorer is running is shown in the title bar
· Services can be stopped, resumed and paused from the Services tab of the Process Properties dialog
· The DLLs that host SvcHost processes are listed in the Services tab of the Process Properties dialog
· Services running within a process display on the process' tooltip
· As a parallel to the CPU Usage History column, there's now a Private Bytes Usage History column
· The Process view includes columns that show the working set breakdown of the process in shared, shareable and private pages
· New delta private-bytes column to show changes in private virtual memory usage
· Can copy lines from the Process, DLL and Handle views to the clipboard
· Option to show pagefile-backed (unnamed) sections in DLL view
· DLL and handle searching consolidated
· The DLL view includes columns that show the working set contributions in shared, shareable and private pages
· The DLL a Rundll32 process hosts is shown in its process tooltip
· Packed DLL highlighting in DLL view
· Image signing verification available for DLLs
· Better DLL properties dialog
· Object address shown in Object Properties dialog
· File object share flags column for Handle view
· CPU history in tray icon
· CPU history column
· I/O delta column
· Process security editing
· Reports loaded 32-bit DLLs on Windows 64-bit
· Support for Windows Vista
· Opacity settings
· Tray window context menu options
· More performance information on process properties dialog
· Lock option in shutdown menu
· Reconfigured menu items and highlighting configuration
· Status bar column options
· Status bar information is configurable to show CPU usage, commit charge, # of processes and more
· Can terminate individual threads
· Shutdown menu for logging off and shutting down the system
· Only allow one instance option
· Auto-open of lower pane when a find result is clicked
· .NET tab for .NET processes that shows AppDomains and .NET performance counters
· x64 and x86 executables are in a single binary
· New Verified Company column shows image signer information
· Strings tab in process properties dialog has in-memory image scan option
· Highlighting for images that are packed (have compressed or encrypted code, which is common in malware)
· System information dialog has per-CPU graph option with hyperthreaded and NUMA processor information
· A Users menu duplicates the functionality of Task Manager's Users tab, showing Terminal Services session information and supporting logoff, disconnect, and sending messages
· On XP SP2 and higher, the TCP/IP tab displays the thread stack at the time an endpoint was opened, the tray icon context menu includes the shutdown menu
· Search engine option to use Google or MSN Search
· Object address column is available for the handle view
· Image signatures can be checked on-demand in the process properties dialog
· Process explorer is digitally signed with Sysinternals' Verisign Class 3 signing certificate
· Data Execution Protection (DEP) status on process image tab and as column
· Copy-to-clipboard from process environment variable and strings dialogs
· Can select and copy text strings of process image properties page
· Multi-row tabs on process properties dialog
· Image signing verification on process image properties dialog
· Mini-CPU usage graph on toolbar
· Command-line option for specifying Process Explorer priority
· Manual refresh (F5) forces recheck of job and .NET process status
· Single-clicking on tray icon minimizes and restores main window
· Finder tool for identifying the process that owns a selected window
· Strings listings for process and DLL images
· Google menu item for searching process and DLL information
· Tray tooltip shows highest-CPU consuming process
· Window status column (like Task Manager's Status column on the Applications tab)
· DLL view for System process shows list of loaded device drivers
· TCP/IP process properties page shows active TCP and UDP endpoints
· 64-bit version shows which processes are 64-bit on process properties and adds
· 64-bit process column
· Runs in non-admin account
· Tree view functionality to collapse and expand process subtrees
· Can bring process-owned window to the foreground
· System CPU graph shows timestamps and most active process for any given point, Per-process graph data tracked even when main window is minimized to tray
· Per-process graph data displays timestamps
· Can set process CPU affinity
· Process tooltip no longer between mouse pointer and process name
· Ability to add a comment to processes and new comment column
· Can open multiple process properties dialogs simultaneously
· System information dialog CPU and memory usage graphs like Task Manager
· Per-process CPU and memory graph tab in process properties
· Option to only show your own processes
· System Information dialog showing the same memory counters as Task Manager (when symbols are configured, also shows maximum paged and nonpaged pool values)
· Tray icon for CPU usage that's yellow when usage is > 70 percent and red when > 90 percent
· Highlight color configuration dialog
· Context switch and context switch delta columns
· Run processes using the system Run dialog from the File menu
· Replace task manager option so that when you run Task Manager Process Explorer runs instead
· Only non-zero CPU usage, .NET counters and context switch values are displayed to clearly highlight process activity
· Search for DLLs or handles regardless of what mode the lower pane is in
· Correct icons for MMC windows
· Mouse hover over process names and DLL names shows full path of executable or DLL
Other Process Explorer features include:
· Support for full handle viewing on Win9x/Me (with the exception of registry key handles)
· Process icons
· Service process highlighting
· Process tree display
· Configurable refresh rate
· Refresh highlighting: new entries in the process, handle and DLL views are green and deleted ones red
· DLL descriptions in the DLL view
· Highlights relocated DLLs
· Jump-to-entry in the find dialog
· Lists all process owners, even on Terminal Server systems
· Column selection and a wide variety of configurable process, DLL and handle columns
· Asynchronous updates of all views
· Configurable refresh highlighting effects
· Save function saves process view and current bottom view (handle or DLL)
This is one cool program, and the fact that it’s portable (runs from a flash drive), makes it a must see. Trust me, you’ll never use your Task Manager again.
You can download Process Explorer here.
Portable programs are applications that actually run in place. For example, from the folder or drive in which they are located. These programs may install a couple of registry entries, but nothing significant or potentially revealing. Due to the fact that these programs run in place and are usually small in size marks them as great applications that can be used on a flash drive.
I ran a couple of download articles awhile back concerning portable programs that could be useful if ran from a flash drive (Portable Firefox, Thunderbird and Sunbird), which I myself have found great use for. It has been awhile however, since I have checked back with the community to see if anything new has come along in the area of portable programs. Well, I should have a long time ago, because there are some really cool programs out there.
For today’s Download of the Week, I’m actually going to showcase a program that I believe will really impress you. It is called Process Explorer. This is actually a program that Steve himself asked me about awhile ago. He sent me an e-mail concerning an article or program that could more easily describe what certain processes are doing in your system. I thought this would be a good idea and spotted this little fella, and I knew immediately that fate had brought us together.
Process Explorer is a process viewer to the tenth degree. You can easily view and identify, not only processes, but also services and DLLs.
Process Explorer’s list of features:
· Process suspend/resume
· Thread details including stacks
· Job object information
· Start time and CPU time process columns
· Option to hide the lower pane
· Kill process tree
· Accurate registry key names for profile unload debugging
· Extensive help file
· Service descriptions on services tab of service process properties dialog
· You can configure custom column selections and save them as easy-to-access column sets
· Image verification option now verifies images in the background
· Process menu includes restart item to kill and then restart a selected process
· Can suspend individual threads on threads page of Process Properties dialog
· The find Window target moves Process Explorer's main window to the back to get it out of the way
· Close Window command uses same End Task functionality as Task Manager
· Show New Processes option scrolls display to make new processes visible, heuristics to detect more image packers
· User name of account in which Process Explorer is running is shown in the title bar
· Services can be stopped, resumed and paused from the Services tab of the Process Properties dialog
· The DLLs that host SvcHost processes are listed in the Services tab of the Process Properties dialog
· Services running within a process display on the process' tooltip
· As a parallel to the CPU Usage History column, there's now a Private Bytes Usage History column
· The Process view includes columns that show the working set breakdown of the process in shared, shareable and private pages
· New delta private-bytes column to show changes in private virtual memory usage
· Can copy lines from the Process, DLL and Handle views to the clipboard
· Option to show pagefile-backed (unnamed) sections in DLL view
· DLL and handle searching consolidated
· The DLL view includes columns that show the working set contributions in shared, shareable and private pages
· The DLL a Rundll32 process hosts is shown in its process tooltip
· Packed DLL highlighting in DLL view
· Image signing verification available for DLLs
· Better DLL properties dialog
· Object address shown in Object Properties dialog
· File object share flags column for Handle view
· CPU history in tray icon
· CPU history column
· I/O delta column
· Process security editing
· Reports loaded 32-bit DLLs on Windows 64-bit
· Support for Windows Vista
· Opacity settings
· Tray window context menu options
· More performance information on process properties dialog
· Lock option in shutdown menu
· Reconfigured menu items and highlighting configuration
· Status bar column options
· Status bar information is configurable to show CPU usage, commit charge, # of processes and more
· Can terminate individual threads
· Shutdown menu for logging off and shutting down the system
· Only allow one instance option
· Auto-open of lower pane when a find result is clicked
· .NET tab for .NET processes that shows AppDomains and .NET performance counters
· x64 and x86 executables are in a single binary
· New Verified Company column shows image signer information
· Strings tab in process properties dialog has in-memory image scan option
· Highlighting for images that are packed (have compressed or encrypted code, which is common in malware)
· System information dialog has per-CPU graph option with hyperthreaded and NUMA processor information
· A Users menu duplicates the functionality of Task Manager's Users tab, showing Terminal Services session information and supporting logoff, disconnect, and sending messages
· On XP SP2 and higher, the TCP/IP tab displays the thread stack at the time an endpoint was opened, the tray icon context menu includes the shutdown menu
· Search engine option to use Google or MSN Search
· Object address column is available for the handle view
· Image signatures can be checked on-demand in the process properties dialog
· Process explorer is digitally signed with Sysinternals' Verisign Class 3 signing certificate
· Data Execution Protection (DEP) status on process image tab and as column
· Copy-to-clipboard from process environment variable and strings dialogs
· Can select and copy text strings of process image properties page
· Multi-row tabs on process properties dialog
· Image signing verification on process image properties dialog
· Mini-CPU usage graph on toolbar
· Command-line option for specifying Process Explorer priority
· Manual refresh (F5) forces recheck of job and .NET process status
· Single-clicking on tray icon minimizes and restores main window
· Finder tool for identifying the process that owns a selected window
· Strings listings for process and DLL images
· Google menu item for searching process and DLL information
· Tray tooltip shows highest-CPU consuming process
· Window status column (like Task Manager's Status column on the Applications tab)
· DLL view for System process shows list of loaded device drivers
· TCP/IP process properties page shows active TCP and UDP endpoints
· 64-bit version shows which processes are 64-bit on process properties and adds
· 64-bit process column
· Runs in non-admin account
· Tree view functionality to collapse and expand process subtrees
· Can bring process-owned window to the foreground
· System CPU graph shows timestamps and most active process for any given point, Per-process graph data tracked even when main window is minimized to tray
· Per-process graph data displays timestamps
· Can set process CPU affinity
· Process tooltip no longer between mouse pointer and process name
· Ability to add a comment to processes and new comment column
· Can open multiple process properties dialogs simultaneously
· System information dialog CPU and memory usage graphs like Task Manager
· Per-process CPU and memory graph tab in process properties
· Option to only show your own processes
· System Information dialog showing the same memory counters as Task Manager (when symbols are configured, also shows maximum paged and nonpaged pool values)
· Tray icon for CPU usage that's yellow when usage is > 70 percent and red when > 90 percent
· Highlight color configuration dialog
· Context switch and context switch delta columns
· Run processes using the system Run dialog from the File menu
· Replace task manager option so that when you run Task Manager Process Explorer runs instead
· Only non-zero CPU usage, .NET counters and context switch values are displayed to clearly highlight process activity
· Search for DLLs or handles regardless of what mode the lower pane is in
· Correct icons for MMC windows
· Mouse hover over process names and DLL names shows full path of executable or DLL
Other Process Explorer features include:
· Support for full handle viewing on Win9x/Me (with the exception of registry key handles)
· Process icons
· Service process highlighting
· Process tree display
· Configurable refresh rate
· Refresh highlighting: new entries in the process, handle and DLL views are green and deleted ones red
· DLL descriptions in the DLL view
· Highlights relocated DLLs
· Jump-to-entry in the find dialog
· Lists all process owners, even on Terminal Server systems
· Column selection and a wide variety of configurable process, DLL and handle columns
· Asynchronous updates of all views
· Configurable refresh highlighting effects
· Save function saves process view and current bottom view (handle or DLL)
This is one cool program, and the fact that it’s portable (runs from a flash drive), makes it a must see. Trust me, you’ll never use your Task Manager again.
You can download Process Explorer here.
Have you ever formatted a USB drive? Well, whether it was on purpose or not, it would be my bet that some of you ran into a problem while doing so. Perhaps the USB drive wouldn’t function at all. That's a pretty common one, but don’t worry about it too much. There is a simple fix for this problematic situation and it involves using the tools provided with any Windows operating system.
Click Yes and then you should see this box:
Click on New Partition and then go through the Wizard steps.
Now, just to be sure, double click on the My Computer icon on your desktop and then click on your USB drive. For me, it’s drive E:, but yours could be different. When you click on that icon, you should see a pop up that says something very similar to this:
Click Yes and then you should see this box:
If you have gotten this far and everything has gone as I have stated, a solution is right around the corner. The next thing to do is make sure you are signed in under your Administrator account, as you will be using the Administrative Tools. Once you are, go to Start, Control Panel (make sure you have it set to the classic view option), Administrative Tools, Computer Management.
Now, what you must do is click on Disk Management.
Now, what you must do is click on Disk Management.
The screen you will see is shown above and all the information you need is on the bottom right. So, where it indicates your USB drive letter, click on it.
Click on New Partition and then go through the Wizard steps.
Just in case your Wizard allows you to select any other options, make sure you select Primary Partition. (A Primary Partition is basically, the main storage area).
Also, be sure to make sure you select FAT32 as the File System. This just makes it so everything is stored in the proper format. Once done, click Finish. The USB drive should be formatted once the screen pops up saying that it has been formatted. To test the USB drive to make sure it works properly, put a couple of files onto the drive. Then unplug the drive, but make sure you do it properly, using the Safely Remove Hardware icon in your taskbar ( 
).
Take the USB drive to a different computer or just plug it back in. Then wait and see if the files are still there and if they open up. If they do, congratulations! You have just fixed your USB drive. If it doesn’t work, contact the maker of your USB drive. Often times, if formatting doesn’t work, the company requires there be certain drivers on the drive itself. Confusing as this may be, it is critical for the USB drive to have them.
I hope this works for you! And the next time you format, for whatever reason, make sure you back up the data on your USB drive first. Enjoy this one!
).Take the USB drive to a different computer or just plug it back in. Then wait and see if the files are still there and if they open up. If they do, congratulations! You have just fixed your USB drive. If it doesn’t work, contact the maker of your USB drive. Often times, if formatting doesn’t work, the company requires there be certain drivers on the drive itself. Confusing as this may be, it is critical for the USB drive to have them.
I hope this works for you! And the next time you format, for whatever reason, make sure you back up the data on your USB drive first. Enjoy this one!
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