iReboot is NeoSmart Technologies’ simple yet effective reboot helper tool. iReboot sits in your taskbar at startup (only taking up 400KB of memory!) and lets you choose which operating system you want to reboot into. Instead of pressing restart, waiting for Windows to shut down, waiting for your BIOS to post, then selecting the operating system you want to boot into (within the bootloader time-limit!); you just select that entry from iReboot and let it do the rest! If you liked EasyBCD, you’ll just love iReboot!
Are you as annoyed as me in regard to the “first run wizard” thingy that IE8 is displaying the first time it runs?? It’s as annoying as the older IE’s that also launched the Email creation wizard… as if it was not enough that they always start off by launching some stupid intro site..
I found it while trying to find a way to surpress the dialog box, which sadly I did never find (one would think there would be some registry tweak that would disable this stupid dialogbox on a server where the error had no effect and was impossible to resolve)..
Had problems with a server that was complaining that it could not sync. time with the DC, it stated that it received invalid data amongst other.
Event ID 38, 47 and 29 – Source: W32Time
“The time provider NtpClient cannot reach or is currently receiving invalid time data from NTP_server_IP_Address.”
Ever had problems ejecting a USB device – getting an errror like “Unable to stop….”?
Well this page claim to have a utility that can assist you with this issue plus a whole lot more (like renaming USB devices, ejecting USB via command line and hot-key eject)… Sounds very promising..
http://www.sparkleshare.org/ is a new project on the Internet inspired by Dropbox (a clever fileshareing/collaboration and file syncronising util that uses cloud based storage), SparkleShares force is that it supposodly will be free/open source and you can thus setup your own servers, sounds like something to make a mantal note of..
The first version will be in Linux but should be followed by a windows version, presently no version is publicly available though (as it’s very early in the program, announced June 10th 2010).
Soluto offers to minimize your boot time, even with Windows 7 boot time is time wasted and a spark for frustration but this utility states it can cut a significant portion of your boot time.
Hopefully you have your Windows machine set to receive updates automatically? But do you ever check that updates are actually downloaded, and installed and what about third party software?
Well, this tip is an oldie, but still quite good and worth a mention;
Secunia (a very skilled security company) offer several products for evaluating your Software readiness (ranging from corporate products to free online personal scanners).
Check it out at (at the very least do an online scan); http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/online/
Have you ever had a machine BSD (blue screen) on you? and have you ever felt helpless in understanding why and what the problem is?
Well here is a Freeware product that can give you a little insight or at least give you ample time to read and analyze the BSD info. It analyzes the minidump file that is generated on BSD..
If you have a SA agreement with MS as part of your license, then you have access to yet another utility via “Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack for Software Assurance” Crash Analyzer Wizard.. But as mentioned this require a SA agreement.
If you need to debug mail flow problems then make sure to visit www.mxtoolbox.com, it will offer you some quite useful insights quite intuitively – including eg. Analyze headers, blacklist checking, mx checking and much much more.
iReboot is NeoSmart Technologies’ simple yet effective reboot helper tool. iReboot sits in your taskbar at startup (only taking up 400KB of memory!) and lets you choose which operating system you want to reboot into. Instead of pressing restart, waiting for Windows to shut down, waiting for your BIOS to post, then selecting the operating system you want to boot into (within the bootloader time-limit!); you just select that entry from iReboot and let it do the rest! If you liked EasyBCD, you’ll just love iReboot!
