http://desktopengineer.com/feeds DesktopEngineer.com Feeds This is an XML content feed. It is intended to be viewed in a newsreader or syndicated to another site, subject to copyright and fair use. Darwin@DesktopEngineer.com (Darwin Sanoy) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Desktopengineercom-EngineersToolbox/~3/450262390/free_cool_microsoft_setup_chainer_with_a_wacky_name One of the little setup gems unveiled at the Microsoft Professional Developer Conference was a setup chainer ... Wed, 12 Nov 2008 03:55:07 CST http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/free_cool_microsoft_setup_chainer_with_a_wacky_name http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/free_cool_microsoft_setup_chainer_with_a_wacky_name Darwin@DesktopEngineer.com (Darwin Sanoy) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Desktopengineercom-EngineersToolbox/~3/444359040/free_windows_7_microsoft_conference_sessions Microsoft has published all the sessions from the Professional Developers Conference online Thu, 06 Nov 2008 12:53:59 CST http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/free_windows_7_microsoft_conference_sessions http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/free_windows_7_microsoft_conference_sessions Darwin@DesktopEngineer.com (Darwin Sanoy) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Desktopengineercom-EngineersToolbox/~3/443739711/free_speed_up_windows_with_desktopengineer.coms_winservicestuner.vbs I wanted an automated way to optimize the services running on my training VMs and real machines as well Wed, 05 Nov 2008 22:15:19 CST http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/free_speed_up_windows_with_desktopengineer.coms_winservicestuner.vbs http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/free_speed_up_windows_with_desktopengineer.coms_winservicestuner.vbs Darwin@DesktopEngineer.com (Darwin Sanoy) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Desktopengineercom-EngineersToolbox/~3/384408196/vistas_aero_interface_is_hard_on_batteries Here's a utility that lets you get some of that battery life back... Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:57:33 CST http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/vistas_aero_interface_is_hard_on_batteries http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/vistas_aero_interface_is_hard_on_batteries Darwin@DesktopEngineer.com (Darwin Sanoy) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Desktopengineercom-EngineersToolbox/~3/384394579/sysinternals_live All the sysinternals tools available with a simple click ... Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:30:33 CST http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/sysinternals_live http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/sysinternals_live Darwin@DesktopEngineer.com (Darwin Sanoy) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Desktopengineercom-EngineersToolbox/~3/315547741/preview_lua_buglight_2.0 The fans of this very helpful tool will be happy to know there was a new preview version released at TechEd... Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:42:10 CST http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/preview_lua_buglight_2.0 http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/preview_lua_buglight_2.0 Darwin@DesktopEngineer.com (Darwin Sanoy) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Desktopengineercom-EngineersToolbox/~3/315547742/released_updated_application_compatibility_toolkit_documentation Application Compatiblity Toolkit has long suffered from insufficient documentation - Microsoft has recognized this and has updated the docs... Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:36:24 CST http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/released_updated_application_compatibility_toolkit_documentation http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/released_updated_application_compatibility_toolkit_documentation Darwin@DesktopEngineer.com (Darwin Sanoy) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Desktopengineercom-EngineersToolbox/~3/315535013/new_post_categories_app_mgmt_and_vista We have two new post categories that are linked on the home page - "Application Management" and "Vista"... Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:27:28 CST http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/new_post_categories_app_mgmt_and_vista http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/new_post_categories_app_mgmt_and_vista Darwin@DesktopEngineer.com (Darwin Sanoy) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Desktopengineercom-EngineersToolbox/~3/298527691/released_powershell_scriptomatic A PowerShell version of Scriptomatic has been released ... Mon, 26 May 2008 14:16:06 CST http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/released_powershell_scriptomatic http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/released_powershell_scriptomatic Darwin@DesktopEngineer.com (Darwin Sanoy) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Desktopengineercom-EngineersToolbox/~3/245763279/free_sysinternals_suite It can be rather tedious to download all the cool sysinternal tools individually Tue, 04 Mar 2008 17:41:45 CST http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/free_sysinternals_suite http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/free_sysinternals_suite Darwin@DesktopEngineer.com (Darwin Sanoy) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Desktopengineercom-EngineersToolbox/~3/237705029/free_unlocker_for_in_use_files How many times have you had to completely reboot Windows to get Explorer or some other greed process to let go of a file you needed ... Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:56:20 CST http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/free_unlocker_for_in_use_files http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/free_unlocker_for_in_use_files Darwin@DesktopEngineer.com (Darwin Sanoy) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Desktopengineercom-EngineersToolbox/~3/231633426/free_voptimizer_freeware_version vOptimizer crushes a Virtual Machine's disk size by 20-60% and can increase performance dramatically - they have a freeware version now Fri, 08 Feb 2008 09:16:58 CST http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/free_voptimizer_freeware_version http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/free_voptimizer_freeware_version Darwin@DesktopEngineer.com (Darwin Sanoy) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Desktopengineercom-EngineersToolbox/~3/231622122/windows_steadystate_-_shared_computer_toolkit_grows_up Microsoft has been enhancing their tools for computers that are in shared environments - but for software packagers that are restricted from using Virtual Machine technology Fri, 08 Feb 2008 09:01:22 CST http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/windows_steadystate_-_shared_computer_toolkit_grows_up http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/windows_steadystate_-_shared_computer_toolkit_grows_up Darwin@DesktopEngineer.com (Darwin Sanoy) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Desktopengineercom-EngineersToolbox/~3/221704456/thinstall_acquired_by_vmware Thinstall is an extremely robust application virtualization solution. This robustness makes it a natural fit with VMWare's products ... Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:20:42 CST http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/thinstall_acquired_by_vmware http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/thinstall_acquired_by_vmware Darwin@DesktopEngineer.com (Darwin Sanoy) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Desktopengineercom-EngineersToolbox/~3/201880288/microsoft_service_pack_blocker_toolkit Sometimes your company is not ready for a specific Microsoft service pack and you live in fear of end users pulling them down through Windows Update ... Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:29:50 CST http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/microsoft_service_pack_blocker_toolkit http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/microsoft_service_pack_blocker_toolkit Darwin@DesktopEngineer.com (Darwin Sanoy) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Desktopengineercom-EngineersToolbox/~3/201160191/make_firefox_do_ie_favorites If you're asking yourself "why would I ever do that?" Sun, 16 Dec 2007 07:31:56 CST http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/make_firefox_do_ie_favorites http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/make_firefox_do_ie_favorites Darwin@DesktopEngineer.com (Darwin Sanoy) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Desktopengineercom-EngineersToolbox/~3/201141863/free_three_undelete_tools You've probably had that sinking feeling that you don't have a recent copy of that file you just deleted ... Sun, 16 Dec 2007 06:33:49 CST http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/free_three_undelete_tools http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/free_three_undelete_tools Darwin@DesktopEngineer.com (Darwin Sanoy) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Desktopengineercom-EngineersToolbox/~3/198241911/free_vista_trial_in_a_virtual_machine_-_without_buying_a_copy_of_vista As far as I can tell there has been no official evaluation DVD for Vista since RC1 (correct me if I'm wrong) - you can build a evaluation build of any version of Vista from any Vista media Mon, 10 Dec 2007 15:48:13 CST http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/free_vista_trial_in_a_virtual_machine_-_without_buying_a_copy_of_vista http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/free_vista_trial_in_a_virtual_machine_-_without_buying_a_copy_of_vista Darwin@DesktopEngineer.com (Darwin Sanoy) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Desktopengineercom-EngineersToolbox/~3/191985685/pui_-_you_cant_afford_it There is a specific release of a certain piece of software I love to beat up on because it never should have happened... Wed, 28 Nov 2007 14:09:44 CST http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/pui_-_you_cant_afford_it http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/pui_-_you_cant_afford_it Darwin@DesktopEngineer.com (Darwin Sanoy) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Desktopengineercom-EngineersToolbox/~3/191341277/released_admin_script_editor_3.1 Admin Script Editor has been on a steady path of upgrades and enhancements. If you haven't had a chance to check out the latest features ... Tue, 27 Nov 2007 11:04:34 CST http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/released_admin_script_editor_3.1 http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/released_admin_script_editor_3.1 Darwin@DesktopEngineer.com (Darwin Sanoy) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Desktopengineercom-EngineersToolbox/~3/190939673/released_and_free_specops_command PowerShell is the next big thing in Microsoft scripting - but how are you going to get it installed Mon, 26 Nov 2007 17:32:00 CST http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/released_and_free_specops_command http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/released_and_free_specops_command Darwin@DesktopEngineer.com (Darwin Sanoy) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Desktopengineercom-EngineersToolbox/~3/190704329/debugging_toolbox_-_serious_vista_application_compatibility If you are getting pretty serious about testing applications on Vista ... Mon, 26 Nov 2007 08:30:24 CST http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/debugging_toolbox_-_serious_vista_application_compatibility http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/debugging_toolbox_-_serious_vista_application_compatibility Darwin@DesktopEngineer.com (Darwin Sanoy) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Desktopengineercom-EngineersToolbox/~3/185322646/released_-_free_vmware_server_2.0_beta Vmware has released a beta of 2.0 of it's free VMWare Server software ... Thu, 15 Nov 2007 12:28:08 CST http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/released_-_free_vmware_server_2.0_beta http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/released_-_free_vmware_server_2.0_beta Darwin@DesktopEngineer.com (Darwin Sanoy) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Desktopengineercom-EngineersToolbox/~3/185229343/a_laptop_for_every_child_in_the_developing_world A lofty goal to be sure - but one that seems to be gaining ground. OLPC is making headway and is running a promotion in late November (very soon) ... Thu, 15 Nov 2007 08:49:39 CST http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/a_laptop_for_every_child_in_the_developing_world http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/a_laptop_for_every_child_in_the_developing_world Darwin@DesktopEngineer.com (Darwin Sanoy) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Desktopengineercom-EngineersToolbox/~3/184824655/thinstall_partners_with_macrovision_to_bring_robust_application_virtualization_to_installshield Occasionally we have provided updates on an application virtualization product that is extremely robust Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:36:40 CST http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/thinstall_partners_with_macrovision_to_bring_robust_application_virtualization_to_installshield http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/thinstall_partners_with_macrovision_to_bring_robust_application_virtualization_to_installshield