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/Desktopengineer-AllArticles/~3/450700913/december_packaging_workshop_reschedule Our December Live Packaging Workshop has been rescheduled for... Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:43:10 CST http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/december_packaging_workshop_reschedule http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/december_packaging_workshop_reschedule Darwin@DesktopEngineer.com (Darwin Sanoy) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Desktopengineer-AllArticles/~3/450264877/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/Desktopengineer-AllArticles/~3/444371323/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/Desktopengineer-AllArticles/~3/443740913/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/Desktopengineer-AllArticles/~3/389751465/all_articles2 We've added a web delivery of the packager track in November and a live workshop in December... Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:05:22 CST http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles2 http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles2 Darwin@DesktopEngineer.com (Darwin Sanoy) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Desktopengineer-AllArticles/~3/384425160/training_schedule_change_and_additions We've moved the Online Custom Actions workshop to a new date in October and working on a live class... Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:14:13 CST http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/training_schedule_change_and_additions http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/training_schedule_change_and_additions Darwin@DesktopEngineer.com (Darwin Sanoy) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Desktopengineer-AllArticles/~3/384411269/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/Desktopengineer-AllArticles/~3/384397119/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/Desktopengineer-AllArticles/~3/318290722/new_desktopengineer2.com_training_sessions_scheduled New offerings of the MSI Packaging Track and the Scripting and Custom Actions Track (both online) have been posted ... Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:34:40 CST http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/new_desktopengineer2.com_training_sessions_scheduled http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/new_desktopengineer2.com_training_sessions_scheduled Darwin@DesktopEngineer.com (Darwin Sanoy) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Desktopengineer-AllArticles/~3/315546305/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/Desktopengineer-AllArticles/~3/315546306/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/Desktopengineer-AllArticles/~3/315534136/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/Desktopengineer-AllArticles/~3/310160619/18_ways_to_kill_your_process..._slip_out_the_back_jack... Don't you hate it when a pesky process just won't die? Sure you could reboot Windows Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:35:56 CST http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/18_ways_to_kill_your_process..._slip_out_the_back_jack... http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/18_ways_to_kill_your_process..._slip_out_the_back_jack... Darwin@DesktopEngineer.com (Darwin Sanoy) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Desktopengineer-AllArticles/~3/309113344/beta_microsoft_offline_virtual_machine_servicing_tool Virtual machines can be a security risk because they don't get updated when you push critical security or virus updates and then they are fired up six months after that... Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:43:50 CST http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/beta_microsoft_offline_virtual_machine_servicing_tool http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/beta_microsoft_offline_virtual_machine_servicing_tool Darwin@DesktopEngineer.com (Darwin Sanoy) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Desktopengineer-AllArticles/~3/309049927/microsoft_assessment_and_planning_tool_-_dont_ignore_it. This tool is easy to overlook - but if you will be working on bringing applications forward to Vista or later Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:01:29 CST http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/microsoft_assessment_and_planning_tool_-_dont_ignore_it. http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/microsoft_assessment_and_planning_tool_-_dont_ignore_it. Darwin@DesktopEngineer.com (Darwin Sanoy) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Desktopengineer-AllArticles/~3/304315573/released_windows_installer_4.5 Windows Installer 4.5 has moved from beta to release Wed, 04 Jun 2008 03:44:31 CST http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/released_windows_installer_4.5 http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/released_windows_installer_4.5 Darwin@DesktopEngineer.com (Darwin Sanoy) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Desktopengineer-AllArticles/~3/298530179/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/Desktopengineer-AllArticles/~3/293887078/free_finally_.net_custom_actions_for_windows_installer It has been a long time coming Mon, 19 May 2008 22:44:15 CST http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/free_finally_.net_custom_actions_for_windows_installer http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/free_finally_.net_custom_actions_for_windows_installer Darwin@DesktopEngineer.com (Darwin Sanoy) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Desktopengineer-AllArticles/~3/258683951/why_our_online_training_works DesktopEngineer.com has been putting some serious work into making online training effective ... Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:53:17 CST http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/why_our_online_training_works http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/why_our_online_training_works Darwin@DesktopEngineer.com (Darwin Sanoy) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Desktopengineer-AllArticles/~3/245762543/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/Desktopengineer-AllArticles/~3/237953355/new_desktopengineer.com_training_sessions_scheduled Check out the new offerings on our schedule for March Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:54:38 CST http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/new_desktopengineer.com_training_sessions_scheduled http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/new_desktopengineer.com_training_sessions_scheduled Darwin@DesktopEngineer.com (Darwin Sanoy) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Desktopengineer-AllArticles/~3/237697511/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/Desktopengineer-AllArticles/~3/231631740/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/Desktopengineer-AllArticles/~3/231622423/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/Desktopengineer-AllArticles/~3/221695471/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