Windows Sysinternals

Windows Sysinternals

- Process Monitor

- Process Explorer

- Autoruns for Windows

SynchronEX

SynchronEX - Advanced File Synchronizer Software

"SynchronEX enables robust multi-directional file tree synchronization and backup over local & network paths in any situation: From laptop synchronization to scheduled periodic backup to incremental website upload."

SyncBack

2BrightSparks: Compare SyncBack Freeware, SyncBackSE, and SyncBackPro

SyncToy

Microsoft Download Center: SyncToy 2.1

My Digital Life: Schedule SyncToy to Run and Automatically and Repetitively

Charles Petzold - New Book on Windows Phone 7 Series

Charles Petzold is working on a new book about Windows Phone Seven Series Seven Phone Seven Series Phone.

Free ebook to be published later this year. Preview excerpts available now.

Windows Phone

Microsoft: Windows Phone - Developer Home

Microsoft IIS Web Deployment Tool

Web Deployment Tool : The Official Microsoft IIS Site

"The Web Deployment Tool simplifies the migration, management and deployment of IIS Web servers, Web applications and Web sites."

AllChars

AllChars

"AllChars provides a quick, easy-to-remember way of creating accents... and special characters... in most Windows programs."

See also: Compose Key

Via: Derek Sivers

Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit

MAP: Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit

"The Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit is a powerful inventory, assessment and reporting tool that can securely assess IT environments for various platform migrations and virtualization without the use of any software agents."

Disk2vhd

Windows Sysinternals: Disk2vhd

"Disk2vhd is a utility that creates VHD (Virtual Hard Disk - Microsoft’s Virtual Machine disk format) versions of physical disks for use in Microsoft Virtual PC or Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines (VMs). The difference between Disk2vhd and other physical-to-virtual tools is that you can run Disk2vhd on a system that’s online."

Snippets Anywhere with AutoHotkey

Rob Henrys' Blog : Snippets Anywhere with AutoHotkey:

"Most snippet solutions work only within one specific application; however it’s sometimes desirable to have a solution that can work across multiple applications, this is where AutoHotkey can help. I’m going to describe an AutoHotkey script that will allow you to seamlessly add and use text snippets in any application. The script is made up of three parts: defining a snippet from the script, adding a snippet to the script, and reloading the script after a snippet is added."

AutoHotkey

MRT - Malicious Software Removal Tool

Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool

Start / Run: MRT

Edit Icons and Cursors in Paint.NET

Evan's Freeware Site has a plugin for Paint.NET that enables editing Windows icon and cursor files.

Windows Forms to Windows Presentation Foundation Converter

Windows Forms to Windows Presentation Foundation Converter:

"This project is intended to help developers learn how their Windows Forms knowledge can be translated into Windows Presentation Foundation. It does so by taking Windows Forms projects and performing a basic translation of the source code and project file into a corresponding WPF Project."

Windows Sysinternals

Windows Sysinternals: Documentation, downloads and additional resources:

"The Sysinternals web site was created in 1996 by Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell to host their advanced system utilities and technical information. Microsoft acquired Sysinternals in July, 2006. Whether you’re an IT Pro or a developer, you’ll find Sysinternals utilities to help you manage, troubleshoot and diagnose your Windows systems and applications."

Kicked by the XAML

Been meaning to dig into WPF but that hadn't made it to front of the queue, which means when it comes to XAML I don't have a clue. Well, while checking out the samples for the Windows Speech API, I ran into an exception when starting a C# sample. The error message told me as much as "there's something wrong with this whole wad of XAML but I'm not going to say exactly what and where."

This sort of error is discussed here:

WPF trick: Debugging the XamlParseException

WPF: Debugging the XAML (continued) / Expression Blend training

Might as well start digging into this WPF/XAML stuff now.

Just Talk It Out

From Practical eCommerce: Voice Recognition Software: Just "Talk It Out":

"If you have Windows Vista, you already have some of the best voice recognition technology in existence just waiting for you to take advantage of it. Why not harness that software (perhaps the best and coolest part of the dreaded Vista operating system) to speak your blog post rather than type it?"

Sed for Windows

Sometimes all you need is a little text stream pattern matching and substitution. Maybe I don't need to write another one-off utility in C# or Delphi for Win32. Maybe I just need a little Sed for Windows.

VHD Mount without Virtual Server

VMblog.com: VHD Mount without Virtual Server

VirtualBox

This weekend I'm going to check out VirtualBox:

"VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL)."

I'll probably start with these simple instructions: Using VirtualBox to run Linux from within Windows.

I also plan to check out the VMKnoppix live CD.

(As if I need more stuff to do;)

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I've been using Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 and notice a lot of similarities between it and VirtualBox. Maybe that's because they share a common ancestry. Virtual PC was originally developed by Connectix and was later sold to Microsoft (see Microsoft Virtual PC: Version History). VirtualBox came from Innotek which, before being acquired by Sun Microsystems, worked with Connectix on Virtual PC technology.

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Rich Green: On Snowglobes, xVM and Freedom

Virtual Steve: Weblog: This Isn't Your Dad's Desktop Virtualization