Nirsoft released an utility to search for files  in Windows. The tools is very powerful as it offers many options as shown on the screenshot below:  Alternative to Windows Search For Files   Duplicates Search via kwout Here is an extract from the description:  SearchMyFiles is an alternative to the standard “Search For Files And [...]

The full comic is available after the jump. How to fix any computer – The Oatmeal via kwout

I came accross this review of Windows Se7en File Replacer on Tech Republic: Review: Windows Se7en File Replacer 1.5.4 | TechRepublic via kwout This tool make something very difficult (Replace system files) very simple (Using a drag and drop). System files replacement is difficult because Windows has a built in mecanism that protect them and [...]

For no reason, one of my PC started to suffer performance issue. It was slow, the mouse movement was jerky. I monitored the PC with Process Monitor and noticed that the Hardware interupts level was very high. I carried out a Google search ( Or maybe blekko) and finally found a solution for this problem [...]

Ars Technica published some interesting statistics. There is more users with Windows 7 than Vista (respectively 20.87 % and 12.11 of total Windows users). 20% of users now on Windows 7 via kwout One other surprising statistic, is the fact that there are more users with IE8 than IE 7 (Respectively 33.02% and 8.76%) 20% [...]

Digital inspiration published a useful tip to check if your computer is connecting to the INTERNET without your knowledge.  Of course in most case a firewall properly configured should notify any unexpected connection to the INTERNET. But in some special case, the method proposed by Digital inspiration is useful to track what’s going on in [...]

APC published a very good article that compares Ubuntu to Windows when executing various tasks (mp3 encoding, Web browsing, Media playback, etc). Ubuntu is very good for most of the task sbut remains behing windows for some of them like mp3 encoding and Webcam management. The complete Ubuntu rating is list below: First impressions: Pass [...]

Today, I wanted to deactivate Dr Watson on my PC (Windows XP-SP2) and it tooks me some time to find the relevant information to do that. The interesting thing is that, I found some very useful information about the debugger: Description of the Dr. Watson for Windows (Drwtsn32.exe) Tool: This article describes the Dr. Watson [...]

On windows XP, the process SVCHOST.EXE is a mystery for most people. If you check your task manager, you may have several instances of this process running. On my XP home edition I have actually 7 of this processes. Microsoft describes SVCHOST.EXE on this document by the following sentences: “At startup, Svchost.exe checks the services part of [...]

How to use ADPlus to troubleshoot “hangs” and “crashes” : Microsoft Technet document describing how to use ADPlus Application debugging in a production environment : Pdf book downloadable from Microsoft Production Debugging for .NET Framework Applications:  Pdf book  more dedicated to .Net  debuggging