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Today marks the beginning of Windows 10, version 21H1 availability. As I noted when we first announced the May 2021 Update in February, we grounded this update on the needs expressed by you, our customers, over the past year of continued remote work, learning and play. The May 2021 Update is...

I have just purchased a lifetime license of Roguekiller, I think it is a very nice piece of software, any other experiences?:)

Anyone know of any tools or Windows API that can monitor disk cache page accesses? For example, if a cache page is loaded from/to memory, I would like to count the size and times. This is to determine possible SSD degradation with too many accesses from page caches. Thanks

Hi I am trying to convert one of my VM in VMware Workstation (.VMDK) to Hyper-V (.VHDX) In lot of forums it says to use MVMC. Unfortunately, MVMC not available to download and there's no alternative tool to convert VMDK to VHDX. Can anyone please advise. TIA

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We are excited to announce two new online resources for developers using Windows: A new docs landing-page for developers building and deploying apps and systems running on non-Microsoft operating systems like Linux and Android A new GitHub issues repo for filing developer-oriented issues with...

Yes, I could change the file association via Win GUI or use some third party tools. However I prefer to do this directly in Registry by a *.reg file (in Win 7 64bit). How can I set my editor "D:\tools\editor\myeditor22.exe" as default editor when double clicking on a file with *.txt extension...

Greetings. I love the magnifier in MX and Mint Linux (ALT-scrollwheel). Anybody know of a tool to get that same functionality in Windows 10/7? Thanks.

Today, we released a new Windows 10 Preview Build of the SDK to be used in conjunction with Link Removed (Build 19041 or greater). The Preview SDK Build 19041 contains bug fixes and under development changes to the API surface area. The Preview SDK can be downloaded from the Link Removed. For...

Today, we released a new Windows 10 Preview Build of the SDK to be used in conjunction with Link Removed (Build 19028 or greater). The Preview SDK Build 19028 contains bug fixes and under development changes to the API surface area. The Preview SDK can be downloaded from Link Removed. For...

Ok, I can create manually a SRP by navigate with lots of clicks to the Win10 built-in dialog. But I prefer a much simpler way to do this with as few clicks as possible. Is there a built-in cmdline command which let me do that? Something like createsrp.exe -label "my sysrestpoint 123" On...

When I read Win10 tutorials about uninstallation of previously installed programs then they always refer to the dialog "Apps & features" to uninstall them. I wonder whether it is possible to uninstall the same programs as well with the well known (old) Win7 uninstaller tools like Reve...

As you known there are many sofwtare tools available which offer not only a setup.exe but an ISO to download. This ISO can either be burned on a CD/DVD or put onto an USB Flash drive. I am NOT talking about Win10 ISO images but other software like (examples): - Gparted GParted -- Live...

Hi all, Just a question; "register cleaning tools... Must have or useless?" I've read several blogs and papers, so far there are two camps.. Witch one does your opinion subscribe to? And why?

Hallo, bisher habe ich Betriebssysteme meiner PCs (1x XP, 2x 7 Prof, 1x 8.1 demnächst 10) von jemandem installieren lassen, Von dem ich annahhm, er Könnte das sterben. Leider Haben aber alle PC Macken, ein Denen sich Auch der Unterstützung von Adobe, Acronis ua Zähne ausbiss. Und das nach...

Hi everyone! I want to present a helpful tool - Vega Clipboard Manager. We just finished version for Windows (32-bit and 64-bit) and need first users. This tool collect your clipboard history (all that you copy - text, images and html) and gives a opprunity to find needed information realy...

Can any one recommend a software/driver update software?

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Today, we are pleased to announce that Visual Studio 15.8 Preview 1 contains an early preview of the SDK and tools to allow you to create your own 64-bit ARM (ARM64) apps. These tools answer the requests of many eager developers, and the development made possible with these tools represents the...

Hello All, We are observing lots of ICMP traffic from a windows system. However, we are not able to identify which application is generating this traffic. We tried to check by using "netstat -abn" however, it shows only TCP and UDP traffic, but not ICMP. Is there any feature or utility in...