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ImgBurn is a free tool that enables you to burn CD/DVD images with ease. All the latest drives are supported (including booktype / bitsetting on many of the major ones). Advanced functionality can be found in the ImgBurn context menus.

 
ImgBurn supports a wide range of image file formats - including BIN, CUE, DI, DVD, GI, IMG, ISO, MDS, NRG and PDI.
ImgBurn supports all the Windows OS’s - Windows 95, 98, Me, NT4, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista and 2008 (including all the 64-bit versions). If you use Wine, it should also run on Linux and other x86-based Unixes.

If you never heard of this tool than now you should download and install it ;). I am using this tool to burn cd-roms from my Windows Server 2008 Hyver-V whitebox and it works smoothly. Beside all burning features one other which comes handy is to grab a folder and create a ISO file; than mount the ISO file with Hyper-V or ESX virtual machines. I used this feature many times when working in the test and production environments. 

Click here to download the ImgBurn tool.

vRD 2008 is a tool for the management of remote Windows computers via RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol). vRD is ideal for administrators who need to maintain simultaneous connections to multiple servers. Connection-specific settings and login credentials can be organized in folders and subfolders for quick access.

visionapp Remote Desktop 2008 is currently one of the most popular products in the market of RDP tools. visionapp Remote Desktop 2008 Express (vRD 2008 Express) offers a multiple number of enhancements and new features compared to the freeware version vRD 1.5, such as the extended support of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista (incl. 64-Bit), an overview on all logged in users and connection history.

Limitations of vRD 2008 Express:

• up to 15 objects
• 5 credentials storable
• no Database-Modus available
• duration is valid until 3-31-2009

With some enhancements and limitations the tool is still out there for public. I used the freeware versions before and still like the Office interface. Good opportunity to check the tool yourself before buying it. Looking into the future plans of mRemote and vRD I think I will buy the license somewhere next year ;).

Please register and download the tool from here if you want to test it.

Don’t worry the limitations is working after you start creating the 16th connection:

The answer is yes . Foxit Reader is incredibly small and very fast. Foxit Reader is good alternative if you want to have on your system. Foxit Reader 2.3 is just released. The new version 2.3 includes a multimedia player feature allowing Foxit users to not only read PDFs, but to watch and listen to the audio/video elements coming with PDFs as well.

Foxit Reader is a free PDF document viewer, with incredible small size (only 2.55 M download size), breezing-fast launch speed and rich feature set. Foxit Reader supports Windows Me/2000/XP/2003/Vista (and Windows Server 2008). Its core function is compatible with PDF Standard 1.7.

In the past, you’ve had to download a huge PDF reader from another software company, go through a lengthy installation process and wait for an annoying splash window to disappear just to open a PDF document.

Check out yourself and finally a PDF reader that supports multi-tab browsing when reader diffrent PDF files in one Windows.

Links:

• Foxit Reader 2.3 for Windows

SyncToy 2.0 for Windows is available as a free download from the Microsoft Download Center.

The easy to use, customizable application helps you copy, move, rename, and delete files between folders and computers.

Features:

• Dynamic Drive Letter Assignment: Drive letter reassignment will now be detected and updated in the folder pair definition. 
• True Folder Sync: Folder creates, renames and deletes are now synchronized for all SyncToy actions. 
• Exclusion Filtering Based on Name: File exclusion based on name with exact or fuzzy matching. 
• Filtering Based on File Attributes: The ability to exclude files based on one or more file attributes (Read-Only, System, Hidden). 
• Unattended Folder Pair Execution: Addressed issues related to running scheduled folder pairs while logged off. 
• Folder Pairs With Shared Endpoints: Ability for folder pairs associated with the same or different instances of SyncToy to share end-points. 
• Command line enhancements: Added the ability to manage folder pairs via the command line interface. 
• Re-Architect Sync Engine: The SyncToy engine has been rearchitected to provide scalability and the ability to add significant enhancements in future releases. 
• Sync engine is also more robust insomuch that many single, file level errors are skipped without affecting the entire sync operation. 
• Sync Encrypted Files: Sync of Encrypted files works when local folder and files are encrypted, which addresses the common scenario involving sync between local, encrypted laptop PC folder and remote, unencrypted desktop PC folder. 
• 64-Bit Support: SyncToy now has a native 64-bit build (x64 only) for 64-bit versions of Windows. 
• Folder pair rename 
• Sub-folder Exclusion Enhancements: Descendents created under excluded sub-folders are automatically excluded. Usability improvements for the sub-folder exclusion dialog. 
• Folder Pair Metadata Moved: Folder pair metadata removed from MyDocuments to resolve any issues with server-based folder pair re-direction setup. 
• Setup Improvements: Integrated setup with single self-extracting archive file and no extra downloads if you already have .NET Framework 2.0 installed. Enabled silent install for the SyncToy Installer file (see readme.txt file for more information). Removed combine and subscribe actions. 
• Removed combine and subscribe actions. 

We all know robocopy.exe and what it does but this SyncToy2 is amazing. I installed the SyncToy2 on my Dell PowerEdge SC420 server to echo my personal folder; also I can schedule the task.

 

Links:   

• SyncToy2 Download 

If you manage multiple computer systems than BgInfo tool from Microsoft (formal SysInternals) is the right tool to display relevant computer information (CPU,Hostname, IP/DNS/DHCP/Default Gateway, Memory,Disk,etc.)  of the system. I am using this tool on all my virtual and physical host machines to identify what kind of system I am logged on. You can implement different background colors and identify type of machine your are working on. For example use RED for physical host machines; BLUE for virtual machines and YELLOW for lab machines. Couple years ago I also implemented this tool and used the corporate wallpaper on 500+ desktop clients; we also included the numbers of helpdesk and other important information.

Picture 1. BgInfo Netowknet Wallpaper

Below I will summarize 10 steps how to download, configure and prepare your system with Networknet BgInfo template.

1. Download the tool from Microsoft website here; open the the zip file
2. Copy BgInfo.exe to C:\Windows
3. Run BgInfo.exe to register the .bgi extentions
4. Download my Bgi file from http://www.networknet.nl/apps/content/Networknet.bgi
5. Open Networknet.bgi file and modify if needed; save the file to C:\Windows like bginfo.bgi
6. Right click BgInfo.exe and select “Create Shortcut”
7. Right click the BgInfo.exe - Shortcut and change the target to C:\Windows\Bginfo.exe c:\windows\bginfo.bgi /timer:0; click OK
8. Copy the shortcut
9. Goto C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup
10. Paste the shortcut

Last year I download and installed the Vista Codec Package; couple minutes ago I was trying to get one xvid screencast opened by Windows Media Player but it was not able to acquire the codec. Vista Codec Package includes all popular codec components like Xvid, DivX, AC3 and others which your default installation of Vista is missing.

Go to this website http://shark007.testbox.dk and check out yourself.