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Windows 8.1 and the Land of Forgotten Modules: Part 2

April 16, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Summary: Explore and discover the additional Windows PowerShell modules in Windows 8.1. Honorary Scripting Guy, Sean Kearney, is here this week to go where no Scripter has boldly gone before! Into the modules that are often overlooked in Windows 8.1! “Dude! No!” “Dude, yes!” Yesterday we saw that Windows PowerShell allows you to manage settings for search and for Windows Defender. These settings could even be stored from machine to machine in an XML file to set up standard configurations in a peer-to-peer environment. For more, see Windows 8.1 and the Land of Forgotten Modules: Part 1. Today we’ll look at a module that’s been a long time in the waiting: DISM. Most of us new to deploying Windows may not be aware …

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Windows 8.1 and the Land of Forgotten Modules: Part 2

Secunia PSI 1.5 is out…

June 23, 2009 / Paul / 0 Comments

Download it now: http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/personal/ Secuina PSI is a great Windows application to give you visibility into what security threats are sitting on your computer. There are so many pieces and parts of software that can be easily compromised… how do you keep up with all the updates? Use Secuina PSI. It is free for personal use and I don’t compute without it. Not only does it show you what has an issue but gives direct links on how to fix it. Cool.

TeraCopy – Fast File Copy for Windows

July 3, 2008 / Paul / 0 Comments

TeraCopy is a nifty little Windows utility which greatly improves file copy, and move, performance. Check it out at http://www.codesector.com/teracopy.php. I like it enough to have bought the Pro copy to support the developers.

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Adobe Photoshop 6 & 7 are better than Photoshop CS and CS2? What? Huh?

July 1, 2008 / Paul / 0 Comments

Adobe Photoshop 6 and 7 are better than Photoshop CS and CS2? What? Huh?

Well not really, but one thing that version 6 and 7 did have, but was eliminated from CS and CS2, is the ability for Windows XP to display thumbnails of PSD images.

Since I had installed CS, and subsequently CS2, I noticed that I could no longer get thumbnail images to appear in Windows XP. I recently had a bit of time and tracked down the issue. Apparently, some people have had trouble with the thumbnail functionality so Adobe removed that feature. I have not had any real trouble with it. So I found out how to fix it.

Here is how to restore the thumbnail functionality.
Download the thumbfix.exe or thumbfix.zip file from my web site and extract the files to a new folder.
Copy the “psicon.dll” file to the C:\Program Files\Common Files\AdobeShell folder.
Once that is done, double click on the “ThumbsForCS2.reg” file if you are running CS2 or the “ThumbsForCS.reg” file if you are running CS. This will prompt you with a dialog box similar to the following:

“Are you sure you want to add the information in ThumbsForCS2.reg to the registry?”

Click “Yes”

You should see the following dialog:

“Information in ThumbsForCS2.reg has been successfully entered into the registry.”

Click Ok.

This .reg file tells Windows how to use the psicon.dll file.

You should now have Thumbnails once again!

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Windows 8.1 and the Land of Forgotten Modules: Part 2

Secunia PSI 1.5 is out…

TeraCopy – Fast File Copy for Windows

Adobe Photoshop 6 & 7 are better than Photoshop CS and CS2? What? Huh?