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Image Resizer PowerToy for Windows 7

August 30th, 2009 Eric Silva No comments

I just realized Windows 7 doesn’t have one of my favorite XP powertoys, Image Resizer.  I constantly use this utility to quickly resize images with the convenience of the Windows shell context.

Luckily I found that the guys over at CodePlex have updated the utility to run on Windows Vista and Windows 7 and even have a 64-bit version to boot.  w00t!

You can find it here.

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Windows 7 and the Vundo Trojan

August 29th, 2009 Eric Silva No comments

I found out this morning while downloading some utilities that Windows 7 is as vulnerable to the Vundo Trojan as previous versions of Windows.  Somewhat disappointed, I have started out performing all the necessary cleaning operations:

Everything appears to be good, and I am not getting any alerts from Windows or my antivirus software.

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Windows 7 and IIS 7

August 28th, 2009 Eric Silva No comments

While getting my Windows 7 laptop setup to be a development system, I noticed that IIS is not an option for install with Windows 7 (as with Vista, XP, 2000, etc.).  After a quick Google search I found the following Technet article at Microsoft.  There are no instructions for Windows 7, but I found using the Vista guidelines work for Windows 7 too.

One more thing checked off my Windows 7 install list.

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CD/DVD Emulation on Windows 7

August 28th, 2009 Eric Silva No comments

I have been using a combination of Daemon Tools and MagicDisc for Windows XP and Vista, but when upgrading to Windows 7 I found out that Daemon Tools no longer works.  I did some quick research and found that a lot of other folks liked PowerISO.  I downloaded it, installed it, and it works great.  It also has shell integration which I always found to be a critical feature missing from Daemon Tools.

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