To Hell in a Handbasket » Windows 7 http://ericsilva.org General Views, Opinions, and Observations in the World Around Me by Eric Silva Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:36:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Image Resizer PowerToy for Windows 7 http://ericsilva.org/2009/08/30/image-resizer-powertoy-for-windows-7/ http://ericsilva.org/2009/08/30/image-resizer-powertoy-for-windows-7/#comments Sun, 30 Aug 2009 19:39:57 +0000 Eric Silva http://ericsilva.org/2009/08/30/image-resizer-powertoy-for-windows-7/ 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.

]]> http://ericsilva.org/2009/08/30/image-resizer-powertoy-for-windows-7/feed/ 0 Windows 7 and the Vundo Trojan http://ericsilva.org/2009/08/29/windows-7-and-the-vundo-trojan/ http://ericsilva.org/2009/08/29/windows-7-and-the-vundo-trojan/#comments Sat, 29 Aug 2009 14:41:21 +0000 Eric Silva http://ericsilva.org/2009/08/29/windows-7-and-the-vundo-trojan/ 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.

]]> http://ericsilva.org/2009/08/29/windows-7-and-the-vundo-trojan/feed/ 0 Windows 7 and IIS 7 http://ericsilva.org/2009/08/28/windows-7-and-iis-7/ http://ericsilva.org/2009/08/28/windows-7-and-iis-7/#comments Sat, 29 Aug 2009 01:55:06 +0000 Eric Silva http://ericsilva.org/2009/08/28/windows-7-and-iis-7/ 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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