BootSave 2.8 Build 9417

A handy command line tool that saves / restores the master boot sector

Run BootSave from command line to save / restore the master boot sector on the hard disk. Suite of three utilities BootSave, BootRest and BootChk. Protects against damage to the partition table or boot sector done by rogue programs, viruses or accidents with tools like Norton NU. You should temporarily boot from a DOS diskette to save or restore. You can save the boot record under Win2K/XP (but not Vista) but you must boot under DOS to do the restore.

This version does NOT save the boot sectors for each individual partition, just the MBR (master boot record) that contains the primary booting code, and the partition information for the four primary partitions.

Requirements:

· DOS system boot disk for recovery

What's New in This Release:

· improved documentation

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Windows 8 NUI GUI Video Almost at 5 Million Views

The first sneak peek video that Microsoft shared of Windows 8, the next major iteration of the Windows client, has been watched almost 5 million times. 

4,979,559 times to me more specific, according to the official count on YouTube at the time of this article. 

Microsoft made the Building "Windows 8" - Video #1 available at the start of June 2011, on the same day it offered the first official preview of Windows 7’s successor to the world. 

Some readers might remember that the video shoot past 2 million views on the first day alone. Since then, the number of views has been growing at a slower pace, but growing nonetheless. 

At just a little over a month, the Building "Windows 8" - Video #1 has been watched 4,97 million times, and it’s bound to cross the 5 million mark soon enough. 

I have included it below, it’s the first video embedded at the bottom of this article, just in case you want to watch it again. 

The second video is a much longer preview of Windows 8 from Computex, Taipei, less popular than the official preview but worth the time it takes to watch it. 

Following the early June 2011 video previews, Microsoft hasn’t offered any additional details about the next major version of Windows. 

Still, BUILD Windows is approximately one month away, and it will be an event focused on Windows 8, as the software giant has stressed repeatedly. 

The fact that BUILD registration was already been closed is another indication that interest for Windows 8 is extremely high. The BUILD conference has been sold out even if Microsoft provided absolutely no details about any sessions, pre-sessions or any type of content to be presented to participants between September 13 and 16 in Anaheim, CA.

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Cisco CCNA - CCNP Certification Exam: Cabling Your Home Lab

More CCNA and CCNP candidates than ever before are putting together their own home labs, and there's no better way to learn about Cisco technologies than working with the real thing. Getting the routers and switches is just part of putting together a great CCNA / CCNP home lab, though. You've got to get the right cables to connect the devices, and this is an important part of your education as well. After all, without the right cables, client networks are going to have a hard time working!

For your Cisco home lab, one important cable is the DTE/DCE cable. These cables have two major uses in a home lab. To practice directly connecting Cisco routers via Serial interfaces (an important CCNA skill), you'll need to connect them with a DTE/DCE cable. Second, if you plan on having a Cisco router act as a frame relay switch in your lab, you'll need multiple DTE/DCE cables to do so. (Visit my website's Home Lab Help section for a sample Frame Relay switch configuration.)

If you have multiple switches in your lab, that's great, because you'll be able to get a lot of spanning tree protocol (STP) work in as well as creating Etherchannels. To connect your switches, you'll need crossover cables.

You'll need some straight-through cables as well to connect your routers to the switches.

Finally, if you're lucky enough to have an access server as part of your lab, you'll need an octal cable to connect your AS to the other routers and switches in your lab. The octal cable has one large connector on one end and eight numbered RJ-45 connectors on the other end. The large connector should be attached to the async port on your AS, and the numbered RJ-45 connectors will be connected to the console ports on your other routers and switches.

Choosing and connecting the right cables for your Cisco CCNA / CCNP home lab is a great learning experience, and it's also an important part of your Cisco education. After all, all great networks and home labs all begin at Layer One of the OSI model!

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Windows 8 Up to Build 8063.0.110804-1922, Onward to Beta

Windows 8 has yet to reach the Beta development milestone, even though Microsoft is approaching the moment when it will deliver the first deep insight into the next major iteration of its Windows client.

Sources familiar with the evolution of Windows 7’s successor reveal that Windows 8 is still in the Milestone 3 (M3) stage of the development process, the last phase before the platform will graduate to Beta, which has yet to happen.

The few Windows 8 leaks that happened earlier this year have revealed some details about the next version of the operating system, but for the past months the volume of unofficial information and code has dried up.

According to WinBeta, Windows 8 has reached Build 8063.0.110804-1922, still a M3 testing release. As the Build string information reveals, this particular version of Windows 8 was compiled on August 4th, 2011, namely last week.

There are no specific details about any new features, capabilities or functionality in Windows 8 Build 8063.0.110804-1922.

In the past months, Microsoft has opened up more and more on Windows 8, with the first pieces of official info being shared with the public.

In addition to Systems-on-a-Chip / ARM architectures support, the software giant revealed that Windows 8 will be tailored to next generation NUI (natural user interface) form factors and that it will support HTML5 and JavaScript applications natively.

The Redmond company is now gearing up for BUILD, the evolution of the Professional Developers Conference, an event focused on Windows 8, as Microsoft stressed time and again.

The BUILD Windows conference has already been sold out, despite the fact that the software giant did not share any details about the sessions or the content which participants will get access to.

Microsoft is bound to provide the first Windows 8 bits around BUILD, but it’s unclear whether the company will offer a pre-Beta M3 Build, or the fully fledged Beta development milestone. 

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Google Chrome 13.0.782.107 Stable

Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier. It has one box for everything: Type in the address bar and get suggestions for both search and web pages. Will give you thumbnails of your top sites; Access your favorite pages instantly with lightning speed from any new tab. Google Chrome is an open source web browser developed by Google. Its software architecture was engineered from scratch (using components from other open source software including WebKit and Mozilla Firefox) to cater for the changing needs of users and acknowledging that today most web sites aren’t web pages but web applications. Design goals include stability, speed, security and a clean, simple and efficient user interface.

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Windows 8 Will Not Include Dolby DVD Playback Technologies

The next major iteration of Windows will not include Dolby DVD playback technologies as Windows 7 does today. 

Dolby Laboratories confirmed this detail officially, although Microsoft hasn’t provided any information on the matter. 

It’s unclear how exactly a Dolby-less Windows 8 will impact customers, or if users will be affected in any way. 

The Redmond company did promise that Windows 8 will continue to support software and hardware designed to play nice with Windows 7, but the software giant said nothing about media content. 

“We work with operating system providers, ISVs and OEMs to support DVD on the PC. In recent years, our mix of PC licensing revenue has increasingly shifted towards the operating system as our technologies are included in 4 editions of Windows 7,” Dolby revealed. (via The Tech Trade)

  

“However, we have recently learned that our technologies are not currently included in the Windows 8 operating system under development.”

It’s critical to note that even if Microsoft has dropped support for Dolby technologies from the next version of Windows, there are solutions designed to circumvent the software giant. 

With the vast majority of Windows 8 copies shipping on new OEM machines, Dolby can simply work with Microsoft partners in order to provide their DVD playback technologies to users.

In fact, this seems to be the plan, according to Dolby:

“If our technologies are not included in the commercial version of Windows 8, we expect to support DVD playback functionality by increasingly licensing our technologies directly to OEMs and ISVs, and we will seek to extend our technologies to further support online content playback.

“It's important to note that DVD playback remains a fundamental component to most PC shipments worldwide. While we work with the industry to support DVD playback in its PC shipments, it is equally important that we continue to extend our formats to channels of delivery beyond DVD. 

“This will help ensure the relevance of our technologies to the PC long term. By doing this, we believe we can help consumers receive a high-quality consistent playback experience on their PC regardless of which platform they consume their content from.”

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WSCC - Sysinternals Control Center 2.0.2.1

View, execute and organize the utilities from the Windows Sysinternals Suite

WSCC is a free software that helps you to view, execute and organize the tools from the Windows Sysinternals Suite. 

WSCC is only an interface, you need to download and install Windows Sysinternals Suite separately. Alternatively, WSCC can work with the Sysinternals Live service provided by Microsoft.

WSCC uses the included WSCC Console to execute command line applications.

WSCC is portable, installation is not required. Extract the content of the downloaded zip archive to any directory on your computer.

Here are some key features of "WSCC - Sysinternals Control Center":

 · Simple and intuitive user interface

Update Manager:

 · The included Update Manager can check for newer versions of the utilities already installed and can download and install the missing items.

Console:

 · The Console is used to execute command line applications.

Requirements:

 · Windows Sysinternals Suite

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QuickWayToFolders 1.2.6

A tool which provides quick folder content access

QuickWayToFolders is an easy-to-use application created to offer you a quick folder content access.

The four display possibilites are
· Desktop : Act like your desktop, with possibility of navigate through subfolders
· Small Browser : Act like windows explorer
· Menu : Display folder content in menu
· Multiple Folders Menu : Display multiple folders content in a single menu
Each entry is added to the taskbar notification area (near to windows clock).

What's New in This Release:
 · Solved : 1.2.5 use Vista and Seven api and so was no more compatible with XP

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Free Microsoft e-Books on Windows Server, SQL Server, VS 2010 and WP7 Go Mobile

Microsoft has been offering a diversified collection of free e-books to customers interested in getting insight into a range of its technologies for over half a year now, and the company is upping the ante, by providing new flavors of the resources tailored to mobile devices. 

For the most part of 2011, the 9 free Microsoft Press books have been available for download either as PDF documents, XPS files or both. 

This changed recently, with the software giant also starting to provide some of the e-books in formats designed for modern form factors, such as e-readers. 

“We have 9 free e-books available in PDF format. The bonus news is that the Microsoft Press team have now made them available free in two additional formats, DRM-free EPUB and MOBI,” revealed Microsoft’s Ray Fleming. 

“This means you can read them more easily on a wide range of ereaders, notably Kindles and iPads - as well as the Nook, Sony Reader and Kobo eReader. Of course these files can also be read with ereading apps for the various devices on netbooks, laptops, and desktop PCs,” he added.

“The key difference between these formats and the previously-offered PDF and XPS files is that the text is “reflowable,” meaning that it recomposes depending on the width of the screen (or as you resize a Window).”

Microsoft Press did not make a fuss about the update it introduced to the set of free e-books, but Fleming made sure to provide a complete list of the new downloads, which I included at the bottom of this article. 

Not all of the 9 free Microsoft Press books are also available in EPUB and MOBI file formats. The remaining titles continue to be available for download however, as PDF files, and in some cases as XPS.

Users with Kindle devices should download the free Microsoft Press e-books in MOBI format, while EPUB is better suited to other form factors. 

Here is the list of free Microsoft Press e-books (MOBI and EPUB):

• "Programming Windows Phone 7" (Charles Petzold) - download here as EPUB and here as MOBI.   
• "Moving to Microsoft Visual Studio 2010" (Patrice Pelland, Pascal Paré, and Ken Haines) - download here as EPUB and here as MOBI.  
• "Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2" (Ross Mistry and Stacia Misner) - download here as EPUB and here as MOBI. 
• "Introducing Windows Server 2008 R2" (Charlie Russel, Craig Zacker and the Windows Server Team at Microsoft) - download here as EPUB and here as MOBI.
• "Own Your Future, Update Your Skills with Resources and Career Ideas from Microsoft" (Katherine Murray) - download here as EPUB and here as MOBI.

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