Archive for April 2011
Slipstream Windows 7 SP1
What is slipstreaming? If you have your original copy of Windows 7, you can download the full Service Pack 1 for Windows 7 and then take the two and make a new DVD that has SP1 integrated into it. This will save you a ton of time during any install or re-installation.
Here’s a good article on how to do this – link
Sort your photos
Have hundreds of photos you need to sort? Here’s a small program that can help you sort them. (Even batch renaming).
EconSouth’s Interview with James King, Vice Chancellor of Tennessee Technology Centers
EconSouth recently interviewed James King, Vice Chancellor of the Tennessee Technology Centers. In the interview, infomation about Harvard University’s graduate school of education published an article titled “Pathways to Prosperity: Meeting the Challenges of Preparing Young Americans for the 21st Century”.
Harvard PowerPoint - Pathways to Prosperity
Change the Speed of MP3s
If you need to change the speed of an MP3, this little program allows you to manage files by drag and drop or to add the MP3s by the interface. MP3 Speed is freeware and can be downloaded here.
Password Protect a Folder
Need to password protect a folder? Here’s a freeware program that will do just that. My Lockbox Pro
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Best Practices Analyzer
After recently installing Microsoft SQL Server, here’s Microsoft’s Best Practices Analyzer - Link
Free Defrag Programs
Recently I heard you don’t have to defrag your computer. Amazingly I can’t believe the thought process behind this. As your computer is running applications, using the internet or using multimedia such as pictures and video, it will become fragmented. Because hard drives copy and split files as necessary, the file has to be read by a physical device (the heads – assuming it is not a SSD) causing a delay in processing the file. Regardless of how fast a drive is, these access times add up as your computer is access them.
Defrag Programs
Special Defragmentation programs
Contig
(Defrags individual files or can be used with Power Defragmenter to defrag an entire drive – Power Defragmenter creates a GUI interface for Contig)
PageDefrag
(Defrags your pagefile or registry files)
