# New Feature
* Improved boot time defragmentation performance — up to 5 times faster. Results will vary based on number of files, file sizes and drive size.
[Read more…] about PerfectDisk 2008 Service Pack 2 (Build 52)
Computer News
Sysinternal Tools Updated
When will Windows 7 ship?
For those who care, Ed Bott discusses the issue.
I’m betting that Windows 7 will be ready in the second half of 2009.
All these guesses about Windows 7 and I can’t even get a straight answer on XP SP3…
Crysis: DX9 vs. DX10
As it stands now Crysis is not the DX10 poster child that we were led to believe it would be. Maybe Crysis is an incredibly forward looking title and not “badly coded” as rumored. I guess time will tell.
Top 10 Ways to Trick Out Your Desktop
For something that you look at every day of your working life, your computer desktop doesn’t get as much attention as it deserves. That’s too bad, considering that the desktop can do a lot more than display wallpaper and hold shortcut icons. From widgets to workflows, from calendars to computer stats and beyond, you can do a whole lot on your desktop without manually starting up a single program. Hit the jump for our top 10 list of applications and tweaks that make your desktop a truly useful place to land.
Sysinternals Process Explorer v11.12, Process Monitor v1.30 Released
Process Explorer v11.12, Process Monitor v1.30, Handle v3.31, and a new blog post from Mark
Process Explorer v11.12: This update includes a number of minor enhancements and bug fixes, including support for tracking commit and non-paged pool limits.
Process Monitor v1.30: This major update adds support for importing and exporting filters, records system information in log files, presents more information about specific operations, includes translation of additional operation error codes, and tracks CPU and memory activity that it displays in a revamped process summary dialog.
Handle v3.31: This update unifies the drivers used by Handle and Process Explorer.
Marks Blog: “The Case of the System Process CPU Spikes” – See Mark’s latest blog entry where he demonstrates how he used Process Explorer to track down a device driver causing CPU usage spikes.
Time To Run Windows Update
Updates available for 2K, XP, 2K3, Vista…
25 Great Geek Websites
Extremetech put up a decent list of 25 Great Geek Websites. Got any you would like to share? Post it here. I can’t understand how they left Major Geeks off the list.
SIW 2008-04-02 is available
SIW – System Information for Windows is a free tool that gives you detailed system specs.
4/1/2008
* Added “Security” module.
* Added WinPE 2.1 Support.
* Added U3 Support.
* Enhanced “Updates” module. It shows “Installed Updated” and “Missing Updates”. The “Missing Updates” module will connect to windowsupdate.microsoft.com
* Enhanced “Ports” module.
* Added detection of Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007. Thanks to Jan Romanowski.
* Fixed “/silent” option.
* Support for new hardware and software.
* Support for the latest Intel and AMD CPUs.
* Updated device database.
* Minor improvements.
* Bugfixes.
IE7Pro 2.2 Released
IE7Pro is a must have add-on for Internet Explorer, which includes a lot of features and tweaks to make your IE friendlier, more useful, secure and customizable.
Changelogs: IE7Pro 2.2 (Mar 31,2008):
1.Added Support for Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1
2.Added support for Left Mouse button in Mouse Gestures.
3.Open module API
4.Support block https AD
5.MiniDM now shows details of the current download jobs in the tip from tray icon
6.New Action: Go to parent directory
7.Livebookmark can recover last version
8. Update switch from backgroud to page mode.
9. Fix Bug: Adblock change “<>” to “<<" 10. Fix Bug: "javascript:" alike url don't pop new tab