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Windows Vista SP 1 RC Refresh Public Availability Program

January 11, 2008, 18:09(EST) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

Vista’s SP1, RC has been updated. Download & Info

KDE 4.0 Released

January 11, 2008, 12:59(EST) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

The KDE Community is thrilled to announce the immediate availability of KDE 4.0. This significant release marks both the end of the long and intensive development cycle leading up to KDE 4.0 and the beginning of the KDE 4 era.

More at KDE.org.

Necessary December 2007 updates for Windows Vista

January 4, 2008, 15:34(EST) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

Running Windows Vista? Then you’re going to want these two updates, neither of which is on Windows Update at the moment:

More at PT’s Blog

AutoRuns for Windows v9.01

January 4, 2008, 15:05(EST) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

This utility, which has the most comprehensive knowledge of auto-starting locations of any startup monitor, shows you what programs are configured to run during system bootup or login, and shows you the entries in the order Windows processes them. These programs include ones in your startup folder, Run, RunOnce, and other Registry keys. You can configure Autoruns to show other locations, including Explorer shell extensions, toolbars, browser helper objects, Winlogon notifications, auto-start services, and much more. Autoruns goes way beyond the MSConfig utility bundled with Windows Me and XP.

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IPv6: coming to a root server near you

January 3, 2008, 15:05(EST) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

That means that as of February 4, 2008, it will (theoretically) be possible for two IPv6 hosts to communicate across the IPv6 Internet without having to rely on any IPv4 infrastructure. It’s been a long journey to get to this point.

More at Arstechnica

IE7Pro 2.0 Released

January 3, 2008, 15:01(EST) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

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. IE7Pro includes Tabbed Browsing Management, Spell Check, Inline Search, Super Drag Drop, Crash Recovery, Proxy Switcher, Mouse Gesture, Tab History Browser, Web Accelerator, User Agent Switcher, Webpage Capturer, AD Blocker, Flash Block, Greasemonkey like User Scripts platform, User Plug-ins and many more power packed features. You can customize not just Internet Explorer, but even your favorite website according to your need and taste using IE7Pro.

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