http://remstate.com Create the Internet of your Dreams Sat, 16 May 2009 18:07:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Thanks to the efforts of Фат Коўлест ("Fat Cowlest"), In Series is now readable in yet another language I never new about: Belarusian. This and all other translations are available on the In Series project page. http://remstate.com/2009/05/16/in-series-in-belarusian/ XmlNotepad is a handy little tool that does pretty much what it says on the tin -- it's like Notepad, but aimed at correctly manipulating XML files. I've also found it to be a lot nicer to use a proper XML editor like XmlNotepad vs. a plain text editor when ... http://remstate.com/2008/06/18/xmlnotepad/ Ah, more integration. This time, I'm bringing ClamWin into the fold of SteadyState. Remember, SteadyState can "freeze" your drive, making it easy to recover from inadvertently installing malware and the like. However, sometimes it is necessary to update the machine -- especially to get hotfixes and virus updates. SteadyState has ... http://remstate.com/2008/06/16/integrating-clamwin-with-steadystate/ More, more, more little tools. The Sysinternals Suite is a large collection of handy little tools -- including such famous tools as PsExec. It's just a zip file, so it's easy to install: 7z x -o"D:\program files\sysinternals\" SysinternalsSuite.zip Then, simply add it to the path. PATH %PATH%;D:\Program Files\sysinternals SETX PATH "%PATH%" -m Done. :) http://remstate.com/2008/06/13/sysinternals-suite/ Ah, another week of silent-installing tool goodness. The Windows XP Support Tools have some useful little tidbits, like windiff and depends. First, unpack it: C:\Temp\WST>WindowsXP-KB838079-SupportTools-ENU.exe /C /T:C:\Temp\WST\Unpack Then, it's just a matter of working the suptools.msi file (shame on Microsoft for again not using a default property to set the target directory): C:\Temp\WST\Unpack>start /wait ... http://remstate.com/2008/06/11/windows-xp-support-tools/ I'm going to take a little diversion, because it really bugs me that ClamAV doesn't register itself with the Security Center. I'm sure I'm not the only one who finds this somewhat obnoxious. Furthermore, I have yet to find a clear description of how to handle all this WMI mumbo-jumbo, ... http://remstate.com/2008/06/09/integrating-clamwin-with-the-windows-securitycenter/ So, here's a little diddy you probably haven't heard of: SteadyState. I recall way back in the day my CompSci teacher and his flunky (you know who you are) were hell-bent on locking down the lab so those ornery high-schoolers couldn't break the Windows installations on those machines. They settled ... http://remstate.com/2008/06/06/steady-state/ Another anti-badware piece of software offered by Microsoft itself is good ol' Windows Defender. This is an MSI that uses a somewhat standard property to control the installation directory, but there's a twist in that it opens up a GUI after installation is complete. Thus, we need to take an ... http://remstate.com/2008/06/04/windows-defender/ [Ed: You probably don't want to miss integrating ClamWin with SecurityCenter and SteadyState.] Well, with a week dedicated to various Internet-browsing goodness, it's probably a good idea to spend some time with some anti-badware measures to help keep your Windows install running smoothly. First on the list is Clamwin AV 0.93, ... http://remstate.com/2008/06/02/clamwin-av/ Yet another one of the little niceties, Acrobat Reader is very convenient to have around. The default download is a self-extracting executable that wraps an MSI; providing a /? switch indicates that /msi allows you to pass command-line arguments to msiexec, but I was unable to get that to work ... http://remstate.com/2008/05/30/adobe-acrobat-reader/