Microsoft’s Technet site is a huge documentation repository for all things Microsoft. The library on Technet offers technical documentation for Microsoft products and technologies. Sometimes you may want to save documents to your local computer system, for instance to access the documents when no Internet connection is available or to include documents in learning materials. [...]

Categories: Microsoft, Tutorials Basic

Microsoft Expression Encoder is an application that allows you to record your screen, and also audio. This can come in handy for those who wish to record instructional videos, or if you want to record yourself playing a video game, or pretty much anything else. You won’t need to enter a product key. If you’re [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Did you ever wish that you could make a slight change to the keyboard layout of your computer to better suite your needs? Maybe you are sometimes writing in a different language and need special characters that are not part of your language. You could of course install multiple keyboard layouts and switch between layouts [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Microsoft has just released a beta of a system recovery software. Microsoft Standalone System Sweeper has been designed to aid users in starting an infected PC and performing offline malware scans to remove viruses, trojans, rootkits and other forms of malware effectively. It is also used if malware is hindering the user to install or [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Microsoft has released a free tool for 32-bit and 64-bit editions of Windows that they have been using internally only for some time. The Attack Surface Analyzer assists “both testers and IT Pros in assessing the security of an application”. It does so by highlighting “the changes in system state, runtime parameters and securable objects [...]

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If you enjoy mathematics or science, or currently have to because you are at school or University, then the free Windows application Microsoft Mathematics 4.0 may be what you have been looking for to make your life just a tad easier. The description on Microsoft.com is short but up to the point: “Microsoft Mathematics provides [...]

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OffVis, the Microsoft Office Visualization Tool, has been designed to visualize the binary file formats doc, xls or ppt. While it has been primarily created for IT professionals and security researchers, it can have its uses for less tech savvy or security interested Office users. The software requires the Microsoft .net Framework 2.0, but has [...]

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Tracking a PC’s or Laptop’s power consumption can be helpful in several ways. It can for instance be used to analyse power usage to reduce the energy bill or find ways to increase a laptop’s battery life by reducing the overall power usage. Microsoft Joulemeter is an experimental program for Windows that can track the [...]

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The Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate was released last week to MSDN subscribers. Microsoft promised back then that the download would be made available to the public shortly afterwards. Microsoft kept the promise and downloads are now available for the public as well. Visual Studio 2010 offers many improvements over the current retail version [...]

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