Black Coffee is probably the number one drink of system administrators throughout the world except maybe in the UK where they drink tea and in France where they drink wine (just joking guys). Black Coffee is a lightweight tool for system administrators to tweak settings in Windows. It was specifically designed to aid system administrators [...]

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The software program of choice to analyze processes is usually Process Explorer from Sysinternals. Yes, there are other applications that do the same but Process Explorer is probably the standard application. The Open Source program svchost viewer concentrates on the scvhost service only which somewhat limits its usability.
It does not seem to provide any additional [...]

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Windows Live is rapidly maturing into a very real and competitive set of products. Each individual service isn’t the best solution, excluding Windows Live Writer perhaps, but it does have a huge advantage over all other alternatives; the Windows Live ID. The Live ID gives a unified profile across the whole Live suite and is [...]

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Users with many folders on their system might experience an annoying problem in Windows Vista which has already plagued many Windows XP users as well. Windows remembers by default the folder view settings of 200 local folders and 200 network folders initially. Windows Vista remembers 5000 folders which are usually enough for most users.
Some users [...]

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Image icons in Windows look all the same and the only way to distinguish or sort them is by using folders or file names. Xentient Thumbnails introduces a third possibility by providing an automatic windows thumbnail image generator for all images on the system.
The system works by assigning thumbnail icons to every image in [...]

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