Here is a list of great free software apps and tools available from Microsoft
Ultimate List of Free Windows Software from Microsoft
Some of my favorites:
SyncToy – helps copy, move, and synchronize files with digital cameras, e-mail, cell phones, portable media players, camcorders, PDAs, and laptops.
Fiddler – a HTTP Debugging Proxy which logs all HTTP traffic between your computer and the Internet. Fiddler allows you to inspect all HTTP Traffic, set breakpoints, and “fiddle” with incoming or outgoing data. Absolutely necessary if you are doing any kind of web development.
Process Explorer – shows information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded. You can hook this up to be a replacement for Windows Task Manager. I never use boring old Task Manager. If you are not using this already then you should start now.
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Sysinternals is an excellent suite of tools by Mark Russinovich (now working in Microsoft) that should be in everyone’s toolkit.
Download Sysinternals Suite
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Starting this year in 2007, the start date and the end date for daylight saving time (DST) in the United States will change. DST in the United States will start three weeks earlier and will end one week later than in previous years. DST will start at 2:00 A.M. on the second Sunday in March and will end at 2:00 A.M. on the first Sunday in November.
If you use Visual SourceSafe 2005 you will need to take action. If you do not update the servers and client computers, you may lose check-in information
If you use Visual SourceSafe 6.0, all you will need to do is change the clock on the computer at the appropriate time.
Visual SourceSafe daylight saving time issues in 2007
General info from Microsoft on the preparing for the change.
Preparing for daylight saving time changes in 2007
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