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Many useful ports of GNU utilities to Win32 by Karl M Syring are available at UnxUtils sourceforge site. Other useful tools and interesting source code using undocumented native API:s and an Ext2 filesystem for NT project by Adrey Shedel. Click here for update history for this page (last update 08 February 2014) All file dates are in ISO date format, YYYY-MM-DD. ImDisk Virtual Disk Driver Current version 1.7.6 built 25 October 2013 ImDisk is a virtual disk driver for Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista/7/8 or Windows Server 2003/2008/2012. An additional driver, awealloc, in this install package supports memory allocation beyond 4 GB limit on 32 bit Windows through address window extension, AWE. The ImDisk driver supports forwarding I/O requests to third-party image file format handlers or to services on other computers on the network. About the install package The install package is created using 7-zip sfx stubs and includes an .inf install script. Questions? Small command line utilities

Lock Windows PC with a Pattern Lock – Eusing Maze Lock Pattern locks are normally used on smartphone these days, now you can use the same Pattern Lock method to lock your windows PC with the help of Eusing Maze Lock free application. With the help of this tool called Eusing Maze Lock you can setup customizable lock screen for your Windows PC. Instead of using password to unlock your Windows, you can setup pattern lock to unlock PC. The app is free to use and provides the users with varied options to customize the locking system according to their needs. Lock Windows PC with a Pattern Lock To use this app, all you have to do is install the app on your Windows PC. Pattern Lock main Screen Once you set the pattern lock for your PC, you can also take the backup of that pattern on your PC. Change Background of Lock Screen From the General tab menu you can change the settings of lock screen like time for auto lock, default auto lock, monitor turn-off, keyboard locking, number of attempts for pattern entered etc. Lock Screen Settings

How to Add Self Made Start Menu Button on Windows 8 Advertisements Hundred of tools are available on the internet which allows you to add Start Button on your Windows 8 OS such as StartW8, Vistart and Start8. Some of them are free to use and some of them are paid one, but today we will share a tip with you which allows you to add start menu on your Windows 8 without using any third party application. Here we are showing you two different methods and both of them easy to use its upto you which one you like most. So follow the below guide to add start button on your Windows 8 PC. First Method – Add Start Menu On Windows 8 Taskbar 1. Add New Toolbar 2. Folder Path 3. Programs Toolbar 4. Video Demo of First Method to Add Start Menu Second Method – Add Self Made Start Button on Windows 8 With the below method you can create a start button with icon on your taskbar. 1. Create Shortcut 2. Type Shortcut Link 3. Create Shortcut Name 4. Shortcut Properties 5. Select Icon for Shortcut 6. Pin to Taskbar 7. Windows 8 Start Screen Related Posts - About Author Sidharth

Windows 7, Vista, 2008 Tweaks Tweaking Windows 7 / Vista TCP/IP settings for broadband internet connections2008.04.24 10:40 by PhilipTags: patch, Nagle, QoS, SynAttackProtect, DNS, DefaultTTL, NetDMA, TCP 1323 Options, MTU, auto-tunning, Compound TCP, Chimney Offload, CTCP, TCP Window, Registry, TCP/IP, tweak, Vista, Windows 7 Windows Vista introduces a number of new features to the TCP/IP stack, including CTCP, and TCP Window Auto-Tuning. This new implementation works much better by default than previous Windows versions with broadband internet connections, and is able to adjust the RWIN value on the fly, depending on the BDP (bandwidth-delay product). This, however, introduces some problems with older routers and restricts the user from tweaking some of the TCP/IP parameters. To enter some of the commands below, you will need to run "elevated" command prompt. Check the TCP/IP state To check the current status of the Vista TCP/IP tweakable parameters, in elevated command prompt type the following command: To set RSS:

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