There is time in your computing life that your hard drive is working extra hard for no reason, I usually get that, and my computer’s a bit lagging because somehow a certain background process is a hard drive trasher by doing something in which i don’t fully understand why would that certain process do that, we’re friends, I know. But that’s the reason why my computer has a very slow response time as the process overloads the limitations of the hard drive.

Now the here’s a way to detect the process:

# 1

1. Click on the Start Button and key in Reliability. Click on the Reliability and Performance Monitor shortcut.
2. On the main screen click on the Disk section down arrow to see a list of all processes and the files they are writing or reading from your drives.
3. Click on the Read or Write headings to sort all disk operations to identify which process and file is currently using the disk the most.

# 2

1. Visit Microsoft’s Sysinternals web site and download Process Explorer.
2. After you have started Process Explorer, click on the View menubar item and then Select Columns.
3. Click on the Process Performance tab and check:
   • I/O Reads
   • I/O Read Bytes
   • I/O Writes
   • I/O Write Bytes
4. Hit OK.
5. You will now see the new columns listed for each process. To identify what process is killing your hard drive, just look for the process with the highest number of Reads or Bytes.

After you have Identified the process, just kill that process.

We've reached a pivotal moment in time, the release to Web of Windows Vista SP1 on Tuesday and, to complete the picture, today we released Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2008, the latest generation of the Microsoft Solution Accelerators designed to simplify and ease your deployment experience.

There are a lot of things to consider when deploying a new OS and, if your organization has 50 desktops or more, MDT is designed to help you navigate the potentially complex desktop environment. Our goal is to save you lots of time and effort in planning and building out a standard desktop experience all the way to rolling OS images out into production.

Don't worry, this is not something unproven and new -- just fewer than 1 million of you across industries have been active users of MDT's predecessor, Business Desktop Deployment (BDD). Past customers include companies like Unilever, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications and Fred Weber, who reduced their deployment costs from $300 to $35 per PC.

We have been listening to your feedback and augmenting the solution to ensure that the best of real world best practices are infused within the tool.

So what's changed with MDT?                              

In addition to the project, process and team guidance that has traditionally existed, the major thing that we worked on for this release is incremental guidance to progressively enable your deployment process.   Examples include:

• New checklist and wizard-driven user interface
• Quick start guides that familiarize you quickly with the tools and deployment process

There are also more ways to automate deployment, including Zero Touch installation; new task sequencing for more flexible and simplified configuration; and new Lite Touch installation support for multicasting with Windows Deployment Services to help ease network load.

In fact, if you are planning to deploy Windows Server 2008 with Windows Vista concurrently, there are major advantages to using MDT. Check out Continental Airlines, who rolled out both Windows Server and Windows Vista.  The ability to build images and deploy desktops and servers (including Windows Server 2008), was actually a key driver for our name change from BDD.

You can download MDT 2008 today. For more information, go to http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=113979 or contact a Desktop Deployment Planning Services specialist. Also see the TechNet Springboard for the Five ways that Windows Vista deployment just got easier.

Oh and, still using BDD 2007? Don't worry, we didn't forget about you either. An update for BDD 2007 to support SP1 imaging and deployment is also available from here.

There are many web sites from which you can download extra fonts for free, such as 1001 Free Fonts, Urban Fonts and many more. The downloaded fonts will be in a zip file, so the first step is to unzip them to your ‘Desktop’ by simply dragging the font file there. There is no need to copy the text documents that are in the zip file to the ‘Desktop’.

Once you have copied all the new fonts you wish to install onto your ‘Desktop’ you can install them. To do this open up the ‘Control Panel’. Your control panel will either be set to the new ‘Category views’ on XP or Vista or the old ‘Classic view’. I will deal with each method of opening the font installation program separately. Vista users can simply right-click on each font file and click on ‘Install’; users of other versions of Windows have a few more hoops to jump through.

XP Category View
Click on ‘Appearance and Themes’ to open that category.
Click on ‘Fonts’ in the ‘See also..’ list on the left of the window. This will open the ‘Fonts’ folder.


Classic View
In the ‘Classic View’ double click on the ‘Fonts’ icon to open the ‘Fonts’ folder.

In spite of the varied ways of opening it, the font installation program has remained unchanged for ages and is the same in all current version of Windows.

To open the font installer pull down the ‘File’ menu and select ‘Install New Font…’ to open the ‘Add Fonts’ tool.

To browse to your ‘Desktop’ double click on ‘c:\’, then double-click on ‘Documents and Settings’, then double click on your user-name (if you don’t know it, try all of them), and finally double-click on ‘Desktop’. This should then add all the fonts you unzipped to the list.

Click on the ‘Select All’ button and then click on the ‘OK’ button to install the fonts. They should now be available in all your applications.

It is worth keeping copies of the font files you saved on your desktop somewhere, so that you can reinstall them if you ever have to reinstall Windows on your PC. If you are not concerned about this you can delete the font files from your ‘Desktop’.

Addendum
Thanks to vaibhav for pointing out that you can copy the fonts straight to the ‘Fonts’ folder.

So, the quickest and easiest way to install a new font is to open the ‘Fonts’ folder as described above, and then drag the font file from the zip file and drop it in the ‘Fonts’ folder.

Alternatively, unzip a selection of font files to the ‘Desktop’, then select and copy (Ctrl + C) them all. Open the ‘Fonts’ folder and pull down the ‘Edit’ menu and select ‘Paste’, or right-click the background of the ‘Fonts’ folder and select ‘Paste’ from the drop-down menu, or just hold down Ctrl and press V (if there is one way of doing something in Windows then there are probably half a dozen ways of doing it).

Files Secure 2.1 Descriptions:

Files Secure, or FilesSecure, or Filesecure 2.1 is a counterfeit anti-spyware / anti-malware software. Files Secure usually come up after you installed a video codec that come with Trojan, malware and virus.

It is very important to remove all the components of of the Files Secure and all the malware and trojans that it might have come bundle with (such as zlob.trojan, trojan.vundo and Trojan.Downloader). To effectively remove Files Secure, we have created a manual removal instructions which is easy to understand.

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Manual Files Secure Removal Instructions:

Unregister Files Secure DLL Files:
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oggview.dll
mp3avi.dll
sysdivx.dll
windivx.dll
VideoMP3.dll
PowerVideo.dll
sysosa.dll
pandsf.dll
findsiteonline.dll
1200929024.dll

Stop Files Secure Processes:
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secure.exe
files-secure.exe

Find and Delete these Files Secure Files:
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secure.exe
files-secure.exe
Files Secure 2.1.lnk
secure.db1
secure.db2
secure.db3
secure.db4
secure.db5
mp3avi.dll
sysdivx.dll
windivx.dll
VideoMP3.dll
PowerVideo.dll
sysosa.dll
pandsf.dll
findsiteonline.dll
1200929024.dll

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HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Files Secure
F10587E9-0E47-4CBE-84AE-7DD20B8684CC
5792244C-2237-459B-8E84-FA78184843A8
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Despite Adobe’s positive-sounding statement yesterday, CEO Shantanu Narayen clarified that he meant Flash on the iPhone would require more than just the iPhone SDK to pull off successfully. Since Flash requires a very close relationship with Safari – something Apple is normally very hesitant to allow – Narayen says it would need to work closely with Apple to develop a satisfactory implementation of Flash for the iPhone, according to CNET.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs has panned both official releases of Flash: Flash Lite for mobile devices and its standard computer equivalent. According to Jobs, Flash Lite is too feature limited, while the standard Flash player is too robust for the multimedia device.

Read more here

Dell has announced that customers in the UK, France, and Germany can now purchase (PRODUCT) RED Dell PCs and help eliminate AIDS in Africa.

Those (PRODUCT) RED PCs come with Windows Vista Ultimate (PRODUCT) RED, including (RED)-inspired desktop wallpapers, a new DreamScene, a screensaver, and Sidebar Gadgets.

Remember, Dell and Windows will contribute $50 when you purchase either the Dell XPS M1530 or M1330 (PRODUCT) RED laptops to the Global Fund, to help eliminate AIDS in Africa. Dell and Windows will contribute $80 when you purchase a Dell XPS One (PRODUCT) RED PC to the Global Fund as well. $80 can buy 6 months of antiretroviral treatment for a single person living with AIDS in Africa. And $50 can buy 416 single dose treatments that help transmission of HIV from mother to baby. You can make a difference with your Dell and Windows (PRODUCT) RED PC purchase.