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GUIPropView: extensive program window information
GUIPropView -- which stands for Graphical User Interface Properties View -- is a new program by Nirsoft that lists all open program windows and their properties in its interface.
While I cannot really say how useful it is to get access to the information dump in the program, it could be an eye opener for some users as the program may show open windows that are not really visible on the screen.
When I ran the program on a Windows 10 machine for instance, it highlighted that Photos, Store and Settings windows were open even though they were not visible at all on the screen.
Vivaldi 1.5: Delta updates, Philips Hue support
Vivaldi 1.5 is the newest version of the web browser based on Chromium code and developed by former Opera Software employees.
KeePass audit: no critical security vulnerabilities found
We reported back in June 2016 that KeePass, a popular password manager, was getting a security audit by the European Commission's EU Free and Open Source Software Auditing project (EU-FOSSA).
PhotoScan by Google Photos for Android
PhotoScan by Google Photos is a new Android application by Google to scan printed photos using your device's built-in camera.
PhotoScan is a new scanner app from Google Photos that lets you scan and save your favorite printed photos using your phone’s camera.
You have several options at hand if you want to turn your printed photos into digital copies. You could simply use the camera of the smartphone to photograph the photos for instance.
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Microsoft: don’t edit Linux files in Windows
Microsoft warned all Windows 10 users who have installed the Windows Subsystem for Linux recently that they should not modify Linux files on Windows using apps, tools, scripts or other means.
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Project Mercury: improve responsiveness in heavy load situations
Project Mercury is a tiny portable program for Microsoft Windows devices to improve the responsiveness in heavy load situations.
The application has been designed specifically for situations where you are running multiple programs on the system that use a lot of system resources.
Think of playing a computer game in fullscreen, running messaging apps in the background, a Torrent client, web browser with lots of tabs, or any other program that uses a good chunk of the system's resources.
Bing My Saves launches
Microsoft announced a couple of days ago that it added a new feature called My Saves to its Bing Search engine.
My Saves, as the name suggests already, lets you save certain types of content so that you can access these saves at a later point in time or on other devices.
The feature is linked to a Microsoft Account which means that you need to sign in before it becomes available on Bing.
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Thunderbird 45.5 email client released
A new version of the popular desktop email client Thunderbird has just been released. Thunderbird 45.5 fixes several issues but does not introduce new features.
The Thunderbird 45.5 release notes list six items of which two are marked as changed, and four as fixed.
The new release is a bug fix release mostly; it does not fix any security issues or introduce new features. In fact, it brings back the behavior of Thunderbird 24 for a feature.
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Sysmon 5 brings Registry modification logging
Sysmon 5 is the latest version of the popular monitoring program for Windows that writes activities to the Windows Event log.
Sysmon, which stands for System Monitor, is a background monitor. This means that it will do its work once installed without user interaction or graphical user interface.
In fact, all you have to do to install it is to run a short command from the command line to install the monitoring service.
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“Use Edge” campaign continues, disses Chrome and Firefox
Micrsoft's campaign to get Windows 10 users to give Microsoft Edge a try at least continues, this time stating that Edge is safer than the other two browsers.
First reported by Reddit user illCodeYouABrain, the new campaign tries to pursuade users on Microsoft's newest operating system Windows 10 that using Microsoft Edge is safer than other browsers.
TekBits News
- GUIPropView: extensive program window information
- Vivaldi 1.5: Delta updates, Philips Hue support
- KeePass audit: no critical security vulnerabilities found
- PhotoScan by Google Photos for Android
- Microsoft: don’t edit Linux files in Windows
- Project Mercury: improve responsiveness in heavy load situations
- Bing My Saves launches
- Thunderbird 45.5 email client released
- Sysmon 5 brings Registry modification logging
- “Use Edge” campaign continues, disses Chrome and Firefox
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