Its an exciting time to be an IT Pro.  With the launch of Windows 7 there are allot of opportunities over the next couple of weeks.  Starting today Microsoft is starting the 7 days of Windows 7 savings.  Check out the link below to see everything that is available.  Each day has a theme:

Thursday – Simplify My Life
Friday – More Media, More Places
Saturday – Power Gaming
Sunday – Work From Anywhere
Monday – Safeguard Your Work


7 Days of Windows 7 Savings Official Site

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/offers/7-days/

 

Quest Software has allot of great products on the market.  As a windows administrator we are always looking for great tools to help us troubleshoot problems quickly.  The FREE tool called spotlight on windows does a great job at finding the bottleneck on servers.  No matter what your experience level you have, this tool will help you.  The graphical interface gives you a quick snapshot of what the server is currently doing.  Some of the things it shows is network utilization, cpu utilization, physical memory utilization, and disk capacity.  If there is an issue the area will turn either orange or red depending on how bad the problem is.   Another nice feature is you can drill down into each individual area and get more information.  Each drill down area provides and explanation of exactly what you are looking at.  I do have to warn you that this tool can become addictive because of all the information it can provide in a quick snapshot.  You can download the program directly from the quest software site.  I strongly urge you to at least download and try it out.  I think you will learn quickly that this tool can make you look like genius.

Quest Software – Spotlight On Windows
http://www.quest.com/spotlight-on-windows/

 

I have posted about this software program once before but it still seems like there are allot of people that are not aware of it.  So hopefully I can convince a few more people to go out and try Avast.  It currently supports over thirty different languages so just anybody can find Avast useful.

It seems like I have been getting called by allot of family and friends lately that are having virus problems.  The first thing I usually do when I start working on their computer is trash their current program they are using for virus protection.  Avast Home Edition is a superior product and has helped in every situation I have had to resolve so far.  One of the greatest parts is that is is free to home users and I look like the hero because they just got their computer fixed for free.

Avast Home Edition is an ICSA certified antivirus  along with being certified anti-spyware and anti-rootkit program.  The home edition has on demand scanning, on access scanner, and a boot time scanner.  I think that the boot time scanner is probably one of the biggest features since this allows the program to do a deep dive of the system before dangerous virus and spyware programs get loaded into memory.

If you have a home PC I highly recommend trying this program over any other antivirus programs that are out there.   Please let me know your experiences with the program.

Avast Home Page:
http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html

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