Working Efficiently in Windows: 5 Basic Shortcuts Most People Don’t Know
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Mirror, mirror what is the best FTP client of them all?
If you are tired of paying for FTP client like CuteFTP or WS_FTP Professional, but haven’t been able to find a good replacement, well, you obviously haven’t found FileZilla. It’s free, it’s open source and it’s great.
FileZilla is built on wxWidgets, which is my preferable choice for C++ Cross-platform toolkit, allowing it to be compiled on many operating systems. Ready made binaries are available for almost all the major platforms. On Windows, install is very easy, but this may vary on different platforms.
User interface is pretty intuitive. You can traverse the server and your computer without any problems, with mouse and keyboard as well. Site manager manages you FTP, FTPS, SFTP connections with ease.
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Detoxing a Windows Box: Getting Rid of Autorun Entries, Cleaning the System Tray
All software documentation should be written by Germans. Here is a thorougly Teutonic guide to detoxing a Window’s box. It could only be a friend’s home computer.
- no right minded developer would ever let his computer get to this state.
- no competent sysadmin would give employees the leeway to do this on the corporate network
Some good pointers and getting the invevitable Autorun out of there – which is something which will be useful for us at Foliovision:
Using Sysinternals’ AutoRuns tool I had a look at all the different places that can be used for running software on logon or boot, and apart from all the (presumably) tiny gadgets and widgets I also found a lot of the ubiquitous pre-loading parts of all sorts of common software: Adobe’s PDF Reader, Microsoft Office, something from iTunes and several others….
Nobody in their right minds would boot their machine in the morning and manually launch Acrobat Reader, all MS office apps and every application they might possible use that day just to have them ready. It is immediately apparent to even the novice user that this is probably not making the machine more responsive.
But this is – almost – exactly what happens with all the auto run entries: You just don’t see them on the screen immediately. So one thing I always do after installing any software is double-check whether it just registered some sort of auto run and if so remove it.
This is the result you are aiming for at the end:
Normally we do all this by hand, but I am going to try the Autoruns tool. It looks like a great way to speed up the cleaning process. Check Daniel’s article for how to detox an XP computer without formatting the drive. Frankly, I think if I was going to go to this much trouble I would just move the data off and format and then back. There are too many things that can go wrong if you don’t format the drive. But in these days of 500 GB standard hard drives, his tips willl become more valuable.
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