Here is another useful software from Windows Sysinternals. Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell have written a tool named Disk2vhd which is capable of creating Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) image of a PC which is currently running. The VHD image can be used with Microsoft Virtual PC or Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines (VMs).
Disk2vhd uses Windows’ Volume Snapshot capability, introduced in Windows XP, to create consistent point-in-time snapshots of the volumes you want to include in a conversion.
For more information about this tool, visit the Disk2vhd page at the Windows Sysinternals Website.
(via SoftPedia News)
The much awaited security suite from Microsoft, Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) is now available for public download. MSE provides real-time protection for your home PC that guards against viruses, spyware, and other malicious software.
Jump Lists, a new feature introduced in Windows 7, in which a list of destinations and common tasks associated with an application is attached to that application’s taskbar button. For example, if you right-click on the Notepad application button in the Taskbar, you’ll see the list of most recently opened text files. However, using the Jump Lists feature to add multiple applications in a single Taskbar icon (as a launch pad), is not possible natively. There is a program named Jumplist-Launcher which makes this task possible.
Default Programs Editor is a very useful tool which helps you to edit file type associations, add or remove AutoPlay handlers and static context menu entries. In Windows Vista and Windows 7, there is no option provided to add or edit context menu entries and static verbs (as in Windows XP’s "File Types" dialog.) Here is where the Default Programs Editor comes in handy.
Do you find it difficult to filter out images, Ads and other unwanted content from web pages (for printing)? You no longer have to manually edit Web pages to remove unwanted content before printing. Have a look at Printee for Internet Explorer. Printee is a Web Printing tool for Internet Explorer which lets you pick, edit and print web page only what you want. Using Printee you can remove images and backgrounds, selectively delete page elements such as advertising, navigation menus and other items, and also change the font, width and page layout style.
Many dialog boxes in Windows Vista include outdated (non-Vista) 
OK, you got the ISO of latest Windows 7 build from a friend. Before installing it, how do you make sure that the ISO was obtained from a trustworthy source and that it had not been tampered with? 
