Happy Spyware, Adware and 'Scumware' free computing!

Microsoft AntiSpyware to the rescue!

Desperate about the fact some pesky little coder working for a company without any ethics is now deciding what showed up on your screen? Start putting Google to better uses and hunt down a really nice spyware removal that hunts down these exasperating little pieces of scum filled software running on your machine!

While hijackthis seems to help it just doesn’t seem powerful enough. All it seemed to do is grab a set of predetermined registry entries and file locations and show them to you and allow you to delete them at your own risk. But the scumware is definitely more stubborn and tends to come back!

But after stumbling across Microsoft AntiSpyware things can be pretty much interesting!

What is really exciting about this tool (other than the fact that it does a particularly good job at removing scum off your machine!) is that it has some really neat stuff for the power user too! A bunch of explorers to controls startups, currently excuting programs and application and ie hooks and plugins!

Do yourself a favor, Visit the Microsoft AntiSpyware Website. Download the beta and make hay while the sun shines – this tool is just free for a limited time and after you've used it for the free period you might start liking it and think of shelling out a few bucks to have it!

Happy Spyware, Adware and 'Scumware' free computing!

talk about customizations!

The word Customization has a whole new meaning when it comes to Microsoft Windows XP (and of course all versions that follow). There are companies who are making a living just by ‘customizing’ your desktop!!! A Couple of hours, few bucks (of course that depends on the 'level' of customization you want) and the yearning (desperate?) desire to be ‘different’ from the rest of the windows using crowd (not to mention manual registry tweaks for system icon customization on desktop) and here’s a picture of how the desktop looks! And can you believe this is plain old windows that we all have on our desktops!?

Orca For Customizing Msi Files.

For all those of you who want to customize Msi files using Orca and cutomize their generated Msi's (e.g. do things like change the default option on installer ui to install for “everyone” rather than just “me”) – Microsoft doesn’t seem to have an installer for orca which you can easily download and install. However, here’s a version I found on someone’s site which allows you to get up and running with Microsoft Orca without having to download a gazillion other service packs and updates!
You can download an easy to download and install version of Microsoft Orca (which of course might / might not be the latest) Right Here!

Personal little .NET knowledgebase

This blog is meant to be a tiny little repository of 'lessons learnt' and other "stuff" that pertains to development on Microsoft .NET platforms. Of Course, it'll also contain anything else that looks or sounds interesting, even if it's not directly .net related!