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Hey, we just released UAC Trust Shortcut 2.0 Update Checker now UACTS-fans can automatically check if UAC Trust Shortcut 2.0 has been released.

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File Wiper & Drive Cleaner: Easily Wipe Files, Folders and Hard Drives with Hardwipe

This is the manufacturers description of the software program:

Hardwipe is a free document shredder for your computer. It erases file contents and cleans unused hard-disk space to prevent personal and business information from ever being recovered.

You can easily wipe multiple items:

1. Select what folder to whipe.

2. Select overwriting scheme.

3. Click Start Wipe.

It will not wipe the files and the folder from the physical disk.

A log is also generated.

Download Hardwipe from the official website:
http://www.hardwipe.com/

Pindom Tools is an online web application that helps website owners easily analyze the load speed and performance of their website, and offers further, suggestions to improve the load and performance speed.

1. Type an address to any website (e.g. if your own website, if you own one).

2. Click Test now

Pindom will now analyze your webiste.

The Waterfall tab provides us with information about load time, and the size of images and other additional webpage files.

Performance Grade is also generated for your website.

Overall Page Analysis.

Finally, a very nice result box is generated with a thumbnail contaning a screenshot of your website.

 
Check it out: http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/

This is the manufacturers description of the software program:

AppTimer™ will run an executable a number of times and time how long it takes for the application to reach a state where user input is being accepted before exiting the application.

After each run of the application AppTimer™ will attempt to close the application in an automated fashion while logging the start up time measurements to a log file.

It’s main use is in benchmarking an application’s start up time. This can be useful when comparing the performance of different products on the same hardware, or comparing the performance of the same product on different hardware.

Using AppTimer™ will give far a more consistent and repeatable measurement than manual measurements with a stopwatch. Especially when the applications start up time is less than a couple of seconds.

The three choices that appear for the Windows Close Method are VM_Close (0×0010), WM_SYSCOMMAND (0×0112), and F4.

Download from the official website:
http://www.passmark.com/products/apptimer.htm

Hey folks, today I was on cinema and saw Real Steel the movie. I must say, GREAT MOVE!!! The best movie I’ve seen so far. Worth the money, if you haven’t seen it, you should definitely go and see it.

Here is the official trail:

For additional information see:
Real Steel (2011)  on IMDb

UAC Trust Shortcut 2.0 Application Trust Policy Editor

Hey, here are more updates about the UAC Trust Shortcut 2.0 program, as we are still working hard. However, for the past months we’ve been receiving e-mails from parents that want their children to have some rights, simply they want to skip the Over-The-Shoulder (OTS) User Account Control (UAC) elevation. By default Standard Users are required to have Administrator password in order for them to run software that requires administrator access token.

However, with the UAC Trust Shortcut 2.0 Application Trust Policy Editor (UACTS-ATPE) parents can create lists with software programs that each child can run from their account without administrator password or OTS-elevation by UAC.

The administrator can select any Standard User and click Edit to modify their list of programs. In the image below, Daisy Anderson is a teenager which uses the PC quite often. Daisy often plays games etc. So her mother has now to setup a list for her with games that Daisy plays, of course the games by default require administrator access token.

The UACTS-ATPE has a security mechanism that performs checks on Executable (*.exe) files, and applications and check if they are signed with a Digital Software Signature Certificate with valid Publisher.

We hope you folks like this; we are working hard to complete this software. Please post comments, and send us feedback, thanks!

Best,
The ITknowledge24.com & Fisnik Hasani

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Hey, we’ve been working on other tools for Windows 7. Many Windows Users complain about Windows Defender, and many have tried to manually uninstall it, but, it has been hard to remove the files completely. However, we at ITknowledge24.com make the impossible tools, possible.

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We are far from finished with this tool, it has been tested on two Windows 7 machines so far and works perfectly, no Windows Defender, bye-bye Windows Defender.

Please send some feedback, and post some comments, thanks!

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The ITknowledge24.com Team

How do I: Turn off Microsoft® Security Essentials?
1. Double-click the  Microsoft® Security Essentials icon.
2. Navigate to the Settings tab.

Easy tab navigation in Microsoft® Security Essentials.

3. From the left side panel, select Real-time protection.

Good settings category. Easy to select and
filter settings, in this case I wanted to focus on
the real-time protection settings.

4. From the right-side uncheck the Turn on real-time protection (recommended)
and click  Save changes.

Security note: If UAC is enabled, then you’ll get a UAC prompt on screen. Please specify
credentials or permission to pass the UAC elevation.

Just uncheck the Turn on real-time protection (recommended) checkbox and click Save
settings, very easy to turn off.

After clicking Save settings and passing a UAC prompt elevation, the MSE tray
icon will become red, and the entire software interface will change warning that
real-time it turned off (See image below).

MSE alert and warning that real-time protection is turned off, very easy to understand.

The SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED BSOD error occurs when the system calls the following function, PsCreateSystemThread(); – here is the description from the Windows Driver Development Kit (WDDK):

“The PsCreateSystemThread routine creates a system thread that executes in kernel mode and returns a handle for the thread.”

If you experienced such BSOD in Windows 8 Developer Preview, then this can be one of the causes, and this because it occurs in Kernel Mode (KMODE). However, according to Microsoft there is a KMODE bug check as well,

the KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED bug check has a value of 0x0000001E.

This indicates that a kernel-mode program generated an exception which the error handler did not catch.

The PspUnhandledExceptionInSystemThread is a pointer to a structure, which contains pointers to an exception statement, here is its C/C++ struct code:

typedef struct _EXCEPTION_POINTERS {

PEXCEPTION_RECORD ExceptionRecord;

PCONTEXT ContextRecord;

} EXCEPTION_POINTERS, *PEXCEPTION_POINTERS;

ULONG PspUnhandledExceptionInSystemThread(

IN PEXCEPTION_POINTERS ExceptionPointers

)

Further code analysis show that the functionality might look like this in code:

ExceptionPointers->ExceptionRecord->ExceptionCode,
ExceptionPointers->ExceptionRecord->ExceptionAddress,
ExceptionPointers->ExceptionRecord->ExceptionInformation[0],

 
For additional information see:
Bug Check 0x7E: SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED
PsCreateSystemThread routine
Bug Check 0x1E: KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED
k, kb, kc, kd, kp, kP, kv (Display Stack Backtrace)