Sunday, October 21, 2018

Windows Sysinternals Suite of system information tools

Windows Sysinternals are a free set of utilities originally written by Mark Russinovich to display and diagnose system information for Microsoft Windows.  These include Autoruns, which shows you what programs are configured to run during system startup or login, and Process Explorer, which is more detailed than Windows Task Manager.  Disk2Vhd can be used to create virtual machines.

Recuva can recover deleted files from Windows PCs or memory card devices

Recuva is a program that can recover deleted files from Windows computers, external hard drives, and memory card devices such as USB flash drives, digital cameras, or MP3 players.   Piriform, the maker of the popular CCleaner Windows cleaning tool, also developed Recuva.

Recuva is available as a free download or as a paid full version.

Additional information regarding installing and using Recuva is available here.

Wednesday, October 3, 2018

Mozilla Monitor notifies you if your email address is part of a data breach

Mozilla announced the release of Monitor, a free tool that allows you to see if your email address was included in known data breaches. Privacy settings for Mozilla subscriptions are found here.

Mozilla Monitor was developed as a collaboration between Mozilla and security expert Troy Hunt of HaveIBeenPwned.com (HIBP).

This Mozilla security tool is available at monitor.firefox.com.


Microsoft Build online event starts June 2nd 2026

Microsoft will hold its annual technology Build event from June 2nd to 3rd, 2026.   Registration for the digital online event is free. Mor...