Prio – Process Priority Saver Software

Posted on March 25, 2009 by Marc Liron

As you may know, it is possible to assign a priority to an individual service running in Windows so that it will be given more of your systems resources.

This could be Windows Media Player or a 3rd party application such as Skype.

Why do this?

Well in the particular case of video playback, by giving an applications “process” a higher priority you can get a smoother playback on your PC.

Now you can do this manually in the Windows Task Manager by “right-clicking” thedesired process and then setting the priority you wish.

…the problem with this currently is that as soon as you close the application or resart Windows, Windows Task Manager does not remember the change and so returns to the default.

So wouldn’t it be great if you could make Windows remember those changes to the process priority?

…well with the Prio – Process Priority Saver software you can!

An added benefit is the additional SECURITY information this software adds to the standard Windows Task Manager utility.

Read more on the download page: http://www.prnwatch.com/prio.html

Enjoy!

Regards

Marc Liron – Microsoft MVP

Adobe Reader Security Update

Posted on March 24, 2009 by Marc Liron

CRITICAL vulnerabilities have been identified in Adobe Reader 9.0 and Acrobat 9.0 and earlier versions.

These vulnerabilities would cause the application to crash and could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. There are reports that one of these issues is being exploited!

# Adobe recommends users of Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.0 update to Adobe Reader 9.1 and Acrobat 9.1.

# Adobe recommends users of Acrobat 8 update to Acrobat 8.1.4, and users of Acrobat 7 update to Acrobat 7.1.1.

For Adobe Reader users who can’t update to Adobe Reader 9.1, Adobe has provided the Adobe Reader 8.1.4 and Adobe Reader 7.1.1 updates.

Users who have previously updated to Adobe Reader 9.1 and Acrobat 9.1 for Windows and Macintosh need not take any action.

As of March 24, Adobe has also made available the Adobe Reader 9.1 and Adobe Reader 8.1.4 updates for Unix.

Adobe recommends Adobe Reader users update to Adobe Reader 9.1, available here:

http://get.adobe.com/reader/

Users with Adobe Reader 7.0 through 8.1.3, who can’t update to Adobe Reader 9.1, should update to Adobe Reader 8.1.4 or Adobe Reader 7.1.1, available from one of the following links:

http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=10&platform=Windows

http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=10&platform=Macintosh

http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=10&platform=Unix

If have NOT done so already then upgrade NOW!

Regards

Marc Liron – Microsoft MVP
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Internet Explorer 8 – Indepth Video

Posted on March 20, 2009 by Marc Liron

In this in-depth video James Pratt – Internet Explorer Senior Product Manager talks about/demonstrates the new version of Internet Explorer released today.

This video will reveal some surprises!

What’s new for IE8:

# Full CSS 2.1 support
# Accelerators
# Web Slices
# Instant Search
# Enhanced Find on Page
# InPrivate browsing
# SmartScreen Filter (an enhanced Phishing Filter)
# Compatibility View
# Smart Address Bar
# Tab Groups
# DOM and HTML 4.01 improvements
# and More…

For more details on Internet Explorer 8 read:

- Internet Explorer 8 – Download

- Internet Explorer 8 – Tour

- Internet Explorer 8 – Features

[flv]http://s3.amazonaws.com:80/blogmarclironvideos/ie8.flv[/flv]

Credit to: Microsoft Channel 10

Regards

Marc Liron – Microsoft MVP