Friday, August 06, 2010

System Update Readiness Tool (CheckSur)

"System resources, such as file data, registry data, and even in-memory data, can develop inconsistencies during the lifetime of the operating system. These inconsistencies might be caused by various hardware failures or might be caused by software issues. In some cases, these inconsistencies can affect the Windows servicing store, and they can cause software updates not to work. The System Update Readiness Tool tries to resolve these inconsistencies."

For Vista, Server 2K8, and Windows 7.

This has been helpful in the past for failing installations of .NET and related patches. Takes quite a while to run.

Wednesday, August 04, 2010

OutlookTempCleaner

OutlookTempCleaner is a support tool for Microsoft Office Outlook. It gives you easy access to the Temp folder that Outlook uses to open attachments. It further allows you to automate maintenance to it via Windows's Scheduled Tasks.

Main Program Features

  • Easy access to Outlook's SecureTempFolder used for opening attachments
  • Determination of the current size of the folder
  • Empty the folder
  • Command line options to perform maintenance to the folder via for instance Scheduled Tasks and logon/logoff scripts