You can disable auto update check in Adobe Photoshop products described as follows:
1. Launch the Adobe Application
2. Click on Help —>Updates
3. When Adobe Updater completes checking of updates click on Preferences
4. Now unselect “Automatically check for Adobe updates”
From now on that Adobe application will not check for the updates automatically.
When we upgrade Windows 7 from a 32 bit version to 64 bit version, there is a folder called Windows.old get created the drive which may take up a huge disk space. Here is how we can get rid of that:
This can also help:
Click Start-->All Programs-->Accessories-->right-click "Command Prompt", and then click Run as administrator. Run following 3 commands on command prompt
takeown /F c:\Windows.old\* /R /A
cacls c:\Windows.old\*.* /T /grant administrators:F
rmdir /S /Q c:\Windows.old\
This straightforward backup utility makes it a snap to safeguard and synchronize your files, and its freeware price just sweetens the deal. Surprisingly flexible for a free program, SyncBack can save your files anywhere: on external hard drives, in ZIP archives, on network drives, on CDs (using UDF), or transfer them via FTP. Recovering from a drive loss is also cinch, with a convenient restore tool that replicates folder trees along with the files in them.
It lets you define multiple scheduled backup jobs so you can just set 'em and forget 'em, allowing users to create specific backup jobs for certain folders or file types. You can control the way files are compared and selected for backup: the program comes with ready-made profiles to make the process as easy as possible. It's hard not to like that SyncBack doesn't use many system resources when working in the background, and backups can be set to export their logs to an HTML file for easy viewing. All in all, it's an excellent choice for home users and small businesses.
Download : http://download.cnet.com/SyncBack-Freeware/3000-2242_4-10413802.html
Remote Boot X application works in conjunction with WSUS, so if you have a WSUS server (or use Microsoft’s update server) but need precise control over when your computers install the updates and reboot, you can use my tool to handle the process. So, for example, I have about 150 servers that need to be updated and rebooted once per month, but I only have a 1-hour maintenance window. I’m able to load the list of 150 servers into my tool and initiate the updates installation and reboot on all machines simultaneously while monitoring the status in real-time.
Learn about Remote Boot X and download the application from: http://dougzuck.com/
I came across a nice website on Windows System Administration where you will find may useful and relevant articles, news , tips and tools. Have a look at the list of free Windows admin tools from the website:
