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Finally Debian 7 is released.

 

 

Key features:

• multiarch
• support for Intel IA-32/x86 (i386), 64-bit PC / Intel EM64T / x86-64 (amd64), Motorola/IBM PowerPC (powerpc), Sun/Oracle SPARC (sparc), MIPS (mips ? mipsel), Intel Itanium (ia64), IBM S/390 (s390, s390x), ARM (armel, armhf).
• full LSB 4.1
• 37493 binary packages and 17500 source packages
• EXT4 is FS offered by default
• UEFI support (note that Secure Boot is NOT SUPPORTED yet)
• optional systemd support
• improved boot time (by enabled insserv)
• optimized compiler flags to prevent the memory overflow attacks
• GNOME 3.4, KDE 4.8.4, Xfce 4.8, LXDE with updated PCManFM,LXPanel and LXMusic
• X.Org 7.7, linux kernel 3.2 with backports from 3.4
• LibreOffice 3.5.4, Calligra 2.4, Iceweasel 10, Icedove 10, Pidgin 2.10.6, GIMP 2.8.2
• LOTS of improvements in installer.

 

 

I upgraded all my PCs and I can say that it is not worse that previous one. I Debian.

 

Links:

• What's new
• How to install
• Download links

 

I am happy to introduce my latest work to community. It is RegOwnershipEx:

RegOwnershipEx allows you to take ownership/get access to registry keys and jump to them directly. It has the following options:

• take ownership and provide full access to selected registry key.
• registry browser for easy registry key selection.
• favorites - for quick access to your favorite registry locations. It is shared with Favorites menu of Registry Editor.
• restore ownership feature allows you to restore the ownership and access rights that you have changed early. i.e. this is opposite action for "take ownership".
• registry jump feature - you can open the selected key in Registry Editor. It is very handy option when you read some tweaking related article and want to jump to the key mentioned in article.
• shortcuts for root keys - you may use HKCU instead of HKEY_CURRENT_USER, HKLM instead of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and so on.
• Multi language support - you will be able to translate application into your native language by simple ini file. Beginning with RegOwnershipEx, all Winaero apps will support such way of localization.

Currently the list of available translations looks like follows:

• English - created by Winaero
• Russian - created by Winaero
• Czech - created by Milan Benes
• Romanian - created by Adrian Putina
• Ukrainian - created by Dmitry Zikrach

In action:

 

RegOwnershipEx is available for Windows 8 and Windows 7, both x86 and x64 platforms are supported. You can use this app in Vista x86/x64 too, but you may need to install the .NET 3.5 framework.

RegOwnershipEx is free and portable application, as usual.

 

Download RegOwnershipEx

I just discovered the hidden parameter in Windows 8 which allows you to unlock this:


It is display off timeout which hidden by default. You can specify how many time the Lock screen will stay visible
Go here:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\PowerSettings\7516b95f-f776-4464-8c53-06167f40cc99\8EC4B3A5-6868-48c2-BE75-4F3044BE88A7

Change the "attributes" value from 1 to 2. That's it

Source/Download ready-to-use tweak

Enjoy

Theme Switcher is an application which allows you to change a Windows theme from the command line. It has GUI:

but it is primarily intended to be used with the command prompt or in a batch file where you want to automate the applying of a custom theme.
The syntax is as follows:

 

You can see how it works here:

 

This app will work with Windows 7 (Home Premium edition and above) and Windows 8 (all editions except RT).

Download Winaero Theme Switcher

 

 

This is an implementation of the idea that floated in my mind many time.

 
Deskthemepack Installer is a solution for Windows 7 users which allows to install Windows 8 themes with one click.
 
The user interface is very simple. The following options are available:

• Install a deskthemepack file - self explained. Click this option to browse for desktheme file and install it into Windows 7.
• Associate with *.deskthemepack files - installs an association for deskthemepack files in Windows 7. You will be able to apply Windows 8 theme just like regular theme pack of Windows 7.
• Remove *.deskthemepack associations - removes the association which was set with option mentioned above.

In action:


You can download Deskthemepack Installer for Windows 7 here