26/03/2009 by Paul.

During some troubleshooting we noticed a process called JQS.exe which had read a huge 5gb of data since our server booted a only 5 hours ago.

Looking into this the service is called Java Quick Start and is to help speed up the starting of Java applications. For our servers this is not required and we wanted to disable this.

I found a guide on a site called - GHacks
For reference I have copied the steps incase the source blog isn’t available when I need them

if you want to disable the Java Quick Starter process you can do that in the Windows Control Panel. You find a Java entry there which will open the Java Control Panel.

A click on Advanced and the selection of Miscellaneous will display the activated Java Qucik Starter entry. Uncheck the box to disable the process. This will be visible in the Windows Task Manager immediately.

You can enable the process again in case you would like to use it at a later time.

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18/03/2009 by Paul.

A great find here An office 2007 Add-in that gives the user interface from the 2003 Office products.

Commercial users should make a payment to the company who created it - although this is not enforced.

http://www.ubit.ch/software/ubitmenu-languages/

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16/03/2009 by Paul.

The Remote Desktop Client in Windows 7 is equipped with new features and enhancements via Remote Desktop Protocol 7 (RDP). The most interesting enhancement is the support for Desktop Composition, full Aero glass effect.

Neowin Article

Video Link

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12/03/2009 by Paul.

The following article over at LifeHacker.com gives some great free tools for file recorvery.

Click Here to view the article

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