Release 2010.08.28

As you can see, I updated the release number structure of the toolbox. I decided that it makes more sense to indicate year, month and day of when it was compiled. As many of you, I am using quite a few of the Sysinternals utilities. These utilities are very helpful and useful freeware tools programmed by Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell. The tools aim at Windows file, disk, networking, security and process tasks and are well known to a broad community. Unfortunately none of the tools comes with a setup routine, you need to extract the files yourself and create your icons and start menu entries manually. Sysinternals was acquired by Mircosoft in July, 2006.

I have collected my personal "most useful" selection of those utilities for Windows and created a setup routine so you can conveniently install them on your system. This package is now called "Sysinternals Toolbox" and can only be obtained here at Lewe.com (Downloads section). The single Sysinternals Tools included in the package are unaltered.

Note: The Sysinternals developers encourage you to visit their website to get all their tools there. Most of all, you will find many details and usage information for all utilities of which only a few are in this package.

Read the details to see what's updated in this package.

Cost: Free
Sysinternals Homesite: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/default.mspx

It's out there, and it's good. You just need to find it. Here is how easy it is...

I was always interested in free software - you long time visitors of Lewe.com know that already. And I mean "free software" and not only "free downloads". The palette of free software has quite grown over the last years. From Anti-Virus software, Firewalls and System Utilities to complete Office Suites - the variety of free applications for you PC seems endless. And best of all, most of the free tools can easily compete against their expensive brothers and sisters.

At Gizmo's TSA (Techsupportalert) an independent group of editors, all PC professionals, search, test and publish reviews of free software for the public. As on of these editors I am proud to say that meanwhile we maintain more than 150 categories of free software, all amazing products in their class. There is a lot of activity going on at TSA on a daily basis (e.g. Find of the Day). New editors have joined, the website is being streamlined in ontent and design and more features will be addedd soon. TSA should be your first Stop when looking for Freeware: http://www.techsupportalert.com

I just finished this little but helpful Windows Sidebar Gadget. It will read your local IP address, the IP address of your local IP gateway and will also contact a supporting script on Lewe.com to retrieve your Internet IP address. All three addresses are displayed in this little gadget. Three icons represent the three different addresses.

In the Options dialog you can chose from five different backgrounds and you can also change the font color of each of the addresses. You also have the option to us a custom script for retrieving the Internet IP address. However, you must provide it yourself on a host and also you must have an Internet connection for it to work. If you're not connected to the Internet but to a localLAN, only your local IP address and your IP gateway will be displayed.

Click on "Read more..." below to see a screenshot of the Options dialog. Download the Gadget file in the Downloads section.

I had the idea of an online version of Measure for quite a while now. I can finally present now the first release of my conversion tool right here on Lewe.com.

I hope that the simple and friendly design finds your liking. Also you can switch between English and German. Most of the unit names are linked to a corresponding page at Wikipedia where you may read more details about it.

Enjoy webMeasure: http://www.lewe.com/measure