Applications Archives • Helge Klein

Standard Notes: a Note-Taking App with Client-Side Encryption

Note-taking is one of those topics that appear to have been solved long ago, yet offer plenty of opportunity for new contestants. There are multiple reasons for that, but for me the number one is encryption. The major players, Microsoft OneNote, Evernote, and Google Keep, store your thoughts and ideas in plain text on any […]

Monitoring any Application’s Startup Duration with uberAgent 1.6

Application startup duration is an essential component of user experience. If you want to make sure that UX on your Windows machines is acceptable you need to monitor the time it takes for applications to start up. That, however, is not exactly easy – without uberAgent for Splunk.

Application Usage Metering with uberAgent for Splunk

uberAgent has been pretty good at monitoring applications for some time. It is capable of auto-grouping processes to applications and showing IOPS and other stats per application in addition to per process. All this gets even better today: beta 2, available now, adds application usage metering to the feature list.

Do Shadow Keys Still Work in Server 2008 R2?

Shadow keys have been around forever, since way before Terminal Services were renamed to Remote Desktop Services (does anybody use that name?). It seemed they would stay in the OS forever, too. Yet, when installing applications on Server 2008 R2 many people notice that the shadow key area does not get populated. Let us find […]

How to List All Installed Applications From the Command Line

This article describes how to list all installed MSI packages. A more comprehensive listing of all applications displayed in Programs and Features can be obtained through our monitoring and analytics product uberAgent. How to easily create a list of all programs and (MSI) packages installed on a system for later processing? That sounds like a […]

Eating Microsoft's Dog Food – A Self-Experiment With Windows 7, Part 3: Usage

In the previous article of this mini-series I described how to install Windows 7 x64 beta 1 into a virtual hard disk (VHD) file. In this post I will share some thoughts on what using Windows 7 x64 actually feels like.

Tag: Applications

Standard Notes: a Note-Taking App with Client-Side Encryption

Monitoring any Application’s Startup Duration with uberAgent 1.6

Application Usage Metering with uberAgent for Splunk

Do Shadow Keys Still Work in Server 2008 R2?

How to List All Installed Applications From the Command Line

Eating Microsoft's Dog Food – A Self-Experiment With Windows 7, Part 3: Usage