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Rumors of upcoming Microsoft Windows 7 Service Pack 1 are now officially confirmed as the company posted details of Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, surprisingly Windows 7 SP1 will only include minor updates apart from an updated Remote Desktop client which now takes advantage of RemoteFX technology.

Microsoft however did not provided any release or beta timeline for SP1 and only said :

"Once SP1 for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 is released, the service pack will be delivered through Windows Update and be available on Microsoft Download Center for download as well."

Having regular backups is a must when we are dealing with valuable data - Hardware/software errors, data corruption or simple human mistakes are just few reasons that we are looking for to prevent data loss and protect the associated operational processes. Having up-to-date automated backups is the most proactive solution to the data-loss problem, today we are going to review one such utility 'Handy Backup' which takes care of this with ease and the good news is that we also have 25 licenses to giveaway for our readers.

Handy Backup is an easy-to-use automated backup software for Windows users, the award-winning data-backup and disaster recovery software is highly flexible and able to perfectly meet any individual requirements.

Quite a while ago Microsoft put a lid on third-party Windows update downloader AutoPatcher forcing them to shutdown, but it seems the utility is still available and now have been updated to support Microsoft Windows 7. For starters AutoPatcher let users and system administrators download updates once and apply them to as many computers they like without needing an active internet connection.

AutoPatcher works pretty much like WSUS Offline Updater utility but with the added benefit of adding custom modules enabling users to apply registry tweaks and third-party applications complete with official updates in a neat single package.

All popular blogging platforms and Content Management Systems (CMS) like Drupal, Wordpress and Joomla make extensive use of database back-end and having a fine-tuned database server is crucial to achieve optimal performance on these. As the saying goes "one size does not fit all" the default my.cnf which comes with MySQL server needs fixing as per your scripts requirements and hardware configuration, thankfully we do have free tools to get this done effectively and easily.

Today, I will be showing two scripts and a simple tip which will help us optimize our databases to achieve maximum performance - before proceeding do keep in mind that this is quite advanced as it requires editing database configuration files and working via shell access to linux root on your server.