Saturday, January 16, 2010
Uninstall Any Version of Nero with the Nero General CleanTool
Facing any problem while uninstalling Nero 9 from your computer?In some cases it can occur that you have to uninstall Nero or Nero related software ,there is an error that terminates the process without completely removing the application from your computer. Usually when this occurs, you can no longer remove the program from Add / Remove Windows programs.If this occurred , you can use the free tool Nero General CleanTool to completely remove all of your computer components and entries for Nero product that you tried to uninstall.
1. Download the Nero General CleanTool , save this file to your desktop.
2. Unzip the ZIP-file with WinZip or WinRAR and save the content to your hard drive.
3. Double-click on the unzipped EXE-file to start the CleanTool. The window “Nero General CleanTool” will open. The Nero products installed will be displayed.
4. Check the boxes of products you wish to remove and click "Clean".
5. Click "Exit" so cleaning is completed and restart your computer.
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Recycle Bin for Your Flash Drive - iBin
In windows , when you accidently delete an item, you have a second chance to recover it from Recycle bin.So it is a safeguard in your PC, but what it happens in a Flash drive?In that case you need a recovery software.But fortunately here is a portable application called iBin with which you can create a portable recycle bin.It run in the background in the system tray detect when you try to delete a file from your flash drive.
From the context menu iBin in the system tray you can open the trash iBin, empty it and restore the last file sent to the trash.Whenever you try to delete an item on your flash drive , a window will pop up asking if you really want to erase it, or if you want to dump it into your iBin.To restore the files sent to the trash, use the Dumping Management.In "Custom Options".
You can change the size used by the trash iBin, enabling the use of shortcut keys, set up automatic cleaning of the trash iBin, cause the iBin start automatically when the device is plugged into the compute etc.By right-clicking the iBin icon in your Windows system tray to undo the last dumping, clean the bin, or open up the Dumping Management window where you can clear or recover selected items.
Easily Check for Dead Pixels on LCD Monitors With InjuredPixels
InjuredPixels allows you to easily check for defective (hot, dead or stuck) pixels on LCD monitors. InjuredPixels can be used to test a new LCD monitor before purchasing, or an already purchased monitor during the warranty period (as you may get a replacement according to the manufacturer's dead pixel policy).
InjuredPixels fills the entire screen with a primary or custom color, allowing you to inspect the screen for pixels that do not match the selected color. The program is easy to use: click or use the arrow keys to cycle through colors or right-click to get the menu with the main commands.
There is no need to install this utility,just download and run directly.
Monday, January 4, 2010
Change Your Twitter Background and Profile Icon Automatically
Do you like to change the Twitter background or profile icon automatically?Here is a free utility called TwiBack, with which you can automatically change the Twitter background and profile image at predefined time set by you.You can upload your photos, icons, avatars, patterns, designs, background wallpapers, even advertisements and they will change automatically on Twitter´s background.
Features
- You can set the Twitter background or icon for your birthday date
- Upload your photos to Twiback and they will load automatically!You don’t need to waste time on it anymore.
- You can set the Twitter background for season wise — it’ll appear when the next season starts. Automatically.
- You can use your Twitter background space for advertisements!
- If you have a company Upload and promote your products on the background.
You can set the time zone and then choose whether your background should change daily/ weekly/ monthly and finally select the time. You have to save the settings, select the wallpapers and profile images accordingly.
Tweak Your Internet Explorer with IE Tweaker
IE Tweaker is a freeware tool,which will help you to tweak Internet Explorer.This utility that can help you fix several Internet Explorer issues and you can optimize your browsing experience.It has a great number of fixes/tweaks ( more than 90) that will help you to enable/disable any options with ease and without getting in to registry. IE Tweaker will be a great utility for those, who don’t want to play with the Windows registry.
Features
- Browsing Options:
· Allows you to disable/ enable Smooth Scrolling, Clear type font, Animation, Sounds, Picture Display, Automatic Image resizing - Clear Junk Files:
· This option will help you to quickly remove all the temporary IE files, cookies, history, passwords, and AutoComplete data. - Tweak IE:
· The Basic Tweaks tab offers you the basic tweaks such as Turn off/on Menu bar, Favorite bar, Tabbed browsing, Full screen mode, Caret Browsing support etc., · The Browser Menus window allows you to disable/enable the Browser Menus · The Toolbars tab helps you hide/unhide the various options on the bars and also the bars itself such as Status bar, command bar etc · The Control Panel window helps you hide/unhide the various tabs in Tools –> Internet Options. · The Advanced tab helps you to Turn off/on various options such as Compatibility view etc., and also allows you to change the IE Title, and Default download directory options. - Restrictions:
· The Restrictions tab provides you various restriction options such as Changing default search provider, Add-ons management, Auto complete features etc., · The Settings tab restricts the users to change various settings. · The Security window allows you to enable/disable options such as InPrivate Browsing, Filtering etc., - Repair:
· The Repair menu option provides you various options to repair/fix various issues that you have with Internet Explorer.
IE Tweaker | 152KB | Req:IE 8 & IE 7 & 32/64 -bit Windows 2000, XP, Vista, Win 7 | .NET Framework 3
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
O&O Defrag 10 Professional Edition Free
One of the main reason for slowing down your PC drastically is Fragmentation.Defragmentation rearranges the individual data fragments and writes them contiguously on the hard disk. This is really the only way for your computer to regain its original power and performance.So O&O Defrag is the perfect remedy for fragmentation.All your system's files will be sorted according to their level of use, and each one will be separated into its own section of the hard disk . O&O Defrag gives you fully automatic defragmentation for the home user as well as expert-level professional setting options
Features
- Fully compatible with Microsoft Windows Xp,Vista
- Zone filing for optimal organization of files
- Three additional defragmentation methods
- Improved: even better at eliminating high levels of fragmentation
- Background monitoring: your system is constantly kept at its peak
- Screen Saver Mode: optimizes your PC whenever it’s not being used
- O&O OneClickDefrag for fully automatic configuration
- Job Assistant for scheduling defragmentation
Here is an opportunity to grab O&O Defrag 10 Professional which costs $50 for a single computer license.
Visit this page and enter full details and you will soon receive License number in Email Inbox. Download O&O Defrag 10 Professional Edition and install.Make it full version by providing registration license serial number.
Sunday, December 27, 2009
HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool - v2.1.8
HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool will format any USB flash drive, with your choice of FAT, FAT32, or NTFS partition types.Additionally, the drive can be made bootable by using system files from Windows 98 startup-disks.
By default on USB flash file system of FAT32, because of what files measuring more than 2 Gb writing down is not possible. By the program HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool it is possible to change the file system of your flash on NTFS.It has a graphical interface very similar to that of the Windows format tool.
Features
- Allows creation of a FAT32 volume larger than 32 GB.
- Fixes installation issue where installation process stopped after the earlier version of software was uninstalled and the new software was not automatically installed. The installation process now restarts automatically to install the new software after uninstalling the older version
Monday, December 21, 2009
Repair Broken AVI Video Files with Fix Player
Many occasions AVI video files downloaded from Internet or torrent sites are not perfect and complete.Sometimes the video files copied from CD / DVD can't be played.This may due the file have not completely copied from CD, DVD Or files may corrupted.As a result Windows Media Player or other video player won't play such AVI video files.
Fix Player is a simple and useful free AVI player which helps you to repair and to watch such corrupted AVI video files on your PC
You can repair your AVI file in these cases:
- Video file have not totally copied from CD, DVD or other source
- Video freezing
- Video can't be played
Key Features
- Detect the bad data
- Repair the index of AVI file
- Support the Standard AVI file format (Microsoft Video for Windows)
- Repair local avi file
- Preview remote file
- Repair avi file from CD or DVD disk The license of this video & dvd software is Freeware, you can free download and free use this Video & DVD software
DivFix is another utility which fixes broken DivXs, AVIs, XviDs. DivXFix, AVIFix, XviDFix . With this tool you can reconstruct the damaged videos. DivFix lets you to view videos before they have completely downloaded, giving you the possibility of verifying their quality.
Google DNS Helper for Faster Internet
Recently Google announced a new service – Google Public DNS .Google Public DNS Service replaces your ISP’s default DNS which which boosts up your browsing speed and offers more reliable internet experience.
By using Google Public DNS you can:
- Speed up your browsing experience.
- Improve your security.
- Get the results you expect with absolutely no redirection.
How to configure Google Public DNS :Check here
However with Google DNS Helper a small tool , you can do the whole process more simple.Google DNS Helper will backup your current DNS address and then switch it to Google Public DNS for a faster, safer, more reliable internet experience. You can restore your old DNS anytime you want.
The Google Public DNS IP addresses are as follows:
8.8.8.8
8.8.4.4
Thursday, December 17, 2009
KeyFinder Thing 3.1.6
When your PC is so full of trash then only a Windows re-installation can help. Since you have installed a lot of applications on the computer over the course of time, an overview including all license numbers would be very helpful. The tool ‘KeyFinder Thing’ is what you are looking for.The tool shows a selection of all important programs with the relevant license numbers.
Right-click on the icon of an application whose license number you require. Using the command “Copy Key” from the context menu, copy the license number to the clipboard. Through “File | Export Keys | Text File” and “File | Export Keys | HTML”, you can write data in a text or HTML file. Important to know: KeyFinder Thing stores only the program names with their license keys in the text file, while the application adds more information when you export it as an HTML file. If you are unable to find the required license number on the main window of the tool, go to “Tools | Search”, to list further programs. In the results list of this search, you can mark the required entries, by setting a checkmark in front of the relevant entry
Note : KeyFinder Thing does not find all license numbers on your system.The tool tracks the license number of around 90 90 supported software titles and displays product names and icons in the result window.
OS:Win NT/2000/XP | 196 KB |Freeware | Download
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Repair Your Windows problems with FixWin Utility
Many occasions you may have issues in your PC like unable to recognize the CD/ DVD drive,Recycle bin suddenly disappeared from the desktop and Task Manager & Registry Editor disabled issues .FixWin is a freeware portable application for Windows 7 & Vista to repair and fix such Windows annoyances & issues.It is suitable for 32/64 bit versions of Vista & Win7.
The solutions to repair and fix 50 common Windows annoyances, issues & problems have been categorized under 5 tabs, viz : Windows Explorer, Internet & Connectivity, Windows Media, System Tools & Misc Additional Fixes.
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
How to install Multiple Programs at Once
If you have formatted your PC or upgraded it from Windows XP /Vista to Windows 7, you need to re-install all applications.It is a tedious work for you to reinstall everything once again.How to install all programs at once with no or minimal human interference?
AllMyApps is a web service that lets you to install multiple applications at once.It is completely free and secure to use.You have to register first with the site to use its services for free, then install AllMyApps installer to install applications.You can add programs you want to the list and click on install button when ready.
You can also add other applications like media players, instant messengers, runtimes, torrents, developer tools, utilities and more from AllMyApps's huge collection .All programs available in this site are 100% legal to use.With Allmyapps, installing software applications has become so easy that you'll soon find yourself installing a lot of great new applications
Features
- Build and save list of software’s to install in a single setup.
- Huge collection of popular free and shareware applications.
- Applications for both Linux and Windows.
- Free web-based service .
- Applications listed by categories or alphabetically
If you had any difficulty using the AllMyApps, try the Ninite
Friday, November 27, 2009
Protects Your Open Programs With LockThis!
LockThis! is a small tool which makes it possible to password protect almost any programs or documents that's currently open / running. This tool is perfect for people who often lend their PC to others, because with this tool they can keep the content of some programs or documents from other people eyes without need to close them first.
LockThis! is simple to use.To lock an application, just press Ctrl while minimizing the window that you want protected.You have to provide the Admin Password (The default password for the admin panel is "LockThis!".).You can use your admin password for all protected programs .The window can not be Restored or maximized without supplying the correct password.If the correct password is not supplied, the restore or maximize request is simply ignored and the window stays minimized.
LockThis!Thursday, November 26, 2009
Keep Your Applications Updated with Seven Update
Software developers usually release their new versions after improving its features, GUI, removing some bugs or security weaknesses in earlier versions or for some other reasons.So with every update a software becomes more secure and more stable.Some software will have automatic updates,but many don't have.It is very difficult to keep all the software on your computer updated to the latest versions.Also you might find it difficult and time-consuming if you have many programs installed.That's where Seven Update is useful.
Seven Update is an open source update platform for windows. It allows an easy way to keep your software updated. It offers automatic update notification and installation.It also provides end users with a clean and intuitive interface, and also provides a user-friendly way to easily update their applications.
Features
- Provides automatic updates for software
- Full update history
- Application Repository - a list of applications that can be updated with Seven Update
- Add an application to Seven Update by clicking a link on a web site
- Automatic search and download of updates (depending on settings)
- Hide & restore updates
- Intuitive user interface
- Hash verification, no corrupt files!
- Displays download counts and sizes.
- Informative progress, know exactly what Seven Update is doing.
SevenUpdate32-bit |5.3 MB SevenUpdate64-bit |3.7MB|OS:Windows NT / 2K / XP / 2003 / Vista / XP X64 / Vista64 / 7|Open source
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Sunday, November 22, 2009
Analyzes Your Disk Usage With Xinorbis
Xinorbis is an easy to use disk analysis tool that lets you analyze the content and distribution of space on your hard drive to the last detail, analyzing the whole unit or a single directory that you tell yourself.
It gives quick and easy to interpret results. It generates a large range of graphs and tables, allowing you to see where and how your disk space is used.Results can be saved with the Report function and compared to future scans.With this tool you can check which directories take up more MB, how space is distributed between system, software, music, graphics and more; empty file list, how many files there are of each type and more
Features
- Analyse a single drive, folder or merge several together in one report
- Vview the results by file type, attributes, size, user (owner) and date
- The Folder History feature allows you to compare the contents of a folder or drive at times and dates
- In-bullt powerful search engine (+ save results to a file or clipboard)
- Find duplicate files (by name and size)
- Complex report generation (with many user customizations) with export to HTML, ASCII, CSV or XML
- Save reports and tables for later comparison or for inclusion in other documents
- Shell support, scan a directory through Windows Explorer
SysReq:Win 9x/ME/2K/NT/XP/Vista | 4.02MB | 
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Process Monitor 2.8
Process Monitor is an advanced system monitoring tool that enables you to monitor file system, Registry and process/thread activity in real-time.The pop-up is also available as the toolbar Event menu and Other pull-down menus manipulate the great amount of information . A button bar offers single-click icons for the most used commands. Three commonly used filters appear on the bar to show Registry Activity, File System Activity, or Process and Thread Activity.The captured activity can be viewed in real-time and also saved and exported to file.
Features
- More data captured for operation input and output parameters
- Non-destructive filters allow you to set filters without losing data
- Reliable capture of process details, including image path, command line, user and session ID
- Configurable and moveable columns for any event property
- Filters can be set for any data field, including fields not configured as columns
- Advanced logging architecture scales to tens of millions of captured events and gigabytes of log data
- Process tree tool shows relationship of all processes referenced in a trace
- Native log format preserves all data for loading in a different Process Monitor instance
- Process tooltip for easy viewing of process image information
- Detail tooltip allows convenient access to formatted data that doesn't fit in the column
- Boot time logging of all operations
Process Monitor a core utility in your system troubleshooting and malware hunting toolkit.You can save event logs in a native Process Monitor format or to a comma-separated value (CSV) format file that can include all the event captures, only those events that meet the current filter, or selected events. Events saved in the native Process Monitor format can be read back into the utility at a later time.
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Schedule windows shutdown With ShutDown After
Earlier I had posted a freeware, Mortens ShutDown: which help you to shut down a computer at a specific date and time.Here is another free tool - ShutDown After, with which you can set timer or assign hotkeys for windows shutdown, restart, log off, hibernate, stand by. It can prove very helpful in situations, when you want your computer to get shutdown, restart, log off, hibernate, stand by after completion of some task or you want to perform shutdown operations by just key press.
Features
ShutDown After can be used in cases like if you want computer to shutdown after some operation and you know an estimate time, schedule it to shutdown after that time, it will work great. On a regular basis instead of first going to Start then Shutdown and then again ok, you can simply press ctrl+alt+s to shutdown your computer
ShutDownOne also allows you to perform remote shutdowns for machines on the network and supports command line operation, as well as creation of batch files for any selected action.
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Thursday, November 12, 2009
Fix MSE,IE&WU
You may have experience when you try to update Windows it refuses to do so. The update does not start at the scheduled time of which you have set it to update, and when you do it manually, all you get is the green progress bar going across the time and time again.Sometimes Update History still says they were successfully installed, but if you go into View installed Updates, they are not there .
When you click a hyperlink in an e-mail message or on a Web page, or right-click a hyperlink on a Web page and then click Open in New Window, you may experience one or more of the following issues:
- Nothing happens
- The new window may be blank
- You may receive a scripting error message
- When you use the Print command or the Print Preview command in Internet Explorer, nothing may happen.
- When you try to connect to Web folders, you may receive the following error message: "The current operation could not be completed because an unexpected error has occurred."
- Internet Options Advanced tab is completely blank.
- Internet Explorer About box version information is completely blank.
- Address bar search does not work.
- Unable to type in text boxes in a search engine or website
Recently Windows Club released 3 portable utilities for fixing Windows updates, Internet Explorer and Microsoft Security Essentials errors.
1.Fix WU Utility v1.0
Automatic Updates feature of Windows 7 and Windows Vista stops working due to the Registry clashes or missing DLLs.In case anytime, you find that you are facing any issues in running Microsoft Updates or Windows Updates due to any reasons, run this utility. This utility will re-register a total of 114 .dll, ocx and .ax files which are required for the proper functioning of Windows Updates.On completion, you will see a dialog box: The process completed successfully.
Fix WU Utility | OS:Windows 7 (x86 and x64) ,Windows Vista (x86 and x64)
2.IEFix
It is a general purpose fix utility , which repairs Internet Explorer using IE.INF method and also fixes the application path setting.It also registers the core Internet Explorer libraries properly.
When you run IEFix you'll be prompted for the Operating System CD or the Service Pack Files location.If you're using Windows XP, insert the Operating System CD. For OEM systems, point to the Operating System source path when prompted. If you've applied a Service Pack separately, you need to insert the Slipstreamed Operating System CD (if you have one) or point the installer to the ServicePack source path when prompted Mention the path as "C:\Windows\ServicePackFiles\i386" or "C:\Windows\ServicePackFiles
If you don't have the Windows installation CD, and if the installation source files are not present in the hard disk, you may click Cancel . IEFix will continue with DLL registration part.You have to restart the system.
IEFix |OS:Windows 98/ME/2000/XP
3.Fix MSE Utility
This is a portable freeware utility to reset all the Registry and other settings of Microsoft Security Essentials to default value.
When you are facing any issues in running Microsoft Security Essentials due to any reasons, simply run this utility. This utility will restore all its registry values & service settings to known good defaults, without re-installing MSE. It also re-registers the concerned .dll and .exe files, required to run MSE properly. The utility may take only a moment to run, but rest assured, it does the job! It works on both 32bit and 64bit of Windows Operating Systems
Fix MSE Utility | SysReq: Microsoft .Net Framework 2.0,Microsoft Security Essentials 1.0|OS:Windows 7,Windows Vista,Windows XP
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Extend Your PrintScreen Functionality With PrintScreen.Me
PrintScreen.Me is a freeware screen capture software that provides direct links to social network sites and image hosting sites. You may also send your screen grabs to PrintScreen.Me website where you can share your images, for example on your blog. You can use PrintScreen.Me as a traditional screen capture software and save the images locally, print or email
PrintScreen.Me provides basic drawing and mark-up tools, so that you can modify the screenshot without having to go to another image editor.Taking a screenshot with PrintScreen.Me is very easy. Once the capture software is installed, just press the Print Screen key on your keyboard and a tool-bar will appear.
The screen will shade out some areas leaving the active window shown, but you can change the selection by using the selection tool.Use the drawing tools to mark up and annotate your capture. Once you have finished you can save, print or email the image.PrintScreen.Me provides direct links to Facebook, Twitter, Picasa and Flickr.
Download | Windows XP / Vista / XP X64 / Vista64 / 7| 971 KB |Freeware
SoftPerfect Network Scanner 4.4
The Ping command is one of the most commonly used utilities on the Internet by people for conducting the most basic network test: can your computer reach another computer on the network, and if so how long does it take? It sends request to networked computer and waits for response. It’s easy to ping single PC but not so in the case when you ping dozens or hundreds of them.Network scanners are the same ping command deep inside, which are equipped with graphical interface made for targeting and displaying responses of multiply computers in one sweep.
SoftPerfect Network Scanner is a free multi-threaded IP, NetBIOS and SNMP scanner with a modern interface and several advanced features. It is intended for both system administrators and general users interested in computer security. The program pings computers, scans for listening TCP ports and displays which types of resources are shared on the network (including system and hidden).
In addition, it allows you to mount shared folders as network drives, browse them using Windows Explorer, filter the results list and more. SoftPerfect Network Scanner can also check for a user-defined port and report back if one is open. It can also resolve host names and auto-detect your local and external IP range. It supports remote shutdown and Wake-On-LAN
Features
