Windows Installer is an essential component for Windows Operating System, which lets users install, uninstall and maintain software programs. When you install a program, which use Windows Installer, the setup will create a directory (%SystemRoot%\Installer) and backup necessary files in that directory in order to repair, update or uninstall the program at a later time.

Google Chrome is my favorite browser now. It is fast, sleek and secure and can enhance our online experience further by installing applications from Chrome Web Store. Chrome has several built-in features to make it more usable and one among them is an option for running Chrome apps even after you have closed the browser.

Most people now know what private browsing mode is and all modern browsers now have private browsing mode option. In this mode, your browser won't keep any browsing history, search history, download history, web form history, cookies, or temporary internet files on your computer.

Has your friend recently received an email from you that you are sure you haven’t sent? Or has your bank recently sent a mail asking you to revert back with your credentials and password. If the answer is yes, then it means your email has been compromised. You should immediately change your passwords to your online accounts. Here is a web service to check whether your email has spoofed or not.

Spending long hours each day in front of a computer monitor may create eye related problems, such as eyestrain, blurred vision, delayed focusing, etc. However, how many of you adjust your computer screen brightness as per your room light? Because room light varies depending on day or night, and sunlight or cloudy, it may not be an easy task.

Even if you have a high-end system, you might have experienced Windows crashes, especially when running memory intensive applications simultaneously. Memory Optimizer Pro is an app that can help you increase your system’s performance and reduce crashes rate by optimizing your PC’s memory.

Microsoft Windows 8 has a new, intuitive Start screen called Metro UI. However, some users still like the old start menu of Windows. Previously we had published an article on enabling Windows 7 like start menu in Windows 8 developer preview, here is a new tool called Win Eight Metro UI Switcher that lets you switch between Metro UI and the Windows 7 styled Start menu in Windows 8 just with a click.

We have mentioned about many PDF creators in previous articles to help you convert any documents and images into PDF file. Here is another, very simple to use PDF convertor software, which can convert Microsoft Office documents (PowerPoint, Word or Excel) to high quality PDF file.

Chrome Tips is a Chrome extension designed to help users to get most out of Chrome. This extension will give handy tips while using the browser, so that users can understand how to use Chrome’s great features properly.

The developer preview version of Microsoft’s forthcoming operating system Windows 8 shows that it will have lot more advanced features and functionalities than the previous versions. Moreover, its UI has also slightly changed as compared to the earlier versions, for example logon screensaver and clock. If you like to have this Clock logon screensaver on your Windows 7, here is how it is.

Sometimes you cannot change your desktop wallpaper in Windows 7. For example, you see a black background even though you change your background picture. Another instance is, when you try to right-click a picture and then select ‘Set as desktop background’, you will get an error message “This image can't be set as wallpaper. An internal error occurred”, etc.

Keyboard shortcuts usually helps us speedup our work, however some shortcuts are difficult to remember and use. In Firefox, there are several keyboard shortcuts and you can customize each one for your own convenience. Here is a very simple add-on to close Firefox’s active tab by hitting ESC key.

Gmail Attachments To Docs is a time saving add-on for Google Chrome and as its name suggests, it will lets you save Gmail attachments (images, text, PDF, etc) directly to Google Doc – no need to download attachments and then upload them to Google Doc.

We had posted many articles related to PDF (portable document format) in previous articles. If you are working with PDF files, you may love it. Here is another free online tool called Neevia that allows you to perform some of the jobs related to PDF such as converts, merge, compress and resize without the need of installing special software.