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TransApp is a freeware program that lets you enhance your Windows XP operating system by giving transparency to almost every visible window of your running applications (applications that appears on the taskbar). You can also make your Windows XP taskbar transparent at a desirable level. Usage of this program is simple. Download (1.3Mb) and install the program. Run it and select an application that you are currently running (for example My Computer) from the program’s window. Adjust the desired transparency level from 0 to 90%. Remember to refresh the application list when you running another program. Similarly, you can also set the taskbar transparency level from 0 to 90% by clicking on taskbar icon from the program

Want to give a new visual style to your Windows XP? Seven Transformation Pack (formerly Vista transformation pack) will convert your Windows XP based system to look like Windows 7 and some of its features emulated. You don’t have need any 3rd-party applications to get Windows 7 UI experiences. This Seven transformation pack will simply make it done for you for free. 7TP (Seven transformation pack) will transform your entire user interface, including a 7-themed Boot Screen, Welcome Screen, and Visual Style, as well as new icons, wallpapers, and more. You can download 7TP (20Mb)and view screen shots from here or here .

Just like cloud computing Panda security has released a cloud antivirus program that available for free download now. Basically cloud computing is a ‘platform’ designed to offer users access to computing applications on any internet connected device from anywhere in the world which drastically reduces the processing power and increases the productivity. Panda Security uses a security platform called 'Collective Intelligence' in this ‘Cloud Antivirus’ that offers high-level protection in real time, and reduces your system resources. As it is based on internet platform, Cloud Antivirus does not need a system updates like a traditional antivirus. Collective Intelligence servers contain and maintain up-to-date all information needed to detect and neutralize all threats. That means your computer must be connected to the Internet during the scans. Cloud Antivirus is the lightest and fastest antivirus service. Scanning speed is also remarkable. According to Panda Security, because ...

No matter how many layers of protection you set up, nothing is quite enough to ensure a zero spam . Spam senders take different methods to bypass the protection measures. And it is a fact that even though the Web mail services like Gmail, Yahoo mail, Hotmail, etc have got best anti-spam filters, we still receive fake emails? Then how can we identify such fake email? You might remember my previous post about how to identify legitimate email messages using Trendmicro’s browser plug-in, here is a similar program Truemark from Iconix. This is also a plug-in for Firefox and Internet explorer browser (and also for desktop mail client like Outlook 2003) and is able to identify more than 1500 different company legitimate email addresses. Iconix eMail ID uses industry standard technologies like Domain Keys and Sender ID to verify the authenticity of the message. The email sender is checked against a list of registered senders and once an email is verified, a Truemark icon is displayed in y...

McAfee launches a cyber crime response unit that gives advice and technical assistance on cyber crimes like identity theft. In this age of cyberspace prime importance needs to be given to internet security. Pernicious elements like malware, hackers and fishing sites are waiting for you on the net to attack at any time. To put up an end to all these threats, with a powerful weapon we require more technical assistance. McAfee designed this online help center intending to assist victims of computer crime and provide information on how to avoid becoming a victim. The service gives you advice and technical assistance on identity theft, online family safety, safeguarding your computer, protecting online business, etc. If you feel you have been a victim of cyber crime, just visit McAfee Cybercrime Response Unit and complete their risk assessment form and submit for a quick response.

AVG antivirus is one of the best free antivirus solutions available today and the new version (v.8) comes with some new features such as new antivirus and anti spywrae scanning engine, Link Scanner Search shield safe search protection and also the AVG Security toolbar which was previously available only with paid version of AVG. Updating any antivirus program with latest virus definitions are must for continued protection. However, if you don’t have an internet connection and want to manually update AVG Free Antivirus offline with the latest virus definitions, here is how. And also, even if you have internet connection, updating the free AVG has given lower priority; than the commercial user. Procedure for manually updating free AVG: Download latest virus definition updates (example: u7iav2083yh ) from here using another computer with internet connection. Create a directory called ‘avgupdate’ on your USB drive, CD or your PC and copy and paste this file into it. Now open your AVG Us...

iRotate provides convenient access to the native rotation capabilities present in modern display drivers, via a popup menu accessible from the system tray or with wide hotkeys. It's no longer necessary to resort to bloated Windows hacks, additional software layers or phantom drivers to achieve content rotation. iRotate is a very small (125Kb) freeware (non commercial) program that supports most of the display drivers such as ATI, nVidia, Intel, Matrox, S3, XGI and others. The program offers exceptional speed and efficiency, with minimal impact on system resources and supports multi-monitor enabled operating system from Windows 98 to Vista. The following hotkeys are enabled by default: Ctrl+Alt+Up - rotate 0 degrees, Ctrl+Alt+Left - rotate 90 degrees, Ctrl+Alt+Down - rotate 180 degrees, and Ctrl+Alt+Right- rotate 270 degrees.The program can be downloaded from here

Rootkits (programs, including viruses, spyware, and Trojans), are dangerous programs that monitor traffic and keystrokes and make a backdoor into the system for the hacker's use. They enable administrator-level access to a computer or a network system. They are often hiding their presence from virus scanners, so, only a scanner specialized in this type of malware can help. The RootAlyzer is a freeware tool that can detects various hiding methods usually used by rootkits. It goes through the file system, the registry and process related lists. When you start RootAlyzer, it performs a very quick scan of a few important places, taking about a second on modern machines. To check the full system, you have the possibility of choosing a Deep Scan. The program doesn’t required an installation, just run the RootAlyzer exe file and it supports Windows 2000, XP and Vista. More information and download is available from forums.spybot.info

While trying to delete a file or folder from your Windows PC, if you have got error messages like ‘Cannot delete file: Access is denied’ or ‘The file is in use by another program or user’ or ‘There has been a sharing violation’, etc, the freeware program UnlockMe is the right solution. It lets you move, delete or rename such files and folders which are temporarily locked by other processes. Using UnlockMe is very simple. Just install it; it will integrate into the Windows right-click menu which unlocks the file or folder with one click. Simply right click the folder or file and select Unlockme, the folder or file will be unlocked. You can also unlock files or folders by selecting them from the programs GUI. UnlockMe is tiny (225Kb) and is compatible with Windows XP and Vista. No further requirement is needed. The software is tested with Virus total and found to be clean. Download it here .

Many people like to use Linux operating system without installing it on their computer. In order to do that, either a live bootable Linux CD/DVD or a live bootable USB drive is required. Bootable USB drive has many advantages, it is too handy and you need not to burn a Linux OS onto a DVD . Making a bootable Linux live USB drive is very easy with the freeware program UNetbootin. UNetbootin lets you to make bootable Live USB drives for a variety of Linux distributions such as Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, openSUSE , etc from Windows or Linux operating system. You can use either downloaded Linux ISO file (CD image) or can be directly download a Linux operating system (if you have a broadband internet connection) from the app itself. Download (3.9Mb) and run UNetbootin (no installation needed), then select a Linux ISO (CD image) file, floppy/hard disk image, or kernel and initrd files. If in doubt use the ISO file. If you're using an ISO file, that is all you required, just press "OK...

In these days, no activity performed on a computer can be kept secret. Windows keeps a log of everything you have done. Anyone who wants to know about it is capable of revealing it very easily. In order to keep your privacy, you need to have securely delete all activities that you have done on your PC, such as Internet tracks, history and other sensitive data stored by the web browser, data stored by Windows operating system, MS Office, Windows Media Player, and other third party applications. Privacy Guardian from PC Tools is an easy-to-use and very reliable privacy protection software, which securely remove all activities mentioned above, and also is capable of permanently deleting files (file shredding) that you don’t need anymore. Moreover it also restores valuable hard drive space and speeds up your system performance. The catching feature of Privacy Guardian is its easiness to use. Any one can use it without any problems. No complicated settings or anything is required. Just ins...

Of course by using micro fiber cloth we can clean stains and finger prints from the laptop or desktop screen. Before that, just visit the following link; you will be presented with a great piece of application that will really help you to clean your computer screen. Just check this www.raincitystory.com/flash/screenclean.swf link whenever you want to clean your computer monitor. The application probably works with all versions of Windows, Mac and Linux operating systems ? Serious reader? please sorry me[ Via ]

Installing and uninstalling multiple programs can make your computer sluggish. Here comes the importance of portable applications, they can be run directly from a USB stick. Unlike usual programs, they leave no personal information behind on the machine you run it on. All the settings, configurations and registry entries are stored on the USB sticks. Portable Firefox is a fully functional package of Firefox browser, designed to run from a USB sticks. This is an unofficial build of Firefox browser (the official build of Mozilla Firefox modified and bundles with a PortableApps launcher, you can take your bookmarks, extensions and saved passwords with you) that is designed to run from removable devices such as USB sticks, CDRW, MP3 players, etc. To install Firefox Portable, just download the portable package from Portable app.com , and then double-click it. Select the location (USB device) you wish to install to and click OK. It will create a Firefox Portable directory on your drive and ...

The Conficker (a.k.a Downadup, Kido) worm is the newest threat to the IT world that has made a serious impact on computer users. The worm is spread easily from computer to computer via USB devices and network PCs. It has been estimated that over 10 million people are now infected with the worm. You can read more and get technical details about Conficker worm from this Microsoft link . The Sunbelt Conficker/Downadup Removal Tool ( SSClean ) can be used to detect and clean the majority of Conficker/Downadup variants from infected client PCs. It can be run as a standalone removal tool for removing the nasty worm. To do its job, this removal tool must be installed and run on the actual PC that is infected; it cannot clean the worm remotely across a network. To use the removal tool (SSClean.exe) on an infected PC, do the following: 1. Unzip the file SSClean.exe from Conficker_SSClean.zip into a familiar folder (e.g. My Documents) on an infected PC. 2. Disconnect the infected PC from th...

Anti-Twin is a freeware application which searches directories or hard drive for duplicate or similar files that were found can either be sent to the recycle bin or directly deleted. This is especially useful, when you want to find and delete duplicate MP3 or image files in a download folder or unnecessary file copies and redundant data back-ups on your hard disk. This will increase the hard disk space on your computer. The application is very easy to use. After installation, run the program; click on ‘File filter’ option for filtering files ( doc, mp3, wma, etc) that you want to or do not want to find and check and also minimum and maximum file size, if you want. There are different comparisons methods select, such as by name, file extension, by identical file sizes, etc, choose appropriate one for you and click ‘ Search for similar…’ to find duplicates. Anti-Twin is clean and can be downloaded from here (file size:720Kb)

These days malicious websites are growing at an alarming rate, most surfers are actually unaware of it. According to a recent study of Websense Research lab , more than 77% of the websites that were found to be malicious were actually sites with good reputation that had been compromised by attackers. And also more than 70% of the top 100 most popular websites (social networking and search engines) either hosts malicious contents or contains masked redirects to lure unsuspecting victims to malicious sites. So, real-time monitoring and protection against online threats have topmost importance. Otherwise, it ends up losing your money, your identity and your most precious digital memories. AVG LinkScanner ( For Internet Explorer and Firefox ) is a free program that checks each web page in real-time before it opens on your PC. If it sees trouble ahead, it stops you. It’s quick and easy to install, runs smoothly alongside other major brands of security software. AVG LinkScanner has a two-f...

Game booster is free tool from IObit that lets you run PC games smoothly on any Windows computer. As you know, almost all new games required heavy system resources. Game Booster achieves this by temporarily shutting down background processes like antivirus programs, unnecessary windows services, cleaning RAM, and by intensifying processor performance. Using this tool is quite simple, download and install it. Run the program and click on ‘ Switch to Gaming Mode ’, it will present you a list of running programs that may not necessary for your games such as antivirus programs etc. You can either select any one from the list or all. Disabling antivirus program is not recommended, if you are not familiar with the game. After the game finishes, run GameBooster application from the tray and click “ Back to Normal Mode ” to restart all closed applications. The program (beta) is designed for Windows Vista, XP and Windows 7. While testing this with the game ‘Microsoft Flight Simulator’ on a dua...

Data security has an important role in every computing situations and losing an important file via accidental deletion, hard drive crashes or virus attacks can be devastating. There are numerous applications for data security and preservation and one such application is from Comodo which is known for developing some splendid security products. Comodo Backup is a free, powerful backup tool you can virtually set and forget, that reliably copies your files to a safe place and keeps track of all changes to those files. Comodo Backup delivers all the functionality you expect. Apart from scheduled backups and archiving backups to .ZIP files, it can also backup to other resources on a network, backup to virtually all types of removable devices, and run incremental backups (suitable for large data) and full back ups (suitable for small files). Comodo Backup can be set to automatically back up a set of files at system startup, system shutdown or to back up a set of files at a certain time of ...

AppRemover is a useful freeware tool (with advertisement) that lets you remove security programs like antivirus, anti-spyware and firewall thoroughly from your computer. Because of the strong integration with system, security programs are often difficult to remove completely. In such situations you can try this tool. AppRemover is helpful in the following situations: when the built-in uninstall process of security program’s fails, when you have forgotten the application password for uninstalling (Norton, Rising, etc) and when you replacing one security program with another. Even though some of the security companies has also releases special uninstaller for their product, this tool has its own advantages. It is very simple to use, no installation required and is able to remove almost all security programs thoroughly from your computer. Following are some of the security programs that ApRemover can uninstall: Panda, Avira, AVG, Karspersky, McAfee, Norman, Norton, Spyware Doctor, etc. A...

Nowadays internet is flooded with rogue programs (misleading applications) such as antivirus programs, registry repairing tools, system cleaners and the like and are growing at a shocking rate. They are not only creating havoc on user’s computer but also fooled the users into purchasing it in order to remove the threats. So, it is recommended that, before downloading any suspicious program from internet, make sure its reliability. FixTool is a misleading application revealed by Symantec that give exaggerated reports of errors like every rogue programs on user’s computer and compelled the users to buy a license key in order to remove the problems. This PC optimization programs affects all Windows versions-Windows Vista, XP, 2003, 2000 amd Windows 98 and the risk impact is said to be medium. If you have ever downloaded and installed this product on your PC, please visit this Symantec link for more technical details and removing method.

ALPass is a USB portable, free web site login and password manager that lets you securely store any number of logins and passwords for all your online memberships and subscriptions such as e-mail, forums, social networks, etc. ALPass maintains all these data under 3DES encryption system to keep your information safe from curious eyes. You need not enter your username and password again and again when you visiting a site, instead just click a site link from this tool. An interesting feature of AlPass is its supports for multiple accounts; it can be used by more than one user. Of course, each account has its own master password to login. You can automatically login (you can enable or disable auto login from preference menu) into any site with a single click. ALPass is free, and can be carried on a USB stick or other storage medium. ALPass is completely free (but, commercialware) and works on Windows Vista, XP and 2000. The main disadvantage of AlPass is that, the program only supports...

Want to have a new look to your Windows XP, Vista or Windows 7 desktop? A deviantart user has released a pack of latest build of Windows 7 wallpapers (build 7106) that can be downloaded (26Mb) for free. The pack includes 38 beautiful wallpapers and some of them are amazing. If you want to enjoy them in other Windows versions, you can download them using this link . Below is a sample image from the pack

SpywareBlaster is one of the most popular anti-spyware program that provide a layered defense against multiple threats such as spyware, adware, browser hijackers and dialers . These days just by protecting your computer from viruses and hackers is not enough. Programs like SpywareBlaster, helps you to prevent the installation of ActiveX-based spyware, blocks spying and tracking cookies, and restricts the actions of potentially threatening Web sites. The new version of SpywareBlaster (4.2) features improved Windows 7 support, faster updating, protection for the Internet Explorer 8, Firefox and other browsers. Moreover it provides unique utilities like the exclusive "System Snapshot" and various other useful tools. System Snapshot creates an image of various settings on your computer in order to restore it to its previous state if anything went wrong. SpywareBlaster provides additional functionality in its "Tools" section such as Browser Pages, Hosts Safe, Interne...

The main purpose of Self-Extracting Executable (SFX) file is that they do not require a second program like 7zip to extract the archive, the files in an archive can be extracted by anyone, without the need of an archive program (7Zip, Winrar or Winzip) installed on their PC. You can create a self extracting executable file using Windows built-in tool IExpress . To do that, click ‘ Start - Run and type iexpress and hit enter. Follow the screen instructions to create SFX file. Here is how to create a SFX file from 7Zip archive. 7zipSilencer is a free program that can convert a 7Zip archive file into a SFX file. So anyone can run the program without the need of 7ZIP. To create a 7ZIP SFX file, do as following: 1. Compress your files with 7-Zip to 7z format. "Maximum" or "Ultra" compressing level is recommended for smaller file size. 2. Open 7zipSilencer. 3. Select your 7-Zip archive from "Select 7z file" section. 4. Select icon from "Select SFX fil...

Avira UnErase is an efficient tool for recovering deleted files from your hard disk. If you have deleted an important document, photos or MP3s either by accidentally or as a result of virus infection, you can easily recover those from your hard disk. Avira UnErase Personal is a tiny (402Kb), free program and is very simple to use. Even though the program has no support from Avira now, it is still useful. While checking it here, the program shows a better result, it is quite fast and recovered many of my deleted files very effectively. The program supports following file systems: FAT16, FAT32, NTFS4, and NTFS5 and can be installing on Windows 2000 and Windows XP. Avira Unerase is completely clean; no bloatware or upgrade trap is there . Remember that, in order to prevent sectors being overwritten, you should save the recovered files on a different drive to the one from which they were initially deleted.

Symantec Registry Repair is free tool for removing the unwanted registry entries that were added during the upgrade of Windows XP SP3 and Windows Vista SP1. After installing Windows XP SP3 or Windows Vista SP1 (on Norton product installed PC), if you have problems like empty Windows Device Manager, unable to connect using a wireless adapter or missing Wireless network adaptors or other hardware devices, this tool will be help you rectifying the issues. These problems happens because when you install Windows XP Service Pack 3 or Windows Vista SP 1, a tool that is called Fixccs.exe adds numerous registry keys in many locations (some of them within the Symantec registry keys) but is unable to remove them. If you experience any such problems after upgrading your Windows operating system download and run the Symantec Registry Repair tool. No installation is required. It will automatically remove any such entries. ( more info )

Trend Smart Surfing may be the first, free and secure browser for iPhone and iPod touch devices that provides smarter and safer experience when surfing the Web. Nowadays every one is dependent on the internet through their computer or hand held, but as you know the internet is not a safe place anymore with zillions of viruses doing the rounds of cyberspace. Whether you are using a mobile device or a computer for surfing the web there should be an eye on these threats. Smart Surfing is powered by the Trend Micro Smart Protection Network using advanced “in the cloud” Web Reputation technology to protect you from Web pages with malicious intent. If you attempt to access a bad or malicious URL, Smart Surfing is designed to block access to the URL and a notification will appear in the browser. Features of Smart Surfing includes: Secured by the Trend Micro Smart Protection Network, Blocks access to Web pages with malicious content, Helps protect against phishing and pharming attacks, Pro...

Windows own font manager (?) gives only basic functions, installing, uninstalling and repairing a font (fonts) is normally difficult. As these functions are most important, especially to designers, an easy to use font manager has a vital role to play. Cfont Pro is a free font manager for Windows that allows you to manage fonts in a simple interface. The program lets you view currently installed fonts on your system, lets you install new fonts by searching on the system, uninstall fonts that you don’t want (important to speed up your OS) or you can repair some common problems that can happen to the font registry key. Cfont Pro works with Windows XP and Vista and supports most of the font types such as TrueType, Open Type, Bitmap, and Postscript Type. You can download the program from here .

Close’n forget is one of the most useful add-ons for Firefox browser that lets you close out the current tab or window that you are browsing and all web traces (cookies and surfing history) of that tab. It might be useful in many situations, for example, you can remove all traces of a website that you’re browsing from the current tab or window, without having to remember to do it later. Just install the add-on from here, after restarting Firefox, you can find the new "close" button in the toolbar customization panel and drop it in your preferred place (View – Toolbar – Customize and drag the close button). Optionally, you can add an entry in the contextual menu of each page from the option window (Tools –Add-on-Close’n Forger – Option). Install Close’n forget from Mozilla add-on site. More details available from here [ via ].

When you trying to open Windows task manager by pressing ctrl+alt+del keys simultaneously, for example, in order to end a process (some times very necessary), if you got an error message as ‘ Task manager has been disabled by your administrator’ or ‘ Task manager not working ’, here is a simple freeware tool to fix the problem automatically. The problem with task manager mainly happens because of spywrae or Trojans activities. You can fix this problem by editing some registry settings. But editing the registry is not easy and a bit risky for a normal user. Task Manager Fix is a handy windows system recovery tool to remove task manager restrictions and effective solution to the problem ‘Task Manager not working’. Task Manager Fix is extremely simple to use, just run click on ‘Fix task manager’ button to fix the problem The freeware tool is clean and weigh 76 Kb in size.

Kaspersky Virus Removal Tool is a free utility that uses an effective combination of signature based detection and heuristic analyzer for detecting and removing latest threats from your computer. Even though it will not provide real time protection, it can be effectively used to remove all types of malware-viruses, Trojans, adware, spyware, rootkits and worms from your PC automatically or manually. Kaspersky’s malware scanning engine is known for its powerful detection rates and scanning speed and this Kaspersky Virus Removal Tool implies an effective algorithms of detection used by Kaspersky Anti-Virus and AVZ Antiviral Toolkit . Program highlights includes: Easy interface, can be installed to an infected machine (Safe Mode supported), integral search and removal of malicious software (heuristic and signature based), System Analysis and interactive scripting language and freeware. You can download the program from here . More information and technical details here .