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Previously we had covered topic on a powerful defragging tool PuranDefrag , here is another tool UltraDefrag which also supports system locked files defragmentation (registry hives and paging file) and scheduled defragmentation. UltraDefrag is the first open source defragmenter which is designed to do the job as fast as possible and you can also defrag single folder or file by just right clicking. The new version (4.0) is fully compatible with Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista, Server 2008, Windows 7 and all of the 64-bit and 32 editions of Windows. Features of UltraDefrag- v.4.0 Boot Time Defragmentation Single File or Directory Defragmentation Scheduled Defragmentationc Enhanced Algorithm for Defragmentation Available for both 32bit and 64bit Windows Both GUI and Console Interface Download UltraDefrag

GoogleSharing is a Firefox add-on and a special kind of anonymizing proxy service , designed for a very specific need. This add-on will prevent Google from tracking your searches, movements, what websites you visit and what search results you clicked on when you are not logged in a Google services like Gmail, Gdocs, etc. This add-on is not a complete proxy service. It only sends Google tracking related traffic through the proxy. If you browse a non-Google website traffic will be sent to the internet normally. Interested users can install this add-on from Mozilla add-on site

If you use Google Docs for text editing purposes, here is a very simple Notepad like application for your desktop. The freeware application called Nocs lets you make changes to to your Google Docs documents or crate new documents without having to open the Google Docs website. Nocs utilizes the Google Document List API for synchronizing text documents with Google Docs. This allows quick editing regardless of user or physical location. Nocs requires Microsoft .Net Framework for installing and you can simply work with it just like Windows Notepad. Download Nocs

One of the most important reasons of poor performance or decreased speed of a PC is its hard disk fragmentation. Fragmentation will contribute to a significant loss of PC performance. Experts say that the hard drive needs to be defragmented once in a week or month depending on the PC usage for better performance of your PC. Ok that Windows have built-in defragging tool, but its performance is poor, especially in the older versions of OSs. If you are still using Windows own defragging tool, try Puran Defrag (now free version available which is identical to the paid version) and see the difference. Unlike similar free tools, it offers many advanced options like Automatic defrag, Boot Time Defragmentation for system files like registry, Low Priority Defrag for work while defrag experience , etc. Main features are: Automatic Defragmentation for worry free defrag Boot Time Defragmentation for system files like MFT Low Priority Defrag for work while defrag experience Individual File/Folder D...

Apple iPad is one of the hottest topics circulating the Web today. The most awaited Apple tablet has now been officially released and most of you may already hear about it. But, according to a recent report by the security company Trend Micro , malware authors utilize Search Engine Optimization (SEO) poisoning techniques (Blackhat search engine optimization) to redirects search results related to Apple iPad. When clicked, the search results lead to the download of rogue antivirus software, which Trend Micro detects as TROJ_FAKEAV.EAM . SEO poisoning is not a new thing. There are several examples. Most recent examples are search results related with Haiti Earthquake and Microsoft Security Essential . So it is recommended that do carefully check the link before entering an unfamiliar site. More details here.

Surfing internet to find correct driver for a device is sometimes very difficult especially if it is an old one. To help you, there are few software tools like Device Doctor which auto detect and download hardware drivers for Windows easily and quickly Now here is another free utility called Driver Easy that helps you update your hardware drivers quite easily. With the friendly user Interface, Driver Easy can save you too much time & energy to find out the latest drivers of your computer. The program is fully compatible with all Windows Windows XP 32bit/ 64bit, Vista 32bit/ 64bit and Windows 7 32bit/Window7 64bit . Features includes: Auto Detect and Download Drivers 1,000,000+ Hardware Driver Database Supports Windows XP, Vista & 7 FREE for Personal Use Extremely Easy-to-Use. Download DriverEasy at source. Required Microsoft’s .NET Framework to install the application [via – Blogsdna ]

Most manufactures ship their desktops or laptops with Windows 7 or Vista pre-installed. Installing a new OS, for example Ubuntu on such machines while Windows remains safe requires the existing partition of the hard drive to be resized. Of course Windows 7 and Vista has built-in facility for resizing the hard drive, but for complicated operations like partition recovery, rebuild master boot record, and the like required powerful partition manager software. Partition Wizard is such a free tool that can perform various operations like resizing, copying, creating, deleting, formatting, converting and explore partitions, change drive letter, set active partition, recover lost partition, etc. Following are some of the advanced features of Partition Wizard: Create, Delete and Format partitions with simple steps. Disk Copy to protect or transfer data. Support disk and partition size larger than 2 TB. Convert partition format from FAT to NTFS. Copy the entire hard disk to another without hav...

It is necessary that you have to remove blank folders and sub-folders from your PC to keep it clean and prevent from being messy. Empty folder or directories are usually left behind by programs you uninstall from your computer or created by yourself. If it is too many, it’s not that easy to search and clean them manually. Here is a tiny (40Kb), portable tool that lets you remove all empty folders and sub-folders from your PC automatically. How to : Run the tool Vanity Remover and just select a drive and click to start button. It will remove all empty directories automatically. The program requires Microsoft’s .NET Framework to run. Important: Note that some applications may require temporary directories that are empty for working. Such application may stop working if such a temporary folder gets deleted. Download Vanity Remover for Windows 7, Vista and XP

The new Google Chrome 4 stable version supports installing add-ons, which were previously launched on the beta channel only. Extensions are small applications that let you add new features and functionality to your browser. You can now browse thousands of extensions on official or unofficial extension galleries and install them on your Google Chrome. Download Google Chrome 4 stable version and make your internet surfing faster, safer, and easier.

PDF to Word Converter from Anypdftools is an easy-to-use utility for converting PDF files into Word 2010, 2007 (.docx) and Word 2003 (.doc) files. The tool is reasonably fast in the conversion process and the resultant output is also accurate. It preserves the original layout of your PDF file in an editable Word Document. AnyBizSoft PDF to Word Converter normally costs $29.95, but there will have a giveaway on January 26, 2010 at GOD. If you would like to get a free copy of this useful tool, just visit at http://www.giveawayoftheday.com / January 26, 2010. Thanks Jimmy White for the info. ( via )

In Google Chrome you can use both Private browsing mode and Normal mode simultaneously. So that you can do things like log in to two Gmail, Hotmail or Yahoo accounts simultaneously. Private browsing mode is of course a great privacy feature; in this mode no records of your web surfing session will be stored on the computer. As in Google Chrome, you can also open both Private browsing mode and normal mode simultaneously in Firefox by installing an extension. [After installing the extension you will see above like icon on the progress bar, click it to open new private browsing window] This extension for Firefox replaces firefox's default private browsing mode. Instead, it allows users to have private browsing and normal browsing windows simultaneously on the same computer. [You can stop private browsing window by clicking the 'Stop Private browsing' (see above screen-shot) ] You can install the add-on from Mozilla add-on Gallery [ via ]

Because of Windows Autorun & Autoplay feature viruses could easily get into a computer system through USB devices by modifying the Autorun. Inf file (a required file for auto run). The simplest solution is completely disabling Autorun & Autoplay function in Windows, by manually or automatically . However, in case your USB stick was infected, distorted, corrupted or in any way became inaccessible by malware here is a handy utility, Autorun Injector, to restore it in an accessible state and help de-corrupt the entire drive. Autorun Injector (similar tool – Panda USB Vaccine ) gives the user ultimate control over their removable drive's Autorun.inf file. With this utility you can do the followings: View and delete Autorun.inf file from a USB devices like pen drive Create new Autorun.inf file Protect Autorun.inf file Autorun Injector is portable, weigh (just 270Kb), clean ( check here for report ) and works perfectly with Windows 7, Vista and XP. You can download it at source...

There are several free proxy solutions available for downloading ( we had covered few of them in the previous posts ), but from my personal experience most of them are very slow in my country. If you are looking for a free, fast and reliable proxy solution for anonymous surfing, Here is a new multi-platform application, PaperBus (ad-supported) which lets you surf anonymously and bypass internet filters. Paper bus (brought you by Open Terrace Ltd the same company that made commercial proxy service Freedur) is very easy to use. Simply install, and run. No registration required. The only down side is there will be an ad web browser tab popping up in every twenty minutes while you are using it. Another interesting feature of PaperBus is that you can create a list of websites you don't want to surf through PaperBus. PaperBus is compatible with Windows, Mac and Linux systems. Download appropriate version from here. ( via )

Want to shutdown or logoff your PC automatically or remotely from any computer or via mobile phone? Here is a lightweight, tiny and freeware tool. The easy-to-use, tray-based system utility called Switch Off lets you automatically shutdown, suspend or hibernate your system. It can also disconnect your dial-up and VPN connections automatically to cut your internet service bills. You can schedule all operations daily, weekly, past specified time or when PC becomes idle. Switch Off is very simple to use, even a non-techie can use it without much trouble. It seamlessly integrates into your system (XP, Vista, and Windows 7) tray or notification area and provides quick access to all operations. Moreover, with its simple web interface, you can control your PC remotely from any computer or mobile phone with web browser installed. This utility could cut your electricity bills and save the Environment by lowering your PC power consumption. Download Switch Off ( gHacks )

In the past we had published an article about visual tab switching and how to enable this in Firefox 3.6 (pre- Alfa version) without any add-on. Here is how to enable this secret, added feature in the new release of Firefox 3.6. Visual tab switching means, by just pressing Ctrl + Tab key on your keyboard, you will get most recently used tabs as a visual preview and you can directly change the tab you want. Moreover the visual tabs preview includes a search bar to look for keywords among tab titles which is useful if you have more tabs. To enable tab preview, you may want to set browser.ctrlTab.previews to true via about:config . Type about:config in the address bar and click the confirmation button. Next, in the filter box, type browser.ctrlTab.previews Then right-click this entry and select Toggle to make it true . Hope you will enjoy this tips.

Sticky Notes in Windows 7 is a handy utility for home and office users alike. You can note down something like important phone numbers, dates of special occasions, etc and keep it as reminder. However, every time you start the Sticky Notes program its icon is visible on the taskbar and sits there until you close the program. If you don’t like this always on the taskbar, you can simply hide this without closing the Sticky Notes. In order to do that here is a little program called Sticky Notes Taskbar Hider . This tool allows you to show, hide and bring back the Sticky Notes from the taskbar easily from hotkeys, or via the system tray icon. You can assign your shortcut keys from settings menu. Sticky Notes Taskbar Hider is clean (checked with Nod 32 version 4, check it with your own) and can be downloaded from here. [ via ]

The wait for the final stable build of Firefox 3.6 is over. Mozilla has finally released Firefox 3.6 with several improvements and features. As per the release note , this new version is faster and more responsive than previous versions, and has included the following new features. Firefox 3.6 will alert users about out of date plugins to keep them safe. Made some changes to how we allow third party software to integrate with Firefox in order to prevent crashes. The ability to run scripts asynchronously to speed up page load times. Users can now change their browser’s appearance with a single click, with built in support for Personas. Open, native video can now be displayed full screen, and supports poster frames. Support for the WOFF font format. Improved JavaScript performance, overall browser responsiveness and startup time. Support for new CSS, DOM and HTML5 web technologies. Download Firefox 3.6

Sunbelt Software offers free subscription to its latest VIPRE Antivirus 4 Premium on the day of its release. If you are a Twitter user you can take advantage of this free offer. VIPRE is one of the best premium antivirus & anti-spyware programs available today. It offers comprehensive protection against today’s highly complex spyware, viruses, and blended malware threats. [ Full features here ] Here is a chance to get free subscription to VIPRE Antivirus 4 Premium. Just visit here and follow the instructions. Remember this is a one day only event. The official VIPRE Premium launch date has not been set yet, so check back often .

The much awaited Avast antivirus 5.0 final has released. Avast antivirus free edition is the most popular among users because it gives a full bouquet of system protection, ranging from antivirus, anti-spyware, network intrusion prevention, rootkit scanning, mail scanning, gaming mode, web protection as well as P2P and messenger scanning. The new version of Avast antivirus 5 is designed to have a low memory consumption, Heuristic detection (proactive detection, available since version 4.8) and added detection of potentially unwanted programs (PUPS). Key features of this new version: Antivirus and anti-spyware engine, avast! Intelligent Scanner, Silent/Gaming Mode, Behavior Shield, Real time anti-rootkit protection, Smart virus updates, avast! iTrack, etc. Download the world’s most popular free antivirus software &anti-spyware Avast 5 from here

As I told in the previous posts , Flash cookies are entirely different from normal cookies and there is no way to delete them in your web browser. Even if you’ve deleted all your browsing history and normal cookies, Flash cookies are still there and can be used to see what sites you’ve visited. Moreover, Adobe's " Flash Settings Manager " does not properly remove Flash cookies. So you need special tool to remove flash cookies to ensure your privacy. In the past we had covered few articles on removing flash cookies from your PC , now here is a new one Flash Cookie Remover (beta), a program which can be used to remove Flash cookies. This is a portable tool, so no installation required. Currently the program tested and working on XP, Vista and Windows 7 and can be downloaded free from here.

During the course of computer usage, we need to keep an eye on some parameters like CPU usage, Memory usage, etc to know how our system is performing Ok that Windows has this ability but it’s little away from our hand, unless we attach that function to some hotkeys Here is a freeware and lightweight tool called Prism HUD which gives detailed and accurate system performance & resources information on your desktop. This can help you always know what and how your system is performing. This software has a nice interface (Head-up display) and easy to understand, we are well guided to retrieve important data like: CPU usage of the system, physical memory usage, each disk's space usage, network interface's inbound and outbound operations, etc Download Prism HUD

During system idle or when you’re not doing anything on your computer some times you can see the HD LED constantly flashing and can also hear it reading the hard disk. There are several programs such as antivirus/ antispyware, viruses, etc and process that work in the background of your computer would cause the hard drive light to blink. To find out the exact reason, here is a handy utility called ‘What's my computer doing’ that lets you identify the culprits behind your hard-disk LED to blink or the CPU fan getting louder even when your system is idle. This utility can be useful to find out and remove unwanted software or process running in the background of your system. It also provides enough information about the process and links to verify authenticity of the running process easily (required internet connection)[ via ] Download What's my computer doing

Are you still using old and clumsy Windows defragging tool for defragging your hard drive? Then try WinUtilities Disk defragmenter. Hard disk fragmentation will contribute to a significant loss of disk performance and an overall slowing of your PC’s speed. Experts say that the hard drive needs to be defraggmented once in a week or month (depending on the PC usage) for better PC performance. Windows built-in defragging tool is hardly is able to deliver a good result (but I think Windows 7 is much better). WinUtilities Free Disk Defragmenter can defragment disk more efficiently and reliably. It is faster than Windows own defragging tool on a fast system. However there is no option for scheduled defragging. WinUtilities Disk defragmenter ( download at source ) supports Windows 7, 2000, XP, Vista, 2003 Server, 2000 and 98. 32/64bit versions

Because of the popularity virus writers are using Instant Messengers (IM) to spread malicious programs. There are several things you can do to make sure your chatting experience remains safe and secure. Here is a tool called Instant Messenger Cleaner that allows you to clean and remove any Instant Messenger threats including worms and viruses from your MSN or Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo Messenger and AOL Instant Messenger . Instant Messenger Cleaner is a portable tool and compatible with Windows XP, Vista and 7. Just run the tool, from the main window choose either Quick Scan or Custom Scan to perform a scan. All the detected threats will be automatically deleted from your computer. The program has included some other utilities like Browser cleaner and Thumb cleaner that you can access via right clicking on the program’s tray icon. The program requires Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 to work properly. Download Instant Messenger Cleaner