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Bookmarks Backup is a tiny utility that allows you to backup your browser’s bookmarks, tabs, favorites and more. This is useful when you reinstalling your Windows or you can transfer it to another PC This application supports latest release of Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari and Opera It also allows you to backup your browsers history, saved passwords, open tabs and pages . To install this utility, Microsoft .Net Framework 3.5 required for Windows XP and Vista. Download Bookmarks Backup from here .

Avira Antivir Updates Generator is small and freeware utility for backing up Avira Antivir 10 updates. This backup can be used in the future for updating a new installation. Using this program is quite simple. Just run the app (no installation required), select Avira installation directory if you installed on a different drive and click Go button. Avira Antivir Updates Generator is meant for the latest version of Avira 10 and works with Windows 7, Vista and XP and can be downloaded from here .

The Norton Power Eraser is a specially designed program for removing rogueware ( potentially unwanted program ) from a Windows PC. The growing rogue programs or misleading applications, if installed, use fake pop-up alerts or security messages that scare you into thinking your PC has been infected and needs to be fixed immediately. Rogue software will often install Trojan and automatically download unnecessary items onto your PC even if you didn’t actively click on anything. The new Norton Power Eraser eliminates deeply embedded and difficult to remove crimeware (rogue programs) that traditional virus scanning doesn't always detect. To use this portable tool an active internet connection is necessary. Download Norton Power Eraser for free at source.

Clean Temporary Places is a simple to use and automatic privacy cleaning software for Windows. You don’t need to run the program now and then, it automatically deletes unused, temporary, sometimes hard to find files from your computer. This open source application can be configured very easily, if necessary and has a company-wide cleanup policy support. Following are the main features of this application: It can delete temporary files from various places of your computer, has a smart cleanup filter based on folders usage and lets you rebuild Windows Prefetch files. Clean Temporary Places can be downloaded from http://sourceforge.net/projects/cleantp/files/

Managing computer lab in schools or colleges is such a head-ache. It is difficult to control students' behavior especially in spreading virus by exchanging pen-drive. The freeware application called PenyuUSB allows you to enable or disable the usage of USB mass storage devices on a computer with password. Only those authorized with password can manage the USB mass storage. The administrator can regularly change the password if necessary. This application is certainly useful to prevent virus infection spreading via pen drives and prevent data from being stolen using pen-drive. Download PenyuUSB ( Required a free registration to receive activation code)

VLC media player is one of the most popular free video players in the world. It handles just about any video/audio format such as FLV, MPEG, OGG, VCDs,MP3 and more as well as various streaming protocols. Its developers have now released a new application - Videolan Movie Creator (VMC) which lets you make your own movies very easily. All you need to just drag and drop your media and you can edit it at your choice. This pre -Alfa version of Movie creator looks well designed and has a dual-screen interface as shown in many other video editors. Please keep in mind that this is an early release , not a stable version. Interested readers can download (24Mb) it free from here .

Would you like to add a World clock with date and time in Google home page, right under its logo? Here is how you can do that. If you are a Google Chrome user, you can simply do this by just installing the extension Google Greater. It adds a message under the Google image with the date and the current holiday. Users can choose the date format and language that they want to view the date in. You can also display the clock at Google search page. Just install Google Greater from here. From the extension option page set the time, the date in the format you like.

Your Menu is a simple program for Windows 7 that lets you add your own menu items to your Windows 7 context menu (menu that display when you right-click on desktop). It lets you add both single entry menu items and cascading menus. Additionally, you can remove any entries that you created with Your Menu easily. According to the developer, “the program does not modify the registry; rather, it creates a registry file you double-click to install yourself. This way you know exactly what changes have been made”. More information and download YourMenu

There are situations that you want to quickly change your monitor resolutions, for instance, a web designer or application developer may need to check their design in different screen resolutions. The Change Display Settings application was developed to be a small (4kb), portable tool that will enumerate and change display modes instantly. You can change all display modes using EnumDisplaySettings and ChangeDisplaySettings functions. Download Change Display Settings (4Kb).

There are several add-ons or extensions available for Firefox to extend and enhance its functionality. Google Chrome has also a growing extension database and has some good extensions that Firefox currently missing. If you would like to install an add-on for Google Chrome onto your Firefox browser, here is how you can do that. Install the add-on Google Chrome extension manager on your Firefox. Download a Chrome extension using Google Chrome and extract the downloaded crx file. Go to your Firefox profile folder ( C:\Documents and Settings\{username}\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\86tc9fbi.default /extensions\googlechromeextensions@matoeil.fr\extensions ) Create a folder here, name it has the extension key preferably (something like "okngcjknhihjbpiencaanffnfcdlafic" for example). Copy & paste content of previously extracted package into this new folder. That's it. Just restart firefox now. If you click on the "tools" menu, "Google Chrome add...

Protect Me! 2010 is a very simple and easy to use encryption software that you can use as a fast and simple alternative to an expensive software that does the same job. It simply creates secure executable (.exe) container files to which you can add any files and folders you want to and password protect it. Your files will be stored securely inside the container file. To ensure a maximum of security, it uses SHA1 for password validation and AES for encryption. The container file can either run or extract your files once you typed in the right password. Essentially this is a simple program to easily password protect any file or folder and get a one single exe file which contains the encrypted data. The freeware program supports Windows 7, Vista and XP and required .NET Framework 3.5 to install. Download it at source .

TuneUp Utilities is a top rated tuning utility for Windows which helps you speed up your dull computer. The utility helps optimize and maintain your computer needing very little effort or knowledge to manage an operating system. This suite contains all type of tuning utilities and offers a useful feature for restoring your system settings called the Rescue center. The one click maintenance feature eliminates manual or individual maintenance task. Tuneup Utilities can perform maintenance task automatically every week or you can schedule this manually. Interested readers can now download a free licensed copy of TuneUp Utilities 2009 (current version10) from this address . In order to get a license key and download link, just signup with your email address. Note: TuneUp Utilities 2009 doesn’t support Windows 7 (via – Webtrickz )

Don't Sleep is a tiny, portable program that will help you to prevent system auto- restart after installing or updating some software programs. It will prevent system shutdown, Standby, Hibernate, Turn Off, Restart, logging off, and also prevent the deactivation of the monitor or activation of the screen saver. Apart from the fact Don't Sleep has a timer that allows time control unblock, or shutdown the computer for a specified time. Don't Sleep is a portable utility, so no installation is required. It supports Windows 7, Vista and XP. You can download this tiny (44Kb) utility at source. ( Via )

One interesting feature that I found in Opera (10.5) is its private browsing mode which is currently missing in other browsers. In Opera while browsing the site in normal mode, you can open a new site in private browsing mode also in a new tab. Private browsing mode helps you browse the internet without leaving any history on your computer. Here is how to enable private browsing mode in Opera. Opera has two private browsing modes: 1. Private browsing in tabs: Right click on tab’s “+” icon and select New Private Tab. Private tab got a lock like icon at the right side of the tab icon. 2. Private browsing window: Click on File menu, then select New Private Window. The private window is red colored. Any tab opened in the private window is a private tab. You can download this feature rich, fastest and fully Windows 7 new feature (Aero and Jump list) compatible browser from Opera website . [Via – Techtrickz ]

Microsoft search engine Bing pleases every user with cool background image every day. If you like to enhance your Windows 7 desktop with these wallpapers, Microsoft giving away the latest and best Bing wallpapers as a theme pack. The theme pack called Bing’s Best 2 contains 21 cool wallpapers and can be downloaded free from here. [Note: If you wan to use these wallpapers on Windows XP or Vista as desktop background, just extract them from the theme pack with a zip archive like 7ZIP ] Download Bing’s Best 2 theme pack

An anonymous web browsing client is always useful while surfing the internet if you want to hide your identity from marketers, corporates or government institutions. Here is a new anonymous web browsing & BitTorrent client called BitBlinder that lets you protect your privacy by hiding your IP address, bypass any filters and can also download files quickly and anonymously via BitTorrent. BitBlinder contains a Portable Firefox for anonymous surfing, a BitTorrent client for downloading> BitBlinder is currently in beta, so bugs and insecurities can not be avoided. Moreover you required a beat invite to use this client. Interested readers can get more information and download at source.

ReBit is a freeware utility designed to automatically restart or shutdown a computer, in case of long user inactivity. It is especially useful in public places to eliminate the need to manually restart the computer after each user. When you turn on your computer, it works indefinitely and is ready to service users. And after the user has finished using the computer, it automatically restarts or shutdown after a preset period of time. ReBit can be downloaded from here .

LightShot is a handy add-on for Google Chrome that allows you to capture screenshot of any selected area of a web page and save them to your PC or upload to a server. You also can resize and move the selection area with in the browser and can add text, draw lines and more other functions to your screenshots by uploading to a online image editing tool. Moreover you can instantly share your screenshot on Twitter or Facebook . Most interestingly it is very simple to use. You just hit Lightshot icon on the toolbar, then select area you want to make a screenshot. Interested Google Chrome users can install it at source

LookInMyPC is a freeware system diagnostic utility for Windows that will generate a complete and comprehensive system profile that includes information on all installed hardware and software. Additionally, it provides details on running processes, services, startup item, updates & hot fixes, active network/ Internet connections, TCP/IP port usage, and much more. All this is provided in an easy to read, formatted report that you can view and print using your web browser. Many items have hyperlink, so you can quickly and easily "Google" them to find out what they are or if some programs might be spyware or viruses. Moreover this utility allows you to send the report as an email ZIP file attachment to a tech support or help desk person. Download LookInMyPC for windows 7, Vista and XP [ via ]

Paragon Partition Manager is an easy to use and most secure partitioning tool for Windows that can be used to split internal/external hard disk partition, delete, create or merge partition. The built-in advanced recovery facilities make it possible to securely carry out all operations without fear to lose precious data. Besides partitioning, there is also a tool to back up and restore the partitions, and a defragmenter utility to defrag the portioned disk. Paragon who is known for developing some splendid disk utilities has now giving away a free copy of Paragon Partition Manager 9.5 personal edition ( till April 5, 2010 ). Just enter at http://www.paragon-software.com/free/giveaway.html and download your free copy Paragon Partition Manager 9.5 personal worth $39.95.

Sometimes it is not possible to uninstall Avast antivirus in the standard way using Windows Add/Remove program. The incomplete uninstallation causes trouble to you when installing a new or another antivirus program. Avast has released a uninstallation utility, AswClear that allows you to uninstall Avast antivirus 5 completely from your computer. Here is how to use this tool. Download aswClear5.exe on your desktop. Disable Avast’s Self Defense feature and restart your system in safe mode. Run AswClear, select your version, browse to installed folder and click Uninstall button and then restart your computer.

Here is a very simple and useful program called iChecker to check your Yahoo! Messenger friend’s status. You can find whether he/she hide their presence by using Yahoo's stealth settings or not. iChecker is a portable tool, so no installation required. Just run and input a Yahoo! Messenger ID to find out whether he/she is online or offline. iChecker instantly informs you about their status. iChecker is a freeware and can be downloaded free from here .

Free Hide IP is a simple to use, lightweight software designed to protect your privacy when surfing the Internet by changing your IP address. The software will protect your identity and prevent tracking of your online activities. The program is very simple to use. Just download and install it ( Windows XP required .NET Frame work 3.5 ). Run Free Hide IP and click ‘Update Proxy List ’ button. It will update the proxy list. Now you can use this utility to change IP address by just clicking the ‘ Change IP ’ button. Download Free Hide IP from Sourceforge.net .