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Mini Regedit is a simple to use application that lets you quickly enable (or disable) some Windows tools that are blocked by a system administrator or virus. For example, you can disable or enable the tray menu, task manager, registry editor, or taskbar settings. The application is very lightweight and portable, no installation required. Just run choose your options and click 'Apply Settings' button. That's all. Mini Regedit can be used in all Windows operating systems. Interested readers can be downloaded the free application at this link

The CleanMem is a simple application for Windows that will help you to increase your system performance by cleaning the memory. It’ll run and clean the memory out of all processes it can, without any user input. Once installed, the program set to run every 30 minutes (that you can change) via the windows task scheduler . That means, the program doesn't run always in the back ground, once it does its job, it closes and doesn't run again until the task scheduler runs it. The new version of CleanMem has included a mini monitor that allows a user to keep an eye on current memory usage and clean the system memory with one click of a button. CleanMem is a freeware and compatible with Windows 7, Vista and XP. It can be downloaded from this link .

Any Weblock is a very simple to use tool that allows you to block any web site accessing from your computer. For instance, it is very easy for you to block social networking sites, chat rooms, online games and prone sites accessing your child. It works with any web browser and displays a fake error page if trying to access a blocked site. No special technical knowledge required to configure Any Weblock. The only requirement is domain names (http://example.com) and sub domain names (www. example.com, game.example.com, etc) After installation, enter a password, and then add web address (s) and sub domains you want to block and save the settings. A good feature of Any Weblock is that, blocking remains intact even after uninstalling the application. You need to unblock every entry before uninstalling the program. Any Weblock can be downloaded at source . [ Via ]

As you all know, cookie enables websites owners to track visitor activities and can use these data for legal or illegal purposes. Currently, there’re mainly three forms of cookies - standard cookie, Flash cookie (Local Shared Objects or LSOs), and the newest Evercookie. S tandard and Flash cookies are easy to remove , but Evercookie is more persistent and difficult to remove, because it sores cookie data in multiple places. Furthermore, it can rebuild the cookie, if you removed it from your computer, unless you have removed them from all locations and reset the local storage. So, even if you have deleted the standard and flash cookies, Evercookie implemented website can still identify you. According to the developer, “ Evercookie is a JavaScript API that produces extremely persistent cookies in a browser…… Evercookie accomplishes this by storing the cookie data in several types of storage mechanisms that are available on the local browser”. It stores data in: Standard HTTP Cookies Loc...

TopWinPrio is an application designed to boost your system performance by automatically giving higher priority to active programs and less priority to inactive programs. By this way, the running (active) application will get higher CPU power and resources, so it’ll perform more smoothly. How this tool works? TopWinPrio checks your windows once a second (that can be changed). The active window will receive a higher priority than normal. When you shift to another window, the previous window will return back to its default priority and the new active window will now get higher priority. TopWinPrio is a free, lightweight application that can be downloaded at source (requires .Net framework 3.5 for Windows XP) Note: TopWinPrio will not boost applications run with administrator rights. Do not use High priority on online games, it will conflict with your network driver’s priority and that will cause your game to lag.

Simpo PDF Creator Pro is an excellent application for batch converting any files - word documents, spreadsheet, presentations, emails, websites or any other printable files into PDF files. It has a very intuitive interface which is suitable for both experts and novices for creating pdf files. The most attractive feature of Simpo PDF Creator Pro is it can preserve hyperlinks from Word and PowerPoint and auto generate PDF bookmark from Word document. Simpo PDF Creator Pro normally costs $29.95, but on back Friday (Today) you can get it free from the developer. Just visit here and enter you email to get a free license. Offer active only for 24 hours. You can download Simpo PDF Creator Pro from here .

HTTPS Everywhere is a popular security add-on for Firefox that can protect your login details by encrypting your web communication with several websites that support secure HTTPS connection ( but may not default to secure), for example, Facebook, Twitter, Hotmail, Dropbox, etc. The latest release of HTTPS Everywhere offers improved protection against the latest buzz word Firesheep, a Firefox add-on that watches fro cookies, and lets others to log into your account if you are browsing on an open wireless network. HTTPS Everywhere now provides much better protection against it for Facebook, Twitter and Hotmail accounts. The latest release adds new protection for bit.ly, Dropbox, Amazon AWS, Evernote, Cisco and Github. More details about the latest release and download available at source

Opera has released first beta version of Opera 11 with many new innovative features. The fastest browser on Earth now comes with features like Tab Stacking, Safer address field, extended auto-update, Enhanced email, extension support, etc. Following are few new features of Opera 11 beta: Tab Stacking: helps you keep your tabs organized. It lets you drag one tab over another to create a group. You can keep dozens of web pages open, organized and under control. A safer address field: Opera's new address field hides the complexity of long web addresses and gives you better control of your security when browsing. Extended auto-update: A new auto-update system ensures that your extensions and Opera Unite apps are always up to date. Enhanced email: A new mail panel gives you control over the order in which your accounts and mail items show up. You can just drag items where you want them. Extensions support: You can now browse Opera's extensions catalog to add new functionality ea...

Agnitum has released a free, full-functional Internet Security Suite for Windows (both 32bit and 64 bit). Built on Outpost Security Suite Pro 7.0.4 basis, the free version offers proactive malware prevention, firewall protection, and spam filtering, all for at no charge. According to Agnitum , the free version " does not provide the depth of configuration, automation and control offered by the commercial suite ." Instead, it comes with optimal default settings to address web-borne threats including known and zero-day viruses, spyware, hacker attacks and intrusions, spam, and more. This lightweight security solution is fully compatible with Windows 7, Vista, and XP, 2000 (both 32- and 64-bit) and can be downloaded free at source . Here is the comparison list between Pro and Free editions . ( Via )

Are you worried about confidential data being read on your system? If yes, try getting your hands on IOBit Password Folder . Its precise features help you lock any file or folder, thus making it inaccessible to unauthorized users. There are several tools like Password Folder, but this is really simple to use, just drag and drop the folders or files you want to hide or protect from prying eyes. Here are some key features of "IOBit Password Folder": Hide from view: You can Hide folders, files, pictures and videos from prying eyes. No one can see them except you. Block Access: Password protects files, folders, and programs from accessing. Write Protection: Protect your files from being modified by others. Privacy Protection: Keep your private data, files, pictures or videos into Password Folder, thus prevent data theft. To use IOBit Password Folder, no particular technical knowledge is requiring. Just install, give a password and then drag and drop any file or folder that...

Generally people depend on OCR (optical character recognition) software for extracting text from an image file such as JPEG, scanned documents, or PDF file. OCR can be used, for example, to convert books and documents into digital format. Here are two simple and free solutions for extracting text from images. OCRconvert.com is a free online OCR service that allows you to convert PDF, JPEG and scanned images into editable documents. Simply upload your file and the server side program will process the file for any editable text and will send the results back to you, which you can either download the text in for of word document or copy & past online. Another solution for extracting text from images is using Google Docs service. Go to http://docs.google.com and log in with your Google account. Then click ‘ Upload ’ button and choose an image or PDF file to upload. Check the box against ‘ Convert text from PDF or image files to Google Docs documents ” and then click ‘ Start Upload ’...

Redirect to HTTPS is an extension for Opera 11that encrypts your web communication with several major websites that support secure HTTPS connection, but may not default to secure, for example Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia, etc. This Opera extension automatically redirects you to the secure version of web pages. Redirect to HTTPS can also modify the links on pages you open to make them point directly to the HTTPS version. Supported websites are Facebook, Gmail, Google, Hotmail, New York Times, Twitter, Wikipedia, etc. You can Install Redirect to HTTPS from Opera add-on gallery . Similar add-on for Firefox .

MediaWiki is the most popular wiki software that power a number of wiki websites including Wikipedia, Wiktionary and Wikinews. The Media Wiki add-in for Microsoft Office Word (Word 2007 and 2010) turns your Word into a Wiki WYSIWYG Editor. A most attractive feature of this Media Wiki add-in is you can directly save any word documents into Wiki Format or Wiki style markup without knowing Wiki formatting code. How it work? Download the MediaWiki Add-in from Microsoft and install it. Just create a document as usual or open an old document. Save it by clicking File – Save As – MediaWiki. You can paste this newly converted Wiki Markup into your MediaWiki page.

Adobe has released a new, feature rich, more secure PDF reader (Adobe Reader X) with protected mode. Protected mode ( for Windows ) helps users to open any PDF files without fear inside a secured sandboxing layer. Protected mode is enabled by default. In this mode, malicious PDF documents can’t launch arbitrary executable files or write to system directories or the Windows Registry. Besides the standard PDF reader features, Adobe Reader X can also open and interact with all types of PDF contents, including forms and multimedia. Key Features of Adobe Reader X (Adobe Reader v.10) Protected Mode (for Windows only) in Reader helps ensure safer viewing of PDF files, which is enabled by default. Open and interact with all types of PDF content like multimedia, drawings, email messages, spreadsheets, etc. Directly access Adobe’s online services and can do common tasks such as creating PDF files, securely sharing and storing them. Support for mobile devices such as Android, Windows Phone 7 and ...

Windows 7 comes with some beautiful screensavers such as Bubbles, Mystify, Ribbons, Lines and Aurora, but to customize these default screensavers, you have need some skill in Windows registry. But with the free tool Idle Time Edit anyone can change, modify and customize them without much effort. With this portable tool, you can have a lot of options and settings for each default screensaver such as, for instance, number of bubbles or ribbons, type of bubbles or ribbons, size etc. Moreover, you can see your changes right way, without pressing OK and wait for the screensaver to activate. ( Via ) Interested readers can download (182Kb) Idle Time Edit free at this link .

There are various techniques and third party tools that can be used to deal with corrupted word document. Before trying a third party tool to recover a damaged word document, here are few simple techniques that can help you recover your damaged files effectively and quickly. One of the most common causes of Microsoft word documents getting corrupted is damage to the Normal.dot file. This file is also referred to as the global template to recover a file. To check this: Open damaged word document. Click Files – Option – Add-ins – Template – Go ( see screen-shot below, Word 2010 ). If the document template box has an entry other than the ‘ Normal ’, then click ‘ Attach ’ button. Look for the Normal file in the attach templates and click open. Click Ok to close the dialogue box and close Word. Now, click Start button and enter the text winword /a in the Run search box . This will open Word without loading any add-ins ( troubleshooting mode of Word ). If your document doesn’t cause any ...

All-In-One Tray is a portable and easy to use application for Windows 7 that will place all control panel items and other applications in the taskbar. You can access various items by simply clicking on the -In-One Tray icon. It may help you easy your daily task. All-In-One Tray can be downloaded at this link . Run it, it’ll place an icon on the task bar, just click on it to open the window. To minimize the window just click Winn + Q key. You can also add your own application short cut to this program from the option menu. To change 'User Custom Path Label', go to settings.ini, look at the last line. Change it to whatever name you want.

Microsoft is making available a fix to solve the issues related to icons changing randomly to other icons on computers running Windows 7, Vista and XP. According to the KB 2396571 article, this issue is caused by the incorrect update of the icon cache. If your system facing this issue, that is, some icons on My Computer, Windows Explorer, Desktop and Quick Launch bar are randomly changed to other icons, Take a jump to the KB 2396571 article and run the Fix it to fix the problem. If that doesn’t work, you can also fix this problem manually. For that follow these steps: Close all open windows if a Close Open Programs Interaction dialog box is displayed. Verify the Max Cached Icons registry value that locates in the following registry subkey equals to 2000: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer Delete IconCache.db that locates in the following path: Windows XP: %userprofile%\Local Settings\Application Data Windows Vista or Windows 7: %userprofile%\Ap...

Wondershare Disk Manager Free is an easy to use, wizard driven application for Windows that help all-level users to manage their hard disk partitions - create, delete, re-size, copy, recover, convert, set partition active, hide/unhide partition, format partition, etc. It also lets you create an exact copy of hard disk, so no need to worry about data loss when you manage partitions. Wondershare Disk Manager has two mode of operation. TheWizard mode help beginners complete the most common partitioning tasks and Expert mode is designed for familiar users to manage partitions and hard disk in a faster way. Features of Wondershare Disk Manager: Easy to use, designed for both novice and expert users Helps you re-structure hard disk for maximum disk use Partition manager can create, delete, resize, copy…and recover partitions Disk management allows you to copy hard disk, delete all partitions, etc. Complete wizards make partition management a piece of cake Wondershare Disk Manager is freewar...

Web Browsers Traces Eraser is an application from Novirusthanks that helps users to quickly clean internet traces from their computer. It’ll clean all traces of sites you have visited, downloaded history, cookies sessions, cache file, flash player traces, Java Cache, Log files, temp files and index.DAT Files on next Reboot. The program can run from a USB drive, and it also supports command line parameters to automatically clean detected traces or it can load selected traces from an INI file. Web Browsers Traces Eraser is very simple to use, when you run the program, it’ll analyze your system for Internet traces and automatically put a check in the traces present in the left panel. Click the button “Clean” to erase selected traces. Web Browsers Traces Eraser can be downloaded at this link .

With the free tool CodeTwo Outlook AutoConfig, anyone can setup an email account in Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express, Windows Mail and Windows Live Mail without any knowledge of those IMAP, POP3, SSL or TLS. The only requirement is your email address; the application will do all other settings for you in seconds. Outlook AutoConfig is very easy to use. Just run the tool and provide your email address (if the mail client has not been used before, launch it and close it before using this tool), your display name will be suggested automatically. Pick the mail client you want to create, and then click ‘ Create account ’ button. Run your mail client (example - Outlook), you will be asked to enter your password. Enter your password and click OK. That’s all. CodeTwo Outlook AutoConfig is a portable, free tool, you can download it at this link .

Duplicate Cleaner is a an easy to use, full-featured application that helps you to get rid of duplicate files, mp3s, photos, old documents, etc from your PC and saves your valuable hard disk space. It provides optimal comparison criteria to determine which files are real duplicates and has deep scanning for music tags including MP3, iTunes, etc. Duplicate Cleaner is very simple to use. Select a ‘search path’ (My documents, any folder, etc) and add these in the ‘Search Paths’. Then, select file filter option, then, choose any option (example, same content) under ‘Find Files With’. You can also specify maximum or minimum files size, then click ‘GO’ button to scan the duplicates. You can then remove the duplicates. The scanning process is impressive and it works with Windows 2000, Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7. Duplicate Cleaner can be downloaded free at this link .

Few months back we have written here a tutorial for making classic start menu for Windows 7 without any software. Here is another method for enabling classic start menu in Windows 7 without any third party software. Users who still love the old Windows 98 style Classic start menu may love this one for their Win 7. This is very simple. Right click on the Taskbar in Windows 7 and select Toolbars – New Toolbars. It'll open a ‘ Browse ’ dialog box. Copy and paste the following code in the folder text box and click on ‘ Select folder ’ button. It’ll add ‘ Programs ’ toolbar to Taskbar near the tray icon. %ProgramData%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs To bring this ‘ Programs ’ toolbar near to the start button (Start ORB), once again right click on the taskbar and uncheck the option ‘ Lock the Taskbar ’. It’ll display a placeholder to drag the toolbar. Drag the placeholder handle and drop it just after the Start ORB. You’ll also see many folders under " Programs " toolb...

Instant Previews is a new feature by Google for its search result page that enables users to view an instant visual preview of a website direct from the search results pages. It helps you to pick which result is right for you. However, ‘Instant Previews’ feature is not available in Opera. Opera users need to make a small change in their browser, just like we did it for Google Instant . Visit http://www.google.com/webhp?sclient=psy; in Opera. Right click anywhere on the blank page and select " Edit Site Preferences ” Go to the " Network " tab and choose " Identify as Firefox " from the drop down list on the bottom. Click OK to save and refresh the page. That’s it.

Adobe Flash Player is one of the most widely using software in the world. To watch streaming video, play games online, etc requires flash. At the same time flash is also one of the most vulnerable computer programs. There have been several reported exploitations in recent years. The only solution currently is updating flash player to the latest version. But, the question is how to identify the installed flash player version and how to update it? Besides, Flash Player is available as a plug-in for Mozilla Firefox, IE, Opera and Safari (Google Chrome has integrated Flash support), so, is it necessary to update each and every one. To check the Flash Player version, visit here , there you’ll see a page as shown above. Shown at right top is your flash player version, shown at bottom is current version. Update it if they are different from this link . Note: If you have multiple browsers such as Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari and Opera, you need to update each one’s flash plug-ins separa...

Rootkits are a dangerous program that enables administrator- level access to a computer or a network system. Rootkits can hide their presence from normal Antivirus programs by activating before your computer booted up completely. So, to detect their presence, special ant-rootkit programs like NoVirusThanks Anti-Rootkit are necessary. NoVirusThanks Anti-Rootkit is a sophisticated rootkit analysis tool that can detect all hidden processes, hidden drivers, stealth DLL modules, code hooks, etc, existed on your hard drive and system memory. If it find any suspicious activity or stealth objects (processes, modules, drivers etc.), it’ll highlights them in Red color . However, the program can’t remove detected items automatically, that’s beyond the scope of this tool, but offers a few forms of "unhooking" and file wiping options. NoVirusThanks Anti-Rootkit is a must-have for anyone seeking true 32-bit Windows NT kernel security and system threat analysis. The vast detection range of...

Paragon Backup and Recovery Advanced edition is a comprehensive backup and restore utility that allows you to backup or restore whole of your data or your entire Windows PC (including the operating system, applications, user settings and all data). This free version offers all the necessary facilities (including support for the system virtualization - P2V) to build a bullet-proof shield against any disaster. Paragon Backup & Recovery 2010 Free Advanced Edition has the following main features: User friendly, wizard driven interface simplifies even the most complex operations Complete Backup /Differential Backup - Create an exact copy of your PC/ backup only changed data. Backup - FTP servers, CD/DVD/Blu-ray, Network drives as well as the secured hidden hard partition (Backup Capsule) P2V Copy - migrate a live Win2K+ physical system to a virtual environment. Options to restore an entire disk, separate partitions or only files you need from the previously created backup image. Paragon...

Microsoft has just released a new theme, Harvest Time for its Windows 7 desktop. This seasonal theme contains 18 images from all over the world to represent the harvest. Harvest Time images below Download Harvest Time from Microsoft Personalization gallery.

RUBotted is a new security product from Trendmicro (currently beta) which is capable of detecting known and unknown variants of known botnet families including some of the most notorious botnets today such as ZBOT/Zeus (bank information stealer), KOOBFACE (Web 2 botnet) and WALEDAC (spamming bot). RUBotted monitors your computer for any suspicious activities associated with botnet malware and if detected it’ll clean them with HouseCall . RUBotted is a free product and this new release features improved detection of unknown versions of bot clients and better cleaning capabilities. Moreover, it is fully compatible with other antivirus products that may already be installed in your systems. Bots are malicious files that enable cybercriminals to secretly take control of your computer. RUBotted protects your system by continuously monitoring your computer for potential infection and suspicious activities. RUBotted can be downloaded free at this link .