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Check Your PC For Malware And Software Vulnerabilities With Kaspersky Security Scan

Kaspersky Security Scan is a free tool that lets you scan your PC and USB drives for any active infection, software vulnerabilities and other non-malware security problems. It can be quite useful, for example, if you suspect your PC might be infected with malware that your current antivirus program isn’t detecting, you can use this free tool from Kaspersky to check.

Supported Antimalware Apps For Windows 8 Release Preview

Microsoft has released a list of antivirus programs that supports Windows 8. These include popular brands such as Norton, Kaspersky, McAfee, etc. Windows 8 (Release Preview) has a built-in anti-malware scanner called Windows Defender. However, if you prefer to use any of the antimalware apps listed, Windows Defender will silently turn itself off.

Password Protect Folder, Files and Drives With File Secure Free

Keeping your data secure has never been more important, and if you’re in business, you know that data is often your most valuable asset. With File Secure Free, you can protect and back up your private and personal documents and other files located on computer or portable devices.

Clipboard Wizard Converts Any Text On Clipboard To Plain Text

If you copy and paste text from web pages to Microsoft Word or Excel, it will also paste all the extra formatting, font, color and table information along with the text. To avoid this annoyance, either you need to configure the Word or Excel to ignore formatting or use an application like Clipboard Wizard.

Organize Your Files And Folders With Arrange Desktop

Like many, if you have a habit of saving all sorts of files and folders on your desktop or My Document folder, over a period of time it would become mess up with several files and folders. Manually arranging files into different folders based on file type is a cumbersome job. If you’re looking for an easy solution to arrange your desktop or any other location, here is a little tool called Arrange Desktop.

Auto Clean Flash Cookies From Your Computer

Flash Player is probably the most widely used browser plug-in on the planet. Still it is an indispensable tool for watching web videos, playing games and animations. But the problem is that it can also be used for tracking your online activities by using Flash cookies (Flash local storage objects). Here is how to auto clean flash cookies from your computer.

Limit Children’s Access To Websites With NoVirusThanks Website Blocker

With the ever-increasing number of children logging on to the web, software like NoVirusThanks Website Blocker comes in handy to limit young children’s access to certain websites or unsafe websites. This free utility is designed to manage allowed and blocked websites.

How To Make 3D Anaglyph Image

3D anaglyph videos and photos have been around for a long time now. 3D videos can be seen at YouTube. In addition, YouTube lets you convert some normal videos to 3D with a click. A 3D anaglyph image is nothing but two images of the same subject superimposed over each other with a slightly different perspective using two contrasting colors. Here is how to make a 3D anaglyph image with a simple tool 'Anaglyph Maker'.

Chrome Like Tabbed Interface For Windows Explorer

The advantage of tabbed browsing is that it enables users to open multiple browser windows within one window, which is more convenient to use from, also looks neat and clear. Here is how to implement the same tabbed interface to Windows Explorer with a free tool called Clover. It makes your desktop clutter free, enables switch between different tabs (window) instantly with shortcut keys and more.

Internet Off Helps You Stop Wasting Time Online

Have you a constant habit of going on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter or browsing the web for an exceptionally long amount of time? Does it always prevent you from completing your important tasks? Then here is how to automatically turn off your internet connection at preset time or turn it off completely with a click.

How To Enable Hibernate Option In Windows 8

The recently released test version of Windows 8 (Release Preview) has several outstanding features. However, it omitted some good old features for some reasons. For example, The Hibernation option, which is available in Windows Vista, and Windows 7 that helps users powering down their computer while retaining its state, misses in Windows 8.

Create A Shutdown Tile For Windows 8 (How to)

A number of Windows 8 users feel bad with the new Shut Down or Reboot option, because shutting down the Windows 8 computer involves few steps. However, by creating a shutdown shortcut tile on Start Screen, you can quickly shutdown your Windows 8 computer just with a click. Here is how to create Shutdown shortcut Tile for Windows 8 Release Preview.

How To Restrict Opening Too Many Tabs In Firefox

There are some good reasons that you want to restrict opening too many tabs in Firefox. For example, to prevent tabs from overloading and overflowing the tab bar, or to deal with the memory issue of your browser, etc. Here is how to set the maximum number of tabs that Firefox can open.