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Each time you plug a device into your computer, your PC automatically adds its information to your system’s registry. If you stop using the device, for example, past DVD drive, long-since replaced mice, USB drives and other hardware, its registry files can stay behind there. These files, usually called hardware ghost or ghosted or hidden devices, may cause problems to your system. Here is how to remove hardware ghost from your computer.

It is usual that after few months of using, our browser becomes very slow. This is due to old data it stores in its profile. All browsers have made available options to clean all old data from its history and cache, and there are several third party tools like CCleaner to do the same job. Iron Cleaner is a portable browser-cleaning tool specially designed for Google Chrome, Chromium and SRWare Iron browsers.

Want to generate a PDF document from a text file, html file or images, but don’t have a PDF creator on your computer? Here is an online solution called PDF Maker App that lets you generate PDF documents quickly from any file. It offers almost all the features a desktop version of PDF creator offers and quite easy to use.

In today's continuous busy-workplace, you may need to spend long hours in front of a computer looking at the monitor. It’ll create eyestrains as well as other physical problems. Suggested remedies for such problems are eye exercise and taking a short rest break from the computer monitor at a fixed time interval. However, most often people forget about the time when they are working at a computer. Here is how to solve it with an online tool called Eye Break.

Webroot System Analyzer is a free, little tool that investigates the Windows PC for performance issues and diagnoses vulnerabilities. It quickly scans a PC for threats, identifies problematic hardware, looks for protection measures and analyzes system information to diagnose and correct problems before they occur.

IObit just released first beta version of its popular system tweaking and PC care utility Advanced SystemCare v6. This new version has a brand new, simplified user interface and offers a range of PC care maintenance services in a convenient one- click solution to fix PC problems, clear out clutter, boost network performance, and speed up Windows. It works on both 32bit and 64bit systems.

Google Chrome has a built-in option for translating web pages. When you visit a page that is in another language, Chrome’s built-in translation bar should offer to translate it into English. In the same way, if you want to translate web content into different languages in Internet Explorer 9 (IE9), here is how you can enable translation option in IE9.

I had written several articles related to Windows right click menu (context menu) in previous posts like how to enhance window right click menu , etc. Here is a new tool that adds a "Show Clipboard Contents" entry to Windows desktop context menu (right click menu). With this tool, you can simply view the clipboard content (text file) by just right clicking, no need to paste the content into any application.

Passwords are the mainstay of the online world and we don’t like to give our passwords away. However, sometimes our passwords are revealed by our own stupidity and sometimes they get into the wrong hands due to the mischievous nature of hackers. The most recent examples for the compromised accounts are LinkedIn, Last.fm and Yahoo! Voice.

Windows 8 System Power Shortcuts is a simple application designed to bring Metro tiles for shutdown, restart, sleep, log off, etc to the Windows 8 Metro Start screen. Unlike the previous Windows 7, Windows 8 requires extra steps to get power control option. Also, as Windows 8 is a new OS, it might take some times to get familiar with the system controls. This app makes it easy to shutdown or restarts your system.

Users will be well aware that Windows 8 has a built-in security system to protect them from malware and spyware. Called Windows Defender, this protection system provides the same protection from malwares and spywares as Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) gives. You can also use Windows 8 compatible security suite from third-party vendors to protect your PC and the Windows Defender will automatically get turn off. However, would you like to disable Windows Defender manually?

If you are one of those, who want something different on their computer may certainly like NanWick Windows 7 Start Button changer. As it name implies this little tool lets you use your own picture as Start button (also known as Orb) in Windows 7. Here is how this application works.