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AltEdge: Switch between Windows Without Using Alt+Tab Hotkey

August 31st, 2010 by Sourojit

While Working on windows we keep opening many documents and applications. These applications remains on the taskbar and switching between them can be done through Alt+Tab hotkey combination. There are times when any of these key may not work on your system or you may not wish to press these keys every time you want to switch tasks. AltEdge is a small application that comes handy in these situations. Continue reading ‘AltEdge: Switch between Windows Without Using Alt+Tab Hotkey’

WirelessNetView: Get detailed Information on Available Wi-Fi networks

August 27th, 2010 by Sourojit

Nowadays using wireless networks is becoming a bit common for accessing internet or sharing files over local area network. But there may be more than one wireless networks nearby, these are automatically detected by windows as soon as  Wi-Fi receiver of your system is switched on. Windows detects almost all networks except the hidden ones but does not provide much information on them. WirelessNetView is a handy free utility that can be used for this purpose. Continue reading ‘WirelessNetView: Get detailed Information on Available Wi-Fi networks’

Plop BootManager: Boot From USB Drive [Freeware]

August 26th, 2010 by Varun

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There are times when you wish to boot your system from a pen drive, especially, when it is not booting from the HDD, and you urgently want to access a file in your system. Now you can use Plop BootManager to boot your system via USB drive, even if your PC or laptop does not support USB boot. Continue reading ‘Plop BootManager: Boot From USB Drive [Freeware]‘

How to Customize CTRL+ALT+DEL Option in Windows 7

August 25th, 2010 by Sourojit

Every one must be familiar with the CTRL+ALT+DEL hotkey combination in windows. This combination is used at times when we experience a full system freeze, it brings up the task manager giving access to other options like lock computer, switch user, change password and log off. But most of the times it is seen that we do not use many of these features. These unwanted entries can be enabled or disabled using  Tweak CTRL+ALT+DEL Option Tool. Continue reading ‘How to Customize CTRL+ALT+DEL Option in Windows 7′

MenuMaid: Remove Unwanted Windows Explorer and IE Context Menu Items

August 24th, 2010 by Sourojit

Adding application shortcut to context menu is a smart way to perform tasks faster with just a single click. But with time and installation of various applications context menu keeps expanding and may seem too bulky not only for windows explorer but also in IE. These unwanted context menu entries can be easily removed using MenuMaid. Continue reading ‘MenuMaid: Remove Unwanted Windows Explorer and IE Context Menu Items’

1 Second Folder Encryption: Secure Private Folders in Windows

August 23rd, 2010 by Sourojit

While talking about private data on computer we refer to any data that we do not want to be accessed by others. It can be any official document, photographs, documents containing various account details etc. To accomplish this purpose there are various tools available in the market to lock such files or folders but you have to pay a high price for them. 1 Second Folder Encryption is tool that performs this job for you with out bothering your pocket at all. Continue reading ‘1 Second Folder Encryption: Secure Private Folders in Windows’

Recover Lost Passwords With AT4RE Password Recovery

August 22nd, 2010 by Varun

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Experts advice to use unique (hard to guess) and different passwords for your various accounts, so that even if one of your accounts’ password is compromised, your other accounts remain safe. Otherwise, it will be a “game-over” situation for you. Continue reading ‘Recover Lost Passwords With AT4RE Password Recovery’

PC Brother System Care: A Complete Free System Maintenance Solution

August 22nd, 2010 by Sourojit

System Maintenance is an important aspect when we want to achieve optimum performance. With continuous usage computers tend to become slower and slower. There are many reasons behind this fact are registry errors, fragmented disk, unwanted startup processes and applications, unoptimized RAM etc. There are many small freeware available today to perform all these tasks individually but when we talk about a total maintenance package there are really very few which are free like Tuneup Utilities, Advanced System Care etc.  Continue reading ‘PC Brother System Care: A Complete Free System Maintenance Solution’

FreeApps: Download Windows Freeware Applications from Desktop

August 20th, 2010 by Sourojit

There are many freeware applications that we love to use on our systems. These free applications not only serves to perform our work faster but few among them become a must have in our day to day use. Keeping track of all these new applications individually is a tedious work when we are using dozens of these applications. Though there are many software updater available today, very few are strictly emphasized only on freewares. FreeApps is a handy tool that helps us performing this job easily. Continue reading ‘FreeApps: Download Windows Freeware Applications from Desktop’

Add Find and Replace to Firefox

August 20th, 2010 by Ashish Mundhra

Find and Replace feature is one of the most important feature of any application which support inline text editing. You all may find it surprising that this feature is not available by default in one of the leading browser, Mozilla Firefox. Now here is a way you can have the Find and Replace feature in any variant of Firefox.

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