A secret to keeping your computer smoothly is to perform regular maintenance on your computer. Last week we covered ten tools to defragment your hard disk. Besides defragmenting, you should regularly clean all temporary files. Cleaning all these files manually can be quite a pain. So, here are some tools that can assist you to [...]
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I love software. I make sure I track regular releases and have identified several sites that help me do so. Below is a list of seven file repositories and software directories that I use.
Freeware Files
As the name suggests, Freeware Files is the place to get completely free and open source software. You won’t find any [...]
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Androsa FileProtector is a professional and freeware file encryption software that protects any type of file encrypting completely the content with the most advanced systems of cryptography.
Androsa FileProtector allows to put to the sure sensitive file or personal file that do not have to be used/viewed from people not authorized that they have logging to [...]
Why pay for programs to burn CDs when you can get professional CD burning programs for free.
Ashampoo is currently offering v6.71 of their Ashampoo Burning Studio.
Ashampoo Burning Studio Free has all the features you need to take care of your regular burning tasks, including CD, DVD and Blu-Ray burning, multi-disc file backup, an integrated audio [...]
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So, you realize it is time to reinstall your operating system and all the other software that you require. And then you realize, “Now where did I put those serials!”
This is where ProduKey comes to the rescue.
ProduKey is a small utility that displays the ProductID and the CD-Key of MS-Office, Windows, Exchange Server, and SQL [...]
You have this whole stack of movies safely stored on DVDs. You could run into two issues.
The DVD gets scratched and you lose your precious movie
The DVD is for a specific region and your player doesn’t support it
If you have sufficient hard disk space, then you can store the DVD on your disc and always [...]
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Tired of using Windows Calculator? Looking for more power and also more flexibility?
Command Line Calculator is general purpose calculator. Calculations are entered on command line and result is produced after pressing ENTER.
Features:
Expression calculation, unlimited length
Plotting graphs
Variables can be used
User can define own functions
Saving and opening previous calculations
Temporary file and history list
Date calculation
Following numbers are supported: [...]
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One thing that is required to maintain the smooth running of your operating system is the regular defragmentation of your hard drives.
There are several freeware and shareware programs available for use. However, one that I have been using for a long time now is Power Defragmenter GUI.
Power Defragmenter is a GUI (Graphic User Interface) application [...]
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7 Super Tools For Faster Windows File Copy / Move Process takes a look at five freeware and two shareware programs that will help speed up the copying / moving files. Extremely useful when you are moving tonnes of large files.
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As you continue to use your PC, the files get defragmented. The more the defragmentation, the longer it takes time for your operating system to fetch the files resulting in decreased performance.
Windows comes with an inbuilt defragmenter which you should run regularly to keep defragmentation levels low. However, the higher the defragmentation the longer it [...]
