There are several free and paid cleaning tools available for your Windows PC. CCleaner is probably the most famous of them all. SlimCleaner is the world’s first software that lets you clean and optimize Windows systems using a crowd-sourced approach. SlimCleaner uses aggregated-cloud feedback to recommend optimal settings for programs, start-ups and services. SlimCleaner uses what’s called “authoritative ranking” to ensure that the ratings for your programs are accurate and that they reflect what people really think. It works by weighing the ratings of each contributor against their previous levels of accuracy and against the ratings of high-ranking users. Features…

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One feature that has remained lacking in Windows is multiple virtual desktops which are easy to use and customisable. Dexpot brings this much needed feature to all Windows machine with the latest version including support for Windows 8. Dexpot brings to you several features that truly enhance your Windows experience. Many of these features replicate the look and feel of Mac OSX Lion and Mountain Lion. Key features include: Full-screen preview is an interactive live overview of all desktops which allows you to windows to other desktops by simply dragging them with your mouse View all your windows as tiles…

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When it comes to power management, the Mac far excels any of the PCs. I have my Mac configured such that it goes to sleep within 30 minutes of it being idle. unfortunately this tends to disrupt my downloads and also prevents me from remote logging in whenever I want to. I’ve been hunting for a good application that keeps my Mac from falling asleep. Before you proceed with installing a new utility, keep in mind that preventing you Mac from sleeping has to be done with care, especially when the lid is closed. This can cause your Mac to…

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Windows Vista’s sidebar includes the note gadget which I use to take quick notes. Many of the note applications that I have come across have usually been shareware. On the hunt for an excellent sticky note application, I came across NoteFly. NoteFly is a tiny application that allows you to create sticky and non-sticky notes. The program is feature rich (check out the list below) and doesn’t touch your Windows registry. Creating notes is quick and painless and you can customize several aspects including the appearance of the notes. Features: Very small application. Less than 100kb setup if .NET framework…

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Do you often connect to secured wireless networks? And, have you ever lost the password / key for the network? Don’t panic. WirelessKeyView recovers all wireless network keys/passwords (WEP/WPA) stored in your computer by the ‘Wireless Zero Configuration’ service of Windows XP and by the ‘WLAN AutoConfig’ service of Windows Vista. It allows you to easily save all keys to text/html/xml file, or copy a single key to the clipboard. WirelessKeyView doesn’t even require installation. You can dump it on a portable drive and carry it around with you. Using WKV is extremely simple as well. All you need to…

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Anybody who uses a USB drive be it a pen drive or a hard disk knows how painful it can be when you run into the stupid “USB drive is in use” error everytime you try to eject the same. In such a situation, I normally rely on Unlocker to do the needful. However, that isn’t always solve the problem at one go. So, when I stumbled upon EjectUSB (Via: The Windows Fix) I decided to give it a shot. Weighing it at only 254KB, all you need to do is load EjectUSB on the USB device that you want…

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I needed a monitoring software to see when my CPU usage would cause a spike alongwith a noticeable drop in the free RAM. Although, I found a great many freeware and shareware options, very few met all the criteria I had in mind: should be freeware should be portable (no installation needed) should be as small as possible should have some customisable features It didn’t take me long to find, use and now recommend SysTrayMeter. It meets all the criteria set out above – weighing in at a measly 15 KB (That’s right! Fifteen kilobytes.), and occupying only between 1…

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So, you’re a conscientious system administrator or even a very neat and tidy home user who likes to keep his/her PC fully updated and patched against any malignant threats that float around on the interweb. Good for you. You subscribe and read so many postings on various security related forums. So when a new exploit comes along that makes use of a previously known hole, you want to make sure your system’s up-to-date. To help you out in that endeavour, Nirsoft’s WinUpdatesList is a GUI based viewer that displays all the hotfixes and service packs that are currently installed on…

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As a web and graphics designer there are lots of tools and software available to help one do their work. In fact, I would bet that without some of these tools that we completely take for granted, most of us web designers would be fairly miserable. Here’s a list of the 6 tools that I think every designer should have: 1) Photoshop / Dreamweaver : I wasn’t planning on listing anything that wasn’t free in this list, but no list related to web design would be complete without Adobe’s Photoshop. Dreamweaver is a program that you can live without, especially…

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Ever gotten those annoying Windows errors that won’t allow you to delete a file because it’s being used by some program on a monkey’s computer somewhere in the middle of the Amazon? I’ve had this problem on more than one occasion. And the normal response to this would be to fire up the windows task manager and look for what program could be using it. Most of the time you’ll come up with no answer and do what most Windows users are habited to doing.. restart. Well, fear no more, for we have a solution to your problem. Unlocker is…

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