Up until now, only popular security solution providers such as Kaspersky, BitDefender, and AVG were offering free rescue tools to fix infected PCs without booting into Windows. Today, Microsoft has released Microsoft Standalone System Sweeper Beta, a recovery tool to perform an offline scan without booting into Windows. Microsoft Standalone System Sweeper Tool The tool […]
Archives for May 2011
7-Zip Theme Manager: Customize 7-Zip User Interface
Extracting the contents of archived files is one of the things that we do almost every day. And, when it comes to file compression and decompression, 7-Zip is the best free software to care of archived files. It’s a powerful open source archive manager with compression ratio. For all those 7-Zip lovers who want to […]
Download SSDlife For Windows 10
More and more PC users are replacing their old Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) with Solid State Drives (SSDs) to get better read and write speed and to improve overall PC performance. Other than fast read and write speed, SSDs have a long lifespan than traditional HDDs. Most of the Solid State Drive manufactures offer free […]
Ultimate Taskbar Controller: Change Windows 7 Taskbar Settings
The all new Taskbar is one of the best features of the latest Windows OS. Windows 7 allows you pin files, folders, and apps to the Taskbar so that you can use the Taskbar as a dock as well. The Jump List is another awesome feature of Taskbar which lets you quickly access recently opened […]
Logon Personalization Tool For Windows 7
The default logon screen background image of Windows 7 is pretty good, but if you are bored with the default one, you can always replace it with a custom one. One can also change the other parts of the logon screen using available free utilities. We have already talked about tens of free tools to […]
Windows 8 Theme (Visual Style) For Windows XP
Each version of Windows operating system comes with new features, new boot screen, logon screen and also a new visual style (theme). With Windows Vista, Microsoft introduced eye candy Aero glass visual style, included polished Aero glass visual style in Windows 7 and dropped the Aero glass visual style from Windows 8. Users who ever […]
Windows 8 Logon Date And Clock For Windows 7 Logon Screen
By now, you probably have tried one of the public preview builds or at least seen the pictures of upcoming Windows 8 operating system. The newest iteration not only packs-in a host of new features but ships with major UI changes as well. The moment you turn on your Windows 8 PC, you will see […]
Analyzed For WMP: Customizable Visualization For Windows Media Player
As with most of the media players out there, Windows Media Player also supports visualization plugins. Even though developers and Windows enthusiasts have stopped releasing new visualizations, there are plenty of good visualizations available on the web. One can either choose one of the built-in visualizations or install variety visualization plugins available on the web. […]
ESET Smart Security 5 Beta And NOD32 Antivirus 5 Beta Available Now
ESET NOD32 Antivirus for Windows might not be the best security software anymore, but it continues to remain one of the popular security software available for Windows. ESET has recently released the beta version of its forthcoming ESET Smart Security 5.0 and NOD32 Antivirus 5.0 software and they are available to download now. ESET Smart […]
BitDefender Security Scan: Free Tool To Scan Windows For Speed, Stability And Security Issues
BitDefender, one of the well known security solutions, has released a new free product called BitDefender Security Scan. BitDefender Security Scan helps you scan your Windows for speed, stability and security issues with a few mouse clicks. This free application gives a detailed report on the status of any security threads and registry errors. And, […]