Category: Windows 7

At work most of the people have to deal with lots of open windows at the same time. You can switch through them easily using the Alt + Tab switcher hotkey, but all the open windows make you delirious as you have to concentrate only one of them every time you look at your desktop screen. The free LeDimmer application can easily solve this problem by dimming all of the desktop screen except the foreground window. This makes it very easy to concentrate only on one window at a single time.

Microsoft has recently released the preview version of Internet Explorer 11 for Windows 7 users. But since this is a preview version, some of those who install it in Windows, might want to remove it once they have checked the new features that it is going to bring. If you want to remove Internet Explorer 11 from Windows 7, then you can go through the following simple steps.

After installing a software on my Windows computer, suddenly the ability to create new folders by right-clicking in a folder and selecting New → Folder disappeared in Windows. This was a very annoying trouble as I was not able to create new folders easily in Explorer, instead I was forced to open the command prompt and create folders using the mkdir command. But after sometime, I figured out the problem and fixed it.

If you want to make a tutorial about how to do something in your Windows PC, then it is best to capture the video or animation of that activity. The free LICECap application allows you to record screen activities into a GIF animation. This GIF file can be viewed using any popular image viewer, can be embedded inside a webpage or shared with friends. You can use LICECap to record many things like a chatting session or computer problem etc.

The RAM installed on your PC determines how many applications you can run simultaneously without slowing down your PC. The physical memory consumption varies from program to program. As the total memory usage increases beyond 90% of the total installed memory, you start to see a slowdown in your PC. The freeware application MemInfo can display the total amount of memory being utilized on your PC and automatically warns you when the memory usage crosses 90% threshold.

The pictures you snap with your digital camera are high resolution pictures – very fine in detail and quality, but very large in file size. You cannot transfer such large files on the Internet easily, therefore it is the usual practice to reduce the image file size before sharing them online. The RIOT (radical image optimization tool) is a free software that can help you easily reduce the file size of your pictures. It supports JPG, PNG and GIF image types.

The HTML5 is the next version of the HTML markup language and it supports the playing of videos without requiring any external plugins like Adobe Flash or Microsoft Media Player etc. If you also want to take the advantage of the new HTML5 video standard, and share your videos in the HTML5 video format then first thing you have to do is convert your videos in this format. You can use the freeware Easy HTML5 Video to easily convert any of your videos into the HTML5 format.

I turn on my computer early in the morning and let it run all through the day. I usually have no idea about how much or how long I use my PC everyday. If you are also like me, then a free software called PC On Off Time can tell you exactly how long you use your PC daily. It can also show when you rebooted due to an unexpected shutdown and if the PC was in standby mode.

Usually you have to click on an inactive window and bring it to the focus before you can do mouse scrolling with your mouse wheel. But thanks to the freeware WizMouse, now you can scroll a window without bringing it into focus first. When WizMouse is running, your mouse wheel input is sent to a window which is under the mouse cursor – no matter whether it is inactive or in foreground.

If you are watching videos online or listening to the music while at work and your employer catches you red handed, then you may end up losing your job. What if you could instantly close all the web browsers and media players, as soon as you see your boss coming around in your direction? That could save your embarrassment and sacking. Good news is that this is possible. You can create a batch script to close all the popular browsers and media players at the click of a button.