Category: Windows 7

Current date and time is displayed in Windows at the lower-right corner in the taskbar. But its format, look and feel has not changed much over all the years. It looked same in Windows 95/98 and it does not look much different in Windows 8 either. But now you can replace the old plain boring looking clock with a stylish clock using the Free Desktop Clock software. Free Desktop Clock decorates the standard digital display with a handful of skins and shows the current date and day.

Duplicate files exist on our computer for many reasons – downloading same file multiple times, creating a backup copy of some files, saving the same file in different locations and so on. Although not harmful, yet these duplicate files take up the valuable disk space on our hard disk. If you want to get rid of all the duplicate copies of the files, then AllDup is a great tool. It is a freeware application for searching and removing file duplicates on your computer.

You must have noticed that after using Windows for a few months, it tends to become slower in response. This is mainly because of the junk files and obsolete registry entries that it has to deal with. You can either reinstall Windows or you can use the freeware tool DrivePurge to clean your Windows system of the unnecessary files that are just taking up your hard disk space and making it slower.

Everything for Windows is a utility that offers literally lightening fast search for all the files and folders on your hard disk. It is obviously much better than the inbuilt search feature included in Windows. Windows Search takes a long time even on hard disks with few files. Everything, on the other hand, quickly performs search and shows results as you type them in the search field – even on hard disks with millions of files.

Sometimes, we embark into that part of the Internet which we do not want others to know about. We wish to keep our browsing experience secret from everyone else. If you cannot afford the privacy of a closed room and are afraid of someone quietly sneaking up on you, then you can use the free NCS WinVisible software. It can hide all the pre-configured windows from the taskbar with a single press of a button.

If you are an advanced Windows user, then you know how many times you have to replace the system files in order to add some extra features or functionalities in Windows. For example, in Windows sometimes you have to overwrite the tcpip.sys which increases the number of simultaneous connections made by Windows. If you find it hard to replace these system files manually, then you can use the free SysMate System File Walker which can help you do so with ease.

In many operating systems, the HOSTS file is the first step used by the system to lookup for IP addresses for different domain names. It is a table that is used to convert domain names into IP addresses. If a domain is not found in the HOSTS file, only then operating system queries the DNS servers for the IP address. In Windows, if you want to add, modify or remove entries in the HOSTS file then you can make use of the free SysMate Hosts File Walker program.

It is not always an easy job to find out about the hardware specifications of your computer system. Finding this system information is very important when you are seeking help from computer professionals – as you have to tell them about your system. You can poke around your computer for finding the system specifications, or you can use Speccy. Speccy is a free tool to find out your system information.

If you want a much more advanced copy function, then you should try free SuperCopier app. It is a freeware copy dialog which replaces the standard copy progress window in Windows Explorer. It shows you options to pause, resume and cancel the file copy operations. It also features automatic file renaming in case of conflicting filenames.