Category: Windows 7

The standard uninstaller supplied with various software might or might not remove all the related files and registry entries from your system. Often this results in leftover files and obsolete registry entries. If you want to completely remove programs from your system, then you can use the freeware Geek Uninstaller tool to thoroughly scan and remove all the leftover files and entries.

Google Drive, the free cloud storage service from Google, has finally arrived after years of rumors and waiting. Google Drive is offering five gigabytes of storage space for free. If you require more space, then you can pay for it and get as much as one terabyte of cloud space. In competition with other cloud service, Google Drive is also offering apps for Android and desktop client for Windows and Mac. An app for iPhone and iPad is under development.

Windows stores all the important information in the Registry which is a database containing many hives and subhives. Sometimes when you uninstall a software, it leaves behind obsolete entries in the registry. This slowly keeps increasing the size of the registry files making it longer to load. You can clean and repair all these junk entries in the Windows registry using the Eusing Free Registry Cleaner.

The License Crawler is a freeware Windows application that can help you discover software product keys and other serial numbers or licenses very quickly. It allows you to save the discovered keys and serial numbers in a plain text file or an encrypted file. It supports all versions of Windows operating system starting from Windows 95 to Windows 7. It also has a feature to scan the registry for serial numbers of a remote networked computer.

MakeMKV is a very simple and fast tool for converting DVD videos into MKV files. It can be used on both Windows and Mac. You can use both BlueRay and DVD disks as input video source in MakeMKV. If you are interested in converting and backing up your DVD or BlueRay collection into the MKV format, then you can use the MakeMKV beta. MakeMKV is a one-click solution to convert videos that you own into free and patents free MKV format that can be played anywhere.

After recording something off the TV, sometimes I use video editing programs to remove the portions where advertisements are shown. Usually if you want to remove portions of some video, then you have to go through the video and sound encoding process all over again. But thanks to the free Video Dub program, now you can remove unwanted parts of videos without having to go through the re-encoding again.

Virus infection, hard disk failure, computer theft, fire etc. are some of the usual reasons for data loss. While you can use tools like Backup Maker to create backups of important system files, a better way is to create a clone image of the entire hard disk. This way you can just restore the entire hard disk in case of any unpredictable disasters. The freeware HDClone can help you quickly create disk images for your hard disks and other mass storage media.

Matroska is a multimedia container format which can contain inside it a number of audio and video files. Because the Matroska format is a container for all sorts of multimedia (audio, video, subtitles etc.), these movies (usually with extension MKV) can contain a full DVD or a complete movie in a single file. The MKVToolnix is an open source software for creating, merging, extracting and manipulating the MKV movies. It is available for Windows, Mac and Linux.

How many times it happens that you copy something in the clipboard but forgot about it and then copied something else over it? The previous content from clipboard is gone and you can do nothing but cry over the spilled milk. The freeware app Save.me solves this problem by automatically saving everything you copy in the clipboard. It can save everything from the clipboard whether it is a picture, file, text or something else.

To make the most out of your computer hardware, it is essential that you keep the device drivers updated. One way to keep them up-to-date is to visit the hardware manufacturer sites regularly and download the latest version of drivers when available. But a free utility called SlimDrivers makes this task much easier for everyone. SlimDrivers can check if newer versions of drivers for all your hardware are available in just one click.