Category: Windows 7

These days 3D images and movies are a craze. Every other movie is available in 3D vision that has to be watched with the special red-blue glasses. Newer digital cameras are coming with ability to capture pictures in 3D. But if you do not have a 3D camera, then you can use the free Z-Anaglyph program to convert two of your 2D pictures into one 3D picture.

After a few months of regular use, the free hard disk space seems to evaporate in thin air. We find ourselves scratching our head and wondering where all the hard disk space has gone. Now you no longer have to fumble in the darkness, the freeware Scanner can help you find out which folders on your hard disk are taking up a large portion of the hard disk space.

When you are using your computer for work in office or you are setting it up for your kids, then you may want to restrict the Internet access only to a few appropriate websites and block the rest of them. This way your office employees or kids would be able to access one or two websites and nothing else. It can be done very easily in Windows through the Parental Controls feature in Windows Vista, 7 and 8.

After some time of PC usage, Windows creates many files in different folders like thumbs.db, iconcache.db and so on. These files help some of the minor Windows functions but are not generally required and can amount up to many gigabytes of hard disk space. You can delete these files from your hard disk and claim all the space taken up by them. The freeware application PureRa can help you quickly clean all these files in a single click.

Adobe Flash Player is one of the most extensively used browser plugin in multiple platforms including Windows, Linux, Mac, iOS and Android. If you are using and old version of Adobe Flash in Windows, then you may become vulnerable to many of the known security threats and should either uninstall Adobe Flash from all the browsers in Windows or you should update it. If you are looking forward to uninstalling Adobe Flash plugin in all the browsers in Windows then you can follow these instructions.

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.