Category: Windows 7

Microsoft is going to terminate their support for Windows XP soon, so many of XP users would be forced to switch to Windows 7 or Windows 8. If you have switched to Windows 7 and still miss the good old Windows XP looks, then you can always install the Windows XP theme in Windows 7. It will not change the way Windows 7 works, but it will only make it look like Windows XP.

Some Windows enthusiasts have also created their own software called Rainmeter with the goal of turning Windows PC into a head turning machine. Rainmeter is a free software that adds gadgets, sidebars and other apps to your Windows desktop using many beautiful and useful skins. The effect is that your Windows desktop looks like a newly wed bride – smiling but not shy.

EXIF (short for exchangeable image file format) data is a form of hidden metadata attached to JPEG (.jpg) images. Most of the modern cameras including the ones in your mobile phones save the EXIF information automatically on any pictures you take with them. In addition, the editors like Adobe Photoshop also modify and save the EXIF information inside the JPEG images. The free program Easy Exif Delete allows you to easily remove this metadata from your JPEG images.

Sometimes when typing in Microsoft Word or other document editor program, we need to type in a special character, e.g., the copyright character (

Adobe AIR is a relatively newer technology from Adobe Corporation. Adobe AIR is short for Adobe Integrated Runtime. It is designed to build applications that can run on desktop and mobile devices and support most of the platforms like Windows, Linux, Mac, iOS, BlackBerry, Android and so on. This way you can run the same application across many platforms. In Windows, if you want to remove an AIR application from your PC, then it can be done through two easy methods.

Windows is a great operating system, but it is not so much popular among the geeks as the Linux operating system is. If you want to have a little taste of the secure Linux operating system without having to install it first, then you can either download the live Linux CD/DVD images or you can create the live USB disks through the free LiLi (Linux Live) USB Creator program.

Windows file copying used to be very fast in the Windows XP days. The later versions of Windows seem to have slower file copy mechanisms. This may be due to carrying out file copy verifications for each of the files that is being copied. But now you can get faster file copy speeds by using the free WinMend File Copy software. It boasts of increasing the file copying speeds to 300% faster than the standard Windows file copy function.

In order to stay protected against latest vulnerabilities found in the Microsoft Windows and other software like Java, Adobe Flash etc., you have to keep them up-to-date by installing latest versions of software and available patches. But sometimes these software updaters are very annoying and start downloading the updates when you are in the middle of something important. If you want to toggle on or off the software updates for them, then you can make use of the free UpdateFreezer program.

Music is the main reason why Apple iPod is so successful today. When listening to the music on your desktop or laptop computer, you have to use your mouse or keyboard to pause, play or skip to next track in your playlist. But now you can control the music by just making gestures with your palms using the free Flutter software. It lets you play, pause or jump to the previous or the next track by making palm gestures in a special way.

When it comes to mentioning the open source tools for video or audio format conversion and trans-coding, the first name that comes to our mind is FFMPEG. But FFMPEG is a command line tool with too many command line parameters to remember. The difficulty involved in using this command line program is solved by an open source GUI for FFMPEG called WinFF. It is a free GUI for FFMPEG for Windows operating system and lets you easily convert any video file into formats supported by FFMPEG.