Category: Windows 7

When you leave office, you sometimes copy some of the files on your USB key so that you can work on them back at home. Now you can use the Copy to Flash too to automate the copying files to flash disk process in such a way that as soon as you insert the USB key, the files from a pre-specified folder get copied to your USB key. This saves you from all the trouble of manually selecting the files and folders and copy-pasting them to the USB key.

When showing someone how something is done in Windows, you usually either use your small mouse cursor or your fingers to point the things out to them. You can use the freeware Epic Pen software instead of your fingers. It is a software using which you can draw over your desktop in many different colors. The drawing stays over the top of all the applications and therefore makes it very useful application for demonstration purposes.

The pictures you take using your digital camera contain meta data such as camera model, camera firmware version, time and date of picture, geolocation, latitude and longitude etc. Sleuths or hackers can easily track you down with this information. If you do not want this to happen, then you can clear the meta data from your photos using a free tool called AntiPhotoSpy. It can automatically search the photos on your hard disk that contain meta data and clear it.

The underworld on the Internet is an entirely different world. Cybercriminals buy and sell malware, malware kits, email addresses, login details, bank details, stolen credit cards and more in the Internet underworld. All these items sell from hundreds to thousands of dollars. If you want to know for how much your own Gmail address would sell there (if hacked) then you can visit the Cloudsweeper website and have your Gmail account audited.

Sometimes we find useful information on the Internet and want to save it on the hard disk. We usually copy that information whether it is text or image and then paste in a supporting program (for example, paste text in Notepad or paste image in Paint etc.), and then save it as file. This process involves many steps and takes long time. But now you can save the contents of your clipboard directly to a file using the Paste As File utility.

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.