Category: Windows 7

Everyone has something to hide in their computer. The grown ups do not want kids to touch their important documents while the teenagers have their own stuff to hide from their parents. If you too have something to hide on your computer, then you can use the free Wise Folder Hider to hide your folders, files and drives.

Suppose you want to share a document with the rest of the world but do not want them to be able to edit or modify it, then the best option for you is to share that document in form of an image. Images are viewable and printable, but they cannot be modified as easily as a Microsoft Word or PDF document. You can make use of the free Image Printer software to convert just about any type of document into an image. It can save the documents in JPG, BMP, PNG or TIFF formats.

Over a period of time a typical Windows system gathers lots of junk like invalid registry entries, orphan shortcuts, junk files etc. These might slow your system down if you do not get rid of these junk entries for a long time. In order to keep your computer running smoothly, you should clean your Windows computer regularly from time to time. JetClean is a free software that helps your keep your system clean from these kind of junk entries in addition to providing many other useful tools.

Sometimes we are surprised to see that hard disk is full and there is no space to copy files anymore. It makes us wonder where did all the space go and which folders are taking up all that disk space. Well, wonder no more, you can use the free disk space analysis tool Disk Savvy. It can analyze your hard disk space and tell you which folders are taking up how much disk space. It can show you the disk analysis reports in form pie charts, tables or bar charts.

System Ninja is a fast, powerful and effective system optimization solution for Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8. It is designed to quickly remove unwanted files, increase system performance and help fix problems. System Ninja has a file scanning engine which removes junk files from your computer. It performs a heuristic analysis of every file, identifying what does not belong to your system.

The HDD LED light on your computer case shows the current hard disk activity in your computer. But some people usually put their desktop computer cabinet under the table and it is very difficult to see the HDD LED light glowing on or off in such an obscure location. There is nothing much you can do to see the actual HDD LED activity in these cases. But you can install the free HDD LED software on your computer in Windows and see the virtual HDD LED right in your system tray (notification area).

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.