Category: Windows 7

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.

One of the many things that sets Linux apart from Windows is the ability to have multiple workspaces or virtual desktops in Linux. VirtuaWin brings the power of having virtual desktops to Windows. These virtual desktops can be used to divide your open applications in different desktops instead of getting them cluttered in one place. For example, you can play music in one virtual desktop and use Microsoft Word in another while keep websites open in the third.

Determining how much electric power your PC is consuming is very difficult because the power consumption of various hardware components keeps varying with time. For example, the power consumed by your screen goes up if the brightness of your screen goes up. If you want to know how much electric power your PC is consuming at any given time, then you can make use of the free Joulemeter tool. This tool can estimate the power consumption of your PC.

When you create a new user account in Windows 7, it assigns a random picture to your newly created account. This user account picture appears on the Windows logon screen and on the Start Menu. You can later choose a picture from the Control Panel. When you pick a new picture, it shows you an array of default user pictures that you can choose from. If you want to add your own custom pictures to this step then you can do so easily.