Category: Windows 7

Background programs consume the CPU and RAM continuously which is shared with PC games. If somehow you can kill those RAM consuming applications and cut down on CPU load then your PC games can run better and smoother. You do not have to do it manually, the freeware Wise Game Booster can do it automatically for you. It can boost your system performance and optimize for playing PC games before you start a game.

Auto Snap is one of the features in Windows 7 that allows you to automatically arrange the windows of any application to the edges of your computer screen. But you can arrange only two windows side-by-side using Auto Snap. The freeware WinSplit Revolution application can help you arrange and organize your windows so that you can make optimal use of your PC screen and work with multiple windows at the same time.

Through the Control Panel in Windows, you can change the settings of various things in the operating system. But most of the users do not find many settings for the most used part of Windows – the Windows taskbar. Thanks to a freeware application called 7+ Taskbar Tweaker, now you can configure and customize the Windows 7 and Windows 8 taskbars as you please.

When you upgrade your system hardware, Windows does not remove the driver files of the older hardware. Similarly, when you update your system drivers, older drivers files are not always removed. This leaves your Windows trying to load obsolete drivers everytime you start your PC, resulting in a slow and unreliable computer performance. Fortunately, you can use a free tool called Driver Fusion to safely remove such old device drivers from your system.

Aurelify InjuredPixels allows you to easily check for defective (hot, dead or stuck) pixels on LCD monitors. Hot pixels always stay white, dead pixels always stay black and stuck pixels always stay the same color. This software can be used to test a new LCD monitor before you purchase it. If you have already bought it, then you can test it within the warranty period so that you can return or replace it.

Bing Desktop is a Microsoft Windows application designed by Microsoft itself. It is basically a desktop search application for Bing, but there is also an option to automatically download and use the Bing wallpapers as Windows background. It brings the power of Bing search to your desktop. This app allows you to search Bing for images, videos and more. You can find top news, popular searches, trending images and top videos as well.

Auslogics Duplicate File Finder is a free utility to scan and remove duplicate files. It does a very smooth and fast job of finding duplicate files. It can find particular type of duplicate files like video, images, documents etc. It can scan using file names, file dates and file hash checksums.

sWeather is a simple application that resides in your system tray and continues to fetch and inform you about the current weather conditions in your area. This app is great if you work for long hours on your desktop computer. It can keep your well informed about the current weather conditions as well as the weather forecasts of your city.

When you upgrade your hard disk with with a newer one, you have to to re-install Windows all over again which is a painful experience and takes many hours. Fortunately, there is XXClone – a freeware application that allows you to backup your Windows system hard disk from right inside Windows itself.

Jet Screenshot, a free screen capture program, makes the sharing of screenshots pretty easy. It allows you to capture your PC screen and easily share it online with others without any trouble. With Jet Screenshot, you can share screenshots using their own image hosting service, or upload to an FTP server.