Category: Windows 7

When working on your Windows computer it becomes difficult to see what notifications you are receiving on your phone. You can pick up your phone whenever you receive a new message or notification on your phone but it disturbs you doing your work. But if you have an Android phone then you are in luck – you can receive all the notifications from your Android phone in your Windows computer using an app called DeskNotifier.

You can find the Programs & Features section in the Control Panel of Windows 7 and Vista using which you can uninstall any installed software from your system. But it lacks in features and sometimes just does not work as you would expect. Instead you can use the free Revo Uninstaller to get rid of unwanted software from your system. Revo Uninstaller is a free Windows application that can help you easily and effortlessly remove programs from your Windows system.

So you bought a new hard disk and are excited about its size and speed? But if you want to know the real read and write speeds and other performance factors of your hard disk, then you can use the free CrystalDiskMark. It is a free software that can be used to benchmark your hard disk drives (HDD) and solid state drives (SSD). CrystalDiskMark tests the read and write speeds of your HDD and SDD drives using four different test methods.

If you have a smaller monitor or your monitor is just filled with all kinds of windows and programs, then do not worry – iDisplay is here to rescue. iDisplay is a powerful application for Windows and Mac that lets you turn your smartphone or tablet into a secondary monitor. It supports both the Android and iPhone mobile devices and is completely free of charge. This way you can shift less important applications to your smartphone or tablet and make your desktop monitor less cluttered.

The System Tray or Notification Area in Windows plays an important role in how we use the programs. The frequently used programs are supposed to be minimized to the taskbar while not so less frequently used programs are put in the System Tray. Unfortunately, most of the application do not give option to minimize them in the System Tray. With the help of open source application RBTray you can minimize any application in Windows to the system tray.

Scanning from a scanner is very easy, all you have to do is press the Scan button on the printer. The only problem is that you have no way to edit and cleanup the scanned images or documents before saving them. Orpalis PaperScan is a great scanner application that not only scans documents from scanners but also lets you clean up and edit the scanned documents before saving them.

Everyone carries a smartphones these days. Your smartphones come equipped with one or other QR code reader. If your smartphone does not come with a QR reader, then you can easily download a free one from Google Play (for Android) or Apple Store (for iPhone). But when it comes to Windows, there is no QR reader app that can scan the QR code on screen and decode it. But now CodeTwo Desktop QR Reader has come to fill this void. It is a freeware QR Reader program for Windows.

We all know very will that after a few months of computer usage, your hard disk gets piled up with lots of junk files. These junk files come from various applications like web browsers, office suites and Windows itself. Windows comes with a disk cleaning tool in-built but it is not able to clean files from the third party application. Fortunately a freeware application JFRemover can help you find and remove leftover junk files and temporary files from your hard disk.

Windows comes with various applications like Task Manager, MSConfig and others which let you controls processes and services. But you have to run so many tools to finish such simple tasks. Instead you can use the AnVir Task Manager, which incorporates a startup manager, a process manager, a services controller and more – all in one application. This way you do not have to jump from one program to another, but you can control all the running applications and services from a single place.