Category: Windows 7

If you own a notebook or netbook then you know that how many times your accidentally touch the touchpad with your palm while typing something. This causes the mouse cursor to jump around the screen and turns the simple process of typing into a painful ordeal. Thanks to the free Touchpad Blocker, now you can say goodbye to these extra high sensitive touchpad problems.

It is very frustrating when you have reached a certain level in a computer game and your hard disk crashes. Of course, you can install the game on a newer hard disk but all your game saves are gone. You can save from this kind of trouble by keeping a backup of your system. If you do not want to backup the entire hard disk, then GameSave Manager offers a solution. Using GameSave Manager, you can backup, restore and transfer gamesaves of hundreds of games.

We all know that after some time of regular use, the contents of a hard disk become fragmented. A fragmented hard disk takes a little longer to read and write the files located on it. This is why you should keep defragmenting your hard disk at regular intervals. You can use free FixBee Disk Optimizer to clean and defrag your hard disk. It can analyze your hard disk and tell you if it requires cleanup or defragmentation.

Apple has revolutionized the way we buy and listen to the music. Now everybody seems to carry their music collection in an iPad, iPod or iPhone device. Although you can use iTunes for managing, adding or deleting music from your collection on these devices, but there is a free alternative called CopyTrans Manager which can provide you more features and a better way of managing your music collection on these devices.

We often leave computer on for a long duration of time even if we are not using it. This results in waste of electricity and also may shorten the life your computer hardware. It would be better if your computer could determine that it is not being used and automatically turn itself off. You can automatically shutdown Windows when computer is not being used using the freeware application AllOff Lite.

The ePub format is a popular format for ebooks on a variety of devices like iPad, iPhone, iPod, Sony Reader, BeBook, Nook, Kobo, Kindle and more. Some of the mobile devices use only J2ME and have the capability to read only the ePub files. So why not convert all your documents into the ePub format and read them on your ebook reader or mobile phone? You can convert all kinds of popular documents into the ePub format using the free Calibre application.

It has been found that malware infects those system on which the installed third-party programs are not kept updated, in addition to updating the Windows itself. Keeping all the installed software updated, makes you safe from the vulnerabilities which are present in the older and unpatched software. You can automatically update all the installed third-party programs using the Patch My PC utility.

Everybody carries a smartphone these days whether its an Apple iPhone or Android based phone. These smartphones are able to play videos in MP4 format in addition to other formats. But MP4 format is desired in smartphones over other formats because it has a higher compression rate at an acceptable video quality. You can use freeware Handbrake application to convert all kinds of videos into the MP4 format.

Most of the people today have very high speed internet connections, but if you have a slower connection like DSL or even dial-up, then you would want to squeeze every bit out of your internet connection. Some of the commercial utilities like iolo System Mechanic have a tool that boasts to boost your internet speed. But you can achieve the same by using a free tool called Dr. TCP. Using Dr. TCP you can optimize the MTU settings for your connection type.

When you have to make changes to your Windows system, then you usually open Control Panel. Some more advanced users may also use the Windows Registry Editor, Group Policy Editor etc. But this involves opening of many windows, going through many settings and clicking through many dialog boxes. If you do not like this lengthy process of customizing Windows, then you can use free Fresh UI software.