Category: Windows 8

There are many tools available on the internet that allow you to create the disk images for the CD/DVD disks. For example, you can use the ImgBurn tool for creating ISO disk images for optical disks. Similarly, if you want to create the disk images for the USB mass storage devices (like USB keys, MP3 players etc.), then you can use the free USB Image Tool.

The PC manufacturers often push free or trial software in brand new computers. This is why, when you buy a new notebook or PC, it comes packed with all kinds of bloatware (also called crapware) that you never really use – like trial versions of antivirus products and OEM utilities. You can manually remove them one by one, but you may miss a few of them. A free program called Decrap can help you remove such unwanted bloatware from your new PC.

Most of the digital photo cameras today save pictures in very high resolution formats. The high resolution pictures contain more data, have better quality and give great print results. But there is only one problem with high-res pictures – they are very large in filesize. Such huge pictures take a longer time to be uploaded on the internet and consequently it is not so easy to share them with friends. You can make use of the free Caesium software to reduce the file sizes of your pictures.

Microsoft Office comes preloaded with various types of useful add-ons. In addition, some of the add-ons are installed by third party software to add more features or functionalities in Microsoft Office. But loading so many add-ons can make Office to act sluggish at times. To load Office faster, you can disable the add-ons that you do not use so frequently. If you want to quickly toggle on or off these add-ons, then you can make use of the free EnableDisable for Office software.

If you have taken the pictures of some special occasion like birthday party, wedding anniversary, graduation celebration or some other kind of event, then you can convert them into a movie using the free software called PhotoToFilm. You can use this software to create a video in which all your pictures are displayed one after another and a background music is played.

IDPhotoStudio is a simple to use photo duplicator and printer. Although it is advertised as a passport or identity card photo duplicator, but it can be used for duplicating all different kinds of pictures. For example, you can print a number of postage stamps or tickets to your concert on a single paper sheet by using this nifty software.

Sometimes Windows starts to show mixed up, mismatched, or misplaced icons in Windows File Explorer. For example, Notepad icon for picture files, Internet Explorer icon for text files etc. This is usually a case of corrupt icons cache. Due to this corrupt icons cache you see mixed up icons in Windows File Explorer for different kind of files. The icon cache can be rebuilt using the following process.

Before the PDF files, TIFF images were being used by all the universities, governments, legal firms, artists and other professionals to store the files in lossless format. But now Adobe has made the PDF files so popular that everyone want everything in PDF format. So of course, you also would want to convert the old TIFF images into the modern PDF documents. Fortunately, there is a freeware application called TIFF to PDF that can help you convert TIFF images into PDF files.

When Microsoft decided to retire the Start Menu from Windows 8, many developers came up with different alternatives for the missing Start Menu feature. But most of these Start Menu alternatives give the look and feel of Windows 7 style Start Menu. Now ReviverSoft has brought forth another Start Menu Reviver for Windows 8 which is built to give a Modern UI look and feel. The Start Menu Reviver contains tiles like Modern UI and you can add your applications to these tiles.