Category: Windows 8

Windows 8 comes in a DVD cover over which the Windows product key is printed. But we lose the DVD cover very soon and when it comes to reinstalling Windows, we cannot seem to find the license key which is required to install Windows 8. Thanks to a free tool called Windows 8 Product Key Viewer using which you can now find the product key that you used to activate Windows 8.

These days USB keys are as cheap as they can be. Now you can buy a 16 GB USB key for less than $10. Because USB keys are this cheap, everybody is carrying them around. This poses another problem as USB keys are one of the many ways through which the modern malware spread. You can restrict the USB disk access easily using the freeware Ratool on a Windows computer. The Ratool (short for removable access tool) is a portable application and so it does not require installation of any sort.

If you have separately bought a printer that only prints and a scanner that only scans then you cannot directly take a photocopy of an image or document. Thanks to free iCopy software now you can combine your printer and scanner together like a photocopier machine. The iCopy software integrates the scanning and printing in such a way that you can put a document in the scanner, press a button in iCopy software and a copy of the document comes out of your printer.

If you have many DVDs then it becomes very inconvenient to find them and play the movies or videos in the DVD player. An easier way is to copy them to your hard disk for easy and fast access. But a better idea is to convert your DVDs into XviD videos which consume lesser space and still have high quality. You can create a collection of your DVDs in the XviD video format using the free WinX DVD to XviD Ripper tool.

When the rest of the world is using the MP3 files on their devices, Apple goes its own different way and uses the AAC format as the default music format. The music files you download from iTunes are also in the AAC format. If you want to convert the AAC or M4A audio files into the universally accepted MP3 format, then you can make use of the free M4A to MP3 Converter tool. This free converter tool supports conversion from AAC, M4A, M4B, MP4 and 3GP into MP3 or WAV audio formats.

XnSketch is a free software that can convert your pictures into cartoons or sketches. It has eighteen different effects to turn your images into sketches. In addition to the preset effects, it also allows you to adjust the edge strength, opacity, contrast, saturation, color and other level of your images. It gives you options to save your pictures to the hard disk or share them with friends.

Do you envy the people who use Photoshop and upload great looking pictures on Facebook with stunning vintage effects applied? Now you can also have the similar vintage or retro effects in your pictures without using an expensive program. You can use the freeware application XnRetro to apply dozens of color effects, light effects, frame borders effects, vignette effects and more. XnRetro can make your picture look like as if it was taken a hundred years ago.

OSHI Cleaner is a freeware application for Windows which can be used to clean the obsolete data from your hard disk and Windows registry. This obsolete data takes up space of your hard disk and in various locations of your Windows registry. OSHI Cleaner can clean up this junk data for you and make your PC run faster in addition to gaining usable hard disk space.

A ramdisk is a disk created by using a portion of your system RAM (random access memory). The benefit of using a ramdisk is that it is much faster in performance than a regular hard disk. Consequently, it can be used for programs that require fast data processing like computer games, program compilers, graphics work etc. The free software Dataram RAMDisk allows you to create a ramdisk easily through a graphical user interface.

As we have explained many times before, the continued use of your computer results in large number of unwanted files and other data accumulating on your hard disk. These files just pile up on your hard disk consuming disk space without any productive value. You should clean these garbage files regularly in order to claim lost disk space and make your computer work optimally. You can use the Moo0 Disk Cleaner to get rid of unwanted files from your hard disk.