Category: Windows 8

Many of the applications available online these days are designed using the Microsoft .NET framework. Microsoft .NET has many versions starting from version 1.0 that was introduced in 2001 to the latest version 4.5 and consequently some programs require one version while other programs need another version to run. If you want to find out which versions of .NET frameworks are installed on your PC, then you can follow these instructions.

If you are upgrading an old system with Windows 8 or Windows 7, then there is a possibility that you may have to use an unsigned device driver. Problem is that Windows 8 allows only signed drivers. The severity of the problem escalates if the device driver is for an essential PC component like graphics card or audio device. Thanks to the freeware Driver Signature Enforcement Overrider, now you can load the unsigned drivers by signing them yourself.

If you have a re-writable DVD or CD disk, then you can use Windows in-built CD/DVD burner function to write files on it. But what if you want to delete the data that already exists on the DVD-RW or CD-RW disk? The free Active DVD Eraser can help you easily erase all the data present on DVD-RW, DVD+RW or CD-RW disks and make them blank again.

Many people install two versions of Windows on the same computer. As the computer boots up, it gives you options to choose one of the operating systems. If you install Windows XP first and then Windows Vista, 7 or 8 then everything goes okay. But if you install Windows XP after installing any of the later versions of Windows, then you can boot only in Windows XP. You can fix this by using a free tool called Dual Boot Repair Utility.

If your work involves working on multiple computers at the same time, then you would find ShareMouse immensely useful. It is a free software that can share your mouse or keyboard over multiple computers. This way you can control applications running on different computers with just a single mouse or keyboard. Through this software, all the keyboard inputs and mouse movements on your main computer are transmitted to other selected computers.

If you have just bought your first PC and wanting to make it look good, then first step in that direction would be to set a magnificent wallpaper. If you use the Live Cam Wallpaper software, then you set live images captured by webcams all over the world as your desktop background. The live cam images are updated every few seconds or minutes and give your desktop a beautiful, live and dynamic look.

Some of the animated pictures on the Internet have a cool lake reflection effect under them. The bottom half portion of such pictures looks as if the ripples in the water are coming towards you. If you want to add this lake reflection animation effect to your pictures, then you can use the free Reflection Generator software. It makes adding the lake reflection effect as easy as winking in the evening.

You must have seen the cool effects in images where only a portion of the image is shown in grayscale and the rest is color. For example, an image where only lips of a woman are color and the rest is grayscale (black and white). Usually you need an advanced software like GIMP or Photoshop to achieve this, but if you want to quickly achieve this effect, then you can use the free Photo Black & Color software to do the same.

Usually you have a standard or administrator level Windows user account. But there are many functions and settings that Windows makes invisible to these accounts which are otherwise accessible to the System level account that is used internally by Windows. Now you can run almost any application elevated to the System level privileges using the free ETS (elevate to system) program.