Category: Windows 8

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.

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.