When you are using your computer for work in office or you are setting it up for your kids, then you may want to restrict the Internet access only to a few appropriate websites and block the rest of them. This way your office employees or kids would be able to access one or two websites and nothing else. It can be done very easily in Windows through the Parental Controls feature in Windows Vista, 7 and 8.
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Auslogics Browser Care : Manage Browser Extensions, Home Page and Toolbars
When you install some of the downloaded software, they silently install browser extensions and toolbars in your computer. After some time, you find your web browsers full of multiple toolbars and extensions that you rarely use. You can manage these toolbars, extensions and home page settings for all the major web browsers using the free Auslogics Browser Care. It can also clean up your browser cache, improve their performance and keep them well-maintained.
Read moreClean Unnecessary Files in Windows with PureRa
After some time of PC usage, Windows creates many files in different folders like thumbs.db, iconcache.db and so on. These files help some of the minor Windows functions but are not generally required and can amount up to many gigabytes of hard disk space. You can delete these files from your hard disk and claim all the space taken up by them. The freeware application PureRa can help you quickly clean all these files in a single click.
Read moreTimeRabbit : Find Time Spent on Facebook
Facebook has become the number one time waster on the Internet. People use it not only from a PC web browser, but also from mobile devices throughout the day. But have you ever thought about how much time you actually spend everyday, every week or every month on this popular social networking site? A free Windows application called TimeRabbit can help you find out how much time you really spend on Facebook.
Read moreHow to Uninstall Adobe Flash Player in Windows
Adobe Flash Player is one of the most extensively used browser plugin in multiple platforms including Windows, Linux, Mac, iOS and Android. If you are using and old version of Adobe Flash in Windows, then you may become vulnerable to many of the known security threats and should either uninstall Adobe Flash from all the browsers in Windows or you should update it. If you are looking forward to uninstalling Adobe Flash plugin in all the browsers in Windows then you can follow these instructions.
Read moreBoost Your PC Performance with GBoost
GZero, the makers of the popular TVCatchup program, have come up with GBoost that boasts of boosting your system performance with a single click. This software is specially designed for pro gamers who want to use up their system resources to the maximum for playing computer games in every possible way. The GBoost software can close down unnecessary applications and frees up your system resources to boost your PC performance.
Read moreHow to Remove DirtyDecrypt Malware
DirtyDecrypt is a ransomware that infects your system as you visit the attack sites specially designed to download and run malicious DirtyDecrypt files on your system. Once it infects your system, it starts to encrypt your personal documents using the RSA cipher. When you double-click on the infected files, a picture is displayed showing you how to pay the ransomware authors to have your files decrypted. It asks for 100 GBP to be paid for the decryption of your files.
Read moreLeDimmer : Unclutter Your Windows Screen Easily
At work most of the people have to deal with lots of open windows at the same time. You can switch through them easily using the Alt + Tab switcher hotkey, but all the open windows make you delirious as you have to concentrate only one of them every time you look at your desktop screen. The free LeDimmer application can easily solve this problem by dimming all of the desktop screen except the foreground window. This makes it very easy to concentrate only on one window at a single time.
Read moreLock Your Desktop Screen with ScreenBlur
There are always some people who find pleasure in snooping into your computer screen and see what we are doing. What you can do to prevent such people from looking at your screen is to lock your screen with a free software called ScreenBlur. This is specially useful at work. Through this, you can lock your screen and walk away from your table for a few seconds to get a cup of coffee and nobody would be able to access your PC or see what you have been doing in it, behind your back.
Read moreDelete Files in Use with Delete On Boot
If a file is in use by a program or Windows itself, then it cannot be deleted as long as the program is using it. The problem is that some of the files seem to be always in use by some or other programs and thus it becomes very hard to delete them. But now you can use the Free Delete on Boot program from TrishTech.com to delete such stubborn in-use files on the next boot of Windows.
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