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There are many websites that can show you your Internet download and upload speed, but now Microsoft has come up with a Windows 8 app that can be used to check your network speed and other settings. It can show you your network download speed, upload speed, ping delay etc. It is a Windows 8 app so it can be installed both in the Windows 8 PC as well as your Windows 8 Phone.

Many of the websites offer you to download forms, brochures and booklets in the PDF formats. But the problem is that most of us cannot edit PDF files as the PDF editor programs are very expensive. What we can do is convert the PDF files into editable Doc or Docx files and then edit them using Microsoft Word or Libre Office. The freeware program PDFMate PDF Converter allows you to convert PDF files into many formats including Doc, Docx, HTML, text, SWF, Epub and more.

If you contact the customer support for some software, the first thing they ask is what kind of computer you are running, your installed Windows version, your system memory etc. All this information is hidden in deeply buried settings in the Control Panel. But now you can use the portable freeware application called System Spec to view your system information at the click of a button.

Many of the popular editors like Notepad++, LibreOffice and Microsoft Word all have a feature to change the text case if required. But you do not always use these tools to edit documents. What if you are using Windows Notepad and want to change the case of a sentence or word? In that case, a freeware program called Case Changer may come handy. It can change the case of text to uppercase, lowercase, sentence case and toggle case.

Recently I had to fill up an online form and one of the requirements was to upload my picture of 300px by 400px dimensions. How could I measure the picture inside my computer with that much accuracy? So I found out a free tool called Ruler for Windows. Using this tool, you can measure anything that appears on your screen in terms of pixels without any difficulty.

Earlier this year many Java related vulnerabilities were discovered by security researchers. Some of them were so severe that many security companies like avast!, ESET, Trend Micro etc., advised everyone to either completely uninstall Java from Windows or disable it from their web browsers. A better and more secure way to run Java based apps is to use the portable Java called jPortable. This way you do not have to install anything on your system and you run Java only when required.

The files that you have deleted using Windows delete function can be easily recovered using various freely available tools, unless you securely delete them using a tool like Blank and Secure. It is a freeware utility that can be used to wipe out the free disk space on your hard disk as well as delete the files securely. It can overwrite the contents of the files multiple times so that nobody can recover them even with the help of the recovery tools.

Your PC becomes the home of many unwanted and completely useless files and folders after long time of use. For example, the browser cache in your web browser gets filled with so many files and cookies and many programs save their log files in your PC and so on. All these files are not necessary for the normal working of your computer and can be safely removed. The freeware application called KCleaner from KC Softwares can do this cleaning for you.