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When you give away your old hard disks, you should always securely erase all the contents so that nobody is able to recover your personal data stored on it. There are many tools like Dariks Boot and Nuke (DBAN) and Eraser for wiping data off your hard disk. HDShredder is another such free tool which can be used to securely erase the contents from your hard disks and partitions easily.

We all want to boost the performance of our computers, even if we have the latest hardware. This is greatly desired specially when you are playing computer games and do not want other applications to hog down your system resources. Free JetBoost can help you improve the performance of your Windows system easily JetBoost shuts down all the unnecessary processes and services to suit your needs with one single click, resulting in a faster and smoother computer system.

One downfall of using Windows for playing games is not all of the CPU power is utilized in playing the computer game. For example, some of it is used by the anti-virus software etc. This is why dedicated gaming systems like Microsoft Xbox and Sony PlayStation are becoming popular. But you can optimize your Windows system for playing computer games using the free Game Fire software. This way you can reduce the processing power and memory utilized by Windows, making them available for the computer games.

We have previously covered Amazon Kindle extension for the Chrome browser which lets you read free Kindle ebooks inside the Chrome web browser. But what if you do not use the Chrome web browser? Amazon has come up with a Windows application called Kindle for PC using which you can read Kindle ebooks right inside your Windows PC without requiring any browser.

Christmas is coming near with every tick of the clock. Everybody is busy preparing and decorating their houses for the great day. But what about your Windows desktop? You can also adorn your Windows desktop with an animated decorated Christmas tree if you want. Drive software is offering dozens of free decorated Christmas trees for your Windows desktop. These great looking trees come decorated with blinking lights and stay in a corner of your desktop.

LCD monitors usually get stuck or dead pixels. A stuck pixel is a point on your LCD screen which always shows light. A dead pixel is a point on your LCD screen which never shows light and stays black. Its hard to notice these dead pixels on your screen under normal usage. But there is a program called LCDTester using which you can easily find the dead pixels on your LCD screen.

If you want to perform some tasks or run scripts every time you logoff in Windows 7, then it is very easy to do. This can be useful if you want to perform tasks like cleaning internet history, deleting some folders, copying some files each time you log off in Windows. This is also handy for creating regular backups of your important files. You can add scripts to run every time at logoff using the Group Policy Editor in Windows 7.

When I play DVD movies using Media Player Classic, I can actually control the volume of the video being played using the mouse wheel. When you turn the wheel up, the volume goes up and when you turn the wheel down, the volume gets down. You can have the same functionality inside Windows itself using Nirsoft Volumouse so that which you can control the volume of the Windows using your mouse wheel.