9 Tools to Improve Your Windows Experience
By following a few simple guidelines, you can maintain your computer and keep it running smoothly.
FreeCommander is an easy-to-use alternative to the standard windows file manager. The program helps you with daily work in Windows. Here you can find all the necessary functions to manage your data stock. You can take FreeCommander anywhere - just copy the installation directory on a CD, USB-Stick or even a floppy disk - and you can even work with this program on a foreign computer.
Taskbar Shuffle is free utility that let’s you to rearrange windows Taskbar buttons by drag and drop functionality. One very important feature about Taskbar Shuffle is that it works on all versions of Windows including Windows 98 to Windows Vista.
Tiny Pitaschio doesn’t even use an installer; you just start the program and get going. Oh, and there are some many ways you can go with Pitaschio. You can snap windows to a grid. You can disable troublesome keys like Caps Lock, Insert, and the Windows key. You can disable minimize, maximize, and close buttons. Those are just a few of the options on the main screen. From the buttons on that screen, you can reach useful tools like Authorize, which pulls any window you mouse over to the top.
Most defragmentation tools available, only allows you to defragment a particular hard drive or hard drive partition but Defraggler allows you to defragment individual files also. After analysis Defraggler lists all the fragmented files on the drive. Selecting one or many will highlight their location on the disk. Allowing you to visually see the location of files on the disk.Most important thing is that Defraggler is free utility. Defraggler supports Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000.
Absolute Uninstaller: Absolute Uninstaller is similar to standard Windows Add/Remove program but more powerful.The standard Add/Remove program can’t uninstall applications completely which often leaves broken registry keys ,unnecessary files on the hard disk.The more junk files your computer have ,the slower it runs. Uninstall Manager can wipe off all the junk files clearly in seconds.It offers a more user-friendly way to remove unneeded applications and to improve your computer efficiency.
Registry Repair: Registry Repair tool allows you to fix your registry and optimize your PCs performance.With a few easy steps, you are able to find problems caused by invalid entries, references and links in the Windows registry and provides a list of the errors found, you can then choose to selectively repair each item or automatically repair them all.
Eraser: Eraser is an advanced security tool (for Windows), which allows you to completely remove sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it several times with carefully selected patterns. Works with Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Windows 2003 Server and DOS. Eraser is Free software and its source code is released under GNU General Public License.
Remove Duplicate Files: A cluttered hard disk can really slow down your PC, and what adds to the clutter the most is duplicate files that hog space for no reason. DoubleKiller is a fast and easy to use application for finding and removing duplicate files.
Source : PC World and Economic Times India
May 18th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
Nice post! keep it up
May 18th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
I’m only counting 8…
May 18th, 2008 at 11:45 pm
Defragmenter? Why can’t Windows filesystem be like Linux ext2 or ext3, ext2 predates even Windows 95, no defragmenter necessary. Anyway, I suggest CCleaner for getting rid of useseless temporary files Windows stores for no reason, and Ad-Aware for getting rid of any trojans and other weird stuff that slows down the system and gives you adverts.
Also using Firefox and Adblock Plus instead of Internet Explorer is a strong protection against unwanted viral infections, not to mention HostsMan, that let’s you ban sites that are known hazards, with of course basic ban file included.
Only thing I can say against it, that it bans download.com and dw.com, which are used by many freeware sites. You have to edit the hosts-file to allow those sites if you want to use them. I’ve never gotten any trojan or viruses from those sites, but HostsMan bans them for some reason by default.
May 19th, 2008 at 1:53 am
I think unlocker would have got a chance to appear in this post….
May 19th, 2008 at 1:55 am
And also the most important ccleaner….
May 19th, 2008 at 2:42 am
pAVAN NEXT TIME I WILL INCLUDE BOTH OF THEM
June 5th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
You guys Suck big time.