To emulate the visual look and feel of the Windows 7 in older Windows XP you don’t need to shell out your hard earned money on the latest and greatest from Microsoft. There are a no. of free tools available that can be used to change the look and feel of the Windows OS but Seven Transformation Pack is one of the easiest options to do so that I have discovered lately to transform your humble Windows XP installation in to Windows 7 (looks wise) without much effort. All the necessary tools to change ...

Microsoft Visio is one of the most popular dedicated software to create diagrams, UML diagrams, entity relationship diagrams, network diagrams and flowcharts etc. However it is a commercial software that is not available for free.Dia is a freeware alternative to the Visio that has many of the capabilities of the MS Visio and can be used to achieve the same results as MS Visio if used creatively for creating network diagrams, flowcharts and many other kind of network diagrams. It supports many ...

PDF files can grow pretty large in size particularly the ones that include a lot of graphics/images. Usually similar to the other media files (audio/video and images) PDF files cannot be easily compressed with the traditional zip/rar compression algorithms. However, new PDF specifications includes some compression features that can be used to reduce the size of the PDF files by removing the duplicate objects.Free PDF Compressor uses these compression features to reduce the file size. This software ...

It might be useful to monitor file and folder changes for a variety of reasons in Windows. For example one might be interested in monitoring the changes in a folder and backup the contents of the folder in an automated manner as soon as some new files are created in the folder, some files are deleted and/or some files have changed . In this case user might be interested to execute some backup/synchronization utility as soon as some changes are detected in the folder contents. There are many free ...

Hard Drives in general are considered the most vulnerable component of a computer system. This is particularly true for the hard drives with mechanical parts such rotating platters and other moving parts (not SSDs etc.). So, it is very important to backup your data at regular time intervals to ensure safety against any disaster in the future. In addition, it is a also a good idea to evaluate the important performance metrics about the HDD once in a while to keep a check on its health. In case of ...

mpTrim is a simple file utility that can be used to remove unwanted parts of an mp3 file such as silence at the start or end of a file. It can also be used to adjust the volume manually or automatically for volume normalization. In addition, it can also be used to recover wasted space by optimizing the space consumed by the file. One last feature is that it can be used to introduce fade-ins and fade-outs for preventing the abrupt changes in the audio volume levels. Most important point to note is ...

Remove Fake Antivirus is the name of a free application that allows to remove the infections spread by the fake antivirus, anti-Trojan or anti-spyware applications. It is a small and a specialized utility for Windows. Once a fake antivirus application is deactivated another legitimate antivirus application can be used to remove the remaining traces of the culprit software.It can be used to remove the following fake antivirus applications: Security Tool, Antivirus Live, Personal Security, Cyber ...

Normally, Windows is pretty good in efficiently copying files/folders from one location to an other. In some earlier builds of Windows Vista (before SP1) users had some problems with file copying speed but they were latter eliminated with the fixes. For Windows 7 it is pretty good right from the start with almost the same efficiency of file copying as we used to see now in decades old Windows XP may be even more in some scenario’s. However, there are some cases where Windows built-in file copying ...

With the evolution of Windows from the Windows XP to Vista and now to Windows 7 we have seen many improvement/refinements in the Windows explorer to boost productivity of the end users. However, as all of us know one thing that hasn’t changed for some strange reason is that there are still no tabs allowed in Windows explorer! It means if a user wants to open an other directory in Windows explorer but still want to keep the current directory open he has to open another explorer window and navigate ...

With the overwhelming popularity of YouTube these days it is considered like a benchmark against which all other video portals/websites are measured. Normally if you visit the YouTube and play some video there, it mostly starts in low quality. It is not necessarily a bad thing as it saves some bandwidth for the Internet users on low speed connections and makes these videos watchable, although at a lower resolution. But, if you have a very high speed Internet connection like many of us (here in Stockholm) ...