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Top 6 Windows Spyware Scanners

Raj — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:29:37 +0000

Spyware is a type of malware that is installed on computers and collects information about users without their knowledge. The presence of spyware is typically hidden from the user. Typically, spyware is secretly installed on the user’s personal computer. Sometimes, however, spywares such as keyloggers are installed by the owner of a shared, corporate, or public computer on purpose in order to secretly monitor other users. Following are a selection of the best adware and spyware scanning tools to ferret out these often hidden menaces. If you go the standalone route, make sure you back it up with antivirus software and a firewall.

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1. McAfee VirusScan

McAfee AntiSpyware 2006 is no longer sold as a standalone product, but don’t despair. McAfee VirusScan (2006) includes the same stellar protection. In our tests, both products nabbed 98% of running processes associated with adware and spyware, effectively neutering the infestation. At $39.99 for both stellar spyware protection and a top-notch virus scanner, McAfee VirusScan (2006) is a steal.

2. Windows Defender

Windows Defender is offered free and, like CounterSpy, sports above average detection rates. The product is still considered beta and tech support is not provided. Despite these setbacks, it can provide a good second opinion. However, Microsoft AntiSpyware and CounterSpy should not be installed on the same system, as they both share common components.

3. Spybot Search & Destroy

Free for personal use, Spybot doesn’t have stellar removal rates. It does, however, provide TeaTimer and SDHelper which are extremely effective at preventing adware and spyware from gaining a foothold on your computer. So while you may not want to rely on it for detection and removal, you may want to install and activate it alongside other protection to help keep your system spyware-free.

4. Webroot Spy Sweeper

Spy Sweeper removed 100% of the miscreant BHOs and Toolbars in our tests and stopped 84% of the active processes associated with adware and spyware. Spy Sweeper is a standalone spyware scanner and not a full-fledged Internet security suite, thus it is best used in conjunction with antivirus and firewall software.

5. Sunbelt CounterSpy

Sunbelt’s CounterSpy removed 90% of the miscreant Browser Helper Objects (BHOs) in our tests. Sporting above average detection for only $19.99, CounterSpy offers inexpensive protection, an easy-to-use interface and US-based tech support.

6. Hijack This

Another free utility, Hijack This isn’t a traditional spyware scanner. It will, however, provide a full report of what’s active on your system. Experienced users can peruse the report, identify the miscreants, and use Hijack This to disable the unwanted loading (or do so manually). Less experienced users can save the Hijack This log and send it to a more savvy friend for advice.

Create Sticky Notes in Windows 7

Raj — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:44:24 +0000

Sticky Notes is one of my Favorite feature in Windows 7, its Really simple to use, Now you don,t need to paste digital stickies to your Windows desktop. If you are Windows 7 Users you can do this with simple and easy steps. To run the app, just click Start, type sticky, and press Enter. You’ll immediately see a new note; just start typing whatever it is you need to remember.

Want another Note as a Sticky, Click on the + icon for a new Sticky and Prefer a different color. Right-click in the body of the note and choose from six options. Thats it !

8 Awesome Windows 7 Themes

Raj — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:47:37 +0000

Looking for the Windows 7 Themes, than you are at the right place, here we present you 8 Awesome Windows 7 Themes. To download a theme, click the on the Image Below, and then click Open. The theme is applied to your desktop and added to Personalization in Control Panel.

1. Zune Windows 7 Theme

2. Porsche Windows 7 Theme

3. Infiniti Windows 7 Theme

4. Gears of War Windows 7 Theme

5. Ferari Windows 7 Theme

6. Ducati Windows 7 Theme

7. Bing Windows 7 Theme

8. Avatar Windows 7 Theme

Windows 7 Complete System Tuneup

Raj — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:33:04 +0000

Complete System Tuneup is an easy to use, handy program designed to assist the average computer user in maintaining their PC. This program has everything you need to keep your computer maintained and running like new. Instead of hunting through your Start Menu for a utility program, just open Complete System Tuneup and your utility program is ready for you to use.

The application allows the user to enable / disable startup items, clean system temporary files whether they are internet, recycle bin files or cookies, recent items list, error reporting files and much More.

Download Complete System Tuneup here

Windows 7 Starter Kit

Raj — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:02:47 +0000

Windows 7 is the new Baby in the town and if you are in love with you new Windows 7 PC or Laptop than you have to try all these Free Must Have Apps which are really Useful to your new Windows 7 Baby, So these are the must have starter apps for your windows 7. Windows 7 Starter Kit is divided into 10 categories Web Browser, E-mail Client, Office tools, Image Editors, Music Video Jukeboxes, File Compression, PDF Reader, Torrent Client, and Tweak Tools

Web Browser

1. Mozilla Firefox

Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite and managed by Mozilla Corporation. A Net Applications survey put Firefox at 24.07% of the recorded usage share of web browsers as of October 2009[update], making it the second most popular browser in terms of current use worldwide after Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.

2. Google Chrome

Chrome is blazingly fast and is easily the quickest browser available. Based on Webkit, the same open-source engine that powers Apple Safari, Google’s Android mobile platform, and several other Web-browsing tools, Chrome’s interface is a drastic departure from other browsers. Instead of the traditional toolbar, Chrome puts its tabs on top. Moreover, the tabs are detachable: “tabs” and “windows” are interchangeable here. Detached tabs can be dragged and dropped into the browser, and tabs can be rearranged at any time. By isolating each tab’s processes, when one site crashes, the other tabs do not.

E-mail Client

1. Mozilla Thunderbird

Mozilla Thunderbird is a free, open source, cross-platform e-mail and news client developed by the Mozilla Foundation. Mozilla Thunderbird combines smart browsing with sharp innovations aimed at both Web mail clients and industry standards like Microsoft Outlook. Basics like junk mail filters, HTML support, multiple identities, and POP, IMAP, and Microsoft Exchange server support load fast and are bolstered by S/MMIE, digital signing, message encryption, and a phishing detector. Interface tweaks maximize message viewing, a necessity in an e-mail reader. See Also: Top 10 most useful Thunderbird add-ons

Office and Productivity

1. OpenOffice.org

OpenOffice.org includes powerful applications for making text documents, spreadsheets, presentations, diagrams, and databases, as well as HTML and XML documents. Not only does it let you edit basic documents, such as letters and faxes, it also handles equations and complex and multipart documents with bibliographies, reference tables, and indexes.

2. AbiWord

This free, open-source word-processor strikes us as a worthy alternative to pricey, big-name products. AbiWord has a quick learning curve, since the interface is very similar to those in Word and WordPerfect. AbiWord, gives you just the word processor without the entire suite. It has a quick learning curve with an interface similar to those in Word and WordPerfect.

Image Editors

1. The GIMP

The application provides professional tools that can stand against the big boys without the hefty price tag. Even the installation process has gotten simpler, with no need to download and install the GTX Runtime Environment separately. Extremely powerful and easy to work with, GIMP is ideal for both amateur and pro photographers, Web designers, or anyone who wants to create and edit professional-quality digital images on a budget.

2. Paint.NET

If all you want is a quick image retouch, Photoshop is overkill. Paint.NET, on the other hand, is an open-source freeware editor with all the essentials, including tools to crop, rotate, resize images, adjust colors, and create collages.
Paint.NET supports common image formats–JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, and others–but not high-resolution RAW files. There are enough basic and intermediate effects and features to keep image-tweakers happy, though the red-eye removal tool is notably weak; those images may require manual attention.

Music and Video Jukeboxes

1. WinAmp

It now features strong device support, including iPod synchronization, AAC encoding, CD burning, and a robust file-management system. There’s an optional new interface layout that joins the separate windows, podcast support, you can edit device synchronization while in progress, and a built-in browser for media discovery. We liked that clicking on an artist’s name will get you related headlines and Web sites in a separate pane.

2. Miro

Miro is a popular, free, and open internet TV application. It brings video channels from thousands of sources and has more free HD than any other platform. Features include full torrent support, so you can download and view torrents in the same app, folder watching to manage only the hard-drive folders you specify for new videos, resumable playback, topic-based channel surfing, video sharing, hosting, and vodcast creation assistance.

3. VLC Media Player

VLC Media Player offers a one-stop solution for the file-format problem. The program supports playback of every major and most minor file types, and can stream media. Because of its open-source foundation, it evolves quickly, with new features and fixes released frequently.

File Compression

1. 7Zip

7-Zip is open source software. Most of the source code is under the GNU LGPL license. The unRAR code is under a mixed license: GNU LGPL + unRAR restrictions. 7-Zip unpacks most archive formats, including ZIP, TAR, GZ, RAR, and its own 7z format. It can create TAR and GZ archives, which are commonly used on Unix and Linux systems.

PDF Reader

1. Foxit Reader

Foxit Reader is everything that Adobe Reader isn’t: lightweight, effective, and streamlined. Foxit’s main purpose is to read PDFs, but it also has annotation tools. The interface mimics Adobe’s, so you won’t have to change your reading habits. Text readability is nearly the same, and the 1.6MB Foxit starts surprisingly fast compared with Adobe. It’s a nice touch that it opens PDFs from the Internet in their own Foxit window, instead of sucking resources from within the browser.

Torrent Client

1. uTorrent

Still not for the faint of heart, this torrent utility is one of the easiest to use. The uTorrent executable adds a directory and some option information to your PC, but it is still small enough to run off an old USB key.

Tweak Tools

Here is the List of 5 Free Windows 7 Tweak Tools

Backup Windows Mail Easily

Raj — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 03:54:38 +0000

Windows Mail Backup is free tool which help you to take the backup of windows mail with simple and easy steps. Windows Mail Backup Free is an application which helps users to backup and restore their emails. It’s a freeware and you can use it without any limitation. Restore wizard has been included. It can take the Backup Upto 4GB.

Features:-

· Support Windows Mail
· Windows Mail Backup Free can easy to backup email store and settings from Windows Mail
· Easy to use
· Just few clicks you will get your email store backed up
· Double click to restore
· You can double click your archive to run the restore process
· Large file support
· Backup program can backup large file more than 4GB

Windows 7 Activation Cracks available

Raj — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 06:33:07 +0000

Recently Microsoft released there much awaiting OS windows 7 RTM pack, and most of the internet Hackers have succeeded to Crack the windows 7 Activation process. Automated Windows 7 hacks are designed to let users circumvent the activation process with little or no effort on their part. Cracks can, in this context, be run like any other executable, and produce a fully functional, albeit non-genuine, copy of Windows 7. Microsoft’s repeated warnings that users dealing with pirated software expose themselves to the risk of infection, virtually handing over their computers, privacy and sensitive data to attackers, have failed to truly resonate with pirates.

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Two of the most prominent methods to bypass Windows 7 activation, RemoveWAT and Chew-WGA, are designed to remove and disable the platform’s Windows Activation Technologies (WAT). RemoveWAT and Chew-WGA kill Windows 7 activation, keeping the operating system in the initial grace period indefinitely. While it is in trial-mode, Windows 7 delivers full functionality to end users, and behaves identically to a genuine and activated copy, allowing pirates to enjoy the same range of benefits as legitimate customers, but without paying a single cent.

At this time, the Redmond company offers no indication as to when it plans to take on the new Windows 7 activation workarounds available in the wild. However, given the impact that generalized changes to the activation technologies can have on all Windows 7 users, the software giant is bound not to rush antipiracy solutions along and render useless RemoveWAT and Chew-WGA, and the workarounds they are designed to set in place.

NOTE: We Don,t recommended to our users to try these Cracks for Windows 7.

Unlock Windows 7 Hidden Themes & Wallpapers

Raj — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:01:48 +0000

If you are Windows 7 Users than here is new Trick for you which help you to Unlock Windows 7 Hidden Themes & Wallpapers. At the time of installation if you choose English (United States) for your time and currency format, for example, the available desktop backgrounds and themes will include a United States section with scenery from locations such as Maine, the Southwest and so on. But with this simple trick you can Unlock the Themes and Wallpapers of Australia, Canada, Great Britain and South Africa.

Here is the Guide:-

1. In the search box in the Start menu, type C:\Windows\Globalization\MCT and press Enter.

2. Windows Explorer will launch and show you a list of subfolders under C:\Windows\Globalization\MCT: MCT-AU, MCT-CA, MCT-GB, MCT-US, and MCT-ZA. Each subfolder has wallpapers for a specific country: AU for Australia, CA for Canada, GB for Great Britain, US for the United States, and ZA for South Africa.

For any of the countries whose wallpaper and themes you want to use, go into its Theme folder, for example, C:\Windows\Globalization\MCT\MCT-ZA\Theme. Double-click the theme you see there (for example ZA). A South Africa theme, ready to use.

3. That will install a shortcut to the theme and wallpapers in the Personalization section of Control Panel.

You can now use them as you would any other theme or background, by right-clicking the desktop, choosing Personalize, and choosing a background or theme. They will be listed in their own section. Thats it now you can enjoy Unlock Windows 7 Hidden Themes & Wallpapers on your desktop. See ALso: Windows 7 Themes, Gadgets and Wallpapers and 5 Free Windows 7 Tweak Tools

Windows 7 Official Download Links

Raj — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:20:54 +0000

Today here we present you the Direct ISO Download Link of Windows 7 Ultimate, Professional and Home Premium Edition. These are the Lates RTM build 6.1.7600.16385 Links. Download these ISO Files onm your Desktop and Burn into a DVD. All the Files are above than 2GB. And yes the ISO images Below are in English language. If you want to convert it into Some other Language than you have to Download Windows 7 MUI language packs. Read More About Windows 7 TIps, Guides, Tweaks, How to and Installation Help here

Here are the Links:-

32-bit Windows 7 Ultimate x86 ISO

http://174.129.85.117/data/Windows7Ultimate32bit.iso

64-bit Windows 7 Ultimate x64 ISO

http://174.129.85.117/data/Windows7Ultimate64bit.iso

32-bit Windows 7 Home Premium x86 ISO

http://msft-dnl.digitalrivercontent.net/msvista/pub/X15-65732/X15-65732.iso

64-bit Windows 7 Home Premium x64 ISO

http://msft-dnl.digitalrivercontent.net/msvista/pub/X15-65733/X15-65733.iso

32-bit Windows 7 Professional x86 ISO

http://msft-dnl.digitalrivercontent.net/msvista/pub/X15-65804/X15-65804.iso

64-bit Windows 7 Professional x64 ISO

http://msft-dnl.digitalrivercontent.net/msvista/pub/X15-65805/X15-65805.iso

Windows 7 Taskbar Tweaker

Raj — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:29:16 +0000

Windows 7 Taskbar Tweaker is new free tool for windows 7, which helps you to tweak windows 7 taskbar easily. This one is the very helpful to all windows 7 users to tweak there windows 7 taskbar easily. You can also use the app to disable thumbail previews if you choose, and the settings menu provides options to run at startup, hide the main window, and even hide the tray icon if you like keeping clutter to a minimum.

See Also: 5 Free Windows 7 Tweak Tools

Features of Windows 7 Taskbar Tweaker
- Show standard window menu on right click instead of jump list.
- Close or focus a window on middle click instead of running a new instance.
- Disable grouping of windows by file path or application id.
- Cycle through windows of a grouped button on left click instead of showing a thumbnails preview.
- Open with while dropping a file on a taskbar button instead of pinning.
- Disable thumbnail previews.

Download Windows 7 Taskbar Tweaker here via [ Downloadsquad ]