If you are working on say 10 applications at the moment and after the work you need to close them all then what should you do? Click Close button on each of them? Just use this tool that can close all the applications and windows running at the moment at once.

The tool I am referring about is called CloseAll that can terminate all the currently opened windows and applications at once. This program lets you close all running applications with just a single click. It doesn’t use system resources because it only flashes a ‘close’ signal to all open applications on the desktop and then ceases.
The tool is best to use when you want to shut down your computer. Just create a shortcut to the tool in the Start Menu, Quick Launch, Windows 7 Taskbar or elsewhere and double click to execute it. The tool requires no installation and hence can be run directly from the USB drive too.
For detailed information and its usage, visit the link below.
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We have many ways to protect drives from viruses including a tool which removes the viruses from infected USB drives and some other tools like Smart Virus Remover, USB Protect and you can also read our guide on how to avoid autorun virus infection and in worst case, how to Copy Data From Virus Infected Pen Drive

Today we came across another useful tool which can add life time protection for any USB Drive or other Removable USB Devices. This application is called USB Defender – It allows you to securely protect your flash drive from different type of autorun viruses which infect you drives and then you computers when your USB Drives are connected to them.

USB Defender was developed to be extremely easy in use. You can see just two buttons on it: "Protect" and "Unprotect". First button you are using to vaccinate your drive, second – to remove protection.


After selecting any drive, program automatically detects, if there is any protection active and only one button will be available for you.

Lets see what this tool does in order to vaccinate your drive against autorun viruses, it actually creates a system hidden folder called AUTORUN.INF as shown in the screen shot taken of the USB drives contents

After this autorun.inf folder that has been created no autorun.inf viruses can infect your pen drive which means even if you connect your USB drive to virus infected computer it wont infect your USB removable drive.

Conclusion – This program does allow you to add protection right now, as the time passes hackers will find a new way to make these viruses work, till then this could be real rescue.
NOTE: If you format your pen drive, this protection will be lost and you need to protect the pen drive again using this tool if you want this protection.
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Alt+tab is the most quickest and easiest way to switch across opened windows and programs but sometimes the size of the small thumbnail in alt+tab switching makes it difficult identify the what is actually going on a particular opened program window.
Alt+Tab Tuner is a free program which helps you increase the size of the thumbnail, and tweak lot more other settings of the thumbnail images of the programs showing while alt+tab switch.
  
As shown in the screenshot of this application, you can change the margins around thumbnails, increase columns in thumbs grid shown, increase the spacing in between thumbnails shown, increase the icon size and shit its location, increase the thumbnail and increase the fading and transparency of alt+tab switch. You can also revert to the old style alt+tab as there in windows xp.
You can get get the layout of alt+tab switching like the one shown below just with minor tweaking.
  
How To Use ?
Using and testing this program is quite simple just, change the options, click apply and then see the changes in alt+tab switching.
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A Computer might seem to be a very simple and sorted machine to you but have you ever thought of what happens once you install a new application or software and run it. What processes run in the background ? or What are the applications that start automatically at Windows Startup which are in connection with those new softwares?
Hardly a handful of people amongst you would give it a thought and the rest will forget it as soon as they start working on their newly installed applications. But all of you should be aware of what is going on the inside of your computer and should keep an eye on the applications or services that run.
The applications or services that run in the background, slow down your computers and should be avoided at windows startup since they certainly affect the performance of the device. Now the question arises how would someone come to know about the applications and services which run at windows startup and avoid them or keep an eye on these things without much effort?
To answer this a 876KB tool named Security Autorun is present on the internet and is available for free and the function of this software is to display the list of applications that are loaded automatically at windows startup and even lets you stop these unwanted applications.

Each application running is displayed with following information:-

• Startup Type:Startup Registry,Startup Common/User,Startup Services,Drivers List
• Product Name, File Version, Company Name, Location in the Registry or file system, Command Line String etc
• Another unique feature is that the software detects any adware or spyware installed on your desktop and displays its information.

Compatibility

The software is compatible with :-

1. Windows 9X
2. Windows NT
3. Windows ME
4. Windows 2000
5. Windows XP
6. Windows Vista
7. Windows 7

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Last week my Airtel Data Card 3G device stopped working and replacement is due this week. Because of this I wasn’t able to get connected to internet. Like most of the datacard Airtel’s Data card had Sim inside it which can also be used any mobile like any other Sim.
Saturday when I was updating my Blackberry Device I suddenly saw the option of IP modem in the Desktop Manager and idea clicked in my mind that may be just may be, I can insert this Data Card’s Sim into Blackberry and surf right from there and also can connect to my laptop to surf internet. And Yes I was able to do this except that I couldn’t surf from the Blackberry Phone. I guess it has to do something with the settings which I am still working on.
Follow the steps below which you can use to connect your mobile phone with laptop and use it to surf the internet.

• Connect your Blackberry phone with your laptop. You will need to connect with USB cable not with WiFi or Bluetooth, it wont work.
• Launch the Blackberry Desktop manager and click on IP Modem.

Here you will have to configure the IP modem which you can do by clicking the Configure button which is on the left of IP modem screen under connection settings. The best part of the using data card’s sim is that you need no authentication at least with Airtel’s Data card I did not. In case you do there is a screen where you can add details.
The IP Modem configuration screen has lots of pre configured options including for Airtel India and Vodefone Essar. In the configuration you might need to add your Username, password, URL and Access Point.

• Like you can see the access point is pre-configured when I choose Bharti Airtel India. Once done this you can click on Connect Button on right and it will automatically connect.

Using your phone as IP modem is possible with any phone of the application of that phone and software both supports it. Though In my opinion it should be even possible to use the data reader’s sim into your mobile phone but definitely it needs a configuration.

Many of my friends who don’t know don’t have much experience with websites, often ask me this basic question of how can they easily upload a file to their website and then link to it from the website or some where else. Sometimes the ftp programs suggested to them are confusing or not easy to understand, so in such a case a person who is laymen and does not understand how websites work face many problems.

In such cases you can use this very basic and easy to understand program called FTP Droplet allows you to upload file or any type and size on to your website very easily and quickly through ftp.

Only thing required to use this program is that you must know the FTP username and password to upload your files to the website. This application is completely portable, you just need to extract all the files contents from the zip archive you will download [ download link at the end of the post ]

After extracting the contents you first need to run configurator.exe which will open a window in which you would need to enter you site ftp path of your website, ftp username and ftp password a shown in the image below.


After Entering the required details click Save settings button and then Load Settings button, now start FTP Droplet Lite Program from its executable from the folder where you extracted all the files.
Now choose the file to upload and then click the button Send File after locating the file to be uploaded.

This application is the easiest program to upload to any website which support FTP Upload.
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Most of the new Operating Systems like Windows Vista And Windows 7 consume good amount of hard disk space. To add to it, heavy installation programs like games and photo-editing tools, multimedia players etc which many of us have also consume disk space. Not only this, Internet browser’s cache, temporary files, temporary installation files,  restore data, recycle bin data etc. all add up to the space consumed on the hard disk.

Although there is an inbuilt Windows Disk Cleanup feature which can free most of the space occupied by the unused and unusable stuff that computer can live without, yet it does not provide a comprehensive cleaning which can clean a lot more space than what it does.

In this article I am going to review a free and highly effective disk space cleaning utility called DiskMax which provides powerful and advanced options to free up several GB of disk space in some cases. It cleaned up around 4GB space of my hard disk.

DiskMax is a powerful Disk Cleanup tool which works in several modes, which are – Quick , Standard , Detailed And Complete. Each of these mode has different level of disk cleaning. I tested the standard one.

When you launch it, it gives you a start screen like the one above, select the type of cleanup you want. Depending on which type you select and how much stuff it clean, it may take several minutes to do the job. It took about 15 minutes on my desktop machine.

The standard scan is very comprehensive and will ask you your preferences related to cleaning and will remember them so that you don’t have to set them again and again. Below are a few screenshots of many steps it goes through to ask your preferences.

The tool is compatible with all version of Windows 32bit and 64bit OS up to Windows 7. You can install it and use it once a month or few weeks to reclaim the disk space which otherwise remains occupied with useless stuff.

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Uninstalling programs and applications from a computer is easy but in long duration it becomes a tricky business because not every program you uninstall come with an Uninstaller that can clean off all files and junk folders. I have seen many a times programs leaving folders, files, shortcuts and registered DLL hanging around which ultimately results in slow computer and longer startup.

Advanced Uninstaller FREE is a hand which actually “watches” when you install a program i.e. it knows where and what files the application is dumping on your computer.
As soon as you start installing a new program it detects and asks you to confirm for monitoring which later can be fond in its installation logs. And this is what happens when you start uninstalling :
The search part of this application is similar to integrated search in Windows 7, very useful when you want to filter based on program name. It cleans up broken registry, shortcuts from start menu, annoying browser toolbars, plugins and hijackers, remove fonts and get rid of startup programs that run in your system tray and slow down your computer. Download Advanced Uninstaller

We tend to install new and new software on a regular basis without thinking about the load that is going to be put over the performance of the CPU.
One such load is of the startup programs. Whatever application we install creates its entry into the list of the startup programs making our system boot longer than usual. This is when we say our system has started performing slow.

The list can be seen or modified by typing msconfig in the run box but the tool called Disable Startup is better than this default utility. Disable Startup can be both startup manager and monitoring software, the most important features of this software is that it can lock your Windows Startups from changes, stop all unwanted application add itself into Windows Startups.
Whenever a change is made, you will be notified and given a choice to either allow the change or not to change. The tool is quite small and also free.
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Imagine a situation in future where you are not able to install a fresh copy of your desired operating system reason being whether Windows Installation DVD misplacement or a disc not working due to scratches on it. Another situation could arise where the DVD-ROM drive stops working or does not recognize the Windows Installation DVD and at all such moments one would think of switching to a more convenient option. Technology has a tendency of evolving with time and optical drives are destined to meet the same consequences as faced by floppy drives and will become rare. To overcome such a problem in future a revolutionary software has been developed known as WintoFlash.
WintoFlash is a software which easily converts your Flash drive into a USB based Installer by conveniently transferring the contents of Windows Installation DVD to the flash drive. The interface is very simple to understand and anyone can create a boot-able flash drive for itself. The software is capable of transferring Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 onto a flash drive as well as Server 2003 and 2008 can be transferred and also pulls over Windows Preinstallation Environment to the flash drive.

Steps To Create Bootable Flash Drive

• To start with the software first you need to download the file which generally is a WINRAR archive easily extractable by winrar and extract it to your desired location. Inside the extracted folder you will see an executable file named as Win to flash.exe. On opening the executable you will see a window displaying the license agreement where you need to click Accept in order to proceed. On the next window the wizard will open with a Square highlighted button in center with Windows Setup Transfer Wizard written beside it which you need to click on.

• Next window will welcome you with the company’s name and press next at the bottom of the screen.

• The Third window will ask you to select the windows file path or drive to locate the Windows Installation DVD and underneath it will be the space to select the destination USB drive. Locate both and click next. [ Note: If you don't have the Windows 7 Setup DVD but rather you have the ISO image then you will need to mount the ISO image to a virtual drive. ]

• Now Windows license agreement will appear on your screen where you need to click on the accept button.

• As soon as you press the Accept button the transformation process will start and will take approximately 15 minutes to complete.

Once this entire process is complete you can eject your USB Drive which will now act as bootable windows 7 Setup disc with which you can install windows 7
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Some months back we had written an article on how to Boost Bit-Torrent Download Speed, it involved using a Bit-torrent accelaration tool which was a freeware then, but now has been a made a paid software. Hence I was looking for a free alternative and got to know about uTorrent Ultra Accelerator.
There are hell lot of Bit-torrent clients available, but uTorrent is arguably the best torrent client amongst all. The best thing about uTorrent is the low memory footprint which enables us to carry out our normal work while the torrent is getting downloaded at the backend.

But uTorrent, being an open source software has loads of configurable parameters, which have to be manually set for optimal performance. Add to this, ISP throttling is another issue which needs to be dealt with for many torrent users. Keeping all these in mind, TrafficSpeeders have come out with a tiny utility which promises to get the maximum speed possible which uTorrent can squeeze out of our internet connection

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uTorrent Ultra Accelerator is an valuable add-on module for one of the most in demand p2p clients worldwide. This plug-in fits flawlessly into uTorrent native client to ensure extra augmentation to its central features. Though very small, its architecture allows it to upgrade your searching and squeeze the maximum of speed from your file-sharing program.
uTorrent Ultra Accelerator is the perfect tool for downloading your favourite movies, music, games and other files at an incredible speed. You can check the info about the status of your downloads in the main window. Downloads are auto-resumed in case the internet gets disconnected in the middle of a download.

uTorrent Ultra Accelerator – key features

· Simple, intuitive, easy-to-work-with interface;
· Automatically resuming of paused downloads;
· Saving configuration from last run and auto loading on start-up;
· Removing of complete and invalid files;
· Improved searching at user-specified intervals;
You can download and use Torrent Ultra Accelerator for FREE and save your worries – the app is 100% CLEAN! NO ads, adware, spyware
, Trojans or any other malware hidden! It works on Windows 95/98/98SE/ME/NT/2000/XP/Vista
Download uTorrent Ultra Accelerator to boost your torrent download speed