For each game having an option of saving the game while playing, there are some save files that are created. These files and folders contain the game save files which are nothing but your game saves. In case you are thinking to change to a new drive or format your system then this post will help you backup these easily.
To backup and preserve your game saves you need not backup manually. With the help of this tool called SaveGameBackup, you can easily backup your games save files and restore them after installing a new copy of it. SaveGameBackup is your savegame solution. Quickly and easily backup your games’ save files for easy storage and fast recovery.
Features:
• Quickly backup your save games and settings. Supports 548 games and 10 applications!
• Built-in ignore list for games you do not want to back up (the checkboxes). Your preferences are saved between sessions.
• Use it with Windows’ Task Scheduler for complete automation.
• Easy backup restoration.
• Easy to use interface.
The tool is free to use, coded in Visual Basic and is small in size. The freeware currently works on Windows both 32 and 64 bit.
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While Windows Vista and 7 have this special feature of Alt + Tab that is seeing a preview of the Windows while switching, Windows XP lacks it. With the help of a tool mentioned here, users can get even better preview for not only XP but also for Vista and Win 7.
The tool is called VistaSwitcher which is an elegant and powerful task management utility for Windows OS. Once installed, it replaces the default Windows Alt-Tab dialog with a nice box that shows a list of all running tasks, with their names and preview snapshots, and enables the user to take actions on them using the mouse and keyboard shortcuts.
As show in the snapshot above, users can not only see the list of all the applications running but also a nice and big preview of the application which adds more appeal to the users while working on the system. Moreover the tool is free to use.
The main advantage of VistaSwitcher is a brand new Alt-Tab switching window. Unlike to the stadard Alt-Tab, VistaSwitcher shows a full-sized preview of each task window and easy-to-read relevant lists of tasks running, all shown clearly with titled icons so you can find the one you need within seconds.
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Deleting old and unused files from your PC is very tedious and time consuming process. All these old and junk files not only acquire the space of your hard drive but even effect the performance of your computer. So if you don’t want to waste your time and effort in searching for old files in your PC, even if you know locations, then today we will be telling you about a tool named Delete Files By Date using which you can delete all your old files.
It is the best solution to delete files that are older than a certain date even if you don’t know location of those files. This tool make it easy to find old unused files that are no longer needed and delete then in just one click. All you need to give is date and size and this tool will then automatically scan your complete computer with all those files which were created before that date.
Now in the main Window, you will see two options. First is Start with Windows. Tick mark on this option if you want this tool to run automatically at the time of booting of your computer. Now the next option is Protect with Password. This is the wonderful feature of this tool that you can password protect it. All you need to do is to place tick on this option and then put a desired password in both the boxes, and then click on Apply.
So next time when you will open this tool, you will prompted to enter password without which you won’t be able to run this tool.
These two are features of settings. Now the another option available on the main window of this tool is Delete Files. Click on this option to delete the old files from your system. You will see following option when you click it.
So the three main option available are Search for Files, Date and Size. In Search for files you can click on All files if you want to scan for all files extension or you can even make your search more specific by giving a particular extension and search all those files which are of those kinds. Next option is Date. Here you can search files by the ‘created date’, ‘modified date’ or ‘accessed date’. In next box you can will different options like less than, between, greater than etc. You can customize all this option to make your search more specific with date and time.
Now next option is size. This option will allow you to specify your search with desired size. Once you done with all the settings, all you need to do is to click on Add button and then add a folder or complete disk. Then this tool will start processing.
When the search get finished, it will show the results in the Window and from there you can choose all those files which you want to delete and then simply click on Delete button to remove all those unused files rom your PC.
The size of this tool is 4.05 Mb and still it will not take much time to get installed and as usual it will create a desktop shortcut which can be used to access this freeware. This tool is compatible with all the versions of Windows and has been tested successfully on Windows 7 Ultimate-32 bit edition.
Source:technixupdate
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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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If you miss the Timer feature the most in Windows then third party timer tools should suit your needs. There are lot of timers available for Windows but they are not that simple to use as this tool called SnapTimer.
SnapTimer is a free Windows Countdown timer that you can run to time your activities. Along with being free, it is also one of the simpler timer tools available for Windows. Just run this tool and type in any time you want to count, SnapTimer should work for you.
SnapTimer is also light, portable and require no installation, thus can be run directly from the USB drive as well. Find all the features below:
• Simple, clean interface
• Displays time in the taskbar, as a hint in the tray and even in the right-click menu of the tray icon.
• Tray icons indicate the mode of the timer (running, paused, completed)
• Multiple alert types - message box, tray icon popup, audio file and any application
• Stopwatch mode when you set minutes to 0
• Play an optional ticking sound while the timer is running
• Countdown can be paused and restarted, or reset
• Portable (runs from your USB flash drive)
• Can stay on top of other windows
• No install required
• Low RAM usage
• Can automatically start counting down immediately
• Includes over 20 loop-friendly alarm sounds (Meaning they’ll play over and over until you reset the timer)
• Can automatically restart timer when it finishes
• Lets you quickly and easily change the countdown time with mouse or keyboard shortcuts
• Automatically saves all settings (optional)
• Accepts time as command line argument, so you can create preset timer shortcuts or run the timer from a launcher (FARR, Launchy).
• Can be minimized to tray
• Supports multiple instances (You should disable always on top and probably autosave settings as well)
• Can be docked to a corner, in the center or restore the last screen location
• No internet access required
• Doesn’t write to your registry
• No ads, spyware or malware
• 100% free
Being a freeware, it can be used for all the purposes without any limitations. SnapTimer supports all the versions of Windows on both 32 and 64 bit systems.
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Today we will be reviewing a freeware which can be used to protect you system from anti-viruses and other malware which may harm your system while surfing on internet. We have reviewed many such tools but this one is light and provides better security on systems and it is called as Time Freeze Free.
This tool will tell you about the general configuration of your system and then it also provides a facility to protect a certain folder or a certain location on your system. I hope that you will like this tool as it acts as an antivirus, so it will also save your anti-virus application bills.
You can see in the snapshot of the application window that this tool will be used to protect your system. After you install this tool make sure that you restart your system else it will not work. You can see a black button in the bottom of the application window, which should be switched to ON in order to start this tool. In this snapshot you can see that in the system description all the information related to C drive and the other hardware information like the amount of RAM which has been installed on your system and then the amount of space which has been occupied and the one which is vacant, is available as it is the drive where the OS is installed on it.
There is another tab in the application window, which is named as Folder protection. In this tab you can specify a separate folder which should be checked regularly, for any virus or any other malware. Now, I would recommend you to keep your download folder under surveillance of this tool. Once you install this tool, you can access it from the desktop shortcut icon or with the help of the icon available on the tray.
The size of this tool is around 2.2 Mb and I should say that this size is comparatively smaller as compared to the other freeware which are used to protect your system from viruses and malware. After downloading this you will be required to get a key which will be available from the link mentioned below. This tool is expected to be compatible with all the versions of Windows as it has been checked with Windows 7 64-bit Ultimate edition.
Source :Technixupdate
The site, where you can find the key for this product.
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At home, we usually have a single computer or laptop which is shared by all the family members so it becomes difficult to save our personal data. Also in offices, our colleagues’ evil eyes are always searching for important data in our computer. So, to keep our data safe there are two options either hiding our folder using hide icons application or using a freeware called Secure Folder which will help us password secure our folders. Secure Folder is a tiny application for commercial as well as personal use which will lock/unlock folders and drive with password. It is supported by windows 7, vista and xp. It is downloaded as an exe file so there is no need of installation. When you will run the exe file it will ask you to enter the password to login. You have to remember this password because you can later unlock your folders using this password only. 
After login, you can see the main window of the application which is user-friendly with few options so that you can make your folder secure in just few clicks. 
For making your folder safe, you just have to click the option ‘Add’ and add your folder and the folder is locked. It doesn’t provide the option of drag & drop. 
Now, when you want to open that folder, you have to right-click and click ‘[Lock/unlock] with secure folder’. After that, it will ask you for the password which you have entered at the time of login to unlock. NOTE: Now, the folder will get unlocked so you have to again lock it to make it safe by going to the application. 
You can also unlock the folder in the main window by marking the desired folder and using the option ‘Unlock’. 
It also provide you the option of changing the password by going in the option ‘File’ and then ‘Change Password’ which will show you the this window where you can set the new password. 
So, it is a smart utility for hiding our personal information from the people whom we don’t want to see it.
Source:Troublefixers
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There are time when various running process gets hanged and stop responding, in such a case it required to kill those process. Process Manager For Windows allows you to kill, set priority, hide running process, hide all running process, kill a specific process or kill all process etc. Using this program is quite simple to kill process or hide them.
It allows you to use keyboard shortcuts to kill any process, hide process and do other things.
After installing and running this program it will show a system tray icon, which allows you to hide or unhide all the running process or kill them as shown in the image below.
You can even hide the tray icon of this program as shown in the image above or quit this program with a keyboard shortcut, In order to kill a specific application program right click the program and go to kill >> select the program which you want to kill.
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Windows’ default text editor that is Notepad is very handy for writing text but it is so simple and plain that it lacks many features that could have made it much better.
One of the features that can be added into a notepad is that of tabs. A tabbed notepad would make our work easier and efficient, isn’t it? What if the tabbed notepad also supports the text formatting like the bullets, bold text and the Italics? The resulting product would be a powerful notepad called Notepad X.
Notepad X is a powerful, tabbed text editor that can successfully replace Windows’ Notepad. The application is quite small and is free to use. The tool is very simple to use and can be downloaded easily from the link provided.
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Installing games every time you reinstall your system or doing it over multiple computer is always a pain. Though you can create images to play it but Game Save manager can do all the hard work for you by saving most of the games installed in your computer. In simple words it backups, restore and transfer games with all the game settings you have done.
GSM Main Menu
GSM Backup Page
GSM Restore Page
GSM Custom Entries
GSM Settings DialogDownload game Save manager
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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We all love pictures and often take a lot of pictures with our cameras, So there are times when there are some pictures lying in a folder and the view type is such that you are not getting the idea how does this image actually look, in such a case you can use a free utility called Menu Viewer which will show you a thumbnail image of the image file, as well as its actual dimensions, when you right click in that image file name in windows explorer.
As shown in the screenshot above it will show you a small thumbnail preview of the image, and also show the actual dimensions of the image. If you click this preview in the right click context menu it will open that image in your image viewer. This application is really useful in getting the preview of any image without opening it.
This shell extension uses FreeImage, and currently supports: BMP,DDS,Dr. Halo,GIF,HDR,ICO,IFF,JBIG,JNG,
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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 :-- Windows 9X
- Windows NT
- Windows ME
- Windows 2000
- Windows XP
- Windows Vista
- Windows 7
Sog DVD Ripper Platinum is an all-in-one solution for ripping or converting DVD to avi, DVD to DivX, Xvid, MPEG, H.264, wmv, flv, iPod, iPhone, AppleTV, 3GP, PSP, Zune, PDA, or extracting DVD audio to mp3 music files and capture a picture from DVD Disc so that you can play it on PC, iPod, iPhone or other devices.
This program supports remove all the restrictions of DVD. Audio and video quality of the output is also good. Splitting the video is quite easy as you just need to set beginning and end time.
You can select the set of sub-titles you want to have on the output. The conversion process is quite high speed. Sog DVD Ripper Platinum includes Super Encode Engine, which is faster than other encoding engine.
The conversion is quite fast and it also lets you monitor the quality all the time. It runs on Microsoft Windows 98, NT, 2000, XP, Windows 2003, Vista and Windows 7.
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Hide Folder is a free to use, small portable tool which lets you hide file and folder in windows, which will be hidden but not locked however these folders can be accessed by the application after the correct password is entered, some other related tips we have written about on how to make Make Folder Invisible and Inaccessible In Windows Explorer
In order to hide any folder, just locate it after pressing the browse button and then press Hide button to hide it, similarly you can add more folders path to hide them in windows explorer.
This tool is quite simple and does as it says as the hidden folders by this tool are not visible even if show hidden files and folders turned on.
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You may have large number of opened windows on your desktop, but switching through all these windows through alt+tab in windows is real pain, even if you use window key + tab still it takes time and even it is slow as compared to regular switching.
We had recently written about an application called AquaSnap which can help you arrange opened windows and programs more easily, but still if he windows are larger in number handling them with this program could be a pain. To, solve this program we just found a program called Tiler which can help you arrange any number of windows opened on your desktop screen very easily and quickly just by clicking the system tray icon of the application.
You can select the layout of arranging all opened windows, by right clicking the system tray icon of this program.
You can also choose to close all programs or keep all programs maximised with this little application, In short this simple, portable application can do more than just arranging the opened windows on your desktop.
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SecureShare is a free program which allows you to add a password and expiration date to your files you would want to share privately, people can only view your files by entering the right password before the expiration password arrives, Moreover your files cannot be copied, printed, saved, forwarded or printed.
This application could be really helpful in cases when emailed your project idea to your manager for input. The next thing you know, it is the top money-spinner in the company and your manager took all the credit. You found out that he had tampered with the original files and erased proof of your efforts or something similar.
We have just tested this software, and created a step by step procedure which could help you understand how to protect your files using this software, we have taken a sample document Technix Update.doc to explain.
1. First Download, Install and Run SecureShare
2. It will ask you to add files to folder to add for locking, you can add files by clicking the add button or just by drag and drop and then after adding these files click Next button at bottom right in the application interface
3. Now you need to set the expiration time and password to protect these files and then click Create button
4. It will create a zip archive most probably on your desktop which you can send to your friends and they can only view these locked files till a certain expiration time period and with the right password, but after the expiration time is over they will see the following message prompt.
Your friends will need use SecureShare to view your protected files, before the expiration time and with a correct password. When the expiration time is over your protected files will not be readable.
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Technology is evolving with every second passing by and so are the computers. With the fastest computers in the market every buyer thinks of buying spacious Hard drives as well, which could store data upto 1 TB(1024 GB) or even more. Storing more data in your hard drive is not a problem but managing it is certainly a tedious work.
If some files are lying in one partition, and one wishes to transfer it to another then he/she certainly will follow the traditional method of opening several windows at once, of all those files which need to be transferred and the partition to which they are to be transferred.
Clicking on each window separately and then copying or pasting the files is the next problem you face while transferring them, which eventually takes quite a while to complete.Since no one can work like this for rest of their lives a new software occupying 2.2 MB of space has been developed, named NexusFile – Windows File Manager.
The software is amazing in terms of usefulness since it allows you to perform a lot of tasks from a Single window. Similar softwares are also available in the market namely EFcommander etc which resemble a lot in terms of user interface but the number of features are less.
Key Features of NexusFile
- Dual-Pane Interface file manager
- Color coded file management
- Easy copying or moving files between folder
- Quick navigation to favorite folders
- Changing file and folder attributes
- Advanced renaming operations
- 3 customizable color schemes – Black, Classic and Grey with transparency support and custom view styles
- FTP transfers along with folder comparison and synchronization
- File splitting and joining
- Disk Cleanup
- File shredding and much more
Compatibility
The software is capable of supporting Windows 7, Windows Vista, XP and 2003 and it does not contain any adware or spyware.Download NexusFile
With days passing by now renewable resources of energy are getting depleted and to overcome this problem people are being made aware of the steps one could take for saving energy. In today’s world even smart people like us forget to save energy and thus waste it. Its the electrical products like the Computer or television etc using a lot of energy which we are hardly concerned about even when they are turned on and no work is being performed on them and such appliances either should be turned off or brought to a state where less energy is used.
If energy consumption is considered your Computer consumes a lot and if working under a suitable power plan, will certainly save energy as well. But switching between power plans is very tiresome and uninteresting since one would need to open Control Panel first, then click on Hardware and Sound, further on Power Plans and finally on Choose Power Plan.
Then a window will appear where one would see only two power plans – Balanced and Power Saver, and on the drop down list you will see High Performance plan which was earlier not visible. Isn’t the procedure very boring? To make switching between different Power Plans more convenient a new software has been developed named as Power Plan Assistant.
This software is of great usefulness as it not only lets you switch between different power plans but also enables you to switch between plans automatically by clicking on a few options at the first time of use.
Tasks Performed On Power Plan Assistant
- Switching between power plans becomes more easy by simply clicking left mouse button on the icon appearing in the system tray and from the drop down menu choosing the suitable one.
- One can also enable some options for switching between plans automatically. For example:-
2. Switching from power saver to ‘Balanced’ or ‘Power Saver’ on unplugging.
3. Appearance of balloon messages can also be customized.
Compatibility
The software has been specifically designed for Windows 7 operating system and is capable of working with Windows 7 x86 / x64 compatible hardware.Download Power Plan Assistant
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