An application can hang anytime and there is nothing much you can do to avoid that but there is something that you can in that situation. When an application freezes you need to forcefully terminate it from the task manager but for that you need to find the program from the list and click End Process.
ProcessKO is a small useful tool designed to quickly kill any running or hanging process/program. To avoid all the steps and clicking Yes to “Are you sure you want to terminate the process” in order to kill the process; just use this program called ProcessKO.
Now one can save many hand moves and also save time! And it’s easier than ever. With ProcessKO, terminating any process or program goes faster and the program can even be restarted from ProcessKO. It lists the processes in the taskbar menu terminating which is easier and quick.
The tool is free, requires no installation and is operable in all versions of Windows.
Windows have the option of creating a limited account and it is the account that we usually see in the offices, school or colleges. The account is called limited as it has only certain features enabled while most of the admin features are disabled.
One of such features is the CD burning option. This option is usually disabled for the limited account users but there are times when we want to burn some CD/DVD disk. For our convenience here is a method to enable the CD/DVD burning feature for the limited account in windows.
This can be easily done by making some changes in the registry; however registry editor is also disabled for the limited account users. But if you can import some vbs script that can modify the registry in the backend, then your work is done.
To enable the CD burning feature for limited users just download the script, unzip it and double click on the vbs file. Click Yes to allow making changes in the registry. That’s it you would be able to burn CDs in spite being in the limited account.
Bored of the same old themes in the Windows 7? You can download many more themes from the sites available but do you know that by default, Windows 7 come up with few more themes. The reason why we cannot see those themes is that these are hidden or locked by default.
So if you also want to save few more Windows 7 themes follow the steps listed below. The steps are extremely easy and would not take more than a minute in installing the new themes in your system.
Steps:
1. First step is to unhide the folder where these files reside. Open the Windows Explorer, go to Organize tab and then click on “folder and search options”.
2. In the view tab, make sure that you have “Show hidden files, folders and drives” option as checked and the option of “Hide protected Operating System Files” as unchecked.
3. Now either go to the folder or type in the Run box C:\Windows\Globalization\MCT.
4. Here you will find some six folders each having a hidden theme inside.
5. Go to Theme folder inside all the folders listed above, and double click on the theme file. The .theme file will save itself in the Personalization window permanently.
There are times when we need to refresh our computer’s IP address and have a new IP address. But what you usually do for this purpose? Restart the internet modem so that the IP is allotted dynamically.
Well the process is simpler now as you just need to have a tool called FreshIP. FreshIP allows you to easily change your computer’s IP address by clicking its tray icon. Just install and run FreshIP. It will start and run silently in system tray. Double-click FreshIP tray icon to release and get a new IP address. When icon turns back to orange, process completed.
The tool is free and can be configured to start with Windows at the startup. The freeware supports Windows XP, 2000 and Vista but not Windows 7 at the moment.
Mozilla just released the latest version of Firefox which is 3.6.6 and is believed to be a great improvement in speed and reliability. Developers at Mozilla has already started working upon their next release which would be the version 3.7
But Mozilla had claimed that the version 3.7 would be renamed as Firefox 4 later this year. The most awaited Firefox 4 browser has lots of improvement in the design and UI fields, at least this is what they have claimed for already.
One of the biggest ones is that the default setting will be to place tabs on top which is in fact quite similar to the another popular browsers Chrome and Opera. Tabs can be placed either top of the address bar or below it, then why does Mozilla wish to place it above it?
Here is the video that would give you the answer.
However the tabs placed on top are because of the default settings, users can change the position as per their liking and needs, easily.
Pre release builds of Firefox 4 can be downloaded from the links below:
There is no doubt that everyone needs an AntiVirus to protect his/her system from the spread of the viruses which are very common in today’s times.
What kind of AntiVirus are Fake?
Fake AntiVirus are a type of malicious programs that appears to be an AntiVirus. It infects our systems when we click on a malicious site that downloads it and runs it on our system in the background. It scans the infected computer and produces fake alert warnings.
What’s worse is that it even convinces you to purchase a license for the product. These AntiVirus contaminates the computer and should be removed soon. There is a tool called Remove Fake Antivirus that can remove lots of fake AntiVirus easily.
Following are the list of fake AntiVirus that this tool is able to remove successfully:
1. Security Tool
2. Antivirus 7
3. Defense Center
4. Protection Center
5. Sysinternals Antivirus
6. Security Master AV
7. CleanUp Antivirus
8. Security Toolbar
9. Digital Protection
10. XP Smart Security 2010
11. Antivirus Suite
12. Vista Security Tool 2010
13. Total XP Security
14. Security Central
15. Security Antivirus
16. Total PC Defender 2010
17. Vista Antivirus Pro 2010
18. Your PC Protector
19. Vista Internet Security 2010
20. XP Guardian
21. Vista Guardian 2010
22. Antivirus Soft
23. XP Internet Security 2010
24. Antivir 2010
25. Live PC Care
26. Malware Defense
27. Internet Security 2010
28. Desktop Defender 2010
29. Antivirus Live
30. Personal Security
31. Cyber Security
32. Alpha Antivirus
33. Windows Enterprise Suite
34. Security Center
35. Control Center
36. Braviax
37. Windows Police Pro
38. Antivirus Pro 2010
39. PC Antispyware 2010
40. FraudTool.MalwareProtector.d
41. Winshield2009.com
42. Green AV
43. Windows Protection Suite
44. Total Security 2009
45. Windows System Suite
46. Antivirus BEST
47. System Security
48. Personal Antivirus
49. System Security 2009
50. Malware Doctor
51. Antivirus System Pro
52. WinPC Defender
53. Anti-Virus-1
54. Spyware Guard 2008
55. System Guard 2009
56. Antivirus 2009
57. Antivirus 2010
58. Antivirus Pro 2009
59. Antivirus 360
60. MS Antispyware 2009
61. IGuardPC or I Guard PC
62. Additional Guard
So if you are using any one of the above listed AntiVirus, you know what to do.
In order to prevent your USB Drive from getting infected, you will need to create some files on your pen drive like Autorun.inf file and some other files which will later prevent the virus infection as these files being already created and cannot be deleted, so that virus or trojan cannot copy files and folders or create them on your USB Drive when you connect your drive to virus infected PC.
Following are some tools which can help you protect your USB Flash Drives from viruses, trojans and worms
1. Panda USB Vaccine – It allows users to vaccinate their PCs in order to disable AutoRun completely so that no program from any USB/CD/DVD drive, It can be used on individual USB drives to disable its AUTORUN.INF file in order to prevent malware infections from spreading automatically.
When applied on a USB drive, the vaccine permanently blocks an innocuous AUTORUN.INF file, preventing it from being read, created, deleted or modified. Once applied it effectively disables Windows from automatically executing any malicious file that might be stored in that particular USB drive.
2. USB Defender – It was developed to be e xtremely 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.
It feels irritating while arranging a huge heap of files which get collected all at one place inside the download folder when you download them from Internet. We download all types of files in a single directory but in order to keep our data easily accessible we should distribute them in a certain number of directories but we often don’t do that.
To make this task of copying and moving each group of file from the download directory to the desired destination, we will share a wonderful tool which will automatically do this for you. Instead of repeatedly going to each folder again and again we can use a tool named as Download Mover 1.1.
From the above snapshot you can see that the very first option in that application window is to select the directory in which your download completes. When you select the folder then below it you will find an empty list in which all files and other sub-directories which are to be moved will be enlisted. After entering the files and folders you will have to add the destination to which the mentioned files should move
You will have to write the format of all the files but if you want to copy all the files to a certain location then you can use a character (*) and if you want to copy all the files of a certain format then you can use (*.format).
It has a size of about 800 Kb which makes it very light and portable, this freeware does not get installed. It minimizes itself on the system tray and it will consistently check the download folder for a new entry. The frequency of checking can be adjusted by the user by entering the amount of time between the two consecutive checks. As soon as it detects a new entry it will shift it to the folder which has been already mentioned by you.
If you report any error regarding any bug then you can mail to the email address available in the application window. The testing and developing of this tool has been on Windows XP, but it is also compatible with Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit edition as it has been checked by me. Undoubtedly this tool will prove out to be very helpful for the people who frequently download stuff from Internet. So, Enjoy!