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Why settle for a basic build of your Firefox browser on Windows Operating Systems when you can have one that performs 25% faster? Mozilla does not provide optimized browser packages for Windows, while many Linux users get the advantage of a browser built specifically for their system. That needs to change! So, here is the [...]
Virtual desktops are very common in Unix/Linux. If your interested in getting one for Windows, I have listed few utilities. 1. Microsoft’s Virtual Desktop Manager for Windows XP: It is basic and simple utility compact in size. Download a small utility called Virtual Desktop Manager from Microsoft’s PowerToys download page. Install the utility. To enable [...]
Windows XP comes with some basic multimedia capabilities. These include Windows Media Player, basic CD burning support etc. In order to deal with latest video formats and burn CDs, DVDs and BlueRay Discs, you need other multimedia tools to be installed. Here are some free and useful tools for Windows: 1. K-Lite Codec Pack: K-Lite [...]
exFAT (Extended File Allocation Table), (also sometimes referred to as FAT64) is a proprietary file system suited especially for USB flash drives, introduced by Microsoft for embedded devices in Windows Embedded CE 6.0, in their desktop operating systems. exFAT can be used where the NTFS file system is not a feasible solution, due to data [...]
CCleaner (formerly Crap Cleaner), developed by Piriform is a donationware utility program used to clean potentially unwanted files and invalid Windows Registry entries from a computer. The Piriform website states that as of 25 February 2010, CCleaner had over 450 million downloads. CCleaner is a freeware system optimization, privacy and cleaning tool. It removes unused files [...]
Free Download Manager is a free open source graphical download manager for the Microsoft Windows operating system. This download utility is surprisingly attractive and full-featured for a freeware product, and its operation couldn’t be more straightforward. To download a file, just click a link in your browser or drag it onto the program’s tiny, semitransparent [...]
Sumatra PDF is a slim, free, open-source PDF viewer for Windows. Sumatra has a minimalistic design. Simplicity has a higher priority than a lot of features. It’s small and starts up very fast. Pros: Easy installation. Lightweight PDF reader. A functional, minimalistic GUI. Command line capability. Organized manual for keyboard shortcuts. Decrease in execution time. [...]
Free and open-source software is good for you and for the world. Here is some best Windows software that we know of. 1. Mozilla Firefox: If you haven’t switched to Firefox for your web browsing needs, do it now. It stops annoying popups and it has tons of amazing plugins that can make surfing the [...]
Have you ever noticed how the fonts on Windows XP look weak and are sometimes hard to read. The tool called ClearType will be useful for you. You can download this tool from Microsoft website: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx. Download ClearType Tuner PowerToy and install it in your computer. Once installation has finished, make sure you keep the [...]
Ubuntu ( a popular Linux distro) is often considered as better than Windows. Here are few strength of Ubuntu over Windows: No Viruses – Thats true! as Linux does not recognize Win32 Executables so the possibility of having a virus on-board is absolutely 0% Open Source – Unlike Windows, Linux distributions are open source and [...]
