Did you ever get irritated by Windows trying to tell you "This Program Might Not Have Installed Correctly", once you try to install a new software. Although you know that the program you tried installing installed correctly. You might also be confused that you did something wrong and hence the program did not install correctly. Well in mostly likely case the program got installed and the pop up is just a false...

Windows 7 has some eye candy themes by default. However, you can also install themes from around the web and enjoy a new look to your Windows 7 desktop. LIFE theme is official theme released by Windows and they have done a good job of making it really good looking with some fabulous wallpapers. The theme has 5 fabulous wallpapers and is only 4.6 MB in size. You can download LIFE Windows 7 theme for free and can...

Agnitum’s Outpost Firewall Pro is a state of art security tool to protect your Windows based machine from hackers, malwares, loss of data etc. Outpost Firewall Pro provides the first line of defense against malicious software by proactively controlling how programs behave and interact on a PC and preventing security breaches. Latest version extends the range of monitored events and operations for even greater a...

Couple of days back we wrote about Registry First Aid 6 and how you could get a free license. There's another very popular utility called as Registry Mechanic that takes care of your Windows registry with ease. And we are going to tell you how to get 12 months license for Registry Mechanic 7 (The current version is Registry Mechanic 8.0) for free. The software will otherwise cost you $29.95. With Registry...

Internet Explorer 9 has tremendous improvements over its predecessor. However with all the modern browser pushing to respect user privacy. IE 9 had the pressure to do that. Now with IE 9 you can enable do not track feature which will enable privacy and protection. Following is the what do not track means: Click on the Tools (Gear) button or press Alt-X in IE9. Go to Safety in the pull down menu. Select Tracking...

Windows run prompt is quite good if you want efficient way of handling stuff. I almost end up running most of the things using the run prompt. Even though Windows 7 and Windows Vista's search box has made it almost redundent to use the run feature, I am sure some of you still would find it the most convinient way to launch applications and programs. SuggestRun is program like Windows Start>Run menu with...

With the hard disk capacity going limitless these days, there's just too much of space to exactly know what you have installed where and how much each component is using your disk space. There're already some good softwares out there to address this issue. We are going to see one such software which will help you identify what programs/software are taking how much disk space. Disk Space Fan is a software for disk...

With any operating system I like the idea of being in control and hence I want to have access to all the administrative tasks. This is more so in Windows. After all the reason we have windows is for ease of use. Let's see how to enable all the administrative tools in Windows 7 to be shown in the start menu. Administrative tools help you access power user settings like firewall, managing hard disks etc. These tools...