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NetBScanner: View All Computers On A Network Within User-Defined IP Range

NirSoft is known for developing extremely useful GUI and CLI based utilities for Windows. That’s why we keep reviewing most of their releases from time to time, all of which come from the developer named Nir Sofer. NirSoft has recently released a utility called NetBScanner, which is geared towards both advance and casual users alike. [...] (more…)

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Geek Uninstaller Lets You Completely Wipe Off Any Application From PC

Windows 7 as a whole is a great OS, with so many improved features over previous versions of Windows, but its integrated application uninstaller feature is still not up to the mark (at least for advance users) and usually leaves behind various registry traces, empty folders and other junk, even after the removal of an [...] (more…)

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Add Application & URL Shortcuts In Windows Context Menu With 7CMenuEditor.INC

Little features of Microsoft Windows, such as the right-click context menu, increase productivity without the user ever even noticing. Imagine the time it would take for you to access all the features included in the context menu by navigating to different dialog boxes and windows. The context menu allows you to use different features of [...] (more…)

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Image Snatcher: Take Screenshots & Instantly Upload Them To The Web

Screenshot capturing tools are an excellent way of making things understandable for others. That is why we keep covering a wide array of such tools from time to time. Among those that we have reviewed so far, Shotty (reviewed here) and GreenShot (reviewed here) are the ones that we found to have the best combination [...] (more…)

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Use Hotkeys For Playback Control Of Multiple Media Players With MPH

There are numerous applications available out there that let you assign custom global keyboard shortcuts to a specific media player, so that you can easily play or pause a media file, control volume, etc., even if your media player is not active, but what if you want to assign hotkeys to not just one, but [...] (more…)

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HashMyFiles: Calculate Checksum Values & Save Resulting List As HTML, XML Or TXT

File integrity is a serious issue these days. Every other day, we hear the news of some hacker group compromising a major company’s confidential data. Sometimes, they don’t use their own computers to perform these malicious activities, but instead employ backdoors to enter the systems of unsuspecting, unguarded internet users and gain access to their systems. [...] (more…)

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Audio Pitch & Shift: Add Effects To Songs, Change Their Pitch & Playback Speed

Last month, we covered BPMinus, an application for Windows that allows you to play and control the speed of music tracks while maintaining their pitch, as well as the sound quality. Even though BPMinus performed excellent in our testing, there was still some change in pitch while manipulating the track speed (the app advertised being [...] (more…)

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GoPing Plots Graphs For Minimum, Average & Maximum Ping Response Time Over A Period

Usually, when you have to ping an IP address, you need to go through the hassle of typing ping command in CMD. The ping command basically checks if the specified host is reachable or not, and displays response time in milliseconds. Even though it does not provide all the information you may need to know [...] (more…)

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DivXRepair: Re-Encode AVI Files To Eliminate Bad Frames

It often happens that when we download a video (in AVI format) from video sharing platforms, it shows frame skipping, frozen images or pixel distortion. Although powerful media players like VLC and KMplayer come with the ability to handle frame skipping issues, and attempt to play the video without any lag, they can not render [...] (more…)

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Hifito: Show Hidden Files & File Extensions Using Hotkeys

To identify different types of file formats from each other, Windows provides us with a different icon for each file type. For instance, a text file will have a different icon than that of a music or video file. However, not all file types have different icons. You cannot differentiate a TXT file from an [...] (more…)

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WinPlusX: Get Windows 8 Win+X Menu In Windows 7 & Vista

Since the release of the Windows 8 Consumer Preview, there has been a lot of talk about its different features. Apart from the major UI related changes, Windows 8 comes with a lot of quick access shortcuts that were not included in previous versions of Windows. In this article, however, we are concerned with only [...] (more…)

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5 Minute Break: Take Regular Breaks To Increase Productivity

Working for long periods of time continuously without taking a break can make you really tired and exhausted. We think that if we work continuously, we can get more done in less time, but in reality, it lowers your overall productivity. If your job requires you to sit in front of the computer for long [...] (more…)

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Autorun Manager: Disable & Re-Enable Autorun Feature In Windows

Whenever you plug in or insert a new device into your computer, Windows tries to automatically run it for you. Sure that is convenient, but this is one of the most common ways that viruses spread in to systems. If you plug in an infected USB flash drive or a CD drive, the Autorun feature [...] (more…)

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Restarter: Restart Explorer, Aero Services & Kill Not Responding Tasks

To enable registry changes to take place, normally one has to restart their computer. This not only puts a stop to your work, but a lot of time is also wasted by the user in reopening all the closed applications, folders and files again. The same effect that restarting the whole PC has, can also [...] (more…)

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CSV Reader: Portable Application For Reading & Sorting CSV Files

The CSV or Comma Separate Value file extension are files containing numbers and text in plain-text form. A CSV file is used to store any number of records in the form of lists, separated by lines in a form of table with each line consisting of several fields. Usually, every record includes the same sequence [...] (more…)