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DiffView Shows Changes In Registry & Any Folder During Defined Time

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Just like your car requires several components to be actively working for seamless operation, similarly the Windows operating system in your PC needs to have various services and processes running in the background to keep it running steadily. Some of these processes and services also continuously alter files and registry items here and there. That means the Windows you're using right now might not have the same number or location of files or registry items after installation or uninstallation of a certain program. If you’re wondering what has changed during the past few minutes on your PC after a change such as, let’s say, removing a program in order to diagnose some issue, give DiffView a shot. It lets you know about the recent activities in your computer, and any changes made to files and/or registry items. Read More

My Computer Tweaker: Massive Collection Of Windows Registry Tweaks Under One Roof

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There are several ways to change the look and feel of Windows, the easiest among them being applications that modify different aspects of the operating system. Windows Tweaker is one such application with 100+ tweaks for system utilities and UI related components. However, many power users go beyond just mere apps and manually tweak the group policy editor and Windows registry to achieve the level of customization that is not possible through regular means. A lot of times, soon after a registry hack becomes common, someone makes a one-click tool for it, allowing novice users to take advantage of the tweak. Though that requires you to install a different tool for each registry tweak. Today, we present you a portable application called My Computer Tweaker that allows you to choose from a large number of handy registry tweaks to apply on your Windows 7 computer without worrying about not having a fallback plan.The tweaks are divided into several categories, including Desktop and Taskbar, System, Security, Visual Effects, Media Center etc., making it easy for you to choose the ones that best suit your requirements. Read More

PowerTools Is A Powerful Windows Registry Cleaner & Backup Suite

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Keeping your PC in top notch condition is integral for its longevity. There are many tools out there that let you perform maintenance tasks on your PC and the latest among them is PowerTools Lite 2013 - a highly robust Windows registry cleaner that determines the overall health of your computer by performing a number of registry scans. It lets you fine tune the registry, fix a variety of errors, and remove obsolete entries wherever required. In addition to cleaning the registry, it also contains an immunization feature that enables you to block malicious websites from accessing and spreading malware threats on your system. This in turn adds an extra shield of protection and keeps your privacy intact. Apart from being feature-rich, it also come with a user-friendly interface that's easy on the eyes. Read More

Here Are Two Useful Registry Hacks To Make Windows 8 Seem Faster

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Windows 8 is awesome. Once you get past the initial shock of having your Start menu replaced by a Windows Phone-like Start screen, you realize the magnitude of effort that’s been put into the operating system to make it faster, safer and more easy to use. But that doesn’t mean you can’t further improve upon it. We’ve already covered some of the best Windows 8 tweaks, hacks and tips and in this article, we’ll be discussing two more registry-based hacks that will improve your Windows 8 experience. Read More

Mirekusoft Install Monitor Is A Powerful Registry-Level Application Uninstaller

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I personally use Geek Uninstaller to remove installed applications from my PC, the reason being the application’s robust scanning and uninstallation engine that cautiously looks for any remnants of uninstalled software and helps you in removing all the bits and pieces, including registry traces and other miscellaneous residual junk. Windows’ integrated uninstaller feels quite primitive when it comes to features like these. While Geek Uninstaller is undoubtedly darn good, Mirekusoft Install Monitor also take cares of the job quite efficiently. It provides features akin to Geek Uninstaller and goes even beyond that (in certain cases its succeeds, while in others it doesn’t surpass the former). The application, along with removing bloatware off of your machine, also successfully erases various registry files. Should you need to only remove or inspect registry entries, you can do that too with its ability to monitor various resources of the installed applications. It watches files and folders created by the applications without intercepting your workflow. Although tinkering around with registry files is something I’d advice to skip altogether, power users will be delighted by this advanced option one way or the other. Lets find out how it fares against Geek Uninstaller. Read More

RegMerge: Compare Registry Files With Windows Registry & Merge Changes

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Windows Registry is a database that is used to store the configuration settings of Windows native system utilities and user applications. It includes default settings for the operating system components and user applications, as well as information related to hardware connected to the computer. It  is used by device drivers, kernal, UI, SAM and other third party applications. As various processes and services are continuously running in the background, changes made by these components are also reflected in real-time in Windows Registry. Windows doesn't provide any way to monitor these changes in real-time, however, back in January, we covered an application for Windows called RegFromApp, which let users monitor the changes made to registry by any selected application. Although quite handy, it did not provide you any kind of option to check and compare the changes made to Windows Registry. We have another software for our readers that might cope with this problem. Labeled as RegMerge,  it is an application for Windows that allows you to compare one or more Windows registry (REG) files with current values in Windows Registry. This may come helpful in situations where you need to compare the changes between exported registry keys and current registry keys to decide whether the exported registry hives are to be restored or not. Additionally, it provides you with an option to merge all the selected changed registry keys into Windows registry. Read More

UserAssistView: View All Applications & Links Opened By Any PC User

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Not sure what's eating your system's memory? Recently installed an application and now your system runs like a tortoise? It's a malware perhaps but how would you know? We have a software for you that might help. UserAssistView is a portable application that finds which programs are being run behind your back on your PC. It is developed by Nirsoft, a renowned developer for making light weight, simple and highly efficient programs for its users. This multilingual application provides useful information regarding different aspects of all the applications currently eating your computer’s memory. Read past the jump for details. Read More

Remove Programs & Their Registry Keys Using Install Monitor

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When you install an application, a lot of registry values are created and added to your system along with the installation files. These registry values do not always get removed when you uninstall the application. For instance, if you download and install a software which provides you with context menu support, the context menu entries are stored in the registry keys, and when you uninstall the application, sometimes they do not get uninstalled with the application. Previously, we have reviewed Uberstaller, an application for Windows which not only works as an uninstaller but also scans and removes all traces of the software from the hard disk, but it does not show you where the relevant registry keys of an application are placed. Today we have another uninstaller for you called Install Monitor that allows you to see the impact that installing an application has on your system and fully remove all the files and registry keys while uninstalling it. Read on to find out more about Install Monitor. Read More

KIOSK Enterprise: Easily Configure PCs To Run Them in Kiosk Mode

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Kiosk mode is a minimalist mode for computer programs, which restricts the user's rights on a computer. This mode is used for public and enterprise computers, where user privileges are reduced to avoid system issues or data theft by the end user. For example, public information computers in pedestrian zones and museums are often run in Kiosk mode. KIOSK Enterprise is an application that has been designed for a kiosk environment. KIOSK Enterprise allows configuring PCs to run in kiosk mode, which prevents users from accessing certain functions of the operating system. The idea behind KIOSK Enterprise is to avoid laboriously gathering the registry keys for applying user restrictions. The developer has mentioned that he had to manually search and identify keys via the internet to apply these restrictions in the past, and therefore, developed this application to provide the necessary keys for applying such restrictions. This application has been developed for system administrators and to make their task for configuring (kiosk) computers easily. Read More

Monitor & Export Registry Changes Made By A Process Using RegFromApp

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Windows Registry is an operating system database that stores the configuration settings in Windows. It contains settings for operating system components, as well as information about hardware. In fact, every application you install on your PC, gets registered in the registry. Just like you'd keep a written record of your finances on a physical register, Windows registry works pretty much the same. Sometimes, you need check certain changes they may have been made to the registry, such as an infected file or a malfunctioning file.  RegFromApp is a portable application for Windows that may help you in this very task. Developed by NirSoft, the application monitors the changes made to registry by any selected application. Should you unaware of NirSoft, the company originated from its original developer Nir Sofer, an active Windows developer.  RegFromApp allows you to create a standard RegEdit registration file that includes all the changes made by the chosen application. The changes are saved in a standard Window Registry File (REG), that can be used to import/export the changes to another system. Read past the jump for more details and screenshots. Read More

Optimize, Tweak & Clean Windows PC With Toolwiz Care

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Toolwiz Care is a comprehensive system tune up application that comes with a large collection of system utilities and optimization tools, all designed to clean, optimize and tweak components of your computer for better performance. Toolwiz Care includes a set of 40 different tools, including registry cleaner, disk analyzer, startup and boot time optimizer, process manager, privacy cleaner etc. Read More

Add & Edit Items From ‘New’ Context Menu With New Menu Editor

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Perhaps, one of the most frequently used elements in Windows is context menu. Context menu provides a quickest way to access different commands, programs, application properties, and other features. As new applications or features get added to the Windows, context menu automatically adds the supported commands and file types to the list, however, you can also manually add your desired files types, should you so need to. The conventional method to add or delete a file type from the New context menu available in right-click menu involves editing Windows registry, and we all know how dangerous that can be for novice users. If you want to avoid messing up the Windows registry (which is highly advisable, especially if you don't know what you're doing), you can use New Menu Editor. It is a context menu editor that allows you to add new file types to the New context menu through a simple GUI. If some of the original items are useless to you, the program also lets you delete existing file types to reduce cluttering. You can add an empty file or a predefined template to New context menu, based on your requirement. Read More

Calculate And Check Integrity Of Files & Registry With Object Monitor

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Checking the integrity of files lets you know if the file that you just downloaded is corrupt or not. Hackers can get on to a website and, either change, or modify the file available for download. This allows them to install their own code on your computer that helps then in performing malicious activity on, or through your computer. Object Monitor is an open source application which allows you to check the integrity of your files and registry keys. The application will let you use different algorithms for checking integrity such as CRC16, MD5, SHA1 and Size. You can add files and registries individually or select a parent folder to create a list. Once a list is created, Object Monitor allows you to save the list, enabling you to easily access it the next time. Reports of the list can be generated in HTML and Rich text format and a log file is created for every performed action to save the data for future use. Read More

Tweak Windows To Increase PC Performance With Simple Performance Boost

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Like everything else, your computer also requires a lot of attention in order to keep it in shape. It is quite necessary to take care of your PC for its performance to be top notch at all times. With time, junk files, unwanted software, redundant startup entries and services get accumulated in the system, which can cause it to slow down or even crash. Simple Performance Boost is a Windows tweaking tool to increase speed and stability of your system. This application allows you to toggle only the safest tweaks that do not compromise the security or functioning of your system. You can turn the tweaks on and off any time you like. Moreover, it also creates a backup of your current registry settings, enabling you to revert back to original settings without a problem. It displays complete information about every tweak, so you know what you are doing before playing around with a function. Read More

CleanAfterMe: Clean Files, Registry Entries Created During Routine Tasks

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You may know that a string of junk registries is created for every application that you install or run on your PC. Same is the case with using web browsers which download and store cookies, history, temporary files, etc. on your PC. Overtime, these registry entries keep piling up and a large number of redundant entries can be created in your system if you are in the habit of installing a lot of applications. NirSoft’s CleanAfterMe is a portable application to clean registry entries and temporary files that are automatically created by the system. It can clean registry entries that record the last opened files, temporary files, browser cookies, history, cache, passwords, event logs, clipboard data, etc. A list allows you to choose any of the items that you wish to clean from from your system. For deleting the junk entries, you can, either select the simple delete method, or set the option to fill the file with zero bytes before initiating the deletion process. Before you carry out the actual cleaning operation, a preview window allows you to view the detailed cleaning report of all the items the application will delete during the process. CleanAfterMe can remember your settings, so you don’t have to select all the files and registry values for deletion, every time you use the application. Keep reading to find out more. Read More

Delete Startup Items Which Are Added By Programs Without Your Permission

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Many a times when we install an application, it registers itself to start at system startup without asking us. This results in slow down of the Windows startup time. It can be quite a hassle to individually locate the advanced options of each application to prevent them from starting at Windows startup. In such as case one may require using Msconfig to disable them. If you are tired of continuously changing your start up settings to stop newly installed applications from running in Windows startup, then you need to have a look at StartupEye. It is a lightweight system tray app that will monitor software which may try to register themselves to run at system startup. It gives an alert if a newly installed program tries to automatically enable the option to run at Windows start up and provides the option to prevent  such entries from being written to the Windows registry. With StartupEye, you can also instantly scan the software using VirusTotal to make sure it is clean. StartupEye is not a resource intensive application and has a memory stamp of merely 3MB (on average) with little or no CPU usage. Read More

Get Registry Read/Write Access In Windows Phone 7.5 Mango [How To]

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Windows Phone 7.5 Mango was launched merely a few days ago, but the untiring developers and hackers of the WP7 community are working overtime to keep pace  with this latest platform as it reveals its full potential. In WP7 development a crucial milestone is the ability to modify and add to the registry values of the kernel files. This requires the developer to have a high level of understanding and knowledge of the system and enough privileges to access registry. To gain that level of access isn’t always an easy task, especially on a newer, unfamiliar platform that has just been launched. So if you have got your copy of Mango, and are wondering how to play around with registry values, then this is exactly the guide you have been looking for. Read More

Registry Editor And Near Root Access For Samsung Windows Phone 7 Devices

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Owners of Samsung Windows Phone 7 devices are in for quite a treat. So far Windows Phone 7 devices have proved quite adamant in allowing us registry or root access. If your phone is developer unlocked, Heathcliff74 has put together an app called WP7 Root Tools which has hopefully sparked of the drive towards total root access on WP7 devices. WP7 Root Tool is so far the closest you can get to gaining root privileges on your device. For more on this awesome app, read on! Read More

WinMate Is All-in-One PC Performance Optimizer And Tweaker

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WinMate is a Windows optimization utility which is developed by T55.net to enhance and speed up overall PC performance by tweaking with various Windows native functions. Since the application developer has attempted to address all known PC-related problems and issues in this product, it comes with a wide range of system-specific repairs which you can select either manually or let it choose the best repairing package to boost yours PC performance. As per its main functionality, it caters to those users who experience slow processing speed with many other problems which eventually take down the CPU and memory performance. Apart from handling CPU and physical memory exorbitant usage, it lets user diagnose known performance-specific problems, trace and clean junk off the system with an option to find out duplicate files, run registry optimization, etc. Features list doesn’t end here, it carries a set of tools to optimize your system, optimization can be done by tweaking with OS-related options, physical memory settings, startup items and services, scheduled tasks, and so on. Read More

Reduce Windows Registry Index Size With Simple Defragmentation

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We have previously reviewed a list of registry optimization & defragmentation utilities, such as, Simnet Registry Defrag, QuickSys RegDefrag, and Registry Life, the first two tools are designed especially to make registry data contiguous while latter is an advanced tool for cleaning & optimizing registry. Today we have come across WinMend Registry Defrag – an application which which claims to effectively rebuild the registry index in order to remove the unused fragments/voids. Since data defragmentation is carried out by making data contiguous, it re-organizes the Windows registry space to let installed applications fetch associated registry keys with more speed.
Editor's Note: It must be noted that registry defgramentation does not necessarily speed up your system by a huge margin. It does however speed up access to registry (but the effect is very minimal). You should only defrag your registry when your PC is clogged and only as a last resort.
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