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Fully Customize Windows Restore Points With System Restore Manager

System Restore Manager is a portable application that provides you with a complete range of options to manage your Windows system restore points. Using this application, you can create a System Restore Point, let other users enable/remove restore points, select the amount of disk space allocated for system restore points, change the restore point time [...] (more…)

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Mount Windows System Restore Points To Browse And Extract Files

As many of us know, System Restore is a component for Windows which allows rolling back system files, registry settings and applications to a previous state. Although System Restore has a simple creation and restoration procedure, it does not provide an option to extract specific files from the previously stored system state. This means that [...] (more…)

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Delete Obsolete Application Data From Your System With AppCleaner

The widely acclaimed system cleaning applications, like CCleaner, Glary Utilities, Advanced SystemCare, etc., often fail to completely remove junk from the system, which compels user to try other cleaning utilities to ensure that the left over data of uninstalled applications and obsolete files are no more present in the system. AppCleaner is a freshly baked [...] (more…)

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SmartClose Saves System State To Restore Later, No Restart Required

SmartClose is a Windows application that saves the state of the system for restoring later. A similar functionality is provided by Windows default System Restore. However, SmartClose does not require computer restart to restore the system state. It is primarily useful for taking an immediate snapshot of a system before a software installation that requires all [...] (more…)

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Tweak Me! Goes Portable, Adds Bunch Of More Tweaks

The developer has released an updated version of Tweak Me!. Besides offering a number of new tweaks for Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7, the latest version also includes a number of bugfixes that were reported in some of the previous versions. A portable version of the application is also available. (more…)

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Replace System Files With Windows File Replacer

Advanced users have to face some difficulties while testing a software which requires system files to be modified. Most users rename the older system files and add “.old” at the end of the original name so that they can be later be easily identified and restored. (more…)

Windows 7 Security: What’s New ?

Microsoft is very confident in boasting that Windows 7 is the one of the safest operating systems. Windows 7 has enhanced many features from Windows Vista, some noteworthy improvements have been made to Windows 7′s Security. Lets see what’s new in Windows 7 security. (more…)

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Windows 7 And Windows 8 System Maintenance Tools

Today we will review the built-in tools that are available for the system maintenance in Windows 7 and Windows 8. You can find plenty of free tools which perform system maintenance operations in Windows 7 / 8, but don’t under estimate the built-in Windows tools. Below we have covered few built-in system maintenance tools available [...] (more…)

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2 Simple Ways To Create System Restore Point In Windows 7 / Vista

Did you ever regret installing a driver or an application and wished to turn back settings as they previously were? No matter how careful you are, when it comes to installing new drivers in Windows 7 / Vista there are just going to be times when you need to perform a system restore to safeguard [...] (more…)

6 Easy Ways To Free Your Computer’s Hard Disk Space When Using Windows

Editor’s Note: After lot of comments from the users, I have now changed this post’s tile and made some changes in the content. And I will have to agree that saving hard disk space does not increase the computer’s performance. So my readers have won after a short protest Just kidding. I will now(in a [...] (more…)

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How To Disable/Turn off System Restore In Windows 7 / Vista / XP

Whenever users install software program, drivers, updates, hotfixes and other system changing files, Windows Vista and Windows Xp creates a Restore Point by using System Restore, where a snapshot and stored state of important system files are backed up and copied,  If anything goes wrong such as driver not working or program causes instability to [...] (more…)