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Measure Your LAN Speed/Bandwidth With LAN Speed Test

By Aun | Published: August 25, 2009

If you are looking for a  tool to check network speed, then try the useful Local Area Network speed tester, LAN Speed Test, it is an easy-to-use portable utility which helps you accurately measure the LAN speed.

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Maintain And Optimize Your Windows With Perfect Utilities

By Aun | Published: August 22, 2009

Perfect Utilities helps you keep your system running smoothly and improves the overall performance. It is basically system utilities suite which contains many easy-to-use tools to help you optimize your computer and fix problems like slow speed, blue screen, deadlock errors, etc, thus it plays an important role in maintaining the system stability and security. It combines more than 20 system tools and has a very user-friendly  interface.

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How To Enable/Disable Windows 7 System Protection

By Aun | Published: August 21, 2009

System Protection creates and saves information about your computer’s system files and settings on a regular basis, it basically creates system restore points so that you may restore your system back to an old state in case of any disaster or unwanted circumstance. To enable/disable Windows 7 System Protection, please go through the following steps.

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Monitor Hard Disk With DiskLight.NET

By Aun | Published: August 20, 2009

In order to achieve better performance, it is very important that you should keep an eye on the performance of your hard disk. DiskLight.NET is a small user friendly tool which tells you how busy your hard drive is by mimicking the activity of your hard drive LED light. It is a very light-weight tool and does not consume much resources(less than 1 MB of memory). It just stays in the system tray and regularly updates the status information of your hard drive.

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Connection Monitoring – Monitor Incoming And Outgoing Network Connections

By Aun | Published: August 20, 2009

The analysis of your network traffic is vital, ConnectionMonitoring is a small portable tool which observes all the incoming and outgoing network traffic. It was born out of the author’s frustration to find a monitoring tool for his small home network without paying hundreds of bucks. This tool is basically designed for small networks only but can be used on medium sized networks too. Since it is a portable tool, all you need to do is run the executable file and it will start monitoring your incoming and out going internet traffic instantly.

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How To Increase Icon Spacing In Windows 7

By Aun | Published: August 20, 2009

Are you looking for a way to adjust the spacing between the icons on your windows 7 desktop? In Windows 7 now it is possible to increase the space between the icons. Simply go through the following easy steps to increase or decrease the icon spacing.

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Scott’s Gmail Alert – A Handy Gmail Notifier

By Aun | Published: August 18, 2009

Now there is no need to keep your Gmail account or Google talk logged in all the time, Scott’s Gmail Alert is a handy tool that provides an alert whenever you receive a new email in your Gmail account. This tool stays in the system tray and once you receive an email, it opens a small notification window and by clicking the window you are taken to your Gmail account. It can monitor up to five Gmail accounts and each account can be configured to have its own color. It is very easy to send the emails directly from the Gmail Alert tool without having to login to the respective Gmail account  and you may add signatures for the out going emails.

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Setting Up Menu Delay Time in Windows 7

By Aun | Published: August 18, 2009

If the menus in your windows 7 are taking more time to pop up, then its very simple to reduce this delay. The following steps will show how we can change the amount of time it takes for a menu in Windows 7 to pop, fade, or slide open when you run the mouse pointer over it. Please note that this setting will only affect the user account that you are currently logged on into.

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MS Office, AutoCAD, PDF, PSD & TIFF Viewer And Printer

By Aun | Published: August 17, 2009

Ms Office AutoCad Pdf Psd Tiff Viewer is newly released tool that lets user view and print MS Office, AutoCad, PDF, PhotoShop and Tiff files without installing any of these software.  It supports all formats of MS Office, including doc, docx, ppt, pptx, xml, xmlx, and more. Sounds awesome, right?

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BMPreVIEW- Free Large BMP Image Viewer

By Aun | Published: August 17, 2009

BMPreVIEW is a free user-friendly application for the fast preview of large images in the BMP format. It acts as a large BMP-image previewer for Windows which provides additional options like adding contrast, smoothing filter, region zooming, saving to file, coping to clipboard, keyboard shortcuts for all operations, and command line support.

What makes it useful is that you can scale individual fragments of the image and also it supports 24, 8 bit indexed palette with 256 colors and 1 bit monochrome image. It is very lightweight tool taking a little less than 1MB in system memory.

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Disable User Installed Gadgets In Windows 7

By Aun | Published: August 17, 2009

Windows 7 offers a variety of useful gadgets but user can install additional gadgets as well. By default, the user installed gadgets are enabled in Windows 7  but you can easily change the settings and can prevent all users from being able to install a gadget too. You will need to make a little change in the group policies, go through the following simple steps to achieve this.

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Enable DLL Rule Collection in Windows 7 AppLocker

By Aun | Published: August 15, 2009

The AppLocker tool allows you to restrict the programs you can run in Microsoft Windows, we have already covered one aspect of this topic here. To sum it up in a nutshell, through the Applocker you specify the rules on your running applications. Now if you want to use the DLL Rule Collection, then you will need to enable them as they are disabled by default.

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How To Schedule System Shutdown With Shutdown Agent

By Aun | Published: August 14, 2009

Are you in need of a good tool which can shutdown, restart, or logout your system according to a schedule? If yes, then your search should end now. You can try a free and user-friendly software, Shutdown Agent which lets you schedule the shutdown, restart, suspend, hibernate, and logout events for your computer. It resides in the system tray for easier and faster access.

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How To Update Device Drivers In Windows 7

By Aun | Published: August 11, 2009

Just like software, the device drivers are updated by their manufacturers. These updates are made to remove any bugs or to add  some additional functionality to the hardware. Thus in this way the manufacturers try to improve the performance of the devices. It is always recommended that you should update your drivers regularly so that your system devices can work flawlessly. Here are the steps which you should follow to update your device drivers in Windows 7.

Note: This is a very basic post targeting towards those users who are upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7.

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How To Enable/Disable Aero Snap In Windows 7

By Aun | Published: August 11, 2009

Aero Snap allows users to minimize, maximize, or resize program windows by dragging and dropping them to the screen corners. If you don’t like the Aero Snap feature in Windows 7 or you feel it to be boring or unnecessary, just go through the following steps to disable it.

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