Showing posts with label Freeware. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Freeware. Show all posts

Friday, March 19, 2010

Bring Back Classic Start Menu to Windows 7 with Classic Shell

ClassicShell

One of the inconvenient feature in Windows 7 is the Start Menu which items are not organized , not easy to access and open programs or Commands as well.Where as classic Start Menu in older version of Windows is very easy to use.Looking for  free Classic Start Menu in Windows 7 which Windows 7 doesn’t support don’t worry! Classic Shell brings it to Windows 7.

Classic Shell-Classic Start Menu in Win7

Classic Start Menu features:

  • You can easily drag and drop applications to let you organize them.
  • Options to show favorites, expand control panel etc.
  • Shows recently opened documents, user can customize the number of recent documents that can be displayed.
  • Translated in 35 languages, including right to left support for Arabic and Hebrew.
  • You can always access the original Win 7 menu whenever you want with Shit +Click on start button.
  • User can able to perform asks like delete, rename, sort and others by right clicking on an item.
  • Supports both 32-bit and 64-bit Operating Systems.
  • Supports Microsoft’s Active Accessibility.

Classic Shell also adds toolbar for Windows Explorer in Vista and  Windows 7 similar to in Windows XP.Which user can uncheck during installation if he wants.

Classic Shell is freeware.

Download Classic Shell

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W7 Taskbar Tweaker 1.0 Adjusts Sizes of Taskbar Buttons & Thumbnail Previews

Recently covered about bringing Vista style taskbar to Windows 7 by choosing small icons in Win 7 Taskbar Properties, here free portable application W7 Taskbar Tweaker that lets you adjusts size of Win7 Taskbar buttons and thumbnail previews.

w7 Taskbar Tweaker

W7 Taskbar Tweaker developed aimed at reducing buttons or icon sizes on Taskbar,since icons on Taskbar does occupy some space in Windows 7.

By default for Windows 7 the Taskbar buttons set as always combine, hide labels , but this tweak won’t work if icons are set to always combine.This app will work better if  in W7 Taskbar Tweaker , Taskbar button size is set to never combine and use small icons.

The default taskbar button size is 40 for small icon and 56 for large icon.If you choose to use small icons,then set a value between 30-180 , if you use larger icons set a value between 42-180.Similarly you can also change the size of Taskbar thumbnail previews , you can choose value between 96-512, where the default size is 200.Once you make changes click Apply Changes and restart your PC to view changes.

You can revert back to default settings at any time by clicking apply defaults buttons shown in W7 Taskbar Tweaker UI.

W7 Tweaker is freeware and portable , no installation is required.

Download W7 Taskbar Tweaker 1.1

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Thursday, March 18, 2010

Dream Desktop Agent 1.1 Lets You Access Over 5,000 High Quality Wallpapers from Desktop

Bored with daily wallpaper shown on your desktop, it is true that beautiful high quality wallpapers on desktop brings pleasure and also change your mood.Wallpapers on desktop also grabs attention from others seeing your desktop as well.Dream Desktop Agent lets you access over 5,000 high quality wallpapers and also allows to set desired wallpaper as your desktop background.

DreamDesktop

Dream Desktop features

  • Browse wallpapers by categories,tags, or search wallpapers by keywords.
  • Simple user interface, lets you navigate through series of wallpapers easily.
  • Dream Desktop agent changes wallpaper automatically at specified intervals.
  • When new wallpapers are added,Dream Desktop agent notifies you about them.
  • User can add their loved wallpapers as Dream Desktop favorites for instant access.

User can preview the wallpaper by clicking the preview button and set as desktop background.

Dream Desktop Agent is freeware and supports Windows XP/Vista/7.

Download Dream Desktop agent 

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Sunday, March 14, 2010

Find Number of Feed Subscribers With Feed Counter

Some blogs don’t show their RSS subscribers count, they may do it intentionally but with a simple trick we can find number of RSS Feed subscribers for any blog .Feed Counter, a freeware tool developed on .Net will show you number of RSS subscribers for any FeedBurner profile.

Feed Counter

This tool will also help you to check whether the subscribers count displayed on any other blog is indeed right or wrong.Because some blogs intentionally show higher number of subscribers for their blog to attract advertisers.

Feed Counter Features:

  • Find out the details of any FeedBurner profile.
  • Gets the circulation, Hits and reach on a given day.
  • Get the details on a period time.
  • Export to CSV available.
  • Get results in Instant.

Feed counter is freeware and portable, no installation is required.There are two versions of this tool available one requires .Net framework to be installed , other don’t.

Download Feed Counter normal verison

Download Feed Counter without .Net framework version

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Friday, March 12, 2010

Fix 21 Common Problems in Windows 7 with 7 Quick Fix 1.0

Last time we covered about XP Quick Fix which fixes 25 common problems arrive due to viruses, here is 7 Quick Fix which fixes 21 problems in Windows XP that also caused by viruses and disables important system programs in Windows 7.

7 Quick Fix

It is common to have after removing viruses from your computer Task Manager, Registry Editor and other System programs gets disabled, this tool can enable them to certain extent.7 Quick Fix can fix all those affected system programs due to viruses.7 Quick Fix is freeware and portable, no installation is require as user can carry it in his USB drive and use.

 

7 Quick Fix can enable Task Manager, Registry Editor , Command Prompt, Folder Options if they are disabled.Download and run 7 Quick Fix to know about list of fixes it offer to Windows 7.

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Add Any Program to Run Automatically at Startup With AutoEX

We can uncheck items of programs that run automatically at startup to make Windows loads faster, what if we have need to run any program automatically at startup.AutoEX allows to add any program to run at startup once or every time automatically.

AutoEX

If you want to load media player to load automatically at startup you can do that using AutoEX.Though it is even easier to run more programs at startup by dropping these programs executable files on startup folder.

Add the program you want to run on startup by clicking Browser under program Path in AutoEX UI .Select whether it needs to run every time on startup or just once.

AutoEx is freeware.

Download AutoEX

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Install Microsoft Bluetooth Drivers with Bluetooth Driver Installer

Searching for Bluetooth drivers, don’t worry Bluetooth Driver Installer will install them for your Bluetooth adapter.This program patches the bth.inf file located under %windir%\inf directory.Bluetooth Driver installer creates system restore point before installing drivers so you can revert back to previous system state when anything goes wrong.

Bluetooth Driver Installer

Before installing this program

  • Make sure you uninstalled preinstalled driver for Bluetooth adapter.
  • Reboot your computer and install Bluetooth Driver installer.

If you want to uninstall Bluetooth driver installer,  simply delete the setup file.Bluetooth Driver Driver backup copies of bth.inf files before installing drivers which can be found at

C:\Documents and Settings\Username\Application Data\BluetoothDriverInstaller –Windows XP

C:\Users\Username\AppData\Roaming\BluetoothDriverinstaller –Windows Vista and 7.

Bluetooth Driver Installer is freeware.

Download Bluetooth Driver installer

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Thursday, March 11, 2010

Start Menu 7 : Alternative to Windows 7 Start Menu

Start Menu_ 7

One thing that annoys any user in Windows 7, is the Start Menu.All users have to type and search in Files and Folders to open programs which is so irritating.Windows 7 Start Menu is inconvenient and uncomfortable to open programs or commands. Start Menu 7 designed to replace Windows 7 start Menu with which user can able to view and access programs much like he does from Start Menu in Windows XP.

Start Menu 7

Start Menu 7 Features

  • The list of items is alphabetically sorted, so user can easily find any program or command by it’s name.
  • You can create modify and reorder items in Start Menu 7.
  • Special Run button added that appears on Start Menu 7.
  • Start Menu 7 free version contains Power Control Panel.
  • From the options on Start Menu 7, user can customize themes from Skin option like Windows Aero, Windows classic, Vista Classic Start Menu  and Windows Theme.
  • After installation of Start Menu 7, it will be automatically integrated into Windows and changes Start Menu.
  • User can enable shortcuts for power buttons by running Wizard .

Start Menu 7 free version is available .Start Menu 7 works with Windows 2000\2003\XP\Vista \7.

Download Start Menu 7

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Easily Import and Export Bookmarks Between Major Browsers with Transmute

Transmute _logo

We bookmark any Website to revisit again it in future, users will bookmark lot of WebPages to their browsers like Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome.It’s not hard to export bookmarks or favorites stored in IE to Firefox, some browsers do ask to import bookmarks from major browsers like IE, Firefox while they installing in your computer.Transmute, Bookmark Converter will export bookmarks between Major browsers very easily.

Transmute UI

Generally user has to backup bookmarks of browser manually in a html file and then export them to another browser.Where Transmute automates this process by auto detecting path of bookmarks for all major browsers and then with a single click Transmute exports bookmarks between the browsers.

Transmute supports  Internet Explorer, Firefox ,Chrome, Opera ,Flock ,Safari, Sea Monkey, K-Meleon, Avant Browser,Chromium.Select the Browser bookmarks you want to export to another browser in Source and select new browser in Target, you want to export bookmarks to, click Start to let Transmute export the bookmarks. Transmute automatically backup bookmarks and overwrites bookmarks collection between the browsers.

Download Transmute Standard installable

Download  Transmute Standard portable

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Wednesday, March 10, 2010

OCR PDF Files to Editable Text with PDF OCR 3.0

PDF OCR _box

There are many commercial and free online and desktop apps available to convert Scanned PDF documents to text format,PDF OCR is freeware app OCRs scanned PDF files and documents to editable text very fast and easily.PDF OCR has inbuilt text editor which allows to edit OCR text with out need of MS Word.PDF OCR also offers batch mode support to OCR all pages of PDF document to text at a time.

PDF OCR

Open the PDF file from File menu in PDF OCR, click Start OCR  here user select pages he wants to OCR ,he can select all pages also and hit Start. After OCR process is completed, OCR text will be shown beside in OCR text editor which user can edit.

PDF OCR with text editor

PDF OCR Features

  • Edit Scanned PDF documents like editing a text file.
  • Easily OCR PDF to text only in two clicks
  • PDF OCR with fast OCR engine, 92% faster than other OCR software.
  • User can select single or all pages.
  • Besides English, PDF OCR also supports German, French, Spanish, Italian and many other languages.
  • Supports all windows operating systems including current Windows 7.

PDF OCR is freeware.

Download PDF OCR 3.0

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