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windows hacks

Top two free temporary data cleaner programs

 

There are several utilities available today for cleaning junk files from windows, these small nifty programs removes temporary unused files which degrades your computer performance over time.

CCleaner has been our favorite for a long time to remove system junk data and make it faster.

CCleaner

 

One of the most popular and our favorite utility for temporary data clean is CCleaner, it is a great utility which removes the following junk files.

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internet hacks & tips

Change your network connection settings with a shortcut on your desktop

 

If you are a laptop user like me, who needs to configure network settings every now and then to connect to your internet at your home place and at your office, you will definitely love this application called net profiles

Net Profiles is a freeware which help you configure the internet connection with a single mouse click, it allows you to switch in between the various network profiles you create through the application.

Net Profiles saves your network settings as profiles,you can easily activate different profiles to change the network connection settings.

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As shown in the image above you can create a network profile, after selecting your network card you need to specify IP Settings and click Save button.

Automatically change your profile via program shortcuts,

Some other features includes:

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tips & tricks

Make your pen drive bootable with MakeBootable

 

Many times, when you are facing a critical windows problem and you need the bootable cd urgently to repair your windows but some how you don’t get it.

MakeBootable is a free software which lets you convert your pen drive into a  bootable media, After making your pen drive bootable with makebootable you can use your pen drive like a windows xp bootable cd.

Makebootable is so easy to use, as it make your normal USB pen drive a bootable media in one click.

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But there is a limitation, you will need to format your pen drive with fat file system in order to make your device bootable.

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windows hacks

Synchronize your work folder at your office and home computer

 

Did you ever feel the need to synchronize some important folders across different computers you use at different physical locations, you can easily do this with Allway Sync.

Allway Sync is a free software for file and folder synchronization software for Windows.

It helps you to synchronize files and folder either through a USB portable device, ftp server or via amazon s3 server.

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Features:

  • It’s free Sync Software. 
  • Does not contain any spyware, adware or malware
  • You can install Allway sync software on as many computers as you need but it should be for personal use only.

    How To Use?

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    firefox tips & tricks

    Save the entire web page as single .htm file with firefox 3

     

    We have been using firefox 3 for some days now, and side by side reviewing any new feature which we come across like Secure way of remembering passwords in Firefox 3 and A little known feature about Firefox 3.0

    Today we found a new feature again in firefox 3.0 which allows you to save a any page on the web as a single .htm file with out any accompanying folder.

    When you save a page in firefox previous editions as a html file, you would see a folder always with the html file which contains the related images and other support files.

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    But when you save a page in firefox 3.0 with Save as type as Web Page, Html Only.

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    windows hacks

    Delete windows installer configuration on failed installs with windows installer clean up utility

     

    It happens with lot of us on windows when we try to install a program but it does not install sometimes it may not meet some installation requirement. 

    But we can remove windows installer configuration information which got stored in my computer with the help of Windows Installer Clean Up Utility.

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    With the Windows Installer CleanUp Utility, you can remove a program’s Windows Installer configuration information after unsucessfull installation of the program.

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    Lock and Hide your USB drive contents with a password with Lockngo

     

    Did you ever feel the need of protecting your pen drive with a password, here is the utility which lets you do this called Lockngo

    Lockngo is a removable media protection software

    You can download the demo version of Lockngo which lets you hide files on your removable drive for free but you cannot set the password protection over your files on your portable drive in the free version of Lockngo.

    lockngo

    Lockngo handles the data that is stored in the removable media in a way that makes it IMPOSSIBLE to retrieve even by using hacker’s low level raw reading utilities – it is that simple!

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    firefox tips & tricks

    Secure way of remembering passwords in Firefox 3

     

    I was reading a post on Easiest Way To View Passwords in Firefox 3 by abhijeet from jeetblog.com

    But after reading the post, I thought that this could be a privacy issue if anyone else is also using the same computer and can open the same web site and view your remembered password.

    Remembering password in firefox for different web sites saves a lot of time but could be a security breach, as it may reveal your private passwords to any one if you don’t set a master password in firefox.

    What is master password ?

    It is the main password which protect all the remembered passwords in firefox, you can see any remembered passwords across any web site without knowing the master password.

    Lets see how can you remember your passwords in a secure way.