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It is certainly more convenient to have Windows immediately pick-up the USB device once you plug it into the USB port. But, as you might realize, it comes with a heavy price. No matter how careful you are, it is quite possible that your USB device could pick up a virus or if you allow others to use your computer it is more probable that the USB device that they might be plugging into your computer could contain viruses and all sort of nasty things, who knows!

It is, obviously, better to be on the safer side than sorry. Instead of allowing Windows 7 (or Windows Vista for that matter) to automatically play the USB device once you plug it in, why not just disable Windows from auto playing the USB device? With that way you won’t run into accidental virus issues and if you are certain that the device is safe to browse you can then obviously get to the device manually using Windows Explorer.

It is pretty simple to turn off the AutoPlay feature on Windows 7 for any external media devices.

Start by typing “group policy” on the Windows Search Box. Windows 7 will narrow down to “Edit Group Policy” on the list. Click on “Edit Group Policy” item.

Once Windows launches “Local Group Policy Editor” window, on the left side of the window expand the nodes “Computer Configuration” and then “Administrative Templates” and then “Windows Components” and then choose “AutoPlay Policies”. On the right side of the window you should be able to see “Turn off AutoPlay” option.


Double-click on the “Turn off AutoPlay” option and Windows will present you with the “Turn off AutoPlay” dialogue. On that window click on the “Enabled” option to disable the auto play feature of Windows. Make sure to hit the OK button to dismiss the dialogue.
From now on Windows won’t try to automatically play the device when you plug-in a USB device or any other external media devices. Keep in mind that this tweak requires Administrative privileges and this applies to all the users of the computer including the Administrator.

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Clipperz is a great free open source password manager. Users can either sign up for an account on Clipperz or they can download and host the client themselves.
Clipperz can store any of your sensitive data, such as passwords, notes, etc.Clipperz takes care of all the security and encryption to make sure that all your sensitive information is safe.

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GnuCash is personal and small-business financial-accounting software, freely licensed under the GNU GPL and available for GNU/Linux, BSD, Solaris, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows. Personally I like it because of its rich functionality and easy of use. GnuCash is similar to Microsoft Money and it is used by accountant, small business/home user etc.
        Features:

1. Double-entry bookkeeping
2. Scheduled Transactions
3. Mortgage and Loan Repayment Druid
4. Small Business Accounting Features
5. Transaction-Import Matching Support
6. Multi-Currency Transaction Handling
7. Stock/Mutual Fund Portfolios
8. Online Stock and Mutual Fund Quotes

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Microsoft Windows XP/Vista/7

Mac OS 

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The main purpose of Autorun feature is to provide a software response to hardware actions that you start on a computer. Autorun has the following features: Double-Click, Contextual Menu, AutoPlay.
These features are typically called from removable media (flash-drives, portable drives, card readers and other gadgets). During AutoPlay, the Autorun.inf file from the media is parsed. This file specifies which commands the system runs. Many companies use this functionality to start their installers.
In versions of Windows that are earlier than Windows Vista, when media that contains an Autorun command is inserted, the system automatically executes the program without requiring user intervention. Because code may be executed without user's knowledge or consent, users may want to disable autorun feature because of security concerns.

Removable USB/thumb drives use the Autorun feature to load files when the drives are plugged into the USB port. Virus & malware exploits the Autorun feature to spread from thumb drive to PC. You can disable the autorun feature to prevent malware from spreading.
Windows 7: The new security features of Windows 7 will not run autorun programs unless it's on optical media. These commands are still available for CDs and DVDs in Windows 7, but not for USB sticks.
Disable Autorun is a totally portable application, meaning that you can put it on any USB stick and run it directly from there.

	Autorun 1.0 (409 Kb)
	ZIP version (213 Kb)

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Generally its very difficult to cope up with redundant images stored at various location,various drives of same terminal. Specially if you have limited hard disk capacity or whenever you run short of space, there comes need to remove duplicate photos.Doing the same task manually is too difficult, so  googled for this and came across  a  awesome  application so called awesome Duplicate Photo Finder.

Awesome Duplicate Photo Finder is a free powerful tool, that helps you to find and remove duplicate photos on your PC.With this program you can easily clean up your photo collection from duplicates or even similar images.
Awesome Duplicate Photo Finder is a completely FREE Software. It contains absolutely NO ADWARE, NO SPYWARE, NO REGISTRATION, NO POPUPS, NO MALWARE or other unwanted software.

   System Requirements are as follows:

Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/2003 Server/Vista/Windows 7

CPU: 400 MHz or greater

RAM: 512 MB or greater

5 MB hard drive space available

Version: 1.0,Download Size : 1MB 

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3 Ways to View hidden files in Vista

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Language Reader
Language Reader takes advantage of existing speech technologies, provides a richer on-screen reading experience with multilingual voices enabled.Supported voices are English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, Japanese, Korean.You can select text using your mouse, and hear the selected text being read by pressing a key on your keyboard.


FEATURES:
Read text (word, phrase, sentence, paragraph, document) using Microsoft Text-To-Speech technology.

Provide a richer on-screen reading experience with multilingual voices enabled.

Supported languages/voices: American English, British English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, Japanese, and Korean.

Interface language: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch.

Supported document formats: Adobe Acrobat (PDF), Microsoft Word (doc, rtf), Microsoft Excel (xls), Microsoft PowerPoint (ppt), HTML (htm, html, shtml), Text (txt). 

Cartoon characters, Merlin, Robby, Peedy, and Genie, who serve you as Assistant powered by Microsoft Agent technology.

Easy-to-use built-in editor to edit text to be read aloud.

Download and install required Microsoft Speech, Avatar components when needed.

                                               Download Now (708 KB)   

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All settings are divided in  the following sections:

• Applications
• Control Panel
• Desktop
• Miscellaneous
• Network & Internet
• OEM Info
• Special Folders
• Start Menu
• User Accounts
• Windows Core
• Windows Explorer

Download TweakNow WinSecret : Click Here

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Windows 7 Little Tweaker is a small and simple to use utility that let you easily activate a few useful extras for Microsoft's new OS, Windows 7 Ultimate.
Windows 7 Little Tweaker is a Windows 7 only portable application and will not run on any other Windows versions.
Windows 7 Little Tweaker must run as Administrator, and with UAC disabled.
This is a 32bit application, and will not run for now on a 64bit OS.


Available tweaks:

• Add "Copy To" option in files and folders context menu, so that you can easily copy them to other locations
• Add "Move To" option in files and folders context menu, so that you can easily move them to other locations
• Set Windows to automatically end task of programs which are either hanged or taking longer time than expected to exit
• Decrease menus show delay time, it'll show the sub-menus fast when you select their parent menu
• Disable the low disk space check so that you don't get the annoying low disk space notification in system tray
• Set Windows to not waste time in searching for a program which no longer exists in your system when you try to open its shortcut
• Disable "search on Internet" prompt in "Open with" window so that it directly opens the program list
• Add "Take Ownership" option in files and folders context menu so that you can easily take ownership of files and folders in case you want to replace them for customization purpose
• Speed up the Explorer navigation by disabling network printers and network scheduled tasks
• Add "Command Prompt Here" option on folders context menu (right click) for a quick command prompt opening at the selected folder
• Adds "Open With Notepad" option on files context menu (right click) for a quick viewing of files content
• Adds "Delete Folder Content" option on folders context menu (right click) to quick delete only the content of a folder without accessing the folder
• Speeds up taskbar thumbnail preview by reducing the mouse hover time delay
• Disables (Turn Off) Annoying UAC (User Account Control) and suppress UAC consent prompt dialog

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Download Ultimate Windows Tweaker : Click Here (345 KB)
 

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Fix 25 Common Windows XP Problems with XP Quick Fix

 There are a lot of excellent free Windows comprehensive repairing and fixing tools around the internet. But there are times when you want just one quick fix for example when you are under a virus attack and you just want to enable the Task Manager or the Registry Editor so you can fight the virus back, or when some new installation changed your XP behavior and My Documents opens on every start up.
This is the right time to draw  XP Quick Fix  with 25 common Windows XP problems fixes, portable, small and fast, a must have on every computer and with a small extra, a command line utility to fix 5 common problems directly from command line.
XP Quick Fix is a portable application, There is no install process, just unzip to any folder and run it.
It includes two files:
LFX.exe (562kb) the main program GUI with 25 fixes

QFC.exe (38kb) a command line utility with 5 fixes
Using XP Quick Fix is very simple, just run it, and click on the button with the relevant fix.
Clicking a fix button is safe and will not harm even a proper configured computer.

Download XP Quick Fix : Click Here (528 KB)

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Window 7 is the latest windows released by Microsoft, but unfortunately there are some problems and issues with windows 7.  Which are making troubles in your computer usage. These are 21 problems and which can effect your computer performance. Below is the list of all these 21 issues. If you are using windows 7 and facing any problem listed below then don’t worry because here is a solution for you. Check the list if the issue you are facing is available or not.

Common Problems and Issues in Window 7

1. System Try
2. Slow Shut Down
3. Enable Task Manager
4. Control Panel
5. Themes Changes
6. Slow Thumbnails
7. Slow Menu
8. Update Shut Down
9. Task Bar Properties
10. Enable Command Prompt
11. Win-X Shortcuts
12. Restore Aero Function
13. Enable Registry Editor
14. Disable IPv6
15. Enable Folder Option
16. No DVD Drive
17. Reboot After Update
18. Installer Crash
19. Task Bar Context
20. Display Properties
21. Enable IPv6 

If you found any of the above listed issue or problem in your computer, then don’t worry because here is a 100% working solution for you. 

                       Download 7 Quick Fix

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Download Vista and Windows 7 Help program (WinHlp32.exe) to view 32-bit windows help files on your PC. This free help program has been included with Microsoft Windows versions starting with the Microsoft Windows 3.1 operating system. However, Microsoft stopped including this 32-bit Windows Help file viewer in releases beginning with Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008.

Windows Help program can be installed on your PC only if you are logged on to Windows as an administrator.You can download the program here below.

• Windows 7 Help program – Download
• Windows Vista Help program – Download

However, the above downloads are only available to customers running the genuine Microsoft Windows. If you have a genuine Windows 7, free download the Windows Help program!!!

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Would you like to mark your favorite folders with green color, your work or school folders with blue, and your personal documents and photos folders with red ? No problem. Here are 2 tools you can use to change folder color in windows.

Tools to Change Folder Color in Windows

Folders – Change Folder Color

Rainbow Folders is a unique application that allows you to change color of any icon representing any folder. To make it short: with this program you can change folder color ! Such operation will speed up your navigation among thousands offolders located on your hard drive.

With Rainbow Folders you can colorize as many folders as you want using any color of your choice. Such colorized folders are visible in every Explorer window, every open/save dialog and in every folder selection tree as seen in many programs.

In addition you can manage your favorite colors and change folder color using Explorer context menu item.

> Download Rainbow Folders : Link (783 kB)

You can also add a custom hint or secure a folder from deleting it by mistake. This and much more can be done with the help of RainbowFolders.

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In Windows 7 you have to enter a password in order to log in to Windows. This is to protect your PC from Unauthorized access by others. If you are only the one using your computer every time when you start Windows 7 need to to enter the password to log in. This becomes very irritating. So here is how to log in to Windows 7 without entering any user name or password .

In the run menu type control userpasswords2.
Just press WIN + R to get the RUN menu.
The user accounts windows will now open up.
Look for the option saying ” Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer ” and uncheck this option and press “OK”.
Now a windows opens up asking you to enter the current password you use to log in to Windows 7. Enter the password and confirm. Done!.

From now on when you boot to Windows you will not be asked or prompted to enter the user name and password. This can also save a couple of seconds while starting Windows.

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We tend to run many programs and tasks simultaneously and sometimes this creates a heavy load on the system that the computer becomes slow and also responds very slowly.

This is the most critical situation for a gamer who wants his system to be fast and free while playing the games. Well if you have thought of having something to free up the system resources then here is something for you.

The tool is called AlacrityPC which is a free utility to shut down all the unnecessary programs and services that are presently running in your system before you launch some important application like game.

Interestingly, AlacrityPC restarts all the services that were shut down by it after you have finished with the important application.

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