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The 5 best, free tools to remove junk files
Over the course of time, your computer gets accumulated with unwanted and unremoved junk files that are no longer necessary. These junk files remain unused by the operating system, but occupy much disk space. Removing these junk files is a piece of cake, provided you have any of these tools installed on your computer.
Make Defragmentation faster
Most guides on speeding up Windows XP tell you to do many things, and I’m sure all of those guides tell you to defragment your hard drive once in a while to make Windows XP function faster.
The default Windows Defragmenter isn’t a good choice if you want to defragment your computer’s hard drive. The Windows Defrag tool is ridiculously slow, and tests your patience like nothing else can.
Kazaa Uninstaller
Kazaa is a P2P file sharing desktop client, and has a high reputation for the number of spywares that it comes attached with. Though Kazaa’s official website claims it to be spyware free, many users who’ve downloaded and tried it have suffered from innumerable virus attacks and spyware threats.
These spywares and other bundled adware don’t get uninstalled completely from Windows even when you try to remove them from the Control Panel.
Download essential Windows media codecs
Many a time, you must have got some errors while trying to play audio or video files on Windows Media Player due to missing codecs. The solution is to install all necessary codecs on your Windows computer.
The Windows Essential Media Codecs Pack does the job for you by installing all necessary media codecs required by Windows to play files. Free of cost, the Windows Essential Media Codecs Pack consists of audio and video codecs, and it has been designed in such a way that it will not conflict with previous codecs used for decoding a media file.
Map your blog’s visitors with maps.amung.us
For all those website stat addicts out there, a new tool has launched from the makers of whos.amung.us.
Whos.amung.us is a very interesting service that launched a few months back – they provided a little button that indicated the number of visitors that were online realtime on your website/blog – you just had to place a code on your site. It’s all done.
Split large files using GSplit
If you urgently have to send a large file to your friend, in disks, but couldn’t because the file is too big to fit in one disk? How about splitting the file into pieces and then re uniting them back in the recipient’s computer? GSplit is the way to go.
GSplit can split files into multiple pieces, which you can carry in disks. Later when you want to reunite them, just launch the executable file that comes with the pieces – they get merged into one single file. The main advantage is that the recipient does not require the GSplit program to merge the splitted pieces.
Domain WhoIs Lookup Desktop Software Utility
Quite a number of webmasters look up for domain name information (WhoIs of a domain) a number of times.
Though there are a lot of tools on the web available that fetch you information about a domain – its status, owner from the WhoIs database, I’d like to point to a desktop software utility that does this task.
Three free online translators
Online translators are tools that translate pieces of text from one language to another with the help of some complex computer algorithms.
You might need to translate a block of text, and are looking for tools to do so. You need not necessarily download quite hefty translation software to your PC, instead you can try these online translators:
How to rearrange minimized window buttons in the Taskbar?
Another feature that I believe Windows lacks by default – it does not allow us to move those buttons of minimized windows on the taskbar. But you can get this functionality by using a third party software.
Download Taskbar shuffle from here, install it and then move and arrange buttons on your taskbar – just by dragging and dropping ‘em.
Taskbar shuffle can also group windows based on application usage and number of windows.
Clean up the Windows Explorer Context menu
If you’re the kind of a person who frequently tries out softwares, chances are your Windows Explorer Context Menu is loaded with unnecessary items. Even worse – these items in the menu don’t go off when you uninstall particular softwares.
Geeks can modify the registry to edit the shell context menu, while others like you and me can sit back and use these free tools to make things easier:
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