FileWing is another program which lets you recover the deleted data on your flash drives, hard disk drives and memory card etc. We have posted about some other similar softwares like NTFS Undelete, Recuva and 3 ways to recover accidently deleted files

Lets understand what happens when you delete a file in windows, why you [...]

Sophos Anti-Rootkit is a freeware program which scans, detects and removes any rootkit that is hidden on your computer using advanced rootkit detection technology.

What are Rootkits ?
Rootkits are some harmful programs which can lie hidden on computers and remain undetected by anti-virus software. Removing rootkits without compromising system integrity is particularly challenging and [...]

Most old computers, older than 2 years or so, tend to get a lot of fragmented files and folders on the disk. When I say fragmented, I mean that one file is stored at multiple locations on the disk in small chunks.

This is a typical problem with most of the computers which make them slow [...]

Trouble:
In some cases, when you open the lid of a laptop running Windows Vista, Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008, which you had put to sleep sometime back, it may not resume correctly.

The computer gets stuck in resuming windows and displays a blank screen with mouse pointer and will not resume until you press [...]

Autorun viruses generally creates viruses autorun.inf files in the root directory of the local drives and removable drives like USB Flash drives etc. Due to these virus autorun.inf files when you double click to open these drives the virus spreads and executes the code inside these autorun files.
 
KillAutorun is a free to use program which [...]

Trouble:
What if you are working on something personal or confidential on your computer screen and somebody comes to you. It might be your boss or some person or a friend. You might not want them to see what you are watching or working on.

Most of us use convenient Windows key + D or Windows Key [...]

It could be a case when you may find a file in Windows 7 or Vista which you cannot open, and this may happen with a file type which was used to open properly before but suddenly it is shown as unrecognized file which cannot open until you assign a program to open it.

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There are certain problems caused by Viruses to Windows PCs. There problems include :

Control Panel Disabled
Registry Editing Disabled
Folder Options Disabled
Run Command Disabled

and many more such issues which are somehow related to the Windows registry. RegMod is a stand alone tool which requires no installation and allows you an easy way to [...]

Trouble:
May a times, we use tools and softwares which mess up with the Windows settings. Sometimes some games or applications tend to change Windows Settings.

Such blunders also happen because of viruses etc. Even after you clean the virus with anti-virus softwares, there might still be some settings of Windows which remain messed up.
 
One such problem [...]

Microsoft has a free Automated Troubleshooting Service (ATS) tool which is an online tool and can be run from within the browser without need to install it.

This is a useful tool for Windows XP and Windows Vista. However such tool is not needed for Windows 7 because with Windows 7 you can run the diagnostics [...]

Syncing bookmarks could be a very important requirement if you work across different computers each one connected to internet, specially if you want to sync bookmarks across then you require all your computers connected to internet then only you can sync bookmarks.

Google Chrome 4.0 has been just released with bookmarks syncing feature, that means [...]

Every browser including Firefox, Google Chrome etc gets slower day by day, these are some of the reasons behind due to which your browser gets slow.
1. We install several add-ons on with time for different functionality
2. We never change the default options due to which your browser gets loaded with lots of browsing history [...]

There are many times when you try to transfer the data on your USB pen drive and you face some problems in transferring data, or when you try to format the drive it does not allows you to format the drive. This type of behavior generally happens when there is some problem with your drive, [...]

Many softwares have security flaws which make your Computer vulnerable to hacks and virus attacks. Such softwares are usually updated by the software  publishers as soon as a security flaw is discovered and a software update is released.

Secunia has developed an online scanning tool called the Secunia Online Software Inspector which scans your computer [...]