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Free Viewer: Multi-Purpose File Opening Tool

January 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Free Viewer is one such useful freeware program that opens Office files, plays multimedia files, extracts compressed files and lets you view and edit raw, Camera and general images. Don’t you’ve Microsoft Office software installed on your Computer to open

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GMER v 2.0

GMER 2.0 Adds Full 64-bit Support for Windows

January 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
GMER v 2.0

Version 2.0 for GMER, free rootkits detector and remover has been released and available for download from its website. GMER v 2.0 has added support for Windows 8 and 64-bit Windows. And other notable additions are Traces I/O function and

Posted in: Freeware, News, Security
Freeware
IObit Unlocker Portable

Download IObit Unlocker Portable

January 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
IObit Unlocker Portable

Version 1.0 for Portable version of IObit Unlocker has been released by PortableApps.com and is available for download from its website. Its true that IObit is not offering portable for their Unlocking tool, however PortableApps.com with the permission of IObit

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Freeware
JavaRa 2.1 released

JavaRa 2.1 Update gets the ability to clean JRE Temp Files

January 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
JavaRa 2.1 released

JavaRa 2.1 has been released with new features and bug fixes and is available for download from developer website. JavaRa, a portable tool that lets you remove Java older versions and allows you to Remove Java completely including registry entries

Posted in: Freeware, News
Freeware
Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat Cleaner tool

Remove Adobe Reader 9, X and XI with Official Adobe Reader and Acrobat Cleaner Tool

January 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat Cleaner tool

If you were not able to uninstall Adobe Reader X from the Control Panel then you can remove it by using Cleaner tool released by Adobe. Till now, there is no cleanup or removal tool offered by Adobe to remove

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Freeware

RKill does more than killing Malicious Processes

January 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

RKill, portable tool developed by BleepingComputer.com site to terminate malicious processes on infected systems helps users to scan their systems for infections using antivirus software and further they can able to remove threats if any found. We’ve reviewed this tool

Posted in: Freeware, Security
Freeware
Speccy showing PowerShell Internet Explorer version information

Speccy 1.20 Adds Java and Internet Explorer Detection Capabilities to the Program

January 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Speccy showing PowerShell Internet Explorer version information

Piriform has released version 1.20 for their advanced system information tool with addition of detection for three more programs on Windows. Speccy 1.20 now detects and shows version of Java, Internet Explorer and Power Shell installed on your Computer under

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Customize Windows 8 Boot Experience with Boot UI Tuner

January 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

If you want to skip Windows 8 boot process quicker by disabling blue Windows logo, modern boot UI, spinning icon and messages shown during the boot you can achieve that by using free tool released by WinAero. If Windows 8

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Freeware
ZoneAlarm Free Firewall 11 2013 updated

ZoneAlarm Free Firewall 2013 Update Adds Facebook Privacy Scan and Do Not Track Features

January 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
ZoneAlarm Free Firewall 11 2013 updated

ZoneAlarm Free Firewall version 11 for 2013 which we’ve covered back in November 2012 got the first update in new year which has added two new features:Facebook Privacy scan and Do Not Track. This version has also added support for

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Freeware

VLC Player 2.0.5 Stability Update Released

December 15, 2012 by Venkat Eswarlu

 VLC Media Player version 2.0.5 has been released for Windows, Mac and Linux and is available for download from the Videolan website. This release … [Read more…]

Posted in: Freeware, News Tagged: vlc player
Freeware

HitmanPro.Kickstart Gets Rid of Ransomware from Affected PCs

December 4, 2012 by Venkat Eswarlu

Security solutions developer SurfRight is offering HitmanPro.Kickstart, a free easy and powerful solution powered by HitmanPro program for the removal of Police Ransomware and … [Read more…]

Posted in: Freeware, Security Tagged: HitmanPro, HitmanPro.Kickstart, malware, ransomware
Freeware
Customize Windows 11 taskbar and desktop on a PC

Start Screen Pinner: pin anything to the Windows 8 Start screen

October 15, 2012 by Venkat Eswarlu
Customize Windows 11 taskbar and desktop on a PC

The Windows 8 Start screen let you pin apps as tiles, but pinning a single file or folder wasn’t straightforward. Start Screen Pinner was … [Read more…]

Posted in: Freeware, Windows 8
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