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Windows 7 Crashed? – Find Out Why & Fix It

Hell Yeah! Windows 7 is miles better than Vista, but then, it is still an Operating System and moreover it is still Microsoft! So, expect Windows 7 to crash just like XP and Vista. Early this year we had seen How to know what crashed your PC using a small utility – WhoCrashed. The good news [...]

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Grab a Copy of Mamutu Malware Blocker for FREE!

We don’t get tired of freebies, do we?! Especially when the free promotional offers are for world class software like Mamutu Malware Blocker. It is a best in class behavior blocker. Behavior blockers detect malware not from their signature but by their actions. That is, they look at what programs on your PC are actually doing [...]

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Automatically Turn Off Your Monitor When you Lock the PC

Are you concerned about the environment? Do you follow Energy saving techniques like switching off the monitor whenever you go away for a small break? Then check out MonitorES. MonitorES or Monitor Energy Saver is a small utility which automatically turns off your monitor display when you lock down your desktop or laptop. Not just that, [...]

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Download CrashPlan – Automatic Online Backup

Computers (are meant to) crash. May be they don’t. But in case they do, do you have a plan to minimize the loss? Here’s an app that makes it relatively easy to be ready if (when) it happens. No buttons to push or CDs to burn. Simply install CrashPlan and it quietly runs in the background [...]

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FREE Download – Sigma Photo Pro Software

Don’t get fooled by the word ‘PRO’ in the title of the post. Sigma Photo (Pro) Software is an exclusive software package for displaying and manipulating your Digital camera images on your computer. Technically speaking, this is not a Freeware since only owners of Sigma cameras could download and use it, but then, we all own [...]

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Freeware Round-up #1

Beginning today, I am starting a new series of posts which I am planning to post at-least once every week. It is about the list of interesting and useful (Freeware) software which we tend to ignore or take them for granted for the fact that they are FREE. Even here on TechPP, whenever I post a [...]

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Secure Your USB from Autorun.inf Infection with Panda USB Vaccine

Almost all the removable storage media, be it CD / DVD or Floppy Disks or USB flash drives, will have Autorun.Inf file which is a configuration file that decides which actions to perform when a new removable storage drive is plugged in to the PC. Probably, the idea behind using this configuration file was to [...]

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Easiest Way to Shutdown, Restart or Log off – Shutdown Suite

Shutdown Suite is a combination of small freeware apps that make shutting down, restarting or logging off your Windows PC a breeze. It contains two packages: “No Install” and “Installer”. Each package contains different applications. In “No Install” package, there are 6 programs. Important thing to note is that these programs never ask for confirmation when [...]

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