essential windows utilities for every pc

Below are the windows utilities for every PC that will enhance the Windows Operating System.

Cobain Backup

Cobain Backup is a program that can be used to backup your data in original or compressed mode.

Crap Cleaner

Crap Cleaner or CCleaner is used to remove unwanted temporary files, memory dumps, cookies etc.

7-Zip

7-zip is a file compression and un-compression utility for windows with great features, this utility supports pack/unpack of 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR and also supports unpacking RAR, CAB, ISO, ARJ, LZH, CHM, Z, CPIO, RPM, DEB & NSIS

Revo Uninstaller

Revo Uninstaller helps you to Uninstall unwanted programs and software, Revo Uninstaller is a much faster and more powerful alternative to "Windows Add or Remove Programs". 

Auslogics Disk Defrag Free

Disk Defragmentation is a effective way to boost your computer speed and performance, Auslogics Disk Defrag can help to defragment your drive fast.

online ocr (optical character recognition) tools to convert / extract text from image

(OCR) Optical character recognition  is a software allows you to convert scanned images, PDF into editable output formats like  Text, word, Excel etc.

Here are the best  OCR  web applications.

OCRonline :

OCRonline is free to use web based Optical Character Recognition application to convert image to editable text format,

This tool supports JPG, TIFF, PNG, GIF, PDF




Free OCR :

Free OCR is online Optical Character Recognition tool used to extract text from supported image format.

This tool supports JPG, GIF, TIFF BMP and PDF

This tool supports more than 20 languages and also support multi column text images.



OCRextract:

OCRextract is a Free online OCR solution to extract text from images.

OCRextract supports PDF, PS, TIFF, PNG, JPG, BMP and PBM as input files.

Note : Your document images will be sent to their servers. This means that server administrators might be able to see your document images or their recognized texts if they tried.

Tools to bypass firewall and access blocked websites

Most organizations using firewalls to block websites as they think employees are using internet for their personal usage like live streaming video, music etc.

Here is the best tools to bypass firewalls

UltraSurf

This tool bypass any industry level firewall which is configured with default settings.

Download ultrasurf

GPass

This tool supports streaming video, music.

Download Gpass

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How to make Bootable usb Pendrive in windows 7

Today my friend asked me to install windows 8 which is downloaded from microsoft website, but he is not having any optical drive attached to his pc.

There is two options for me to install windows 8 in his system one is attaching optical drive and second is using USB pendrive, so i think of doing it with pendrive. If i wnat to install windows from pendrive, i have to make it bootable. There are many tools available to create bootable pendrive, i also explained one tool called win2flash here How to install Windows from usb Flash drive. But i dont want to use any tool, so i followed the below commands to make pendrive bootable, iam running windows 7 in my system.
You can also follow the steps to make pendrive bootable.

Tools Required
1. USB flash drive with a minimum of 4GB capacity
2. Windows 8 ISO image file.
3. Virtual Clone Drive (used to mount .iso image file)
     My previous post How to open ISO image files can help you to download it.

Step 1 : plug in USB flash drive.
Step 2 : Open command prompt from start> All Programs> Accessories> Command Prompt.
Step 3 : at command prompt type the command
               DISKPART
This will start Microsoft Diskpart utility as shown

Now enter the following command
    LIST DISK

This will show you the available disks on your system, Usually Disk 0 is Hard disk, Disk 1 is usb flash drive (in my case Disk 1, this may diffenent in your case).

Now enter the command
 SELECT DISK 1

Step 4 : Now enter the following commands one after one.
  CLEAN
  CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY
  SELECT PARTITION 1
  ACTIVE
  FORMAT FS=FAT32
  ASSIGN
  EXIT

Thats it now your USB flash drive is bootable.
Step 5 : Now mount your windows 8 image file using Virtual Clone Drive.
Step 6 : Copy the entire content of the mounted dick in to your usb flash drive.

Your USB flash drive is ready to boot and install windows 8.
change your Bios settings first bootable device to your usb flash drive.

Speed Up a Slow PC

Is your computer running slow, follow the tips to speed it up.

 
1. Check for bad sectors on your hard disk and recover it.
     To perform this task open command prompt by typing CMD at RUN and enter this command CHKDSK/F

2. Deragment your hard disk.

    To perform this task download Defraggler.

3. Delete unwanted, duplicate files.

    To perform this task CCleaner

4. Change your Theme to Windows Classic

This little things can change your computer performance better.

Share Files with Your Friends Simply

Want to share files with your friends, or anyone?

Jumpshare.com allows you to share different formats of Images, Documents, Audio, Video etc. with simple interface you can drag & drop files, After uploding files just share the link. files are available for 2 weeks.

How to open iso, bin, img etc, disc image files

If you want to open iso, bin, nrg etc disc image files, "Virtual CloneDrive" helps you to mount image files. This tool supports almost all image file formats.
Virtual CloneDrive works and behaves just like a physical CD/DVD drive.

Download Virtual CloneDrive