Windows

When you upgrade or switch to a new Windows PC, Windows Easy Transfer helps you transfer your files, emails, photos and settings. Microsoft’s User State Migration Tool (USMT) is another tool that enables large enterprises to transfer data from one PC to another. However, there is a tool that you can use to transfer installed programs from one Windows PC to another Windows PC.

Transfer installed programs from one Windows computer to another

PickMeApp is a portable tool for transferring installed programs and their settings from one Windows computer to another Windows computer. You can use it to repair or register programs when upgrading from an earlier version of Windows such as Windows Vista or Windows XP to Windows 7. read more

Show Desktop Remover is a free tool that allows you to easily remove and restore the Show Desktop button on the right side of the Windows 7 taskbar. Windows 7 has introduced an interesting new feature – the creation of a’Show Desktop’ button at the far right of the taskbar. Although very appreciated, there will always be some who don’t like it and prefer the old desktop icon that appeared near the start button.

Of course, you can disable desktop preview at any time by right-clicking and disabling Peek at Desktop. You can also get an overview of the desktop, you can also click on Windows + space bar. read more

A few days ago, we talked about how to hide folders in Windows 10, Windows 8/7 and Windows Vista. Today, we are introducing a new TWC application – an ingenious way to hide your folders under Windows 7/8/10.

Our 13-year-old TWC forum member Paras Sidhu is back – he has developed a free tool for TWC, Disguise Folders, with which you can disguise your secret files and disguise them as system files.

Windows disguise folder

Say you want to hide a folder and no one should search for it. Use disguise folders to make it look and behave like Windows Update or Recycle Bin! read more

You may have heard of freeware that allows you to recover deleted files from your Windows operating system – but what if you worked with the Windows registry and accidentally deleted a registry key?

Well, we always recommend that you back up the registry or create a system restore point before working on it, but you may find that you don’t have a backup and you deleted a key by mistake. In such a case, restoring the backed up registry or returning the created system to the restore point would be the best option to recover the deleted registry key. read more

This article shows you how to change system information under Windows 10/8/7 with a freeware. With this free tool called Windows Info Box Editable, you can easily change or modify system information to fool your friends.

After downloading this portable application, run the.exe file. To start editing the information, press Enter.

In the box that opens, enter the information you want to change. Click OK to change the following setting.

Use this application to change the Windows edition, processor name, RAM, system type, computer name, full computer name, full description, and workgroup. read more

Like digital art? If so, you should check out Microsoft’s new Illusions for Windows 7 theme.

Based on the art of Josh Sommers, this theme consists of optical illusions, grass planets floating in the impossible summer sky, and tributes to M.C. Escher, etc. as wallpapers.

Themepack contains 14 wallpapers and is a 6 MB download.

Go to Microsoft to download it.

Although this theme can only be used under Windows 7 Home Premium, Professional, Enterprise or Ultimate, you can still extract and use background images from this theme. Learn how to create a Windows 7 theme package. read more

We are happy to publish PinToStartMenu. With PinToStartMenu, you can pin items and folders from the Control Panel to the Windows Start menu via the context menu.

There are three different ways to add folders to the start menu and/or even’Pin to start menu item’ to the context menu of Windows folders. To add Control Panel items to the Start menu, create the shortcut on your desktop, then drag and drop it into the Start (orb) button.

PinToStartMenu facilitates the task. It adds the’Pin to start menu’ entry to the context menu of folders and applets in the control panel. read more

Kingsoft Office 2012 is a free office suite that can be used both at home and in daily documentation work. The tool is very easy to use and allows the creation, display, editing and publication of documents.

The revised Kingsoft Office 2012 now has a ribbon interface and includes three applications:

• • • Kingsoft Writers 2012
    • Kingsoft Spreadsheet 2012
    • Kingsoft Presentation 2012

    With the 3 programs you can create DOC, PPT and XLS files. The free software is compatible with all Microsoft Office Microsoft Office file formats.

    Microsoft Office can also open Kingsoft Office files without Kingsoft Office being installed on the same computer. read more

I was looking for a good EXIF (Exchangeable Image File Format) tool to see the complete meta-information for jpeg images after a long search, I found this nice little application ExifTool a bead-based command line application that gives us tons of information about meta that many tools don’t have.

ExifTool is a platform independent Perl library and command line application for reading, writing and editing meta-information in a variety of files. It is very easy to use: just drag the file to the exiftool(-k).exe file, which opens at the command prompt with all the meta information. Or you can rename the exe to pl and use it as a command line application. read more

Do you want a free tool to hold a text conference and share files quickly with your friends? Then Mikogo is perfect. Mikogo does not require any access or registration data – just download and start. All you have to do is give your session number to anyone and you can hold a conference without having to log in.

Mikogo Web conferencing tool

Features

You can hold a conference with a social network, but this requires a connection, but some of your friends may not have a connection for that particular site. But Mikago doesn’t need a login. You can even manually add people to your session by simply clicking the Add Friend button at the bottom left of the interface. You can only send your session data from the program itself. And copy your session data from the same button. read more