Sophos a developer and vendor of security software and hardware, including anti-virus, anti-spyware, anti-spam and Network Access Control for desktops, servers, email systems and other network gateways has released a tool to remove the harmful Conficker worm.
The tool scans all your hard drives for Conficker worm infection and removes it completely if detected. The scanning is done in DOS mode and takes less time for scan and removal.
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Bored of the same old wallpaper? Want a new wallpaper automatically on every boot? then try Jellybean. Jellybean is a small & fast wallpaper shuffler with little to no impact on system resources. Supports 3D graphics format like jpg, gif & and bmp images and is pretty easy-to-use.
Almost similar to Windows Desktop, Display properties, provides a thumbnail preview with option to tile, center or stretch the wallpaper.
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CloseAll is a small program using which you can close all the open application on your desktop with just a Click. This can be useful if there are too many applications open on your PC and freezing your system down. It works a clicking the close button for all open programs at once. CloseAll flashes a “close” signals to close all open windows hence it does not use system resources.
A handy standalone program, hence needs no installation. You can place a shortcut in the startmenu, Quick launch, desktop or anywhere you want.
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One big problem with windows is, it fails to uninstall few programs. If not completely removed, you can still stop the programs from launching accidentally. There are many ways using which you can stop launching these programs. One of the the easiest way is by using a small application called AppLocker.
AppLocker restricts the user from launching particular application. This can be helpful if your PC is virus infected and launches programs like Internet Explorer automatically to establish multiple connections to clog the memory.
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Nowadays there are many text-to-speech softwares available to convert text files to audio format, but if you are away from home/office and have access to internet, you can quickly convert your text files to mp3 audio. Zamzar recently added text to speech conversion service for the same.
This can be very helpful for the visually impaired people and off course the lazy ones. You can listen to your newspaper on your way office in the car or listen to your favorite book/novel if you bored reading. Simply, select the file file you want to upload, choose output format as mp3, enter your e-mail id where you want the output file and press the convert button.
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