Vocaroo

With this service you can also post your voice message on the Internet and download your recorded voice message on your computer.

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Seven Update is a free utility for Vista and Windows 7 which checks for latest versions of your installed applications. It allows an easy way to keep your software updated. It offers automatic update notification and installation.

The current version of Seven Update offers the following types of update options:

• Check for updates but let me choose whether to download and install them
• Install updates automatically
• Download updates but let me choose whether to install them
• Never check for updates

Key Features of Seven Update:

• Provides automatic updates for software
• Full update history
• Application Repository – a list of applications that can be updated with Seven Update
• Add an application to Seven Update by clicking a link on a web site
• Automatic search and download of updates (depending on settings)
• Hide and restore updates
• Intuitive user interface
• Hash verification, no corrupt files
• Displays download counts and sizes
• Informative progress, know exactly what Seven Update is doing

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Dolby Digital Settings is a new feature in Windows 7 Media Player. It is used for enhancing sound effects if you are watching the Dolby digital content in windows media player.

There are three modes available in the Dolby digital settings of Windows 7 media player.

1. Normal - Reduces the audio range of all Dolby Digital content for a quieter listening experience.
2. Night - Reduces the audio range of all Dolby Digital content and increases dialogue for a quieter listening experience optimized for laptops.
3. Theatre - Increases the dynamic range of all Dolby Digital content for a full listening experience.

Refer the following steps to change the Dolby digital settings:

1. Run Windows Media Player. If you are in library mode please switch to now playing mode.
2. Right click on the bottom pane, and then navigate to Enhancements > Dolby Digital Settings
3. Under Dolby Digital settings, select the right mode and close the dialog box.

Unlike Windows XP and Vista, Windows 7 doesn’t come with classic start menu. If you want to get back the classic start menu in Windows 7, CSMenu helps you.

CSMenu is a freeware and small utility for Windows 7 which allows you to get back the classic start menu in Windows 7. All you need to do is to download and install CSMenu, an icon will be placed in system tray area, which can be used to enable/disable classic start menu and to change language as well.

Note that the free version of CSMenu doesn’t support Windows 7 aero.

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If you want to skip the welcome screen/login screen, refer the following procedure:

How to skip Windows 7 welcome/login screen?

1. Type netplwiz in Start menu search box and hit enter.
2. Under User Accounts dialog box, uncheck the box named Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer.
3. Click Apply button to see Automatically Log On dialog box. If you have a password for your user account, simply enter the password and click ok. If you don’t have a password for your account, simply click Ok.
4. Restart your computer to see the changes.
5. You are done.

Fix WU is a free and portable windows utility developed by one of Windows Club author. It fixes Windows update errors by re-registering a total of 114 dll, ocx and .ax files, which are required for the proper functioning of Windows Updates.

To fix a Windows Update error, simply run the utility, click on Fix Windows Update button and wait for a few seconds to see the successful message.

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The available tweaks in 7 Taskbar Tweaker includes the following:

• Disable thumbnail preview
• Disable grouping of windows by file path or application ID
• Open with while dropping a file on a taskbar button instead of pinning
• Close or focus a window on middle click instead of running a new instance
• Show standard window menu on right click instead of jump list
• Cycle through windows of a grouped button on left click instead of showing a thumbnail preview

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VideoLAN VLC media player

VLC is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats, including MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, MP3, and OGG, as well as for DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It also can be used as a server for unicast or multicast streams in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

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OpenOffice.org

Equivalent to MS Office, OpenOffice.org includes powerful applications for making text documents, spreadsheets, presentations, diagrams, and databases, as well as HTML and XML documents. Not only does it let you edit basic documents, such as letters and faxes, it also handles equations and complex and multipart documents with bibliographies, reference tables, and indexes.

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Avira AntiVir Personal Edition

Avira’s AntiVir is one of the best freeware security solutions around the world. Its scans are flexible, allowing users to fully scan both internal and external hard drives, run a preloaded scan or customize a scan.

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Notepad++

Notepad is a Notepad replacement with an eye toward programmers, although it should also appeal to the casual user who wants a cross between Notepad and WordPad. Notepad has some noticeable differences from WordPad. Support for tabs is a key, letting users manage different documents simultaneously.

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K-Lite Mega Codec Pack

With the K-Lite Codec Pack you can play all the popular movie formats and even some rare formats. This package is mainly for power users and people who do their own encodings.

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ImgBurn

ImgBurn is a lightweight CD/DVD/HD-DVD/Blu-ray burning application that has several modes, each for performing a different task: Read; Build; Write; Verify; and Discovery. ‘Advanced’ input mode to build mode where you have total control over the layout of the disc and can add new folders, change names etc. and Optional logging when hidden or system files/folders are skipped in Build mode due to the current settings.

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Adobe Flash Player

Adobe Flash Player software is a cross-platform browser plug-in that delivers breakthrough web experiences and is installed on more than 98% of Internet-connected desktops. Flash Player 10 introduces 3D effects, custom filters and effects, advanced text support, and more.

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FileZilla

FileZilla is a free & open-source FTP application, is handy if you are looking for a solid tool to handle FTP transfers and don’t want to part with your bucks.

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Firefox

The Firefox Web Browser is the faster, more secure, and fully customizable way to surf the web. Mozilla Firefox is a fast, full-featured Web browser. Firefox includes pop-up blocking, tab-browsing, integrated Google search, simplified privacy controls, a streamlined browser window that shows you more of the page than any other browser and a number of additional features that work with you to help you get the most out of your time online.

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Google Chrome

Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the Web faster, safer, and easier. Use one box for everything–type in the address bar and get suggestions for both search and Web pages.

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Foxit Reader

To put it gently, Adobe Reader is a real pain in the hindquarters. It’s monstrously large, slow to load, and includes many features most users will hardly ever need. Foxit PDF Reader 3.0 kills the bloat and throws in some useful features, such as multimedia support and content-sharing options, while still allowing you to quickly access your PDFs.

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Universal Extractor

Universal Extractor is a program do to exactly what it says: extract files from any type of archive, whether it’s a simple zip/rar file, an installation program, or even a Windows Installer (.msi) package.

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Unlocker

Ever had such an annoying message given by Windows: Cannot delete file: Access is denied. There has been a sharing violation. The source or destination file may be in use or the file is in use by another program or user. Make sure the disk is not full or write-protected and that the file is not currently in use. Unlocker is the solution.

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Sub Menu Pack

Do you get bored of having to open file options every time you show hidden files or show file extensions. Now you can do it and many option by one click from your mouse by this small tiny tool SubMenu Pack.

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Revo Uninstaller

Revo Uninstaller is a freeware innovative uninstall utility much faster than Windows Add/Remove applet. With its advanced and fast algorithm, Revo Uninstaller scans before and after you uninstall an application. After the program’s regular uninstaller runs, you can remove additional unnecessary files, folders and registry keys that are usually left over on your computer.

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Flash Get

Flash Get is specifically designed to address two of the biggest problems when downloading files: Speed and management of downloaded files.

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DAEMON Tools Lite

DAEMON Tools is an advanced application for Microsoft Windows which provides one of the best optical media emulation in the industry. With DAEMON Tools you can back up your physical CD/DVD/HD DVD/Blu-ray discs into “virtual discs” or so called “disc image” files, which run directly on your hard drive. You can also work with images created by other burning programs! DAEMON Tools supports variety of image types.

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Comodo Firewall

Comodo has merged its antivirus program with Firewall Pro, creating a free security program that aims to be more to more people. Although this may frustrate some users who want only one program or the other, the installer does let you opt out of either of the components.

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CCleaner

CCleaner is a freeware system optimization, privacy and cleaning tool. It removes unused files from your system – allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history. Additionally it contains a fully featured registry cleaner.

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Everything Search Engine

This small software application bypasses Windows search with a lightning quick interface and real-time results for all of the files and folders in your local hard drive or any subsection of it. The software doesn’t do much more than search, but its efficiency, effectiveness, stability, and low system resource usage make it a keeper utility.

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Microsoft has redesigns the new MSN home page and this is one of the most significant redesign over the decade. The new MSN home page is designed to be the best home page on the Web, with powerful Bing search, the top news and hottest entertainment, and some of the most popular social networks — all in a fresh new look. The new homepage page can previewed at http://preview.msn.com. The new home page will begin rolling out today and become widely available to U.S. customers early next year.

The clean and new MSN home page cuts through the clutter with 50 percent fewer links than the previous home page and a simplified navigation across news, entertainment, sports, money and lifestyle.

The new MSN home page also embraces the latest customer trends by deeply integrating powerful search from Bing and providing easy access to Facebook, Twitter and Windows Live services, comprehensive local information and in-line video. Sophisticated technology powers the home page to deliver personally relevant information, and improved performance satisfies people’s need for speed.

Key Features of the new MSN Home Page:

• Innovative search technology from Bing. Deeper Bing integration on the new home page helps people make faster and more informed decisions and easily find the information they want from anywhere on the Web.
• Information and news people care about. The new home page delivers against the No. 1 customer request — simplicity and ease of use, through its fresh design and smart categorization.
• Convenient ways to communicate. Simplicity drove the clean integration of popular social networks, such as Facebook, Twitter and Windows Live.

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Comodo Backup is an automatic file backup and recovery software. It is a straightforward and powerful utility that allows users to quickly and easily create backup copies of critical files.

Its features include complete file and folder duplication to local/ network drives and FTP servers, intelligent incremental backups, e-mail reporting, extensive report logs, real time backups with ‘synchronization’ mode, advanced rule-based filtering, flexible scheduling of backups, space-saving archiving capabilities, and more.

In addition to the default computer location; you can choose network, FTP or Comodo online storage as your backup destination. Likewise you can also opt for FTP, network or Comodo online storage as your restore paths. You can also password protect the files by entering a password under settings.

Features of Comodo Backup:

• Backup files or folders to anywhere on your computer, network or FTP server
• Quickly restore data with a few clicks
• Fully featured scheduler allows you to run backups at a time that suits you
• Security features include password protection and data encryption
• Send e-mail notifications to one or more users about the status of a backup job
• Save disk space with multiple compression option

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