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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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

Download 7 Taskbar Tweaker (for 32-bit)

Download 7 Taskbar Tweaker (for 64-bit)

USB Safely Remove is a system utility designed for quick and safely stopping USB Flash Drives connected to your computer. It allows you to safely stop and remove USB Flash Drives much faster than using “Safely remove hardware” icon in the system tray.

In addition, it gives an opportunity to hide any device out of sight, to rename devices, to disconnect them with a keyboard shortcut and it displays which program prevent devices from being stopped. It also allows you to manage letters of USB drives: to change drive letters easily, mount drives as NTFS folders and allows to automatically hiding card reader drives which does not contain a media inserted.

This utility will be useful and saves much time for those people who often use more than one USB devices.

It supports Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista & Windows 7 operating systems.

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To create a bootable DVD or USB flash drive, download the ISO file and then run the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download tool. Once this is done, you can install Windows 7 directly from the USB flash drive or DVD.

System Requirements for Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool:

• Windows XP SP2, Windows Vista, or Windows 7 (32-bit or 64-bit)
• Pentium 233-megahertz (MHz) processor or faster (300 MHz is recommended)
• 50MB of free space on your hard drive
• DVD-R drive or 4GB removable USB flash drive
• Microsoft .NET Framework version 2.0 or higher

Download Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool

Windows Access Panel gives you quick and easy access to important tools and functions in Windows Vista & Windows 7.

It gives you one-click access to settings and options which is meant to minimize your trouble in the time of need.

This application is very simple to use and has been tested on Windows 7 and Vista. At present, WAP is available for 32-bit Windows only.

It is a complete portable application that you can carry it anywhere in your USB. No installation needed.

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GIGATweaker is a free, powerful and compact application that allows you to optimize and tweak your Windows Vista and Windows 7. It has simple two pane interface that features tweaks related to system, security, file and drives, restrictions, explorer and start menu, and visual effects.

You can fine tune your Windows 7/Vista by entering customization section. There are options to tweak Windows memory management and context menu as well. You can even create a system restore point by hitting Restore Point button located at the bottom of the window.

GIGATweaker has an interesting and very useful feature named Console. Opening the Console will display all the changes been done through GIGATweaker.

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Device Doctor is a free Windows Device Driver Manager that scans your computer hardware and checks to see if there are new driver updates available for devices.

It also locates drivers for “unidentified devices” in the Windows Device Manager and find suitable driver to install. Device Doctor provides drivers for every major computer hardware and device manufacturer.

Device Doctor is very easy to use. All you need to do is to click on Begin Scan button. Once it finishes scanning your computer for driver updates, it will display driver information and download links in a report at the end of the scan. After that click on Download Update button to get the latest driver installer for the particular device.

Device Doctor supports both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows XP, Vista, and Windows 7. I tested it on Windows 7 and it works perfectly.

Download Device Doctor (Size: 4.6 MB)

This utility is created by one of the deviantart member Solo-Dev.

For applying the transparency, all you need to do is to download the zip file from the download link below, extract it, run the TTB-UI.exe file, drag the slider to your desired value and click on Apply button. It will immediately make the Taskbar and Start Menu transparent.

The zip file also contains a TTB.exe file, which a command-line version of this application.

You can open a Command Prompt window and use TTB.exe in following format:

TTB transparency_value

For example, if you want to set transparency to 30, use following command:

TTB 30

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In the configuration menu, you can set this application as Window Explorer’s default copying application.

Features of ExtremeCopy:

• Extremely fast copy and move files.
• You can pause/resume copy process.
• The operation of copy/move files as simple as Windows default copy handle.
• In case the copy or move encounters any problems like file being locked, this application will pause the copy or move and resume once the problem is solved.
• It supports 32-bit and 64-bit versions of XP / 2003 / VISTA / Windows 7 operating system.

Download ExtremeCopy (Size: 1.9 MB)

SBar Taskbar Replacement is s free Windows utility which allows you to replace default XP and Vista taskbar with Windows 7 like taskbar. Windows 7 taskbar comes with some good features like live preview of opened windows, grouping of common windows and also jump lists.

Now you can use these Windows 7 taskbar features in XP and Vista with this SBar Taskbar Replacement utility. It adds almost all functionality of Windows 7 taskbar back to XP and Vista.

Key Features of SBar:

1. Grouping taskbar buttons in the way Windows 7 do it.
2. Thumbnail previews for all opened windows. (in XP static – live in Vista)
3. Jump lists with pin support
4. Additional tasks in jump lists
5. Pin support to taskbar
6. Support to Skype 4.x and Firefox 3.x

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