Microsoft® Windows® Malicious Software Removal Tool

Download the free latest malicious removal software for Windows 7 from Microsoft

This tool checks your computer for infection by specific, prevalent malicious software (including Blaster, Sasser, and Mydoom) and helps to remove the infection if it is found. Microsoft will release an updated version of this tool on the second Tuesday of each month.

A Smarter Way to Make Your simple TV into a smart TV by using Amkette EvoTv

Amkette EvoTV is a digital media device which allows users to access content like videos, games and websites using WiFi and broadband connection. It comes with a remote that acts like a mouse and has a mic to facilitate conversations on VoIP (like Skype).



The remote controller of the device was something which gives you an splendid experience with its amazing features. Just like a normal remote controllers it has all the basic features such as volume control, navigation, home button, back button etc. Other than the basic features it has a in built microphone for video calling, accelerometer to play games, the navigation pad is touch sensitive as in the Appple iPod so that you can scroll clockwise or anticlockwise to zoom in or zoom out images or webpages and you can also configure the Evo TV remote controller to act as universal remote for two more devices of your choice. By just moving the controller with the help of your wrist you can navigate through the interface and it has button on the back for selection

The EVO TV is an Android based smart box which runs on the Android’s Gingerbread operating system. Amkette has customized the user interface to make it very interactive and easy to use. The smart box is powered by ARM Cortex A9 processor with ARM Mali 400 GPU. It has an inbulit memory of 4GB which can be expanded via the SD card slot. For connectivity it has 4 USB ports, HDMI, DLNA, WiFi, 1 SD/MMC card slot. It also supports 3G dongle. The Evo TV is capable of running almost all the major file formats so as to prevent you from the hassle of converting videos to make them compatible with you television. It supports upto 1080p full HD to give you a seamless multimedia experience. You can also connect the device with a Webcam, wireless keyboard and hard disk drives.
Like any other android device you can access the Google Play store on the Evo Tv to download apps. For web surfing it has the android stock browser. It also supports social networking with one touch access to Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.

The price of this device is Rs. 10000/- (Ten thousand only)

Rocket Dock application launcher

RocketDock is a smoothly animated, alpha blended application launcher. It provides a nice clean interface to drop shortcuts on for easy access and organization. With each item completely customizable there is no end to what you can add and launch from the dock.

Now with added Taskbar support your minimized windows can appear as icons on the dock. This allows for better productivity and accessibility.

 Features:

• Minimize windows to the dock
• Real-time window previews in Vista
• Running application indicators
• Simple drag-n-drop interface
• Multi-monitor support
• Supports alpha-blended PNG and ICO icons
• Icons zoom and transition smoothly
• Auto-hide and Popup on mouse over
• Positioning and layering options
• Fully customizable
• Completely Portable
• ObjectDock Docklet support
• Compatible with MobyDock, ObjectDock, RK Launcher, and Y'z Dock skins
• Runs great on slower computers
• Unicode compliant
• Supports many languages and can easily be translated
• A friendly user base :)
• And best of all... its FREE!!!

Installation:
1.Instal Rocket dock
2.Open C:\Program Files\RocketDock\Icons and paste all content of Icon Pack in there
3.Now u have 3148 icons in Rocket dock libary
4.Open Rocket Dock setings:
5.Under General mark Run at Startup
6.Under Behavior mark AutoHide
7.Done

Download Rocket Dock

Defragmentating your hard drive

Most defrag tools only allow you to defrag an entire drive. Defraggler lets you specify one or more files, folders, or the whole drive to defragment.
A very much effective and efficient tool as compared to windows built-in defragmentation program.
 The official link is
 http://www.piriform.com/defraggler/download.

Some useful Disk Utilities

 HDD Regenerator - Repair bad sectors
Repairs most bad sectors by remagnetizing the disk surface without losing your data. Works independantly of the file system, making it compatible with all PCs, operating systems and hard drives. This software also comes bundled with Hiren's bootable Cd.
http://www.dposoft.net/

Active@Partition Recovery
Recovers most deleted, lost or formatted partitions.
http://www.partition-recovery.com/

Partition Magic
Fast and easy partitioning, Supports all Windows and most Linux file systems. Great for ignoring bad sectors and for advanced partitioning schemes.
www.partitionmagic.com

Ranish
GPL/Freeware partitioning program for use with Windows, Linux, FreeBSD and more. Not much on eye candy, but it works. .
www.ranish.com

gParted
GPL/Freeware partitioning program for use with Windows and Linux. Nice, intuitive interface and comes available as a bootable CD image..
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/

Acronis Partition Expert
Easy to use interface. Supports Windows and Linux partitions.
http://acronis.com/products/partitionexpert/

HD Tune
HD Tune is a hard disk utility with many functions. It can be used to measure the drive's performance, scan for errors, check the health status (S.M.A.R.T.), securely erase all data and much more.http://www.hdtune.com/

Most of this tools come bundled with hiren's bootable cd

Drive Diagnostic Utilities

Every major drive manufacturer have their drive diagnostic utilities. These utilities will allow you to test & diagnose your drive. Some utilities also allow you to "low-level" format (write zeros) or enable/disable certain features on your drive.


Hitachi / IBM - DFT "Drive Fitness Test"

http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm

Works with all manufacturers

Western Digital "Data Lifeguard"
http://support.wdc.com/download/index.asp#dlgtools 
Works with WD drives only

Maxtor "Powermax"
http://files2get.com/software/soft2/dyski-twarde-(hdd)-narzedzia-firmowe/powermax.exe
Works with all manufacturers

Fujitsu "FJDT"
http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Hard-Disk-Utils/Fujitsu-Diagnostic.shtml 
Works with fujitsu models only . See also Tosibha link

Samsung "hutil"

http://www.seagate.com/support/downloads/ 

Now that the sale of HDD division of Samsung Electronics to Seagate Technology Plc("Seagate") has been finalized, Seagate will provide all customer support including the warranty service of Samsung HDD..

Seagate "Seatools"
http://www.seagate.com/support/seatools
Works with Seagate drives only

Toshiba 
http://storage.toshiba.com/storage-services-support/warranty-support/software-utilities
This diagnostic tool is available for use by customers who feel their Fujitsu Branded Toshiba hard drive may not be operating normally. It is only designed for use with Fujitsu Branded Toshiba ATA/IDE hard drives. 

Testing your laptop fans

If you need a tool that can change your computer's fan speeds, read the temperatures of your motherboard and your hard disk, read voltages and fan speeds and check the status of your hard disk using S.M.A.R.T. or SCSI attributes, then  SpeedFan is the software to go. Check for link below:

http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php

How to Test Power Supply

Power supply is failing to be the cause of spontaneous reboots or some serious error message.

How to do a  power supply test may be an important step that must be done.

There are two ways to test the power supply, namely through manual testing using a multimeter and testing through a power supply tester.  Both ways are equally effective for power supply testing, and definitive choice is yours.

Here’s more information that can help you choose which method is best from both methods mentioned above in the test power supply.

Power Supply Testing with a Multimeter


Advantages

To test the power supply is only needed a Multimeter with a screwdriver. Disconnect the power supply your computer from computer case, then read the instructions on the side of the power supply box for a list of values in each color of cable voltage, which are physically the cables’ ends on DC power supply connector.

Attach your power supply back into the computer case, turn on your computer, then you can perform measurements only on the integrated DC voltage power supply at the top where the connector mounted on the main board.

Disadvantages

Power supply testing manually can be dangerous if you are not very cautious and will take a bit of work to be able to really test your power supply.

Caution: Do not open and / or touching the inside of the power supply box will be very dangerous.

Power Supply Testing with a Power Supply Tester



Advantages

The result of test power supply using a power supply tester can be conducted with ease and gives results that are more rigorous and conclusive, With ways that can disappear into factor of human error and negligence. So testing using a power supply tester become more secure and remove the fear and avoid electrical shock AC.