Do you always end up with cluttered desktop with random stuff filled like one below? If yes, then follow along as i discuss some tools to keep things organized on your hard disk automatically just with one time set up. Clean and Organized folders make things easier to find and save a lot of your time looking for some file or folder.

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One of the best Windows Firewall software Zone Alarm has a paid version Zone Alarm Pro which offers loads of features including firewall, anti-spyware and ID theft protection. It will be available for free download on 18th Nov, 2008 for 24 hours.

CheckPoint, the company behind Zone Alarm is providing Zone Alarm Pro for free on the eve of their 15th anniversary celebrations. The free download time would start at 6 AM PDT on 18th Nov. The free download would give you one year license which otherwise is sold at $39.95.

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Why pay for softwares when freewares are available for almost every task you can think of. We have compiled a list of 29 Freeware Windows Tools that let you do most of your computing tasks.

You might also want to check out our earlier post about 10 Essential portable Applications for USB drive.

Here is the list.

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A fresh Windows installation boots up in a breeze but with time, as we go on using the system, installing applications and stuff, the start up time of Windows starts increasing which increases the waiting time before you could actually use the computer after pressing the power button.

Here are 10 ultimate ways to make your Windows system boot faster than ever

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Though the normal shut down options in Windows are sufficient for most users, but some of us surely encounter such times, when we need to have more control over shutdown like scheduling a shutdown etc.

Smart Shutdown is one such freeware Windows utility that gives you much more control and options for shutting down PC.

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Besides Keyboard Shortcuts, using Run dialog box(windows+R) in windows to start applications/windows utilities is another great way to increase productivity by saving time. You might be familiar with commands like regedit, gpedit.msc, explorer but here we list down 27 applications you might not have thought could be started from Run Dialog box.

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There are many Windows processes that keep running in the background, consume up the RAM thus making RAM unavailable for newer processes. The result is that your PC has to perform swapping in order to make RAM available for new application programs to run. This is the case when your RAM is around 512MB. A simple setting can help your computer avoid this. Simply avoid those processes that start up when Windows starts. One of those is the Windows Messenger, which is switched on by default whether you use it or not.

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As Pen Drives viruses are quite popular these days, it sometimes happens that neither the virus in the pen drive gets deleted even after showing hidden files in Windows Explorer nor it lets format the pen drive using normal Format Pen Drive option in  Windows Explorer.

Usually the virus sits in pen drive and runs automatically when you attach the pen drive and will prevent anything from running which may remove it.

But there are two ways which i found to get rid of this problem. Forget about Antivirus, most pen drive viruses are not caught by Anti Virus softwares.

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Keyboard Shortcuts are a great way to increase productivity as they save a lot of time and also relieve hands from that pain caused by using mouse repetitively.

Here are 23 lesser known Windows Shortcuts categorized into their area of use that are incredibly helpful in increasing productivity as they make common daily tasks a lot easier.

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2 weeks back, we started a series of 15 posts about tips and tricks for Windows to make it more usable. Here’s the complete list of 15 different tweaks fro Windows XP that make your Windows experience more satisfying.

1. Add Folders to Send To Context Menu:

Remember that Send To context menu when you right click any folder or file in your Explorer. It lists a few locations by default so that you can directly copy files or folders to specified locations. In case, you use one particular folder to keep a copy of your important files or folders, wouldn’t it be nice to have that folder in Send To context menu.

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