Tag: Windows
Enable Thumbnails of All Video Formats in Windows Explorer
Windows Explorer has option to view thumbnails of photos and videos. When it comes to photos, almost all popular formats are supported, but with video thumbnails many formats aren’t supported. Hence the thumbnail option does not work for all video formats. In case you are seeing blank or generic thumbnails for some of your video [...]
Batch Change/ Rename Files in Windows
Although Windows Explorer provides most of the functions to manage your files and folders, all the functions are pretty much basic. For example, if you want to change or rename file, then you can do it manually by editing it and there are no advanced options by selecting filter criteria etc. In such cases an [...]
All-in-one Android and iPhone Management Tool for Windows
When it comes to phone management, there are many freeware tool to manage your files and apps. We have covered a some of the best desktop managers for Android and also for iPhone like CopyTrans and iDevice Manager. Moborobo is another freeware app for Windows which allows you to manage your Android phones, iPhone and [...]
Create Ringtones for iPhone, Blackberry, Android and Symbian
Ringtones have been very much an integral part of all phones, be it smartphones or feature phones. Even though most of the modern phones comes with lot of built in ringtones, users will always love to have catchy ringtones especially from the latest movies and albums. Moreover some of the smartphones have different file formats [...]
5 Apps to Batch Change or Rename File Extensions In Windows
Sometimes for specific reasons, you might have to change the extension of some of the files in Windows. But the main problem is that Windows does not offer an options to change the extension or batch rename it to another one. Although you can manually do it by making the file extension visible from the [...]
Schirmfoto 2012- Awesome Screen Capture Tool for Windows
Back in 2010, we had covered a free screen capture tool called Schirmfoto with some unique features. The app has now updated to 2012 version with new features and looks promising. Schirmfoto is probably the easiest way of creating screenshots as it easily integrates into the Windows Explorer. It adds a new button in the [...]
Automatically Download and Change Wallpaper after Windows Logon
When it comes to automatically changing wallpapers for your Windows desktop, there are many freeware app including the recently released Bing desktop. My Daily Wallpaper is yet another useful tool for desktop wallpapers which can automatically change the desktop wallpaper by download a new one. The good thing about this app is that it download [...]
Quickly Manage your Desktop Settings with TrimDesk
Windows allows you to customize desktop by selecting the wallpapers, icons for apps and files, hiding the taskbar or icons and many more features. But not all these features are located at one single place, so its not easy to change these settings frequently. TrimDesk is a freeware app for Windows which lets you customize [...]
Share Internet from Windows 7 Laptop or PC using Virtual Hotspot
Wireless Ad-hoc connection is a feature in Windows 7 where in you can wirelessly share your Internet connection with other devices using WiFi. We have covered multiple free apps like Wirelessly , Hotspot and Connectify which allows you to share your internet connection with other PCs or mobiles or tablets. Virtual Hotspot enables you to [...]
Remove Traces of USB Drives from Registry using USBOblivion
Whenever you connect an USB drive to Windows, it stores the connection and other details in the registry and this is useful for administrators to check the date and time of connection and the type of USB devices connected. We had also covered a freeware tool called USB History Viewer, which collect the details of [...]
Nirmal is a technology blogger from India and also a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in Windows.
