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How to Find out Applications consuming more CPU and RAM on Windows 7
5 Free File Compression Tools on Windows worth trying
All in one Essential Standalone Gadgets Pack for Windows 7, XP and Vista

How to Find out Applications consuming more CPU and RAM on Windows 7

Posted: 15 Feb 2011 07:07 AM PST

Geeks are always interested in knowing performance of computer system, discovering applications eating up RAM and consuming CPU usage. Here I share a real time process/thread activity tool so that we can catch the application causing problems.

Windows 7 integrates number of tools to keep watch on process activities but why not use an universal standalone tool with which you can find out Applications consuming more CPU and RAM Memory on Windows.

With free program called “Process Monitor” from Microsoft (SysInternals) which doesn’t require installation. Very easy to use and monitor status of PC and find out resource sucking process and limit them manually.

Go to menu File and uncheck the item Capture events You can pause the monitoring process by Process Monitor.
Click on the button Clear toolbar (the sheet with the eraser) to erase all information previously recorded by Process Monitor;
Go to menu Options> Events Profiling, Put the check on the items Generate thread profiling events and Every 100 milliseconds, And click OK to configure the program so that it captures the execution of each process in the log;
Go to menu File and put the tick on the item Capture events to restart the monitoring process by Process Monitor;
At the end of follow-up, ie after using the programs referred to means test the appetite for resources, back in the main Process Monitor, go to the menu File and uncheck the item Capture events to stop the monitoring process;
Go to menu Tools> Process Activity Summary to view the list of registered processes by Process Monitor on CPU and RAM consumption.

Sort processes according to RAM usage now

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5 Free File Compression Tools on Windows worth trying

Posted: 14 Feb 2011 11:08 PM PST

File compression tools can be very important to the efficient managing and storing of your documents. Being able to compress files means you can free up more space for current ones or those that must be kept available at all times.

Choosing file compression tools is just as important as choosing the right file compression program. Both the program and the tool must be compatible with one another. Otherwise, they will be of little use to the person trying to archive and later access the files.

Further, file compression tools must be able to hold the amount of material in the files without compromising or losing data, or they are of no use.

It is possible to purchase file compression and archiving programs and tools. However, there are several free programs, such as 7Zip, as well as free file compression tools, five of which are listed below. All of these have many useful features as well as the ability to hold large amounts of material.

1. ArcConvert
ArcConvert is a file compression tool that can be very useful to those companies that use different languages. ArcConvert has the ability to be used by those who speak English, German, Taiwanese, Dutch, and Italian.

In addition, ArcConvert has an automatic password detection feature from the archive. This makes compressed files more secure. ArcConvert also supports 7Zip, one of the most popular file compression and archiving programs used.

2. IZArc
IZArc is an archive utility tool. This tool can support at least 47 different archive formats. Further, this tool gives the user the choice of storing files on archive spanning disks or in self-extracting formats. This tool allows for easier access of stored files.

3. TUGZip
TUGZip is another archiving tool that is designed for Windows. It includes Windows Explorer integration so that functions such as "drag and drop" or use of the shell context menu can be performed.

This file compression tool also supports numerous archive formats. Besides being able to support the formats, though, this tool can also repair some damaged files, such as Zip or SQX archive files. This ability can be a tremendous asset to someone who thinks that files have been lost forever because of damage.

4. Zipeg
Zipeg is also designed for Windows. This tool is both free and simple to use. Again, it can open different archived files, including those stored in the 7Zip compression program.

5.WinArchiver
One of the more advanced file compression tools is WinArchiver. Not only does this tool open archived files, it is also possible to create and manage archived files. It, too, supports many of the more common archive files, as well as a few that may not be very well-known. Though this is not free but included in the list as it supports Virtual Drives and moreover new competitor in the race.

You may be worried, and rightly so, about the security of your archived files as well as the file compression tools that are used in conjunction with them. The five tools listed above all have good security measures in place to protect the files when they are being accessed and opened.

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All in one Essential Standalone Gadgets Pack for Windows 7, XP and Vista

Posted: 14 Feb 2011 08:03 PM PST

People who love customizing windows love to try out new things. Gadgets in windows are small things that can be used for both purposes of decorating and and using small functional units on desktop.

By default Windows 7 and Vista provides some basic gadgets which may be helpful in several cases but are not visually appealing at all. If you want to use gadgets with better visual appearances then you can try Snow Standalone Gadgets Pack.

Snow Standalone Gadgets Pack is a freeware gadget pack for windows 7. This pack includes various beautiful gadgets that can be used. Some of this gadgets provide functionality like weather information, CPU usage details, calender, picture slide shows, Google news, space status of each drive, shortcuts to directly log in to facebook, twitter, deviantart and flickr accounts.

It also has gadgets to write and save notes and also to view your IP address and network upload and download speed. You can arrange these gadgets according to your choice and you can also close gadgets that you do not want.

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