Windows Tools, Help & Guides

Plan to sell your PC soon? Left one out on the driveway before? You may be exposing sensitive data to anyone who comes across it.

Think formatting your hard drive is enough to remove your sensitive data? Think again.

Wipe disk is by far the best piece of data erasing software I have ever found. Wipe disk will completely rewrite the data on your drive, making it physically impossible to ever retrieve the original data.

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Occasionally you need to check spelling in an application that does not include a spelling checker and you don’t want to launch your word processor just for that. This is when tinySpell becomes handy; it is a small utility that allows you to easily and quickly check and correct the spelling in any Windows application.

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I love free software you can use online. BeFunky’s Cartoonizer does what you see above: turns your pictures into cartoons.

Just upload a picture from your hard drive or straight from your webcam and have fun!

BeFunky Cartoonizer

If you are wondering whether your computer is good enough for a game that you want to play, GPU-Z will come in very handy. GPU-Z is a lightweight utility designed to give you all information about your graphics processing unit (GPU.) Read the rest of this entry »

Eraser removes data from your computer completely. You may already know that when you “format” a drive, the information is still there. The best way to completely remove data is to write over it, and this is what Eraser does. Eraser is designed for XP, Server 2003, and older Windows versions.

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Do you own a laptop and use it in public? I do and I wouldn’t be surprised if my laptop gets stolen one day. Actually, I will be very surprised, but the chances of this happening are too high to ignore.

This week’s featured download is LocatePC – software designed to help you track down your PC.

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