Windows Tools, Help & Guides

You already know where to get the best wallpapers and icons, I’m sure. Now it’s time to bring you a collection of free screen savers. It’s so many creative people out there creating cool screen-savers for free, so why settle for those, trial-screen-savers, with limitations or nag screens ?

If the download link for some reason doesn’t work, try the “More Info” link instead.

Here, I bring my first collection of totally free screen-savers. Enjoy.

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This week, we have a collection icon packs that could be used for mobile applications. You can use these icons for Windows customization, web sites, applications, mobile apps, posters, and more; however, just because the pack is free doesn’t mean there’s no attached license. Please be sure to check the license for each pack you download as each differs. The license should be available from the site you’re led to and often it’s in the download. If you know of any good icon packs to include in this genre, please let me know. Looking for a different genre? Desktop icon pack collections organized by genre.

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In the past, we’ve shown you many ways to customize Windows using .PNG and .ICON icons. In this guide, I’ll show you where to get icons how to:

• Change Vista desktop icons.
• Change folder icons in Windows Explorer.
• Change drive icons in Windows Explorer.
• Add custom libraries with custom icons in Windows 7.
• Change network icons in Windows Vista.
• Update outdated icons automatically in Windows Vista.
• Remove the shortcut overlay arrow icon in Vista.
• Customize Windows Media Center Media Browser icons.

Download Icons for Windows

If you’re looking for icons for Windows, you can download them here: Windows Icons. Here are some of my favorite collections:

• 111 Free Icon Packs for Your Dock/Website
• Windows Style Icon Packs
• RSS Icon Packs
• Social Icon Packs
• Icon Packs for Your Website
• 90 Free High Quality Icon Packs [Set 1]

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This week, we have a collection of device, drive, folder, and filetype icon packs. You can use these icons for Windows customization, web sites, applications, mobile apps, posters, and more; however, just because the pack is free doesn’t mean there’s no attached license. Please be sure to check the license for each pack you download as each differs. The license should be available from the site you’re led to and often it’s in the download. If you know of any good icon packs to include in this genre, please let me know. Looking for a different genre? Desktop icon pack collections organized by genre.

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A nice sweetener to the deal for those of you who’ll manage get hold of a copy of Microsoft’s new Xbox 360 release, Halo: Reach before this weekend, is that they’re offering Xbox Live Gold membership benefits to those with Silver memberships. Effectively granting a Halo free-for-all weekend.

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If you’re selling your computer, sending a faulty drive back to its manufacturer, donating your PC, or sending it to the curb, you should take precautions to ensure your data is properly erased. This guide explains:

• Why you should properly erase your data.
• What precautions you should take when erasing data.

Then I’ll show you three different techniques you can use to completely erase your hard drives:

1. Using Windows Explorer to format your drive.
2. Using Darik’s Boot and Nuke (DBAN.)
3. Using a drill.

Okay, I won’t show you how to do number three but it’s a perfectly feasible option.

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