If you own a printer I am pretty much confident that you must have encountered the dreaded issue of a stuck printer job, getting rid of a stuck print job is not as straight forward as it sounds and the worst part is that subsequent print or fax jobs sent to the queue will not print until the first job (which is unfortunately stuck) is cleared from the spooler queue this is also known as printer spooler restoration.

There could be various reasons for a print request to get stuck in the printer spooler queue which cannot be deleted, most of the time this is caused by a corrupt or incomplete print job sent by applications or any other reason which interrupts the print job in middle of the printing. I have been using a hand-coded dos-batch script to tackle this issue which simply stops the spooler service, deletes the queue content and re-starts the spooler service, now I have found a better alternative as free portable utility for Windows - Stalled Printer Repair.

If you love eye-candy 3RVX will definitely get your attention, this free utility for Windows lets you enjoy an cool looking skinnable volume display and controller with lots of customization features on your computer.

3RVX shows your sound volume level via an customizable on-screen display (OSD) also allowing users to define custom hotkeys to control the volume, there are quite a few skins available for use with the utility as displayed below.

Start Menu 7 is a free utility which replaces the standard Windows Start Menu with a more easier to use better looking menu, basically what Start Menu 7 does is that it displays the menu-items in a more natural and easier to find alphabetically sorted order.

Software vendor Comodo is churning out some great free software these days, after delivering a promising secure web-browser Dragon Internet Browser the company is now offering an absolutely free Windows maintenance utility dubbed "Comodo System-Cleaner", the utility supports almost all platform of Windows and features a junk file-cleaner, disk registry-cleaner, and an privacy cleaner including unique feature SafeDelete™ which safeguards users against accidental file deletions.

We can tweak our Windows computers to enable auto-login feature letting by the password entry hassle every time the computer is booted, however this comes at the cost of leaving our data privacy and security susceptible to misuse.

But no worries as we now have a solution which secures our computer from unauthorized access as-well-as does not require the hassle of entering the password to gain access, free utility Blink! makes logging into Windows easier then ever, just look into a webcam for a moment, and you’ll be logged into your account automatically.

Blink! employs advanced face-recognition technology to provide quick, automatic and reliable login to one or many computer users easily, The innovative technology is even able to match the user with different haircuts, with or without eye-wear, beards or mustaches grown or shaved off while completely eliminating false positives even under varying lighting conditions.

Having a MS-Office and PDF file-recovery utility in your software toolbox can come in extremely handy during an unfortunate data-loss event, and here is a chance to grab a fully-functional registered version of Wondershare Office Recovery software absolutely free till April 10, 2010.

Under a limited time promo you can grab a free personal keycode for Wondershare Office Recovery utility which is capable of recovering Microsoft Office 97, XP, 2000, 2003 ,2007 and PDF files from various storage devices like PC hard drive, external disk drive, USB flash disk, DVD and more lost due to deletion/formatting/virus attacks or any other reason.

We often have to share our removable disk drives with friends and colleagues making our personal data prone to misuse and theft, to sort this out all we need to do is to create an hidden, encrypted and password protected partition on our USB drive for saving our personal data safely away from public eyes.

Rohos Mini Drive is a free USB flash-drive encryption utility letting users create hidden and password protected partition on any removable storage device, the portable encryption tool offers “on-the-fly” encryption even in traveler mode securing data efficiently.

Google Chrome is doing great slowly gaining web-browser market share, now you can enjoy the same web-browsing experience using a more security hardened version of Chromium code-base developed by well-known security software vendor 'Comodo', the all new Comodo Dragon Internet Browser features greater stability, less memory bloat, improved privacy, easy SSL certificate identification, faster website access, more private Incognito mode which also stops cookies, and easy migration from your existing browser.

Since Comodo Dragon is based on same Chromium code-base which powers Google Chrome plus some more performance and security tweaks the browser looks pretty fast in initial usage, the new look and feel also makes it a good alternative to Google Chrome.

Nagareshwar Talekar is a talented security expert who has written several research papers and had developed utilities like SpyDLLRemover and GooglePasswordDecryptor - this time he has successfully decrypted the 'Windows Credential Store' making way for recovering stored passwords of Windows network authentication, Outlook, Windows Live Messenger, Remote Desktop and Gmail Notifier. The free utility named NetworkPasswordDecryptor instantly decrypts and recover passwords stored by any version of Windows starting from XP to Windows 7.

Having comprehensive computer information is crucial for troubleshooting problems, and if you are looking for one such free tool on Windows platform LookInMyPC takes care of this by providing a complete and comprehensive system profile with all the information of installed hardware and software. Additionally it provides system diagnostic information such as details on running processes, installed services, startup programs, Windows updates and hot fixes, active network and Internet connections, TCP/IP port usage, event log detail, and much more.

LookInMyPC utilizes a single, easy to use screen allowing users to select items of interest for inclusion in the report, the report is nicely formatted making it easier to read and can be viewed and printed from any web browser with hyperlinks to quickly "Google" them for more information - One of the most useful feature of this utility is the ability to "Generate report and Email" which creates a full system profile and diagnostic report and automatically sends it as an email ZIP file-attachment to user supplied email address.