System Mechanic, TuneUp Utilities and IOBit Advanced SystemCare are few well known examples of computer tuneup and maintenance utility suites but if you are looking for something which is free luckily we have one such utility suite - TweakNow PowerPack 2009.

TweakNow PowerPack is a fully-integrated suite of utilities which lets you fine-tune every aspect of your computer's operating system and Web browser to achieve optimum performance.

Printer ink costs more than human blood and we can easily save money on printing costs by using smart utilities like iPrint which let users remove unwanted content from their print-jobs, think iPrint as an advanced print-preview utility which sits in-between your applications and printer allowing users to automatically detect and remove pages with no content with options to manually remove unwanted pages easily, iPrint also allows printing multiple pages on each sheet of paper further saving ink consumption.

While doing its job iPrint keeps track of print-jobs measuring total savings and displaying handy reports.

MalwareBytes and SUPERAntiSpyware are two popular and trusted free software's when it comes to cleaning of malware ridden computers, but these automated signature based scanners become useless when you are dealing with a little known malware not yet included in the anti-malware database or when the malware is smart enough to detect presence of these utilities and terminate them, in such cases advance computer users resort to manual removal of infected files by taking help from tools like ARSwp, System Repair Engineer, SpyDLLRemover and ATool to name a few - today I am going to share a pretty little known but excellent must-have utility dubbed 'FreeFixer' which provides everything you will be needing to detect and get rid of those hard-to-remove malware files manually.

FreeFixer is an simple to use utility which allows users to scan and delete potentially unwanted files belonging to adwares, spywares, trojans, viruses and worms; unlike other signature based automated malware-busters FreeFixer simply scans all the places from where these malware gets loaded white-listing trusted known genuine files allowing advanced computer users to detect and remove unwanted files from getting loaded next time you boot your computer.

Free CD/DVD burner applications like JetBee and BurnAware have been my choice as small and fast Nero alternatives, UsefulUtils Discs Studio is another utility boasting full-featured professional multi-format CD/DVD burning capabilities bundled into an application sizing just 297 KB with setup size of 586 KB.

The free utility supports SCSI, ATAPI, Parallel port, USB and FireWire devices with features like On-The-Fly burning, PerformOPC, Over-burning, Test burning, Buffer Underrun Protection, various burning modes, bootable discs, Multi-session disc burning with choice of session import, multiple disc copies and audio track ripping with conversion to WMA, MP3, OGG and FLAC with FreeDB support.

As the name implies one of its kind utility "PikyBasket" lets you cut,copy and paste files and folders the smarter and easier way by allowing you to collect your choice of files/folders from multiple locations in a basket and then performing the desired action, you simply right-click the file/folder and use PikyBasket Drop into the basket option to keep filling the basket with your selection and then perform the cut/copy at the target.

If you think Microsoft's under-development motion sensing technology Project Natal is cool and would like to do something similar right now, here is some outright geeky stuff for you - a free Windows utility which lets you control any game using any object of your choice tracked via your webcam, not convinced check out the video.

Windows Desktop icon clutter is one of the most annoying experience every computer user has to face everyday if things are not properly organized, Stardock Fences is an Windows utility to put tabs on this and make desktop icon organization fast and easy, the free utility allows you to create named Fences on your desktop with icons organized according to your choice.

These labeled shaded containers for your desktop icons are movable & resizable, In addition to its organizing capabilities Fences offers another cool quick-hide feature which lets you fade-out (hide) and fade-in (show) desktop icons with a simple double-click, moreover your can choose Fences you want to exclude from quick-hide displaying only icon-group of your choice.

If your work involves lots of open windows and you want something which can sort the mess out here is some good news for you, one of its kind handy little utility WindowTabs let you group application windows as Google Chrome styled tabs.

WindowTabs attaches a small tab on top of each application window which you can use to drag-and-drop and group windows together, you are allowed to configure which applications you want tabs on and one's you want excluded.

There are quite a few free instant folder hiding and locking utilities for Windows, but WinMend Folder Hidden would be the most easiest and feature-rich free file and folder locking utility of them all, the software allows users to hide and protect multiple files and folders using password on local partitions and removable devices, the best part is that the data once hidden remains invisible even when accessed from another operating system on the same computer or another machine.

The hiding/unhiding process is instant and can also be used to hide/lock files and folders on removable data storage devices like USB pendrives and memory cards.

There are two well-known OCR software available for free namely - SimpleOCR and JOCR but both utilities require user to download and use them from desktop, however there is a better way to get images/documents converted in editable formats using free web-based OCR services, these free services allows users to upload documents in various formats and download editable version in format of their choice.

I tested some of these free online OCR services and here is a list of best ones which will get the job done easily and accurately.