Love to try cool customizations on your PC - if yes "Glass CMD for Windows Seven, Vista And XP" is definitely a worth downloading hack enabling cool translucent glassy aero effect on all launched command-prompt windows.

Glassy Command Prompt On Windows 7

Adobe Acrobat Reader has not been my choice of free PDF reader utility thanks to it's security issues, bloat and intrusive updater. Adobe has now started to address these issues and the latest release of "Adobe Acrobat Reader X" features new security measure known as “Adobe Reader Protected Mode” which is a sandboxing functionality which basically isolates the PDF reader from rest of the system shielding the user computer from any threat embedded into the document, the technology is based on Microsoft’s “Practical Windows Sandboxing”.

Usage of extensions is the best option to add further functionality to Windows Explorer, we have shared many such useful extensions like Advanced Context Menu, File Extension Renamer, Open Target Folder and Direct Folders. SmartXplore is yet another utility in this niche with the added advantage of extendable and user-configurable plugin architecture. The free Explorer Extension for Windows 7, XP and Vista supports various handy utilities like grouping files by type, quick browse, command-prompt, clipboard and FTP functions to name a few - the best part is users can create/download autohotkey scripting language compatible plugins further extending the software's capability as per there requirement.

Preparing bootable USB drives has always been a not so easy task requiring a combination of tricks, hacks and tools, thanks to freeware utility WinToFlash this won't be the case any longer as it allows users to create bootable USB disk drives having Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows Vista, Windows 2008, Windows 7 installation or any other BartPE compatible environment from CD/DVD to USB in a fast and automated way.

Apart from preparing bootable Windows installation and BartPE USB disk drivers WinToFlash also supports making of bootable MS-DOS disks.

Chinese MP4 players are very popular but lower-end models only support a single video format known as - AMV, we had shared a free AMV video converter tool earlier and here is another alternative to it. A fork of open-source project FFMpeg freeware utility "Bytessence MPxConverter" provides a simple to use interface for converting videos to these cheap mp4 players compatible formats.

The portable utility is compatible with both Actions and Sunplus chipset based players and provides fast and easy video conversion to AMV from a variety of input formats supporting output customization settings.

We have reviewed two free folder hiding and locking utilities earlier named WinMend Folder Hidden and My LockBox, Secure Folder is yet another great alternative to these, allowing users not only to lock and hide folders but also providing an option for encrypting data with well-known secure AES Encryption algorithm for maximum security.

Allowing protection for unlimited number of folders in seven different protection modes the free utility is compatible with Windows 7, XP, 2003, 2008 and Vista, integration with Windows Explorer is also provided for fast locking and unlocking.

We have reviewed many free system maintenance utility suites and almost everyone one of them does the job decently, developed by a "Microsoft certified partner" company brand new entry to this niche "SlimCleaner" has something new to offer and that is to utilize the power of community letting users decide what to keep and what to remove.

Thanks to quite a few free PC Information, Optimization and repair utility suites the user is now able to choose a suitable pack for their personal needs, and to further widen the existing offerings IObit has now came up with an excellent collection of 20 dedicated tools allowing users to fetch diagnostic information, enhance security, optimize performance and repair PC problems neatly packed as an free, portable toolbox named - "IObit Toolbox".

As the title says the great part is that you can customize the toolbox branding to have your own/company name and logo as shown in image above.

India's state owned telecommunication service provider BSNL has taken another step towards providing better customer support by urging them to install Motive Smart Self-care Suite which is used by many renowned ISP's all over the globe to provider automated ADSL modem setup, configuration and technician assisted troubleshooting when needed.

Like everybody else if you also hate bloatware here is yet another free Nero alternative letting users burn Data, Audio and Video discs with ease. Freeware Windows utility Inscriptio is a fast and reliable CD & DVD recording tool allowing users to perform most-used CD/DVD burning operations like Data, Audio, Video burning with image reading, writing and disc-copying operations via a simple, easy to use and feature rich interface.