If you’re planning to tweak or make big changes to your system, this tool may come in handy. As you can simply creates restore point to restore your PC if there’s any problem after the changes.

All you need to do is to download Restore Maker v2 and unzip it, just a single click on the application icon and you will be able to create your preferred restore point at any time. The restore point will be name as “QuickRestoreMaker Generated”.

How to Restore back your PC to your Preferred Restore Point:

• Go to Control Panel and select System and Security.
• Click on Back Up and Restore and select Recover System Settings.
• Click on Open System Restore to select Choose a different Restore Point.
• Now you may browse and select your preferred restore point.

Restore Maker v2 is compatible with Windows 7 and Vista.

Download free Quick Restore Maker v2 here

If you like to customize or named your prefer restore point, you may want to

Download free Quick Restore Maker v2b here

How do we bypass this frustrating time limitation without premium account?

RapidShare DownloadHelper which is a free Google Chrome Browser extension is able to assist with download time limitation. It basically auto detects Rapidshare countdown and auto start the download once it’s complete.

With its automation in downloading files, we can save more time to do valuable stuff than to monitor frustrating countdown mechanism.

RapidShare DownloadHelper Setup:

• Download latest version of Google Chrome if you don’t have it. (or get Chrome Plus here)
• Open this link here with Google Chrome or Chrome Plus to install the extension.
• Restart Google Chrome or Chrome Plus after finish installing.

You may now enjoy its useful function.

Playable video files with some corrupt or bad sector area could also cause the whole media file unable to perform copy or transfer.

How do we correct this copy error? And bypass whatever copy protected or partly damaged file successfully. We are going to explore some free tools to help you achieve your desired option.

Copying Damaged Corrupted Files

BadBlocked FileCopier is a free and useful application to make it possible to copy damaged and corrupted files or folders. This freeware is very lightweight, easy to configure and with user friendly interface which makes copying task and troubleshooting much easier than it looks.

You may also select copying speed, method, priority and its copying block size to maximize the copy performance through the freeware option tab. With this soft, you can even set your PC to shutdown once your copying task is done while copying large files.

BadBlocked FileCopier allows copying of normal and uncorrupted files as well which I should recommend as you can make use of its many copying functions and features.

This useful freeware was initially developed in 2007. I recently tested it with Windows 7, to my amaze it works completely fine.

Download BadBlocked FileCopier v1.08 here

Copying Protected File

Power Copy 1.6 is a free software that helps in copying protected files. It’s able to accomplish copy process through a specialized copy environment which makes it possible to transfer and backup of any data or file smoothly.

With Power Copy there’s no need to take ownership of protected files or folders before copying even if explorer can’t access the file. Power Copy will get past Windows security and copy the file for you, so there’s no worry about having proper permissions for protected files to be transfer.

Files which are damaged will also be automatically skipped with the whole copy process continue. An onscreen alert will inform you of the issue it encountered.

Power Copy is compatible with Windows 7, Vista and XP.

Download Free Power Copy 1.6 here

Speccy is a free software that display detail information on what is inside your computer like type of processor in use, ram size and usage, version of operating system, motherboard model, temperature  of different components, graphic cards, sound cards, hard disk…and basically information of every piece of hardware you owned.

To know what is in your computer is important, type of model on every piece of hardware with information for upgrading purposes, for driver updates or to add on the correct memory (ram). The best thing I like about this freeware is it displays temperature information which is crucial for maintaining a good system and avoiding future breakdown.

In a nutshell Speccy displays a list of your computer specification and its crucial information right in your very hand.

Please note that Speccy is currently still in beta version and while we wait for the final version to launch you can download the freeware from the link below.

Speccy works with Windows 7, Vista, XP, Windows 2000 and 2003.

Download Free Speccy here

Things you should know of computer deletion process is when we deleted a file, the initial file space will show as empty for new file to overwrite its space. The file is actually still intact (if we did not fully optimize disk space with newer files). We just need the right tool to find and recover the deleted files.

DiskDigger is a free tool which specializes in recovering files in your computer includes from USB flash drives, memory cards (SD, CompactFlash, Memory Stick, etc) and your hard drive. The types of files that it recovers includes photos, videos, music, documents, and many other formats.

DiskDigger can even scan formatted or badly formatted disks and even disks with bad sectors. It bypasses the Windows file system drivers and scans your disk directly. It’s also a standalone software, you just need to run the tool there’s no installation needed.

How to Use it:

• Run the DiskDigger
• Select Media or Drive which you want to recover deleted file or files and click Next
• Select Scan option and click Next again
• A list of deleted file will display now, highlight your preferred file and click on Restore selected file(s) to restore.

You may also click on Search Criteria tab to type in name of files you wish to recover. DiskDigger is also with user friendly interface and tool navigation is direct.

DiskDigger works with Windows 7, Vista, XP and Windows 2000.

Download Free DiskDigger here

We are going to explore on how to successfully delete and remove these file using free tool.

LockHunter is a free tool which main task is to delete access denied or blocked file. The uniqueness of this free tool is it deletes unwanted file right to your recycle bin so that you may restore it if there’s any deletion mistake.

To use it is easy, browse to whichever file or folder you want to delete, select Unlock It! to unassociated any programs from linking to the file or just select Delete It!

LockHunter Key Features:

• Shows processes locking a file or folder
• Allows to unlock, delete, copy or rename a locked file
• Allows to kill locking process
• Allows to remove locking processes from hard drive
• Integrates in to Explorer menu
• It deletes files into the recycle bin, so you may restore them if deleted by mistake
• Supports both 32 and 64bit Windows

Compatible with Windows 7, Vista, XP, Windows 2000 and 2003.

Download Free LockHunter 32 bit here and 64 bit here

All you need is just a webcam with KeyLemon login screen on your PC and walla you’re done. The soft allows you to use face recognition to connect to your favorite site like twitter, facebook and linkedIn with firefox browser. With Keylemon you can even login to windows account by just using your beautiful smile.

After logging in, it will auto check integrity every 10 second and if you’re not in front of your PC anymore, Keylemon will auto lock until you show up. You can always bypass it by using text base password as you wish.

According to the soft homepage, face recognition has been an active research area for more than 30 years and different systems are now capable of correctly recognizing people’s faces under specific environments. Yet my friend asks if we could bypass it by pointing a picture right to the webcam.

So how does it actually work? Once installed just launch the Keylemon wizard and it will guide you through the process. Want to view the setup process now anyway just click here

You can try Keylemon free for 30 days after which you will be ask to purchase it for USD19.95

Keylemon is compatible with Windows 7, Vista and XP.

Download Keylemon Free Trial here

I am going to introduce 2 of the best free tools available to monitor laptop temperature to prevent it from overheat.

Core Temp (32-bit) 0.99.5

Core Temp is a free standalone free tool to auto find and monitor laptop temperature. Its temperature reading is quite precise as heat information is obtained from Digital Thermal Sensor which is located right on your processing core.

Digital Thermal Sensor doesn’t rely on your motherboard external circuit reading to sense temperature, its reading value is stored in a special register in the processor itself for the software to access making heat reading more reliable.

With Core Temp you are able to know your laptop temperature reading in real time and it shows temperature of each individual core in the tool interface for you to know. It also has a logging feature for you to record temperature data as you wish.

Compatible with Windows 7, Vista and XP

Download Free Core Temp (32-bit) 0.99.5 here

SpeedFan 4.40

SpeedFan is another free tool that helps in monitoring laptop temperature in real time. Comparing to Core Temp, SpeedFan is more advance and sophisticated as its pack with more additional features and functions.

Other than reading temperatures of your motherboard and hard disk, it also able change computer’s fan speeds, read voltages and check the status of your hard disk using S.M.A.R.T. or Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology.

SpeedFan is also pack with an advance user features that enables you to change or tweak motherboard clock. Overclocking is a process to boost up computer system to attain higher performance with faster processing speed.

It’s not recommended for normal user to change motherboard clock as it’s usually done by experienced user.

Compatible with Windows 7, Vista and XP

Download Free SpeedFan 4.40 here