WinMHR: Free Malware Detector
WinMHR is a free security tool that provides a similar function as the VirusTotal website but with some additional features, and more to come.
WinMHR is not a replacement for antivirus but it works great in conjunction with one (I’d recommend Avast! for a free antivirus.). The name stands for Windows Malware Hash Registry, which largely describes its functionality. WinMHR will calculate a hash for a file and then check against its database to see if it has identified that file to be related to malware.
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Windows 7 Taskbar Items Pinner: pin anything to the Windows 7 taskbar, including individual files and folders
Windows 7 Taskbar Items Pinner is a free software that allows you to pin just about anything (individual folders, files, or URLs) to the Windows 7 taskbar.
Now you may be wondering why you need this, since you can already pin items to the Windows 7 taskbar simply by dragging them over; however, the truth is that Windows 7 only allows for pinning applications on the taskbar directly, not individual folders or files. Once pinned, Windows 7 allows you to access files or folders from their application
context menu ’jumplist’ only; this program, in contrast, will let you pin and access any item straight on the taskbar (see image below for an illustration).
Here’s a list of PROS and CONS:
PROS:
* Simple app, does what it sets out to do
* Can pin webpages: simply paste the URL in the path field.
* Portable; unzip and run
CONS:
* A single criticism: when pinning an item, Windows 7 Taskbar Items Pinner will require that you identify an icon file as well that it would use in the taskbar (which can be quite annoying). This left me wondering why it didn’t simply grab the icon already used by the file/folder/app that is being pinned. Strange. For the screenshot above, I used BeCyIconGrabber to grab the Excel file icon from the Excel executable.
The verdict: I like this one for the simple reason that it lets me pin my favorite folders straight on the taskbar rather than in a jumplist.
download it here : Windows 7 Pinner
System Ninja: pro-active drive cleaner will find junk files that CCleaner won't
System Ninja is a free hard drive cleaning app that can remove unnecessary junk files from your hard drive. It is different from some other hard drive cleaning apps, such as CCleaner, in that it pro-actively sets out to find junk files wherever they may reside, rather than looking in prescribed locations. As a consequence it can find many files that CCleaner will simply miss.
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