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Top 50 freeware for Windows 7 – Office Tools
Office Tools:
Open Office
OpenOffice.org is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers. It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages. It can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose.
Size: 149 MB Version:3.2.0 Licence:Open Source
7-Zip
7-Zip is designed for creating or unpacking archived and compressed files. The application can unpack 7zip, ZIP, CAB, RAR, ARJ, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, CPIO, RPM and DEB files, or create file archives in those formats. For the standard ZIP and GZIP formats, 7the application promises to deliver a compression ratio that is 2-10% better than that provided by PKZip or WinZip, and the native 7zip format can provide a 45% reduction in file size from the common zip format. Key features: High compression ratio in new 7z format with LZMA compression 7-Zip is free software distributed under the GNU LGPL Supported formats: Packing/unpacking: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR; Unpacking only: RAR, CAB, ARJ, LZH, CHM, Z, CPIO, RPM and DEB For ZIP and GZIP formats 7-Zip provides compression ratio that is 2-10% better than ratio provided by PKZip and WinZip Self-extracting capability for 7z format Integration with Windows Shell Powerful File Manager Powerful command line version Plugin for FAR Manager Localizations for 59 languages
Size:1 MB Version: 4.65 Licence: Open Source
WinRAR
WinRAR is a powerful archive manager. It can backup your data and reduce the size of email attachments, decompress RAR, ZIP and other files downloaded from Internet and create new archives in RAR and ZIP file format.
Size: 1.3 MB Version: 3.93 Licence:Trial
Adobe Reader
Adobe Reader software is the global standard for electronic document sharing. It is the only PDF file viewer that can open and interact with all PDF documents. Use Adobe Reader to view, search, digitally sign, verify, print, and collaborate on Adobe PDF files.
Size: 26.1 MB Version: 9.3 Licence: Freeware
Foxit Reader
Foxit Reader is a free PDF document viewer, with incredible small size, breezing-fast launch speed and rich feature set. Foxit Reader supports Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/7. Its core function is compatible with PDF Standard 1.7. In the past, you’ve had to download a huge PDF reader from another software company, go through a lengthy installation process and wait for an annoying splash window to disappear just to open a PDF document.
Size: 6.69 MB Version:3.3.1 Licence: Freeware
Amazon Kindle
Read Kindle Books on Your Computer: * Get the best reading experience available on your PC. No Kindle required * Access your Kindle books even if you don’t have your Kindle with you * Automatically synchronizes your last page read and annotations between devices with Whispersync * Create bookmarks and view the annotations you created on your Kindle Shop for Books in the Kindle Store: * Search and browse more than 390,000 books, including 101 of 112 New York Times® Best Sellers. If you are a non-U.S. customer, book availability may vary * Find New York Times Best Sellers and new releases for $9.99, unless marked otherwise * Get free book samples – read the first chapter for free before you decide to buy * Books you purchase can also be read on a Kindle * Kindle newspapers, magazines, and blogs are not currently available for Kindle for PC
Size: 6.25 MB Version: 1.0 beta 1 Licence: Open Source
Dia
Dia is a gtk+ based diagram creation program released under the GPL license. Dia is inspired by the commercial Windows program ‘Visio’, though more geared towards informal diagrams for casual use. It can be used to draw many different kinds of diagrams. It currently has special objects to help draw entity relationship diagrams, UML diagrams, flowcharts, network diagrams, and many other diagrams. It is also possible to add support for new shapes by writing simple XML files, using a subset of SVG to draw the shape.
Size: 18 MB Version: 0.97.1 Licence:Open Source
Gnumeric
The Gnumeric spreadsheet is part of the GNOME desktop environment: a project to create a free, user friendly desktop environment. The goal of Gnumeric is to be the best possible spreadsheet. We are not attempting to clone existing applications. However, Gnumeric can read files saved with other spreadsheets and we offer a customizable feel that attempts to minimize the costs of transition.
Size: 20.4 MB Version:1.10.5 Licence:Open Source
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How to Perform a Windows 7 Upgrade?
Windows 7 is the new and famous successor to Windows Vista. It offers a host of attractive new features such as Remote Media Streaming, Windows Live Essentials, Windows Taskbar, Home Group, and Jump Lists that makes it only logical to upgrade to it.
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How to Remove User Protection Completely
What is User Protection?
Like many rogue anti-spyware programs, User Protection come in with malware and detects fake threats all throughout your computer. The program is setup to both create and detect harmless files on your computer, claiming that they are threats to the system. It gives you an option to remove the rogue files, but only if you purchase a full copy of User Protection. Do not do this as you will get nothing more than a loss of money and a fake program that will sit on your computer.
During the fake scan that User Protection runs, it will display a variety of threats. These may include something like this:
Spyware Alert! Your computer is infected with spyware. It could damage your critical files or expose your private data on the Internet. Click here to register your copy of User Protection and remove spyware threats from your PC.
How to remove User Protection?
1 The first thing you need to do to remove this program from your PC is to get a trustworthy anti-spyware / anti-malware and then let it scan your system. Many people make the mistake of just trying to delete the files or settings this software installs onto your system, but the fact is that it has a number of different elements which will just it to come back. You need to use the likes of MalwareBytes (free) or SpywareDoctor (paid) to get the roots of this problem.
2 You should also clean out the ‘registry’ to make sure that there are no settings or files that this virus has left in there. Not many people know about this part of your system, but the fact is that this infection will leave 100′s of infected registry settings on your system, ready for any other viruses to come along. The registry is a large database inside Windows which keeps all the settings and files that your computer requires each day to run – it’s like a big library of vital information for your system. To clean out all the damaged parts of this database, you need to be able to use a ‘registry cleaner’ to scan through it and fix the errors that are inside.
remove XJR Antivirus
What is XJR Antivirus?
Instead of cleaning spyware from your computer, a rogue software further infects your PC by downloading and installing additional malicious programs onto your computer. The additional malicious programs will further slow down your computer and make it unstable.
Now that you know how to identify a fake antispyware program, it is essential for you to know how to choose the best antispyware for your computer. One of the best ways to identify a genuine antispyware software is to have a look at various user and expert reviews on the Internet. In general, a simple Internet search will tell you whether a particular software is genuine or not. A good antispyware tool will perform a thorough scanning of your computer with your permission only and will categorize the results on the basis of their severity levels.
As a vigilant user, it is essential for you to identify the difference between a fake antispyware and a genuine antispyware program. Whereas a fake tool will scare and force you into buying it, a genuine tool gains its popularity through positive user reviews, genuine scanning, and reporting features.
How to remove XJR Antivirus?
1. Restart your computer. As your computer restarts but before Windows launches, tap “F8″ key constantly. Use the arrow keys to highlight the “Safe Mode with Networking” option as shown in the image below, and then press ENTER.
2. Open Internet Explorer. Click on the Tools menu and then select Internet Options.
3. In the the Internet Options window click on the Connections tab. Then click on the LAN settings button.
4. Now you will see Local Area Network (LAN) settings window. Uncheck the checkbox labeled Use a proxy server for your LAN under the Proxy Server section and press OK.
5. Download an automatic removal tool and run a full system scan.
A highly recommended tool to remove XJR Antivirus is RegistryQuick which is available for free at http://www.registryquick.net Before you try other programs, give RegistryQuick a try! You will be surprised