Windows 7 has some gorgeous Aero themes to spice up your desktop. However depending on your locale, some regional themes remain hidden and are not available to you by default. Want to add more themes to your Windows 7 Desktop? Here are the steps to find the hidden themes and add them to Windows 7 Personalization screen. (more…)

Whether it’s for sharing images or a doing a regular backup online, FTP is an often used protocol for uploading and downloading of files from/to a server. FileZilla is an intuitive FTP client, easy enough for basic users who are not even aware of FTP. This free and multi-platform open source software has a Windows Explorer type of interface.
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If you are a serious photographer you need to do a review of your camera work to improve your skills. Analyzing EXIF data of photos lets you find out which Camera settings have produced the best results. JPEGsnoop is a Windows freeware which can give a detailed report of a digital image’s EXIF and ITPC data. JPEGsnoop can extract and examine JPEG images contained in .THM, .AVI, .DNG, .MOV as well as PDF files.
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Outlook Express stores messages in the form of databases (*.idx, *.mbx, *.dbx). If you do not have OE installed on your personal PC, but would like to view your Office mails at home, you need a Mail Viewer. MiTec Mail Viewer is a small standalone utility which lets you view Outlook Express, Windows Live mail, Mozilla Thunderbird databases as well as individual EML(Email Message) files.
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Want to improve your Windows 7 PC performance? Most of the delay caused during accessing your programs or documents is due to a hard disk read. Windows 7, like it’s predecessor Windows Vista, offers a feature called ReadyBoost to increase your computer’s available cache, thereby improving performance. ReadyBoost works by caching most frequently opened programs and files on any external flash memory device such as USB drive, SD card, Compact Flash etc.
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Sometimes you may wish to clear the Recent Items list if it gets too cluttered or outdated. Along with this document history, you may also want to clean up the Recently Opened Programs list from Start Menu. (By default Windows 7 does not show ‘Recent Items’ in Start Menu. You can enable ‘Recent Items’ from Start Menu’s options.)
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Whenever you double click a file, Windows opens it in a program which has been registered for that file extension. Sometimes installing new software messes up these file associations and results in opening of unexpected or unwanted programs.
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When you access documents, Windows  stores the shortcut of the history of opened documents for easy access in future. In Windows XP, this will appear as “My Recent Documents” in the start menu list. In Windows 7, the term “Recent Documents” is replaced as “Recent Items”. By default, Recent Items is hidden in Windows 7 as an measure to improve privacy of the user.
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Windows 7 gives an easy access to your Favorite folders and libraries when browsing your computer. The ‘Favorites’, available in the left pane of Windows Explorer, are just links to folders, libraries, and drives on your PC. By default, Favorites has links to Desktop, Downloads, Recent Places etc. You can customize this list by adding or deleting links.
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You have been working on your latest research paper, collecting all sorts of supporting documents, scanning and saving them on your PC as TIFF images or as bandwidth-friendly DjVu files. Also, you received some research material from your colleagues, in PDF, TXT and even XPS formats. In between your work, you like to relax a bit and read your favorite comic book which is a Comic Book Archive (CBR/CBZ) file. Tired of switching between separate applications on your PC to view these documents?
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