CCleaner-Clear the Junk in your PC

As time passes your PC accumulates a lot of junk in form of Internet cache, temporary files, memory dumps, old check disk files and many more things and to remove all that that we have CCleaner

CCleaner also has a very handy built-in Registry Cleaner which can remove many types of invalid registry entries, It also has startup manager which you can use to remove the useless programs that start with windows and an add/remove programs manager that loads much quicker than its window’s counter part

Cleaner is a freeware only available for Windows

Unlocker-Release In-use Files

I used to get this annoying error when I used to delete or modify some files stating that “Cannot delete filename.xxx :It is being used by another person or program”, some times I would easily find the program that is using this file and close it but sometimes I couldn’t figure out what is using that specific file so i has to restart my system to modify that file until I found Unlocker.

Once you install it, it places itself in the right click explorer menu and when you encounter that error all you have to do is right click the problematic file press “Unlocker” and click on the “Unlock all” button in the dialog box that appears.

Additionally you will see the list of processes that have occupied your file and you can tell Unlocker to delete, rename or move the file and it will do it for you

Unlocker is a free software and its a must have for every PC

Note: Unlocker doesn’t deletes the file immediately instead it will schedule itself to to delete that file on the next restart

Stupid Rapidshare Captcha and the life saving Happy Hour

Rapidshare recently updated their captcha code which is the most stupid thing I have ever seen in my life, actually in this captcha code there are more letters than the usual four from which you have to recognize four which have a cat in the background and believe me I have never been able to do that, this new captcha has been implemented to fight all the software that used to read the captcha for the users to automate the downloading procedure and it turns out that this captcha is even hard for the normal humans to read let alone computer scripts

but here comes the life saver i.e RapidShare Happy Hour,seems like RapidShare have introduced happy hour to calm down the frustrated users, Rapidshare Happy Hours are active between 23:00 – 17:00 GMT on Mondays to Fridays and 23:00 – 13:00 GMT on Saturdays and Sundays, and if you cant remember the timings then there is a firefox extension i.e Happy Checker that will notify you when the happy hours are active.

Download Windows Vista SP1 And Windows XP SP3

Microsoft recently released Service pack 3 for Windows XP and Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista and you can download both from here

Windows Vista Service Pack 1

Original MSDN ISO:

Torrent: http://thepiratebay.org/tor/4093032/ (definitely not the healthiest torrent in the world )

File Name: en_windows_vista_with_service_pack_1_x86_dvd_x14-29594.iso
CRC32: ce4cb528
SHA1: bcd715a02739809e477c726ae4b5caa914156429
MD5: b09267740ddd1a08d80b04ec6bbc232a
Size: 2943 MB (3,086,147,584 Bytes)

Info: you can use this ISO to install Windows Vista with service pack 1 on a clean system which doesn’t have any old version of windows vista

Standalone Installer:

Download: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=B0C7136D-5EBB-413B-89C9-CB3D06D12674&displaylang=en

File Name: Windows6.0-KB936330-X86-wave0.exe

Size: 434.5 MB

Info: use this installer to install service pack 1 in your computer with windows vista already installed

Windows XP Service pack 3

Original MSDN Iso:

Torrent: http://www.demonoid.com/files/download/HTTP/1460866/20857596

Direct Download: http://depositfiles.com/files/5116908

Size: 589.14 MB
MD5: 5BF476E2FC445B8D06B3C2A6091FE3AA
SHA1: 66ac289ae27724c5ae17139227cbe78c01eefe40
ISO/CRC: FFFFFFFF

Info: you can use this ISO to install Windows XP with Service Pack 3 on a clean system which doesn’t have any old version of windows XP

Note: this is the volume license version you will need a Volume license key to install it (hint: etho student edition nfo)

Standalone Installer:

Download: http://download.windowsupdate.com/msdownload/update/software/svpk/2008/04/windowsxp-kb936929-sp3-x86-enu_c81472f7eeea2eca421e116cd4c03e2300ebfde4.exe

Size: 316.5 MB (331 805 736 bytes)
MD5: bb25707c919dd835a9d9706b5725af58
SHA-1: c81472f7eeea2eca421e116cd4c03e2300ebfde4
Size: 331,805,736

Info: use this installer to install service pack 3 in your computer with windows xp already installed

Increase The Number Of Addons Firefox 3 Recommends

The most prominent feature in Firefox 3 is the new Add-on manager which has an addon recommendation feature but by default it only shows 5 Addons but if you want it to show more Add-on you can modify a about:config entry and you are all done

instructions:

1. Enter about:config into the address bar and hit enter.
2. Hit “I”ll be carefull. I promise!” button.
3. Type extensions.getAddons.maxResults into the filter field and change its value from the default 5 to a higher number.

For some odd reason, Firefox 3 won’t return more than 8 results no matter what number you put in the box. Go ahead and try 112, it won’t break Firefox, because your browser will still only show you 8.