How To Change Windows Photo Viewer Background Color

We all love Microsoft Windows operating system because there is a plenty of free tools is available to tweak and customize every part of windows we desire. There are hundreds of free tweaking and customization tools out there for Windows 7 available on the internet. But, there are a few tools are available on the internet to tweak windows 8.

Windows Photo Viewer is one of the programs that we use very often for viewing any picture in Windows operating systems. You might be using Windows XP, Vista, 7 or Windows 8. While users always open pictures in Photo Viewer and he must seen white background background of the Photo Viewer. Users who don’t like the white background may want to set a custom color as background.

Photo Viewer Background Changer is a free utility from Winaero.com to customize the background of Photo Viewer and Live Photo Gallery. It is compatible with Photo Viewer in Windows 7 & Windows 8, Windows Live Gallery in Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8. It also supports both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows. Users who want to install this tool in prior to Windows 8 operating systems need to have installed .NET Framework 3.5 on Windows XP and Vista to be able to run and use this tool.

After changing the background users who want to restore default there is still options are available for those "Reset to Defaults". A separate executable file is included in the zip file for Windows 7, Vista, and Windows XP. Be sure to run the right version on the right operating systems.

In Windows 8, users may see “Windows SmartScreen prevented an unrecognized app from starting. Running this app might put your PC at risk” message while launching this tool. Simply click More info and then click Run anyway button to run this beautiful tool. Just go ahead and download this tool , it is less than 500KB in size.

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How to Scan your Hard Disk for Errors and Repair them

You might have felt that with the continuous usage of computer over the time, our hardware degrades. After a long time hard disk starts creating errors. So in case any body is finding that your hard disk to be too slow or making some noise while performing any read or write operations, then make sure that in your hard disk something is wrong and for those this post will help in solving this issue.

Since our hard drive contains a lot of important information and data we will advise you to backup it first in external hard drive or some USB drive. 

One can try at his own to fix hard drive errors through Windows default Chkdsk utility. Chkdsk utility can be found in any version of Windows Operating system. To use this open My Computer / Computer and right click on any drive and go to Tools tab. Now below "This option will check the drive for file system errors." click on Check button. It will check your hard disk for any errors and it will find and fix it.

Another way to fix the hard disk error is SeaTools for Windows. This is one of the best disk checking tools developed by Seagate, you can trust it. The tool is designed to scan your drives for errors and display the results so that you can take actions.

An interesting point to note here is that, you don’t need to download other tools (in case your hard disk is not from Seagate), the same tool will work on your all hard disk. While downloading make sure that you have select right operating system. SeaTools for Windows from Seagate company presently supports Windows XP, Vista 32bit and 64bit, Windows 7 32bit and 64bit. Presently it does not support Microsoft Windows 8 operating system.

There are other tools also available on the internet for the same purpose, but this one would sufficient to your needs. So in case you are facing difficulties with your hard disk, better to get it scanned and find out the cause before claiming the replacement.

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Tweak Windows 8, 7, Vista and XP with TweakNow RegCleaner 2012

The Registry is a heart and soul of any Windows operating system. It contains information that controls how your Windows appears and how it behaves. Most of Windows applications today use registry to store configuration and other important data. When users install application, new registry entries created. These entries should be deleted automatically when you uninstall the application. Unfortunately, it does not always work that way. Sometimes you find that several applications fail to remove their own registry entries. These entries will become obsolete and there is no use in your registry but still it is available.

After a long period, after installing and uninstalling a lot number of applications, your Windows registry may contain a large number of obsolete entries. These will significantly increase the registry size and you computer will slow down, because Windows will need more time to load, search, and read data from registry.

To keep your computer in top performance, it is recommended to periodically clean your Windows registry.

TweakNow RegCleaner uses a high performance engine to  scan your registry to find obsolete entries. Using complex algorithm TweakNow RegCleaner 2012 accurately identify obsolete entries. TweakNow RegCleaner 2012 automatically create backup file before deleting obsolete entries from your registry. TweakNow RegCleaner 2012 available in two licenses, shareware and freeware.

Just try it ! You will find that TweakNow RegCleaner 2012 is the fastest and the most reliable registry cleaner program available today.  

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Advance Tweak Windows 8, 7 & Vista With Vispa

Windows 8, 7 and Vista tend to overload with features that a casual user barely ever needs, or even knows about. Specifically, these operating systems quite frequently communicate with their parent servers, and other servers like Apple, Google, etc when you have their apps installed, without the user’s consent or knowledge.

Vispa, an advance tweak utility for Windows 8, 7 and Vista, that offers a user various tweaks under seven different categories; General, Services, Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player, Windows Desktop Search, Usability, and Delete Files.

The interface is simple, and the application is portable, but it is advised that it is not for the casual user. If you know what you are doing, familiar with the background processes and services, and have the heart to reinstall your system from scratch in case something goes wrong, this utility is for you.

The tool simply offers a list of available tweaks, with six available presets. Main focus of this tool is to reduce the excessive communication between your system and Microsoft, Google and Apple servers. However, most of the usual tweaks like deleting page file at shutdown, disabling error reporting etc, are also available.

It is recommended that you create a system restore point before attempting anything with Vispa. Also, as per the author of the software, it may register a false positive with some antivirus products, but rest assured that it is safe and clean. This portable tools works great with Windows 8, 7 and Vista. Just go ahead and download this tool from its official website.

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Get a tabbed Windows Explorer or File Manager : ExplorerXP

Users who want to get tabbed browsing in Windows Explorer or File Manager just like modern browsers can use ExplorerXP,  a third party Windows Explorer which comes with tabbed features. You can open any number of folders in different tabs across the browser which also comes with a Folder and Groups section at the left side. The folder section is the same as the ‘Explore‘ from the Windows but the Groups section lets you to group a couple of folders or tabs under a single name so that you can open all these related folders with a single click.

Key features of ExplorerXP :

• Easy access to My Computer, Recycle Bin, My Documents & Desktop
• Drag & Drop with Explorer, the tab bar and special folders on the main toolbar.
• allows to rename multiple files in one step
• Displays folder size information and the real size of compressed files & folders
• Folder Size Cache – greatly improves the speed of the folder size calculations between sessions
• Merge / Split Tools
• Advanced copy/move
• Unicode support
• USB devices support
• Clean – recursively removes files that match given list of extensions or wildcards
• Groups – A group is a collection of folders, which users are able to access quickly or drag & drop files to them
• Configurable keyboard shortcuts

This is a freeware and it works with Windows XP, Vista, 7 and Windows 8 also.

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