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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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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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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Tweak Windows 8 with Windows Tweaker 4.1

Windows Tweaker is a great tool for Windows 8, 7, Vista and XP users. Earlier its name was Windows 7 Tweaker but now it supports Windows 8 also and its name changed to Windows Tweaker. Windows Tweaker supports an easy, beautiful interface while offering more than 100 tweaks. Tweaks are available to customize the default OEM info for example manufacturer, model, assistance telephone as well as assistance Web address, and logo. With this free software program one can effortlessly change the default settings of Windows Explorer, show, correct-click (context menu), places club, tasks, features, as well as logon screen.

One can also launch various administrator tools such as Group Policy Editor, Computer Management, System Configuration Editor, Windows System Security, DirectX Troubleshooter, and Event Viewer right from Windows Tweaker.

Under maintenance tab, you can find tweaks to enable boot defragmentation, change hard disk scan timeout (boot time check disk scan), and disable creation of last known good configuration.

All limitations can be found below limitations tabs. Right here, you can disable File menu, right-click on menu and many additional features. Tweaks are also available to accelerate shutdown procedure. The program lets you create a system restore point before making any kind of changes to default settings.

While Windows Tweaker v4.1 fully supports Windows 8 operating system, you will find very limited tweaks to change Windows 8 Metro and other settings.

It’s an excellent device to change the default Windows settings. Presently version 4.1 is available for download. One can download the Portable version of this software also from the link which is provided below. This facilitates both x86 as well as x64 versions of Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8 os’s. Some tweaks may not work in Windows XP and Vista.

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View Complete System Information of Windows 8 : FreshDiagnose

Fresh Diagnose is a utility designed to analyze and benchmark your computer system. It can analyze and benchmark many kinds of hardware, such as CPU performance, hard disk performance, video system information, mainboard / motherboard information, and much more.

By default, if you look under system properties or control panel you would find the detailed system information but if you will try to figure out exact data then you have to do a lot. So you can use some tool that can display all the detailed system information right at a single place. Fresh Diagnose is one of them which works perfect as per user choice.

Using this tool you can easily view all the computer properties, and other information on the single place. The information that this tool displays includes information from Control panel like information about software installed, hardware, multimedia, devices connected and network and database along with information like Windows history, run history, search history, browser history and recent files.

If you are looking for information like mainboard information, video system information, PCI / AGP buses information, peripheral (keyboard, mouse, printer, etc.) information, Windows registry settings, and network information then also you don’t need to visit the actual places, just run FreshDiagnose and you can get the information right at a single place.

FreshDiagnose is simple and free to use for home users. For generating Benchmark Results you need to register it which is totally free for home users. It works great on Windows XP, Vista, 7 and Win 8 both 32 and 64 bit versions.

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