It gets really frustrating when your computer decides to froze while doing an important task, nothing works and you are not even able to launch Windows Task Manager to kill processes hogging system resources. Windows freeware AntiFreeze takes care of this by offering a last resource to get you rescued from a hung system, all you need to do is to press the AntiFreeze hotkey and it will put to sleep all running programs except the most critical ones, giving you the opportunity to close down the programs which are causing problems via a special task-manager.

Finally, the Indian currency Rupee has got it's very own symbol, previously denoted as Rs. or INR (internationally) the currency now has it's own symbol like $ (US Dollar), £ (British Pound), ¥ (Japan Yen) or € (Euro). Since, the new symbol is not yet part of the UNICODE you will need to use special font to use it in your documents - the font can be downloaded from the link provided at the end of this blog post.

Windows Installer Cleanup Utility (MSICUU2.exe) has been an invaluable tool for fixing Windows Installer related issues but sadly Microsoft has decided to discontinue it citing the following :

While the Windows Installer Cleanup utility resolved some installation problems, it sometimes damaged other components installed on the computer. Because of this, the tool has been removed from the Microsoft Download Center. The Fix it Solutions in this article provide the ability to fully remove Office 2003, 2007 and 2010 suites without damaging other Windows components.

If you are still looking for Windows Installer Cleanup Utility we have direct-download link available at the end of the post.

Looking for a trick to download images from Picasa Albums without installing Picasa itself - freeware utility "Picasa Album Downloader" for PC, MAC and Linux does exactly that and that to without requiring any registration or account with Picasa.

To grab images all you need to do is start the utility and tell it the user and the album name you want downloaded, rest is taken care by the software itself.

A properly tweaked system is must for optimal PC performance and Windows utility System Nucleus is another great freeware to achieve this. The powerful system utility suite comes with fairly advanced features to view, edit and manage system resources and settings, the consolidated functionality set is designed to make these tasks easier than ever from a single interface. Developer of System Nucleus has put emphasis on batch processing, filtering, and easy visual identification of items using distinctive icons.

Equipped with modules like System Audit, System Editor, Startup Manager, Backup & Recovery, Windows Application Menu, System Tray Menu, Program Manager, Disks & Drives, Detailed Information, Smart Run and Customizable SetOnce Interface makes it a comprehensive toolbox to tweak your computer, the utility is designed to make batch administration operations easy like kill multiple processes, uninstall multiple applications etc.

Technology has always came to rescue when needed, and if you want to fix your low-resolution, poor quality videos - patented video enhancement technology “super-resolution" is now here for your help.

Thanks to vReveal software for Windows, anybody can now quickly fix videos taken from cellphone, HD camcorder, digital-camera, or any other device with a single-click, the free software will stabilize, brighten, sharpen and enhance your videos using patented “super-resolution" technology which has been adapted from powerful forensic tools used by law enforcement and intelligence agencies.

With over 3,000,000+ downloads in past 10 years X-Setup Pro windows tweaking utility has some great history to cheer about, sadly the developer has decided to stop further development and the commercial PRO version of the utility is now free for everyone.

X-Setup Pro - a well known Windows "tweaker" application in geek-world allows users to change 1,900+ settings that are normally hidden deeply in some configuration-files like the registry, fast and easily. The software is an powerful, clutter-free and easy to use utility covering almost every aspect of your computer and has more configuration options than any other tweaker.

Marketed as the anti-frustration software Soluto Beta is just a trailer for some really interesting things to come, in it's current form the free utility for PC allows users to speedup long boot times by profiling and reporting time-taken by various boot-time applications and services, enabling users to either pause or delay their launch for a faster bootup.

Soluto's long-term goals are what makes it even more interesting and here is what the company has to say about it :

Free Windows utility Fences provide a great elegant way to get your desktop icons organized, however if you are looking for a more eye-candy rich solution - sliding dock launcher like SliderDock will do the trick.

SliderDock provides Windows user with an easy to use and configure ring-shaped application launcher dock, to get started all you need to do is to drag-and-drop icons to access them later, just rotate your mouse wheel and let the icons come to you.

Watching high-definition (HD) video on an under-powered computer results in skipped frames as the computer is not able to process all the data and the video output gets jittery becoming unwatchable, I faced the similar problem and to my surprise simply changing the video player software provided the solution.

While hunting for a solution to play smooth HD video on my PC I found excellent media player software - Splash Lite, marketed as the next generation media-player the software do provide unparalleled features like advanced picture post-processing engine, simplistic user-interface, fast, smooth and jitter free video playback without requiring any additional codec.