FxCryptor applies Military standard 256-bit AES encryption to files. When you apply encryption to any file, what software does is, encrypt it and changes the file extension to .FXC which is readable only by FXCryptor.

Most useful thing about this software is multiple ways of keeping password. Not just a Text characters but also a file could be used as password to open a file or even USB Disk. This offers totally a new level of security for your files and protection from Brute force attacks.

 Other features which FXCryptor sports are:

1. Secure ZIP:  It does the same thing of encryption but in addition implements Windows default feature of archiving. So, you get a .FCX file inside ZIP archive.

2. Secure Email: It goes one step ahead by implementing ‘Compress and email’ feature of Windows. Make sure you have email client associated before using it.

3. Secure Delete is a term used for File shredding. This deletes file from Hard Disk and leaves no traces so file cannot be recovered by any software. This is helpful in case of destroying confidential data at enterprise level.

4. SPOT Protection: In case, you are making changes in decrypted file, it will be automatically encrypted after modification. You just have to save it and forget about security.

What I didn’t like about it:

1. Interface doesn’t support right click. For every operation, I have to select the file and then press on button.

2. You cannot encrypt a folder. Even though, there is an option to add folder into a project but files from project gets added which have to be encrypted and decrypted individually.

3. When you are applying file as password, software remembers the path of directory where password file is located. So, if you decrypt once, next time browsing location will be same. This narrows down the number of files to be checked if someone is trying to invade your privacy.

Conclusion

FXcryptor is new in market and their attempt to bring various password schemes under one window is appreciable. I hope they take into consideration our suggestions and implement them in future releases. Pricing may not attract a home user but a product can prove beneficial for office and enterprise.

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May 2013 HD Wallpapers

The total theme package is of 10 MB which is totally worthy as the wallpapers are awesome. After you have finished downloading the Themepack file, just click on it to apply. Bing Daily wallpaper pack is also worth trying if you love fresh wallpapers rotating your desktop.

Download: May 2013 HD Calendar Theme

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Angry Birds Space Theme Gallery

The downloaded file will be a .exe file and 10 MB approx. Just click on the exe file to apply the theme. This theme was tested on Windows 8 and will also work flawlessly if you are using Windows 7. Bing Daily wallpaper pack is also worth trying if you love fresh wallpapers rotating your desktop.

Download: Angry Birds Space Windows Theme

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The total theme package is of 16.77 MB which is totally worth as the wallpapers are awesome. After you have finished downloading the Themepack file, just click on it to apply. Bing Daily wallpaper pack is also worth trying if you love fresh wallpapers rotating your desktop.

Download: City Scape Theme

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With the new operating system Windows 8 full version lined up for official release in few weeks, I would like to list out little known tips and tricks on Windows 7. If you’re a computer guy, some of the tweaks may be already known to you. For a general user, this is a must know list that helps you to compute your task much quicker using Windows 7.

Before we jump into the list of little known Windows 7 Tweaks, I would like to mention that if you’re going to try any of these tweaks, it’s better to back up your important files and registries.

1. Individual volume controller

Windows 7 has lot of hidden features like individual volume controller. You can control volume of individual applications. If you’re playing music in Media player, you can reduce the volume of Skype/Yahoo applications.

Sometimes, if you play loud music – the ping sound from apps like Skype, Google talk may annoy you. So application based volume controller helps you to control volume of individual applications. If you talk about media players, there is a volume control button built-in with it.

For other applications that produce sound, this feature will help you to control them. To access this setting, simply right click the Volume icon from the taskbar and open volume mixer.

2. Changing Logon Screen

Bored of seeing the same blue color logon screen on your Windows 7? You can easily change the background image on the logon screen.

By default, in C:\Windows\system32\oobe\ folder – you can find an image file in the name ‘Background’. You have to replace your own wallpaper in that folder. Choose your wallpaper, rename it to background.jpg and replace it in the folder.

Make sure the background image which you select is less than 300KB in size. You can reduce the size of wallpaper using any of the image freeware tools. Now after replacing your image, go to Start, in the search area type ‘regedit’ (without quotes) and press enter.

Navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Authentication\ LogonUI\Background. Double click the OEMBackground DWORD Key. Change the value from 0 to 1.

Now restart the PC/laptop. You can find your new log0n screen.

There are apps which can automatically change background images of logon screen or brand name.

3. Pin Applications to Taskbar

You can easily pin your applications to the taskbar. This helps to quickly launch programs. To pin applications to your taskbar, you can do it by right click the application in the taskbar and select pin this program from taskbar. The other method is open start menu, find application program and right click it. You can find options to pin to taskbar, pin to start menu etc.

Another useful tip on Pinned applications is that you can find all the recent files opened using the specific application just by sliding the application icon. For people who use office apps like Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and this feature will be very much helpful. You can quick launch the files previously opened.

Do you know you can even change the icon of apps pinned in Taskbar?

4. Pinned Browser New Window

If you have pinned applications in your taskbar – say for example if you had pinned Chrome, Firefox, Internet explorer and you want to open multiple instances of Chrome new window – you can do it in many methods. You can hit Ctrl+N for a new window or just slide the chrome icon from taskbar to open new chrome window.

The easiest method is, use the shortcut key. Hold the Shift button in your keyboard and mouse click the Chrome icon which is pinned to the taskbar. This method works for any application that is pinned to the taskbar. By holding Shift key and mouse click, it will open multiple instances of the application program.

5. Open Pinned Applications with Shortcut Keys

You can also open the applications which are pinned to taskbar with shortcut keys. For example: You had pinned apps in this order – Internet explorer, Windows explorer, Media player, Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft word. Now if you press Win key+1 (it opens Internet explorer) and if you press Win key + 2 it opens Windows explorer. Similarly the 3 will open media player, 4 will open chrome, 5 for Firefox, 6 for MS word etc. But unfortunately, you can open only nine applications (1 to 9) with this shortcut method.

6. Clocks with Different Time Zone

For freelancers, bloggers who work with different people from different countries need to plan/schedule their work according to their time zones. USA, UK London or whatever the country may be. It is always useful to have two to three world clock times displayed in your Windows 7 desktop. You can easily show multiple time zones, world clock in Windows 7.

Open the date & time settings > additional clocks – select the time zone and name of the clock. Finally hit apply. You can see two or three clocks and the time when you hover your mouse to the date& time area in the taskbar.

7. Sticky Note Styling

Windows 7 has in-built to-do list called Sticky notes. You can style the sticky notes similar to what you do in your rich text editor. You can style your sticky notes bold, italic, underline, strike, font increase/decrease, bullet list, numbered list, alphabetical list etc. Similar to how you do in your rich text editor – Ctrl+B gives you bold, Ctrl+I for italics, Ctrl+U for Underline, Ctrl+T for strike through, Ctrl+Shift+> for font size increase and < for decrease, Ctrl+Shift+L for bullet list, Press the L twice for numbered list and alphabetical list etc.

8. Troubleshoot Problems with Problem Step Recorder

Windows 7 has got an in-built problem steps recorder. Yes, if you want to troubleshoot issues or to find out what exactly happened, you can record the steps with exactly mouse clicks, UI changes, etc. The problem steps recorder is a small app you can open by typing PSR in the search. Or you can start > run > psr.exe in the run command.

Problem steps recorder app opens up and you can start recording. It is similar to the screen capture software, but has advanced functions like recording the key strokes, mouse clicks; gather technical details behind the interface etc. Finally it saves the output file zip format with a MHTML report page. If you open up the report page, you can find details of the errors.

9. Disable USB Mounting

Schools, colleges and institutions don’t allow using USB drives on computers. Because, students may infect computers with viruses using their USB drives. If you want to disable USB ports in computers running Windows 7, here is a quick method.

A simple registry hack will block the USB ports in the PC. Open registry editor by typing regedit in start search or open Run > regedit > open registry editor.

Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\UsbStor and double click the Start name in the right panel. Change the value from 3 to 4. Restart your computer. If you again want to re-enable the USB port, navigate the same way you did and change the value to 3 again.

• Enable Write Protection on USB Device

10. Removing Recycle Bin

The last one, many prefer to keep their desktop clean from icons, files and folders. With just a delete button, almost every file, folder and icon can be removed. The question is how to remove the recycle bin from desktop in Windows 7?

Remove the recycle bin using Control Panel > Appearance and personalization > click Change desktop icons > uncheck the recycle bin option and finally apply settings.

This guest post is by Srivathsan G.K of MadrasGeek.com. Srivathsan G.K (@dangerdiabolick) is a writer, who blogs about cool Web apps, Softwares & WordPress at MadrasGeek.com. He is passionate about WordPress, Blogging and a Social media enthusiast.

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The wallpapers in this theme are a collection made from several sources available on the web. So you will even find watermarks over some images. Most of the Images were not in full HD, they have been converted to Full HD hence you might notice bit stretch. What ever the case is, it will not interfere with your festive mood.

Dussehra Theme Desktop Backgrounds

There are 12 more HD backgrounds, check them out in the theme itself. You can also obtain the Wallpapers from the theme separately. Just visit the location from change background option.

Dussehra Theme Startup Sound (Dhaki)

Windows 7/8 start up sound is not part of theme. So integrating the startup sound in theme is not possible. I have integrated it to Logon Sound. If you want you can easily change Windows 7 Startup sound. There are 2 ways to do this task. You can Change Windows 7 Start up manually or use a small application to do it.

Using the Manual method is laborious and risky, you may even end up corrupting your Windows installation. So, I prefer using free portable Startup sound Changer.

Run this application with Administrative Privilege. Just click on Replace and choose the given sound file. You can restore default Startup sound by clicking on Restore. Isn’t it simple!

Download Dhaki Startup Sound

Download Dussehra Theme

The total theme package is of 31.46 MB with logon sound included. After you have finished downloading the Themepack, just click on it to apply. You can also try out Bing Daily wallpaper pack to have new wallpapers rotate on your desktop automatically but you will be needing active internet connection.

Download Dussehra Themepack

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This collection is made from various places on the internet. So, if you want to download single wallpapers, click on the source link below each image.

Nature & Floral 1080P Full HD Desktop Wallpapers

Download Anemone Flowers Wallpaper

Download Dawn in Forest Wallpaper

Download Leaves Delight HD Wallpaper

Download Tree Fall in Autumn HD Wallpaper

Download Foggy Green Field Wallpaper

Download Dandelion Wallpaper

Download Green Grass Wallpaper

Download Dew Drops on Grass Wallpaper

Download Green Maple Leaves Wallpaper

Download Mushroom Wallpaper

Download Rising Sun in Field Wallpaper

Download Sunflower HD Wallpaper

Download Farm House & Windmill Wallpaper

Download Dusk Wallpaper

Download Tree in Greenfield Wallpaper

Download Giant Tree Roots Wallpaper

Download Plant Fencing Wallpaper

Download Broken Shed Wallpaper

Download Sunset HD Wallpaper

Download Wet Daisy Wallpaper

Nature & Floral Beauty Theme for Windows 7/8

This theme is made by me and consists of all the above wallpapers. The Theme size is 17 MB but it’s worth trying. After you have finished downloading the Themepack, just double click on it to apply. You can also try out Bing Daily wallpaper pack to have new wallpapers rotate on your desktop automatically with internet connection.

Download Nature & Floral Theme

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October 2012 Calendar Theme Backgrounds

The total theme package is of 13.12 MB and with really eye catching wallpapers. After you have finished downloading the Themepack, just click on it to apply. You can also try out Bing Daily wallpaper pack to have new wallpapers rotate on your desktop automatically, when you have a active internet connection.

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Anime Themepack Backgrounds

Applying this theme is easy. Just Download the theme pack and double click on the file. Total theme size is 18.51 MB. Bing Daily wallpaper pack is also worth trying if you love fresh wallpapers rotating on your desktop but you will need net connection.

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Cheetah Theme Backgrounds

Applying this theme is easy. Just Download the theme pack and double click on the file. Total theme size is 12.70 MB. Bing Daily wallpaper pack is also worth trying if you love fresh wallpapers rotating on your desktop but you will need net connection.

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