How to Use Disk Cleanup Maintenance Utility in Windows 7 and Vista

Disk Cleanup (cleanmgr.exe) is a maintenance tool designed to free up disk space and clear unnecessary files on computers hard drive.

The utility first scans and search the hard drive for files that you can safely delete.

Afterwards, you can choose to remove the specific files that is no longer needed.

How to open the tool

You can use the Start Menu search by typing “cleanmgr”

 

You can also use the new version of WinBubbles to open the tool located at Windows Utilities Tab > Maintenance and Advance Tools

Understanding Disk Clean up Options

Downloaded Program Files

These are ActiveX controls and Java applets downloaded automatically from the Internet.

Temporary Internet Files folder

This is where your viewed websites stored for offline and quick viewing.

Hibernation File Cleaner

This file contains all the information about the state of your computer before it enter hibernation mode. If you do not use the hibernation power setting you can remove this file to free up more disk space.

Things to Remember: This option will disable hibernation and the option will be removed in your Start Menu. You can re-enable the option by using WinBubble or using the command line interpreter. Read here

Recycle Bin

The recycle bin contains files you have deleted from your computer and not permanently removed until you empty the Recycle Bin.

Setup Log Files

File created by Windows.

Temporary Files

Third party Softwares sometimes store temporary information in a TEMP folder. Before a program closes, It usually deletes this information. You can safely delete temporary files that have not been modified in over a week.

Thumbnails

Windows keeps a copy of all your picture, video, and document thumbnails so they can be displayed quickly when you open a folder. If you delete these thumbnails, they will be automatically recreated as needed.

Files used for Windows Error Reporting and Solution Checking

- Per user archived

- System archived

- System queued

Tip: Command Line option to Save the selected settings

cleanmgr /sageset:3

Using the /sageset:n where n is any number from 0 to 65535

The option displays Disk Cleanup settings Window

Select the options and Press OK to save

Note: Use the same command to modify the saved settings

Running the Saved options

cleanmgr /sagerun:3

sagerun:n where n is the assigned number from sageset parameter

More options Tab

Programs and Features

You can free more disk space by removing programs that you do not use.

System Restore and Shadow Copies

You can free more disk space by removing all but the most recent restore point.

In some editions of Windows Vista and 7, the disk might include file shadow copies and older Windows Complete PC Backup images as part of restore points. This information will also be deleted.

Hope these helps!

[C#] How to Get the Selected Index and Selected Item Text in List View Control

List View class makes the life easier. It represents a Windows list view control, which displays a collection of items that can be displayed using one of four different views.

I know this is not related to Windows Tips and Tricks. But since this blog is dedicated for helping users…. I decided to write the guide.

WinGuggle 2.1 System Summary tab is using a list view control written in VB.net.

 

 

 

WinTinker Password Generator Web Applications Tab also uses a list view control

There is no SelectedIndex property in List View that’s why its very difficult to get the selected item text using its index.

Thankfully I found a workaround to get the selected index.

if (ListView1.SelectedItems[0].ToString().IndexOf("Audio") > 0) {     intindex = 1;  //set the index manually }

Using the SelectedIndexChanged Event

private void ListViewWeb_SelectedIndexChanged(object sender, EventArgs e) {      if (ListViewWeb.SelectedIndices.Count <= 0)      {             return;      }      int intselectedindex = ListViewWeb.SelectedIndices[0];      if (intselectedindex >= 0)     {     //MessageBox.Show(ListViewWeb.Items[intselectedindex].Text);     } }

 

Hope this helps!

WinTinker Password Generator

WinTinker Password Generator makes sure that the passwords you will use for online banking, social networking sites and computers are strong and secure.

Main Features:

• Freeware application that easily creates easy-to-remember words that can be use as a secure password that combines all Upper Case, Lower Case, Numbers and Symbol.
• Creates unreadable Randomly generated password that you can write down for free.
• Generates a password that balances the unrecognizable secure passwords and easy-to-remember password ones. From a very simple suggested password like “carlo” into a strong and encrypted words.
• Check the Screenshots here

PRO VERSION IS NOW AVAILABLE

The Web App version was featured at MakeUseOf.com as one of the cool websites and tools…. Wow! Thank you so much!

Read the detailed explanation here: WinTinker Password Generator Features

Download Now

MajorGeeks Storms coming in!

Great thanks FreewareFiles.com!

Betanews.com Thank you so much!

Thanks Softpedia for being the first website to upload the app. Wow!

 

“WinTinker Password Generator will offer you the possibility to make sure the that passwords…are very strong, secure and hard to break.”

 

“WinTinker Password Generator enables you to generate easy-to-remember, yet secure, passwords. ”

 

Passwords are “secret string of characters” that help ensure unauthorized users do not access our personal files, documents and information.

WinTinker easily generates strong and secure password.

Thank you so much for the review Softpedia.com and Snapfiles.com, Majorgeeks.com and FreewareFiles.com for the amazing services and Betanews.com for the upload!

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Encrypted Password Generator For Online Banking, Mails, Facebook, Friendster and Other Social Networking Sites

 

You don't need to memorize difficult to remember passwords anymore.

 

 

Strong Passwords are secret string of characters that ensure unauthorized users do not access the computer. It can be made up of combination of letters, numbers, especial keyboard symbols, ASCII and spaces.

This is a response to the difficult to remember secure passwords especially if you will use a random password generator.

Although the Easy Password Generator is already the best and the usual way. Encrypted password generator creates a balance between the difficult and easy-to-remember password generators.

From a very simple phrase or word into a strong and encrypted words.

http://windowsforus.com/PasswordGenerator/encryptdecrypt/

You just need to remember any simple word (e.g. windows 7 from the picture above) or phrase that you like and the tool automatically convert each characters and encrypts them automatically.

It will generate a secure, long and difficult to read passwords in just few clicks for free!

How in the world can you memorize those characters?

1. Use the tool to generate the password and memorize the easy to remember word only (e.g. windows 7).

2. Before login to your bank, mail, facebook or any social networking website, go to the Windows For Us Encrypted password Generator and use the tool to generate your encrypted password.

As easy as that.

You don't need to memorize the difficult passwords because you can go back to the tool and generate the password again then afterwards, use that for login.

Great!

Easy To Remember Password Generator

Passwords are very important in business and personal transactions. Making a strong and easy to remember password is very difficult if you have multiple accounts on several networking websites, emails and online banking.

Using the new web application Windows For Us Password Generator you can easily create a secure password based on your suggested words.

It is very easy to use, customizable and the tool replaces each character with especial recognizable characters.

Lower Case
facebook 
f@c3800k

Upper Case
regdevelop
r3gd3v3l0p

Alternating Case
yesterday
Y3$73rD@y

http://windowsforus.com/passwordgenerator/easy/

Over all there are several kinds of this tool and still under development. One of them is the Secure Random Password Generator that makes a more secure password but unfortunately the words are very difficult to memorize.

Try the application now… Hope this helps!

How to Hide Direct Download Links

Your on facebook, friendster, myspace and other social networking websites or maybe your a website author and you want to hide the target download links of your ebooks, freewares and sharewares.

It’s easy!

Using the new web application that customizes URLs (long and short URL), you can hide the direct download links for FREE.

Sample:

http://WindowsForUs.com?FreewareForUs.com/WinBubble?download

You don’t need to create your own web service in php or asp.net.

• Hides the original URL for downloading files
• Customizable
• lots of vacant characters and spaces

and many more!

Try now! http://windowsforus.com/url/

Profiler: Get the most important System Information about your computer in one location

 

The new version of WinGuggle (version 2.1) aims to provide the most useful System Information in one location. The new tool gathers key information such Basic System Summary, Audio and Video Codecs, Display Drivers, Storage Disks and Drives, Network, Display adapter and many more.

The new feature is recommended for checking the specifications of your computer and for those people that wants to upgrade their laptop to a newer version of Operating system such as Windows 7 or Vista. Run or refresh the System Summary feature in a separate disk like removable storage or flash drives and it will automatically save that information for reference purposes incase you encounter a problem on audio and video drivers and hardware information that you need.

System Information

The tool gathers information for the following items:

• The OS name and version

• Computer Name

• Original Equipment Manufacture System Information (manufacturer, model, and type)

• Processor, BIOS Version/Date and SMBIOS Version

• Windows and System Directory

• Boot Device

• Locale

• Hardware Abstraction Layer or OS version

• User name

• Time Zone

• The amount of memory and system resources

• Page File Path

Storage Drives and Disk

This is one of the most useful information that the tool gathers. It provides you with the detailed information about your Hard Drives.

Audio and Video Drivers

The tool lists video card, monitor information, name and manufacturer of sound device(s), audio and video drivers information and version. Great tool if you want to upgrade or install a new operating system.

Network Adapter and Protocol

Lists network adapter information such as Network protocol information in greater details related to how it operates on the network.

and many more….

The future versions of the software (now in development stage) will have the ability to import and export data and provides more detailed information about your system.

Enjoy!