Ashampoo Registry Cleaner – Free Download Today

 

Ashampoo is giving their Registry Cleaner software for free today only via GiveawayOfTheDay. If you are using windows operating system and doing software installations and un-installations frequently, you would have noticed that your system became unbearably  slow. This is because your windows registry is grown in huge size due to many software do not completely remove their entries from the registry.  Ashampoo is one of the good system tools maker and they developed a product to clean your windows registry. If you want to grab this software for free, you need to act fast and install the software with in next 20 hours from now. The download is available in the above GiveawayOfTheDay website. While installing make sure the below points.

1. Download the software from the link provided in the Giveaway Of The Day site

2. Run the Executable and Accept the Terms & Conditions

3. Make sure you select the “Custom Installation” and uncheck the checkboxes otherwise the software install some browser toolbar and  changes your browser homepage.

4. Once completed with installation you would be redirected to their website for registration. You have to enter your email id here. My suggestion is you provide your secondary email address here in order to avoid any spams in future.

The Terms & Conditions specifically says that the software you download and install during the Giveaway period comes with the following important limitations:
1) No free technical support

2) No free upgrades to future versions

3) Strictly non-commercial usage

So, go and download it now.

I have used many other software earlier for cleaning my windows registry, but this software looks little faster in finding the inconsistency in the registry.

If you know some reported inconsistency is not really an issue, then you can ask the “Ashampoo Registry Cleaner ” to give exception to that entry (right click and select the last option in the reported issues) so that when you run the tool again, it won’t be reported.

If you by mistakenly mentioned some inconsistency as exception, then you can always go to Options–> Exceptions Tab and select all the exceptions and click on Remove button.

Ashampoo Registry Cleaner can also take the backup of the registry before performing any action on it. You can restore the registry back to its earlier state in case if something goes wrong.

There are few good points missing from this application in my view.  The Reporting, which allows only a text report of inconsistencies. A HTML report would be attractive for this kind of software.

Note: You have to be very careful while using any registry cleaner software. Always take backup of your windows system before running any process which require administration privileges.

Comodo TrustConnect – Free VPN

It has been more than a month since I started using TrustConnect a free VPN – ‘Virtual Private Network’ service from Comodo a well-known name in PC security tools segment. I am also fan of their other free tools like Firewall and Internet Security with Antivirus. I thought it would be the right time to give review of this cool VPN service. For those friends who are not aware of what VPN is, In one term, VPN masks your actual IP address provided by your Internet Service Provider and assigns another IP address to protect your online identity. So, what is it for us? You can automatically get the answer to the question about how an IP address reveals your identity, if you open-up any IP finding sites like whatismyipaddress.

The VPN creates a protective shield around your Internet Connection, by encrypting all your Internet traffic it prevents others from attacking or scanning your system from the local network that you’re using to connect to the Internet.  It  would do so by assigning another IP address which may belong to another country. So when the IP address finding tools looks to find your details by analyzing the IP address, what they really get is false information about your IP address, your  location/region and your Internet Service Provider etc., Usually any good VPN service is not 100% free, there would be some restrictions. The free account of TrustConnect comes with a monthly cap of 10GB which is very much sufficient for normal web browsing and also has Ads which will be displayed on the top of every page where ever possible. After reaching the cap your service account get blocked till the next month. In the next month your account would be activated again and you have another 10GB for that month. My VPN connection got terminated abruptly only once during my usage In the last one month. And of course TrustConnect gave the message in a pop-up window. And i could able to reconnect after few minutes. Apart of this small inconvenience i am very happy about this service.You can also view the usage statistics from your service account online in Comodo website.

You can sign-up for the FREE TrustConnect VPN by accessing the FREE TructConnect. I am not finding this URL directly in Comodo website now, but can be found in google search.

Downlod link for Comodo TrustConnect Installation file:

Comodo TrustConnect for Windows

Along with this i am also using another free VPN service proXPN alternatively, which is having another type of limit to the free version. I may probably give my review about this tool later.

Google Chrome – Detachable Tabs

I started using Google’s Chrome  for the last 2 days. And I liked it very much because of its faster load and execution. Rearranging the tabs is a common feature in any tabbed browser like IE-7, Firefox. Chrome is gone little bit ahead and it offers detachable/attachable tabs. Yes, we can detach and reattach the tabs, and here is how…

1. Open multiple tabs as shown below

 

2. Click on the tab to be separated, hold the mouse and drag little down or up. Now the Chrome visually shows the tabs position as shown below

3. Once you see the above window, Release the mouse button.

We can also (re)attach the multiple chrome windows to a single window-with-tabs, by following the similar approach, but this time it should be reverse. We should drag the 2nd window’s tab (not the window itself) to the first window’s tab location to make it as a tab.

The Task Manager of Google’s Chrome browser is common for all Chrome windows. To invoke the task manager press Shift + ESC button on any active Chrome window.

Firefox 3.0.1 Crashed :(

My Firefox 3.0.1 is always getting crashed on my windows box. I never open more than 5 tabs when browsing, not sure of what exactly the cause but it is happening when accessing the http://java.sys-con.com web site.

The firefox’s built-in crash reporter is not able to send the details to firebox behind the proxy server. I updated to 3.0.2 today. May be this should resolve the issue.

And the technical details about the crash are

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Add-ons: {0AC54906-5413-4C81-B446-07929BC39C25}:0.7.1,bettergmail2@ginatrapani.org:0.6.1,{63df8e21-711c-4074-a257-b065cadc28d8}:1.9.3,{DDC359D1-844A-42a7-9AA1-88A850A938A8}:1.0.3,{daf44bf7-a45e-4450-979c-91cf07434c3d}:1.5.1,firebug@software.joehewitt.com:1.2.0,{89506680-e3f4-484c-a2c0-ed711d481eda}:0.9.4.9,{a7c6cf7f-112c-4500-a7ea-39801a327e5f}:1.0.2,firegestures@xuldev.org:1.1.3.1,{cc85cd4e-5a5b-4eda-a25c-bdaffa93b406}:0.1,{e4a8a97b-f2ed-450b-b12d-ee082ba24781}:0.8.20080609.0,{77b819fa-95ad-4f2c-ac7c-486b356188a9}:1.5.20080823,{1A2D0EC4-75F5-4c91-89C4-3656F6E44B68}:0.3.1,{c33c5b47-69c8-45a4-a5e0-af85bbe628dd}:1.5.6.1,{cf15270e-cf08-4def-b4ea-6a5ac23f3bca}:2.0.5,{338e0b96-2285-4424-b4c8-e25560750fa3}:2.1,fireloop@drawloop.com:1.07,share@mahalo.com:4.0.1,{3e450467-892a-45b8-9ed8-90e8d3bf2ad7}:0.4.13,{37E4D8EA-8BDA-4831-8EA1-89053939A250}:2.0.0.0,pronounce@netgents.com:1.1,{F807FACD-E46A-4793-B345-D58CB177673C}:2.3.2,firefox-extension@shareaholic.com:1.4.1,{29c4afe1-db19-4298-8785-fcc94d1d6c1d}:0.4.2008061601,{46551EC9-40F0-4e47-8E18-8E5CF550CFB8}:0.5.7,{5B280457-4290-40c2-9441-EA647775F824}:0.13,{ded0fc70-7215-4802-afeb-b2982d3e7225}:2.9.1,{1DEAE5AA-E19E-458b-9C8C-73CB651B9A58}:2.9.1,{5c8bfb7c-9a54-11dc-8314-0800200c9a66}:3.0.1,{972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd}:3.0.1,HiVisGnome@edhume.googlepages.com:2.9.1,{F8DA5A34-B011-4b27-8581-87FDBBDF3698}:1.6.4,{069FB356-C69F-7349-D092-AB28AF836D0E}:0.8.100,{07b2a769-ed19-4483-87ce-c643914c81bb}:2.0.0.38
BuildID: 2008070208
CrashTime: 1220009367
InstallTime: 1216132023
ProductName: Firefox
StartupTime: 1219990603
Theme: PhoenityReborn
URL: http://java.sys-con.com/node/303726
UserID: 3f3ffd2d-ec05-4e32-a720-76de3adf1f4a
Vendor: Mozilla
Version: 3.0.1

This report also contains technical information about the state of the application when it crashed.

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Firefox Update: FF 3.0 RC1 Available

Today Firefox 3.0 RC1 version is released. This preview release is being made available for testing purposes only. Many of the plug-ins which you installed in the earlier beta releases may not work in this RC version, So be careful before updating to this version. Firefox is expecting a lot of inputs from us to improve this version, here is the note from the Firefox web site

We want to hear all of your thoughts about this release candidate, especially if you encounter broken sites or other web weirdness. Drag this feedback button onto your bookmarks toolbar and click on it when you have something to tell us. We’ll be waiting to hear from you! (Or, if you’d prefer, you can file a bug.)

To know more features of this version visit Firefox release notes.