Much like other program launchers, it was designed to provide a more powerful alternative to native Windows Run but what makes Executor more unique is the extent to which it can be customized using various skins and settings.

All you have to do is use a hotkey to launch Executor and then fire-away a keyword. Any programs matching the keyword would show up in the list and you can launch the program instantly.

Executor event lets you open a link in your default browser by just typing it into the Executor command window. Much more that comes with Executor is the optional choice of hard-drive indexing which makes it easy for user to index specific files or folders or leave them undiscovered.

The keywords and hotkeys can be manually configured through the settings dialog.

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Some more noticeable features of Skype 4.0 are:

• Single click on the Video call button
• Bigger, better and cleaner User Interface
• IM Conversation support along with Video calls
• Instant Messaging, Group IMs and SMS
• Offline messages/missed alerts notification

and lots more.

The new Skype 4.0 Beta is available to Windows users only and also has a lot of features missing from the old 3.8 release. A complete to list of features added/removed can be seen here.

If you are ready to give Skype 4.0 Beta a try, download it through the link below.

Skype 4.0 for Windows

One solution, recommended by Ghacks, is to use PDF Unlocker which is a free PDF unlocking utility that will remove all restrictions.

However if you want to unlock a PDF file without installing any software, I would recommend PDF Cracker. It is a Free online PDF Unlock utility.

It works simply by uploading a protected PDF file through your PC and once uploaded, it will open an unlocked and non-restricted version of the same PDF document in a new window.

Safarp is a small open source utility which is almost similar to the Windows Add/Remove Programs and lots a lot faster than the Windows one.

When I installed it, it took just 0.141 seconds to load a whooping list of 220 installed software. Moreover, you can easily remove or change a program by selecting the program and using the buttons below, repair and remove whichever is available. Search function is also available for finding your desired program faster.

An obsolete entry can also be removed from the list. To remove an entry, just select the entry and press Ctrl – E. Be careful as it will only delete the entry from the Add/Remove Programs applet. If the program exists, it will still be there.

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This means that registry needs to be backed up regularly so that if there is a system crash due to corrupt registry or invalid system state, we can easily revert the system back to the previous state when we last saved the registry.

Here is a tool that can do the job of backing up your Windows registry and it takes the responsibility of remembering everything. It’s name is ERUNT (Emergency Recovery Utility NT).

Features

• Backup the Windows NT/2000/2003/XP registry to a folder of your choice
• System and current user registries selectable.
• Command line switches for automated registry backup and restoration.
• Restore the registry in Windows 9x/Me/NT/2000/2003/XP and MS-DOS.
• Included NTREGOPT program for optimizing the registry.

Download ERUNT from here

It is a small package around 772KB. When downloaded, double click the setup file to install it. The default installation folder is Program Files\ERUNT. It creates two shortcuts on the desktop. One is ERUNT (main application executable to backup the registry) and the other is NTREGOPT (used to optimize the registry).

Backup Registry Manually

To backup the Windows registry, just run ERUNT and press OK when prompted. Then it will ask you where to save the registry. By default, it will save in Windows folder. The advantage of saving the registry backups in Windows folder is that you can access it easily using recovery console. You can configure which registry hives you want to backup, system registry, current user and other open user registries.

By default, ERUNT creates a new folder for each registry backup using the current date as folder name. This is advantageous in the sense that you can create as many backups as you want without worrying about the naming scheme. It also asks if the folder does not exist and clicking yes automatically creates the folder.

Then the progress bar will appear showing the progress of registry backup process. Please note that the system may hang during the registry backup. Don’t do anything, it will be OK after a few minutes.

Automatic Backup

Once installed, ERUNT also creates a backup of registry after every system startup. By default, these backups are saved in %SystemRoot%\ERDNT\AutoBackup\

So if anything goes wrong, just go to recover console, restore your system state from the latest backup.

Restoring Backups

Restoring the backups using ERUNT is very easy. Just go to the folder where you have taken the backup. For example, for the last automatic backup, go to C:\Windows\ERDNT\AutoBackup\ and select the date folder you want your system to be restored. Open the folder and double click ERDNT.exe. This will launch the restoration wizard.

Press OK. Now you will see the restoration options. Select the options you want and then click restore. That’s all you have to do. Your system will be restored to the previous working system state.

For those innocent geeks who don’t know, Rapidshare Happy Hours is the period of time when Rapidshare allows you to download a file without you having.

So if you want to download from Rapidshare while avoiding the annoying Cats Captha then this Firefox extension is definitely for you. Install it using the link provided below:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7353

Ad-Aware 2008 features a very cool new UI and includes anti-virus protection, as well as extended threat detection, for Ad-Aware 2008 Plus and Pro versions.

Here is a list of features for Ad-Aware 2008:

• Improved Threat Detection
• Enhanced Rootkit removal system
• Faster Updates & Faster Scans
• Less Resource Usage for optimal computer performance
• Easy to Download, Install and Use
• Lavasoft ThreatWork submission tool

The new Lavasoft ThreatWork lets you directly submit suspicious files for analysis.

Download Ad-Aware 2008 Free (Thanks Haris)