Right-Click Extender is an easy to use program to add functionality to the Windows Explorer right-click menu in Windows 7 and Windows Vista. The tiny program will display its option directly after startup, an installation is not necessary. The new features are divided into file and folder options and desktop right-click options.

A while back I posted an article about the level of piracy among people installing Windows 7 in countries such as Russia and India, which you can read here . Then just a couple of days later Microsoft announced plans to release a new update to help combat pirates and people running illegal copies of Windows 7

Adobe has released Flash Player 10.1b3, which offers hardware video acceleration for Intel GMA 500 machines. Read More: Adobe , Netbooked

Some time back we had a giveaway of Oops!Backup here, where the company had given away 25 licenses of its Oops!Backup software. The giveaway is back, by request! Altaro is pleased to offer 15 more..

If you look at the available gadgets for Windows Vista and Windows 7 you notice that most provide the same features like displaying hardware stats, time and date or media related information. Windows users have to dig deeper to find gadgets that do not belong in a category that is swarmed with the same type of gadget; TWIV, which stands for Timed Web Image Viewer, is such a gadget. The gadget can be configured to display an image by entering an url that is pointing to that image.

Application conflicts can occur in remote desktop services deployments. Servers begin to contain the applications within the servers and this may isolate and prevent the application from running as intended. To resolve that problem Microsoft has released the Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) for Remote Desktop Support program. It is designed to provide assistance to solve application compatibility issues on Remote Desktop Session Hosts or Terminal Servers

Microsoft has applied for a neat patent for a smart inductive charger

Every computer users will eventually run into issues with duplicate files on the computer system. Some more than others but it is fair to say that every PC contains at least a few duplicate files and a lot if the user downloads regularly in batch from the Internet. SoftChronizer is a duplicate file finder for Windows that can scan the PC and compare files found to display the duplicates in its interface.

Yesterday I published the article Why Windows 7 search is the way it is, and what lies ahead , in which Dan Plastina, the group manager for the Find and Organise features within the Windows 7 beta explained why the search, organisation and library features in Microsoft’s latest operating system turned out the way they did. Despite the best efforts of Dan and Microsoft to make search in Windows 7 as easy and as intuitive as possible the use, a great many people still find some aspects of using search, especially some of the more advanced search options, frustrating. So as a special freebie for Windows7News readers I’ve compiled a unique 18 page guide explaining every aspect of how to use search in Windows 7, covering everything from how to get the best out of simple keyword-based searches, to the Advanced Query Syntax system that’s new to this version of Windows

Microsoft has toppled its internet rival Google from the prized top spot in a survey of the UK’s strongest 500 business brands published today. Google, which held the top position in 2008 and..