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The traditional way of locking Windows when you move out of your desktop or laptop involves entering the password when you are back. If you are looking for a better solution to this, then Predator is a perfect choice. Predator locks your PC when you are away, even if your Windows session is still opened and it uses a regular USB flash drive as an access control device. Once you have configured the application, you can easily lock and unlock the Windows using the USB drive.

You can create a password and this password will be used in case you lose the USB drive. The application provides option to set the screen darkness, multiple monitors, hide desktop icons and also to minimize all windows before locking.

This utility will not alter the files inside your USB Drive. You will be able to use your USB drive normally. The application sits in system tray and does the monitoring. You can also set the interval for monitoring. The application checks for your connected USB drive during the interval set and once USB is missing it automatically locks your PC.

Predator is really an innovative program to lock your PC and its worth a try.

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Barely imagine this: you have been doing work about that important paper for the past 2 months, and you are near to finish it. The deadline is in a couple of days. You save your documents, go for a tea and when you get back, your screen is blank or else,perhaps BSOD. Your computer rebooted itself automatically and is now stuck in the boot process with a message similar to this: “No boot device, please insert a bootable media”. You try to restart your computer a couple of times, but it does not restore your job. At this point, it is important do stay calm down, DONT’t PANIC!!! Try out these tools before crying out loud

Recuva V1.26

Recuva (pronounced "recover") helps recover files that have been accidentally deleted from your computer hard drive. This includes files emptied from the Recycle Bin as well as images and other files that have been deleted by user error from digital camera memory cards or MP3 players.

Roadkil’s Unstoppable Copier V4.2

Roadkil’s Unstoppable Copier allows you to copy files from hard disk drives and CDs with problems such as bad sectors, scratches or that just give errors when reading data. Roadkil’s Unstoppable Copier will attempt to recover every readable piece of a file and put the pieces together. Using this method most types of files can be made usable even if some parts were not recoverable in the end.

Restoration V3.2.13

Restoration helps undelete files that were deleted accidentally from your hard disk drive by mistake. It even work with removable media such as CF or SF cards. You can scan for all files that could be recovered, or filter the results by entering a search term or extension. This program also has a secure wipe feature that makes it impossible to restore deleted files. As with most programs of this nature, Restoration requires administrative rights to function correctly.

Disk Digger V0.6.2

DiskDigger recovers files from any type of media that your computer can read. such as USB flash drives, memory cards and hard disk drives. The types of files supported include BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, DOC, PDF, MP3, AVI, WMV, OGG etc. DiskDigger is not a generic undelete utility. It works by scanning through each sector of the media and looking for "signatures" of the various file types. As such, it may be able to recover certain files that other generic undelete utilities are unable to.

PC Inspector File Recovery V4.0

PC Inspector File Recovery is a data recovery program that supports the FAT 12/16/32 and NTFS filesystems. It finds partitions automatically, even if the boot sector or FAT has been erased or damaged. It recovers files with the original time and date stamp, even when a header entry is no longer available. PC Inspector File Recovery also supports the saving of recovered files on network drives.

You all must have heard about the utility called CPU-Z which gives you a lot of information about your Computer System like processor, motherboard, RAM etc. GPU-Z is a similar utility and it gives you information about your Graphics Card or GPU.

Just run this small utility and you will have loads of information about your graphics card at your disposal. It supports both nVidia and ATI cards. The information it displays includes the Card name, BIOS version, Shaders, DirectX support, Memory Type, Memory Size, Driver version, GPU clock and much more. You can also find out the the GPU temperature and core speed. This information can also be refreshed as time progresses. It also includes a button which lets you save the screenshot to your desktop or upload to an image hosting service. It also displays the over clock and the default clock if available. No installation required and can be run directly. It is a very small utility which runs portable on Windows.

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