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Top 5 Best Free Resume Builder Software for Windows

A resume today can make or break your interview but not all of us are well versed in the art of resume and CV writing. To help you along, make that perfect first impression the moment you walk into an interview here are a few resume builders. These apps or rather tools, whether web based or installable, come with predesigned templates and simply ask questions. Based on your answers, they populate a readymade resume and sometimes even help make cover letters or search and shortlist jobs from the job market. Consider them your personal job seeking assistant.
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Top 10 Best Essential Windows System Administration Books

If you want to do little bit more than the routine tasks on your Windows system, you need to understand the fundamentals of Windows system administration. The following are some of the essential Windows system administration books that are useful for both sysadmins and power users.
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Outlook, the most popular email and personal organizer client in the market today makes life so much easier but there is always space for improvement or rather customization and Outlook add-ons allow owners to do just that. With so many add-ons in the market competing for dominance, we have shortlisted five that are the best at what they do. Some help organize contacts better, automate specific functions, build categories or act as spam and threat filters.
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There are several free and paid video playback services out there, UMPlayer has a lot of competitive and promising features.

For a free multimedia player, it has a lot of advanced options and yet it is so easy to operate and use.

It can also play any media format for both video and audio files. It also has unique features such as subtitles search, ability to play and record You Tube, skin-able interface, customizable hotkeys and a lot more.
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Why will anyone want to mask their IP address? Truth is that your identity over the internet is decided by your IP address and if you do not have access to specific sites or locations because of your IP address then you need a IP Masking solution. MaskIPaddress programs help relay signals between proxies or servers situated all across the world back to your computer so your IP address is never exposed to the world. You remain anonymous and can gain access to sites that your government blocks or aren’t available in your region.
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When a file is written to the system, it is spread across the hard drive. When the file fragments are all over the disk drive, it might slow down the system. So, it is essential to use defragmentation software to clean-up the fragments on an on-going basis.

Defraggler is one of the best free defragmentation software. It is very easy to use, and loaded with several useful functionality. This supports both NTFS and FAT32 file system types.
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Top 5 Best Free Anti-Spyware Software for Windows

Anti-spyware software are not designed to tackle viruses effectively but they excel at blocking malware, weeding out already present adware and malicious codes that tend to hog system resources, provide backdoor entry and basically cripple the user experience. These software are usually small, unobtrusive and automated. Below we highlight five of the best in the market solely based on the fact that they are available for free. While the paid version does offer more protection, better updates and overall the complete package, the free editions don’t do a bad job even if you intentionally infect your system by visiting untrusted sites.
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If you are storing lot of pictures, music files, and videos on your system, you might sometime end-up copying few of them to multiple folders on the same system.

If you forget to delete one of the duplicate files, over time, it will end-up taking up lot of space.

So, it is essential for you to scan for duplicate files and delete them on an on-going basis.
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If you are constantly working on your Windows laptop, but do SSH to remote Linux server, you might be in a situation where you want to transfer files between Windows and your Linux server.

There are several free SFTP/SCP tools available.

WinSCP is one of the easy to use, but at the same time loaded with all the features that you would ever need in a SFTP/SCP client. This tutorial explains some of the most frequently used feature of WinSCP.
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If you are running Windows Outlook, you might’ve created few PST files (Personal storage files) either to store archived emails, or to archive your contact information. In some case, to keep it secured, you might’ve even assigned a password. But, if you’ve lost the password, all is still not lost. You can try using any one of the following free software, you should help you to recover the outlook PST file password.
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