There are couple softwares offered by third party website to help you in migrating from Windows XP to Windows 7. One such tool is Windows 7 Migration Tool. Windows 7 Basic Migration is a free application for migrating from Windows XP to Windows 7 on your existing or new computer.

Download the migration tool and reduce the time and hassle of moving your data, along with user and application settings to the new operating system.

Features of Windows 7 Migration Tool

1. Easy to use application to assist you through the migration process.

2. Automatically migrates your data, with user and application settings.

3. Guides you for manually downloading and re-installing your favorite applications

This basic version of Windows 7 Migration Utility lets you migrate following stuff

1. User profiles

2. Desktop Personalization

3. Application Settings

4. My Documents

Windows 7 Migration Tool

Download Windows 7 Migration Tool.

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It may happen that you have bought second hand laptop or computer with preinstalled Windows operating system and you are looking for the way to change ownership information. To help you to instantly change ownership here is freeware utility SetOwner.

SetOwner is small utility that let you to quickly and safely change the registered owner and organization in Windows 7 & Vista & XP (the information you see when you run Winver command).

SetOwner for Windows 7

Download SetOwner.

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Fishbowl brings Facebook to your desktop. Experience your Facebook content in new ways with a trial desktop client application that lets you personalize how you read your newsfeed, update status, comment, like, browse and upload photos.

Fishbowl is fully integrated with Microsoft Windows 7 features such as the new taskbar so you can monitor Facebook activity and friends at a glance.

Features of Fishbowl

1. Mini-mode offers an unobtrusive way to stay connected.

2. Seamless integration with Facebook’s web so you are always just a click away

3. Fluid, snappy user interface to navigate photos quickly.

4. Simply drag & drop photos into Fishbowl to have these published to Facebook.

5. Sit back and watch a full screen slideshow to see your albums

6. Discover new photos, relationships, and friend status.

7. Interest level helps you filter the Facebook stream and your friends will never know it.

Fishbowl – Facebook on Desktop

Download Fishbowl.

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Here is nifty app Startup Discoverer which can retrieve list of programs added into startup locations of Windows 7. You can view program list based on startup category like machine runs, user runs etc.

Startup Discoverer

The main interface has 19 categories that you can click on to get the auto start programs list for each category. Blue category label means that there are auto programs in this category, black label means empty category.

Click on Show All Runs to view full list of Startup programs.

It is also possible to save a list as a text file and to print the a list to the default printer.

Download Startup Discoverer to get Windows 7 Startup List.

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Windows 7 Taskbak aka super has many new feature for e.g Aero peek, Aero Snap, jump list and grouping of icons. Windows 7 taskbar lets you to group similar windows instances to save your taskbar real estate unfortunately grouping of icons of different applications is not possible.

But you can get such feature in Windows 7 with Win7Stack. WinStack is an easy to use application that enables you to add stack-like functionality to icons for the new Windows 7 taskbar. Basically you select the folder the use and the icon and Win7Stack will create the stack on your desktop. You can then easily pin the stack to your taskbar.

Win7Stack in Action

You can specify Your own icon for group applications with displaying styling as Grid or Fan Look with Aero interface.

Download Win7Stack for Windows 7.

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Windows 7 has many new features out of which one feature is Windows XP Mode which lets you to run Windows XP on your Windows 7 however in order to use Windows XP mode you must have Windows 7 Professional or Ultimate and your computer must have hardware level virtualization support.

Due to above requirements many user won’t be able to enjoy Windows XP Mode. Here is VMLite alterative to Windows XP Mode.

VMLite XP Mode offers similar functions as Microsoft XP Mode, but doesn’t require hardware virtualization. It allows you to run Windows XP at the same time from your desktop running on a different host operating system.

VMLite XP Mode

Download VMLite XP Mode for Windows 7.

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So you have recently switched from Windows Xp to Windows 7 and finding it difficult to change simple settings like System settings, keyboard & Mouse settings, managing user accounts, starting various Windows tools etc. Well then here is Windows 7 In a Box to rescue you.

Windows7 in a Box was designed to help guide you through the brand new operating system from Microsoft .Everything from Theme settings to Parental Controls. Sits on your desktop, easy to navigate, and puts an end to all the frustration of endless searching for settings.

You don’t need to install Windows 7 in a Box just double click & run or carry in your USB drive.

Windows 7 in a Box

Download Windows 7 in a Box.

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WirelessKeyView recovers all wireless network security keys/passwords (WEP/WPA) stored in your computer by the ‘Wireless Zero Configuration’ service of Windows XP and by the ‘WLAN AutoConfig’ service of Windows 7 & Vista. It allows you to easily save all keys to text/html/xml file, or copy a single key to the clipboard.

WirelessKeyView

Download WirelessKeyView to recover Wireless Network security keys.

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Like Windows Vista, Windows 7 sidebar also supports Gadgets which you can download from Windows gadgets library and add it on your Windows 7 sidebar. Now here is an interesting tool Kludgets Engine which lets you to run Mac OS Widgets on Windows 7 & Vista Sidebar.

Kludgets is a widget engine. Dashboard compatible, opensource, webkit based, QT Nokia based & steals the best features from all the widget engines.

Kludgets Engine in Action

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Kludgets engine also works on Linux and is an open source app. You can donwlaod Mac OS Widgets from here

Download Kludgets Engine to run Mac OS X Widgets on Windows 7 & Vista.

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The Wireless Network create/shared with Virtual Router uses WPA2 Encryption, and there is not way to turn off that encryption. This is actually a feature of the Wireless Hosted Network API’s built into Windows 7 and 2008 R2 to ensure the best security possible.
You can give your “virtual” wireless network any name you want, and also set the password to anything. Just make sure the password is at least 8 characters.

Virtual Router

Download Virtual Router Manager.

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