Try Ubuntu Linux on your Windows machine

Now you will have a chance to experience Linux on your Windows machine. This is accomplish by using Wubi installer.

According to How to Forge (who already tried testing this software), Wubi is an Ubuntu installer for Windows that lets you install and uninstall Ubuntu from a Windows desktop. Wubi adds an entry to the Windows boot menu which allows you to run Linux. Ubuntu is installed within a file in the Windows file system (a loopmounted partition), this file is seen by Ubuntu as a real hard disk.

That way the hard drive does not have to be repartitioned before the Ubuntu installation. The resulting Ubuntu installation is a "real" Linux system, not just a virtual machine.This is really a good news to the newbies out there who wants to be familiarize to Linux environment without compromising their Windows partitions. If you don't like it, you can uninstall it anyway and revert it back to your old Windows OS.

Take note, installing this software does not guaranty you of an instant success installation, you will have to be fully responsible of your undertakings. If your a person who wants to learn and play around to something new this is for you.

Wubi is an officially supported Ubuntu installer for Windows users that can bring you to the Linux world with a single click. Wubi allows you to install and uninstall Ubuntu as any other Windows application, in a simple and safe way. Are you curious about Linux and Ubuntu? Trying them out has never been easier!

Wubi  is Simple

No need to burn a CD. Just run the installer, enter a password for the new account, and click "Install", go grab a coffee, and when you are back, Ubuntu will be ready for you.

Wubi is Safe

You keep Windows as it is, Wubi only adds an extra option to boot into Ubuntu. Wubi does not require you to modify the partitions of your PC, or to use a different bootloader, and does not install special drivers. It works just like any other application. Wubi is spyware and malware free, and being open source, anyone can verify that.

Wubi is Discrete

Wubi keeps most of the files in one folder, and if you do not like it, you can simply uninstall it as any other application.

Wubi is Free

Wubi and Ubuntu cost absolutely nothing (free as in beer), but yet provide a state of the art, fully functional, operating system that does not require any activation and does not impose any restriction on its use (free as in freedom).

IObit SmartDefrag

What’s the primary cause of slow/unstable PC performance? It’s disk fragmentation. IObit SmartDefrag helps defragment your hard drive more efficiently than any other product on the market –– free or not.

Features of this powerful, award-winning defragmenter program include: An "Install It and Forget It" feature that works automatically and quietly in the background on your coWhat’s the primary cause of slow/unstable PC performance? It’s disk fragmentation. IObit SmartDefrag helps defragment your hard drive more efficiently than any other product on the market –– free or not.

Features of this powerful, award-winning defragmenter program include:

• An "Install It and Forget It" feature that works automatically and quietly in the background on your computer.
• The ability to constantly keep your hard drive safe, error-free and running at its top speed and optimum performance.
• Eliminates slow downs, freeze-ups and crashes.
• IObit SmartDegrag is 100% FREE award-winning software that’s for personal, home and small business.
• 100% safe from any spyware, adware and virus. .
• Designed for Windows Vista, XP, and 2000.
• Distribute it freely, copy it, sell it or include it as part of a package – as long as it is left completely intact and unchanged.

IObit SmartDefrag 

Torrent Swapper

Torrent Swapper is an open sourced sociable peer to peer file-sharing client based on the Bittorrent protocol that is ideal for high-speed distribution of large files that has a basic understanding of human friendships, of user tastes in content, and of Internet connectivity between users. Torrent Swapper supports simultaneous downloads, download queue, selected downloads in torrent package, fast-resume, disk cache, speed limits, port mapping, proxy, ip-filter, etc.

Social Benfits

The main idea of P2P technology is that users pool resources together and create a social service. Because users donate resources, there is no cost to the content distribution infrastructure. In the UK, the BBC a file-sharing system for TV program downloads. The largest encyclopedia on earth, Wikipedia was solely created by volunteers without authoritative, central editors. The Skype VOIP telephony software uses P2P to reduce the cost of Internet telephony and became a market leader in just a few months. P2P is now the "killer app" of the Internet.

Unfortunately, P2P is mainly used for the illegal spreading of intellectual property. We believe that P2P is the future of content distribution and will mature from the current "wild west" into a respectable business solution.

For example, Pual Geller and Lurence Lessig are arguing for P2P as means for spreading specialized content to a small group of audience, such as video recordings of local concerts, soccer matches, and city council meetings that with advent of P2P have suddenly became feasible due to the low cost of using P2P over the Internet.

With Torrent Swapper, we are creating software for sharing large files that has a basic understanding of human friendships, of user tastes in content, and of Internet connectivity between users.

Features:

Torrent Swapper is an improved client for the Bittorrent peer-to-peer file distribution solution that is both resource friendly Yet Feature Filled. Some of Torrent Swapper features include;

• Amazon-like recommendations to get interesting files
• Doubling the download speed by using the upload capacity of friends
• Real-time P2P file sharing with P2P video streaming
• Showing the locations of seeders / leechers of the same content with city-level accuracy on a world map
• Multiple downloads in a single window
• Queueing system with priority
• Supporing pause, stop, resume, queue, remove operations
• Supporting global setting such as upload and download limiting
• Supporting local setting for each torrent as well
• And much more...

 Torrent Swapper

Auslogics Disk Defrag

Disk fragmentation leads to system slowdowns, PC crashes, slow startup and shutdown and sometimes to system failures. Auslogics Disk Defrag is designed for fast optimization of today's modern hard disks.


What is fragmentation?

Fragmentation is caused by creating and deleting files and folders, installing new software, and downloading files from the Internet. Computers do not necessarily save an entire file or folder in a single space on a disk; they're saved in the first available space. After a large portion of a disk has been used, most of the subsequent files and folders are saved in pieces across the volume.

When you delete files or folders, the empty spaces left behind are filled in randomly as you store new ones. This is how fragmentation occurs. The more fragmented the volume is, the slower the computer's file input and output performance will be.

What is defragmentation?

Defragmentation is the process of rewriting non-contiguous parts of a file to contiguous sectors on a disk for the purpose of increasing data access and retrieval speeds. Because FAT and NTFS disks can deteriorate and become badly fragmented over time, defragmentation is vital for optimal system performance.

Why Defragment Disks?

Hard disks are by far the slowest component in your computer. CPU and memory work much faster than hard disks because they do not have moving parts. Therefore fragmented disks often become a bottleneck of the system performance.

Besides causing slowdowns, fragmentation makes the hard drive disk heads move frequently when reading files which leads to freeze-ups and system crashes. It is important to keep your disks defragmented and optimized as much as possible.

Auslogics Disk Defrag is a compact, manual defragmentation tool that supports FAT 16, FAT 32, and NTFS (with compressed and encrypted files). For the individual user, Disk Defrag is more than adequate for the job of maintaining high-level disk performance.