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Most of the time you may have to work with several windows program running simultaneously and keep on switching among them could be quite confusing and irritating. If you have a particular program that would like to have the top-most position without being blocked by other opened tasks accidentally, here is a simple utility that can help you. Named as DeskPins v1.30, it is a very tiny but yet useful utility that allows users to ‘pin’ any opened windows so that it can always stay on topmost above other windows.

Once install and launch the utility, you will notice a tiny icon appeared in your system tray. Without any setup required, clicking on the icon will let the pin follow your mouse cursor movement that can be ‘pinned’ on any important window as preferred. Good thing is, there are unlimited numbers of pins that users can apply to various important windows for more effective work.

Consumed merely 100kB of your hard disk space with negligible system resource usage, Deskpins is one of the very useful utilities that worth to be installed in your Windows system. Users can get a free download here for immediate use.

http://users.forthnet.gr/pat/efotinis/programs/files/DeskPins130.zip

Previously we mentioned about Free Folder Guide that can speed up favorite folder access in Windows PC but if you are not fully satisfied with it, now there is a similar freeware, named as Folder Menu that can serve as an alternative solution for fast folder access in your system.

Once install and launch the utility, it will stay in your system tray with very minimum memory resource required for it to run in background. For the first time, it will use the default configuration which is sufficient enough for typical usage such as recently accessed files, C: drive, Program Files, website links and many more. In case users would like to add any favorite folders or customize the default settings, just click on the ‘Folder Menu’ followed by ‘Add Favorite’ button and users can choose to add in new Menu, Favorite, Applications and even configure Hotkey to access the function much more easily based on own preference.

Folder Menu consumes around 300kB of your hard disk space and is compatible with Windows Operating Systems which could be quite useful since it saves your time to navigate to your favorite or frequently accessed folders, programs, websites and even registry for more organized and effective work.

The much awaited free anti-virus and anti-malware security solution from Microsoft, Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE), which previously codenamed as Morro is finally been officially released into limited public beta testing. Microsoft Security Essentials replaces Windows Live OneCare, and supersedes Windows Defender. It’s targeted at users who can’t pay or simply won’t pay for a security product.

Microsoft is planning to make available download of Microsoft Security Essentials public beta until the cap of 75,000 downloads are reached, or until the final product is available. So, those who interested to try out MSE should grab it fast.

According to Microsoft Security Essentials official homepage, the beta is available only to customers in the United States, Israel (English only), People’s Republic of China (Simplified Chinese only) and Brazil (Brazilian Portuguese only). So if you’re visiting http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/ from outside of supported countries, you will be redirect to http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/market.aspx instead, with “not available in your country or region” and “you appear to be in a country or region where the Microsoft Security Essentials Beta is unavailable” error messages.

But fear not, whatever you see on MSE web page will ultimately lead you to sign in via a Windows Live ID account, register at Microsoft Connect and then completing a simple MSE survey. User who doesn’t located at USA, Israel, Brazil or China can go to MSE Connect nomination page or MSE beta survey page directly to register for the public beta. If you fail to register too, just download the leaked Microsoft Security Essentials.

Once the application to Microsoft Security Essentials Beta is successful (active status), user can download the setup installer for Microsoft Security Essentials Beta from within Connect website itself. Microsoft Security Essentials is available for Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 (both 32-bit and 64-bit for later two). Most importantly, the Windows operating system must be genuine and legit, and can pass the Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) validation. Validation is done during installation wizard.