Understanding the strategic importance of software asset management is as essential as any other top level managerial task. But unfortunately, enterprises usually do not like to talk about this issue and face unmanageable technical and managerial complexities. It would be suitable to refer software asset management as software lifecycle management, as the responsibility to track and manage assets moves around deployment of any software asset and its expiry.

If things are seen from a wider point of view, enterprises can easily realize the importance of software asset management. Since the motive of this article to enlighten the importance of asset management, here I am discussing some aspects that are determined by success or failure of software asset management system:

Organizational cost: Knowing that how deployed software assets are affecting organizational cost is very important and it is possible only if all software assets are tracked and managed properly. With proper evaluation of availability and usage of organizational software assets, total organizational cost can be controlled. Software asset tracking is the only way to track and utilize software assets optimally.

Capital Planning: At the beginning of new financial year, capital is planned for the year but being short of proper assessment of assets including software assets can spoil the entire plan. Though availability and usage of software assets is evaluated before planning but what if the management is not sure about the accuracy of collected information? Vague data collection and assumptions can make an organization amend the capital plan in the midst of financial year, which is not prudent hence, a well planned asset management system needs to be implemented.

Regulation: The only motive behind putting so many efforts for asset management is to meet regulatory standards. In fact asset management means different things to different people but on the whole it can be said that the need of asset management emerges from where various compliance standards and licensing regulation get implemented to an organization. Once effective asset management system is established, meeting various compliance requirements can become easy.

Asset Quality: Now you must be thinking that how asset quality can signify the importance of asset management. It is observed that knowing the exact number of software assets that are actually being used from the entire inventory helps when deciding over new procurement. This way asset quality can be maintained, as only software that are used will be purchased. Avoiding purchase of useless software enables to obtain quality software without bothering for cost management.

Asset Management is basically the process monitoring, managing and reporting of software assets for the timeframe in which a software asset can be optimally utilized to give the best possible profit to the business. Since every business seeks for the optimal benefit from every deployed asset, asset management is essential for every business.

Only an administrator cannot take the whole responsibility of managing software assets within organization therefore, a proper system needs to be implemented. Gone are those days when software asset management was considered as a tough-to-handle task. At present n umbers of tools and applications are available to offer a helping hand to the administrator for software asset management.

Choice is yours, whether you try to manage software assets by establishing proper system or use any external application for that. In fact, importance of software asset management cannot be ignored hence, proper planning and management is required. Considering above discussed points, it can be suggested that using asset management software can solve all issues.

With the increased use of computers in our day to day life, everyone comes across blue screens, deadlock errors, slow speed intervals and other failures that difficult to handle. With all our concentration directed towards the external viruses and malware threads we tend to neglect the perils that comes from inside.

Running of many programs at the same time, running of large and heavy sized applications, and fragmentation of a hard drive can lead to slow down your PC. Sometimes RAM of your computer system becomes insufficient and too slow to handle all the applications of your PC and needs to be optimized for increased performance. One can increase the efficiency of PC in terms of work performance with the help of memory optimizers. Improved work performance results from the feature that allows memory optimizers to constantly monitor physical memory of the computer as a part of memory management function.

Chily Memory Optimizer is one of the best and efficient memory optimizer tool that brings stability to computer operating system improving performance and allowing your PC to run more smoothly. It is user friendly software that runs conveniently in the PC background to monitor and free up system RAM while you work. The benefits of perfect optimization with Chily Memory Optimizer include the prevention of memory loss, unexpected system shutdown and computer crashes.

Chily Memory Optimizer is incorporated with three useful options that are required to make your PC run faster and smooth.

Current System Performance: This option displays the memory and CPU usage percentage in graphical format.

Current System Process: With this useful and beneficial option, you can easily make out the number of programs and the applications running in your PC. Information like process name, memory used by the process and the process path are easily analyzed with this option. It helps to identify the unwanted programs running in your PC like any virus exe or any software which you have not installed on your PC. Such running process can be stopped. Under this option, you can also optimize selected process or the entire memory.

Settings: Under settings, you can define Optimizer settings as well as General settings. Once you configure the maximum critical limit of the memory optimization, which when reached will automatically prompt Chily Memory Optimizer software to start the optimization of entire memory. General settings includes options

Run optimizer at startup

· Show notification when system reaches critical limit

· Automatically refresh process list…(The process list will refresh in every 30 seconds)

All the general settings options should be enabled for the proper and efficient functioning of Chily Memory Optimizer.

Those users who are concerned about the efficiency of their PC should perform thorough internet search to find the best memory optimizer. Efficient, powerful and best memory optimizer can be chosen after evaluating the trial version of the software’s, if provided.

Chily Memory Optimizer comes with a free download for evaluation purpose. The free evaluation version is valid for only 30 days where it efficiently optimizes the computer memory to boost performance of your PC. It will continue to boost your PC performance till it remains in the validity period. As the 30 days trial gets completed, memory optimization process will not be done by the software.

Download memory optimizer and start optimizing your PC memory.

Every computer at some point needs upgrading. Once upgraded, you can really notice an increase in processing speed, faster memory access and other potential benefits like software compatibility etc. When you upgrade your computer, all the installed drivers will get un-installed automatically and you are left only with the hardware piece without any device drivers. Same case happens when you have re-installed or formatted your PC.

Being a computer user, you are already acquainted with the utmost importance of device drivers. Without device drivers, your PC is just like a box which can’t do anything for you. For instance, without sound driver, windows media player does not work and you cannot hear your favorite music.

Every time when you upgrade, format or re-install the OS, you require device driver CD to install the drivers. Searching for required drivers is painful for an individual. It is better to take the back up of the system drivers before re-installing, formatting or upgrading the PC. Device Driver Backup software reduces the problems of searching for drivers over internet and also keeping backup of the important drivers for future usage.

Here comes the Chily Driver Backup software which is an efficient and easy tool to create backups of your system drivers like sound drivers, video drivers, floppy disk drivers, mouse drivers, keyboard drivers, network drivers etc. It allows you to backup drivers; restore driver backups and un-install driver backups of Windows operating system. Backup of the drivers can be stored at the preferred location of your hard drive or to any removable storage media. It also helps you to know the hardware configuration of drivers and the number of drivers installed to your computer system.

Chily Device Driver – Salient features

• Easy to grasp and simple to operate
• Creates Auto Installer.exe which makes easy to install backed up drivers to many PC’s
• Provides detailed hardware configuration of the installed drivers
• Lets you know the number of installed drivers
• One mouse click to restore all the drivers at the same time
• Allows to backup, restore and uninstall system drivers
• Easily searches the existing drivers on the system
• Create backup of system device drivers under a minute

Choose the best device driver backup software and create backup of your installed drivers to make them helpful in situations like re-installing, formatting and upgrading of a computer system. Efficient and powerful device driver backup software can be best chosen by evaluating the software features with the help of free evaluation version.

Free Download Chily Device Driver Backup software and test its capability. Free evaluation version of Chily Device Driver Backup allows you to take backups of drivers but restricts you to restore the backed up drivers.

Do you suspect that your employees are doing personal work in working hours???

Do you feel the need to keep an eye on your employees at work place, what they are doing, and what type of task they are performing???

Are your employees leaving holes for security breaches by downloading files????

You know that company secrets are sells by your employee’ and you need the legal proof to take some action against them…

The unique solution to this entire problem is the design and development of such software that records the activities of employees in real time and reveals all the facts about your employees like how much time they work, how much time they sit idle. When they work, what they do? Are they doing office work or personal work?

Chily Employee Monitor is Employee Monitoring software which lets you to know the ongoing activities of employees in real time. It records each and every activity like websites visited, system process running, keystrokes pressed, ftp transfer and desktop view.

Why to monitor and what to monitor with Chily Employee Monitor-the ultimate tool to record activities of your employees???

Chily Employee Monitor is a wonderful and result oriented tool to record online activities of your employees in real time. Monitor any no. of employees in a LAN from a centralized location.

Keystroke monitoring: All the keys pressed by the user will be displayed on the screen of the monitoring computer. It displays all the keys from alphabets, numbers, alpha-numerals and the function key like Shift, Delete, Ctrl, and Alt etc. All this information can be saved at the desired location of your hard drive.

Desktop Monitoring: Easily view the entire desktop activities like websites visited, chat conversation, file uploaded / downloaded through ftp activities.

Website Monitoring: surfing games sites, porn sites, shopping sites is a common phenomenon among employees. With this feature, you can know the details of websites visited with the url, time and date.

FTP Monitoring: With ftp monitoring, you can easily spy activities of the user, what files are uploaded/ downloaded/ transfer through ftp. Is user transmitting some confidential data or not?? Get all the complete ftp details; which files are uploaded or downloaded along with date and time.

Window Monitoring: With Chily Employee Monitor, know what applications are opened/ closed. At what time did the user switched to another application? Get all the details about application with date and time.

System process monitoring: It helps you to view the running system process. Display the details of process path, process name.

Execute commands to control monitored computers: you can execute the commands to open any closed task and to close any running process with Chily Employee Monitor. Shut down, Restart, Lock the monitored computers are other options to execute if necessary.

Track activities when you are not present to monitor: Not necessary to present every time to record online activities of user, it will help you to keep an eye on the activities of the user when you are not present to monitor by creating off-line logs.

Create off-line offline logs: Helps you to create offline logs when you are not present to monitor. Define the settings for offline logs and save them at the desired location of your hard drive and view them when you get the time.

Save Monitored activities: Save all the monitored activity such as desktop view, keystroke pressed, application opened/ closed, ftp activities, system processes running in .jpg and text format as a proof of evidence in legal issues.

Chily Employee Monitor is a reliable, secure, powerful tool -equipped with all the best features, monitoring tool requires to operate business successfully in the 0high speed age of internet.

Due to unexplainable features, it’s become the first choice for employers to protect company secrets, resources, and reputation.

The Employee Monitoring Software available for $ 129 and the evaluation version is available for free Download demo.

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Do you sit frustrated infront of your PC…. waiting for the next screen to appear ?

Do you face continous PC restarts, PC crashes, PC freezings, Blue Screen of Death, Slow system response ?

These situations occur due to problems in your system’s registry

Yes, errors in your Windows OS registry is the reason behind all the errors of slow system speed, frequent PC crashes, Blue screen of Death….giving you jitters and frustrations.

Now, what is Windows Registry ?

Windows Opearting System 95, 98, NT, 2000, ME, XP, Vista consists of  Windows Registry. Windows registry is a database where entire information and settings about the installed operating system, hardware, software, installed/uninstalled applications, user profiles, and other related information gets stored. The registry is the heart of your PC, which will not work if the registry gets corrupt, an entry gets deleted or is virus attacked.

The registry which bears and stores information gets overloaded with un-useful and unwanted registry entries. The extra entries are those files which remain in the registry even when any application is un-installed from your PC. These files remain till they are deleted or fixed by a registry cleaner software, acquiring and increasing space of your registry.

The increased size of the registry causes the main problem of slow system performance. To increase system performance, you need to repair registry and make it clean from errors for it to enable fast working of your system. Chily Registry Optimizer and Cleaner is such a registry repair tool which repairs, cleans, optimizes your Windows registry and provides you fast running PC.

To try, first download the free registry cleaner and repair software (trial software) and scan your PC with the software. It will display the registry errors in your PC which can be repaired by the software itself.

Other key features of Chily Registry Optimizer and Cleaner software are :

1. Registry Backup and Restore: Its an useful feature for advanced users who have working knowledge with system registry.  Create registry backup prior working with registry entries, which will help you, if in case any entry gets deleted, or the registry gets corrupt or damaged. The backed up copy of registry will help you in disastrous situations.
Restore the registry with Chily Registry Optimizer and Cleaner software and work as if nothing happened.

2. Defrag and Compact : Defrag and compact the registry size to enhance system performance and speed up the computer speed for better performance.

3. Clean and Optimize : Repair the erroreneous registry entries and clean the extra and invalid registry entries with one mouse click.

4. View High, Medium and Low risk profile of  registry errors : After completely scanning your system registry, the registry cleaner software will display the registry errors with their risk profiles: High, Medium and Low. Repair the high risk errors or every error significantly.

The best and efficient registry repair software awarded and reviewed by many shareware sites for its result-oriented performance and easy and safe to use registry cleaner software without any virus, adware or spyware.

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Chily Memory Optimizer is a tool to increase speed of the RAM of your system. Your computer system can slow down due to various reasons like;

• Running of big applications at the same time
• Insufficient RAM
• Fragmented hard disk drive
• Virus infections

All these cases of computer slow downs are efficiently handeled by Chily Memory Optimizer. The memory optimizer software optimizes the computer memory and increases working speed of your computer system. Just install the software and it will perform its functions in background.

Key features of Chily Memory Optimizer are:

• 1 mouse click optimization
• Runs and works in system background
• Prevents computer crashes
• Frees-up physical disk space
• Displays graphical view of current system performance; CPU usage % and Memory usage %

30 day free trial version can be downloaded from http://www.recoveryfix.com/download-memory-optimizer.html to continously have optimized memory, purchase full version of the software and have fast running computer.

The MS Exchange Server mails are saved in .OST file(s) as similar to MS Outlook and Outlook Express, which save its emails in .PST and .DBX files.

The .OST files get corrupt, damaged or inaccessible due to Exchange Server crashes, Virus attacks or might get corrupt due to uncertain reasons. In this case if the .OST file exists offline, then it can be converted to .PST file and the mails can be recovered.

The OST to PST Conversion Software offered by Chily Softech is such a software which will make your emails accessible again.  The OST recovery software scans the corrupt .OST file and creates a .PST file, which then can be opened with MS Outlook, and the mails can be read.

The OST to PST Conversion software recovers:

• Deleted emails

• Contacts

• Images

• Complete Attachments

• Appointments

• Journals

• Calendar Entries

• Zipped Attachments

• Email Properties: To, CC, Bcc, Subject, From…

You can view the animated working demo of RecoveryFix for OST here: http://www.recoveryfix.com/ostdemo.html

The Convert OST software is available for USD 259 and the evaluation version is available for free download.  

Have you ever wondered that there can be types of passwords just like types of files? Is it possible? Yes it is. MS Excel is equipped with five types of password locking with which you can protect your worksheets. This means you can secure your MS Excel worksheet with 5 different password security measures and prevent unauthorized access to the worksheet.

This article targets to those users who need to secure excel worksheets for various reasons. Beneficial for people in finance field as MS Excel is widely used tool by accountants, charted accountants, brokers, stenos and every other individual who need to store and display data in a hierarchical order.

The Excel password types are:

1. Password to open the Worksheet
2. Password for Modifications
3. VBA Modules
4. Worksheet Password
5. Workbook Password

1.) Password to open the Worksheet:

You can assign passwords to the excel worksheets and prevent any individual from accessing it. To assign password to your .xls file:

• Open the .xls document, which you want to password protect.
• Select the Save As option from the File menu.
• Click the Tools tab on the top of the Save As window and select the General Options… option.
• The Save Options window will be displayed, where you can enter the desired password in the Password to open text box.

If any unauthorized individual tries to open the worksheet, Microsoft Excel will ask to enter the password. If the password is incorrect the sheet will not open.

2.) Password for Modifications:

This option works similarly as the first one. As the password was assigned to open the excel worksheet, password to modify the excel worksheet can also be assigned in the similar way.

• Open the .xls document, which you want to password protect.
• Select the Save As option from the File menu.
• Click the Tools tab on the top of the Save As window and select the General Options… option.
• The Save Options window will be displayed, where you can enter the desired password in the Password to modify text box.

Only authorized individuals who know the password can modify the document otherwise he can only view the read-only copy of the password protected worksheet. This kind of protection helps to protect the document getting modified by other people, thus saving the original data which you had saved before leaving your desk.

3.) VBA Modules:

The excel worksheet can contain VBA modules with added macros in the file. This Visual Basic for Application module can also be password protected. To password protect, perform the following:

• Select the VBA module and right-click the mouse button.
• Select the VBA Project Properties… option.
• Click the Protection tab.
• In this window, check the Lock project for viewing option and assign password in the Password to view project properties dialogue box.
• Click OK.

The VBA module is now protected with password and secure from any unauthorized use.

4.) Worksheet Password:

There can be several worksheets in a single .xls file like Sheet 1, Sheet 2 and so on. You can password protect them too. To assign password to any current worksheet perform the following:

• Click the Tools menu
• Select the Protection > Protect Sheet option. The Protect Sheet window will be displayed.
• Select amongst the number of options for your worksheet. (These options depend on the working version of MS Excel; I am working in MS Excel 2003)
• After selecting the options you can assign password to the worksheet.

5.) Workbook Password:

Like Worksheets, excel workbooks can also be protected in the similar way of protecting worksheets.

• Click the Tools menu
• Select the Protection > Protect Workbook option. The Protect Workbook window will be displayed.
• Select both or appropriate option from Structure and Windows and assign the password.

You can also try this:

• Click the Tools menu.
• Select the Protection > Protect and Share Workbook… option. The Protect Shared Workbook window will be displayed. This enables you to share the workbook with track changes.
• Check the Sharing with track changes option. This would activate the Password text box.
• Assign password in the Password text box.

This kind of password protection helps at the time of sharing the excel worksheets. This would restrict other user from making changes in the document and retains the track changes in the sheet.

As there are 5 different options to protect the excel worksheet with passwords, there can be times when you tend to forget or lose the assigned password or the excel document can get corrupt due to virus attacks, accidental deletions, power outages etc.

There are many excel password recovery tools to recover the lost / forgotten passwords. These software tools can easily restore the forgotten passwords of excel files. But if in case the MS Excel file gets corrupt, you can try the FREE demo version of  RecoveryFix for Excel – Excel recovery software

, a corrupt excel file recovery software which easily recovers and repairs the damaged worksheets and extracts cell data, formulas, charts, images, hyperlinks etc. If the Excel repair software displays your lost data then you can purchase Full version of the excel file repair software.

Can you really recover deleted files from the Recycle Bin ????

A big question though, once a file has been deleted from the Recycle Bin, you cannot see it again. It becomes hard to find that file. But many of the data recovery companies claim to do so. Those companies provide users with data recovery software and data recovery services to recover deleted files.

Memory of the computer system stores data in binary form i.e. 10101101010101,  this format is the computer language which is difficult to be understood by human beings (though developed by humans only!). Data is allocated on sectors of the drive in this form and remains there till memory doesnot overwrites or deletes it to create space for new data. The sectors of the drive are then scanned extensively by the data recovery software which in result displays you the recovered files.

To recover data,  companies develop result oriented data recovery software. The files which are permanently deleted from the recycle bin are recovered with these data recovery tools. Reason behind developing such recovery tools is to provide users with a  hope that the deleted data can be recovered back.

Computer data recovery software – RecoveryFix™ for Windows, offered by Chily Softech is one of the most magnificient data recovery program to recover deleted files of Recycle Bin. The data recovery software can effectively recover deleted files and files which become inaccessible from the Windows partitions FAT and NTFS. Deleted files can be recovered from formatted, deleted, corrupt, damaged, recreated Windows partitions.

3 data recovery modes in RecoveryFix for Windows help in scanning the corrupt drive for data. Quick Scan, Extensive Scan and File Trace help to recover data efficiently. These modes are really effective which also help and inform user about the steps he has to take for data recovery. The graphical user interface of RecoveryFix for Windows is attractive and user friendly which  step by step guides the user. 

File Trace data recovery mode of RecoveryFix™ for Windows is the third and last recovery mode in the data recovery software. This data recovery mode takes more time than others for data recovery.

File Trace is the data recovery mode which takes its time in scanning and searching for data residing on your hard drive. This data recovery mode searches for data in every sector of the hard drive and then recovers data from it. The long time being taken by the mode is due to extensive scanning the sectors of hard disk for data. 

File Trace recovery mode recovers data from:

• Corrupt Partitions
• Damaged Partitions
• Virus Contaminated Partitions
• Files which were not recovered with “Quick Scan” and “Extensive Scan” data recovery modes
• Deleted files which are saved on continous sectors of the hard drive

The recovered data or results are displayed in a tree like structure where you can view the file and its content too.

Always remember that nothing should be tried on the corrupt drive as it will overwrite the original content from the drive !!!!

Download Free trial version of the Windows data recovery software to recover data from the damaged, formatted Windows partitions.