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Want to convert/compress multiple images at once? You can easily do this using a very useful and small image viewer called IrfanView. IrfanView is free image viewer that can be used to view, convert, optimize, process image files of numerous formats. It can also handle few video/audio formats, and has limited image creation and painting capabilities. It’s like an Swiss Army Knife for images. Some Features:— You can read more about IrfanView Here. Let’s get started. Open IrfanView and select Batch Conversion/Rename option from File Menu(Shortcut Key: B ) Navigate to folder where your images are located and Add the ones you want to compress. Choose the options you want to do from left window pane. Select the format and other options like Compression Ratio etc. from the Batch Conversion Settings Menu. Choose the options according to your need. After you are all set Click Start Batch. You images will be converted and you can find them in the specified output directory. Note—>

If you share files on local network you sometimes might have wanted to know who is downloading files from network shares. You can do this easily with built-in tools in Windows. Do the following steps:— Open Microsoft Management Console by typing ‘mmc’ Run or Search box in Start Menu. Then select File—>Add/Remove Snap-in in the open Console Window.(You can also use CTRL + M shortcut key.) Choose Shared Folders from available snap-ins and click Add button. Choose All view and click Finish . This creates the MMC Console which displays shared folders, current sessions and open files. Expand the Shared Folders menu and select Sessions . You will be able to see users currently connected to your pc and the exact file they have opened.   This method works in Windows 7 as well as Windows 8 also.