My Lockbox is a free program that can quickly hide and password protect a folder and all files/folders within it from being shown in the Windows files system, and will do so under Windows safe mode as well. I’ve always resisted writing about programs such as →
Get informational tooltips for audio, text, and shortcut files with Infotag Magic
InfoTag Magic is a useful shell extension that provides informational tooltips on mouse-over for audio files (MP3, WMA, APE, and Ogg Vorbis), quick tooltip previews for text files (TXT, INI, LOG, BAT, DIZ, BAK, and QUE, tooltip information on the properties of windows shortcuts, and tooltip →
Convert Word 2007 and OpenOffice files (DOCX, DOTX, SXW, and ODT) to rich text files (RTF) with Docx2Rtf
Docx2Rtf is a free program that can convert .DOCX and .DOTX (Word 2007 MS Word formats) as well as SXW and .ODT (OpenOffice) into the universal .RTF format that can be read and edited by any Word Processor. It also offers the ability to convert documents →
Customize your folders with StyleFolder
Freeware program StyleFolder can perform a handful of interesting folder customizations straight from the Windows right-click context menu, including changing the folder’s icon, using an image as folder background, and changing the font color used inside the folder. All customizations are saved into the folder itself →
Tag your local files with Tag2find
Tag2find is a memory-resident program that can apply tags to all of your local files. It can be optionally accessed from the right click context menu, a search box within the taskbar or the IE toolbar, or a floating searchbar (tagbar) that can be launched from →
Link Shell Extension: create clones of your files and folders on an NTFS drive
On the NTFS file system, freeware program “Link Shell Extension” provides you with the ability to create clones (called hard links) of your files and folders straight from the context menu. Clones, if you’re wondering, are not copies of a file or shortcuts. Cloned files look →
Xentient Thumbnails
Xentient Thumbnails changes the default icons for image files in Windows explorer and replaces them with thumbnails of the images themselves. It works automatically on all image files within the Windows environment without user intervention. Every Windows user knows that setting “thumbnails” in the folder view →
RightLoad
RightLoad adds an entry to your explorer context menu that can be used to quickly upload files to your ftp server (or servers) straight from Windows explorer. It will also automatically generate a list links to the uploaded files that can be easily copied into your →
PatchOnClick
PatchOnClick is a freeware program that enables you to create patches that can modify your file or document and transform it into a more recent version of that file or document. It is well suited to modify large files that are sent over email, the internet, →
DM2
DM2 is an open source program that adds useful enhancements to Windows (e.g. minimize a window to tray, keep on top, roll a window to the title bar, snap windows to edge, quickly resize windows, favorite folders option in save file dilaog, etc). Where it is →
QT Toolbar
QT Toolbar is an explorer extension that installs a toolbar in Windows folder views that provides a number of useful functions for working with files and folders, including a powerful search box that makes it easy to filter files and folders that are visible within an →
Xplorer2 lite
[Note: this review was written by Jonathan Plutchok; see his blog reviewing free and cheap utilities and web sites, "Jonathan’s Tool Bar & Grill" at http://jonathanstoolbar.blogspot.com] Xplorer2 lite (that’s “explorer squared”) is a full-featured dual-pane file manager that is intended to replace Windows Explorer. It provides →
