Did you ever wish that a section of your screen could be kept from being covered with windows when you maximize them. For example, you may have desktop widgets, sticky notes, a launcher, or other tools or content that you would like to be able to →
Change your Windows 7 logon screen with Windows 7 Logon Screen Tweaker
This free app is for those who like to customize, tweak, and generally place their individual mark on everything that has to do with their computer. The program does exactly what it says: it changes the logon screen in Windows 7, the user icon, the logon text →
Repair many common problems easily with Tweaking.com’s Windows Repair tool
Tweaking.com’s Windows Repair Tool (WRT) is a free program (for For Windows XP, 2003, Vista, 2008 & 7 32 or 64 bit) that will easily and quickly repair a multitude of common issues on your operating system. Conceived with a vision to have “a repair tool that can save →
Control your Recycle Bin from the system tray with Minibin
MiniBin lets you open and empty your recycle bin from a system tray icon. This would make sense in many different scenarios, e.g. if you find yourself frequently minimizing windows to get to your Recycle Bin, if you like to keep your desktop clean of unnecessary →
How healthy is your disk? Find out with CrystalDiskInfo
A computer’s performance can be affected severely by a hard disk with declining health. That being the case, it is a little odd to think of a hard disk in terms of health, more so when it is “declining.” Typically in the grand scheme of modern →
Add your favorite folders to the right click context menu with MyFolders
How would you like to put your favorite folders into the right click menu?, such as to have them right there at your fingertips when you need them: quickly jump to them, move or copy objects to them, and even quickly open the command window within →
Create temporary file associations with ‘Portable Extension Warlock’
Have you ever double clicked on an icon, and wished that the file would temporarily open in app on your computer that is not the default program it is associated with, just for that particular session? The Portable Extension Warlock (PEW) is a free program that →
Access your 32-bit Windows context menu from a 64 bit environment with WOW64Menu
Have you ever right-clicked on a file or folder expecting certain functions, only to find that they are missing? This is most likely due to the fact that many applications are written for a 32 bit Windows explorer environment, and many developers have to catch up on →
Mount disk images as writable disks with OSFMount
OSFMount from Passmark Software is a free disk image mounting software with some nice features that distinguish it from similar programs; specifically, OSFMount can mount image files as WRITABLE disks, and also allows to create virtual drives in memory. Mounting means using a file as a →
Auto-hide your desktop icons when you don’t need them with AutoHideDesktopIcons
Tired of seeing a cluttered mess of icons on your desktop? Don’t have the time to organize it- for example, using any of the tools discussed in our recent Ten free tools to better organize your desktop icons post? If so then check out AutoHideDesktopIcons, a small app →
Track changes to folders with Track Folder Changes
Ever wished you could keep track of changes to a folder? This actually can be useful in many different circumstances, not just for a shared folder on a network but also on your own folders (esp. frequently used folders) in order to keep track of development →
How to add thumbnail previews to MKV video files in Windows
Although the MKV video file format is becoming increasingly more popular, most Windows PC’s will not display thumbnails for MKV files by default, a small esthetic detail which can nonetheless potentially make this otherwise excellent video format less preferable in the eyes of many users. If →
