eXtraButtons is a free Windows Explorer tweak that adds a number of buttons to your windows title bar. Among the function provided: minimizing windows to the tray area, minimizing to a single common icon in the system area, or minimizing to “box” (i.e. a floating icon →
Macrium Reflect Free: superfast disk imaging and system recovery
Macrium Reflect Free creates hard drives images and can restore them when you need it. It purports to be the fastest disk imaging software out there. It can compress your image such that it is much smaller in size than the actual hard drive partition, and →
Toolbox: keep your shortcuts organized
If you have a cluttered desktop, consider this: one reason why many of us keep so many objects on the desktop, aside from the fact that we have too many projects going on, is to avoid the “out of sight, out of mind” phenomenon. If you →
FilerFrog: add a slew of useful functions to your context menu
FilerFrog is a free program that can install a wide array of useful tools into the Windows context menu, in the vein of such useful context-menu based apps as Lammer Context Menu and Freewaregenius favorite FileMenu Tools. It works with both 32bit and 64bit versions of Windows This program →
SingleInstance: allow only one running instance of a program
Have you ever launched a program and started working with it only to discover that there’s another instance of it running in the background? This can be a mild annoyance from time to time, especially when you realize after a few minutes that the two instances →
HTC Home: place a stylish, animated clock and weather widget on your desktop
HTC Home is a free widget that can display the time and 5-day weather forecast on the desktop. The stylish-looking widget emulates the animated clock and weather conditions displayed on HTC phones. The widget features optional animations, such as raindrops coming down over the the widget →
ERUNT GUI: backup and restore your registry with a single click
ERUNT Gui is a free app that can backup and restore the Windows registry. It is a front-end for the well-known registry backup and restoration app ’ERUNT’ but serves to take the command line out of registry backups and replace it with a simple button (see →
7Conifier: cutomize your Windows 7 taskbar icons en-masse
Do you like to customize your operating system’s look and feel? Do words like “sleek”, “minimalistic”, and “metallic” turn you on? If so then read on: 7Conifier (pronounced “iconifier”) is a free tool that can customize your Windows 7 taskbar and start menu icons by replacing →
MyDefrag PowerGUI: optimize and defagment your hard drive easily via MyDefrag
MyDefrag PowerGUI is a front-end for free hard drive defragmentation software MyDefrag. It is designed to manage all aspects of hard drive defragmentation with MyDefrag, including scheduling defragmentations, auto-updating the MyDefrag engine, installing the MyDefrag screensaver option, as well as providing a variety of advanced defragmentation →
DriveGleam: display your CPU, RAM and drive usage as icons in the system tray
DriveGleam is a free app that installs a handful of activity indicators as icons in your system tray, including a CPU usage, a RAM usage, virtual RAM usage, as well as an icon that displays hard drive activity for each of your partitions. You can pick →
TimeComx: stylish, easy to use timer and task scheduler
Ever wanted your computer to play a sound at a certain time or when a certain time period has lapsed? How about shutting down or locking the computer or even launching a specific app at a particular time? TimeComX is a small free app that can →
Aerofoil: extends your notebook’s battery life under Windows Vista and Windows 7
This is one of those programs that ostensibly does so little, but in fact can have a significant impact on your notebook’s battery life. Aerofoil is a small, free app for Windows Vista and Windows 7 that reduces your computer’s power consumption whenever it is running →
