
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 functions such as a wide range of defragmentation profiles [...]

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 and choose which of these indicators (or all of [...]

Quick Cliq: on-demand launcher provides a wide range of shortcuts and functions right at your fingertips
Quick Cliq is a free, small app that provides instant access to program, folders, files, and URLs. Created by the same developers that brought us previously mentioned JumpTo, Quick Cliq offers a slew of additional functions, including “folder menu” shortcuts that automatically display all sub folders recursively in cascading menus. Quick Cliq also includes a [...]

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 on battery. It does this by automatically switching off [...]

Windows 7 Taskbar Items Pinner: pin anything to the Windows 7 taskbar, including individual files and folders
Windows 7 Taskbar Items Pinner is a free software that allows you to pin just about anything (individual folders, files, or URLs) to the Windows 7 taskbar. Now you may be wondering why you need this, since you can already pin items to the Windows 7 taskbar simply by dragging them over; however, the truth [...]

Image Resizer PowerToy Clone: resize images from the context menu
Windows XP users may remember a nice little right-click-context-menu resident image resizing app from Microsoft called “Image Resizer Powertoy”. You may also remember that it was XP 32-bit specific, and that it did NOT work on Vista or Windows 7 or 64bit OS’s. As it’s name suggests, Image Resizer PowerToy Clone is a clone of [...]

Buzz Folders: get quick accss to favorite and recent folders from the open/save file dialog
Buzz Folders free edition is a Windows enhancement that provides quick access to favorite and recently used folders in the Windows open/save file dialog. It displays several tabs underneath the open/save dialog (see screenshot) that allow the user to quickly access recent folders for the active program, user-defined favorite folders for the active program (which [...]