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 the folders. If this sounds like a good idea [...]
Launch shortcuts in style with Aero QLaunch for Windows 7
If you’re looking for a cool, innovative launcher for apps and folders then you’ve arrived: Aero QLaunch is a simple, original launcher with huge on-screen icons and cool 3D motion effects. This freeware program works with Windows 7 and Windows 8, and requires at least DirectX 10 to be installed on your system. Share the [...]
Volume2: a beautiful volume control app
Let’s say you have a program that lets you control system volume via the mouse and/or via user-defined hotkeys. Let’s also say that it can display stylish volume sliders on screen, and lets you choose from many different skins for these. And, moreover, let’s say that it can control volume via hovering over and sliding [...]
Pokki: put Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, and other web services right in your Windows taskbar
You do not need a crystal ball to foresee that Facebook, Twitter, your friends, your contacts, your email, your news sources, all of these (and others) are going to become permanent fixtures on your PC’s desktop (and your tablet, and your smartphone, etc.) But why wait? Pokki is free Windows software that can do this [...]
Handy Shortcuts: create desktop shortcuts to frequently used Windows functions
Do you ever wish there was a simple shortcut on the desktop to “safely remove hardware” rather than having to go hunt for it in the system tray menu? Or maybe you would like to toggle the screensaver from a shortcut on the desktop or you could use quick, one-click access to the device manager, [...]
Another Forty-Three of The Best Free Windows Enhancements That You Should Know About (part 2)
I’ve been meaning to publish a follow up to my first “43 must have Windows Enhancements” posting forever, but it’s taken a long time simply because I wanted to stick with the completely arbitrary “43″ number of entries, and of course I wanted to only post apps that are worth writing about (as it turned [...]
Jumplist Extender: enhance jumplists on the Windows 7 taskbar with custom entries
If you want a quick way to launch frequently performed actions from the taskbar consider this: Jumplist Extender is a small free tool that can insert user-defined entries in the right-click program jumplists that appear in the Windows 7 taskbar (see screenshot above). It also lets you pin any folder or file within any program [...]
