Ten free tools to better organize your desktop icons
Studies have found that people with cleaner, tidier desktops live longer. I am joking of course, but ask yourself this: is your desktop too...
7 FREE dual monitor programs and resources that you should know about
We recently got access to a new extra screen at the office, so we did the natural thing, and started testing all sorts of...
How to fix missing thumbnail previews for image files in Windows
This happened to me: I installed a new image-related freeware to test it, and all of my image thumbnail previews disappeared, to be replaced...
Add thumbnails to all your media files in Windows with Media Preview
We take thumbnails for images and video files for granted in Windows Explorer. Unless, of course, we do not have them. If you have...
Toggle the internet on and off from the system tray, with InternetOff
If you want to be able to turn the internet off (of on) quickly and easily then read on: InternetOff makes this a one-click...
The best freeware file manager: a comparative analysis
File management in Windows (browsing, viewing, copying, deleting files etc) is an area where Windows Explorer is not sufficient for many people.
Explorer lacks several...
Add thumbnail previews to PDF files in Windows with PDF Preview
Adobe Acrobat Reader is one of the first things most people install on a computer, but one thing which I do not understand is...
Right click to merge, convert, and edit PDFs, with ‘Debenu PDF Tools’
If you work with PDFs, you may find it very useful to be able to simply right click one (or more) of them to...
How to remove Windows Media Player from the Windows 7 right click context menu
Many people do not use Windows Media Player, and yet we all seem to be stuck with the ubiquitous WMP context menu entries in...
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...
Get detailed information on media files right in file/properties with MediaTab
Ever wish you could quickly look up a media file’s detailed information, such as bitrate, video codec, audio codec, aspect ratio, duration, audio tag...
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...
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