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Today’s Software
- Remove Empty Directories: remove empty directories.
- Windows 7 Orb Changer: change the Windows 7 taskbar start menu orb
- Jumplist Extender: add custom jumplist items
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Software for June 20, 2012
Remove Empty Directories
Somewhere on your hard drive, right now, there lives an evil so great it can not be named. This evil is an empty folder: villianously sitting there like nothing is wrong.
Ok, maybe empty folders aren’t that terrible. But if you are left with a huge pile of them, it can get really annoying to deal with, and you probably just ignore them. Remove Empty Directories will save you, as it will automatically scan and destroy every empty folder it can find. It killed 701 directories when I tried it.
Remove Empty Directories is super easy to set up. You just give it a base folder–for instance, C: or Downloads–and it scans away. When it’s done scanning, it’ll tell you how many folders it’s going to remove, and where they are. It’s quite easy to remove these annoying folders in just minutes with Remove Empty Directories.
Price: Free!
Version discovered: v2.2
Supported OS: Windows XP+
Download size: 78-396KB
VirusTotal malware scan results:
Portability: Portable version available!
Remove Empty Directories homepage
Windows 7 Start Orb Changer
That start button is so boring. Don’t you wish you could change it to something interesting? Windows 7 Start Orb Changer is just the program for you. It lets you change your start orb to just about anything you want.
Start Orb Changer lets you change your orb with just a few clicks. It’s so easy to use, you’ll hardly even notice that it’s there except when you go to click the start button, and even then only if you remember it’s been changed at all!
Start Orb Changer is a nice way to customize your computer and truly make it your own.
Price: Free!
Version discovered: v5.0
Supported OS: Windows 7
Download size: 211KB
VirusTotal malware scan results: 0/42
Portability: No installation required!
Windows 7 Start Orb Changer homepage
Jumplist Extender
Many programs make use of Windows 7’s cool jumplist feature, but at the same time many do not. Unfortunately, Microsoft didn’t let anyone customize the jumplists theirselves, and you’re left with a useless little menu that has nothing of use.
With Jumplist Extender, you can get around that. If a program lets you do something with a keyboard shortcut, Jumplist Extender will let you do that action from the jumplist menu, even if it requires multiple shortcuts in a row. This can be useful for adding new tab and close window shortcuts to your browser, for example, or copying everything from a text file.
With Jumplist Extender, the possibilities are limitless. What will you do with it?
Price: Free!
Version discovered: v0.4
Supported OS: Windows 7
Download size: 1.6MB
VirusTotal malware scan results: 0/43
Portability: Requires installation
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