Those who usually open multiple software applications, in Windows 7, should install Windows 7 App Launcher. That’s a utility with which you can open multiple software packages at once with a hotkey or Windows 7 Jump Lists. With th...
Excel 2010, like other MS Office applications, has plenty of keyboard shortcuts. There are Excel hotkeys for formulas, spreadsheet formatting, inserting and editing data and more besides. These are a few of the more notable hotkey...
There are many ways you can customize the Firefox browser with add-ons. How about replacing the Firefox menu toolbars with one compact button comparable to Google Chrome? Well, you can do that with Compact Menu 2 4.3.1. Check out ...
Whilst Windows includes hide folder options, such options are hardly full-proof. There’s a much more secure way to hide, or disguise, your folders as shortcuts which few would guess you have documents or software in. The tri...
There are a variety of file formats for videos, and you can convert video file formats from one to another if required. You could do that with Microsoft packages such as Windows DVD Maker and Movie Maker, or alternative third-part...
The Internet Explorer right-click context menu is one which can get cluttered with accelerator and add-on options/shortcuts. However, you can still clear up the context menu with the browser’s options and a few registry edit...
You can add the Windows 8 Metro style to Windows 7 with the freeware Immersive Explorer. That’s a file manager alternative to Explorer which mimics Windows 8 Metro. Its graphical hardware acceleration displays fluid animations and...
The Windows Vista and 7 desktops include system shortcut icons such as the Recycle Bin. When you right-click on the system shortcut icons and select Properties, there is no option that changes their icons as you would find on soft...
If you’re looking for a way to create image thumbnails from your video files, add the freeware Thumbnail Me 3.0 software to Windows XP/Vista/7 and 8. That’s a software package which scans video clips and presents you w...
If you have opened a large OpenOffice spreadsheet document, it might be handy to keep some of its rows and columns stationary. OpenOffice Calc has an option with which you can freeze selected columns and rows so that they always r...
MS Word 2010 has, like many software packages, a variety of keyboard shortcuts. With the keyboard shortcuts you can select a variety of options that aren’t visible on its menus and Ribbon. These are a few of the more notable Word ...
Whilst you can find a variety of Google Chrome themes from the Chrome Web Store, why not add a custom theme to the browser? With the official My Chrome Theme app, you can create a theme for the browser which includes a custom back...
The Google Chrome, Firefox and Opera browsers all have advanced settings which you can customize the browser with. However, you won’t find the advanced settings in their standard options window. Instead they have advanced se...
Wouldn’t it be great to have an option that plays a Windows clipboard text audio? With such an option you could check what text you’ve copied to the clipboard. This is how you can do just that! Firstly, add the NirCmd ...
Jump Lists were among the best new additions to Windows 7. They added another shortcut option, but you cannot combine multiple applications in one Jump List. That is unless you add Jumplist Launcher to Windows 7/8. Jumplist Launch...
