You can add a multitude of effects to your photos and images with the freeware Paint.NET. Aside from the editing options included with the software, Paint.NET also has a variety of plug-ins that you can add to it. Among them is th...
One of the limitations of Windows Explorer is that it only displays the contents of one folder. Consequently, you need to open multiple Windows Explorer windows to drag and drop, or move, files from one folder to another. However,...
The Windows Media Center includes an extras library with shortcuts to various Start menu games. However, the Windows Media Center doesn’t have any options to add additional software and Web app shortcuts to the extras libary. Neve...
There are a number clipboard manager utilities that you can copy multiple text items to. However, most of those only save the clipboard text for a minimal time period; and don’t include options to set up custom hotkeys to pa...
If you’re going to delete documents and software to free up some disk space, a disk space analyzer might come in handy. RidNacs is one disk space analyzer that you can select from the Windows Explorer context menu. Then it w...
Have you ever wished that there was an easy way for you to minimize some of your apps to the system tray? Well look no further, it doesn’t get any simpler than with Trayconizer. COMPATIBILITY The developer states that this a...
Paint.net is a freeware image-editing software package with plenty of options. You can also expand Paint.net’s editing options with a variety of plug-ins. Among the Paint.net plug-ins is Shape3D that adds 3D shape effects to...
Transparent windows are one of the great Windows Aero effects in Vista and 7, but the transparency is largely limited to their borders. Speaking of which, previous articles covered how you can add greater transparency to Windows s...
System services hog resources such as RAM. Sure, you can find a list of system services and programs that run at startup with MSCONFIG. However, that doesn’t make it entirely clear which of the services are most essential, w...
GoSave sounds great, doesn’t it? It gives you the impression that it will save your computer. But it’s a lie. GoSave does not save your computer. GoSave is harmful and malicious, and once it is installed, it is hard to get rid of...
Jump Lists give us more direct access to documents and website pages in Windows 7. However, Windows 7 Jump Lists don’t include weather updates on them! Nevertheless, we can add a Jump List to Windows 7 that includes a weath...
Sure, you can always add clocks to the Windows Vista/7 desktops with gadgets. However, those clocks don’t usually have many customization options. As such, for a more customizable desktop clock check out Horloger. That’...
CCleaner is a system tool for Windows that many use to clean out their junk files with. It’s also a freeware utility package that you can add to Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8 and 8.1. However, you’ll find that there are stil...
Another article covered how to remap the keyboard keys. You can also remap the three mouse buttons with the X–Mouse Button Control application. With that you can customize mouse button actions in Windows and separate softwar...
By default, double-clicking the mouse button opens software and other shortcuts in Windows. However, you can open software, folders and files with a single-click instead. I’ll Click is a third-party app that you can switch t...
