If there are lots of icons on your desktop, you can add more space by reducing the icon spacing. You can adjust the spacing between the desktop shortcut icons on both the Windows Vista and 7 platforms. Those platforms have options...
One of the greatest and long-awaited features Windows 10 brings is that Windows Store apps run in windowed forms just like legacy Windows desktop applications. They have a tittle bar and even three buttons: minimize, maximize, and...
As you are experiencing all the features in Windows 10, you’ll probably try to compare and contrast Windows 10 and Windows 7/8. You can tell that Microsoft made improvements on top of the features from Windows 8. In Windows ...
Windows snapping is a great feature introduced in Windows 7. It allows you to snap two windows to each half of the screen so you can drag and drop files or compare information between them. This feature basically stays the same in...
To select text to copy, you would usually press and hold the left mouse button when dragging over it. However, you can highlight and drag without holding the left mouse button. Windows has a ClickLock option that enables you to ho...
If you have a document filled with redundant characters and empty spaces, Text Cleanser could be an ideal package to remove them with. Text Cleanser is a freeware utility that deletes redundant characters. With the program you can...
Jump Lists were one of the great new additions to Windows 7. With the Jump Lists you can open application files directly from Start menu software shortcuts. The Jump Lists include a list of recent items from which you can open doc...
If you have a variety of media players, you can set up custom global hotkeys for their play, skip forward and skip back options with Media Keys; and also for raising and reducing the volume. With that software you can register glo...
There are numerous app launchers that you can add to Windows for more direct access to programs, system options and folders. Those are largely additional taskbar or system tray app launchers. MouseExtender is a portable app launch...
Speech bubbles are an editing option with which you can add speech to your images. The freeware Paint.NET does not include any speech bubble option to select from, but you can add one to the program with a plug-in. The Dpy plug-in...
In MS Paint, you can usually create and edit images in quick and simple ways. The problem is it doesn’t fully support transparency. So if you want to crop an object from a photo and then place it on top of another image, you need ...
Copy and paste are handy options for copying file titles into documents. To copy a file title from Windows Explorer, you would usually select the Rename option and then copy the text. However, with the freeware Copy Path to Clipbo...
You can add a variety of extra editing options to Paint.NET with plug-ins. One of the plug-in packs that you can add to the software is Dpy. That includes a variety of additional text editing effects among which is Spiral Text. Wi...
For an entirely new way to launch software and open documents, add ControlPad to Windows. This is a program that maps numeric codes to applications, documents and system commands. As such, with this freeware software you can open ...
When deleting files, the first thing that you would think of is to send it to the Recycle Bin. From there, you get the option to permanently delete your files. Now, what if you want to bypass that process and just directly delete ...
