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The Desktop or Explorer window or folder will automatically refresh itself when you make a change to its contents. This could be creating a new shortcut, creating or saving a new file or folder in it, and so on. But …more >>>
I am sure that you must have noticed that when you right-click on your Windows desktop or inside an open explorer window, you see an option called Refresh in the context menu. The Refresh option has been there since you can remember! …more >>>
It’s holiday season and you must be confused between so many alternatives to choose as a gift for your family. HP and Microsoft have made it easy for you with their new All-In-One HP TouchSmart 520. With its HD capabilities …more >>>
Well, you can get a lot of desktop gadgets, and you should know the top desktop gadgets for your Windows PC. These are very useful, but what if you can get web apps as gadgets and that too as “taskbar …more >>>
Wouldn’t it be useful and convenient, if you can add a shortcut to your USB drive on Windows Desktop so that you can easily and quickly open the drive? We have already covered Desk Drive on The Windows Club, which …more >>>
It gets difficult to hold presentations on projectors and other big screens with simple and small mouse pointer. Plus, if you do not have any other alternative tool at hand that could highlight the main portion of the presentation, important …more >>>
Auto Hide Desktop Icons is a freeware application that can hide your Windows desktop icons and even your taskbar, after a set time interval. If you usually have a cluttered desktop, and would like to peek behind them at your wallpaper, …more >>>
Google Reader is a very popular RSS feed reader web application that keeps its users informed about the latest on our favorite website. It is a Web-based aggregator, capable of reading Atom and RSS feeds online or offline. If you are looking for …more >>>
Stardock has released a cool new desktop app called Tiles. Tiles is a Windows Desktop Navigation Utility to manage running apps and windows, with a skinnable interface including a Metro skin. Customization enthusiasts may already be aware of Fences, which let Windows …more >>>
One feature of Linux that you may have liked that is you can switch between different virtual desktops. You can do so for Windows by using a free program named ‘Desktops’. Desktops from SysInternals, creates 4 virtual desktops. Plus you …more >>>
Tumblr.com is a feature rich website, well-known as a micro-blogging platform. It is considered as home to the most creative people in the world. Tumblr allows its users to post anything (text, web, links, quotes, videos) to their TumbleBlog, a …more >>>
For many, changing and displaying new wallpapers on their Windows desktop is a passion. Well, here is a freeware, WallpaperWebPage, that loads a webpage as a Windows desktop background or wallpaper. The application serves as a replacement for Active Desktop for Windows …more >>>
Be it a privacy related issue or the need to work in a distraction-free zone it becomes necessary, at times, to hide the contents of the screen and leave only a small portion of the window active for use. The …more >>>
You have a nice wallpaper adorning your Windows desktop but you’d still like to display a favorite photograph too on it. What do you do? Try using Overlap Wallpaper, a free software that lets you display an image or photographs …more >>>
At times, it becomes difficult to move, resize, drag and manage several separate open windows at the same time – or move parts of them off the screen. AltDrag attempts to resolve this issue. It is an on-screen window resizing …more >>>
By default, Windows operating system displays the text below the desktop icons. But if you want to display it next to the icons, this free tool will let you do it easily. D-Color is a free portable app that lets …more >>>
There is no end to customizing Windows and this is exactly what enthused our 13 year old TWC Forum member in creating this small app AeroTile. It is therefore with great pleasure that we are releasing it today.
In Windows XP, one could create a toolbar and dock it to the top of the screen and move all one’s desktop icons to it, so that your desktop remained clean and yet you had easy access to all. In …more >>>
Here is a cool, fun-to-use utility! Every time you click on the mouse button, the utility simulates the effect of a finger touching the LCD screen.
If you find that your Windows desktop slideshow, which used to work fine, does not work anymore, you may want to check out this article.
