When we install programs, many items get added to the right click context menu of explorer.exe, in the ‘New’ submenu. This submenu is requeired when you want to open a new file (or command or item) of that type on, say, your desktop. [Read More...]
For those of you who dont like the start orb and want to do away with it, you now have two easy ways to do it. [Read More...]
Vista/7 Navigation Button Colorizer is a tool which can easily change your Windows 7 & Vista’s explorer navigation button colour in one click. The app now seems to have been updated to run on Windows 7 too! [Read More...]
When you open Windows explorer, you notice that it has a left pane called as the Navigation Pane, which includes links to Drives, Special Folders, Favorites, etc and the main or right pane which contains your files and folders. [Read More...]
BinManager is shell context menu command for deleting old items from Windows Recycle Bin, as well as a scriptable component for managing the Recycle Bin. [Read More...]
Windows Live SkyDrive is part of Microsoft’s Windows Live online services. SkyDrive is a file storage and sharing service that allows users to upload files to the computing cloud, then access them from a web browser. [Read More...]
Windows Double Explorer for Windows 7, from CodePlex, manages two or more Windows Explorer in one application. [Read More...]
Like the tabbed browsing feature in Internet Explorer, you can also add tabs to your Windows Explorer. [Read More...]
Have you ever tried to use Windows Explorer to create a folder within or copy a file into a protected folder such a Program Files or Windows and had to deal with the confusing “File Operation” dialog box before you could complete your task. This is one of the most confusing and poorly understood features of User Account Control. [Read More...]
You can, if you wish to, display your favorite file or its shortcuts directly in the (My) Computer folder of Windows 7 & Vista. [Read More...]
On occasions it may have happened that the title bar of your open explorer window may have moved off screen, as a result of which you are unable to move the window with the help of your mouse pointer. [Read More...]
Simpli Software’s Places Utility allows users to customize the Windows ‘Save As’ dialog box. [Read More...]
WinRoll easily manages multiple open windows. With this portable freeware, you can make a window roll into its title bar, send it to the back or make it stay on top. [Read More...]
If you have a large monitor, and you always get irritated when you have to keep moving your mouse cursor to the center of the screen to acknowledge small dialog boxes that appear, and if you’d rather prefer, that the small dialog window move itself automatically to fall somewhere under where your mouse cursor is at the time of clicking the button that caused the small dialog window to appear, then this portable freeware app maybe what you are looking for. [Read More...]
If you find that you are unable to access the Games folder in Windows 7 or its link does not open or you cannot run a game from it, here are a few things you may want to try. [Read More...]
If every time your Windows computer starts, your explorer does not start and you are left seeing the wallpaper only, and you are left with no choice, but to start explorer.exe manually, then here are a few troubleshooting steps you may want to try. [Read More...]
Windows 7 includes the ability to add new folders with a keyboard shortcut key combination. [Read More...]
You may not want to clutter up your desktop with a Recycle Bin. You perhaps also do not want to pin it to your Start Menu, and yet want easy access to it. [Read More...]
Windows Explorer shows suggestion pop-ups as users type into the Search Box. These suggestions are based on their past entries into the Search Box. [Read More...]
The Universal Focus Rectangle in Windows lets you know where you were before you current click. It is as such, quite useful at times. But if you would like to remove this, try this: [Read More...]
