Posts under Desktop tag.

Desktop or Explorer does not refresh automatically in Windows 10

The Windows Desktop or Windows File 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 […]

What does Refresh Desktop or Refresh explorer window actually do?

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! […]

HP TouchSmart 520: Review, Tech Specs and Price

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 […]

Pokki: Add Start Menu, Web apps, Gadgets to Windows 8 desktop

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 […]

Desktop Media automatically adds and removes shortcut to USB drive on Desktop

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 […]

PointerStick: A free tool to replace the Cursor with a Presentation Stick

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 […]

Auto-hide Windows desktop icons and taskbar with AutoHideDesktopIcons

Auto Hide Desktop Icons is a freeware application that can hide your Windows desktop icons and even your taskbar, after a set time interval – and works better than the Auto hide taskbar feature. If you usually have a cluttered desktop, and would […]

WebReader: Stylish Free Desktop RSS Reader Software for Windows

Google Reader is a very popular free RSS 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 […]

Download Tiles from Stardock for free

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 […]

Create Virtual Desktops in Windows with Sysinternals Desktops

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 four virtual desktops. Plus you […]

TumbleDeck: Windows Desktop blogging client for Tumblr

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 […]

Display interactive webpage as wallpaper on Windows Desktop with WallpaperWebPage

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 […]

Universal Darkroom darkens the entire computer screen, except the active window

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 […]

Overlay or display another image or photo on your Windows desktop wallpaper

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 […]

Resize, Drag, Manage windows easily with AltDrag for Windows 7

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 […]

Display Desktop icons text on the side in Windows with D-Color

By default, the Windows operating system displays the text below the desktop icons. But if you want to display it next to the icons, this free tool called D-Color will let you do it easily. Default way the desktop icons […]

AeroTile places system folder glass tiles on your Windows Desktop

There is no end to customizing Windows, and this is exactly what enthused our 14-year old TWC Forum member in creating this small app AeroTile. It is therefore with great pleasure that we are releasing it today. AeroTile for Windows […]

Coolbarz: Create an XP style desktop toolbar in Windows 7

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 […]

Simulate the effect of a finger touching the LCD screen on your Windows computer

Liquid Click Delight is a cool, fun-to-use utility for Windows! Every time you click on the mouse button, the utility simulates the effect of a finger touching the LCD screen. Liquid Click Delight Liquid Click Delight is a very simple […]

Fix: Desktop shortcuts go missing on Windows PC

Have you encountered a situation where you find that your desktop shortcuts have suddenly gone missing on your Windows 10/8/7 computer? Well, Windows acts this way by design! Shortcuts that are regarded as broken are deleted by the System Maintenance […]