SuperFast Shutdown is a free utility which can shutdown your Windows faster than you could possible imagine. It will shutdown the Windows immediately when you click the shortcut button.
How long you need to wait for the regular shutdown/restart precess? I guess a normal PC which install a lot of applications will take at least 2 minutes right? With SuperFast Shutdown, you can reduce the times needed. After you install the application, you will get two extra icons – Super Fast Reboot and Super Fast Shutdown.
My advises are to manually close all opened windows and save all open files before perform “superfast” reboot/shutdown. Else you may lost your data. It is because this application won’t prompt any warning message and will immediately shutdown when you press the shortcut icon.
If you open more than 1 window and want to align them so that you can see all the windows at one time, you may try allSnap, which will help you to align windows (like what happen in Winamp or Photoshop).
After you install the application, all windows will snap to each other while you moving/resizing them. If you want to temporary turn off the snapping, you can press and hold the toggle key while you moving/resizing the windows (default :Alt key).
This program will not work if your application has its own custom moving/resize behavior. Below is a demonstration on how to use allSnap.
If you want to search for freeware, you can go download11.com. Download11.com has more than 65,000 files ready for download, and the number is increasing everyday.
Sometimes, we download a program from the internet. After finish installation, then we found that it is a shareware or demo version. So, we need to look carefully whether it bis a freeware before we download. So, why not we try download11.com, which will only gather freeware.
Download11 guys update their files database everyday, so that you won’t miss the latest version or any new free applications. They provide a link for users to upload new applications, so that users will help them to discover new applications.
Their main page is pretty simple, which listed the most popular and latest applications. You can search applications through the search box provided by them. So, try download11.com when you look for any freeware.
If you are multi-monitor user, i believe you will need MultiMon Taskbar. It is a freeware which can move any windows to another monitor.
The main feature of MultiMon Taskbar is that it can move any window to another monitor immediately. You can do so by either click on the small arrow icon beside the minimize button of each window, or use keyboard shortcut. After you launch MultiMon Taskbar, you can see the Move To Monitor button appear beside the minimize button.
There are some extra features that provide by MultiMon Taskbar:
Add second Taskbar to the extend desktop. The second taskbar will show only the applications that contain in that monitor, while the main Taskbar contains only the applications in primary monitor.
Adds a move to monitor button to all window.
Text Clipboard Extender (which will save the latest 100 entries of your clipboard).
This application only works for Windows XP and 2003. Windows Vista users have to install the driver provide by the graphic card manufacturer.
Although it is a freeware, but the author encourage users to donate by putting his PayPal logo at the Properties page.
Note: If you don’t need the extra features or you just want the Move To Monitor arrows, you can go for MultiArrows, which is a portable version with basic feature.
Taskbar Repair Tool Plus! is a portable application which can fix a lot of problems relating to your taskbar, notification area, and the quick launch bar.
Taskbar Repair Tool Plus! able to fix a lot of problems, including taskbar missing, minimized programs missing, show missing icons in notification area, restore show desktop icon in quick launch area, and etc. Basically, this program is a collection of registry files or VB script which can modify your windows registry. You can go to the website and look for the VB script for certain features.
When you choose to fix any problems or change the settings on your system, you can always look at the description before click the repair button. After you fix or change the settings, you may need to restart your system. This application is only for Windows XP, as Windows Vista will have different registry settings with XP.
Although this application is free, but you need to purchase a license if you want to use all features.
FileMenu Tools and ClickZap can add features and shortcut to your right click. FileMenu Tools add features when you right-click on files or folders while ClickZap add features when you multi right-click your mouse.
FileMenu Tools
FileMenu Tools let you customize your context menu in Windows Explorer. This utility add features to manipulate the files and folders, add extra commands to run external applications, copy/move to a specific folder, customize the “Send to…”, and much more.
Task Manager Fix is an application which let you enable Task Manager which is virus, spyware, trojan, or even administrator of that PC. It is a freeware which write/modify your registry to enable the Task Manager.
When you try to open Task Manager by pressing Ctrl+Alt+del, do you see the following message box appear?
If you saw this message box, most probably your PC is infected by virus, worm, trojan, or even your administrator. This error message is due to restriction placed on windows registry. You can easily modify the registry to fix them, but for a normal user, you probably won’t know where to modify.
AutoSizer is a free tool which can help you to maximize/minimize, set the size and location of an application when it start. Furthermore, it can also restore to the final position and size before the application close.
AutoSizer can automatic start when you start windows and it will run on system tray. When you maximize it, you will see a list of applications. From there, you can set the rule for that particular application when it start.
