Dennis Faas

Fast Explorer Add, Customize and Clean Up Context Menu Items of Files and Folders/ This handy utility allows you to manage context menus items. Fast Explorer handles both static and dynamic context menu items and can assist with even more. With Fast ... Explorer, you can create new context menu items, submenus (cascaded menus), dividers, and optionally specify menu bitmaps and hint text. For ultimate control over dynamic context menu items added from within Fast Explorer you can define your own look and feel using the custom-drawing feature. Fast Explorer-driven context menu items can be ... (view more)

Win Tabber WinTabber can add tabs to many windows. A tabbed browser, tabbed putty, tabbed terminal or tabbed shell, tabbed anything. Multi tab your windows in seconds. A terminal or shell with tabs work faster and efficiently! Having multiple ... windows as tabs will give a better overview of your windows than before. Also having multiple ssh sessions by the click of a tab works faster and efficiently. http://www.wintabber.com Shutdown Screensaver Shutdown screensaver powers down the computer after 2 minutes from startup. It works on all versions of Windows. It can be very useful if it happens ... (view more)

A new series of strange Microsoft advertisements have made their way onto YouTube.com in what is said to boost Microsoft product line awareness -- but so far, the verdict is mixed. Although Microsoft has spent a whopping $300 Million Dollars to pair ... Jerry Seinfeld with Bill Gates in the promotion, the ads are random in design and appear to lack any message at all. So, what's up with those strange Microsoft-Seinfeld ads? We asked our Readers to sound-off. Although the majority of the comments received were negative, some ideas offered interesting perspectives. Frank W. and a few others ... (view more)

25 Must-Have Thumb Drive Apps For Geeks With traveling and use of many different computers, many geeks often find a need to have a uniform set of tools handy wherever we may be. Here is a list of 25 invaluable portable applications that can be ... installed on a Thumb Drive. http://crazeegeekchick.com Mazzick MaZZick is a portable app which will let you do simple or complicated every-day tasks like launching files or folders, doing a google search, typing a phrase, copying, deleting, closing windows. http://devrexster.googlepages.com Today's fresh software picks were provided courtesy of Bob ... (view more)

Shadow Explorer From time to time, Windows Vista creates point-in-time copies of your files. This allows you to retrieve older versions from files you accidentally deleted or altered. This service is turned on by default on all versions of Windows ... Vista, but Microsoft grants access to these copies only in Ultimate, Business, and Enterprise editions. This is where ShadowExplorer comes into play: ShadowExplorer allows you to browse the shadow copies created by the Windows Vista Volume Shadow Copy Service, even in the home edition. http://www.howtogeek.com Phlox In Windows XP, you can use F2 on ... (view more)

Set Up A Home Server Running an open-source operating system is a popular and useful activity. For example: you could use it to run your own website, collect and send e-mail messages, store your OpenID credentials, or serve your music and videos ... around the home. http://www.webmonkey.com Extra Putty Extra Putty is a secure SSH (shell) client for Windows and is based on the original "putty." ExtraPuTTY has all the features from the original and adds others, including: allow win32 application to send, receive data on Telnet, SSH, RLogin and Raw protocols, and more. http://www. ... (view more)

Router Syslog View the System Log from your router, with port information and advanced IP information. This application has a small memory footprint with only 560kb when in tray mode. You can also save your daily logs to syslog_date.txt, for ... example. Go to English freeware. http://www.paehl.de Check Disk CheckDisk is a powerful tool for searching and repairing disk errors. It is quite similar to the ScanDisk tool or chkdsk.exe, supplied with the Windows operating systems (Windows 2000 and higher). You can select either standard or full tests. The full test additionally performs a sector check ... (view more)

Js View View all javascript on sites you browse -- with plenty of options to analyze the code. http://forum.softwareblaze.com Shell Bags View Each time that you open a folder in Explorer, Windows automatically saves the settings of this folder into ... the Registry. This utility displays the list of all folder settings saved by Windows. For each folder, the following information is displayed: The date/time that you opened it, the entry number, display mode (Details, Icons, Tiles), and so on. http://nirsoft.net Today's fresh software picks were provided courtesy of Bob Helmer at Shell Extension ... (view more)

Qt Tab Bar QTTabBar is an Add-on that gives Tab Browsing Feature to Windows Explorer, including folder grouping, histories, etc. http://qttabbar.wikidot.com Red Hand Red Hand is a basic security camera application that uses a webcam for security ... survillance purposes. It takes pictures and constantly compares them. The program works by comparing pictures pixel by pixel over a period of time. Any changes in the pixels are then saved onto your hard drive for later inspection. http://publicwear.com Today's fresh software picks were provided courtesy of Bob Helmer at Shell Extension City. Please ... (view more)

Minimem Minimem can reduce the memory footprint of any application. It runs in the background and can be set up to optimize as many proceses as you'd like, using a very intuitive graphical interface. Unlike other memory optimization tools, it gives ... you full control over what applications you want to optimize, when and how often. It optimizes memory by removing as many non-necessary memory pages as possible from the selected processes. It does so at regular intervals which can be user-defined as well and every 30s by default. This then optimizes your applications which can load those pages ... (view more)