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File Menu Tools File Menu Tools allows you to customize the context menu of the Windows Explorer. Features include: adding built-in utilities in order to do operations over files and folders; adding customized commands which run external ... applications; copying/moving to a specific folder or delete specific file types; configuring the SendTo submenu, and enable/disable commands added by other applications to the context menu. http://www.lopesoft.com/en/fmtools/info.html Synergy Synergy lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems ... (view more)

File Savvy FileSavvy provides a graphical way to automate common file management tasks. If you are tired of repetitive jobs like backing up, preparing files for development builds, gathering files for distribution or any other complex, yet ... reproducible set of file management, then FileSavvy may just make your life a little bit easier. http://www.fungusware.com/ Restart Restart is a system utility for advanced users with more than one operating system installed on their machine. The program installs an icon in the notification area, and with a single click the computer, will shutdown and ... (view more)

Disk Redactor Disk Redactor is a WIPE utility that lets you securely erase any old (deleted) files and prevent them from being recovered. All your private sensitive insecurely erased information will be wiped from free unused space on your drives to ... ensure complete data destruction. This is necessary because when you delete a file, it is not gone forever, and any file removed from the Recycle Bin can be easily recovered! The Windows delete function does not clear the space where the deleted file has been located but only marks an entry in the directory (folder) as deleted. All data and ... (view more)

A reader recently inquired: " In MS Outlook, how can I get all of the items from a Contact's Activity Page to copy into MS Word? " With Outlook Business Contact manager, you can capture and track opportunities so follow up on business leads, etc. ... You can also efficiently re-use existing business data for other purposes. You can take advantage of existing customer information by importing it directly into Outlook with Business Contact Manager and eliminate the need to re-key the Information. You can export the data to another copy of Outlook with Business Contact Manager, or a comma ... (view more)

By default, the toolbars for Microsoft Graph appear on a single row. Click More Buttons to display additional buttons you can use to build and format your chart. You must change the sample chart and data to reflect your own figures. Each change you ... make in the datasheet will immediately appear on the sample chart. Click the datasheet and type your text and numbers. Press Tab or arrow keys to navigate from cell to cell. Add more rows or columns by typing them. Eliminate data by selecting and pressing Delete. Alternatively, you can keep the data in the datasheet but not include it in the chart ... (view more)

In addition to sending vCards as e-mail attachments, Outlook allows you to save a contact entry to a file as a vCard. You might do this if you want to link to vCards on a web site so that others can download the vCards directly rather than receiving ... a message with the vCards attached. You might want to save a large number of contacts as vCards and send them to someone via a Zip disk or other removable media rather than through e-mail. Follow these steps to save a contact item as a vCard file: In Outlook, open the contact item you want to save as a vCard. Choose File, Export To vCard File. ... (view more)

If you have a picture of your own, whether it's from a scanner, another clip art collection or from the Web, you can insert it into a document. Follow the easy steps below: Choose Insert | Picture | From File. Navigate using the dialog box until you ... see the file name. The dialog box resembles the Open dialog box. You may have to change folders or drives to the location where the file is stored. Click the file name to preview the image and double-click to insert it into your document. The picture is inserted into the document wherever the insertion point was located. Because the picture is ... (view more)

Microsoft Outlook tries to be very helpful and keeps track of the people that you correspond with. There are pros and cons to this behavior, however. On the plus side, Outlook remembers addresses you've used in the past, even if you have never ... stored them as Contacts and you can retrieve them by typing only the first few letters. The cons however, go on for a bit. The worst is that as you update your contacts, the AutoComplete name cache file remains static. So even though you have changed Aunt Mary's address several times in the last year, the one Outlook suggests when you start typing Mary ... (view more)

Have you ever taken a good, long, hard look at everything stored on your computer? Chances are there are heaps of redundant and unnecessary files that are taking up valuable disk space and cluttering up your file system. Why are they there? What's ... their purpose? And how in the world did they get on your PC in the first place? If you've owned a computer for any length of time, you have inevitably downloaded, installed, and later gotten rid of program after program. What you may not realize, though, is that uninstalling a program often leaves you with "leftovers." Now, you'd think that the " ... (view more)

Infopackets Reader Paul D. writes: " Dear Infopackets Team, I was impressed by the reviews of Genie Backup that I read through infopackets. However, one thing is unclear: can Genie Backup Manager (GBM) also backup installed programs and ... applications? I ask this because backing up an installed program is not as obvious as just copying over the folder where the program is installed to; it is a well known fact that many programs install to multiple [unknown] locations on a PC, including the system registry. I have Paint Shop Pro 9 and a few other applications I'd like to backup but am worried ... (view more)