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Classic Shutdown For Windows 8 1.0 Have you recently upgraded to Windows 8 and find yourself missing the classic shutdown screen? If you want to revive the shutdown screen seen in Windows XP, Vista, and Windows 7, then check out this free and ... easy-to-use tool. http://www.trishtech.com Linkman Lite 8.8 Having a hard time keeping track of all of your favorite links and bookmarks? This program helps you organize your bookmarks across a number of popular Internet browsers, including Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, and Mozilla Firefox! http://www.outertech.com This freeware software program is ... (view more)

Wise Auto Shutdown As the name suggests, this free software utility allows you to schedule when your Windows computer will shut down. In addition, this useful tool can also be used to schedule a computer restart, to log off, and to put your computer ... to sleep. The computer displays a warning five minutes before a scheduled task begins. http://www.wisecleaner.com Little Alarm Clock 0.4 This open source and free-to-use program functions just like an alarm clock, with a wide range of handy features. It offers a snooze button and automatic startup when you boot your computer, plus you can program ... (view more)

Here's a great question we recently received from a loyal Infopackets subscriber: "Dear Infopackets Team, I just purchased a brand new Windows 8 PC. I was really excited to try out the new operating system, but I've been having trouble getting used ... to all the small changes. For example, it's been difficult figuring out just how I'm supposed to shut my new laptop down! Is there a way to do this quickly and easily? Thanks, Merrill B." My Response: When Microsoft introduced Windows 8's new user interface, it changed a great many operating system features. One major change: the shutdown process. ... (view more)

WinMend Auto Shutdown 1.3.4 WinMend Auto Shutdown is a freeware utility for Windows that lets you turn off your computer automatically. Specifically, it can shut down, hibernate, stand by, or log off the computer at a scheduled time. Multiple ... languages are supported. http://www.winmend.com Advanced Renamer 3.53 Advanced Renamer is a free Windows utility program for renaming multiple files and folders at once. By configuring renaming methods within this program, the names of files can be manipulated in various ways. With Advanced Renamer you can, for example, construct new file names by adding ... (view more)

SDS (Shutdown Scheduler) 2.44.1 This is a utility designed to help users automate the shutdown of their computer system, or the closing of specified applications. You can also use it to break a modem connection, restart, hibernate, or put your ... system in standby mode. You can command the software to perform your specified actions at a scheduled time, after a specified wait, when the computer sits idle for too long, or even when a specific application closes. http://happycomputer.pl theRenamer 7.57 This useful little utility program will automatically rename and organize files containing your ... (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)

Regdefrag Regdefrag optimizes the registry by removing gaps, fragments and wasted space in Windows registry files. http://www.regdefrag.com/ Remote Shutdown RemoteShutdown allows users to remotely (over their network) shut down and power off, ... restart or switch to standby mode any Windows NT/2000/XP Workstation or Server. In addition, you can specify a message which will be displayed before the computer will be shutdown and offer the user the option to cancel the shutdown. http://www.matcode.com/remoteshutdown.htm (view more)

Absolute Shutdown Tired of waiting 2 minutes for Windows to shut down or reboot? Windows is usually waiting a loooong time for programs, processes and services to close/stop before actually shutting down. Run this program once, and after a reboot, ... Windows will shut down and reboot much faster. The program changes the settings Windows use for closing/stopping programs and services. You may just delete the program after use. Designed for Windows 2000/Windows XP. http://www.edev.no/ Monkey Jam MonkeyJam is a digital pencil test program. It is designed to let you capture images from a webcam, ... (view more)

Recall -- A few weeks back, Infopackets Reader Ian B. asked if there was a way to make his Windows 98 computer shut down and power off: " I have a win 98 computer that used to shut off the power after a Start -> Shutdown command was clicked, but ... now it just stops at that the 'It is now safe to shut down your computer' screen. Can you advise if this is a hardware or software fault, please?" I responded to this question by writing 2 articles. In part 1, I commented on a number of reasons why Windows 98 might not shut down (I.E.: BIOS, device drivers, Power Management, and APM) and ... (view more)