Trim Those Control Panel Extensions with Visual Controls

Have you perused your Windows Control Panel lately? If you’re like most users you will probably find a half dozen or so third-party icons littered about the panel. Video card manufacturer NVIDIA is often guilty but software applications like Apple Quicktime or SUN Java aren’t far behind. Worse still, the pollution could be excusable if [...]

Generate a Listing of a Folder’s Content with CD to HTML

Like any responsible computer user, I maintain a backup set that contains all my important files so when - not if - something disastrous happens I’m covered. There are two groups of computer users: those that backup their data and those that have never lost an irreplaceable file. Let’s just say you don’t want to [...]

Automatically Swapping your Desktop Wallpaper

One of the first things that a user does to customize their computer is switching the wallpaper away from the Windows default. While Vista’s included wallpapers are the best to ship with Windows yet, they still get tiring soon enough. I love high quality wallpapers, usually of the outdoors and scenic variety - I probably [...]

Force Any Application to Run from the Windows Tray

Trayconizer is a light-weight program that provides functionality that allows just about any application to minimize and run from the Windows tray. While there are other utilities that provide this feature, Trayconizer is unique for the following reasons.

There is no installation, instead it is just a single executable.
It’s very minimal on system resource usage, right [...]

Unlock Restrictions on PDF Documents

Have you ever come across a PDF document that has restrictions applied to it that limit the usefulness of the document itself? Without the appropriate password, these special PDF documents can prevent you from printing, copying, or editing. Now, there are certainly a few cumbersome ways around this limitation - you could take a screenshot [...]