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Using Remote Desktop with Dual Monitors | SplitView
How to set up remote desktop to span multiple screens with Vista. Includes instructions on how to create an RDP profile so you can open the spanning session easily.
Download details: SyncToy v2.0
A good, free utility for Windows that allows you to set up synchronization between shares on a network or local folders. It doesn't have auto-sync but you can set it up to run with the Windows scheduler.
Junction Link Magic
A nice, simple utility for setting up junction points on NTFS systems by wrapping the LinkD command. Auto-sync two directories on your computer or computer to mapped volume. Much easier than doing things via the command line. Free too!
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A GUI utility for creating junction points in Windows. An alternative to the commandline Linkd that comes with the Windows Resource Kit.
- bluecockatoo on 2008-02-23
Featured Windows Download: Ashampoo Burning Studio Free Handles All Your Burning Needs
"Windows only: Free application Ashampoo Burning Studio Free is yet-another CD and DVD burning utility. Ashampoo handles virtually any burning need, from music CDs and video DVDs (Blu-ray support included) to data discs. It also supports burning compressed and encrypted backup discs. Granted, there are already plenty of burning utilities already available, but for anyone who remembers how difficult it used to be to find a free app to handle this sort of thing (i.e., not Roxio), the more options the merrier."
FileMenu Tools
A tool that allows you to modify the context menus when using File Explorer in Windows. Add new functionality for common tasks such as batch renaming, deleting files that are locked, synchronizing folders and opening the command line window from the current path.
Rightload: About Rightload - Upload files from your right-click menu
Rightload is a small program that allows you to quickly upload files directly from a Windows folder to your server. Instead of using complicated software just to upload a few pictures, you just right-click on the files, select the server and target folder and Rightload will do the rest for you.
exe installer for AIR runtime and program - ActionScript.org Forums
Code snippet that lets you add the ability to check whether Adobe Air runtime is installed on a Windows computer before installing your own app package. Requires that you get permission from Adobe to redistribute the runtime with your app first.
Pencil - a traditional 2D animation software
"Pencil is an animation/drawing software for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux. It lets you create traditional hand-drawn animation (cartoon) using both bitmap and vector graphics. Pencil is free and open source. "
TrueCrypt - Free Open-Source On-The-Fly Disk Encryption Software for Windows Vista/XP, Mac OS X and Linux
- "# Creates a virtual encrypted disk within a file and mounts it as a real disk. # Encrypts an entire hard disk partition or a device, such as USB flash drive. # Encryption is automatic, real-time (on-the-fly) and transparent." - bluecockatoo on 2006-08-23
N.E.R.D.: Backup your present windows Device Drivers
A free app that will back up your device driver information on Windows so you can restore it when you install something and it totally screws up everything.
Geek To Live: Compare and merge files and folders with WinMerge
Tutorial about WinMerge, a tool to help you find and remove duplicates of files on your computer to help save space. Definitely need to use this sucker with the various emergency dumps from various computers I've done on the external harddrives I have now.
Tech Facts at Your Fingertips | Refcardz
Nice topical reference materials and guides you can download as PDF. Free with registration to dZone which isn't a horrible thing. :)
File Recovery: How to Recover Deleted Files with Free Software
A good tutorial with steps on how to recover several different types of files from several different media.
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - How I Found 4GB of "Lost" Space on my HardDrive (Thanks WinDirStat)
How to use the WinDirStat diagnositic tool to figure out where that extra harddrive space has vanished to.
Password Safe
A free, opensource, software app that keeps track of your accounts and passwords for an unlimited number of services. The problem is that if you use multiple computers all your passwords don't come with you...
HP Smart Web Printing enables simple, predictable web page printing.
What a great idea! A tool that lets you format things you want to print from a web page into a single document of only the things you need to save paper when you're printing it all out. Combine this with PrimoPDF and you've got a great way to archive the stuff you find on the web that might go away tomorrow like Photoshop tutorials.
Folder View adds recent and favorite folders to Windows Explorer - Download Squad
A utility for Windows Explorer that adds a toolbar that you can add folders you access a lot and also keeps track of your most recent open folders. Great when you accidentally close a folder window that's ten clicks deep.
File Unlocker
A tool for Windows that lets you finally delete that file/folder that it keeps telling you is being used but you swear is not.
- Finally, a way to get Windows to delete the *&^%$#! file already!! - bluecockatoo on 2006-08-23
Windows Shortcuts
A list of the application names to run from the commandline for most of the control panel stuff and other utilities.
Litmus Labs: CSSVista
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A freeware tool for Windows that lets you edit CSS files and view the results in IE and FF simultaneously. Handy for cross-browser debugging.
- bluecockatoo on 2008-01-18
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