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Disable Office 2010 Splash Screens? How to Automatically Download Movies as Soon as They're Released with CouchPotato. (1) Sync Outlook - CodeTwo Outlook Sync - Easily share Outlook between two computers. Quick Access Bar for Windows. Create Desktop Shortcuts easily in Windows 7 & Vista with Handy Shortcuts.

We are pleased to release Handy Shortcuts. This freeware portable app will help you create the oft-used desktop shortcuts for your Windows desktops easily. With a click it can create the following shortcuts on your Windows desktop: Lock WorkStation, Switch Account. Shutdown, Restart, Log Off, Hibernate, Show Desktop, Uninstall Programs, Device Manager, Security Center, Windows Defender, Windows DVD maker, Flip 3D, Launch Screen-saver, Disable Windows Firewall, Enable Windows Firewall, Clear Clipboard, Connect to Internet, Safely Remove Hardware and a Master Control Panel.

Handy Shortcuts has been created by Ritesh Kawadkar for The Windows Club, and has been tested on Windows 7 & Vista, 32-bit & 64-bit. If you need to give feedback, please visit TWCF thread. You may want to check out our other freeware releases like FixWin, Ultimate Windows Tweaker, Quick Restore Maker, Windows 7 Start Button Changer etc HERE. The utility for virtual desktops. QTTabBar - QuizoApps.

Minibin - e-sushi™ - design beyond communication. Zetro VS 1.0 by ~pisadeviant on deviantART. Adobe PDF preview handler 64-bit fix. Fixes for 64-bit Adobe Reader preview handler and thumbnails [Update 02/May/2011: New version of the thumbnail fix which hopefully fixes PDF thumbnails appearing for the wrong files. Note the instructions about clearing your thumbnail cache.] [Update 10/Feb/2011: Just a note to say that, yes, the fix works with Adobe Reader X.] [Update 02/May/2010: Added a note that the preview handler fix may still need to be run once, even after installing Adobe Reader 9.3.2, on machines which were upgraded from Vista to Windows 7.

Thanks to Jonathan Van Dusen for the heads up.] [Update 28/Apr/2010: Page and tools updated for Adobe Reader 9.3.2 and Office 2010 RTM. Contents: Introduction: This page contains simple fixes for Adobe's PDF preview handler and thumbnails on 64-bit versions of Windows. Before I looked into this, people had been complaining about it for over two years with no official response. Preview Handler It turned out the problem could be fixed via a simple registry change. Thumbnails Rant: Eraser. Use Google Contacts as a Unified Address Book. How to Boost Your BitTorrent Speed and Privacy. How to Add Google Documents to the Windows Explorer “New” Menu. We’ve already shown you how to create shortcuts to create new Google Docs easily, but what if you want total Windows integration? Here’s how to add them to the Windows Explorer “New” menu for easier access. This should work for all versions of Windows, and you can modify it to work with Google Apps for your Domain as well.

Keep reading for the full instructions. Import the Registry Hack The first step is to download and extract the package we’ve provided at the end of the article. Just double-click on the AddGoogleDocsToNewMenu.reg file, provided in the zip file at the bottom of the article, and you’ll see a message saying it was successful. You aren’t done yet! Copy the Icons and Runner Application I’ve created a set of icons and a tiny runner application, which does nothing more than launch whatever your default browser is. Run, %1% You’ll need to copy the 4 icons and the googledocsrunner.exe and put them all into your Windows directory.

Go ahead, test it out! Removing the Registry Hack. How to Transform Your Windows Desktop with an Amazing Windows Phone 7-Style HUD. HTC Home for Windows. Soluto – Anti-Frustration Software. The utility for virtual desktops. Get Mac-Like Scrolling and Gestures on a Windows Laptop - Lifehacker. AutoIt v3 - Automate and Script Windows Tasks - For Free! AutoIt v3 is a freeware BASIC-like scripting language designed for automating the Windows GUI and general scripting. It uses a combination of simulated keystrokes, mouse movement and window/control manipulation in order to automate tasks in a way not possible or reliable with other languages (e.g. VBScript and SendKeys). AutoIt is also very small, self-contained and will run on all versions of Windows out-of-the-box with no annoying “runtimes” required! AutoIt was initially designed for PC “roll out” situations to reliably automate and configure thousands of PCs.

Features: AutoIt has been designed to be as small as possible and stand-alone with no external .dll files or registry entries required making it safe to use on Servers. Also supplied is a combined COM and DLL version of AutoIt called AutoItX that allows you to add the unique features of AutoIt to your own favourite scripting or programming languages! Take me to the downloads page! Features Basic-like Syntax and Rich Function Set ).