Keeping track of all the movies that you own can be a tedious task especially if you also lend movies to friends and relatives. I’m someone who does not buy lots of movies and if I do I normally only buy them if they have been reduced in price which means that I’m not a likely candidate to organize my movie collection. A friend of mine on the other hand has literally thousands of movies and I would think that it could become awfully hard to keep track of the whole collection.

Coollector tries to help by providing an interface to organize and manage movie collections. The program is aimed at English movies only but can be used to include foreign releases as well. It requires more manual work though to add those. Each of the more than 43000 movies is listed with information about actors, plot, genre, directors and release versions and it only takes a click to add one of the movies to a movie collection.

Each aspect of the movie can be edited before it is added to the collection. The main way of finding movies is by using the build in search which can find movies and people.

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I discovered John’s Background Switcher in the excellent Donation Coder forum where the user y0himba posted a review of it. John’s Background Switcher is a software that can easily switch background images, also known as wallpapers, in a set interval on the users computer. What makes this software special is that it not only provides access to local images but incorporates several online services as well.

The online services it makes use of currently are Flickr, Phanfare, SmugMug, Picasa, Facebook and Yahoo. That’s a lot of additional - and may I add optional - content for the desktop. Basic controls are always the same. The user pics an interval which can be anything from 1 minute to x days. A border can be chosen for images that do not fit the full screen and settings for multi-monitor systems can be configured as well.

The user can then add pictures or folders from the local computer or pick one or multiple of the services. Wallpapers will be mixed from all sources and one will be randomly selected for each interval.

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Nwiz.exe is a component that gets installed when Nvidia video card drivers are installed on a system. It is automatically started with Windows which can be checked with the msconfig command. It is only beneficial on systems that use multiple monitors or tv out settings and can be easily disabled without causing ill or harm to the system.

This file can cause a high load on Windows systems because it seems to require a Registry key and if it cannot find that key it will constantly bombard the Registry with lookups, a thousand for instance of spawning a new window. Sounds crazy right ? Now the easiest way to check this out would be to install an application like Process Monitor and check if a lot of Registry calls are made that point to NVTweak \ DisableWindowCaching.

If that is the case you can either create a new DWORD DisableWindowCaching and set it to 0 or disable nwiz.exe from starting with Windows which is probably the best option if your system does not make use of multiple monitors.

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You might have heard of URLs before when someone referred to an Internet address as an URL. URL Protocols are for example http, mailto or ftp and they have to be registered on the system to be of any use. Each URL protocol is registered to a specific application that handles that type, the mailto protocol would for example be handled by the default mail program.

URL Protocol View displays all registered URL protocols on the system, along with a description and the path to the application that handles it. It also lists if the protocol is currently enabled on the host system.

The Nirsoft application provides an option to disable specific protocols on the system which can be useful to secure the system further. Does not make much sense to leave protocols enabled that are never used.

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Clone Spy is a free portable application that can detect file duplicates in a number of ways and react automatically or after user input on the discovery of such files. Duplicates are detected by comparing file checksums, names, sizes and a combination of those parameters. Clone Spy provides two distinctive ways of checking files for duplicates. The first is by selecting at least one folder from the system with the option to pick as many folders and subfolders as needed. Subfolders can be selected automatically by choosing to add all siblings folder of the selected folder.

Once the folders have been selected they can be immediately checked for duplicates. Once a duplicate has been detected it can be deleted or moved immediately. Other options include the creation of a list of duplicate files and the creation of a batch file. The second option is interesting as well. Files can be compared to checksum files that have been previously generated which results in a faster processing speed. Ideal for instance if you store files that will stay on your system and that you only add new files to.

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