If you are like me you have some documents and files stored on the desktop for fast access. Some users may prefer to pin those files to the taskbar or start menu instead, or use a program and file launcher. When it comes to icons on the desktop you have only a few options to [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Quick Access Bar is a lightweight program for Windows that adds a toolbar with folder links to the top of the Windows desktop. The toolbar is displayed all the time by default, with options to auto-hide it in the program options. You first need to configure the folders and entries that you want to have [...]

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Before Windows 7, there was no option to align windows on the computer desktop. It was possible to maximize them but that was it. With Windows 7 Microsoft has started to add more controls to the user, so that it became possible to align windows on the right or left side of the screen. That [...]

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Microsoft has started to include windows desktop aligning capabilities in Windows 7, albeit basic in nature. Dragging a window to the right or left end of the screen will resize it so that it takes up half of the desktop space, the same can be achieved by pressing Windows-Right or Windows-Left on the keyboard while [...]

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If you are the guy that is getting all the tech calls from friends and family members whenever they encounter a computer problem you probably have heard about my computer icon related problems. Problems like “my computer icon is gone”, “my computer icon missing” or “my computer icon changed” are common and fixed easily with [...]

Categories: Tutorials Basic, Windows

A strange thing happened the other day on a Windows 7 Professional test system. All of the desktop icons that had been placed on the computer desktop were not visible anymore. No application or feature was changed to hide the visibility of the desktop icons manually and it is still not clear why it happened. [...]

Categories: Operating Systems, Windows

Remember BumpTop? We covered a tech demo of the 3D desktop technology back in 2006 and felt that it could be a great way of helping the user bring order to the desktop chaos. Unlike other projects of this kind this one was developed into a product that is now available as a free and [...]

Categories: Software, Uncategorized, Windows

Win Layout is another Windows desktop management software like Maxto, Taekwindow or Freesnap. The software program is completely portable and should run on most versions of the Windows operating system. The software program is placing an icon into the Windows System Tray that contains information about its functions and possibilities to kill the application if [...]

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Aero Peek is one of the new features that gets introduced in the new Microsoft operating system Windows 7 that is poised to come out later this year. Aero Peek actually refers to a set of features that are introduced, one of them with the ability to show the computer desktop hiding all active windows [...]

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