Undelete Plus: Recover Deleted Files Easily and Free!
When you delete a file on your Windows system, its contents are not really wiped off the hard drive right away, even after you empty the Recycle Bin. This quirk is a double-edged sword because, it lets someone unerase information you intended to delete and by the same [...]

Hotkeys Review: Add more shortcuts to your keyboard!
The Windows key is one of the most powerful keys on our keyboards. And yet many of us use it for just a couple of quick shortcuts or neglect it altogether. 
Tapping the Windows key brings up your start menu.Win+E starts Explorer, Win+D immediately minimizes all open windows and gives you immediate access to your desktop. Pressing Win+D [...]

FlickrDown: Download images from Flickr in bulk!
Flickr is undoubtedly one of the most popular online photo storage sites today. But it can be a pain to navigate because of the number of clicks and page loads involved . Here are two tools, both of which provide easy alternatives to browse and download images off Flickr, without clicking on a bazillion links. [...]

StartupMonitor review: Guard your System Startup in Realtime
There are programs that invite themselves into your system’s ’Startup’ folder or one of the startup locations within your registry behind your back. Almost all trojans put themselves into your system startup so that they can get activated even after you restart your machine. Whether a program putting itself into your system startup is [...]

KillProcess Review: Terminate useless processes to get the best out of your machine
No matter how powerful your system is, there’s always that one game, graphics/3D app that’ll suck up every last ounce of power it can get. Even non-demanding applications like Microsoft Word will show you a completely different side to them if you give them a highly demanding task. [...]

Find out the codec required to play a particular media file
Every once in a while a video file won’t play. The reason, very often, is that you don’t have the right codec installed. Simply put, a codec is a bit of software that translates the contents of a video file to something your video player understands. If you don’t have the codec your [...]

Syslock Review: Cleaning the system while it’s on!
Do you ever need to quickly clean your keyboard or mouse while the PC’s still running? Here’s a great way to do this without shutting down your PC or playing a bizarre digital version of Russian roulette, risking the possibility of something crazy happening coz you pressed the wrong keys at the wrong time. 
Syslock is a small freeware utility which, [...]

Review: Visual Task Tips
Visual Task Tips is a free Taskbar enhancement for Windows XP. When you hover over a task, it displays a cached snapshot preview for minimized windows. It displays realtime previews for non-minimized windows that lie in the background.

Microsoft has this functionality built into Windows Vista but if you’d rather not wait till you upgrade just [...]

Batch File Renaming Utilities

 
Lifehacker, recently picked up a CNET post titled “Rename your digital photos automatically in Windows XP.”
The author basically shows us a quick hack to rename multiple files in XP.
1. Select the files you need renamed2. Right click on any one of the selected files3. Select Rename (you’d never have guessed!)4. Key in the new file name (Eg: “Vacation.jpg”), press enter [...]

MyUninstaller Review: A free alternative to the Windows Add/Remove Programs applet
The Add or Remove Programs applet is an important component bundled with Windows. However, as you install more applications on your system it starts slowing down. On a fully loaded Windows machine it can take quite a while to start up. It provides limited (often faulty) information and for reasons [...]