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Toggle Hide File Extensions In Windows Via Right Click Context Menu

Hiding File Extensions in windows is a some settings which one need to toggle on and off, as sometimes it is necessary to see the file extension to recognize the file and program which can open the same in windows.

Read Also: Hide your private files with FileHide On Mobile Phone 

But turning the setting of hide extensions for known files types on or off, you will need to manually open the windows explorer go to File Menu >> Tools >> Folder Options and then click the view tab and under view tab you will need to locate the setting which says hide extensions for known files types

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Rather, avoiding this whole tedious process you can install a free shell extension which will work on xp, vista and windows 7 also. This shell extension is called FileExtToggle.

Additional Tip: Hide Files and Folder In USB Portable Drive For Free

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NetShareMonitor – Monitor Your Shared Folders Being Accessed By Others

NetShareMonitor is a free to use application which allows you to watch your shared folder being accessed and you can also protect your shared folders from unauthorized access.

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It will detect when ever a remote user connects to your machine to access your shared folders. It will provide the session information includes remote host address, remote user name, list of accessed files and time of connection.

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DeskLock – Lock Desktop Icons – Prevent The Movement Of Desktop Icons – Fix Desktop Layout

One of the most annoying this I had experienced in windows is when ever I play a game on my desktop or laptop after resuming back from the game. I was used to find my desktop cluttered and all the desktop icons scattered every where.

This was really frustrating for me, as I had to rearrange them on the desktop area for easy accessibility. DeskLock is such free software which lets you lock your desktop icons locations so that they can not move from the specified positions you had set.

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You just need to make sure that this small utility is running in the system tray and irrespective of what ever you do the desktop icons will not move from their locations

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Hidden File Scanner – Search and Locate Hidden Files On Your Computer

Hidden files are one the most suspicious files on any windows computer which could be dangerous or private as either they might be created by the virus or by the user who is using the computer.

If some virus infect your computer it will create some hidden files including the virus autorun.inf file and other executable which could be responsible to keep the virus active, as you cant see those files so cant delete those virus executables.

Hidden File Scanner solves the problem as it allows you see and delete the hidden files on your windows computer even if show hidden files and folder is turned off.

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One the dangerous files created by several viruses these days is autorun.inf files and this program will automatically rate the autorun.inf found hidden files as normal, hidden, suspicious or dangerous file.

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PowerOff – Remotely Power Off Windows Machines Across The Network

PowerOff is a free to use tool which lets you power off any computer connected to your network from anywhere, however in order to power down any computer of your network the username with which you are logon has to be part of the local administrative group.

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This is actually a command line utility, the executable should be placed in C:/windows to install and add it to the windows command, or just browse to any directory where the program executable poweroff.exe is placed. We had previously written about a utility called LanShutDown which solves the same purpose of shutdown the system on the LAN network.

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Download Free Windows Media Player Codec Pack Full Setup – Play Any Video In Windows Media Player

We all have windows media player installed on our windows computers, but many times it may happen when you try to play a video file with windows media player and it does not play the file rather throws the error codec required to play the file cannot be found and it will need to download the codec first and then play the file.

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Vista Codec Pack allows you to play any format video in your very own windows media player, so you don’t need to install any other media player like vlc or klite codec pack to play videos of any other format for which windows media player does not have codecs by default.

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WinLoadFast – No More Waiting For Windows Start-up Programs

WinLoadFast is a free to use tool which lets you perform task while the windows startup programs keep loading in the background. It lets you solve the problem of waiting in windows till the startup programs load.

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You just need to make sure that it is running and the icon of the program is shown in the system tray, so make sure to add it to the system startup.

Additional Tip: WhatInStartup – Enable / Disable / Delete Programs In Windows Startup

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Desk Topmost – Access The Floating Desktop With Pressing Show Desktop and Without Minimizing The Opened Applications

It happens sometimes when you need to access the desktop for some reason but you have a large list of opened programs and windows which cannot be minimized so easily and quickly.

So, when you press Show Desktop the taskbar or press Window+D to access the desktop it takes time as it will need to minimize all the opened programs and windows, but with Desk Topmost you can access the desktop icons and other files without minimising the opened windows.

Desk Topmost allows you to access the desktop in the floating mode by making all the opened windows transparent and lets you see the desktop icons and files in the translucent mode. (as shown in the image below)

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The default hotkey to access the desktop without minimizing the opened applications and windows is Ctrl+Alt+D . It will keep running the system tray with a small show desktop icon.

Read Also: How to restore show desktop icon in quick launch in windows xp