When moving, copying, pasting, browsing, and getting information about your files feels like tedious work—and it can in the feature-sparse Windows Explorer—you need some power add-ons that can help. Instead of completely replacing Windows Explorer with an alternative file manager, you can pick and choose the extra features you want and add them piecemeal. Let’s take a look at some free power add-ons for Windows Explorer that make dealing with your growing file collection faster and easier. Read the rest of this entry »

Easeus Partition Manager is a comprehensive hard disk volume or partition management tool similar to Partition Magic that serves as the replacement for Windows built-in Disk Management user interface. Easeus Partition Manager provides all types of basic and advanced functions such as ability to resize and move partitions, create, delete and format partitions, hide and unhide partitions, supports RAID and much more.

Key Features of Easeus Partition Manager:

• Support hardware RAID
• Resize and move partitions without losing data
• Create and delete partitions with simple step
• Label partitions - assigned to a partition for easier recognition
• Format partitions with a click
• View Disk/Partition property of each partition
• Hide and unhide partitions - protect important data from unauthorized or casual access
• Set an active partition - specify one partition to be the boot partition
• Preview the effects of partitioning a hard drive before implementing anything
• Change cluster size automatically and manually
• Support hard disks from 20GB to 800GB
• User-friendly interface

Easeus Partition Manager Personal Edition is free for home users for unlimited usage without restriction. Every person can download and install Easeus Partition Manager for personal use. However, Personal Edition of Easeus Partition Manager only supports Windows XP and Windows 2000 SP4, but not Windows Server 2003 Server or Windows 2000 Server and Advanced Server editions. Read the rest of this entry »

The video above from DIY web site Instructables demonstrates four different CD spindle-repurposing projects from start-to-finish. We’ve seen variations on most of these projects before, like the toilet paper dispenser, bagel holder, and cable organizer, but the video provides step-by-step instructions and a few clever tweaks for alternate uses. The bagel holder, for example, Read the rest of this entry »

Windows only: Free application Game XP tweaks your computer’s performance by adjusting system settings, CPU priorities, and disabling unnecessary Windows services. As the name suggests, Game XP was developed with gaming in mind. It’s not an application you’ll run all the time, but if you’re launching a CPU-intense app—like a game, for example—Game XP makes quick tweaks to optimize your system and improve your Read the rest of this entry »

As hard drives grow ever cheaper and capacious, keeping track of every file single file is a job suited to no one. Luckily desktop search applications have improved in leaps and bounds beyond the useless Windows file search dialog of yesteryear, leaving users with a wealth of free and diverse desktop search tools at their fingertips. On Tuesday we asked you about your favorite desktop search application, and today we’re back with the five most popular answers. Keep reading for a detailed look at the five best desktop search applications, then vote for the app you like best. Read the rest of this entry »

Edison is a new and free energy-saving PC software from the developers at Verdiem. The software makes it a lot easier for you to control your computers power saving features helping you save electricity and money.

Edison doesn’t shut down your computer completely; it just puts it in a “suspend mode” which uses much less energy than if the computer would be running normally. You can decide if you want to schedule Edison to shut down the computer screen and hard drive before going into the suspend mode. The software also displays how much electricity, CO2 emissions, and money you have saved. Read the rest of this entry »

Your crafty older relatives used to have to mail-order their video tutorials or wait for “This Old House” reruns to get their DIY on, but the age of streaming video has been good to those who like to tinker and try out neat tricks. From prying open beer bottles with telephone bills to picking locks, from sealing chips to folding T-shirts, we’ve posted a lot of concise but instructive clips at Lifehacker. Today we’re featuring 10 of our favorites, chosen for the tricks they teach as well as their watchable quality. Get ready to fill some weekend project time. Read the rest of this entry »