Tinywall (1.44MB): Windows Firewall is already built into the operating system, so one can argue that there really isn’t any reason to use this tool. Of course, you also have complete control over the colours-based on your ambient lighting-you choose and their intensity. F.lux () also uses your location to figure out the time to automatically adjust the colour tone, contrast and overall brightness of your screen. If aren’t aware, long hours in front of a bright screen also affects our sleep-wake cycle or circadian rhythm. It adjusts your PC’s brightness and colour settings to reduce eye strain. F.lux (642KB): This little utility is probably more important than it has ever been. Besides cropping, adjusting exposure and filters, Fotografix (/fotografix/) includes drawing tools (with brushes), selection tools and support for working in Photoshop-like layers. Fotografix (355KB): This is a photo-editing tool that is incredibly small yet includes all the necessary features required to touch up photos and more. You can annotate the screen grabs, label them and add blur parts of it as well. You can assign keyboard shortcuts to take screenshots of a selected region and an entire web page. Greenshot (1.75MB): Windows has its own screenshot utility (Snipping Tool), but you can get more done with the lightweight Greenshot (). You can use AnyBurn too, but this is more than enough if you already have the image files on your computer.
All you need to do is browse to the image file (ISO file) you have downloaded and plug in a USB drive before starting the process. Rufus Drive (1.1MB): Rufus Drive (rufus.ie) is a great little for making USB bootable drives in a jiffy. This is especially useful when you want to check out Linux distributions. The latter are ‘images’ of a CD/DVD and the only way you can open one is with a tool like VCD (It creates a virtual CD/DVD drive - up to 15, if you want - on the computer, so that you can load and browse the contents of the image files. Virtual CloneDrive (1.72MB): This one is for computers that do not have an optical drive or have a file in ISO, BIN and UDF format. AnyBurn (will also let you copy audio CDs to popular music formats (MP3, Flac, WAV) and create bootable USB drives.
AnyBurn (1.78MB): Our use of optical discs has reduced a lot, thanks to higher-capacity storage and USB pen drives, but you may need a CD/DVD-burning tool once a while. It also lets you open more formats such as RAR, CAB, CHM and VHD. However, you can use a more efficient tool like 7-Zip (to do the same thing, but compress the file into to other popular archival formats including 7z, WIM, TAR.
7-Zip (1.37MB): Windows has its own archival tool built-in that lets you compress files into a ZIP file.
The size of these boxes are proportional to the amount of space they occupy, thereby making it easier to free up space on your hard drive. File types are assigned a colour and are shown as rectangles in the map. It scans the partitions to display a visual map of the contents of your hard drive.
WinDirStat (630KB): If you’re wondering what’s clogging your hard drives then install WinDirStat (). You can insert a words, replace existing only certain portions of the file name and, if it is pictures your are working with, you can even include the photo’s Exif info. This utility make it easier to rename multiple file names with minimum effort. Ant Renamer (1.14MB): Like FastCopy, Ant Renamer (antp.be/software/renamer) augments the Windows Explorer’s functionality. Special ‘include’ and ‘exclude’ – not untuitive – options let you filter out certain files mid-way. Disabling the non-stop feature will also allow you to play/pause the file transfers mid-way. You can enter multiple source folders to transfer more than one file to another storage drive. The user interface, however, is dated and will take some time to figure out. FastCopy (1.85MB): FastCopy (fastcopy.jp/en/), as its name suggests, transfers files from the source to the specified destination folder faster than the stock file manager app.