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How to show Folder Size in Windows Explorer

Pressing (Win + E) keys launches Windows Explorer for easy browsing of contents including drives, folders and files. While files have size listing under size column (in detailed view), there is no size display for folders while viewing in Windows Explorer. Free utility 'Folder Size' can

How to edit Windows Hosts file IP addresses

Windows Hosts [WinHosts] file contain mapping of IP addresses for specific domain URLs (For example: 127.0.0.1 localhost). You can edit to add or remove specific IP address and respective domain URLs on Windows computer throught WinHosts file. Such IP address editing has lot of uses like

Drag drop to arrange, hide buttons on Taskbar

Taskbar contents on Windows are very strict with limited movement. Using Taskbar Ext utility, you can arrange and manage taskbar with simple drag drop routine. You can easily drag buttons to arrange them at specific required position. To get started: download, unzip and double click to

Remove items in ‘New’ right click explorer menu

Right click on empty space on desktop or in a folder and then point to "New" option. Do you see huge list of items listed under 'New" right click explorer menu? ShellMenuNew is very easy to use portable utility to trim down list of items under 'new' explorer menu. You can disable to remove

Change ‘Created & Modified’ date & time of any file

Right click on any file (say image file) and then click on properties option. File properties dialog box will show "create and modified" date and time of that specific file. You can easily change this information for any file on your computer. We have already seen NewFile Time utility for

Hide taskbar with keyboard shortcut hotkey

Do you want to hide taskbar on Windows computer with quick hotkey? "Taskbar Hider" is a free portable utility to get this feature on Windows. Using this utility you can hide taskbar and make it re-appear using keyboard shortcut hotkey anytime while working on the computer. Hide, UnHide

Customize USB drive icon & background image

USB pen drive are very common and easy way to transfer data. USB Personalizer is a free portable tool to customize looks of USB pen drive. You can add new icon to USB drive and change background image of folders. It has easy to use interface to select any icon or background image for

Change file & folder ownership information in Windows

Do you want to quickly change ownership information of a specific file or a folder containing multiple files? File Owner Changer 'chown' is a free portable utility that makes this all easy and quick. It has simple interface allowing you to select any file / folder and then assign specific

Multiple Windows Explorer in Windows 7

Windows Explorer is a handy Windows operating system feature to access files and folders quickly. You can add one more Explorer window for easy and quick access to files and folder. This is possible in Windows 7 operating system using "Windows Double Explorer" utility (available in

Backup & restore Clipboard data

By default, Windows clipboard can only store last copied data, which is available for quick paste. Do you want to recover clipboard data copied previous to last copy action? WinKlipper utility makes this all easy to backup and restore previous clipboard data. It is similar to Clips Windows

Format drive volume larger than 32GB as FAT 32

By default Windows does not allows you to format volume drive larger than 32GB as FAT 32 file system. Fat32 Format is a portable utility that allows you to overcome this size limitation. Using this utility you can format volume drives with large size as FAT32 file system. It for sure

How to change default USB pen drive Icon

Are you bored of usual USB flash drive icon? Well, you can easily give makeover to icon of USB drive and use any image as its icon. Whole procedure involves 3 lines of simple code and new icon image that you want to use instead of default USB flash drive icon. Change to new USB drive