Certain applications have the option of keeping the window always on top which is helpful in many situations like watching movies when working on something in the background.
This feature is available to many applications but not all, but if you wish that your download window should remain always on top, you can easily make that [...]
I have been using Windows XP for a long time now but the day I started using Windows 7, it interested me more than XP. It has several better features and one such is the Taskbar thumbnail view of the different applications installed in the system.
This tool called Windows 7 Taskbar Thumbnail Customizer will allow [...]
Running multiple applications simultaneously, no doubt, slows down the system but also clutters the taskbar. So if you have a habit of keeping the taskbar clean and tidy then you can make the applications minimize directly to the desktop and not to the taskbar as usually is.
The tool is called miniMIZE and what it does [...]
For the people with bigger screens who like to see the bigger Thumbnails for the Images, documents and folders etc, here is a trick to change the size (increase or decrease) of the Thumbnail Preview in Windows Explorer.
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Increasing the preview size will show a bigger preview of the Thumbnails preventing the need to open the [...]
To view an image we used to either open it or see its preview in the thumbnail view but this involves lot of work. All the images of same format say JPG looks same so we have to either open them or rename them accordingly. What about a software that generate the preview of the [...]
Likewise the movie formats avi, wmv etc the Adobe PDF files can also made to either show or disable the thumbnail preview in the explorer.
While the PDF thumbnail preview is enabled for most of the users by default, but if it is not the case with you then you can make it show.
To enable or [...]
We have many videos with us and in many formats. There are so many video formats available today that sometimes it becomes very confusing as well. The most popular video formats are .avi, .wmv, .mpg but there are many others like .flv, .mp4 and .vob
While you can play avi and other formats directly, you need [...]
We must have seen this special file “thumbs.db” in our systems but do we know what is this and what is it doing in our system?
Thumbs.db is a small file mostly seen in folders or directories. This file is a cache of all the pictures and images in the directory (if present). Thumbs.db helps the [...]
