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Tiny application Glass CMD for Vista forces command prompt windows to use Aero’s glass transparency effect.

Preme is a Windows 7 shortcut utility that adds new and unique keyboard and mouse shortcuts, including a handful of useful ways to interact with windows using your mouse’s scroll wheel.

Pir is a lightweight Windows application that creates text lists of folders and directories for exporting—handy for quickly sending a friend lists of your music collection or ripped movies.

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Microsoft’s FixIt solutions generally work well, but sometimes they just take way too long to run — especially on Vista and Windows 7. Some of them also require a little more interaction than I’d prefer: I know where the registry key is to fix that stupid bug where DVD drives disappear from My Computer, I [...]

Nothing beats a full-on system backup for making sure you’ve got duplicates of all your important stuff. Free utility Back4Sure is a simple but powerful tool for quickly, incrementally backing up important files to external drives from anywhere.

CCleaner has been one of my most used (and most trusted) apps for years. The same goes for Defraggler. There’s no denying that the crew at Piriform really knows how to make useful little programs.

Saving a webpage as a PDF shouldn’t be as hard as it is. If you’re on a Mac, you’ve got the built-in print-as-PDF function, but what of other operating systems? PDFmyURL is a web-based tool that converts any page to PDF format, on any operating system, and with hardly any fuss.

Credit Karma, a site that looks to help consumers understand, track, and improve their credit scores, has raised a $2.5 million Series A funding round led by QED Investors, with participation from SV Angel, Aydin Senkut, and Founders Fund, via FF Angel.

The WinVistaClub forum walks through a simple registry hack to empty a folder right from the Windows context menu-a time saving tweak for cleaning up your clutter.