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Windows 8: Extended Wallpaper And Taskbar Across Dual Monitors

After years of offering only the bare minimum dual monitor support with its operating systems, Microsoft has finally decided to change things for the better. The recently released Developer’s Preview of Windows 8 has added better dual-monitor support natively to the OS, letting you extend your wallpaper across multiple monitors as well as extending your [...] (more…)

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Dual Monitor Taskbar Adds Workable Windows 7 Taskbar To Second Monitor

When working with dual monitors it can be quite a hurdle to deal with an extended display without an extra taskbar. Dual Monitor resolves this problem by providing an extended taskbar for your second monitor. This extended taskbar is fully functional just like your primary taskbar, complete with time/date display and notification area. (more…)

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Pomodo7o Shows Remaining Work Time Using Windows 7 Taskbar Progress

Pomodoro is a productivity enhancement technique, which is meant to help you focus on completing tasks within a set time frame. Assuming “time is money”, what better way to utilize this asset then to use the Pomodoro application. Yesterday, we covered Tomighty, which sets a timer to help you complete a task within a set [...] (more…)

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Pin Web Apps To Windows 7 Taskbar With Pokki

As more and more utilities are being moved to the cloud, it is become imperative to integrate cloud based services within the desktop environment of operating systems. For starters, how about pinning web apps to the Windows 7 taskbar? Pokki is an application built on the Chromium framework, which enables developers to build web applications [...] (more…)

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Auto Hide Desktop Icons And Taskbar In Windows, Alternative To Fences

Many users use Fences to organize their desktop and to temporarily hide their icons for taking screenshots or simply enjoying more of their desktop wallpaper. Auto Hide Desktop Icons is a portable application which hides both desktop icons and taskbar. This is done by settings a timer which hides the taskbar and desktop icons according to [...] (more…)

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How To Get Classic Start Menu In Windows 7

Despite the availability of dynamic options in new operating systems, the resistance to change seems to be an important behavioral factor for end users. Many users (including me), resorted to using the classic start menu in Windows XP and Windows Vista. Unfortunately, this feature was scrapped from Windows 7, which left a lot of user [...] (more…)

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Adjust The Transparency Of Windows 7 Taskbar With Taskbar Transparency

Taskbar Transparency is a portable application which allows adjusting the transparency of the Windows 7 taskbar. This way you can easily tweak taskbar transparency for allowing under lying wallpapers to provide a background for your taskbar. (more…)

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Fully Customize And Tweak Windows Taskbar With Ultimate Taskbar Controller

Ultimate Taskbar Controller is a portable application which provides adjusting taskbar settings with a single click. It provides those options which are not natively present within Windows operating systems such as hiding the clock and taskbar icons. With Ultimate Taskbar Controller, you can, give space between volume and clock, view only a single clock in [...] (more…)

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Add Windows 8 Taskbar User Profile Picture In Windows 7 Taskbar

As news of Windows 8 new build-in features gets out every day, some developers have begun creating applications which emulate the Windows 8 leaked features like functionality. Recently, we heard that Windows Live will be integrated in system notification area of Windows 8. The developer AngleWZR over at deviantArt has recently created a small utility [...] (more…)

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Group And Organize Program Icons In Windows 7 Taskbar With Bins

Among many great features of Windows 7, the option to pin items to the taskbar (also called superbar) is of immense convenience. It is far more flexible than the quick launch option that was previously present in earlier Windows versions like XP and Vista. However, if one has too many items pinned to the taskbar, [...] (more…)

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Monitor CPU Temperature From Windows 7 Taskbar With Temp Taskbar

Temp Taskbar is a portable tool for Windows 7 that allows monitoring system temperature from the taskbar. You can assign custom colors and temperature levels for easy monitoring. These colors change your taskbar color according to CPU (average of all cores) temperature. This can be quite helpful for keeping an eye of the system temperature [...] (more…)

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Increase Taskbar Preview With Windows 7 Taskbar Big Preview

A great feature of Windows 7 is the taskbar preview. However, unfortunately Windows 7 does not provide any option to increase the size of this preview. The default preview size can create a bit of confusion to identify the right window when one has many side by side stacked windows of the same application (e.g. [...] (more…)