Small Helpers

Launchy is the most efficient way to open files, folders, websites, and programs on your computer.  Nobody likes to hunt through the start menu to find an application, just to find that the application is hidden under some obscure folder named after a company you have never heard of!  Instead,

Launchy is a smart sear ch program which tries to guess which program or file you are looking for and will launch it when you hit the enter key.  It is only visible when you hit the alt+space key combination; otherwise it hides in the background.  Once you have used it for a few days, it becomes an indispensable utility for your computer.  And it’s free!

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7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio. Absolutely free and ready to use for anybody, I use it more that a few years. Also it has handy command line version - I use this feature in my .bat files for automatically archive my source files, I am very lazy to find good backup software:)

The main features of 7-Zip

• High compression ratio in new 7z format with LZMA compression
• Supported formats:
  • Packing / unpacking: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR
  • Unpacking only: RAR, CAB, ISO, ARJ, LZH, CHM, Z, CPIO, RPM, DEB and NSIS
• For ZIP and GZIP formats, 7-Zip provides a compression ratio that is 2-10 % better than the ratio provided by PKZip and WinZip
• Self-extracting capability for 7z format
• Integration with Windows Shell
• Powerful File Manager
• Powerful command line version
• Plugin for FAR Manager
• Localizations for 63 languages

You can find a some bit of information about compression ratio at homepage.

You MUST read this very good article: Reinstall Windows and outfit your system with all freeware programs !

You can use lots of programs to view graphic files on your computer. Each of them has its advantages and disadvantages. Usualy people compare two-three programs and choose more handy tool among them. If you became accustomed to some tool, it is difficult for you to change it. But I recommend you to change your favourite tool to IrfanView (if it is not already your favourite tool ).
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Roboform is one of programs that help me to save time. It logs into web sites and fills forms instead of me. So I do not need to go manually to a web page, fill in login form, and even hit “submit” button. Roboform does it himself.
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I have one damned habit, every time when I see the full Recycle Bin my hand automatically cleans it:( Some times ago this habit caused a big embarrassment for me. I work at alien PC in office where works my friend. I emptied recycle bin automatically…

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