Remember everything. Schedule anything.
Alarm++ reminds with event windows, e-mail, text messages (SMS), speech, or whatever works best for you.
Use Alarm++ to schedule nightly backups, wake to music,
open Web sites in the morning, and e-mail files home—automatically.
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The following products are free to use (except as noted). This license and warranty apply to these products.
Change the resolution of any display (width, height, color depth, and refresh rate) permanently or only while a specified application is running. It can also add, detach, and rearrange multiple monitors.
Get Display Changer (32- and 64-bit for Windows and Console)
Free for personal and educational use only. Learn more about a commercial license.
Forgot to record a program on your Windows Media Center? No problem. Send an e-mail to Carrier Pigeon running on your WMC machine, and it will schedule the recording for you.
Get Carrier Pigeon Free (32- and 64-bit)
Use powerful regular expressions to rename your files. If you're not familiar with regular expressions, don't worry. There are many simple regular expressions to help you rename sets of digital pictures, tax records, any set of files. Name Twister (formerly Rename Regular Expression and RenameRegEx) shows you how the files will be renamed before actually renaming them. Name Twister can also automatically insert sequence numbers in the filenames—great for pictures or videos.
Get Name Twister Free (32- and 64-bit)
Display the date and time on your taskbar in any format and color (including transparent). Get rid of that tiny, useless Windows clock.
Pop up a calendar when you need one. Resize it to show as many or as few months as you want. Move Timekeeper around and it'll remember its position and size, or not—your choice).
Forgot to set your camera's time to Daylight Saving Time? Change the Creation Time or Modified Time of any files or folders. Use an absolute time or one relative to the file's creation time, file's modified time, or current time.
Get TouchMax (32- and 64-bit)
Free for personal and educational use only. Learn more about a commercial license.
Windows only centers or tiles your wallpaper. Use Aligner to position your wallpaper anywhere on the desktop. You even see a preview of what your desktop will look like.
Copy the path, folder, or name of selected files, folders, shortcuts, whatever to the clipboard. It handles multiple objects and also follows shortcuts.
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Disable your screen-saver temporarily.
When you're watching a video or playing a game on your computer, you don't want the screen-saver to interrupt. So before you start that TV show or play that game, open Screen-saver Suspender—it disables the screen-saver while it's running—and when you close it, it enables the screen-saver again.
Quickly set the primary mouse button to be the left or the right. This application doesn't just swap them—it sets the mouse the way you want it, so you don't have to worry about the current setting.
Set the mouse so that the primary button is on the right (secondary button on the left):
mousebuttons.exe -hand=left
Set the mouse so that the primary button is on the left (secondary button on the right):
mousebuttons.exe -hand=right
Run Mouse Buttons without any switches, and it displays the current setting and instructions.
Delay a batch file for a certain number of milliseconds.
If you're writing a batch file and need to pause for a certain amount of time, Sleeper will do it for you. For example, to sleep for two seconds:
sleeper.exe 2000