Dirsynch pro

Ever been frustrated by windows aborting in the middle of transferring loads of files?

Dirsynch pro is an excellent utility for copying files. You can also use it for backup and it doesn't flake out at what windows regards as a fatal copy error.

EDIT: freefilesync is my new recommended sync software

Multiple files you want to extract quickly?

Before I found this program, I had winzip and winrarinstalled, both with their little quirks and annoyances, and full of features I didn't want or need. Extractnow is a really good lightweight and simple unzipper that gets the job done well and quickly. just click and drag the files you want unzipped into the window and off you go. Works with .zip and .rar, and a whole bunch of others. It is, of course, free as the wind.

Displaychanger Changes your display resolution

If you have old programs from the windows 95-98 era, a lot of them were hard-coded for super high resolutions of 640*480 or even a mighty 800*600. We've moved along since then, and this causes problems as below:

The answer to this is just to change resolution before you run the program. But isn't that just incredibly annoying? Wouldn't it be easier if the shortcut changes the resolution for you, runs the program, and changes it back again once you quit it?

Using display changer, you can do this. It's a free software that does exactly this. All you need to do is specify the resolution and the file to run, then make a shortcut that does it all for you!