Empty folders are is such a big problem that every time you format your harddisk or remove unnecessary programs, there are lot of empty folders which remain there on your hard drive.
You could save so much space and clean you computer by removing these empty folders on your computer, there are 3 free applications which lets you remove empty folders on your computer.
Lets discuss all these free tools to remove empty directories from your hard drive
Some of my friends always wanted to hide title bar text in firefox, they do not want firefox to display the information about the site using the title bar text description of the site
Hide Caption Title Bar is a free firefox addon which detects and automatically restores the minimize, maximize/ restore and close buttons on the nav bar if the menu bar is hidden the extension will display these important buttons irrespective of any theme you have applied on firefox.
Note: This extension is not compatible with tab mix plus but can work with tab mix lite ce
There is a big difference in between the firefox 3 location bar and firefox 2 location bar both in terms of the looks and functionality provided. Just in case if you don’t like the location bar or address bar of firefox 3 and revert it to as there in firefox 2 here is how you can do it.
There is a cool addon called Old Location Bar which makes firefox 3 location bar look and act like firefox 2 location bar
Some other key features provided by old location bar addon are
.Mov files are Apple QuickTime Movie format of video which normally you cannot play in other media player like windows media player, vlc player etc.
This format of video can rather played in free quick time media player by apple, but what if you want to play these .mov files in windows media player which is the default media player on your windows computer.
In order to play quick time .mov movie files in windows media player you would need to download the required codec for it first, The codec is called 3ivx which can allow you to play quick time .mov files in windows media player.
Here is the procedure on how to get everything going
HitWicket is another cool firefox addon which lets you monitor the live cricket scores on any cricket match going on. It is based on ScoreWatch Firefox extension and fetches the updates from CMDN.com in the status bar panel.
It will alert you about any fall of wickets even if you are running a screensaver it will pop up in that case, you can anytime configure the refresh interval of the scores
Hiding File Extensions in windows is a some settings which one need to toggle on and off, as sometimes it is necessary to see the file extension to recognize the file and program which can open the same in windows.
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But turning the setting of hide extensions for known files types on or off, you will need to manually open the windows explorer go to File Menu >> Tools >> Folder Options and then click the view tab and under view tab you will need to locate the setting which says hide extensions for known files types
Rather, avoiding this whole tedious process you can install a free shell extension which will work on xp, vista and windows 7 also. This shell extension is called FileExtToggle.
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One of our reader asked us how can he quickly toggle to show hidden files and folders settings in windows, as we all know the process to show hidden files and folders in windows is quite tedious.
The normal process to toggle show hidden files and folders on and off is through windows explorer in which you need to first navigate to File Menu >> Tools >> Folder Options and then click the view tab and then uncheck or check the settings show hidden files and folders
What if you can quickly toggle hidden files and folders in windows via right click context menu, HiddenFilesToggle is a free shell extension for windows which works on windows xp, vista and windows 7 also which will add a new entry to the right click context menu which lets you toggle hide files in windows
This option in the right click context menu gives you the ability to toggle the display of hidden files on and off. This extension is very useful for those who frequently have to change this setting show hidden files and folders.
This small shell extension makes possible to turn off show hidden files and folders directly from your mouse right click.
Ultimate Process Killer is a small free program which lets you kill multiple process running in windows, it will show up the list of all process running but the list is not live as you will need refresh to get the list of current running processes.
You can select any number of process in the list with the help of the checkboxes provided and press kill checked processes.