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There has been large number of special folders in windows and we keep accessing these folders from different locations. When I say Special Folders, I mean folders like My documents , Startup , Temporary Internet Files etc.

We cannot access all these special folders are scattered over the operating system drive and some times they are so deep in terms of the directory structure which a normal user cannot remember easily.

But a cool freeware called Special Folders View makes it possible to list all these special folders in one go. ( as shown in the image below )

 

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As shown in the image above, Special Folders View displays the list of all the special folders in which you just need to double click over a special folder path entry to open it in windows explorer.

I have been using computers for about 5 years now, till now my harddisk storage size has increased from 40gb to 160gb as the number of media files like songs movies , downloaded flv videos and other documents and files have increased a lot.

So, with the increasing number of files and documents leads to duplicate files and documents over the entire hard disk across different drives, but recently I found a cool FREE application called Easy Duplicate Finder which finds and remove duplicate files ( as shown in the image below ).

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Easy Duplicate Finder – It is a Finder is a free powerful tool that helps you to find and remove duplicate files on your PC.

We are seeing the same windows icons for years now, till now almost every one including me are bored with the same look and feel of windows icons for my computer , network , internet explorer and folders etc.

Lets give them a different colour with Folder Marker ( shown in the image below ).

 

 

 

 

Folder Marker is a free utility which can allow you to change the color of any windows folder , you can assign any image-coded-icon to any folder so that it can easily catch your attention among various other folders (as shown in the image below ).

 

 

 

Above pictures shows some of the folders of my C: drive, out of all these folders I have given a different colours and icon to all my important folders using Folder Marker.

We have received so many problems from the readers on Troublefixers.com when they insert pen drives into their computers it got detected but doesn’t show up in my computer.

But yesterday night we found a utility called Desk Drive solves this annoying problem as it creates the shortcuts dynamically when a a portable device like USB drive inserted and detected in my computer.

 

 

 

 

 

You can easily selects the media for which you want the shortcuts to be created ( as shown in the image below ).

There are lots of utilities available which are dedicated for the function of changing the desktop wallpaper at periodic intervals of time like Desktop Magic 1.1 , Smart Wallpaper , Wallpaper Desktop etc.

Out of all the utilities above I found Any Wallpaper the best and simple to use and it also consumes less memory as compared to other desktop wallpaper changing programs.

Any Wallpaper – An automatic desktop wallpaper changer

 

 

 

 

 

As shown in the image above you just need to click the Add button and browse the folder containing wallpapers.

If you are searching  for a  quick method to check emails across all your email account which got spread across various services like yahoo ,gmail and hotmail etc then ePrompter is the best solution to your problem.

 

Above picture represents ePrompter screen saver which lets you know about the number of new messages in different email accounts.  

What is ePrompter?

It is a mini email client which can check emails quickly across sixteen password email accounts on yahoo , Yahoo Beta, MSN, AOL, AIM, Gmail, Hotmail, POP3, Earthlink, Excite, Juno, Lycos, Mail.com, Mindspring, MyWay, Netscape, Rediffmail, SBC Yahoo, USA.net, Windows Live Mail and lot more.

 

Picture on the left represents how can you make new mail account in ePrompter 

 

 

 

It allows you to compose, forward and reply to the messages that have been retrieved in different email accounts that you configure.

ePrompter is a very light and small programw which sits in the system tray , it also features choice of five screen savers which let you know about the number of new messages in each account.