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PowerOff is a free to use tool which lets you power off any computer connected to your network from anywhere, however in order to power down any computer of your network the username with which you are logon has to be part of the local administrative group.

This is actually a command line utility, the executable should be placed in C:/windows to install and add it to the windows command, or just browse to any directory where the program executable poweroff.exe is placed. We had previously written about a utility called LanShutDown which solves the same purpose of shutdown the system on the LAN network.

We all have windows media player installed on our windows computers, but many times it may happen when you try to play a video file with windows media player and it does not play the file rather throws the error codec required to play the file cannot be found and it will need to download the codec first and then play the file.

Vista Codec Pack allows you to play any format video in your very own windows media player, so you don’t need to install any other media player like vlc or klite codec pack to play videos of any other format for which windows media player does not have codecs by default.

It happens sometimes when you need to access the desktop for some reason but you have a large list of opened programs and windows which cannot be minimized so easily and quickly.

So, when you press Show Desktop the taskbar or press Window+D to access the desktop it takes time as it will need to minimize all the opened programs and windows, but with Desk Topmost you can access the desktop icons and other files without minimising the opened windows.

Desk Topmost allows you to access the desktop in the floating mode by making all the opened windows transparent and lets you see the desktop icons and files in the translucent mode. (as shown in the image below)

The default hotkey to access the desktop without minimizing the opened applications and windows is Ctrl+Alt+D . It will keep running the system tray with a small show desktop icon.

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Spiff NTFS Explorer lets you access any file or folder irrespective of the user permissions on that file or folder. This small little handy utility lets you access the files on the NTFS file system directly without login to operating system.

It will show up all the files stored on the NTFS file system even if they are access denied, you can browse the folder on NTFS file system which is access denied peek in to see its contents but you wont be able to open the files.