Newsletter Archives

• SmartContextMenu — Computing for lazy people like me

  Posted on April 29, 2024 at 02:43 CDT by Deanna McElveen • Comment in the Forums

  FREEWARE SPOTLIGHT

  

  By Deanna McElveen

  If you want me to use your fancy new feature in Windows, it better be fewer than three clicks away. Two is better. It’s not that I’m being difficult. I’m just very conscious of how many clicks I’m using.

  SmartContextMenu is an enhanced version of author Alexander Illarionov’s other popular program, SmartSystemMenu. With the latter garnering nearly 4,000 downloads on our website, I think SmartContextMenu will become even more popular.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (21.18.0, 2024-04-29).

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• WA2L/WinTools — hot-rodding Windows!

  Posted on March 28, 2022 at 02:42 CDT by Deanna McElveen • Comment in the Forums

  FREEWARE SPOTLIGHT

  

  By Deanna McElveen

  Hot-rod enthusiasts like to have cars with features that the factory models don’t have. Geeks like us like to have computers that can do things that a stock install of Windows doesn’t normally allow.

  The open-source toolbox WA2L/WinTools, by Swiss developer and fellow geek Christian Walther, will give you the ability to customize Windows and make it do way more for you. It won’t let you airbrush flames on the hood or add wheelie bars, but it will let you make Windows work the way you want it to work.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (19.13.0, 2022-03-28).

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• Freeware Spotlight — SwitchPowerScheme

  Posted on August 16, 2020 at 20:00 CDT by Tracey Capen • Comment in the Forums

  BEST UTILITIES

  By Deanna McElveen

  If it were up to me, Windows’ desktop context menu — the right-click pop-up menu — would take up two full screens!

  Then I’d have quick access to everything with just a mouse-click! … And that would give birth to a whole new generation of utilities to shrink Deanna’s context menu back to a manageable size.

  That wishful thinking probably explains my excitement at discovering Sordum.org’s SwitchPowerScheme.

  Read the full story in AskWoody Plus Newsletter 17.32.0 (2020-08-17).

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• The new Microsoft Security Essentials, KB 3205972, fixes the right-click scan bug

  Posted on November 30, 2016 at 05:53 CST by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Short answer: The patch is completely undocumented, but in my tests the latest version, 4.10.209.0, fixes the bug introduced in Sept 28’s MSE 4.10.205.0 / KB 3193414.

  InfoWorld Woody on Windows

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