utility

Everyone loves screensavers!  Photo screensavers are fun because you can show off your own photos in creative ways.  This Coding 4 Fun article will step you through creating a Windows screensaver to show off your photo collection.  Learn about GDI+ and what it takes to…

One of the coolest additions to the new Windows 7 OS is definitely the taskbar. Now a super-sized toolbar of program icons with corresponding menus and thumbnail previews, the new taskbar has dramatically changed the way I interact with my applications. I’ve been perfectly happy with the way the…

In this article I will show you how you can use Twitter API to Shutdown/Restart/Logoff your PC remotely using VB.net. Introduction I have a very slow internet connection at home and most of the time Downloads takes hours to complete. I decided to write an application which will help me Shutdown my…

Autoruns, the Sysinternals utility that displays which programs are configured to run during startup, has recently been updated to version 9.39. The update adds in a new Windows 7 location in addition to fixing a couple of minor bugs. If you’re looking for the most comprehensive program to show you…

Have you ever wondered how much you work in a day? You might keep track of when you start and stop, but do you really keep track of every interruption? In this article, learn about how to keep track of user activity and see how to build a component to add to the Visual Studio…

Paul Long, Technological Evangelist, presented an overview of Netmon 3.4 protocol analyzer  (a Windows-based utility) as well as a question and answer session at the 2010 File Sharing Windows Protocols Plugfest.   Paul demonstrated protocol analysis scenarios including parser usage,…

Are you more productive with more monitors?  Would you be even more productive with better wallpaper management?  I thought so!  In this article, see how to create a utility to manage your Windows desktop wallpaper with separate images per screen.  It's…

In this article, you'll learn how to create an application with full plug-in support. Introduction It's been a number of months since I released the first version of my Utility Runner application.  Utility Runner makes it possible to run system utilities with as little overhead as possible:…

Are you tired of battling piles of papers at home?  From work, to your kid's school, to old bills and receipts, it can be too much to keep up with!  In this article, learn about how to scan, crop, and set metadata for your documents. Arian Kulp Arian's Blog Difficulty:…

Here's very cool little application that I've been playing with today. It's called ZoomIt. Install it (any version of Windows) and you can use a hot-key and mousewheel to zoom in on your desktop. While zoomed in, you can toggle a drawing mode for circling things onscreen. The zoomed picture is a…