Windows utilities

Microsoft Windows are improving everyday, so are the windows utilities . Remember windows 3.1 and compare it with the latest windows vista. There is a lot of difference between two of them but the main concept of creating windows environment are same in both of them.

There are a lot of tools for windows that do not come with the operating system but very useful to have on your computer. In recent years I have found a lot of tool that needs to be added in windows system, but they are not. These tools give a windows user much more dept knowledge about his system. One most important part of the windows tools are the collection of windows sysinternals. I found them very useful and anyone can use them as these are free to use.

Also there are a lot of third party tools that are free but very handy to use. In this section I will give you list of utility tools I have been using for a long time and found very useful.

Utilities From Microsoft

Microsoft has release some utilities what they called "Windows sysinternals" are very useful and powerful. Sysinternals was a website (formerly known as "ntinternals") operated by the company Winternals Software LP, which was located in Austin, Texas. It was started by software developers Bryce Cogswell and Mark Russinovich in 1996, and was acquired by Microsoft on July 18, 2006.

The Windows shell-development team did some extra programming and put together a set of tools called Power Toys. If you're a power user, go ahead and try them out, but be forewarned that Power Toys aren't supported by Microsoft because they're not part of Windows. This group of "toys" lets you adjust your Windows user interface, including menu speed, window animation, and Microsoft Internet Explorer Check below what i found very usefull

1. AutoRuns - To check what programm are configured to run automatically when you boot and login. You will find a lot of unnecessary programm running that are making your system slow!! Click for Details.....

2. Image Resizer - This small tool will let you resize your image in one click!!! Click for Details.....

3. Tweak UI - This PowerToy gives you access to system settings that are not exposed in the Windows XP default user interface, including mouse settings, Explorer settings, taskbar settings, and more. Version 2.10 requires Windows XP Service Pack 1 or Windows Server 2003. Click for More Details.....

4. HTML Slide Show Wizard- Are you looking to publish you picture in web? This wizard helps you create an HTML slide show of your digital pictures, ready to place on your Web site. Click for More Details.....