SSS
is a screen saver utility. Put it in your startup folder and it installs
in your system tray whenever you turn your system on. Then anytime you
want to invoke your screen saver, you just double click on the icon. Pressing
any key afterwards restores your system. I use this all the time instead
of having a default start time for my screen saver. One double click gives
you instant privacy. Created by Phil Jones of Ontario, Canada, it is freeware/postcardware.
If you like it, send him a postcard. You can find it on the Internet or
on the Alamo PC BBS.
Topdesk version
3.0 solves the desktop clutter problem created by those of us who must
have multiple utilities a click away and still want to see our wallpaper.
How? Topdesk creates a small icon on your system tray, hides all your desktop
icons and then displays them as a menu whenever you want with just a single
click. Topdesk is freeware from Snadboy Software at http://www.snadboy.com
or on the Alamo PC BBS.
Fastexit
is another system tray utility. Instead of clicking on your start button,
then clicking shutdown and then clicking on close all applications and
shutdown to get your system to finish, you can just double click this icon
and you're done. Fast, safe, simple and effective.
Hard
Disk LED is a great utility if your cpu does not sit on your desktop
or is out of your line of site. It simulates a hard disk light that flashes
every time disk activity occurs. Hard Disk LED appears on the Windows 95
task bar and flashes every time the system accesses physical, direct access
devices (ie. your hard drives).
Explorer
Notes is another PC Magazine / Ziff-Davis freeware utility which
appeared in the November 5 1996, edition. It sets an icon in the system
tray. When enabled it adds an option when you right-click a file or folder
in explorer which permits you to add a note to the file. I use this for
descriptive comments about files on my system. It has it's own search feature
for all notes posted on your system and extensive help.
Quick-Res
is one of the Microsoft free power tools. It is another system tray icon
which with a single click will allow you to change monitor resolutions
from 640 to 800 to 1024 provided your monitor supports those resolutions.
It also gives you a quick resource monitor. It's available at microsoft.com
as well as throught the PC-Mag shareware site search under both quick-res
and powertools.
Edit
Pad is a notepad postcardware replacement from Jan Goyvaerts of
Belgium. It allows multiple file use and is not limited in size as is notepad.
You can get the latest version at http://www.tornado.be/~johnfg/ If you
like it, send him a postcard.
