Keep your Windows folders organized with Belvedere

Ever wish you had a butler who would regularly come visit your PC and pick up after you? The clever folks over at Lifehacker have released a virtual Mr. Belvedere called, well... Belvedere. The program is basically a clone of Hazel for Mac, and lets you create rules for dealing with the files that start to clutter up your Desktop and PC folders over time.

Belvedere comes as a single executable file. No installation necessary, but you'll need to manually add a shortcut to your Windows Startup folder if you want to run the application every time Windows boots. Once its running, you'll notice an icon in your system tray. Right click and select Manage to set up rules. You can tell Belvedere to regularly scan specified folders and look for files by name, extension, size or date. Next, set a rule by telling Belvedere to delete, move, rename, copy, or open these files. That's it.

If you regularly download music, movies, images, and other media files to a central download folder, you can use Belvedere to sort these files into separate folders according to their attributes. Or if you want to delete any file in a particular folder that you haven't used in a few months, you can tell Belvedere to scan for files that haven't been modified in a while and delete them.

Tags: Belvedere, cleanup, freeware, Lifehacker