Tag: TIDY

One of my resolutions this year was to stick to a regular system maintenance plan. I've got CCleaner set up to purge garbage files and prune my registry, Security Essentials doing nightly scans for malware, and the Windows 7 backup utility saving my important files to an external hard drive. A handy little tool I'm adding to my routine is Vanity Remover. It's a small, portable tool designed to ...

Thanks to GMail on my iPod Touch I've gotten used to a label-free view of my inbox. The actual subjects of the message I receive are much more important to me than seeing how my filters auto-sort things. Let's face it, by now most of you probably know whose messages get labeled as what. Don't need the multitude of multicoloralism cluttering your inbox? Head over to the labs page and turn on ...

My worst Windows habit? Indiscriminantly downloading new files and dumping screen captures onto my desktop. When things start to get too messy, I'll go on a wholesale deleting spree or chuck everything extraneous into a single folder and bury it in the recesses of my d: drive. Enter Deskcretary, a free app which claims to be the "most advanced Windows desktop cleanup software ever." When you ...