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These Windows enhancements automate tasks and make Windows run faster and smoother.
They clean up files and protect your privacy, backup and secure data, adjust settings, and manage and control programs according to your needs. Shutdown your system faster, or improve your Windows clock with the date and a second time zone.
Improve your productivity with Windows, and save plenty of time with these 'gems' of easy-to-use utilities.
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Did you ever have the problem of an active program blocking the way to the desktop? Or one that you were unable to minimize? 12-DeskTOP provides you with a window that looks like the desktop, displaying your desktop icons in the layout you are used to. One click and you have your desktop icons accessible!
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Set the date and time created, modified, and last accessed to single files or complete folders. Mask the time you really created a document, or hide the time you last accessed it. You can preserve date modified for a complete folder tree easily, for example after restoring files from a backup.
Features a graphical user interface with an optimized date and time control. Command line support for automated software publishing, for example indicating the version number in the time field.
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Bookmark registry keys in a menu, accessible from a tray icon. You can directly jump to a saved registry key in Windows RegEdit. Controls to manage keys and add descriptions. 12-JumpReg also allows you to jump to values, copy the currently selected key with one click, or, for example, jump to a key you've copied to the clipboard.
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Easy to use editor for keeping notes or addresses. It provides unlimited text size, font formatting, and easy-to-use editing hotkeys. 12-Notepad has interesting automation for saving (every 1/2 second), copying (on selection), scrolling (move mouse to top or button), and closing (on focus lost). With a bar to open pages with one click, and do so at the exact same position you left typing last time, it is an attractive editor worth trying.
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Security package with three get-the-job-done privacy tools, 12-Wash, 12-Popup-Killer, and 12-Shredder.
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Administer Windows user profiles. This includes user defined settings, like your wallpaper, sound and cursor schemes, desktop icons and layout, start menu items, and so on. What's different, 12-ProfileCopy also copies the files referred to by these settings, like the wallpaper bitmap or the screen saver. Settings are restored correctly even on different Windows versions. This tool can be used as full backup program since you can add files and folders unlimitted, and even backup user defined registry keys.
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Keep changes to your desktop icon layout once and forever. This is the final answer to the Windows desktop imperfection, keeping a strong backlog of icon layouts. Restore at resolution switching, or when the taskbar is moved. Transfer icon layout between Windows versions and PCs. Optional tray icon, hotkey, and command line options for automated backups. Comes with a one-click accessible desktop simulation tool, and a taskbar tray application launcher.
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Automate screen saver settings by shortcut, batch file, or scheduling. Change screen saver, stop it with a scheduler, start with password protection, set time-out (within seconds!), enable/disable screen saver, set/reset password protection, enter standby mode, change wallpaper. This tool supports the Nutek power management standard, that turns off monitor power when a totally blank screen is detected.
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Great tool to set the icon colors suitable to your wallpaper image. Change the desktop icon's text color and the desktop icon text's background color, even to transparent! Now with Windows XP shadow support. A handy tool, with a functionality not possible before in Windows.
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