Windows 7 only: Reader Jay wanted the Windows 7 taskbar to work more efficiently—so he rolled up his sleeves and figured out how to enable middle-clicking to close applications. Normally when you ...

Windows 7 only: Tiny utility Jumplist Launcher does application launching using Windows 7's new Jumplists feature. It's simple, lightweight, and doesn't waste memory. When you start Jumplist Launcher, ...

Sociologists say that multitasking has shortened our attention spans and made us more easily distracted than ever. The problem is especially noticeable on modern PCs, where it's possible to open ...

Not quite happy with the way Windows 7 works, or looking to get more out of the operating system? You’ve come to the right place. We’re big fans of Microsoft’s latest OS, but we’re also big fans of ...

My hat’s off to Within Windows blogger Rafael Rivera, who returned from last week’s Microsoft Professional Developers Conference and apparently didn't sleep until he figured out how Microsoft had ...

A feature of Windows 7 is that it will show you a preview, or small thumbnail image, of the open windows for a particular program when you hover over it. For example, if you have 3 Internet Explorer ...

In this post, we will see how you can center your taskbar icons in Windows 7. Give your Windows a different look! The program icons on Windows by default are situated on the left side of the taskbar, ...

Windows 7's new Taskbar has drawn many comparisons to Mac OS X's Dock, and many of them negative, with the overwhelming concern that Windows is becoming too Mac-like. Even among Mac users, the new ...

A few days back I wrote about a utility ModernMix which makes the Windows 8 interface more user-friendly and today I am here with another utility for Windows 8 users Task Numberer making Windows 8 ...

Last week's CES saw the announcement of the much anticipated public beta of Windows 7, with 2.5 million license keys promised to beta testers on Friday. Friday arrived, and as is now well-known, ...