BinarySwitch Eclipse Blocks Access to Distracting Web Sites

Windows: We all get a bit distracted by the web from time to time. If you're getting more distracted than you'd like, BinarySwitch Eclipse helps keep you on task with simple site blocking.

Unlike installing browser-specific extensions or mucking about in your router, BinarySwitch Eclipse offers a simple browser-independent way to block sites. Run the app, open it up from the system tray, place whatever sites are chewing up to much of your productive time on the block list, and whenever you visit the site from any browser on that machine BinarySwitch Eclipse will block it.

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FixWin One-Click Repairs Over Fifty Windows Annoyances

Windows: When something goes wrong in Windows, especially something maddening like the recycle bin vanishing or thumbnails failing to build properly, it's extremely frustrating. FixWin is a portable application that puts one-click repairs at your finger tips.

Rather than digging around in the registry or hunting for complex solutions with Google, fire up FixWin. It's lightweight, portable, and it fixes over fifty issues that can crop up in Windows Vista and Windows 7. Whether your right-click context menu is missing in action or Windows Media Player suddenly won't start,

FixWin has a one click fix to help with dozens of issues.

FixWin is portable, freeware, and Windows only.

How to use this application:

1. We first suggest that you run the System File Checker Utility. The button provided on the Welcome page, will ‘run sfc /scannow‘ and will check for and replace any corrupted Windows system files. It is expected to take anywhere from 5-10 minutes. If asked to, do reboot.

2. Next we insist that you create a System Restore Point. The provided button will create one, called Safe Point. We always recommend that you create one before making any changes to your system. Should you wish or need too, you can always go back to this Safe Point.

3. Having done that, apply at most one fix at a time and restart your computer. Please check if things are to your satisfaction; and if not, you have the option of restoring back immediately.

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Speed Up Windows 7 Taskbar Navigation with a Registry Hack

 

Windows 7's taskbar is undoubtedly a great addition to Windows, but if you've got more than one application window open, you've got to either click twice or patiently hover to navigate to an open window.

In short, this hack causes an application's last active window to activate when you click the taskbar icon, and the next window in the second click, etc. The hover preview still works if you hover to begin with, but if you want the preview after you've clicked on an app's icon in the taskbar, you can Ctrl+Click to bring it back. The current default settings are the exact opposite (that is, Ctrl+Click cycles through the last active windows of an application).

• Launch regedit.exe (Win+R, then paste regedit.exe)
• Navigate in the left tree control to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced
• Go to Edit->New->DWORD (32-bit) Value
• Name the value LastActiveClick
• Hit enter to assign the value and change it to 1
• Restart Explorer and you're good to go.

To restart Explorer without rebooting, open the Task Manager (Ctrl+Shift+Esc) and end the Explorer.exe process. Then create a new task (under "File") and paste "explorer.exe".