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A Tabbed Windows Explorer Called SurF

T.J. Mininday — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 08:01:45 +0000

One of the most important and definitely most favorite items that came along with Firefox is tabbed browsing. The ability to open multiple websites without cluttering you taskbar and completely confusing yourself, made life much easier. Granted, Firefox wasn’t the first to do so. The first application that you and I probably first saw it in, was Microsoft Excel. Now several years later, we’re beginning to see it in most every app, including Windows Explorer.

SurF is a free Windows program that uses a pyramid tab style for opening Windows Explorer. You’ll get a better idea in the screenshot below, but essentially, it makes for MUCH easier browsing of Windows directories on your PC. Instead of manually browsing or entering the address of folder locations, you can simply click to where you are going in the pyramid.

Along with the pyramid style of browsing, for each different directory that you open, you begin seeing multiple tabs for each of these locations. The below screenshot has a couple of different locations, each with their separate pyramid for navigation.

It’s a very simple and free alternative to Windows Explorer. It may not be as advanced as other Explorer alternatives, but it gets the job done in a much easier and better fashion.

SurF

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The Best Freeware Uninstaller is Revo Uninstaller

T.J. Mininday — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 02:26:25 +0000

Removing software from Windows can sometimes be a a daunting task. The standard Add/Remove in the Windows control panel only does a pseudo effective job cleaning up for old shortcuts, registry entries and system files. Later a more advanced registry cleaner, or program such as Revo Uninstaller is needed.

Revo Uninstaller is a free Windows Uninstall replacement that not only uses the same uninstaller as Add/Remove would use, but also includes intensive registry and folder cleaner as well. Along with that, even if you have a broken or stalled installation, Revo’s “Hunter” mode can dive deep into your computer and find the files still lingering on your system.

Here is a complete feature list:

Auto Start Manager – Manage programs that run during the initial startup of Windows.
Windows Tools Manager – Quickly access built-in Windows Tools.
Junk Files Cleaner – Temp and other file clean-up utility.
Office History Cleaner – Remove office files history.
Windows History Cleaner – Remove history of all files recently opened on your PC.
Unrecoverable Delete Tool – PERMANENTLY erase files and folders.
Evidence Remover – Verifiy that previously deleted files, are PERMANENTLY delete.

Download Revo Uninstaller

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Problems Ejecting USB Drive ??? Use EjectUSB

T.J. Mininday — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 23:08:28 +0000

USB flash drives are a must these days. Now that floppy drives have gone out the backdoor, a flash drive is required to transfer any kind of data between PCs. This is of course unless you do it via the web. Although security is always an issue.

Unfortunatley one of the flaws with the USB drives with Windows, is that when you pull them from the machine, the system highly recommends using the eject function in Windows. They say if you don’t your system can become unstable, which I’ve seen first hand. Windows provides a handy eject utlity in the system tray that is supposed to ‘safely’ eject the drive from the machine before pulling it out. A lot of times though, you’ll get a warning that the drive is in use and it can’t be safely ejected. Which brings me to today’s post.

EjectUSB is a replacement solution to the built-in function, that will quickly close all running applications on the drive, and allow for safe removal from your PC. It closes all files, removes created shortcuts and cleans up registry entries. It’s nice handy utility that you should have on all of your Windows machines.

Checkout EjectUSB

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