Posts Tagged ‘Utilities’

Printee for Internet Explorer Makes Printing Web Pages Easy

Do you find it difficult to filter out images, Ads and other unwanted content from web pages (for printing)? You no longer have to manually edit Web pages to remove unwanted content before printing. Have a look at Printee for Internet Explorer. Printee is a Web Printing tool for Internet Explorer which lets you pick, edit and print web page only what you want. Using Printee you can remove images and backgrounds, selectively delete page elements such as advertising, navigation menus and other items, and also change the font, width and page layout style.

For example, the following page:

is stripped down to:

Here are the Features of Printee

  1. Condense any web page down to just the content you want, no anything useless
  2. Reducing your paper and ink usage
  3. What You See Is What You Get
  4. Support Ecofont, Save 20% Ink
  5. Send by Mail, Share with friends
  6. Improve Readability of the Web Page only one key (Ctrl-G)

Download Printee for IE (472 KB) from irido.com. Printee runs in Windows 2000/2003/XP/Vista and supports IE6/IE7/IE8.

Installing Printee for IE adds a green buton to the IE toolbar which looks like this:

If the green button does not appear, you’ll have to customize the toolbar settings in order to add the Printee b button.

See Also

Printee for IE – Screenshots

Printee for IE – Demo Video

Vize GUI Enhancer for Windows Vista Replaces Non-Vista Icons

Many dialog boxes in Windows Vista include outdated (non-Vista) icons. This clearly is one of the UI aspects that Microsoft has overlooked. This is non-fatal and purely a cosmetic thing, but if you’re a perfectionist and want to replace Windows Vista icons in place of the outdated icons, then take a look at the freeware product named Vize.

Vize is a GUI enhancer for Windows Vista. It replaces most of the non-Vista icons, animations and bitmaps that Microsoft is still overlooking. Vize automates the process of replacing resources in system files, applying the real fit and finish to Windows Vista. If you are not satisfied with the results, you can completely and safely uninstall Vize.

Vize is compatible with any version, any language, and any architecture (both 32-bit x86 and x64) of Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. [Vize Download URL]

Here are some dialog boxes for you to compare (before and after installing Vize).

And here are the new icons for .reg & .vbs file types.

For a similar utility for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, check out XPize. For Windows 7, Sevenize will be coming soon.

Windows System Control Center – Launch Pad and Updater for Sysinternals Suite

Both Windows Sysinternals and Nirsoft offer amazing set of tools to tune up and troubleshoot PCs. The combined total of such tiny tools from both the above sites certainly exceeds hundred. Some of the tools in the suite don’t have an automatic update facility, which makes managing them slightly difficult. To alleviate this problem and allow easy organizing and automatic updating of these tools, we have the Windows System Control Center tool from KLS Soft.

WSCC is a free, portable program that allows you to install, update, execute and organize the utilities from various system utility suites. WSCC is only an interface, you need to download and install the utilities separately. Alternatively, WSCC can use the http protocol to download and run the programs. The included Update Manager can check for newer versions of the utilities already installed and can download and install the missing items.

The current version of WSCC supports the following utility suites:

Many people (especially IT/Helpdesk techs) who use Sysinternals & Nirsoft utilities very frequently, would find Windows System Control Center very useful. This utility is completely portable, which means no installation is required. This utility runs in Windows 2000 / XP / 2003 / Vista / 2008 / 7.

WSCC – Screenshots

[Download Windows System Control Center from KLS Soft.]

Determine Which Codecs You Need to Play a Multimedia (Audio/Video) File

Did you download a movie video recently and later found that the audio or the video part of the movie does not play? This has to do with a missing audio or video Codec. To know which Codec you need to play your favorite video files correctly, you may use one of these tools discussed in this article. These tools help you find out the Codec used in a particular media file, and then download the appropriate Codec from the web. (more…)

The Windows 7 ISO Verifier Checks the Integrity of Windows 7 ISOs

OK, you got the ISO of latest Windows 7 build from a friend. Before installing it, how do you make sure that the ISO was obtained from a trustworthy source and that it had not been tampered with? The Windows 7 ISO Verifier was created exactly for that purpose. The Windows 7 ISO Verifier tool, created by Long Zheng and Sven Groot, verifies the integrity of the Windows 7 ISO by verifying the MD5 hash to ensure that it has not been tampered with.

Image: Courtesy of istartedsomething.com

You can download The Windows 7 ISO Verifier from Long’s site. As noted in their site, this download only works for English versions of Windows 7 ISOs.

ScreenRecorder: Free Screen-to-Video Capture Utility From Technet

Earlier we wrote about the Problem Steps Recorder (PSR) tool in Windows 7. It’s a nice tool that records the steps to reproduce a problem in the computer, and stores the data in a MHTML document. Here is another tool from Microsoft Technet which helps you record the steps you perform in your computer and store it in a video (.WMV) file. It’s the ScreenRecorder utility, which is similar to Microsoft Camcorder (utility written for Windows 95/98 which saves the output to an .AVI file). ScreenRecorder works in Windows XP (.NET Framework 3.5 SP1 or higher), Windows Vista and Windows 7. (more…)

Register Internet Explorer (InPrivate) With Default Programs in Windows 7 and Vista

InPrivate Browsing in Internet Explorer 8 helps prevent your browsing history, temporary Internet files, form data, cookies, and usernames and passwords from being retained by the browser, leaving no evidence of your browsing or search history. We covered InPrivate browsing in our previous articles which our readers found useful. Here is an utility which adds Internet Explorer (InPrivate) entry to the Default Programs applet in Windows Vista and Windows 7. (more…)

Fun Tip: Add “Speak” Option to the Context Menu for Text Files

The amazing NirCmd utility now has a new "speak" command that allows you to easily cause your computer to speak the text that you wish. In this command, NirCmd uses the Speech library (SAPI) that is installed with any instance of Windows XP and Windows Vista. Here is a fun tip on how to add the Speak command to the context menu for Text Documents (.txt). (more…)

Utility: Windows 7 LogonUI Background Changer Is Released

I wrote about the Logon Changer for Windows 7 tool earlier today. Here is another such tool to change the logon screen background in Windows 7. Windows 7 LogonUI Background Changer is an utility released by Windows7Center.com, which has the following features: (more…)

Utility: Logon Changer for Windows 7 Is Released

You know that Windows 7 Lets You Change the Logon Background Image. Now there is another tool to automate the task. The Logon Changer for Windows 7 (from Microsoft MVP Steve Sinchak) provides an easy way to customize the logon screen background with just a few clicks. (more…)