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12:30PM Angus Kidman | Windows might have some fancy tricks up its sleeve, but easily generating a list of files in a given directory isn’t one of them. For that, your best bet is heading back to a good old-fashioned DOS prompt. More »
Create A List Of Files In Windows
12:30PM Angus Kidman | Windows might have some fancy tricks up its sleeve, but easily generating a list of files in a given directory isn’t one of them. For that, your best bet is heading back to a good old-fashioned DOS prompt. More » 
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Rename Folders To Merge Them Together Easily
4:30AM The How-To Geek | If you’ve ever wanted to combine the contents of two directories, you don’t have to copy/paste them together—Windows 7 or Vista will let you merge them easily. More »
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SKTimeStamp Adjusts File Creation Dates
2:00AM The How-To Geek | Windows only: Have you ever told a little white lie about when you started working on a project, hoping nobody would notice that the file timestamps disagree? SKTimeStamp helps you lie more effectively. More »
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How Do I Attach A File In Gmail From The Windows Context Menu?
6:00AM Lifehacker US Edition | Dear Lifehacker, I want to be able to right-click a file in Windows explorer, hit “Send to Gmail”, and automatically attach the file to a new email. Is this possible? Sincerely, Gmailer More »
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Q-Dir Explores Files With Multiple Panes And Custom Views
11:00PM Kevin Purdy | Windows only: Free file browser Q-Dir makes for a good USB drive app or installed replacement for Windows Explorer for those who do a serious amount of file swapping, or just like to be able to keep multiple folder views open at once. The app—which installs by default, but can run by itself after renaming it “Q-Dir.exe”—offers a customisable number of panes, though the default four-square is a pretty good starting point. You can save any view you like to a favourite button, along with adding shortcuts to frequently-accessed folders. There’s also a quick-filter box in the lower-right for easy sorting and finding, and if you use Q-Dir regularly, you’ll be glad it keeps your right-click shell extensions and offers its own “*Q-Dir” launch option on right-clicking a folder. Q-Dir is a free download for Windows systems only. Q-Dir [via FreewareGenius.com] More »
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Create New Folders In Explorer With A Shortcut
9:00AM Adam Pash | Windows only: Reader Juliana created a simple but extremely useful AutoHotkey script that creates a new folder in Explorer with a quick keystroke of Ctrl+N. If you’re an AHK user, you can download the script source here and just copy and paste it into your own AHK script. (This is a great compliment to the Better Rename script, for example, which brings Vista-style renaming to XP.) If you’re not an AHK user, you can still add the shortcut sugar to Explorer by downloading the executable (linked below). It may not change your life, but if you’re a shortcut lover, it certainly adds a much-needed feature to Explorer. New-Folder [Mediafire] More »
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Attribute Changer Gives You Total File Control
10:30PM Kevin Purdy | Windows only: Attribute Changer, a free right-click utility, gives you total control over everything reported by a file to your system. Right-click one or many files and choose “Change Attributes,” and you can enable or disable read-only status, hiding, indexing, and even NTFS compression. You can change the file’s date of creation, modification and last access, and tweak a photo’s time of taking. Great for those files that get erroneously labelled as made on Jan. 1, 1969, and always get lost in searches, or fixing date issues with a photo collection. Attribute Changer is a free download for Windows systems only. Attribute Changer [Romain Petges via gHacks] More »
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OpenTarget Mimics Vista’s Open File Location Feature
6:00AM Adam Pash | Windows only: If you’ve got a shortcut on your desktop and—rather than opening the file it’s pointing to—you want to find the actual file on your hard drive, Windows Vista has a handy Open file location entry in its context menu. The OpenTarget shell extension brings the same functionality to XP, adding an entry to your context menu when you right-click a shortcut to Open Target Folder. Clicking it takes you directly to the folder containing the file. This handy little extension may not be for everyone, but if you spend much time chasing down shortcuts, it’s a nice tool to bring XP up to speed with Vista. Add Open Target Folder Option To Windows Explorer Context Menu [via FreewareGenius] More »
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Folder Guide Adds Quick Folder Access to Your Right-Click Menu
4:00AM Adam Pash | Windows only: Free Windows utility Folder Guide adds user-defined folders to your right-click menu for quick, easy access to any number of favourite folders. Once you add a folder, Folder Guide makes it a very simple affair to navigate to that commonly used folder in just two clicks. Explorer’s Favourites menu already uses the same basic concept, but it’s not as readily available as the right-click menu and it also integrates with Internet Explorer, which means any of those bookmarks clutter your folder shortcuts. If you like the quick access idea behind Folder Guide but don’t like the execution, check out previously mentioned Direct Folders or previously mentioned Finder Style to put your favourites in the sidebar. Folder Guide [via gHacks] More »
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