Powertoys Software

This team of good ghosts optimizes and automates Windows. They backup documents, clean up free space, and protect important files. They streamline your daily tasks and save you time and nerves.

Boost & optimize your Internet connection speed with this set of tools - A free utility to help you keep your system healthy and responsive. This program is a package of 3 utilities, a network pinger - to prevent you from being disconnected by your ISP, Speed Booster - optimizes the way your Windows PC can send and receive information across the Internet, FreeMem - allows you to free physical memory/RAM on your computer. Best of all...it' free!

Easy to use editor for keeping notes or addresses. It provides unlimited text size, font formatting, and easy-to-use editing hotkeys. 12-Notepad has interesting automation for saving (every 1/2 second), copying (on selection), scrolling (move mouse to top or button), and closing (on focus lost). With a bar to open pages with one click, and do so at the exact same position you left typing last time, it is an attractive editor worth trying.

Did you ever have the problem of an active program blocking the way to the desktop? Or one that you were unable to minimize? 12-DeskTOP provides you with a window that looks like the desktop, displaying your desktop icons in the layout you are used to. One click and you have your desktop icons accessible!

Administer Windows user profiles. This includes user defined settings, like your wallpaper, sound and cursor schemes, desktop icons and layout, start menu items, and so on. What's different, 12-ProfileCopy also copies the files referred to by these settings, like the wallpaper bitmap or the screen saver. This tool can also be used as full backup program since you can add files and folders unlimitted, and even backup user defined registry keys.

Set the date and time created, modified, and last accessed to single files or complete folders. Mask the time you really created a document, or hide the time you last accessed it. Graphical user interface with an optimized date and time control. Preserve date modified for a complete folder tree. Command line support for automated software publishing, for example indicating the version number in the time field.

Automate screen saver settings by shortcut, batch file, or scheduling. Change screen saver, stop it with a scheduler, start with password protection, set time-out (within seconds!), enable/disable screen saver, set/reset password protection, enter standby mode, change wallpaper. This tool supports the Nutek power management standard, that turns off monitor power when a totally blank screen is detected.

Bookmark registry keys in a menu, accessible from a tray icon. You can directly jump to a saved registry key in Windows RegEdit. Controls to manage keys and add descriptions. 12-JumpReg also allows you to jump to values, copy the currently selected key with one click, or, for example, jump to a key you've copied to the clipboard.

Set the size and position of a window exactly and easily, close or terminate any window, by hotkey, batch file, or scheduler. Start and position windows that don't keep their position themselves. Or test the layout of your web page at 640x480, for example.

Great tool to set the icon colors suitable to your wallpaper image. Change the desktop icon's text color and the desktop icon text's background color, even to transparent! Now with Windows XP shadow support. A handy tool, with a functionality not possible before in Windows.