Rapid Close is a free (without limitations) utility that closes rapidly anything open, file explorer windows and programs. Note that programs are allowed to ask if you want to save unsaved work. They are not terminated, they won’t be closed before you have a chance to save your work. After everything is closed you are […]
Tag: Shutdown
What a sad thing! Perhaps because of space problems, my laptop (an ultraportable Asus Vivobook, with a really small hard drive), suddenly stopped responding in the middle of a Windows update. I tried everything, pressing any key wouldn’t wake it up from sleep, pressing Ctrl+Alt+Delete also didn’t work. I even pressed several times the power […]
Don’t you hate it, that this brilliant program decided to restart your PC without asking you first? Especially if you are running some tasks or you have unsaved documents, etc., you may like to prevent a sudden restart and this free utility called “Don’t Sleep” can help. Don’t sleep is free, light and portable, featuring […]
If you like to listen to music before you sleep, you can have Winamp play your favorite music and shutdown the PC when the playlist is finished. This is the task of the Winamp “Shutdown” plugin. It will add to the main Winamp menu the option “Shutdown after playlist has been ended”. “Shutdown” is a powerful plugin, […]
DShutdown is a free tool that lets you shutdown or even wake up local as well as remote PCs, providing also some special options for that. The program supports just a simple shutdown, even forced after the passing of some seconds, but it also supports conditional shutdown. In the latter mode it can monitor an application and wait for […]
Karen’s Show Stopper is a free utility that will let you create easily shortcut icons to quickly Shutdown, Power Off, Reboot, Log Off, Suspend or Hibernate your PC. You can also run the program as a small icon in the Windows System Tray, and shutdown Windows by right-clicking on this icon. You can also use […]
Super Sleep is a safe, light, free and powerful program that will make sure your monitor stays asleep until you decide to wake it up! If you downloaded Super Sleep before November 22, 2017, download the new version which fixes a bug with the keyboard shortcuts. It is known that various applications or system settings, […]
NumPad Transformer is a light and free but powerful program; it will let you arm the NumPad of your keyboard with the ability to trigger frequently used functions, including mouse moves. The program tweaks two more buttons besides those in the NumPad — the ScrollLock and the Pause/Break buttons. After you download NumPad Transformer and […]
Windows Rule is a free utility that I use every day, since it gives me more power over such regular events as shutting down the PC. Windows Rule places at the Start Menu tiles for Restart, Shutdown and Signout. This way you can reach these tasks by writing their names or tap or clicking the […]
Windows Rule is a free, powerful and very convenient utility. It lets you handle the power of your computer easily, with your keyboard, your mouse, or your touch screen. Windows Rule provides the options of three Power buttons / tiles at the Start menu, and a Keyboard Shortcut with even more power options. When setup […]