These Windows enhancements automate tasks and make Windows run faster and smoother. Improve your productivity with Windows, and save plenty of time with these 'gems' of easy-to-use utilities.

To keep track of many tray icons you may hide those that you don't need all the time. You can still access such hidden tray icons in the context menu of 12-Tray. It will also restore tray icons after a 'crash' or restart of the taskbar. Usually the taskbar comes up after a crash without any tray icons. You had to stop and restart all related programs to restore the tray icons. Now, 12-Tray will restore tray icons automatically.

At certain events (appearing of a Window, for example), let this helper respond on your behalf. No longer bother about regular questions, for example if you want to create a new firewall rule now ('No'), hang up your Internet connection ('No!'), or if you want to accept the other cookie ('Argh!'). This Windows extension also starts programs, for example 12-WinControl to position a window. Automate repeated tasks in Windows.

Overwrite files, drag and shred, DoD conform, Wipe Disk. Delete even if the file is locked! No trails are left of any compromising or confidential information. Nobody will ever be able to recover files from your disk! Nobody will even find out the previous name or file size. The file can be overwritten several times with random bits so that even the finest magnetic tracks are mixed up. An irreplaceable extension for every Windows user.

Free Popup-Killer that blocks ALL popups of IE. Extended Boss-Key included. Block ALL pop-up windows opened by Internet Explorer. -> NO black list you need to maintain. -> NO loop that uses CPU resources when waiting for new windows. -> Contents of pop-ups is NOT downloaded from the Internet, thus saving you bandwidth. Also features a boss-key for ANY application, and a history cleaner that removes history, cookies, and temporary cached files.

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!

Enhance your taskbar clock to show the date and a second time zone. You may display seconds smaller and the date in a different color, for example. Everything is configurable! An alarm can be set daily or at a certain date. The comfortable snooze function reminds you repeatedly until it is answered. With a list of 12 world times, chimes, hour signal, chronograph, and quickly accessible countdown the program is powerful and a pleasure to use.

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.

With this special screen saver you control which clicks and keys wake up the screen saver. It offers separate options for mouse moves, mouse buttons, and 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.

Fast compression, compatible with the ZIP industry standard, and command line support. 12-Zip has Explorer integration, a graphical window to manage zip files, for example add, freshen, move, or update files, supporting different compression methods, and features a small executable. Now supports Zip2, up to 20% smaller zips!

Shut down with one click or with one key stroke. Run maintenance programs, daily or at certain days of the week, for example scan disk and backup programs. Just one click, then leave your computer and it will power-off automatically after all programs finished. It allows you to log off your computer after a specified time of inactivity, makes sure to restart your computer weekly, and even terminates not responding programs.

Did you ever wonder why some programs are already running when Windows starts up? Now you can manage these programs easily. No matter from where in the Windows settings the program is started, they are all listed with the exact start path. To remove any entry just select it in the list and hit DELETE.

Creates a copy of a complete folder structure. A new destination name is created automatically by adding the date and time. This way you may backup a complete folder easily with just one click, and at the same time keep several versions of the same folder. This way you can copy a folder that contains, for example, all your accounting files everytime before you make changes.

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.

Add new commands to the Explorer context menu. Just right-click on any file or folder to access the new commands. Copy path to clipboard, new subfolder, show several file properties. 'DOS Prompt here' automatically does a 'dir' and starts a DOS program without closing afterwards. Integrated 3x shredder, fast file compression, search and replace text in folders and subfolders, and set the date and time created, modified, or last accessed.

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.

Automatically search for and replace text in an entire directory of HTML pages. Use different file patterns to search for file types. Search case sensitive or 'match whole words only' to narrow your search. Search for bytes or special characters like tabs and line breaks. Replace a string, for example server-side includes, with the contents of a whole file. Updating links sitewide is now a breeze with 12Ghosts Replace!

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.

Imagine you want to read a webpage but there is an animation that distracts your concentration. Maybe there is a graphic that annoys you and that you just don't want to see. Or you want to show one part of a document to someone, but not the whole document. If you Just had A Window to place it on top! With 12-JustAWindow you can create as many free-movable windows as necessary to cover, hide, or conceal all these areas on the screen.

Keeps every change of your documents, while you are working on them, at a save place or on a different disk. Automatically stores changed versions in an archive folder and applies a smart filter to keep versions of all ages. This stores more document versions in a more intelligent way than any other backup program. Simple to use interface: just add items to a list of files or folders (supports wildcards and subfolders, e.g. C:\My Documents\*.doc)

Synchronize your PC time with an atomic clock via the Internet. This program simplifies the task to the outmost and sits conveniently to access in the startbar tray. 12-Sync adjusts the time repeatedly, automatically, and silently exactly on the dot. It waits for an Internet connection, then adjusts your clock at atomic precision, without your interaction. It keeps a log file about all activities. You will never have the wrong time again!

Mr. 'Q' of the application launchers. Unlimitted hotkeys and tray icons for each entry. Open programs, documents, websites, and special system folders like StartUp or SendTo, specific control panel pages, and even registry keys in RegEdit. With a variety of unrelated functions: quick resolution changing, shutdown or logoff, remove formatting from clipboard text, set task sequence, or changing the middle mouse botton click to a double-click.

Easily make screen shots of the whole screen or of single windows. Screen shots can be helpful to store information you come across. You may easily create pictures of what you see on the screen for a documentation about a website or a software program, for example. Screen shots will also help software support to better understand your problem. Just take a snap shot of the problem area and attach it to your e-mail.

Keep changes to your desktop icon layout once and forever. This is the final answer to the Windows desktop imperfection, keeping a strong backlog of icon layouts. Restore at resolution switching, or when the taskbar is moved. Optional tray icon, hotkey, and command line options for automated backups. Comes with a one-click accessible desktop simulation tool, and a taskbar tray application launcher.

These Windows enhancements automate tasks and make Windows run faster and smoother. Improve your productivity with Windows, and save plenty of time with these 'gems' of easy-to-use utilities.

Security package with three get-the-job-done privacy tools, 12-Wash, 12-Popup-Killer, and 12-Shredder.

Click your way through to data in a snap of a second that would otherwise cost you hours to find on the Internet or in a book. Wether you are just curious or need the information fast, you will find it in this user-friendly tool. Look up zip and area codes, sorted by any column, with a quick search finder. Expand acronyms by entering just the first letters. Use a unit converter that shows all other units immediately as soon as you enter a number.

12Ghosts Timer is an easy to use and powerful scheduler for starting applications, opening documents or Web pages, setting up reminders or wake up with music, or previewing the exact moon phase. Executable only 120 KB. Start once, countdown, or recurring per second; or start after logon. Set process priority and window state. Holiday support to run timers on business days only. Batch capable. Optimized timer control for easy usage.