Windows 7 only: We’ve already shown you how to add Jump Lists to Winamp, use them in iTunes 9, and now there’s a plugin that adds full support for Jump Lists and taskbar controls in foobar2000.
Installing the plugin requires simply unpacking the zip file to the components folder inside your foobar2000 installation directory and restarting the player—the controls should show up immediately by hovering your mouse over the taskbar button or accessing the Jump List with the context menu.
There are also a number of configurable options found in the preferences panel, allowing you to disable certain context menu items or disable Aero Peek when using the thumbnail view. It’s a slick addition when rolling your own killer audio player, and in our testing, works extremely well. The foobar2000 Windows 7 shell integration plugin is a free download for Windows 7 users only. Thanks, Juliana Peña!
If you’re a fan of having a completely empty desktop but want to keep the functionality of Windows 7′s recycle bin, the TechSpot blog details how to get a Recycle Bin icon on your taskbar that accepts drag-and-drop deletions.
Reader Ted points out one feature we missed in our 
Windows only: The developer channel builds of the Google Chrome web browser have finally added support for Jumplists for readers running Windows 7—meaning nearly instant access to private browsing mode.
Windows only: Application launcher 7stacks adds the Stacks functionality of Mac’s OS X to 
It's the little things that make a Windows system great—like utilities that use less than 10MB of memory to make your life easier. Here are 10 apps that pack a lot of greatness into very little space.
You don’t open your programs in the order you want them nealy arranged on your taskbar, you open them when you need them. Taskbar Shuffle knows this, and makes it easy to quickly swap windows around, along with system tray icons. It also allows you to close out windows with a simple middle-click, which alone could make it worth the roughly 6MB price of admission. You won’t know you wanted to fling windows out of your cursor’s way until you try it.
It’s probably smaller than your desktop wallpaper. But Everything is more useful and efficient than applications 25x its size. Everything only searches through file names, not inside the contents of them, but it does so stupid-fast as you type. You’ll usually find your file with a few keystrokes, and Google fans will appreciate the boolean operators that enable and/or elegance. Definitely an app you’ll want to right-click and create a keyboard shortcut for. There’s also 
If you’re rocking dual, triple, or even quadruple monitors at home or at the office (and, let us just say, lucky you on that last bit), these apps have a relatively small system footprint, but make a big impact in how your system looks. They both manage separate or split wallpapers across multiple monitors, and can grab and rotate images from your computer, Flickr, or other sources. With DisplayFusion’s 
I know, it's like we never give up on promoting this, right? Well, what can we say—we (the royal "we," really) wrote it because it filled a need in our half-breed lives of alternating text and HTML. Turns out, though, that folks ranging from power emailers to military writers have found dull, boring text they can automate, misspelled words to catch on the fly, or perhaps powerful, seriously secretive acronyms they'd occasionally like to spell out. For less than 2.5MB of RAM on most systems, this one packs a pretty hefty punch.
In a magical world without computer stress, we’re all running virtual machines to try out software we might not want, and we simply uninstall it there, keeping one system nearly pristine. For the real world, Revo Uninstaller scrubs an application and all its traces off your Windows system. It can also turn off programs that are starting up with Windows, and uninstall applications with a crosshair “Hunter Mode” that doesn’t require you to know what it’s named.
Nir Sofer has contributed a wealth of 
With good reason, this tiny, powerful little app has remained our readers’ 
Windows Task Manager isn’t a bad tool, necessarily, but it only gives you a layman’s view of what’s eating up memory or pulling serious CPU cycles. Process Explorer expands on the vagueries of “rundll” or “svchost” with a double-click, links background services to applications, and points to the folders they come from. You might not need it all the time, but when you’re rooting around and trying to 
There are a lot of good reasons to keep on rockin' Windows XP, but some of the built-in utilities can feel a bit, well, dated—and that goes for a good number of Vista tools, tool. Notepads without tabs? A Paint app that can't really resize or undo more than one action? Skip the headaches and work-arounds and run down our list of 
If you feel like you’ve heard this one before without really knowing why, you probably saw it listed as the 
Pinning a Show Desktop icon to the taskbar in Windows 7 won’t work the way it did in pretty much every earlier version of Windows. While you can still create the “Show Desktop.scf” script, it just won’t pin itself correctly. The Tweaking with Vishal blog offers a kind of work-around that makes use of Windows 7′s utterly transparent toolbars.