Wizmo is a handy little utility that lets you create desktop shortcuts for a handful of useful Windows system functions. Here's how it works. You download the tiny (40kb) Wizmo.exe file to your computer. then right click on Wizmo to create a shortcut. Add a modifier to your shortcut for the task you want to perform. Then when you click on your shortcut, you can perform that action.

For example, say you want to create a desktop shortcut that you can hit to put your PC in standby. Your shortcut would look something like "C:\wizmo.exe" -standby"

Here are some of the functions you can access with Wizmo:

• Bring up a blank screen without turning off your monitors
• Power off your monitor
• Standby, hibernate, logoff, reboot, or exit Windows
• Open or close a CD-ROM drive
• Mute your system or change the volume to a specified level

You can get a full list of available commands by clicking on the main Wizmo.exe file.

[via Lifehacker]