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Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Freeware

Add folders and applications to "My Computer"

Folder2MyPC
Do you hate cluttering up your desktop with dozens of folder and application icons? Folder2MyPC will help you clean up your Windows desktop by cramming them in your "My Computer" menu. Of course, this is the virtual equivalent of sweeping your dirt under the rug. But hey, whatever it takes to impress the house guests, right?

Operation is pretty simple. Open up Folder2MyPC and select "create folder" or "create application." Then browse to find the folder or application you want to add to your "My Computer" screen. You can also add items as submenus in the Control Panel. Click the "create" button and you're all set.

Folder2MyPC is freeware. Version 1.9 is Windows Vista only, although earlier versions of the application work with Windows 2000/XP.

[via AppScout]

Filed under: Windows, Productivity

Add useful items to My Computer

Enhancing My ComputerWhenever I'm troubleshooting Windows network issues (which is disturbingly often) I tend to look for Network Connections in My Computer (rather than Control Panel), but of course it's never there. Until now. Tech-Recipes has a great tip for adding a few new items to My Computer. Through an easy registry tweak (at your own risk, blah blah) you can add not only Network Connections but also Administrative Tools, Printers and Fax Devices, Scheduled Tasks, My Network Places, and Recycle Bin. Tech-Recipes says that you have to reboot your computer after making the changes, but in my case all it took was refreshing My Computer (F5). I'll be very happy never to have to dig around for Network Connections again.

[Via Lifehacker]

Update: Here are a few more entries that you can add to My Computer not mentioned by the Tech-Recipes article. I dug these up by poking around the ControlPanel\NameSpace section of the registry, and they may or may not be useful under My Computer. Anybody know of any others?

Portable Media Devices: {640167b4-59b0-47a6-b335-a6b3c0695aea}
Scanners and Cameras: {E211B736-43FD-11D1-9EFB-0000F8757FCD}
Folder Options: {6DFD7C5C-2451-11d3-A299-00C04F8EF6AF}
Fonts: {D20EA4E1-3957-11d2-A40B-0C5020524152}
Taskbar and Start Menu: {0DF44EAA-FF21-4412-828E-260A8728E7F1}

Featured Time Waster

Forumwarz - a potentially offensive time waster

I pwn UAfter spending the better part of an hour on Forumwarz I still can't decide if it's just sick or if it's kind of fun. It's a bit like a car wreck on the highway. I know I shouldn't be looking but I can't quite turn away.

It's sick, it's twisted, it's the internet on it's worst level and darn it, it's kind of fun. At least for a little while.

Forumwarz is a parody role-playing game that takes place on the internet - or at least the Forumwarz version of it. Your goal is to complete missions that are given to you through a mock up of GoogleTalk called Sentrillion.

Your first "friend" is ShallowEsophagus who begins giving you missions to pwn various forums by being a troll. Depending on the character type you are assigned at start up, you have tools like drooling on the keyboard or bashing your head on the keyboard that you can use to destroy forum threads and eventually, pwn a forum.

Future missions involve buying illegal software from the Russians, pwning more difficult forums and other internet oddness.

Completing missions gives you cash, called Flezz in game, and items that you can pawn or use in other missions. The game is NOT for those easily offended. It's crass, coarse and there are frequent f-bombs in the fake chat sessions.

This is also a game for a more mature audience as it requires you to shop at the Drugs R Fun store to get various concoctions to improve your playing, engage in certain cyber activities to get more Flezz and just generally use a more adult perspective.

If you can get past that, here are the more enjoyable and time-wasting aspects.

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