ShowSize for Windows--Manage disk space on huge drives and network volumes easily. Find biggest folders and files taking up your disk space.

ShowSize is an amazing utility that gives you seven useful disk reports after a single scan of a disk location. You can also print contents of folders easily. ShowSize gives you a clear picture of disk space usage on your drives. As a result you can find out what folders, file types and files are consuming the most disk space. You can also find some interesting things. For example, do you want to know what is the largest file on a paticular drive? You can do that with Only Files report by sorting it on the file size. You can't do that with Windows Explorer because it doesn't have any report like that where all the files are listed in a straight, sortable list.

Once you realize the power of ShowSize, you can use the software for different purposes as shown in the following examples.

WhizFolders Organizer -- Brainstorm your ideas better by outlining them with WhizFolders

Better writing involves being able to cope with new ideas as and when they strike you. With WhizFolders, you can write your ideas in pieces, outline them with drag and drop, and join then to make a document any time. Manage all kinds of notes, ideas and writing projects with this versatile outliner and organizer software. Additional features include a rich text editor, automatic pastes to collect text from Internet browser and other applications, hyperlinks to other notes, documents or web sites, boolean search, and so on. Includes a nice tutorial to get you started quickly.

Windows Basics and Tips--Free e-book

Here is a free E-Book on Windows basics. The idea is to deal with practical aspects of using Windows rather than discuss the mundane stuff and make it dull.

Let's leave the control panel and device manager to the geeks and make sure that you know some tips on getting the best out of Windows. To keep the things interesting, I will assume that you can start programs in Windows and can create your own documents. You also know how to locate running programs in the task bar at the bottom. If you know that much you are good to go.

WhizNote - Free Note Organizer and Text Editor for Windows

Are you finding it difficult to manage so many text files with Notepad? Use WhizNote to keep hundreds of related notes in one file. WhizNote has a separate text file editor that allows you to customize its right-click menu to insert custom text with sophisticated template features.

Quite a technical feat! Looking at how well WhizNote runs even on Windows Vista, it is hard to believe that it is a 16-bit application. WhizNote was originally developed in Windows 3.1 days that we tweaked for the first time to support long file names when Windows 95 was released. With each new Windows release, we kept tweaking it to make sure that it still runs. All that was made possible by developing a 32-bit DLL that uses the wonderful thunking mechanism in Windows.

Make impressive software demo tutorial movies

Now you can create Flash Demos for teaching Software easily and can have fun and profit at the same time. This is a third-party software that I use as a developer and recommend it.

Finding old stuff to run on Windows Vista

• Installing WinHelp on Windows Vista: You might still be using some old programs which have not been updated for Windows Vista. They might be having their Help menu documentation in WinHelp (.HLP) format. When you click on Help menu of such a program on Vista, you will see this message, "Why can't I get Help from this program?..."
   
• Where to get WinHelp compiler: This is for those who might be looking for the old WinHelp compiler from Microsoft...