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Stop Windows 7 from Deleting Your Desktop Shortcuts

f it seems like the desktop shortcuts on your Windows 7 keep disappearing, you’re not hallucinating. Windows 7 automatically deletes broken and network shortcuts if there are too many. Here’s how to stop Windows from throwing these (often still useful) shortcuts away.If you have four or more “broken” desktop shortcuts (which includes shortcuts to disconnected network locations and shell folders), System Maintenance in Windows 7 will delete the shortcuts in its weekly maintenance. ..read more

The Gaia Desktop

Reader Sweetshop Union’s Windows 7 desktop has been completely transformed with the Gaia09 skin for Rainmeter, complete with widgets, wallpaper, and a visual style to match.

The desktop is a combination of:

Rainmeter with the Gaia09 theme. Rocketdock Gaia09 Visual style for Windows 7 (includes wallpaper) Full instructions for installing Gaia09 Rainmeter skins can be found here.

This desktop not your style? Why waste time complaining? Instead, get started creating your own killer desktop with the easy-install Rainmeter 1.1 package and show the world ..read more

Taskbar Meters Monitor Your Windows 7 Hardware in the Taskbar

Windows 7 only: If you’re not into Windows desktop gadgets, there is another way to easily monitor your computer’s CPU and RAM: Taskbar Meters puts simple, attractive resource monitors right on your Windows 7 Taskbar.

Taskbar Meters contains two programs that you can pin to your taskbar—one that monitors CPU, one that monitors RAM. Each has a colored bar that shows how much of that resource you are using, complete with color ..read more

LongBar is a Slick, Open-Source Sidebar for Windows

Windows only: Desktop sidebar LongBar hosts mini-applications as “tiles”, giving you application launchers, system stats, Facebook updates, sticky notes, and more on the side of your screen.

Once you’ve installed and launched LongBar, you can use the tiny arrow at the top of the bar to access the settings menu, where you can move the sidebar to the right-hand side of the screen, and change between a couple of available skins. Unlike most sidebars, ..read more

Recently I was presented with a rather unique issue. When my customer tried to open several different programs, he was presented with a Windows Installer popup screen. Microsoft Data Access Components were reinstalled and then he was prompted to insert the CD or point to the location for a file called ItsDeductible10.MSI. After cancelling this popup screen several times, the selected program would eventually open and be useable. Since this was happening with multiple programs on his computer

it was ..read more

Qlock Pro If you often need to know what the time is in different parts of the world then you need Qlock Pro. It’s a Windows desktop world clock with alarms, sticky notes, currency exchange monitoring and an RSS feed reader. Go to Original Source