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Windows only: Explorer's integrated search is fine for most things, but more powerful searches or sorting through long lists of similar files isn't exactly easy—Listary gives you hotkeys, wildcards, and commands to help you quickly find anything in a folder.

Windows only: Portable system tweaking utility ShellMenuNew displays a list of all the items in the Windows Explorer "New" menu, and allows you to disable them easily.

Windows: Have a drive you'd like to keep hidden? No Drives Manager removes drives from the Windows Explorer, so casual users can't see what you're aiming to keep private. It's also a big help to PCs with multiple card readers.

It's easy to visualize your hard drive usage by file size to get rid of big files you don't need, but if you want to hunt down the files you haven't used in ages, this quick search query can help.

Windows only: Point tiny open-source application Folder Vanity Remover at a folder filled with empty directories, and it'll check for and remove any empty folders. Cleanliness and something about godliness, right?

Windows 7's taskbar lets you pin any running program to the taskbar for easy future access, but it treats folders like second-class sub-items of the Explorer icon. Create a fake "program" to pin individual folder shortcuts to your taskbar.

Windows only: Free utility Copy Path adds a new entry to your right-click context menu that lets you quickly copy the full path to any file with two clicks of your mouse. Why would you want something like this?

We've already mentioned the new Jump Lists feature in Windows 7 as one of our favorite features of the burgeoning operating system, and today we're taking a closer look at how you can use them to save time.

We've referred to Windows 7's Libraries as a top thing to look forward to, and then as one of the best underhyped features—but if you really can't get used to them, you can disable it.

If you dig Evernote's capture powers but don't leave it constantly running on your system, the EveryJoe blog suggests creating a "Send To" shortcut in Windows' right-click menu to shuttle files over to where Evernote will catch them.