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Windows only: Replacement file manager Double Explorer adds tabbed browsing and a dual-pane view for navigating your files, but unlike a full replacement application, it embeds a normal Windows Explorer screen into each pane.

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.

If you've settled into Windows 7 but find the change in the functionality of the backspace key while browsing files to be too much to bear, use this simple hack to turn the backspace key back to its XP state.

The control and shift keys have long been the imprecise means of selecting multiple items on a Windows system. The How-To Geek's blog away from Lifehacker reminds us that, as with Vista, Windows 7 users can use check boxes instead.

Last week's Hive Five proves that you don't have to create something with the most bells, whistles, and options, you just have to get a functional product in front of people and they'll use it.

You boot up your computer and you wait, and wait... and wait, as all sorts of programs, helper apps, widgets, and remnants of forgotten installations load. Grab one of these five popular startup managers and beat back the startup clutter.

We've all experienced the crush of too many programs launching at startup. This week we want to hear about the tools you use to manage the startup process so you're not waiting ten minutes after login before your PC's functional. What makes your favorite startup management tool so great? We want to hear about your favorite application and what features make it useful to you—ease of use, staggered and delayed startups, profiles?

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?