Productivity - Desktop Accessories (69)

College Alarm Clock is developed as a personal alarm clock for your PC. It features a 7-day format so that you can wake up earlier/later on different days of the week. Save/Load your weekly schedule to your hard drive. It will play any media file stored on your PC or LAN, though you must have some player installed for each media file you wish to play (for example, Winamp for mp3s or CDs, Real Player for .RMs).

Toppy is simple utility that allows you to easily control which windows stay on top simply by using keyboard hot keys. After you have run Toppy, pressing WinKey + ArrowUp will set the active window to stay on top, and pressing WinKey + ArrowDown will set the window back to normal.

Unlike some similar programs, this one seems to work on 'child windows'.

Note: website is offline, linking to archive.org (thanks Baas).

Minimize To Tray lets you minimize running applications to the system tray, which helps to increase free space in the taskbar. To minimize any application to the system tray, simply right-click the minimize button or left-click on it while pressing [Shift]. You can also use Minimize To Tray to quickly hide all running applications except those listed in the Filter settings using a predefined hotkey.

Taskbaric is a small program with a simple purpose: to iconize Windows taskbar buttons. Similar to the functionality of Windows 7, but for XP and Vista.

Folderico allows you to change the default icon of any folder. It performs this feat by creating a desktop.ini file in the chosen folder that points to the desired icon (also automatically created) so that Windows Explorer will render the folder icon differently. Folderico does not need to be running for the new folder icon to be displayed, and the changes are sticky even when the hard disk or memory stick is plugged into another machine.

Ghost-It! is a program that runs in the system tray, and lets you turn windows into "ghost" windows. Ghost windows are translucent and will always appear on top of other windows, even when it loses the input focus.

DM2 adds several convenient features to the standard Windows environment. It is able to minimize windows to floating icons or to the system tray. It also allows you to set one or more window to be always on top, as well as making them semi-transparent. You are also able to define your favorite files/folders and make them appear in Windows' default Open/Save dialog boxes.

Push the Freakin' Button (PTFB) is a button pressing utility. When you wish to automatically dismiss a dialog box, you can configure PTFB to "push" a particular button by using drag-and-drop, and it will function as instructed when the dialog box pops up the next time.

Note: This is the last freeware version of what is now a payware product.

FolderIcons helps you customize the icons of your file system's folders. It works by simply adding a desktop.ini file in a folder, then changes the folder's attributes. However, FolderIcons makes this process very easy. You can undo your changes, or recursively assign the same icon to a whole folder tree.