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DisplayFusion www.binaryfortress.com
Give each of your monitors its own Windows taskbar or wallpaper, span one long wallpaper across displays, move windows to new screens with a single click, and more. DisplayFusion is ready to work with Windows 7. Free
ous views, when you invoke a keystroke. Switcher brings that same function to Windows, and it works with a multi-monitor setup. The utility runs only on Vista, however. Free UltraMon www.realtimesoft.com/ultramon UltraMon is all about multiple monitors: It adds icons to title bars to make moving windows from one screen to another faster (no dragging), creates shortcuts that open programs on the monitor you prefer, and puts separate wallpaper images or screensavers on each display. And there are even more tools to handle all that real estate. $39.95 virtuaWin virtuawin.sourceforge.net Add up to nine virtual desktops to your system, on computers running Windows 98 all the way up to Vista. Access the other desktops via an icon in the system tray. Free WinSplit revolution winsplit-revolution.com Split your big screen into multiple smaller
“monitors.” Drag program windows around with the mouse while holding Ctrl-Alt to bring up a shaded area—that’s the grid section that the window will snap to when released. If there are multiple targets, pick one with the mouse scroll wheel. Free
encryption File & Folder Unlocker www.diamondcs.com.au/freeutilities/fileunlocker.php
A locked file on Windows isn’t encrypted, but it can be a pain to work with. Unlocker will change files from locked to unlocked so you can manipulate them again without getting errors. Free FreeOTFE www.freeotfe.org OTFE stands for “on-the-fly encryption,” and that’s just what FreeOTFE does, creating a virtual disk where copied files are instantly encrypted and stored. It’s portable and works on thumb drives, and FreeOTFE has its own Explorer to access encrypted files without installing software. Free JULY 2009 PC MAGAZINE DIGITAL EDITION 53
