The Temp File Tool
--Define folders which you can later clean with just a one click
--Or make your computer automatically flush those temp dirs
--Find temp files which haven't been used for a few days
--You can remove the files in a normal way, move them to the recycle bin or securely wipe them so they cannot be restored

The Console
--One of the most powerful command interpreters available for Windows today
--List of features is too long to list, there are well over 200 features
--Built-in documentation (Man and Syntax commands)
--Supports user-defined command aliases, pipes, if ... then ... else structures, variables and for loops

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Search Bar
Just about every search site offers a "search bar" tool to facilitate searching that particular engine or site. But Patrick Deal's Search Bar http://www.searchbarpro.com/ is a nonspecific, highly customizable tool that also sits in your browser or on your desktop but that facilitates the searching of literally any search engine or site with a search function--Google, the Microsoft Knowledgebase, online dictionaries and thesauri, news sites, and so on. The possibilities are endless.

The author describes it this way:

Search Bar is a little program I created because I hated having to open a new browser window, go to a search engine site, wait for it to load and then do my search. Search Bar is a little window that sits on top of all your windows to give you quick access to many different search engines. It comes with 6 popular search engines (AltaVista, Excite, Google, HotBot, Lycos, and Yahoo), but you can add almost any engine you want. You can minimize the program to an icon in the system tray for quick access to the Search Bar.

Adding new searches is very easy. In fact, I've written about some of these additions a number of times in my newsletter. http://www.google.com/search?as_q=searchbar&as_sitesearch=langa.com

The more online research you do, the more you'll appreciate Patrick Deal's Search Bar.

Karen's Power Tools
Karen Kenworthy is a former Windows Magazine columnist who produced elegantly small software tools that were featured in the magazine. Windows Magazine is no more, but Karen has continued to release new Power Tools http://www.karenware.com/powertools/powertools.asp and to improve the old ones. They're free for the individual download, or you can order a CD containing all the Power Tools.

The one I use the most is a little gem called Replicator.

Automatically backup files, directories, even entire drives! Karen's Replicator copies selected files from one drive or folder to another. Source and Destination folders can reside anywhere on your network. Files larger than 2 Gbytes are supported. Options include repeated copies at intervals as short as a few minutes, or as long as several months, copy only files that have changed, and the replication of file deletions.