sonar power manager

Sonar Power Manager (SPM) is an interesting idle power management software for laptop users.  No addon device is required for your laptop to detect your absence and perform power management you set:

• laptop energy saving mode
• sleep
• turn off screen

Detectable distance is around 2.43m.  SPM is a great alternative to default Windows Power Manager(WPM) for movie/tv show lovers.  Moving the mouse time by time to prevent the screen saver is annoying and it’s always unsafe without a screen saver or lock on laptop with sensitive business or private data.

It’s also a great utility to protect sensitive data when you leave your screen unlocked. WPM takes a while to lock the screen even idle detection set as 1 minute. SPM is able to lock it immediately you are 2-3M away from your laptop. Turning on both WPM and SPM is the best screen autolock solution I found so far.

Features:

easy to use and FREE

tiny size:  736KB

more convenient power management

check more here:  Sonar Power Manager

vanity folder remover

Does your Windows take longer and longer time to startup?  Lots of empty folder is one possible reason. It’s very trivial to browse through all the folders and delete empty ones one by one.

Folder Vanity Remover, as tiny as 32KB , is one of the best empty folder remover I tried so far.  It ecursivly detect and delete empty folders.

Features:

• download and run, no installation required
• easy to use –select a folder and click the green arrow button, Done!

Requirement:

• Windows 2000 or later
• .net framework 3.5
• it might work on Linux/Mono(not tested yet)

Download now: Vanity Remover