5 Tiny utilities every xp user must have
Unlocker Assistant
Get ride of those
Cannot delete file: Access is denied
There has been a sharing violation.
The source or destination file may be in use.
The file is in use by another program or user.
Make sure the disk is not full or write-protected and that the file is not currently in use.
using Unlocaker Assistant.


When you encounter this type of errors while deleting a file or folder, the Unlocker Assistant will popup immediately and provide you a list of actions to choose from (delete, rename, move, copy etc). Simply select all the process that were using the particular file and select an action from the list, then simply click the unlock button. Done !

Vista Drive Icon
Vista Drive Icon will show you the available disk space with a smooth colored horizontal bar for each drive in windows XP.

Overdisk
OverDisk is a disk usage browser. It can be used to quickly find out how a partition’s space is distributed among the file system hierarchy. In other words, it will help you to find and fix programs which are using large space on your hard drive.
It’s remarkable that i found once my Thunder Bird mail client was using a large amount of space on my system drive and with the help of this utility, i manage to free up 1.5 gb of space that were used by unwanted mail attachments.
* A small tip for thunder bird users. Deleting the mails alone will not freeup the space used my those mails. After deleting the unwanted mails, you need to goto Tools and click “Compact Folder” to free up the space used by those deleted mails.

Microsoft Power Toys Image Resizer
This PowerToy enables you to resize one or many image files with a right-click.


Deskpins
DeskPins can be used to make any application topmost, that is, to keep it above all other windows. Just grab a pin from the DeskPins icon in the system notification area (a.k.a. taskbar tray) and click on any window. This functionality is identical to the “Always on Top” setting found in some programs. With DeskPins you can add this feature to any program!
To put any window on top, just click on the system tray icon of deskpins and click on the desired window you want to put on top.

To put back to normal, just click on the X icon that appear when you move your mouse over the Deskpin on your window.
* Newly added (6th utility)
Microsoft RichCopy
Get ride of these annoying ‘Cannot copy’ errors and resume the operation by ignoring those errors using RichCopy which originally developed for Microsoft internal use.

RichCopy screen shot

































October 23rd, 2009 at 11:49 pm
Here is the correct link for Microsoft Power Toys Image Resizer: http://download.microsoft.com/download/whistler/Install/2/WXP/EN-US/ImageResizerPowertoySetup.exe
October 24th, 2009 at 5:49 am
Unlocker assistant: oh finally, now I can build-test-build-remove-build-remove-recompile without having to rename stuff every time I encounter some null pointer exception. Thank you for sharing this.
October 24th, 2009 at 8:28 am
Oops! horrible mistake that was.
Thanks random.
i updated the link
November 1st, 2009 at 7:15 am
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November 1st, 2009 at 8:49 pm
Thank you so much, ill consider your link exchange request sure
November 3rd, 2009 at 6:02 pm
Thank you , useful post
keep it up
November 3rd, 2009 at 6:05 pm
Your welcome !
November 25th, 2009 at 11:13 am
Glad I’m not the only one still rocking XP