A few utilities

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The Windows Common dialogs (Open and Save) have a PlacesBar that appears on the left side of the dialogs. PlacesBar Tweaker™ allows you to customize these locations in several ways:

1) Customize the location to a System Folder, such as Desktop, My Documents, My Pictures, etc. or to a specific folder or drive, such as c:\, c:\myfolder\.

2) Re-order the custom places.

http://www.ioisland.com/placesbar/

DM2 provides Windows enhancements that helps in every-day work. This overview is a good starting point and a DM2 introduction since it covers the basics of all functionalities. Don't forget that all described DM2 functions are very configurable and may be set to match user personal needs.

The following topics are available:
Minimize to floating icon
Minimize to tray
Hide window
Align and resize
Enhanced system menu
Opacity and On-top flag
Process priority
Open/Save dialog favorites & recent

http://dm2.sourceforge.net/overview.html

Main features:

* Smart application starting
* Smart application switching
* Smart document, folder, web site and mail contact opener
* On screen keyboard

http://qliner.com/hotkeys/v2/

With XP SysPad, you can easily access hundreds of Windows operating system utilities and system monitoring information. You can also
recover your Windows 2000/XP product key, get your IP address, execute web
queries, monitor any running system process, launch any program,
search files, and more. For convenience, it also can minimize itself to
the system tray. XP SysPad has well over 250 functions in all!

http://www.xtort.net/xtort-software/xpsyspad/