BRU (Bulk Rename Utility) is the best renaming utility I have used. I've used it for years now and it keeps getting better and better. It supports expressions, extensions, adding prefixes and suffixes, numbering, and changing letter casing. There are so many options to this utility. And it's completely freeware. …

I just tried it and it's pretty cool. You can adjust the buffer size on the fly to make the transfer move faster. And the pause feature works really well. I've always hated how Windows copies files. I think I am an immediate convert. Especially since it integrates so easily into the context menu.

Can you go over software that helps install multiple softwares after a reload of Windows. One big thing is Firefox and all the extensions I use for it. Is there any way of integrating all those extensions into the Firefox install so they will automatically be installed. It takes forever to install all my extensions…

I would like to know how to sync my Windows Mobile smartphone with the Windows Calendar and Contacts in Vista. It makes no sense that Microsoft added these features and we can't even use them.

I agree with Emily that playlists are a thing of the past. You have to create them, always keep them up to date, etc. I have a very large music library and everytime I purchase a new album, I have to input the ones I like into my playlist. But I also share playlists between computers. Then I have to export the…

So is this extension supposed to work the same as the GMail Loader http://www.marklyon.org/gmail/ ? I used that to export all my old email in Thunderbird to my GMail account. It said that the original messages' dates and times were supposed to be kept intact, however the date in GMail is listed as the day I exported…

In response to the toolbar tips, this seemed like a good change to make. However, if you use the download-statusbar extension (like I'm sure many of you do), this config also disables the tooltip that displays all information about the file you are downloading.