Sometimes, the software you want most isn't another program you have to launch, but something that improves the way Windows works. Such a product is PropertiesPlus from Kish Designs. Once you've installed PropertiesPlus, just right-click any file and choose PropertiesPlus, an enhanced version of the normal Windows Properties dialog box. With it, you can change a file's extension without first setting the option to display extensions in Explorer, and you can modify a file's attributes and its Created, Modified, and Accessed time stamps. You can use a single dialog box to make all these changes for a single file, for multiple files, or for all of the files in a folder. Don't worry about the price, either-PropertiesPlus is free. You can download it from our cover CD or from the creator's home page at www.ne.jp/asahi/cool/kish.

-Scott Dunn