A handy little utility to ease in creating desktop shortcuts for a handful of useful Windows system functions is just launched as Wizmo. This app could make your life easier in lots of little ways. This catch all utility offers shutdown options, open and close the external drives, turn off multiple monitors, and a number of other useful functions. Windows new power management stuff is pretty cool — when it works. But sometimes you really don’t want “timed operation.” You want control. That’s what this first version of Wizmo was created to provide. For example, say you want to create a desktop shortcut that you can hit to put your PC in standby. Your shortcut would look something like “C:\wizmo.exe” -standby.

Here are some key features of “Wizmo”:

• Bring up a blank screen without turning off your monitors
• Power off your monitor
• Standby, hibernate, logoff, reboot, or exit Windows
• Open or close a CD-ROM drive
• Mute your system or change the volume to a specified level

Wizmo is a free download for Windows systems only.
You can get a full list of available commands by clicking on the main Wizmo.exe file.

Friday, May 30th, 2008 at 11:37 am | by Kur-nia-one |