"The Garage" is a Microsoft project which is a company wide program that encourages grass roots invention, tinkering, ideas and incubation of projects. In The Garage,employees get together after hours to build whatever they dream up and the results are often impressive.

99.9% of the Garage projects either ship as part of a Microsoft project or remain internal, but every once in a while there’s a project that doesn’t fit into any existing Microsoft product which will get a lot of request from employees who want to be able to share it with their friends and families.

Same thing goes with "Mouse Without Borders" tool which allows you to reach across your PC's as if they were part of one single desktop. Suppose you have two PCs connected to 3 LCD screens. Using "Mouse Without Borders" you can move your mouse between the 3 screens. What’s more, you can move files between the 2 computers simply by dragging them from one desktop to another.

FileMenu Tools: Free Utility to Customize Context Menu in Windows XP, Vista and 7

Many times when we install a software in Windows, it automatically adds its entry in context menu (right-click menu). Some software like WinRAR, 7-Zip, etc allow you to remove these entries using their Settings window but many other software don't allow it.

But if you are not familiar with registry but want to remove unwanted entries from context menu, here is an excellent freeware for you.

"FileMenu Tools" is a free software for Windows which allows you to remove unnecessary entries from context menu. It also allows you to configure "Send To" menu. You can add new commands or delete existing commands from Send to menu.

This free utility also adds its own menu in context menu which is actually a group of lots of useful system commands like Copy to, Move to, Copy Name, etc.

Windows 8 Will Come with Hyper-V, Microsoft Confirms

In another post at Building Windows 8 blog, Microsoft has confirmed that Hyper-V will be a part of Windows 8.

Here is what the official post says:

In this post we talk about how we will support virtualization on the Windows "client" OS. Originally released for Windows Server where the technology has proven very popular and successful, we wanted to bring virtualization to a core set of scenarios for professionals using Windows.

Download Awesome Windows 8 Metro Theme for KMPlayer

"KMPlayer" is one of the best media player for Windows. Most of the times its used as an alternative to default Windows Media Player.

If you also use KMPlayer or want to give it a try, we are going to share a cool skin for this awesome media player.

If you love Metro UI and are using a Metro theme in your Windows, you should definitely use this theme.

Following is a preview of this theme in action:

You can download it using following link:

Download Windows 8 Metro Theme for KMPlayer

After downloading, extract the ZIP file and double-click on the .ksf file. It'll automatically install and apply the skin.