How to make your Desktop Icons Transparent?

Go to Control Panel > System, > Advanced > Performance area > Settings button

Visual Effects tab “Use drop shadows for icon labels on the Desktop

Rename Recycle Bin

To change the name of the Recycle Bin desktop icon, open Regedit and go to:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/CLSID/{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}

and change the name “Recycle Bin” to whatever you want  (don’t type any

quotes).

Teracopy

TeraCopy is a free compact program designed to copy and move files at the maximum possible speed, providing the user a lot of features:

• Copy files faster. TeraCopy uses dynamically adjusted buffers to reduce seek times. Asynchronous copy speeds up file transfer between two physical hard drives.
• Pause and resume file transfers. Pause copy process at any time to free up system resources and continue with a single click.
• Error recovery. In case of copy error, TeraCopy will try several times and in the worse case just skips the file, not terminating the entire transfer.
• Interactive file list. TeraCopy shows failed file transfers and lets you fix the problem and recopy only problem files.
• Shell integration. TeraCopy can completely replace Explorer copy and move functions, allowing you work with files as usual.
• Full Unicode support.

Total Video Converter:

Total Video Converter is a piece of extremely powerful and full-featured converter software that supports almost all video and audio  formats. The software is designed to convert video for your mobile video player as 3gp, mp4, PSP, PS3, iPod, iPhone etc and also VCD or DVD player, XBOX360.

Total Video Converter supports reading the following file formats:

Video Formats:

Convert from Real Video Rmvb (.rm,.rmvb)
Convert from MPEG4 (.mp4)
Convert from 3gp (.3gp, 3g2)
Convert from Game Psp (.psp)
Convert from MPEG1 (.mpg, mpeg)
Convert from MPEG2 PS (.mpg, mpeg, vob)
Convert from MPEG2 TS (DVB Transport Stream)
Convert from DIVX (.divx)
Convert from Ms ASF (.asf, .wmv)
Convert from Ms ASF (.asf, .wmv)
Convert from Ms AVI (.avi)
Convert from Macromedia Flash video FLV (.flv)
Convert from Apple Quicktime (.mov)
Convert from FLIC format (.fli, .flc)
Convert from Gif Animation (.gif)
Convert from DV (.dv)
Convert from Matroska (.mkv)
Convert from ogm (.ogm)
Convert from Video Formats Dx9 Directshow can open

Audio Formats:

Convert from CD audio (.cda)
Convert from MPEG audio (.mp3, mp2)
Convert from Ms WAV (.wav)
Convert from Ms WMA (.wma)
Convert from Real Audio (.ra)
Convert from OGG (.ogg)
Convert from Amr audio (.amr)
Convert from AC3 (.ac3)
Convert from SUN AU format (.au)
Convert from Macromedia Flash embedded audio (.swf)
Convert from Audio Formats Dx9 Directshow can open

Game Video Formats:
Technologies format, used in some games(.4xm)
Playstation STR
Id RoQ used in Quake III, Jedi Knight 2, other computer games
Format used in various Interplay computer games,Interplay MVE
Multimedia format used in Origin’s Wing Commander III computer game,WC3 Movie
Used in many Sega Saturn console games, Sega FILM/CPK
Multimedia formats used in Westwood Studios games, Westwood Studios VQA/AUD
Used in Quake II, Id Cinematic (.cin)
Used in Sierra CD-ROM games, Sierra VMD
Used in Sierra Online games, .sol files
Electronic Arts Multimedia, Matroska
Used in various EA games; files have extensions like WVE and UV2
Nullsoft Video (NSV) format