Your Computer for Windows

This nifty freeware tool makes opening drives, folders, and Web sites doubly easy, but it comes at a slight memory cost. Your Computer's very basic interface lists all your drives and added shortcuts. The app doesn't have or need a Help file, and a link to the publisher's site was down during testing. Effectively, you're on your own after installation.

That's fine as this is very intuitive software. The 10-second wizard explains that quickly double-pressing a letter key will open that drive in Windows Explorer. All your drives are preset at installation. Even more helpful, you can add double-press access to user-selected files and folders, or URLs. Setting your own hot-key shortcuts takes only a few clicks. Unfortunately, the program only allows the 26 alphabet keys and no option to use shift, CTRL, or ALT to expand options.

Your Computer must be kept active in memory, but it minimizes to your taskbar tray. Our tests showed it took about 10MB of memory, and little load on our CPU. This isn't a good option for your USB toolkit as it must be installed, but we heartily recommend it for all keyboard hot-key fans.