1-Click Installer for Presenters Desktop Shortcuts Tool Windows 7,8,8.1 (x64)

This utility is designed for Professional Presenter, Speakers and Instructors and Online Course-ware Developers (Mooks) to get quick access to common tools they use. 

Update : Windows 10 version

This tool installs a "Presentation Apps" Context-Menu accessible from you Windows Desktop that contains the following handy shortcuts too; 

• Calculator
• Control Panel Properties to Mouse, Sound, and Display (to extend it)
• Magnifier (to zoom in on parts of the screen, during presentation)
• Snipping Tool (create presentation, capture portions of screen)
• Problem Steps Recorder - annotate full screen captures 
• Screen Recorder - Record screen into a movie using free Microsoft Expression Encoder 4 Screen Capture - you must first install Microsoft Expression Encoder 4 with Service Pack 1 (SP2) free version records 10 mins at a time.
• Window Media Player (play audio and video files)
• Wordpad (quick annotations)

This utility has the following features; 

• works Windows 7,8, 8.1, Server 2012, 2012 R2 but only 64-bit version
• adds link to Microsoft Expression Encoder 4 Screen Capture (must be installed)
• comes with proper uninstaller located in "Add or Remove Programs" oops Programs and Features

Prerequisite (kinda)

Download and Install Microsoft Expression Encoder 4 with Service Pack 1 (SP1)
It's free from Microsoft and works on Windows 7,8,8.1, 2012, 2012 R2, with one caveat; the free version records only 10 mins at a time.  But it contains no malware, viruses, or bloatware (OpenCola, Conduit).
NOTE: If you don't install the Screen Recorder link will simply not work.

Install

Download file for Windows 7 (64-bit) and unzip PresentationAppsWin7.zip.
Download file for Windows 8+ (64-bit) and unzip PresentationAppsWin8.zip.
Simply, right-click onPresentationAppsWin(7or8).inf and click Install.

Confirm UAC Installation (click yes).

Done.

Confirm Install 

To test this now right-click on the Desktop and you see the new context menu "Presentation Apps" option!

Uninstall

The great thing about this inf file, is it creates a uninstall option.

Goto Programs and Features, and double-click "Desktop Presentation Apps Context-Menu..." to uninstall.

To remove this blog page (only) IE tab on start-up follow http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/internet-explorer/change-home-page#ie=ie-11. I couldn't remove this key in the registry using inf.

Open Notepad as Administrator in Windows 7+ w/ Installer, Uninstaller

"Open in Notepad as Admin" in Windows Explorer Context-Menu

Update 11-20-2017 - New installer see my new post. Each major update you have to re-install this, so for Creator Update and Fall Creators Update,etc.

Do you get the following;

• "Would you like to save in the My Documents instead?"
• "Access Denied" when saving a file ? 
• or simply need a quicker menu option to Send to Notepad but as Administrator

This utility installs "Open in Notepad as Admin" context menu item in Windows File Explorer for files (right-click on file) that can normally be opened with Notepad (but run as Administrator).

Opening files in Notepad with Administrator privileges allows you to open/save files in privileged areas such as C:\Windows\System32 and
C:\Users\ {UserName} \AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files.   

Notepad can edit traditional 8-bit text files as well as Unicode text files (both UTF-8 and UTF-16, and in case of UTF-16, both little-endian and big-endian). 

This utility has the following features; 

Does not install any software, just a registry setting which comes with an uninstall option.

Bonus: 

• Works in Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 (and Server Versions).
• adds Notepad Icon to context-menu !!!
• comes with proper uninstaller located in "Add or Remove Programs" or Programs and Features

Install

Download and unzip file OpeninNotepadAsAdmin.zip.
Simply, right-click onOpeninNotepadAsAdmin.inf and click Install, that's it. Done.

To test this now right-click on a text file and you see the new context menu "Open in Notepad as Admin" option!

Uninstall

The great thing about this inf file, is it creates a uninstall option.
Goto Programs and Features, and right click on the "Open in Notepad as Admin..." to uninstall.

To remove this blog page (only) IE tab on start-up follow http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/internet-explorer/change-home-page#ie=ie-11. I couldn't remove this key in the registry using inf, since it would delete all pages.

Inspired by
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/cc144171(v=vs.85).aspx
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2007.06.utilityspotlight.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff546320(v=vs.85).aspx

Running Internet Explorer 32-bit or 64bit for IE Toolbar Developers

Which one should I run? 

As of  Internet Explorer (IE) 10+, Microsoft has change the way IE Managed Process is run.

If you are using a Windows 64-bit version,  IE will always run as a 64-bit process.

To check if you run what Windows architecture you are running

Start->Run-> Type CMD and cut and paste the following

wmic os get osarchitecture














So if you manually launch Internet Explorer from this 32-bit folder, 

C:\Program Files(x86)\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe

on Windows 64-bit version, it will run the 64-bit version located here

C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe


Tip-of-the-hat to this excellent article by Eric Law at IEInternals blog:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ieinternals/archive/2012/03/23/understanding-ie10-enhanced-protected-mode-network-security-addons-cookies-metro-desktop.aspx