Small Business

Make the Most of Your Right Mouse Button with ClickZap

By Rick Broida

Updated on: November 15, 2007 / 12:00 PM EST / MoneyWatch

Straight from the Why-Didn't-Someone-Think-of-This-Sooner Files comes ClickZap, an ingenious little utility that performs a specific task when you double-click your right mouse button. Yep, the right one. All you do is install the program, then choose one of the following functions:

Lock the computer
Log off the computer
Shut down the computer
Minimize active window
Minimize all windows
Close active window
Close all windows
Mute the sound

At first I tried setting ClickZap to "minimize all windows," but for someone reason it took forever to perform the actual function (it's not instantaneous, like pressing Windows-D). But it worked like a charm for everything else. After all these years of double-clicking the left button, finally the right button gets some action. This crazy-handy program is free; it requires Windows 2000 or XP. [via Download Squad]