About power drawers
Power Drawers® makes Windows a faster and easier interface to organize and access files. For more information, see the Features, Ordering and Overview pages. See for yourself why Power Drawers won the 2001 World Class Award as Best Utility from PC World!

The Making of power drawers
At Dynamic Karma, productivity is our passion. While Microsoft Windows® is familiar to many users, some parts of the Windows interface are slow, inefficient and overly complicated. Windows is not as easy or productive as it could be. As both Windows developers and users since the early days of Windows 2.x, we wanted a better way to work without radically changing Windows. We asked ourselves "How could Windows be made faster, easier and better organized? What would make Windows a more powerful interface to information?" We created Power Drawers to answer that question.

Making Windows Faster, Easier and More Powerful
We looked at the whole Windows interface and invented a faster, more intuitive way to access programs, files and other information. We enhanced Windows so users could work faster and easier every day without displacing the existing Windows look or feel. People are used to the general Windows interface so we only extended and improved it in areas where we could make a substantial improvement in speed and ease of use. Our design approach turned the normal software paradigm upside down. Usually more features translates into a slower, more complicated interface, but our design goal was increasing both speed and ease of use while offering powerful enhanced features. 

Object-Oriented Simplicity
The model for Power Drawers is to make Windows more object-oriented, like dealing with real world objects. If you right-click on a folder, you're basically asking "What's in there?", so the folder displays it's contents including any subfolders and lets you open anything by clicking on it. Hovering over a file or folder is like staring at a real object you are interested in. Therefore, when you hover over a file or folder, the object obliges by popping up an ExplorerTip to tell you details about itself such as size, date, author or a preview of contents. Continuing the object-oriented metaphor, the options dialog for any file, folder or application allows you to view or set anything that is relevant to that object giving the user a direct path from an object to configuring it. This object-oriented approach is much faster and more intuitive than the roundabout way Explorer allows you to change settings or get detailed information. 

Self-Organizing, Self-Maintaining Software
The Power Drawers Desktop PowerOrganizer™ turns a cluttered, disorganized desktop into a self-organizing system, replacing desktop clutter with a streamlined interface with quick access to everything on your computer. Other applications may help you organize information, but only PowerOrganizer will organize for you automatically while giving you the easiest interface to reorganize and move things around. Power Drawers is also a self-healing and self-maintaining software package. Since it can automatically find and install updates to itself, Power Drawers can replace files that are accidentally deleted and can install bug fixes before you need them. This makes Power Drawers more reliable and much easier from a maintenance point of view.

Giving Users Choice
Even though Power Drawers improves the Windows interface substantially, we don't presume that users will stop using Explorer the second they install Power Drawers. Users benefit most if they use Power Drawers frequently to skip longer, more complicated actions through Explorer, but nobody wants anything forced on them, even if it's faster and easier. Therefore, we were careful to add Power Drawers' enhancements to the Windows interface so you could still use Windows as if Power Drawers weren't there and gradually move over to it's better interface. Power Drawers not only improves Windows XP, Windows 2000 and Windows Me, but also works identically on previous versions of Windows such as Windows 95, Win 98, and Windows NT 4.0. At Dynamic Karma, we use Power Drawers all the time every day as an essential improvement to Windows. We hope you find Power Drawers as useful as we do.