Forty-Three of The Best Free Windows Enhancements That You Should Know About
June 23, 2009 – 8:52 am | 71 Comments

There is an impressive range of excellent freeware Windows enhancements and tweaks. This posting will present forty three excellent additions to Windows that you will like.

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Ubericon: add visual effects to your icons
May 29, 2008 – 7:49 am | 8 Comments

UberIcons Screenshot4UberIcon is a windows tweak that adds visual effects when double clicking on an icon. It comes with three different effects to choose from, extendible by downloading and installing additional plugins from the Ubericon website.

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Phantasmagoria: transform your images with an arsenal of cool effects
May 29, 2008 – 6:23 am | 14 Comments

Phantasmagoria ScreenshotPhantasmagoria is a free image manipulation program that offers a number of potential interventions, ranging from common editing operations (scaling, rotating, cropping, annotation, etc.) to sophisticated effects such as adding background textures, applying color adjustments, distortion and warping, blurring and sharpening, and a number of other effects. It also includes Flickr and Twitter uploading support, as well as the option to receive Twitter messages.

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Thoosje Quick XP Optimizer: get better performance out of XP
May 28, 2008 – 8:41 pm | 9 Comments

Thoosje screenshotThoosje Quick XP Optimizer is a free program that provides 1-click performance enhancement for Windows XP, including faster startup, faster HD access, faster apps, faster intente, and faster overall system performance. It also offers the option to completely undo whatever intervention that it performed on a system.

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CloseWin: instantly close all open windows
May 27, 2008 – 6:19 am | 2 Comments

CloseWin ScreenshotCloseWin can close all open windows and programs in the taskbar in a single swoop. It also allows the user to create profiles for and selectively close windows/programs based on text in the window.

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Pteroglider: blast your enemies to oblivion
May 24, 2008 – 5:45 am | 2 Comments

Pteroglider ScreenshotPteroglider is a vertical scrolling shoot em up featuring four levels of non-stop action, outstanding production qualities, and an innovative "mouse targeting" firing system.

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Desk Drive: get automatic drive/media shortcuts on your desktop
May 23, 2008 – 4:00 pm | 16 Comments

Desk Drive ScreenshotDesk Drive is a free program that adds automatic shortcuts on the desktop to flash drives and other media when you plug them in, and removes these shortcuts automatically when the drives are unplugged. Supported media include (CD’s/DVD’s, removable drives, fixed drives, networked and RAM drives).

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New navigation system for Freewaregenius
May 22, 2008 – 12:08 am | 25 Comments
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As you will no doubt have noticed, my site has a new AJAX navigation system. The purpose behind implementing this: to enable users of my site to view more stuff that they may be interested in.

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FreeSnap: maximize window edges individually
May 21, 2008 – 9:33 pm | 15 Comments

FreeSnap ScreenshotFreesSnap is a free program that runs in the background and allows the user to individually maximize any of the four sides of an open window using hotkeys (Win+arrows by default). It also allows you to use hotkeys to quickly shift the placement of a window to the center or any of the 4 corners, and to perform a number of windows resize operations.

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HP Smart Web Printing: clip, aggregate and print web content with ease
May 20, 2008 – 8:41 pm | 9 Comments

HP Smart Web Printing ScreenshotHP Smart Web Printing is a free browser extension for Internet Explorer and Firefox designed to enhance the process of printing webpages or (parts of webpages) from the browser. It allows you to "clip" elements of web pages, aggregate them, re-size and re-arrange them on a preview page before printing or saving them as a PDF document.

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“Some PDF to Word Converter”: convert PDFs to DOC competently and in batch
May 19, 2008 – 7:56 pm | 10 Comments

Some PDF to Word Converter ScreenshotSome PDF to Word Converter is a free converts PDF into Word documents. It offers batch processing, a degree of customizablity for the output document, and very good overall performance. Most importantly, it is fully useable and does not require any registration or codes and does not expire within a certain time period.

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