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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StickySorter: innovative sticky notes app offers notes clustering and an infinite desktop
November 24, 2008 – 10:11 pm | 3 Comments

StickySorter Screenshot StickySorter is a free sticky notes program that introduces a number of innovations such as the ability to cluster stickies in groups, the ability to define fields, the ability to import and save notes into CSV, the use of the front and back of the sticky, and others.

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Q-Dir: the portable file management program that could
November 21, 2008 – 4:47 pm | 17 Comments

QDir Screenshot Q-Dir is a free file management / explorer replacement program with a light footprint and a nice set of features. It integrates very well with Windows’ desktop environment and employs an innovative interface that makes it very easy to work with multiple file panes. Can be run portably from USB.

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Ammyy Admin: quick remote PC access with nothing to install, configure, or register
November 19, 2008 – 9:52 pm | 11 Comments

Ammyy Admin Screenshot Ammyy Admin is a free remote computer access tool that offers quick, easy, and reliable connections with nothing to install, no accounts to sign up for, and no technical configuration or messing with IP addresses and routers. It offers file transfers and desktop sharing, and can be used to connect with unattended machines.

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Tidy Favorites: thumbnail-based bookmark management
November 18, 2008 – 5:37 pm | 9 Comments

Tidy favorites Screenshot Tidy Favorites is a free extension for Internet Explorer and Firefox that allows users to manage bookmarks visually as thumbnails that can be dragged and resized on a workspace, similar to icons on a desktop. It offers the ability to organize favorites within combination of tabs and folders, and provides a “drop stack” for quick, temporary bookmarking of URLs that you might want to check out then dispose of afterwards. Tidy Favorites can be installed portably.

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exTray: iTunes plugin displays album art on your desktop
November 15, 2008 – 9:09 pm | 4 Comments

exTray screenshot ExTray is a free iTunes plugin that brings pop-up album art, track information, and iTunes controls to the tray menu. It also optionally provides iTunes and volume controls via keyboard hotkeys, and provides a function whereby you could export your track ratings, playcounts, and last play dates and import them into another machine.

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Photology: automagically finds images in huge image libraries
November 13, 2008 – 9:45 pm | 6 Comments

Photology ScreenshotPhotology is a free image management program designed to navigate large image libraries and find images without the need for tagging or for organizing by folder structure. Instead, Photology scans all images and applies a number of innovative filters such as faces, color, location, time of day, exposure, etc. to find results.

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AltDrag: easily grab and drag your windows from anywhere (and snap them to other windows)
November 12, 2008 – 6:30 pm | 21 Comments

AltDrag ScreenshotAltDrag is a free, small utility that provides the ability to move a window by clicking anywhere on it while holding down the Alt key, as opposed to having to click on the title bar. It also provides snap-to-edge functionality in relation to other windows or the sides of the screen when moving the window while pressing Alt+Shift.

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RBTray: lightweight and simple minimize to tray app
November 12, 2008 – 7:35 am | 15 Comments

RBTray Screenshot1RBTray is a free, lightweight app that provides minimize-to-tray functionality for any open window by right clicking the bottom right corner of the window’s "minimize" button. Alternately you can minimize to tray by right clicking anywhere on the title bar and using a context menu that also provides "always on top", and Window resizing functions.

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QwikTulz: add a number of unique functions to the right click context menu
November 11, 2008 – 6:20 am | 8 Comments

QwikTulz Screenshot2QwikTulz is a free Explorer extension that can add a number of interesting functions to Windows’ right-click context menu, including save directory to ISO image, convert folder to drive, open with custom text editor, view/save/check MD5 Hash, convert across BAT/COM/EXE files, copy path, open DOS prompt, and others. It also offers standalone or command line options for some of these , such as the ISO creation, MD5 Hash functions, and EXE/COM/EXE conversions.

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Garden of Colored Lights: vector-based blaster with a weapons-management component
November 8, 2008 – 1:01 am | 5 Comments

Garden of Colored Lights Screenshot ScreenshotGarden of Colored Lights is a free, fast-paced vertically scrolling shoot em up. It offers excellent production qualities in the form of a quirky soundtrack and sound effects and colorful vector graphics, and employs an interesting innovation in gameplay where players can choose the weapons with-which to outfit their ship.

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ToyCon: drag and drop image to ICO converter
November 5, 2008 – 6:19 am | 23 Comments

ToyCon ScreenshotToyCon is a free drag and drop image to icon converter that converts JPG, PNG, GIF, BMP and TGA images to ICO as well as ICO to PNG. It supports the creation of a full range of icon size formats within the ICO file including the new Vista .ICO format which supports 256×256 resolution icons in PNG compression.

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