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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Easeus Partition Manager Home Edition: powerful, free disk and partition management
December 8, 2008 – 12:38 pm | 21 Comments
Easeus Partition Manager Home Edition: powerful, free disk and partition management

EPM screenshot Easeus Partition Manager Home Edition is a free disk partitioning utility that offers a powerful range of functions such as resizing drive partitions, formatting partitions, copying partitions/drives, creating new partitions, deleting partitions, hiding partitions, changing drive letters, setting active partitions, and a handful other functions.

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Tork: learn an alien language in this online action adventure flash game
December 6, 2008 – 9:17 pm | One Comment
Tork: learn an alien language in this online action adventure flash game

Tork Screenshot3 Tork is a free online action/adventure flash game that employs a unique gameplay concept: deciphering a symbol-based language. Specifically, this would be the language used by the alien inhabitants of a strange planet that your spaceship just crash-landed into.

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Five excellent Internet Explorer extensions which you never knew existed
December 3, 2008 – 10:58 pm | 11 Comments
Five excellent Internet Explorer extensions which you never knew existed

InternetExplorerLogo3In this posting I am going to highlight five FREE excellent Internet Explorer extensions that you never knew existed: (1) RCGoogle, (2) IECopySelectedLinks, (3) Find as you type, (4) Favorites Search, and (5) Web Archives Viewer.

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Shock Bookmark: access favorite files, folders, apps, and websites in Windows’ context menu
December 3, 2008 – 10:06 pm | 14 Comments
Shock Bookmark: access favorite files, folders, apps, and websites in Windows’ context menu

Shock Bookmark Screenshot Shock Bookmark is a free program that provides access to your favorite folders, files, internet bookmarks, and program shortcuts straight from the Windows explorer right click context menu. It also enables quick right-click copy and/or move operations to your bookmarked locations.

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IESessions: save and retrieve your sessions on Internet Explorer
December 1, 2008 – 10:46 pm | 2 Comments
IESessions: save and retrieve your sessions on Internet Explorer

IESessions screenshot IESessions is a free Internet Explorer extension that enables the quick saving of your IE internet sessions (URLs from all tabs and windows that are open). Sessions can be saved locally, exported to a file for use on other computers or otherwise uploaded to the Amazon S3 storage service.

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JavaRa: update Java and remove old versions
December 1, 2008 – 7:17 am | 7 Comments
JavaRa: update Java and remove old versions

Javara Screenshot JavaRa is a free, portable program that quickly updates the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) installed on your computer to the latest available version. It can optionally remove all older versions that may exist on your machine, as well as a host of related temporary files that may be taking up space on your hard drive.

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Framework Detector: tells you exactly which version(s) of .NET framework your PC supports
November 27, 2008 – 10:29 pm | 11 Comments
Framework Detector: tells you exactly which version(s) of .NET framework your PC supports

Framework Detector Screenshot Framework detector is a free no-install utility that provides information on the version(s) of the .NET Framework your computer has installed, if any.

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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: innovative sticky notes app offers notes clustering and an infinite desktop

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
Q-Dir: the portable file management program that could

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: quick remote PC access with nothing to install, configure, or register

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: thumbnail-based bookmark management

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: iTunes plugin displays album art on your desktop

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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