I’ve been meaning to publish a follow up to my first “43 must have Windows Enhancements” posting forever, but it’s taken a long time simply because I wanted to stick with the completely arbitrary “43″ number of entries, and of course I wanted to only post →
IconViewer: easily view or save icons in libraries or executables, straight from Windows Explorer
Have you ever wished there was an easy way to view and/or copy and save icons that reside in libraries or executable files? With IconViewer you can do this straight from Windows Explorer, by right-clicking properties on a file that contains icons (e.g. DLL, Exe, or →
SE-DesktopConstructor: embed a clock or calendar into your desktop, and delineate sections of your workspace with colored or semi transparent shapes
Ever wanted to embed a clock or calendar into your wallpaper, or overlay shapes on your wallpaper to delineate areas or sections of the screen (for the purposes of icon organization, naturally). SE-DesktopConstructor is a free program that does all of that. It lets you draw →
7Conifier: cutomize your Windows 7 taskbar icons en-masse
Do you like to customize your operating system’s look and feel? Do words like “sleek”, “minimalistic”, and “metallic” turn you on? If so then read on: 7Conifier (pronounced “iconifier”) is a free tool that can customize your Windows 7 taskbar and start menu icons by replacing →
DesktopOK: automatically save and restore your desktop icon positions with this tiny app
Do you have a lot of icons on your desktop? Are your icons carefully placed according to some sort of personal scheme or system? Are you annoyed every so often when an event, such as a resolution change or a Windows update, completely messes up your →
DefaultPrograms: a handy tool for working with file types and extensions
DefaultPrograms is a small, free utility that can manage and edit the way windows works with filetypes, such as editing their context menu items, their icons, description, and the associated file type for an extension. For Vista and Windows Seven it can also manage and edit →
Forty-Three of The Best Free Windows Enhancements That You Should Know About
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. →
ToyCon: drag and drop image to ICO converter
ToyCon 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 →
DeskSave: a lightweight program to save and restore desktop icon layouts
Desksave is a free, lightweight program that saves the icon layout on the desktop according to the current screen resolution and can restore it at a later point if needed, either manually or automatically. It features a number of interesting options, including portability, shell integration into →
Bradicon: convert images to icons using this web app
Bradicon is a web service that will convert any image you upload to 32-bit icons in ICO format that you can then download. A cool little site that can instantly convert any image you upload to it into ICO icon format. Of course, this can also →
Deleket icons on deviantART: download outstanding free icon packs
Deleket’s icon gallery on deviantART features multiple, freely downloadable icon packs provided for free download under the Creative Commons license. I am always looking for high quality free icons, mostly for use on my hard drive as custom folder or file icons, and when I stumbled →
Ubericon: add visual effects to your icons
UberIcon 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. The tagline used in this program’s website under is “Ubericon: pointless →
