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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Daphne: manage Windows processes visually by dragging and dropping
April 25, 2008 – 4:59 am | 11 Comments

Daphne ScreenshotDaphne is a windows process manager that provides a number of interesting functions, such as the ability to shut down, find, or hide an app or process by dragging and dropping a tool onto open windows with the mouse. Other functions include the ability to set “traps” where processes invoke user determined actions, killing processes by name, etc, in addition to a number of the usual functions that you would expect to find in a program of this type.

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Binary Toys: amuse yourself with tiny desktop creatures
April 23, 2008 – 4:43 pm | 13 Comments

Binary Toys ScreenshotBinary Toys are animated windowless vector characters “made up of springs, muscles, and masses” that are designed to inhabit your computer, interacting with your desktop environment in accordance with the laws of physics.

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Kana Launcher: launch apps from pop-up or floating menus, on-demand
April 23, 2008 – 3:50 am | 13 Comments

KanaLauncher ScreenshotsKana Launcher is a “pop-up menu” style applications launcher that can either reside in your system tray or appear anywhere on the desktop when invoked by a hotkey. It offers two modes, a regular “context menu” style pop-up launcher with a hierarchical tree structure, and a so-called “floating icon” launcher style. It also offers the ability to install a permanent shortcut to programs, bookmarks, or folders within the system tray itself.

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Cobview: add a context menu entry that delivers quick info on various file types
April 19, 2008 – 3:25 pm | One Comment

Cobview ScreenshotsCobview is a Windows shell extension that installs a command in Windows’ right-click context menu which can be used to get general file/properties information for most file types

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BBoxV2: get a powerful yet lightweight audio player and manager
April 18, 2008 – 8:31 am | 34 Comments

BBox V2 ScreenshotBBox Audio Player (BBoxV2) is a free lightweight audio player/manager that offers a good range of features including CD ripping, audio file tagging management, internet radio, automatic volume normalization, audio library management functions, and others.

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Moby Gratis: find free music for your independent, student, or non-profit film, courtesy of Moby
April 15, 2008 – 7:49 pm | 12 Comments

MobyheadMoby Gratis is an archive of instrumental music clips created by the alternative rock/electronic music maestro Moby. These are available to anyone to download and legally use in their film projects, provided that these are independent, student, non-commercial, or non-profit films.

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Unhider makes any window visible, even after a crash
April 15, 2008 – 4:02 pm | 15 Comments

Unhider ScreenshotUnhider is a program that can reveal/unhide any window(s) that belong to applications and/or process running in the background that are not visible. It can do this for programs that are running but not visible in the wake of a crash.

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Change the icons used for any filetype, file, or folder from the context menu with IconX
April 8, 2008 – 7:49 pm | 10 Comments

IconX Screenshot2 - in the context menuIconX is a free Windows Explorer context menu extension that enables you to change the icon used for any file-type. It can also change the icon used for any individual file, and for any individual folder.

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Combine a docking launcher and keyboard shorcuts with ProgramLaunch
April 4, 2008 – 6:11 pm | 7 Comments

ProgramLaunch ScreenshotProgramLaunch is a applications launcher that docks into the top or bottom of your desktop and can be accessed either by mousing over the edge of the screen or by a shortcut key. It offers a number of interesting functions such as organizing shortcuts by group, assigning keyboard shortcuts for each icon, assigning a single launch icon to a group of apps, and others.

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Create ringtones from your favorite MP3s with ToneShop
March 29, 2008 – 6:29 am | 22 Comments

ToneShop ScreenshotToneShop is a small, free program that can create ringtones out of your audio files for any phone that supports a true audio ringtone, including the Apple IPhone. It provides the ability to quickly and easily select a snippet of sound from within your audio files to be used as a ringtone.

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