Forty-Three of The Best Free Windows Enhancements That You Should Know About
June 23, 2009 – 8:52 am | 57 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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BurnAware is a simple, lightweight CD/DVD burning program with a nice set of features
January 28, 2008 – 10:20 pm | 5 Comments

BurnAware ScreenshotBurnAware Free Edition is a free CD/DVD burning software with a small footrprint that can write to a wide range of CD/DVD media types including Blu-Ray; write Audio CDs and DVD-Video files. Aside from writing/verifying data CDs it can also create audio CDs from music files and burn data and video DVDs as well as burn ISO disk images. BurnAware free edition s

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VirusTotal delivers the collective wisdom of 32 viruskillers on-demand
January 25, 2008 – 5:17 pm | 9 Comments

virustotal logoVirustotal is a web service that provides on-demand scanning of your local files for worms, trojans, and all kinds of malware detected by antivirus engines. It allows you to upload any local file up to 10 megs in size and will perform a scan across 30+ different virus scanning engines (which include all of the leading heavy-hitter virus killer engines on the market).

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Get informational tooltips for audio, text, and shortcut files with Infotag Magic
January 23, 2008 – 6:42 pm | 18 Comments

Infotag Magic Screenshot2InfoTag Magic is a useful shell extension that provides informational tooltips on mouse-over for audio files (MP3, WMA, APE, and Ogg Vorbis), quick tooltip previews for text files (TXT, INI, LOG, BAT, DIZ, BAK, and QUE, tooltip information on the properties of windows shortcuts, and tooltip version information for EXE, DLL, and OCX files.

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Input Director: control and share clipboards across multiple computers
January 22, 2008 – 10:18 pm | 10 Comments

Input Director ScreenshotInput Director is a free program that enables two or more computers connected on a network to share a single mouse and keyboard input, allowing for dragging a mouse pointer across multiple screens. This easy to set-up software also enables the sharing of clipboard contents, including copying/pasting files and folders across multiple computers.

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Convert Word 2007 and OpenOffice files (DOCX, DOTX, SXW, and ODT) to rich text files (RTF) with Docx2Rtf
January 21, 2008 – 7:12 pm | 36 Comments

Docx2Rtf ScreenshotDocx2Rtf is a free program that can convert .DOCX and .DOTX (Word 2007 MS Word formats) as well as SXW and .ODT (OpenOffice) into the universal .RTF format that can be read and edited by any Word Processor. It also offers the ability to convert documents to .PDF and can open, view, and print all the above mentioned formats as well as PalmOS Database Documents (*.PDF) and Aportis (*.PRC) files.

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RunMe is a versatile launcher that looks (and feels) good
January 18, 2008 – 5:26 am | 11 Comments

RunMe Screenshot - right side of the screenRunMe is a free program launcher that can dock into sides of your screen and become available on mouse-over. It is similar to the Windows’ start menu in its look and feel, in that allows for placing shortcuts in folders within folders. It supports special effects, animation, transparency, and a good number of very good looking skins.

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Threatfire provides sophisticated real-time antispyware protection
January 11, 2008 – 5:59 pm | 38 Comments

Threatfire ScreenshotThreatfire provides real-time protection against spyware and other malicious threats. It employs sophisticated behavior-based technology that can determine a threat based what it does within your system, and is therefore well suited for unknown or brand new "zero-day" threats. It is also low on resource consumption.

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Customize your folders with StyleFolder
January 11, 2008 – 5:49 am | 22 Comments

Stylefolder ScreenshotsFreeware program StyleFolder can perform a handful of interesting folder customizations straight from the Windows right-click context menu, including changing the folder’s icon, using an image as folder background, and changing the font color used inside the folder. All customizations are saved into the folder itself and are preserved across PCs or over the network.

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Tag your local files with Tag2find
January 9, 2008 – 6:27 pm | 14 Comments

Tag2find ScreenshotTag2find is a memory-resident program that can apply tags to all of your local files. It can be optionally accessed from the right click context menu, a search box within the taskbar or the IE toolbar, or a floating searchbar (tagbar) that can be launched from the tray menu and moved around the desktop. Currently Tag2find supports NTFS file systems only, and is free for personal use.

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Quickly eject USB drives and devices with USB Disk Ejector
January 3, 2008 – 7:09 pm | 21 Comments

USB Disk Ejector ScreenshotUSB Disk Ejector is a small, free program that allows for instant, quick 1-click ejection of a USB drive or USB device such as an Ipod or MP3 player. It also works when run from the device itself that you want to eject.

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Resize any window with ResizeEnable
January 2, 2008 – 5:51 pm | 4 Comments

ResizeEnable ScreenshotResizeEnable is a small, free windows hack that gives you the ability to resize any window by dragging and dropping its lower right corner - including those windows that normally do not allow you to resize them.

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System Explorer Provides Comprehensive Information and Analysis for your System
December 25, 2007 – 5:53 am | 10 Comments

System Explorer ScreenshotSystem Explorer is a system monitoring and analysis program that picks up where the Windows "Task Manager" leaves off. It expands on the "Task Manager" by adding many more features, including detailed info on processes, Windows, IE addons, connections, drivers, opened files, Explorer, services, startups, and uninstallers.

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