Forty-Three of The Best Free Windows Enhancements That You Should Know About
June 23, 2009 – 8:52 am | 81 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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Piky Basket: use a virtual basket to perform operations on multiple files and folders
February 20, 2008 – 3:06 am | 16 Comments

Piky Basket ScreenshotPiky Basket is a Windows shell extension that adds the ability to add different files and folders from multiple locations into a virtual basket from the context menu, and then perform file operations on all of the basket’s contents at once.

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Instantly and automatically clean up your code with HTML Formatter
February 13, 2008 – 5:15 pm | 22 Comments

HTMLFormatter Before and AfterHTML Formatter can instantly format unstructured, messy code into an indented, cleaned-up logical structure. It can process a wide range of code types including HTML, ASP, PHP, Smarty templates, XML, and Coldfusion.

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Shrink DVDs down to size with Amok DVD Shrinker
February 12, 2008 – 5:35 pm | 18 Comments

Amok DVD Shrink ScreenshotAmok DVD Shrinker is a free program that can compress decrypted DVDs to smaller, user-defined disk sizes without any noticeable reduction in quality. It is designed to enable the copying of commercial DVDs stored on nonstandard media in order to fit them on a standard 4.7 gig writable DVD.

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Right-click to upload images to Flickr with “Sendto Flickr”
February 11, 2008 – 6:40 am | 9 Comments

Sendto Flickr Screenshot“Sendto Flickr” is a free Windows explorer extension that allows you to upload images to Flickr through the right-click “send-to” menu.

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Enso Words provides universal spellchecking and other text functions on-demand
February 7, 2008 – 9:23 pm | 6 Comments

Enso ScreenshotEnso Words is a free program that offers a number of text-related functions that can be performed universally within any application. These include a spellcheck, word definitions, thesaurus, word and character counts, uppercase/lowercase conversions, instantly Googling selected text, and others.

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Launch programs, websites, and Windows tasks using mouse gestures with gMote
February 6, 2008 – 5:10 pm | 18 Comments

gMote screenshotgMote is a free program that allows you to record mouse gestures and associate them with applications, websites, and Windows tasks. You can then launch those whenever you need them by drawing the specific gesture associated with the program or task you need on-screen.

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DMEXBar: brings the functionality of a dual pane file manager to Windows Explorer
February 6, 2008 – 2:04 am | 17 Comments

The Dmexbar toolbarDMEXBar is a free Windows explorer toolbar extension that provides the functionality of a dual-pane file management program straight from within any normal window. It integrates a wide range of functions into a toolbar embedded within Windows explorer and can, additionally, control and arrange multiple open windows on the desktop side by side in the style of a file management programs.

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How to change the icons used for any file type on your PC
February 4, 2008 – 6:30 pm | 12 Comments

Screenshots showing successfully changed icons for a file typeThis posting will describe how to change the default icons used for any file-type using the free”Icon Phile” program.

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Create a password-protected hidden folder using “My Lockbox”
January 29, 2008 – 5:46 pm | 28 Comments

My Lockbox ScreenshotMy Lockbox is a free program that can quickly hide and password protect a folder and all files/folders within it from being shown in the Windows files system, and will do so under Windows safe mode as well.

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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 | 6 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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