Forty-Three of The Best Free Windows Enhancements That You Should Know About
June 23, 2009 – 8:52 am | 72 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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MaxTo: maximize your windows to user-defined regions
April 9, 2009 – 12:54 pm | 15 Comments

MaxTo ScreenshotMaxTo is a free program that splits your screen into custom regions and then nables you to maximize and snap your windows to these regions on-demand. It supports 2 “layers”, main and alternate, such that the user can split the screen into, say, vertical regions in one layer and horizontal regions in another (or even vertical/horizontal combinations) . It allows you to toggle window maximization for the main and alternate settings via two user-definable hotkeys, such that maximizing without pressing hotkeys results in normal window maximizing behavior.

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StExBar: toolbar that adds useful functions to Windows’ folder view
February 11, 2009 – 2:27 pm | One Comment

StExBar screenshotStExBar is a free Windows extension that adds a number of useful functions as a Windows explorer toolbar, including a filtering box, toggle show system files, copy names or paths, mass rename, and a command line console. It allows you to add your own functions to the toolbar (or as keyboard shortcuts) if you have an executable or script.

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Free Disk Usage Analyzer: find where all your disk space has gone
February 4, 2009 – 1:33 pm | 16 Comments

freediskanalyzer screenshot1Free Disk Usage Analyzer is a free hard drive analysis tool that reveals those files and folders on your drive(s) that are occupying the most disk space. It displays ranked listsĀ of both your top space-hogging files and folders.

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Dyson: colonize the universe in this “ambient” strategy game
January 22, 2009 – 10:54 pm | 4 Comments

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Dyson is a free cross-platform real time strategy game with abstract visuals. It manages to be simple and elegant even as it combines elements such as the emergence of life, a Darwinian “sperm wars” motif, and intra-species competition with your standard world-domination game concept.

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TaggedFrog: tag your files by keyword
January 21, 2009 – 1:55 pm | 16 Comments

TaggedFrog ScreenshotTaggedFrog is a free utility that allows you to tag any files on your hard disk by keyword and access or filter them through a tag cloud. Users can also create filters by file-type to filter their results, and create favorite “sets” or combinations of tags for quick browsing.

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WindowsPager: an excellent, lightweight virtual desktop solution
December 23, 2008 – 8:52 am | 12 Comments

windowspager screenshot WindowsPager is a free program that adds four virtual desktops/workspaces to your desktop. It integrates the new workspaces as icons in your taskbar and allows for managing your open windows through the right click context menu. WindowsPager is a portable app with very light resource consumption.

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Open++: put any function you want in the context menu
December 10, 2008 – 11:30 pm | 19 Comments

Open++ screenshot Open++ is a free program that allows you to install functions in the Windows’ context menu extension. You can choose from a number of built-in functions or otherwise use any command line executable to add custom commands that can work on folders, specific file type(s) or both.

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

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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