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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DeskSave: a lightweight program to save and restore desktop icon layouts
July 12, 2008 – 7:30 pm | 6 Comments

DeskSave ScreenshotDesksave 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 the right-click context menu, and the option to run from the command line.

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360 Desktop: expand your desktop across multiple screens
July 10, 2008 – 4:40 am | 9 Comments

360 Desktop Screenshot360 Desktop is a free innovative virtual desktop application that creates a "panoramic workspace" extending across multiple screens. It behaves as a scrollable desktop where you could travel from one side and into the other. It also introduces the ability to embed widgets on the new desktop that clip content off the web such as RSS feeds and videos.

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DeskOnTop: access your desktop from the system tray
July 4, 2008 – 12:19 am | 16 Comments

DeskOnTop ScreenshotDeskOnTop is a free program that resides in the system tray and provides access to your desktop files and folders by popping up a mini-representation of the desktop in the system tray. Alternately, it can also provide a start menu style list of all your desktop items.

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Click&Clean: clean your system with 1-click using this CCleaner addon
June 29, 2008 – 9:39 am | 19 Comments

Click&Clean ScreenshotClick&Clean is a free tool that works alongside CCleaner to provide 1-click hard drive and browser cleanup from within Internet Explorer, Firefox, or the desktop Quick Launch bar. It can perform an instant, complete uninterrupted cleanup with CCleaner without exiting the browser or dealing with prompts and dilags.

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Ulteo Virtual Desktop: run a virtual Linux environment inside Windows
June 25, 2008 – 9:50 pm | 22 Comments

Ulteo Virtual Desktop ScreenshotUlteo Virtual Desktop installs a virtual Linux environment inside Windows. This free program shows up as a panel inside the Windows desktop and allows you to access Linux applications within Windows with little effect on performance, enabling users to run both Windows and Linux apps simultaneously and to switch between them at will.

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Stick: add “Screen Tabs” to your desktop
June 25, 2008 – 6:45 am | 8 Comments

Stick ScreenshotStick is a free program that introduces tabs attached to the sides of your screen (called "Screen Tabs") that can display notes, folder contents, web pages, RSS feeds, as well as mini apps such as a calendar or calculator.

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“Types”: easily configure the default apps, icons, and context menu entries for file types
June 21, 2008 – 4:33 pm | 23 Comments

Types Screenshot"Types" is a lightweight open source configuration utility designed to enable users to edit the program associations, icons, context menus, and other properties of various file types.

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Melloware Placesbar Editor: add favorite folders to Windows and Office open/save dialogs
June 20, 2008 – 8:58 pm | 10 Comments

Melloware ScreenshotMelloware Placesbar Editor is an open source program that allows you to change the default folder shortcuts that are found in the Windows open/save dialog known as the PlacesBar. Moreover, it can also customize the MS Office open/save dialog by enabling the addition of 5 new user-defined folders for a total of up to 10 locations.

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Pathsync: synchronize two directories with ease
June 11, 2008 – 8:46 pm | 16 Comments

PathSync ScreenshotPathsync is an open source drive or directory synchronization tool that can compare two paths and provides a number of options for copying files back and forth across the two. It offers a number of useful options such as filtering by user-defined filename mask or extension and user-defined buffer size for the copying operation.

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VolumeTouch: control system volume with the mouse (or hotkeys)
June 6, 2008 – 1:43 am | 15 Comments

VolumeTouch screenshotVolumeTouch gives quick control over your PC’s volume by using a combination of hotkeys and the mouse or arrow keys.

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Copy Handler: speed up and control file copying and moving operations
June 5, 2008 – 7:51 am | 37 Comments

Copy Handller context menuCopy Handler is an open source program that resides in memory and significantly enhances the copying or moving of large files in Windows. It introduces the ability to pause and resume copy/move operations, can speed up transfers by up to 6-7 times, and adds filtering functions that determine exactly which files and folders to copy or move.

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