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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Q-Dir: the portable file management program that could
November 21, 2008 – 4:47 pm | 17 Comments

QDir Screenshot Q-Dir is a free file management / explorer replacement program with a light footprint and a nice set of features. It integrates very well with Windows’ desktop environment and employs an innovative interface that makes it very easy to work with multiple file panes. Can be run portably from USB.

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AltDrag: easily grab and drag your windows from anywhere (and snap them to other windows)
November 12, 2008 – 6:30 pm | 21 Comments

AltDrag ScreenshotAltDrag is a free, small utility that provides the ability to move a window by clicking anywhere on it while holding down the Alt key, as opposed to having to click on the title bar. It also provides snap-to-edge functionality in relation to other windows or the sides of the screen when moving the window while pressing Alt+Shift.

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RBTray: lightweight and simple minimize to tray app
November 12, 2008 – 7:35 am | 15 Comments

RBTray Screenshot1RBTray is a free, lightweight app that provides minimize-to-tray functionality for any open window by right clicking the bottom right corner of the window’s "minimize" button. Alternately you can minimize to tray by right clicking anywhere on the title bar and using a context menu that also provides "always on top", and Window resizing functions.

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QwikTulz: add a number of unique functions to the right click context menu
November 11, 2008 – 6:20 am | 8 Comments

QwikTulz Screenshot2QwikTulz is a free Explorer extension that can add a number of interesting functions to Windows’ right-click context menu, including save directory to ISO image, convert folder to drive, open with custom text editor, view/save/check MD5 Hash, convert across BAT/COM/EXE files, copy path, open DOS prompt, and others. It also offers standalone or command line options for some of these , such as the ISO creation, MD5 Hash functions, and EXE/COM/EXE conversions.

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Garden of Colored Lights: vector-based blaster with a weapons-management component
November 8, 2008 – 1:01 am | 5 Comments

Garden of Colored Lights Screenshot ScreenshotGarden of Colored Lights is a free, fast-paced vertically scrolling shoot em up. It offers excellent production qualities in the form of a quirky soundtrack and sound effects and colorful vector graphics, and employs an interesting innovation in gameplay where players can choose the weapons with-which to outfit their ship.

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“Everything”: small, lightning fast desktop search for NTFS drives
November 1, 2008 – 10:27 pm | 63 Comments

Everything Screenshot“Everything” is a free, lightning fast file and folder name search program that offers right-click context menu integration. It works with NTFS filesystem hard drives only because it does not scan your hard drive but rather uses the Master File Table of the NTFS volume to build its database.

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Tiny Watcher: detect and reverse unwanted changes to your system
October 22, 2008 – 4:16 pm | 21 Comments

Tiny Watcher ScreenshotTiny Watcher is a program that can create “snapshots” of your system that it uses to identify changes to your system including changes/additions to the registry, drivers, as well as programs or processes running for the first time on your machine.

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3RVX: stylish, hotkey-enabled volume control
October 2, 2008 – 8:37 pm | 31 Comments

3RVX Screenshot3RVX is a free program that offers volume control through hotkey and/or middle mouse wheel combinations. It also visually represents the volume levels and volume changes on-screen and in the program’s system tray icon.

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MobaLiveCD: launch Linux LiveCDs from within Windows
September 30, 2008 – 9:16 pm | 6 Comments

MobaLiveCD ScreenshotMobaLiveCD is a free program that can run Linux Live CD’s on Windows in emulation mode without the need to burn the Live CD ISO into a CD and boot into it.

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Slax: boot into a portable Linux on a USB
September 30, 2008 – 4:55 am | 9 Comments

Slax ScreenshotSlax is a Slackware-based Linux operating system that can be run on Live CD, booted from USB, or run from RAM. It is small in size yet highly customizable and comes with a full range of pre-installed applications.

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OSD Mute: displays Mute status on the desktop
September 24, 2008 – 8:11 pm | 12 Comments

OSD-mute ScreenshotOSD-Mute is a tiny free app that displays a semi-transparent “Mute On” message on your desktop whenever the system volume is muted.

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Satsuki Decoder Pack: open any media file from any app with this nifty decoder pack
September 23, 2008 – 8:11 pm | 19 Comments

Satsuki Decoder Pack Screenshot - control panelSatsuki Decoder Pack auto-installs a collection of media decoders and filters on your system. It will allow you to view or open almost any media file or DVD using the enclosed Windows Media Player Classic or from within any other application. In order to avoid conflicts and clutter this pack does not include codecs, only decoders and filters.

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