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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Dyson: colonize the universe in this “ambient” strategy game
January 22, 2009 – 10:54 pm | 6 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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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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Shock Bookmark: access favorite files, folders, apps, and websites in Windows’ context menu
December 3, 2008 – 10:06 pm | 14 Comments

Shock Bookmark Screenshot Shock Bookmark is a free program that provides access to your favorite folders, files, internet bookmarks, and program shortcuts straight from the Windows explorer right click context menu. It also enables quick right-click copy and/or move operations to your bookmarked locations.

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JavaRa: update Java and remove old versions
December 1, 2008 – 7:17 am | 7 Comments

Javara Screenshot JavaRa is a free, portable program that quickly updates the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) installed on your computer to the latest available version. It can optionally remove all older versions that may exist on your machine, as well as a host of related temporary files that may be taking up space on your hard drive.

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Framework Detector: tells you exactly which version(s) of .NET framework your PC supports
November 27, 2008 – 10:29 pm | 11 Comments

Framework Detector Screenshot Framework detector is a free no-install utility that provides information on the version(s) of the .NET Framework your computer has installed, if any.

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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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