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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Garden of Colored Lights: vector-based blaster with a weapons-management component
November 8, 2008 – 1:01 am | 6 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 | 22 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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Folder View: access your favorite folders from (literally) anywhere
September 16, 2008 – 9:13 pm | 3 Comments

Folder View Screenshot Folder Toolbar2Folder View is a free utility that provides access to your favorite folders in multiple locations on your machine, including the toolbar of any open folder, the system tray, the windows open/save dialog, the left/side placesbar on the open save dialog and from a shortcut on your desktop. It also installs two context menu entries that make it easy to move or copy files to your favorite folders or alternately to quickly add folders to your list of folder favorites.

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SwWeek: display the current calendar week in the system tray
September 12, 2008 – 8:48 pm | 8 Comments

SwWeek ScreenshotSwWeek is a small free program whose sole function is to display the current calendar week number in the system tray.

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Open Target Shell Extension: open shortcut “target folders” from the context menu in XP
September 12, 2008 – 4:36 am | 22 Comments

Open Target Shell Extension ScreenshotOpen Target Shell Extension installs an entry in the windows context menu that appears whenever you right-click a shortcut and functions to quickly open the original folder that the shortcut is pointing to. It is equivalent to right clicking a shorcut > properties > find target in Windows XP.

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Hexagora Performance Monitor: a monitoring app that makes system load visible
August 29, 2008 – 4:26 pm | 4 Comments

Hexagora Performance Monitor screenshotHexagora Performance Monitor is a light and customizable freeware application that displays four important system load values – CPU, memory, disk and network traffic. It requires no user input to work out of the box and is portable.

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