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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Thoosje Quick XP Optimizer: get better performance out of XP
May 28, 2008 – 8:41 pm | 9 Comments

Thoosje screenshotThoosje Quick XP Optimizer is a free program that provides 1-click performance enhancement for Windows XP, including faster startup, faster HD access, faster apps, faster intente, and faster overall system performance. It also offers the option to completely undo whatever intervention that it performed on a system.

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CloseWin: instantly close all open windows
May 27, 2008 – 6:19 am | 2 Comments

CloseWin ScreenshotCloseWin can close all open windows and programs in the taskbar in a single swoop. It also allows the user to create profiles for and selectively close windows/programs based on text in the window.

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Desk Drive: get automatic drive/media shortcuts on your desktop
May 23, 2008 – 4:00 pm | 16 Comments

Desk Drive ScreenshotDesk Drive is a free program that adds automatic shortcuts on the desktop to flash drives and other media when you plug them in, and removes these shortcuts automatically when the drives are unplugged. Supported media include (CD’s/DVD’s, removable drives, fixed drives, networked and RAM drives).

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FreeSnap: maximize window edges individually
May 21, 2008 – 9:33 pm | 15 Comments

FreeSnap ScreenshotFreesSnap is a free program that runs in the background and allows the user to individually maximize any of the four sides of an open window using hotkeys (Win+arrows by default). It also allows you to use hotkeys to quickly shift the placement of a window to the center or any of the 4 corners, and to perform a number of windows resize operations.

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Lebendig: animate your windows
May 14, 2008 – 5:45 am | 12 Comments

Lebendig ScreenshotLebendig is a Windows enhancement that will animate your windows, making them twist around as they open, recede into the horizon when closed, or perform any of 15 different actions when opening or closing. Works on programs, windows, and dialogs.

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SysExporter: extract infromation from any program or window, even when copying and pasting is not an option
May 12, 2008 – 8:04 pm | 9 Comments

SysExporter ScreenshotSysExporter is a small tool that allows you to extract information from any application or window and export it as text, HTML, or XML files. It is designed to retrieve information from programs that do not normally allow you to simply copy/paste info, such as the files list inside a folder or zip archive, list of emails and/or contacts in an email client, registry values in the right pane of the registry editor, error message prompts, etc.

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Wubi: install Ubuntu Linux from within your Windows environment
May 2, 2008 – 4:45 pm | 24 Comments

Ubuntu Setup ScreenshotWubi is an Ubuntu Linux installer designed to be run from within a Windows environment in order to create a dual booting Windows/Ubuntu machine. Wubi is an officially supported Ubuntu installer and is open source.

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Xneat: power charge XP or Vista with this nifty windows manager
May 1, 2008 – 9:21 pm | 17 Comments

Xneat ScreenshotXneat windows manager is a free windows enhancement that adds a number of “window management” type functions to explorer, including the ability to customize window transparency, minimize (or hide) windows to the system tray, toggling always on top, and drag and drop taskbar buttons in order to rearrange them. It also adds interesting options to the windows save file dialog: a “clone file” button that becomes active when overwriting a file, and a time stamp button.

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Loomis Faceworx: model a 3D head from two 2D images
April 30, 2008 – 4:57 pm | 9 Comments

Looxis Faceworx ScreenshotLooxis Faceworx is a free 3D modeling program that can construct a textured 3D model of a person’s head out of two 2D photos (one from the front, "mugshot" style, and the other profile style from the side).

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Translate.Net: translate your text using multiple translation engines at once
April 29, 2008 – 7:58 pm | 9 Comments

Translate.net ScreenshotTranslate.Net is a desktop-based translation tool that will translate any text from one language to another. It connects with multiple online translation engines and delivers multiple translations at once straight into your desktop.

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Daphne: manage Windows processes visually by dragging and dropping
April 25, 2008 – 4:59 am | 11 Comments

Daphne ScreenshotDaphne is a windows process manager that provides a number of interesting functions, such as the ability to shut down, find, or hide an app or process by dragging and dropping a tool onto open windows with the mouse. Other functions include the ability to set “traps” where processes invoke user determined actions, killing processes by name, etc, in addition to a number of the usual functions that you would expect to find in a program of this type.

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Binary Toys: amuse yourself with tiny desktop creatures
April 23, 2008 – 4:43 pm | 13 Comments

Binary Toys ScreenshotBinary Toys are animated windowless vector characters “made up of springs, muscles, and masses” that are designed to inhabit your computer, interacting with your desktop environment in accordance with the laws of physics.

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