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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Instantly and automatically clean up your code with HTML Formatter
February 13, 2008 – 5:15 pm | 22 Comments

HTMLFormatter Before and AfterHTML Formatter can instantly format unstructured, messy code into an indented, cleaned-up logical structure. It can process a wide range of code types including HTML, ASP, PHP, Smarty templates, XML, and Coldfusion.

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Right-click to upload images to Flickr with “Sendto Flickr”
February 11, 2008 – 6:40 am | 9 Comments

Sendto Flickr Screenshot“Sendto Flickr” is a free Windows explorer extension that allows you to upload images to Flickr through the right-click “send-to” menu.

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Enso Words provides universal spellchecking and other text functions on-demand
February 7, 2008 – 9:23 pm | 6 Comments

Enso ScreenshotEnso Words is a free program that offers a number of text-related functions that can be performed universally within any application. These include a spellcheck, word definitions, thesaurus, word and character counts, uppercase/lowercase conversions, instantly Googling selected text, and others.

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DMEXBar: brings the functionality of a dual pane file manager to Windows Explorer
February 6, 2008 – 2:04 am | 17 Comments

The Dmexbar toolbarDMEXBar is a free Windows explorer toolbar extension that provides the functionality of a dual-pane file management program straight from within any normal window. It integrates a wide range of functions into a toolbar embedded within Windows explorer and can, additionally, control and arrange multiple open windows on the desktop side by side in the style of a file management programs.

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Create a password-protected hidden folder using “My Lockbox”
January 29, 2008 – 5:46 pm | 26 Comments

My Lockbox ScreenshotMy Lockbox is a free program that can quickly hide and password protect a folder and all files/folders within it from being shown in the Windows files system, and will do so under Windows safe mode as well.

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Input Director: control and share clipboards across multiple computers
January 22, 2008 – 10:18 pm | 10 Comments

Input Director ScreenshotInput Director is a free program that enables two or more computers connected on a network to share a single mouse and keyboard input, allowing for dragging a mouse pointer across multiple screens. This easy to set-up software also enables the sharing of clipboard contents, including copying/pasting files and folders across multiple computers.

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Tag your local files with Tag2find
January 9, 2008 – 6:27 pm | 15 Comments

Tag2find ScreenshotTag2find is a memory-resident program that can apply tags to all of your local files. It can be optionally accessed from the right click context menu, a search box within the taskbar or the IE toolbar, or a floating searchbar (tagbar) that can be launched from the tray menu and moved around the desktop. Currently Tag2find supports NTFS file systems only, and is free for personal use.

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Quickly eject USB drives and devices with USB Disk Ejector
January 3, 2008 – 7:09 pm | 22 Comments

USB Disk Ejector ScreenshotUSB Disk Ejector is a small, free program that allows for instant, quick 1-click ejection of a USB drive or USB device such as an Ipod or MP3 player. It also works when run from the device itself that you want to eject.

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Resize any window with ResizeEnable
January 2, 2008 – 5:51 pm | 4 Comments

ResizeEnable ScreenshotResizeEnable is a small, free windows hack that gives you the ability to resize any window by dragging and dropping its lower right corner – including those windows that normally do not allow you to resize them.

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System Explorer Provides Comprehensive Information and Analysis for your System
December 25, 2007 – 5:53 am | 10 Comments

System Explorer ScreenshotSystem Explorer is a system monitoring and analysis program that picks up where the Windows "Task Manager" leaves off. It expands on the "Task Manager" by adding many more features, including detailed info on processes, Windows, IE addons, connections, drivers, opened files, Explorer, services, startups, and uninstallers.

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Link Shell Extension: create clones of your files and folders on an NTFS drive
December 17, 2007 – 10:39 pm | 15 Comments

Cloned (hardlinked) file exampleOn the NTFS file system, freeware program “Link Shell Extension” provides you with the ability to create clones (called hard links) of your files and folders straight from the context menu.

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