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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Unhider makes any window visible, even after a crash
April 15, 2008 – 4:02 pm | 15 Comments

Unhider ScreenshotUnhider is a program that can reveal/unhide any window(s) that belong to applications and/or process running in the background that are not visible. It can do this for programs that are running but not visible in the wake of a crash.

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Change the icons used for any filetype, file, or folder from the context menu with IconX
April 8, 2008 – 7:49 pm | 10 Comments

IconX Screenshot2 - in the context menuIconX is a free Windows Explorer context menu extension that enables you to change the icon used for any file-type. It can also change the icon used for any individual file, and for any individual folder.

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Create ringtones from your favorite MP3s with ToneShop
March 29, 2008 – 6:29 am | 24 Comments

ToneShop ScreenshotToneShop is a small, free program that can create ringtones out of your audio files for any phone that supports a true audio ringtone, including the Apple IPhone. It provides the ability to quickly and easily select a snippet of sound from within your audio files to be used as a ringtone.

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Install your no-install apps with ZipInstaller
March 26, 2008 – 3:12 am | 16 Comments

ZipInstaller ScreenshotZipInstaller is a small program that can streamline no-install apps in zip files such that they are extracted in the right place, and provides these with shortcuts in the start menu and desktop, as well as an uninstall entry in Windows’ add/remove control panel.

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Add a number of unique commands to the context menu with Shell Tools
March 25, 2008 – 6:36 am | 13 Comments

Shell Tools ScreenshotsShell Tools is a collection of Windows enhancements that add five functions to the right-click context menu that allow you to do the following: add notes to any file, right click to toggle view hidden files on/off, copy URLs from IE bookmarks, load or install fonts, and register/unregister COM servers for DLL, OCX, and EXE files on demand. You can choose to enable any or all of these modules on your system as you wish.

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Automatically backup and retrieve earlier incarnations of your files with DocShield
March 24, 2008 – 2:56 am | 6 Comments

DocShield ScreenshotDocShield is a program that runs in the background and monitors files and folders that you specify for changes. It will create compressed snapshots of your files whenever it detects any changes, enabling you to retrieve your files in case of data loss, and providing a retrievable version history of your files and/or data.

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Filebox Entender: Enhances Windows with favorite folders, recent folders, and windows management functions
March 13, 2008 – 9:41 pm | 21 Comments

filebox extender screenshotsFilebox Extender is a free windows explorer extension that adds a number of buttons on the top right of open windows next to the minimize, maximize and close buttons, including a “stay on top” pushpin button, a window roll-up button that hides all but the title bar of a window, a favorites folder button, and a recent folders button. Filebox Extender provides these functions in open folder and application windows, in open/save dialogs and in the system tray.

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Five freeware programs to help you find the optimal informational tooltips for most file types
March 12, 2008 – 9:41 pm | 12 Comments

Audioshell tooltip screenshotthis posting will present an overview of a number of freeware options that can add informational tooltips to various file types. Informational tooltips are those informational windows that appear when you hover the mouse over various files. Five programs are presented here including Infotag Magic, Filetip, Thumbview, MediaCoder, and Audioshell.

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Switch through open apps and windows in style using Winflip
February 25, 2008 – 5:46 pm | 31 Comments

Winflip ScreenshotWinFlip is a free program that brings to Windows XP the ALT-Tab 3D task-switching flipping function that’s featured on Windows Vista. It allows you to press a hotkey and flip through all open windows using a cascading, isometric visual representation.

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Piky Basket: use a virtual basket to perform operations on multiple files and folders
February 20, 2008 – 3:06 am | 16 Comments

Piky Basket ScreenshotPiky Basket is a Windows shell extension that adds the ability to add different files and folders from multiple locations into a virtual basket from the context menu, and then perform file operations on all of the basket’s contents at once.

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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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