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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Shock Desktop is a program that can save the locations of your desktop icons and easily restore them if and when they change. It allows for the creation of multiple profiles and includes a number of useful functions.
Freeware “My Last Search” reveals searches performed on the major internet major search engines for both IE and Firefox.
MP3 Check allows you to audit your library of MP3 audio files for songs that do not meet your desired quality and volume criteria. It lets you define a handful of standards to check you audio library against (ID3 tag presence/absence, bit rate, sample rate, and volume) and will scan your folders for MP3s that do not comply with these.
On 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.
"More" is an award winning, academy-nominated animated short film made by filmmaker Mark Osborne in 1998. The 6 minutes film chronicles the life of a lonely individual with a colorless existence, but who is nonetheless propelled to change his life by a (literal) fire in his belly.
The "What if you had invested" research tool on the Sharebuilder site allows you to go back and calculate just how much money you would have gained or lost if you had invested a certain amount in a stock at any previous point in time.
"Ebook to Images" converts ebooks in most formats (.txt, .html, .htm, .lit, .pdf) to images that are custom formatted for reading on a mobile device. The idea is that while most portable devices such as MP3 players will not allow you to upload and view ebooks, many of them allow for image viewing on their screens. Hence "ebook to images" will convert the text from ebooks into images suitable for viewing on your particular portable device.
Clickzap offers the ability to execute one of a handful of useful tasks whenever you double click your right mouse button.
Freeware program Antifreeze offers a last recourse when your computer freezes/becomes unresponsive. Invoked by a hotkey combination (CTRL-Win-Alt-Home), it will “put to sleep all running programs except the most critical ones”, with the objective of giving you back the ability to intervene and close problematic programs.
There is a certain category of item, mostly personal electronics stuff, that although in theory I would love to own, in practice, when it really comes down to it, I will opt against parting with the money. Examples of this are: the Playstation 3 (would love to have, but will simply not buy), a really nice gaming laptop, the Nintendo WII, a color laser printer, a large flatscreen TV, those nice $200 noise-cancelling headphones that they sell at the Apple store (forgot the brand — Bose? Harman Kardon?).
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