Tag: Windows Enhancements
Start Menu Reviver: a superior start menu for both Windows 8 and Windows 7
What if Microsoft had kept the start menu in Windows 8; what would it have looked like? In some ways ‘Start menu Reviver’, a...
Bypass the UAC prompt for any program, with ‘ElevatedShortcut’ for Windows 7 and Windows...
UAC security prompts have becoming a mainstay of Windows since Vista, but especially with the introduction of Windows 7, and they remain so with...
Use your webcam as a mouse with gesture-based freeware ‘NPointer’
Have you ever wished you had an extra hand for the mouse while you’re typing? Or, perhaps you’re one of the many people across...
Maximize windows into the free space between other open windows, with WinMaximumize
Imagine that you have multiple open Windows on your desktop screen, with a lot of empty space between them. Now imagine that you want...
Toggle the internet on and off from the system tray, with InternetOff
If you want to be able to turn the internet off (of on) quickly and easily then read on: InternetOff makes this a one-click...
Filemind adds sophisticated filtering for files and folders
Windows Explorer is great, but could be a lot better. File filtering, for example, is not very intuitive and relies too much on the...
Another ten unique, free utilities to SUPERCHARGE your right-click menu
We recently published an article entitled “Supercharge your right-click menu with these ten UNIQUE utilities”. If you enjoyed that one then we have good...
Resize images via right click with ‘Free Image Resizer’
If you need to resize images quickly, right from Windows Explorer and on the fly then this software is for you.
Free Image Resizer is...
Get tabbed browsing in Windows with Clover
Great news for those who love tabs in the browser: you can now get tabs in Windows explorer as well.
We recently mentioned TabExplorer, a...
Add tabs to Windows Explorer with TabExplorer
If you love having tabs in your browser, then how about adding tabs to Windows Explorer? TabExplorer is free software that adds simple, functional...
Add thumbnail previews to PDF files in Windows with PDF Preview
Adobe Acrobat Reader is one of the first things most people install on a computer, but one thing which I do not understand is...
Two free programs that can enhance Windows 7 or 8: AniExplorer and Folder Options...
Windows 7 is quite good, but there are certain things that can be better about it. For example, you may have tried to rearrange...
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Get cloud access to anything on your PC, with TackaCloud’s ‘Personal Cloud’
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