Forty-Three of The Best Free Windows Enhancements That You Should Know About
June 23, 2009 – 8:52 am | 56 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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BumpTop: Your Desktop in 3D
July 1, 2009 – 10:26 pm | 2 Comments

Bumptop screenshotBumpTop is a cool little addition that can make your Windows desktop a little more organized and add a bit of pizazz to the experience. It adds physics and depth to your normal, boring desktop. You can slide files and icons around on the “floor” or pin them to any of the four walls that BumpTop creates. It makes for an impressive desktop and is somewhat comparable to Compiz on Linux, but is there much practical application for it?

[Editor’s note: this review was written by Freewaregenius contributor Jason H. Check out his tech blog: 404techsupport.com].

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Bumptop screenshotBumpTop is a cool little addition that can make your Windows desktop a little more organized and add a bit of pizazz to the experience. It adds physics and depth to your normal, boring desktop. You can slide files and icons around on the “floor” or pin them to any of the four walls that BumpTop creates. It makes for an impressive desktop and is somewhat comparable to Compiz on Linux, but is there much practical application for it?

[Editor’s note: this review was written by Freewaregenius contributor Jason H. Check out his tech blog: 404techsupport.com].

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Forty-Three of The Best Free Windows Enhancements That You Should Know About
June 23, 2009 – 8:52 am | 56 Comments

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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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Capster: enable or disable startup programs in real time using Caps Lock as a hotkey
June 19, 2009 – 11:45 pm | 3 Comments

Capster screenshotCapster is a free, tiny utility that allows you to modify any particular startup program or programs that auto-start with Windows such that they only launch on startup if the Caps Lock key is toggled On or Off.

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Suction: consolidate files in a folder structure into the parent directory
June 18, 2009 – 11:17 pm | 11 Comments

Suction ScreenshotSuction is a small free utility that can consolidate all files in several directories recursively and deposit them into a single parent directory. It can install an entry in the right-click context menu for quick action on folders.

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KDE Window Resizer: move and resize windows from anywhere, in the style of KDE Linux
June 10, 2009 – 11:31 pm | 7 Comments

KDE Window Resizer screenshotKDE Window Resizer is a free portable app that brings to XP and Vista the window moving and resizing functionality found in the KDE Linux environment. It allows you to press ALT and move your windows by left-clicking and dragging from anywhere, without having to click on the title bar, and to resize by right clicking and dragging, without needing to grab the edges. Moving a window so its edge is offscreen and following it by a right mouse-click will conveniently snap your window to the edge of the screen.

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WinCDEmu: mount disk/ISO images by double-clicking them in Windows explorer
June 6, 2009 – 8:46 am | 25 Comments

WinCDEmu Screenshot2WinCDEmu is a free, open source program that can mount disk images (.ISO, .IMG, .CUE, .BIN and .RAW) into virtual CD or DVD drives. It works invisibly without a user interface, and simply allows the user to double click on an image file to mount a CD/DVD image into a virtual drive, and to right-click “eject” to unmount.

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Folder Menu: access favorite folders, apps, and URL via hotkey or middle mouse button
May 22, 2009 – 1:04 pm | 22 Comments

Folder Menu ScreenshotFolder Menu is a free utility that can display a popup-list of favorite folders, files, and program shortcuts via hotkey or by using the middle mouse button. An added function is the ability to browse your files and folders within the popup dialog.

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PowerTools Lite: a new, freeware version of the famous jv16PowerTools registry cleaner
May 16, 2009 – 9:28 pm | 12 Comments

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PowerTools Lite is a free registry and system cleaning utility based on jv16 PowerTools 2009 utility suite, one of the best available registry cleaning utilities. PowerTools Lite is designed to provide regular or novice users with a safe, effective registry and system cleanup. It removes unnecessary data from the registry, performs a general PC cleanup, and cleans MRU and history data from most applications and from Windows.

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Benubird PDF: free document management system lets you manage, organize, and tag your files
May 13, 2009 – 10:20 pm | 17 Comments

Benubird PDF screenshotBenubird PDF is a free document management system designed to manage all manner of documents and files in a single, centralized location. It allows you to organize your files and documents within virtual folders (irrespective of where they reside on your hard drive), and to and apply tags to them as well as other metadata. The interface provides for quick and easy filtering and search capabilities. Advanced features include the ability to monitor local folders for changes and to use a set of user-defined rules to update the library of documents/files accordingly.

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DriverBackup: easily backup & restore your system drivers
May 12, 2009 – 1:03 pm | 13 Comments

DriverBackup Screenshot Main WindowDriverBackup is a free and easy-to-use Device Drivers’ backup and restore utility that comes with command line options, path formatting and automatic driver restoration. It can easily backup and restore all the currently installed device drives automatically without the need for re-downloading drivers or using CD-ROMs.

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ActiveHotkeys: reveals used hotkeys on your system
May 6, 2009 – 10:31 am | 7 Comments

ActiveHotkeys screenshotActiveHotkeys is a small, free portable app that can scan and display all active hotkey combinations on your system that are being used by various applications.

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FreeMeter: a low-impact system monitor
April 30, 2009 – 12:57 pm | 11 Comments

main1 FreeMeter is a free system-performance monitoring utility designed to be powerful yet light on resources. It monitors a number of system activities that most people need, including uptime, drive space, CPU usage, disk access, physical memory available, and page file usage. It can also monitor up to 2 email accounts and present real-time updates for them in the system tray area.

[Editor’s note: this review was written by Freewaregenius contributor Jason H. Check out his tech blog: 404techsupport.com]. 

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