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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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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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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SpaceSniffer: explore a “treemap” representation of your file and folder sizes
April 24, 2009 – 10:32 am | 11 Comments

SpaceSniffer ScreenshotSpaceSniffer is a free program that displays the size of your files and folders in a visual “Treemap” representation. It allows you to browse your folder structure, drill in and out of represented elements, and filter the display by any combination of criteria (filenames, extensions, size, date). It also allows you to access your Windows context menu for on-the-spot file/folder manipulation.

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Free Disk Usage Analyzer: find where all your disk space has gone
February 4, 2009 – 1:33 pm | 16 Comments

freediskanalyzer screenshot1Free Disk Usage Analyzer is a free hard drive analysis tool that reveals those files and folders on your drive(s) that are occupying the most disk space. It displays ranked lists of both your top space-hogging files and folders.

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Easeus Partition Manager Home Edition: powerful, free disk and partition management
December 8, 2008 – 12:38 pm | 17 Comments

EPM screenshot Easeus Partition Manager Home Edition is a free disk partitioning utility that offers a powerful range of functions such as resizing drive partitions, formatting partitions, copying partitions/drives, creating new partitions, deleting partitions, hiding partitions, changing drive letters, setting active partitions, and a handful other functions.

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Desktop Media: get automatic desktop shortcuts when you plug in your USB drive or other media
July 24, 2008 – 6:50 pm | 63 Comments

Desktop Media ScreenshotsDesktop Media is a free program that can display shortcuts on the desktop to USB drives, CDs/DVDs and other media when you plug them in, and automatically removes these shortcuts when you unplug. It can also alternately create so-called “hard links” to your media instead of shortcuts.

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EjectUSB: a powerful tool for safe USB drive removal
July 23, 2008 – 7:50 pm | 11 Comments

EjectUSB ScreenshotEjectUSB is an open source program that is run from a USB device to close all programs running from the device and eject the drive for safe removal. It will also remove registry entries and recent document shortcuts that refer to the USB device.

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Click&Clean: clean your system with 1-click using this CCleaner addon
June 29, 2008 – 9:39 am | 19 Comments

Click&Clean ScreenshotClick&Clean is a free tool that works alongside CCleaner to provide 1-click hard drive and browser cleanup from within Internet Explorer, Firefox, or the desktop Quick Launch bar. It can perform an instant, complete uninterrupted cleanup with CCleaner without exiting the browser or dealing with prompts and dilags.

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Pathsync: synchronize two directories with ease
June 11, 2008 – 8:46 pm | 16 Comments

PathSync ScreenshotPathsync is an open source drive or directory synchronization tool that can compare two paths and provides a number of options for copying files back and forth across the two. It offers a number of useful options such as filtering by user-defined filename mask or extension and user-defined buffer size for the copying operation.

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Copy Handler: speed up and control file copying and moving operations
June 5, 2008 – 7:51 am | 37 Comments

Copy Handller context menuCopy Handler is an open source program that resides in memory and significantly enhances the copying or moving of large files in Windows. It introduces the ability to pause and resume copy/move operations, can speed up transfers by up to 6-7 times, and adds filtering functions that determine exactly which files and folders to copy or move.

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Desk Drive: get automatic drive/media shortcuts on your desktop
May 23, 2008 – 4:00 pm | 16 Comments

Desk Drive ScreenshotDesk Drive is a free program that adds automatic shortcuts on the desktop to flash drives and other media when you plug them in, and removes these shortcuts automatically when the drives are unplugged. Supported media include (CD’s/DVD’s, removable drives, fixed drives, networked and RAM drives).

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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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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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