Enhancements
Free image and photo editing with Paint.NET
Photoshop and Paint Shop Pro can set you back a small fortune these days, but if you’re looking for a free alternative, then Paint.NET may be all you need.
The most powerful and lightweight screen capture tool.
Whether you’re capturing a whole screen, a small window, or a scrolling document, FastStone Capture is perhaps one of the best and most lightweight screen capture tools we’ve seen.
Backup to unlimited online storage using Mozy
Backing up files is chore only appreciated when you really need it. However, backing up to another USB disk or DVD isn’t 100% reliable. Unless your backup solution is fire safe and hidden from burglars, chances are you still might lose all those family photos and MP3s in the event of a disaster.
Play any media file with VLC Player
VLC media player is probably the best media player for Windows, Mac and Linux platforms. Boasting nearly 130 million downloads, VLC can play almost any type of format you throw at it including DivX and MKV, and provides fully featured media streaming capabilities.
Re-discover desktop search with the intuitive Exalead Desktop Free Edition
Desktop search has a bad reputation of being a resource hog whilst not providing the results to make the overhead worthwhile. One of the best and most efficient Desktop Search engines around at the moment is the Exalead Desktop search.
Supercharge your recently used documents list with ActualDoc
There are lots of issues with the standard “Recently Used” documents in Windows. To begin with it only stores the last 15 documents, and it doesn’t store all document types. For busy people spending most of their life opening and closing documents, even with the most organised folder structure, it can become impossible to find that document you’ve only just been working on. At times, looking for a lost document, feels worse than losing your house keys. More >
The Best Free Windows Enhancements
You can waste hours if not days looking for cool enhancements to your Windows desktop. So I can’t recommend highly enough this web page which lists the “top 43” windows enhancements. Many of them are so useful you have to question why Microsoft never included them directly in Windows. Take the fantastic TeraCopy program for example. This amazing piece of software dramatically speeds up copying large files both locally and across the LAN. Surely this should be the way Windows works out of the box? Another favourite windows enhancement is the “Send to Toys” which gives the standard, but little used “Send To” functionality a new lease of live. Have a look at this site and you can’t help be impressed with the level of free windows enhancements available today.
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