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Posts Tagged ‘Windows Freeware’

Feewhee lets you instantly resize windows and make them transparent

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Filed under: Utilities, Windows Weighing in at a massive 4 kilobytes for the portable version, Feewhee does exactly two things, and does them well: First, get the program and run it. Then, hover your mouse over the title bar of any window. Now scroll the wheel, and watch the window resize up or down, according [...]

FreeApps lets you install a ton of quality free applications at once

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Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Freeware FreeApps is a software catalog with a twist. It has a ton of quality, freeware/open source offerings that are sorted by category. You browse the catalog, and then you tick the box next to every application that you’d like to install. You then hit Get Installer and download a small [...]

Shutdown Timer lets you shut down or log off based on system events

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Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Freeware At first, the idea of a program that would let me shut down my PC at a specific time seemed silly to me. I mean, I can already do it with Scheduled Tasks or a 4-line AutoHotkey script. Once I took the time to poke around Shutdown Timer, though, I [...]

How to add network activity lights to your system tray in Windows 7

Filed under: Utilities, WindowsWith the aid of a tiny little program — of the juicy, sub-100-kilobyte freeware variety — you can get those cute little blinking-blue screens back onto your system tray in Windows 7. In yet another case of inspired naming, Network Activity Indicator for Windows lets you re-attach the network activity indicator to [...]

Six free antivirus programs made for your Windows 7 system

Filed under: Security, Windows, Freeware Yesterday, I showed you a pain-free way to get rid of excess software that comes bundled on new systems and replace it with high-quality free programs. Those of you who want a bit more choice than what Ninite offers will probably do your installs manually — so let’s take a [...]

Update Microsoft Security Essentials definitions manually – no Windows Update required

Filed under: Security, Windows, Microsoft, Freeware, Windows x64 While Microsoft Security Essentials has gotten mostly glowing reviews so far, some users are still hesitant to install it. One thing holding up some users is Windows Update. You can’t update your Security Essentials definitions automatically if the Windows Update service is disabled. And while keeping your [...]

Windows Control Panel made easy

Windows access panel

Many a times on writing on Windows 7 I had pointed you out towards menus like “Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Administrative Tools” which is good to understand but to find items in control panel is little bit tough even though you can make it easier using search everywhere. Windows Access Panel is a freeware application [...]

How to make Firefox Portable your default web browser

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Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Freeware, BrowsersYour default web browser in Windows is the one that opens any time you click a link to open a web page, open an HTML file, or take any other number of actions that would require a browser to load. It’s typically pretty easy to make a browser your default. [...]

MedalFolders: Program launcher that hangs out in the system tray

MedalFolders

Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Freeware MedalFolders is sort of like a simple favorites menu for Windows. The program adds an icon to your system tray. When you click on the little red folder icon with a white star, a menu with shortcuts to your favorite applications and files opens up.You can add shortcuts by clicking [...]

How to add a "copy path" option to the Windows context menu

Copy Path

Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Freeware When you right-click on any file in the Windows Explorer, you can cut, paste, open, delete, or rename the file. But what if what you really want to do is copy the file path so you can paste it into a new window, a text document, or another file? Copy [...]

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