PureText Strips Formatting from Your Clipboard When You Paste [Featured Windows Download] (6)
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Windows only: Free system tray utility PureText adds a global keyboard shortcut to your system to paste text into any application without formatting. PureText strips all of the rich formatting from text—like bold, italics, color, alignment, margins, and more—so that what you're left with is just the plain text (hence the name). If you're all too familiar with the Paste Special -> Unformatted Text feature in Microsoft Word, PureText's simple shortcut—which defaults to Win+V—will save ...
Featured Windows Download: Game Key Revealer Finds the Keys for Your Games (26)
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Windows only: If you have a game installed on your computer but have lost the original documents that came with it, you can still retrieve the product keys for safekeeping. Game Key Revealer is a small portable application that can help you recover your lost game keys. Game Key Revealer supports more than 500 popular computer games from well known publishers like Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, THQ and Lucasarts. The game key of games like The ...
Featured Windows Download: Free PDF to Word Doc Converter Is Exactly That (3)
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Windows only: There are many, many tools to convert Microsoft Word files into PDF documents, including those built into the latest office suites, but what about the other way around? Free PDF to Word Doc Converter is a small program that solves a big headache for some office and document workers. Load up a PDF, choose how you want to export the file—including images, shapes, and text layout functions—and hit the convert button. My own ...
Startup Delayer Staggers Your Startup Apps for Smoother Loading [Featured Windows Download] (43)
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Windows only: Free application Startup Delayer staggers the applications that launch when you login to Windows by user-defined increments. The reason: To mitigate the common startup bottleneck caused by all of your startup applications fighting to run at the same time. You'd never try launching eight different applications simultaneously under normal circumstances and expect your computer to handle it well, so why should your startup apps be any different? To use it, just drag applications ...
Slowmousion Slows Your Mouse for Precision with a Hotkey [Featured Windows Download] (9)
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Windows only: Free mouse utility Slowmousion is a small, memory-resident app that can be seriously helpful for Photoshop/GIMP aficionados and anyone else who has to draw or select objects with precision. The app sits in your desktop tray (taking up about 3.6MB on my Vista system) and lets you enable its cursor-slowing function with a keyboard key, middle mouse button, or other hotkey. The one big drawback is a missing option to adjust the slow-down ...
HashTab Verifies the Integrity of Your Downloads [Featured Windows Download] (7)
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Windows only: If you download a lot of applications from the internet, chances are you've seen an MD5 hash next to the download link. This unique hash is used to verify the integrity of your download, ensuring that the file you got is in fact the file you were supposed to get. HashTab is a simple utility that adds a new tab to the Properties window of Windows Explorer that displays the file hashes for ...
Agent Ransack Adds Regular Expression Power to Windows Search [Featured Windows Download] (7)
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Windows only: Free search app Agent Ransack is a tool worth checking out if you've got a file you just can't find with Windows' built-in search or other index-based apps, but you know a few details about it. That's because Agent Ransack, the "lite" version of File Locator Pro, helps you build regular expression searches for seriously complex filtering. In other words, if you know a file starts with "T" but the next letter isn't ...
Featured Windows Download: SpeedRead Increases Your Reading Pace, Retention (21)
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Windows only: Free application SpeedRead is designed to improve your reading speed and retention by quickly flashing a few words at a time on your screen in quick succession. You can adjust features like playback speed and number of words to display at a time, and SpeedRead keeps track of your stats as you read. At first you may want to stick to one word at a time, but with practice SpeedRead could really boost ...
Types Manages Default Applications Better than Windows (4)
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Windows only: Free, open-source application Types is a lightweight, user-friendly tool for editing default applications, icons, and context menu options for filetypes in Windows. You can already tweak these settings in the File Types tab of the Folder Options menu in Windows Explorer (Tools -> Folder Options), but frankly, the default tool is overly complicated. Types provides a very simple and intuitive interface for making the same tweaks, and you don't need to dig through ...
BurnAware Free Burns CDs, DVDs, and Blu-ray [Featured Windows Download] (25)
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Windows only: BurnAware Free burns data, audio, and video CDs, DVDs, and Blu-ray discs. Since we last mentioned BurnAware, it was bought up by a software company, turned shareware, and has now made the round trip back to freeware—so if you ran into the shareware version when you tried downloading it, BurnAware Free is worth a grab. There are still shareware versions that support advanced features like simultaneous disc writing, but chances are you'll be ...
Post to Flickr in a Flash with Sendto Flickr [Featured Windows Download] (1)
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Windows only: Sendto Flickr adds one-click photo uploading to your Windows right-click "Send to" menu, making it easier to post photos instantly to your account and worry about the details later. While Flickr's home- grown uploader already adds a "Send to Flickr" to your context menus, it still requires opening its interface and confirming the upload and photo details. Sendto Flickr, after a first-run authorization, just gets one or more selected photos up there. The ...
Featured Windows Download: Folder Guide Adds Quick Folder Access to Your Right-Click Menu (11)
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Windows only: Free Windows utility Folder Guide adds user-defined folders to your right-click menu for quick, easy access to any number of favorite folders. Once you add a folder, Folder Guide makes it a very simple affair to navigate to that commonly used folder in just two clicks. Explorer's Favorites menu already uses the same basic concept, but it's not as readily available as the right-click menu and it also integrates with Internet Explorer, which ...
D-Color Customizes Your Desktop Icons [Featured Windows Download] (7)
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Windows only: Free Windows utility D-Shell customizes your Windows desktop icons, allowing you to switch your icon's text color, background color, and icon layout styles. It's a very simple, lightweight app that does just a few things, but if you're a desktop tweaker, it's a great little tool. Try swapping your icons to "Tile Icons" for a nice tweak that gives your icons a more organized stack look. D-Color is freeware, Windows only. D-Color [Freshell.org]
Featured Windows Download: DivXLand Media Subtitler Embeds Subtitles into Movie Files (31)
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Windows only: While many media players happily play subtitles that are separate from a video, you can still embed subtitles directly into a ripped or downloaded movie file with free utility DivXLand Media Subtitler. With support for over 30 different subtitle formats and 15 different video formats including MPEG, DIVX, and XVID, you'll rarely come across a combination of subtitle and video you can't combine. Subtitler made short work of applying English subtitles to the ...
Microsoft Desktops Gives Windows Super-Simple Multiple Desktops [Featured Windows Download] (58)
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Windows only: Desktops, a new Vista-compatible 1.0 release from Microsoft's Sysinternals team, is a multi-desktop tool for Windows users who don't want, or can't afford the system resources for, a complete virtual desktop solution, such as VirtuaWin or other tools we've covered. Desktops simply asks you to assign universal shortcut keys for desktop switching between a maximum of four (Shift+Ctrl+F1, for example), and then nests in your system tray to offer thumbnail views and switching ...
UltraExplorer Manages Your Files On the Go [Featured Windows Download] (13)
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Windows only: Windows Explorer alternative UltraExplorer offers dual pane and tabbed browsing, plus a handy "Drop Stack" staging area where you can drag files to temporarily park them, for easy batch operations. Command line lovers will like the Command Line box at the bottom of the UltraExplorer window; you can even set the command prompt to stay synced to whatever folder you are browsing. You can make UltraExplorer portable after its initial installation, too—copy the ...
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Garrett said:
I love the tabs.
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Andre Siregar said:
Finally some recognition for this excellent file manager. Once you use this, you won't go back to Windows Explorer.
QTAddressBar Brings Vista Explorer's Address Bar to XP [Featured Windows Download] (16)
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Windows only: Free Explorer add-on QTAddressBar clones the functionality of Vista's new address bar in Windows XP. For folks unfamiliar with the new Vista address bar, it provides a clickable breadcrumb trail of every folder leading to your current location. Clicking one of your folders will take you directly to it, and clicking the down arrow provides a drop-down for moving to any folder within that one. Brought to you by the same folks who ...
