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Customize the Windows 7 taskbar, with 7 Taskbar Tweaker

TheFreeWindows — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:49:31 +0000

7 Taskbar Tweaker is a free utility that will let you customize the Windows 7 taskbar. Features: - Show standard menu on right click instead of jump list. - Close or focus a window on middle click instead of running a new instance. - Disable grouping of windows by file path or application id. - Cycle [...]

Add automatically drive icons to your desktop, with Desktop Media

TheFreeWindows — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:18:15 +0000

Desktop Media is a free utility that will add automatically drive icons to your desktop, by detecting USB drives you may connect, fixed drives (ie. your hard drives), CD/DVD drives, network drives, even RAM disk drives. For removable media (such as USB drives and CD/DVD drives), it will only add the drive to your desktop [...]

SimpleOCR for English and French

TheFreeWindows — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:04:19 +0000

SimpleOCR is a free (for non-commercial use) program that will let you convert a paper document into editable electronic text for use in any application including Word. Features: Dictionary with more than 120,000 words. Add new words to the dictionary. Despeckle or “noisy document” option which increases SimpleOCR’s accuracy. Format Retention - keep certain elements of [...]

Auto Control the priorities of your PC, with Process Tamer

TheFreeWindows — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:10:30 +0000

Process Tamer is a free and very small tool which monitors the cpu usage of running processes. When it sees a process that is overloading the cpu, it reduces the priority of that process temporarily, until its cpu usage returns to a reasonable level (you can define yourself what is reasonable). There are many times when [...]

Send secret messages, with TheLetterEncrypter

TheFreeWindows — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:28:19 +0000

Have you ever found youself wishing to send a Secret Message to somebody? But the problem is that the somebody has pals/folks at home/office/chat rooms and it is not possible to send a secret message without anyone having a peep at it? TheLetterEncrypter is a free and small utility that will let you send a secret [...]

Split any file into small parts, with GSplit

TheFreeWindows — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:45:18 +0000

GSplit is a free, reliable and powerful program that will help you split a large file (like executables, Zip archives, disk images, multimedia files, large images, etc…) into a set of smaller files (pieces). After that you will be able to copy these pieces to floppy disks or other removable media disks, distribute them over [...]

Lookup dictionaries and translate automatically your texts, with Lingoes

TheFreeWindows — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:09:08 +0000

Lingoes is a free dictionary and text translation software. It will help you lookup dictionaries, make full text translations, translate selected text, and learn the pronunciation of words in over 80 languages, including English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Greek, Swedish, Turkish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Arabic, Hebrew, Vietnamese, Thai… The online translation service offered [...]

Run legacy applications and multiple operating systems, with Virtual PC

TheFreeWindows — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 08:55:22 +0000

Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 allows you to maintain the compatibility of legacy and custom applications during migration to new operating systems and increases the efficiency of support, development, and training staffs. It will let you create and run one or more virtual machines, each with its own operating system, on a single computer. This provides [...]

Create and manage your Style Sheets, with Simple CSS

TheFreeWindows — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:58:27 +0000

Simple CSS is a free program that will help you specify the styles of fonts and other page elements on your sites. It allows you to create Cascading Style Sheets from scratch, and/or modify existing ones, using a point-and-click interface. With Simple CSS you can manage multiple CSS projects and import your existing style sheets. [...]

Stop the Possessed Cursor!

TheFreeWindows — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:27:52 +0000

Sometimes you might see the cursor of your mouse moving by itself, until it reaches the end of the text, if you are on a word processor, or until it reaches the last option, if you are in a dialogue box, etc. My first reaction when I saw this, was to think that some virus [...]