Pointless Eye Candy – Customize your desktop with Skinpacks.com

Skinpacks.com is one of those gems of a website that offers a centralized place for multiple sources of great content. It offers tons of...

What does a cluttered desktop mean?

Is your desktop so frequently cluttered with icons and folders that its hard to find room for new files or projects? Do you wish...

Ten free tools to better organize your desktop icons

Studies have found that people with cleaner, tidier desktops live longer. I am joking of course, but ask yourself this: is your desktop too...

Launch shortcuts in style with Aero QLaunch for Windows 7

If you’re looking for a cool, innovative launcher for apps and folders then you’ve arrived: Aero QLaunch is a simple, original launcher with huge...

Get sleek, stylish desktop widgets with XWidget

Do you like customizing your desktop and giving it a very stylish look and feel? Do you like to have powerful functions right at...

Add thumbnail previews for a wide range of image types with Sage Thumbs

If you’re like most people, you like to look at a folder full of images and see thumbnail previews rather than icons. Windows explorer will...

Get a super customizable docking launcher with Gizmo Toolbar

Gizmo Toolbar is a free toolbar app that can provide multiple docking toolbar launchers on your desktop. The software two main launcher styles, slab (with...

Volume2: a beautiful volume control app

Let’s say you have a program that lets you control system volume via the mouse and/or via user-defined hotkeys. Let’s also say that it can...

Pokki: put Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, and other web services right in your Windows taskbar

You do not need a crystal ball to foresee that Facebook, Twitter, your friends, your contacts, your email, your news sources, all of these...

Desk Topmost: access the desktop without minimizing any of your active windows

This program lets you access your desktop  while keeping all of your open windows right where they are, without minimizing any of them. The desktop...

Another Forty-Three of The Best Free Windows Enhancements That You Should Know About (part...

I’ve been meaning to publish a follow up to my first "43 must have Windows Enhancements" posting forever, but it’s taken a long time...

Jumplist Extender: enhance jumplists on the Windows 7 taskbar with custom entries

If you want a quick way to launch frequently performed actions from the taskbar consider this: Jumplist Extender is a small free tool that...

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