Windows Extras


With the price of software here are some treats that Microsoft and others are sharing::
Microsoft Calculator Plus: This gem includes mathematical and conversion functions. As always Microsoft will first validate your o/s before you may download Cost: Free Top of page

Microsoft PowerToys for Windows XP PowerToys add fun and functionality to the Windows experience. What are they? PowerToys are additional programs that developers work on after a product has been released. Cost: Free Color Control Panel Applet Professional-level photographers and designers know that getting consistent, accurate color from file to screen to print and beyond is a requirement for great results. This new tool helps you manage Windows color settings in one place. Download or learn more. Top of page SyncToy With new sources of files coming from every direction (such as digital cameras, e-mail, cell phones, portable media players, camcorders, PDAs, and laptops), SyncToy can help you copy, move, and synchronize different directories. Download or learn more. RAW Image Thumbnailer and Viewer Are you a serious photographer? Now you can organize and work with digital RAW files in Windows Explorer (much as you can with JPEG images). This tool provides thumbnails, previews, printing, and metadata display for RAW images. Download or learn more. Top of page ClearType Tuner This PowerToy lets you use ClearType technology to make it easier to read text on your screen, and installs in the Control Panel for easy access. HTML Slide Show Wizard This wizard helps you create an HTML slide show of your digital pictures, ready to place on your Web site. Top of page Open Command Window Here This PowerToy adds an "Open Command Window Here" context menu option on file system folders, giving you a quick way to open a command window (cmd.exe) pointing at the selected folder. Alt-Tab Replacement With this PowerToy, in addition to seeing the icon of the application window you are switching to, you will also see a preview of the page. This helps particularly when multiple sessions of an application are open. Top of page Tweak UI This PowerToy gives you access to system settings that are not exposed in the Windows XP default user interface, including mouse settings, Explorer settings, taskbar settings, and more. Version 2.10 requires Windows XP Service Pack 1 or Windows Server 2003. Power Calculator With this PowerToy you can graph and evaluate functions as well as perform many different types of conversions. Top of page Image Resizer This PowerToy enables you to resize one or many image files with a right-click. CD Slide Show Generator With this PowerToy you can view images burned to a CD as a slide show. The Generator works downlevel on Windows 9x machines as well. Top of page Virtual Desktop Manager Manage up to four desktops from the Windows taskbar with this PowerToy. Taskbar Magnifier Use this PowerToy to magnify part of the screen from the taskbar. Top of page Webcam Timershot This PowerToy lets you take pictures at specified time intervals from a Webcam connected to your computer and save them to a location that you designate. Top of page
If you are like me your hard drive must be stuffed with docs,txt pdf and so much more. Yes I said PDF's Easily search your entire hard drive in less than a second to pinpoint the right file, email, music or picture. Copernic Desktop Search (CDS) brings the power of a sophisticated, yet easy-to-use search engine right to your PC and allows you instantly to search files, emails, and email attachments stored anywhere on your PC hard drive. It executes sub-second searching of Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files, Acrobat PDFs, and all popular music, picture and video formats. CDS also conducts a desktop search of your browser history, favorites, and contacts. ** Just a note that depending how big your hard drive is it may take up to a week to index every file. But when it is done. Wow. Copernic Desktop Search Cost: Free Top of page
Are you one of the many without Virus protection? Get AVG Free for windows AVG Free Edition is for private, non-commercial, single-home computer use only. Use of AVG Free Edition within any organization or for commercial purposes is strictly prohibited. Your use of AVG Free Edition shall be in accordance with and is subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the AVG Free Edition License Agreement, which accompanies AVG Free Edition. Cost: Free Top of page
To many notes floating around. Make your own PDF's for free. PrimoPDF FREE PDF Converter - not a trial version. Print to PDF from virtually any application. Create PDF output optmized for print, screen, ebook, or prepress. No annoying pop-up ads, no registration requirement - no catch! High-quality, easy to use PDF creator for all users. Cost: Free Top of page
PrintPunk Have you ever been frustrated with Internet Explorer’s printing capabilities? It will cut off edges of pages, print way too big and waste lots of paper. Help is at hand, PrintPunk will solve these and more problems! Compatible with Windows 98, ME, 2000, 2003 and XP. Free demo to try full price - Only $19.95 (USD). Top of page
Email Stripper Remove all those >>> things before your send another email. Cost: Free Top of page
OpenOffice from OpenOffice.org OpenOffice.org is a free suite of office products. It includes word processing, spreadsheet, presentation and drawing programs. You can open and save in a variety of popular formats -- Microsoft Office, PDF, HTML, and others. The programs have the same look and feel as Microsoft Office, so there's no big learning curve. It's a 64 MB file, so downloading it may take some time if you're on a dialup connection. Cost: Free Top of page