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w711More and more programs are dedicated on enhancing Windows 7 and although, the new OS doesn’t needs much patching, Windows 7 Little Tweaker enables some features that might be useful to anyone. Windows 7 Little Tweaker is a small portable application that works ONLY on Win 7 and ads some little juice to the pie.

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serversAgain, we blow your mind with another great freeware application. Well, maybe we don’t blow your mind but still, it’s a great piece of software. ServerWatch is a Windows-based applications that enables networks admins to keep a very close and useful eye on their servers and workstations. ServerWatch aims to handle large networks with ease, bad news is, it’s currently in it’s alpha stage, meaning that it doesn’t have all the features yet and it may behave strangely from time to time.

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win7_install_screenEd Bott from ZDNet published an interesting tutorial to a perfect Windows 7 installation. Of course, advanced users may know some of those things already, but I found Ed’s post really helpful and decided to share it with you. Windows 7 is Microsoft’s love child and was embraced with total love from the community, thus making it a very popular installing choice even in it’s RC stage.

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explorer_plusAnother good free alternative to the old Windows Explorer is Explorer++, a lightweight file manager that can satisfy all your file management needs. Its interface is customizable, easy to use and of course,ready for tabbed browsing. No more opening 5 stances of Windows Explorer to do 2 operations, Explorer++ can handle this while snapping your finger twice.

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win7codecsI promised to myself I’ll install Windows 7 when it reaches the final stage, but I couldn’t resist the Release Candidate, so here I am. Of course, one must be able to play all the multimedia files it can get and movies are an important part of that ‘multimedia’. Fortunately, Windows 7 comes covered in that area and not from Microsoft but from the creator of Vista Codec Package, another life saver back in the days. Win7codecs is the new Windows 7 codec package that once installed, plays everything and I mean everything.

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bumptop_screenshotBumpTop impressed me from the first minute I installed it and while skeptical at first, I fel in love with it instantly. BumpTop presents your dekstop as a virtual room where you can easily organize and manage your applications, documents or media. You have too many icons on your desktop? How about creating piles just like you do with your books and be better ogranized? Don’t know where your recently saved movies are? Look on the walls, it’s right there!

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windows_7_rcIt seems that Microsoft messed up the math a little and the Release Candidate version announced to be launched in April, will actually come somwhere in May. The source, ArsTechnica,  reports that the download page on TechNet had a rather strange early appearance, but we are used to those ‘errors’ since Beta.

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aximion-screenAximion is a truly genuine transformation tool for Windows for the fact that it gives a new meaning to the term Windows transformation. Aximion takes the default Windows interface, dumps it and replaces it with a 3D interactive environment. The general idea is the same, the only difference is that everything is shaped in 3D, the windows are 3D they can be moved in a 3D environment aka your desktop.

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