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There are plenty of hardware-free solutions for squeezing a little bit more gaming performance out of your Windows system. Heck, there are even a number of tools built right in to Windows that you can use to cut down on background performance drains before you fire up your favorite game – like services.msc, for example.

The built-in tool for dealing with unknown file types in Windows simply doesn’t work. OpenWith.org does, and it points you, or your less free-software-savvy friends, to downloads that fit the bill.

Portable utility File & Folder Unlocker makes quick work of unlocking in-use files-so they can be moved or deleted without those pesky “being used by another process” errors.

As Partition Magic alternative, EASEUS Partition Manager Home Edition is a FREE disk partitioning utility that offers a powerful range of functions such as resizing partitions, formatting partitions, copying partitions, creating new partitions, deleting partitions, hiding partitions, changing drive letters, setting active partitions, and a handful other functions.

How many times have you walked up to a system in your office and needed to click through several diagnostic windows to remind yourself of important aspects of its configuration, such as its name, IP address, or operating system version If you manage multiple computers you probably need BGInfo.

Windows’ built in Task Manager is good enough to get by, but it’s not really changed much since NT. If you’re looking for a better alternative,MKN TaskExplorer is an option worth downloading.

Experience the popular ribbon user interface from Micorosft Office 2007 in your free, light text editor with Notepad 2008. Notepad 2008 most closely resembles the lightweight WordPad with the ability for users to change font sizes to format their text, but with the added options to customize the display of your text editor with one [...]

UBCD4Win is a bootable recovery CD that contains software used for repairing, restoring, or diagnosing almost any computer problem. Our goal is to be the most complete and easy to use free computer diagnostic tool. Almost all software included in UBCD4Win are freeware utilities for Windows.

PC Audit checks the various values and variables on your computer more easily using desktop diagnosis tool PC Audit. Available as a portable-friendly standalone executable, PC Audit checks system values covering everything from your BIOS version to Windows Product Key to startup entries.