Classic Shell-add missing features to Window 7 Desktop

http://sourceforge.net/projects/classicshell/

Classic Shell adds some missing features to Windows 7 and Vista like a classic start menu, toolbar for Explorer and others.

TimeSnapper-taking screenshots of your desktop every few seconds

http://www.timesnapper.com/DownloadClassic.aspx

TimeSnapper runs in the background of your computer, taking screenshots of your desktop every few seconds all week long.

DeskNotes-Windows desktop application for keeping your notes

http://desknotes.codeplex.com/

DeskNotes is Windows desktop application for keeping your notes on Windows desktop, like sticky notes. It helps you to keep your ideas in the place you visit and see the most of the time while sitting in front of your computer.

Greenshot-light-weight screenshot tool for Windows

http://getgreenshot.org/

Create complete or partial screenshots quickly. Easily annotate, highlight or obfuscate parts of the screenshot. Send the screenshot to a file, the clipboard, a printer or as e-mail attachment.  Being easy to understand and configurable, Greenshot is an efficient tool for project managers, software developers, technical writers, testers and anyone else creating screenshots.

VolControl-hotkey to change volume

http://www.boredomsoft.org/index.bs?page=VolControl

VolControl has two modes of operation: The default mode is to register three hotkey combinations with Windows which correspond to the volume up, volume down and Volume Mute commands. The second mode will usurp the volume control keys on many media keyboards to the same effect. This allows the user to more granularly control the volume settings.

Balabolka -Text-To-Speech

http://www.cross-plus-a.com/balabolka.htm

Balabolka is a Text-To-Speech (TTS) program. All computer voices installed on your system are available to Balabolka. The on-screen text can be saved as a WAV, MP3, OGG or WMA file. The program can read the clipboard content, view the text from DOC, RTF, PDF, ODT, FB2 and HTML files, customize font and background colour, control reading from the system tray or by the global hotkeys. Balabolka uses various versions of Microsoft Speech API (SAPI); it allows to alter a voice’s parameters, including rate and pitch. The user can apply a special substitution list to improve the quality of the voice’s articulation. This feature is useful when you want to change the spelling of words. The rules for the pronunciation correction use the syntax of VBScript.

Stick-Desktop Tab launch bar

http://iwonderdesigns.com/stick/

Stick is a Windows application (Windows XP/Vista/Windows7 only) which offers utilities such as folder explorers, web browsers and notepads in tabs that attach to the sides of your screen (called ScreenTabs). ScreenTabs are super customizable tab-shaped windows that let you access the aforementioned utilities quickly and easily.

ShellNewHandler-enable disable New File context menu

http://sourceforge.net/projects/shellnewhandler/

ShellNewHandler is an Open-Source Tool to enable/disable ShellNew entries, aka New File context menu entries from Windows Explorer in Vista and Windows 7. Check or uncheck items to enable a desktop right-click context menu item. No need to install.

Auto Mute-temporarily disable sound on bootup or wakeup

http://www.karpolan.com/software/auto-mute/

Auto Mute software utility to make a PC silent when it’s turning on or is waking up. A solution is as easy as a pie! The sound is automatically muted when the computer is turning off or is going to sleep/suspend mode. Also there is an option to mute sound when screensaver appears. So the next system start is absolutely silent even if you forgot to turn the sound off in previous session. After restart you can unmute sound effects manually, using a shortcut combination. Moreover, you may use this keyboard shortcut to quickly switch the sound on and off when working.

Clipboard Manager-extension of the standard clipboard

http://sourceforge.net/projects/clipman/

Clipman is an extension of the standard clipboard shipped with Windows. You can store all the items copied in a list, send them back at the clipboard or forward to the plugins. If you want, you can also edit the images in the list.

Easy Timer-simple alarm clock

http://www.inspire-soft.net/?nav=soft_easytimer

Easy Timer as a simple alarm clock. Just set the time or in how many minutes it should alert and press activate – done!
Customizable is the alert sound (choose one of the 21 preinstalled or load a wave file) and it’s also possible to setup a notification message.
By the way: The included desktop clock displays every information that is needed (current time, alarm time and progress).

CodySafe-Portable Applications menu

http://www.codysafe.com/codysafe/codysafe-free-in-sketch.html

CodySafe  is simply the best  Portable Applications menu offered for free. This software tool turns your USB portable drive to a computer-on-stick.  Carry your computer programs with you, manage your Portable Applications, launch them on any PC, and leave no footprint behind. Manage your documents, multimedia files and pictures on your removable media. Detect and prevent virus infection with ViruSense and keep drive healthy with Drive Doctor. The drive space gauge will inform on the free-used space ratio and advanced Applications Manager offers you the most convenient way to add, manage and remove portable applications, write pre-and post-run scripts, etc  These and many other useful features make this software product exceptional, stylish and trendy.  It is worth mentioning that it was designed using cutting-edge technologies offering the best experience running under Windows 7.

ClickOff-clicks buttons on undesired error messages

http://www.johanneshuebner.com/en/download.shtml

This program closes windows like ad-popups and clicks buttons on undesired error messages.

menuApp-menu application launcher

http://www.desktopapps.co.uk/menuApp.html

menuApp is an application which allows you to configure menus and use them to launch your favourite programs, music files, documents, websites, etc.  Its fast, doesn’t hog a lot of resource and is easy to setup and use (so long as you can handle a text editor).  What’s more, it doesn’t drop any extraneous files on your system and it stays well clear of the registry.

7stacks-QuickLaunch Toolbar

http://www.alastria.com/index.php?p=software-7s

7stacks is an easy to use, free app that lets Windows 7 (and Vista and XP) users have “stacks” of icons in their Taskbar (in 7) or QuickLaunch Toolbar (in Vista and XP). By using stacks, users can reduce icon clutter, and combine a group of related icons into a single icon. For instance, if you use application suites such as Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, or Adobe CS4, you can have all the suite’s icons combined into one icon!

StandaloneStack 2-desktop application launcher

http://www.chrisnsoft.com/standalonestack/

StandaloneStack 2-desktop application launcher

Dexpot-multiple virtual desktop for windows 7

http://www.dexpot.de/index.php?id=home

Dexpot 1.5 turns your monitor into up to 20. Dexpot creates additional workspaces you can quickly switch between. Take, for example, Desktop 1 to listen to your favourite music, surf the web on Desktop 2, use Desktop 3 to handle your daily word processing or switch to Desktop 4 for a game of Solitaire. Different icons, wallpapers, start-ups, and much more can be configured for each desktop. Users owning netbooks, tablets and UMPC with small screens and low resolutions will benefit from virtual desktops as well.

Control Everything with the Numeric Keypad

http://sector-seven.net/software/controlpad

ControlPad turns the numeric keypad on your keyboard to a Windows command execution system.You may configure any numeric code to: Execute any program, open any document, open any web address or send any series of keystrokes to the operating system.nOnce ControlPad is running, press and hold the * key on the numeric keypad, for about 1 second. At this point, a small window will pop up, allowing you to enter any keyword or numeric code.Pressing the code followed by Enter will execute the associated command. Commands are easily configured through the same interface – activate the input dialog (press and hold *), enter the desired code and press the numpad Divide button to associate a new command. You may also use words instead of numeric codes. For laptop users (without a numeric keypad), there is a special Laptop Mode feature which will use F12 (press and hold) instead of * as the launch key.

FileSeek-Fast and Free File Search for Windows

http://www.binaryfortress.com/fileseek/

Have you ever needed to find a file buried somewhere in your computer? Have you ever needed to find a specific string of text inside a file? FileSeek can do that, and more. FileSeek is lightning fast, small and super easy to use. It can even be integrated right into the Windows Explorer right-click menu to provide quick and easy access. FileSeek doesn’t use background indexing, so when FileSeek is closed your computer’s performance won’t be affected.

* Search for text string matches inside any kind of file
* Match Regular Expressions inside any kind of file
* Search a folder and all of it’s sub-folders
* Match 1 or more file patterns, like *.jpg, file?.txt or anything else you can imagine
* Exclude 1 or more file patterns from your search, like *.exe or *.dll
* Filter results by the last modified date
* Never indexes files in the background

Promptu-create hotkeys to programs folders files bookmarks

http://www.promptulauncher.com/

Say goodbye to repetitive, time-consuming tasks, like hunting through your programs, folders, files, and bookmarks for the ones you need. Promptu lets you associate meaningful names with programs, folders, files, bookmarks, etc, and access them almost instantly from your keyboard in an intuitive way.

AquaSnap- add Aero Snap and Aero Shake all versions of windows

http://www.nurgo-software.com/products/aquasnap

AquaSnap is a free software that greatly enhances the way you can arrange windows on your Desktop. It gives you the possibility to snap windows to the edges or to the corners of the desktop simply by dragging and dropping them where you want.  AquaSnap is a great replacement for the Aero Snap and Aero Shake features of Windows 7 and is compatible with every Windows versions and consumes very little memory and CPU.

WeatherBar-for windows 7 using jump lists

http://weatherbar.codeplex.com/

WeatherBar is an application written in C# to show the weather in a specific location. One point that makes this application different from other weather applications and gadgets is the ability to integrate with the Windows 7 taskbar. Therefore, instead of constantly switching to the desktop to take a peek at the pinned gadget, the user can simply take a look at the taskbar, or right-click on the application icon to read the forecast.

Clavier allows to create keyboard shortcuts

http://utilfr42.free.fr/util/Clavier.php#desc

The created shortcuts can be associated to programs (to launch) or text (to write). Bored to write your E-mail address? Create a universal keyboard shortcut to write it: it will work under Word, Excel, and your favorite Internet browser!

HRC – HotKey Resolution Changer

http://www.funk.eu/hrc/

Do you also have a multi monitor setup and are annoyed with always having to change the resolution manually?
Then HCR will be as helpful to you as it is to me…
- Starts minimized (add shortcut to StartUp to start with windows)
- Sits silently in the tray
- Define 2 to 9 shortcuts for different resolutions
- Switch resolution with just a keypress!
- As of version 0.0.2.7 the HotKeys can be customized
- Resolutions below 800×600 and frequencies above 100 Hertz are excluded. If you need them, download the source and compile HRC yourself.

F.lux-adapts the color of your display adapt to the time of day

http://www.stereopsis.com/flux/

F.lux fixes this: it makes the color of your computer’s display adapt to the time of day, warm at night and like sunlight during the day.

It’s even possible that you’re staying up too late because of your computer. You could use f.lux because it makes you sleep better, or you could just use it just because it makes your computer look better