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Auxiliary & Enhance

PowerToys – Microsoft official system utilities to maximize productivity on Windows

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PowerToys is a set of free and practical system tools set specially designed for advanced Windows users to tweak and streamline their Windows experience for greater productivity, developed by Microsoft. These utilities add or change features to maximize productivity or add more customizations to the system functionality.

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Auxiliary & Enhance

[v6.0] Start Menu 8 – Bring back the classic Start Menu to Windows 8/8.1

As is known to all, Windows 8 removes the traditional start menu, which makes a lot of old users unaccustomed. Although the Windows 10 Technical Preview has brought back this feature, before the Windows 10 officially released, for users are still using Windows 8/8.1, we still can use Start Menu 8 to get our long-expected start menu back.

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Auxiliary & Enhance

[v1.97] Start10 – First alternative app of Windows 10 Start Menu

Windows 10 tried to partly restore the classic start button & menu, even increased semitransparent effect for the start menu, but its usage is still not convenient enough. Especially on the fluency of menu operation, its overall performance lags far behind the classic start menu of Windows XP/7. And in fact, this is definitely not caused by users’ habit, but the failure on design (Microsoft blindly pursues avant-garde design while ignores one fact/reality – The vast majority of users is using Windows 10 on a PC, rather than a tablet with touchscreen.

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Auxiliary & Enhance

StrokesPlus.net – Create powerful mouse gestures that save you time

The mouse is indispensable in the use of computers for work and entertainment. At present, mouse gesture is one of the most effective ways to simplify various mouse operations and realize the computer operation automation. If you’ve been looking for mouse gesture software, and you’ve compared a lot of this type of applications, then I’m sure StrokesPlus.net might be your last choice for a very long time.

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Auxiliary & Enhance

7-Zip Theme Manager – Make your 7-Zip even prettier

As a free, open-source and extremely powerful file archiver, more and more people are beginning to use 7-Zip as a necessary file compression/decompression tool in their computers. If you’ve used WinRAR before, you may be wondering if 7-Zip is too “plain” (or a little ugly, I should say). This does degrade the user experience and give an immediate impression that it is not as friendly and reliable as WinRAR. Fortunately, there is a tool available to beautify 7-Zip and make it look better.

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Auxiliary & Enhance

Mouse without Borders – Control up to 4 computers from a single mouse and keyboard

Mouse without Borders (AKA: Mouse w/o Borders) is a keyboard & mouse auxiliary tool released by Microsoft, developed by Truong Do from Microsoft Garage in 2011. This small tool allows user to use a set of keyboard and mouse to control multiple computers (up to 4), including copy/paste (i.e. share the clipboard), drag & drop, and other common file operations on different computers just like using the same computer, thus greatly improving the work efficiency.

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Print Friendly & PDF – Only best PDF printer for all web browsers

Usually, to print or save a web page as PDF document, we can use the built-in printing function provided by web browser or choose the method of taking a screenshot before printing it out instead. But either will inevitably print out the ads and some other unnecessary contents on the page, thus wasting a lot of space on page. If you often need to print or save web pages, Print Friendly & PDF is the perfect tool to save much time, effort and resource for your printing work!

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