Windows Tools, Help & Guides

Every month we take a look around some of the most interesting windows-related web sites. We collect the best free stuff and write tips to help you get more out of Windows. Below you’ll find wallpapers, icon packs, fonts, screensavers, and freeware we’ve found over the last 30 days. We’ve also put together our most popular windows guides.

Enjoy the overview of stuff you shouldn’t have missed in November 2008.

Looking for more cool Windows-related websites? Check out the competition for the ‘Best Windows Customization Website‘.

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In Vista, Windows Explorer no longer shows thumbnails of HTML files. This functionality has simply been removed. This little add-on for Windows Explorer will show thumbnails for HTML, MHTL, and URL files.

Download HTML Explorer Thumbnails

There are so many fonts out there – but it seems you have to pay for all the good ones. Put your credit card away and enjoy these free fonts. Available to you are many more sets – linked below.

Check out more font collections on Mintywhite.com

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A round up of the best wallpapers on the web. Full credit goes to the image authors. Let us know about any others you really like!

Want More Wallpaper?

Check out more wallpapers in the the Wallpaper section of this site or learn how to use these wallpapers for your login screen too!

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Mobile Photo Enhancer is a handy and powerful tool capable of fixing mobile phone photos with just a few clicks. It provides a quick and easy way to improve the quality of your images reducing artifacts and digital noise, correcting poor sharpness, contrast and color reproduction and fixing the “dark corners” problem. With its powerful filtering, the program converts images with pronounced defects into very usable photos.

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DriverMax is a new tool that allows you to download the latest driver updates for your computer. No more searching for rare drivers on discs or on the web or inserting one installation CD after the other. Just create a free account, log in, and start downloading the updates you need.

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It’s been a great week for competitions and there are more coming soon! Thank you to everyone who took part and thank you to all the vendors who were willing to share their software as prizes!

I’m pleased to announce the winners as follows:

If you see your name here, but you didn’t get an email, let me know.

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You may have software on your computer that you don’t want [insert account user type here] accessing. Windows Vista lets you block access to programs – for individual user accounts on your computer. Learn, in this guide, how to set up controls to restrict access to specific programs on your computer.

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In Vista, the ability to have custom backgrounds in explorer folders is gone. This small application makes folder backgrounds possible again.

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