Windows Tools, Help & Guides

James Fisher is a Microsoft MVP in the Windows Desktop Experience category. James is a member of Windows Forums and runs his own site, which is named Windows Talk.

In this interview, we get to know a little about James and his website. James is exemplary of what a true community contributor can bring to help others.
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Winstep Xtreme from Winstep Software Technologies, is a single, easy to install package featuring the following desktop enhnacements:

NextSTART

The world’s first easy to use, skinnable Start Menu/Task bar replacement.

WorkShelf

A powerful, multi-paged desktop replacement, program launcher and document organizer that can be used as an alternative or supplement to the normal Windows desktop. Also features handy modules such as a talking clock that can synchronize your system time with the atomic time servers on the Internet, an Email Checker, Weather monitor, CPU, RAM and Net Meters and more!

NeXuS

A super fast program launcher, allows you to organize your most frequently used applications and put them into docks.

Start Menu Organizer

The Winstep Start Menu Organizer is an application designed to help you organize and clean your Windows Start Menu. The Organizer allows you to quickly group your Start Menu shortcuts into a specific set of categories (e.g. Utilities, Internet, Office, etc…) thus making finding what you are looking for a lot easier and much, much, faster!

FontBrowser

A simple font browser with an easy to use interface. You’ll wonder how you ever lived without it!

Download Winstep Extreme (Link removed after complaints of not being free)

Moo0 RightClicker is a set of enhancements on the context menu (right click menu) of Windows Explorer. It adds many useful functionalities like duplicating current explorer window, open/move to/copy to bookmarked folders, hiding default context menus, and so forth.

The functionalities of this software are well selected and simplified for easy start.

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Desktops allows you to organize your applications on up to four virtual desktops. Read email on one, browse the web on the second, and do work in your productivity software on the third, without the clutter of the windows you’re not using. After you configure hotkeys for switching desktops, you can create and switch desktops either by clicking on the tray icon to open a desktop preview and switching window, or by using the hotkeys.

Download Microsoft Desktops

ClearType is a software technology developed by Microsoft. This technology improves text on LCD screens, which typically come with laptops, PDAs, and flat-panel monitors.

In this guide, you’ll learn how to use Windows 7’s ClearType Text Tuner, which will sharpen fonts and make writing look almost as good as it does on paper.

More Windows Seven Guides

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Windows Forums member, Angad offers the following quick tip:

The first thing you would want to do when you download and install Windows 7 is install an Anti-virus program! Go here to see a list of compatible anti-virus programs.

I would suggest AVG. Download AVG