1. Insomnia
Annoyed of your Windows 7 PC going to sleep while you’re downloading a big file or performing an operation in the background? Here’s a neat solution. Insomnia is a free application that will keep your computer from going into sleep mode while you finish your important tasks on your Windows 7 PC. To get back to the normal mode all you need to do is close the program window and that’s it.
2. Virtual PC
Virtual PC enables you to run various different versions of Windows operating systems on your desktop. It’s the driving technology behind the popular Windows 7 XP Mode which allows you to run Windows XP in virtual environment to enable apps that you won’t be able to run on Windows 7 or other purposes.
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3. Truespace
Truespace is a fully featured 3D authoring package from Microsoft. It used to be pretty expensive until Microsoft acquired it for it’s Visual Earth program and now it’s available totally free of cost! How cool is that? Truespace lets you build 3D models, enhance them with textures and lightning effects and more.
4. Expression Encoder 3.0
Expression Encoder is a tool that web developers can use for developing a rich media experience for users using Microsoft Silverlight. You can look at it from a video editor’s point of view. It allows you to import, view, edit clips apart from adding visual or audio overlays. There are a few limitations with the free edition but it’s totally worth a shot.
5. Windows SteadyState
Do you have kids at home who tend to mess around with your computer? Windows SteadyState allows you to take care of this problem. You can take a snapshot of the system at any given point of time and then no matter what changes to the system are made or files are deleted, the system will be back to it’s normal state upon a reboot. Please note that this app only works with Windows XP and Windows Vista.
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