Linked by David Adams on Wed 9th Jul 2008 22:40 UTC, submitted by Jeremy
It's no surprise that Vista's vanilla operating system hasn't fared too well with some users. That said, why not customize it to make it better? ExtremeTech describes five useful and free Vista utilities designed to enhance Microsoft's latest operating system. One such application is TweakVI Basic, which allows users to customize Vista's user interface. Another is Launchy, which is a handy startup/launching application.
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First let me say that Launchy rocks. Simply the best keyboard launcher I've ever used (I don't have a Mac, so quicksilver isn't part of the competition). And version 2.0 was rewritten in Qt, slashing the code size and making it possible to have it on Linux/Mac as well (the author has mentioned this, but it is still quite a bit of work because of all the platform dependent code in the app).
As for the other apps, I grew out of that stuff several years ago. I really can't be bothered to install and then run a bunch of little utilities just to get basic features like resizing windows to a specific size, or snapping them to edges. All those kinds of nice little features come for free with any decent Linux window manager. I have better things to do than track down little utilities to hack that functionality onto Windows. I'd rather just do without.