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Software to run on the Microsoft Windows family of operating systems.

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Send messages between Windows computers over network

There is a Windows build of it (as well as builds for Mac and a few popular flavours of Linux) which runs just fine on Windows 7 (I use it every day), that supports plain text messaging between different …
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Software for emulating multiple desktops on Windows

It is also quite lightweight in that the Windows do switch quite quickly, and has enough options to be useful without being bloated. …
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Tool for taking screenshot and quickly editing it

For Windows there is PicPick which is free for home, personal use. …
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What program offers automated image resizing?

I've used Caesium for a few years now and have found it quite stable and easy to use. It is primarily an image compressor, but it also features resizing functionality by both absolute pixel values and …
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Looking for a portable color picker (from anywhere on the PC screen)

Colour Contrast Analyser can do this (and a lot more). It was specifically designed as a developer's contrast testing tool, allowing you to enter or pick from the screen two different colours and it …
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Looking for a portable color picker (from anywhere on the PC screen)

Color Seizer is a developer's colour picker that displays colours from the screen in a number of different output formats including HTML colour codes, RGB, HSL and a few other language-specific format …
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Free video conferencing software?

Hangouts video calls allow you to connect directly from either Gmail or Google+ in modern versions of Chrome, Firefox and Safari and as such users on most OSes can join (not just Windows) simply by installing …
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Windows program for viewing which program is using a file

Try Unlocker. It creates an entry in the right-click menu of files which will show you a list of processes that are accessing the file, through which you can then detach the process (or if needed kil …
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English thesaurus program for Windows

I have been using Artha now for a couple of years, and it is more than just a standard thesaurus. It is both a dictionary as it provides the meaning(s) of entered queries, and a thesaurus because it …
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C++ IDE for Windows with a rich feature set: Code completion, refactoring, etc

The only real downside I have found to Netbeans is that sometimes after a few hours it can become sluggish to the point of being unresponsive due to (what I assume is) a memory leak (at least on 64-bit Windows
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