I make many desktop enhancements to the default Windows XP install, from turning sounds and animations off to programming what certain hotkeys do.  This page is a starting point for making these modifications.

 

 

AutoHotkey Scripts

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• General purpose hotkeys (exe version) (paste plaintext, capitalize selected, etc.)
• Programmer's Remap (exe version)
• Remaps number keys to symbols and visa-versa
• Remaps quote/apostrophe
• Remaps Numpad keys to send raw 0-9 for use with PuTTY (so you don't get weird symbols)
• Gives you 12 clipboards (ctrl+shift+F1-F12 to copy, shift+F1-F12 to paste)
• Gives you window hotkeys (like unit hotkeys in Starcraft) (ctrl+0-9 to hotkey, winkey+0-9 to activate)
• Caps Underscore Remap (Remap the spacebar to an underscore if in capslock mode and in a code editor)
• Wikipedia Autocorrect (Make corrections to text as you type it--the most common typos fixed)
• WindowPad - multi-monitor window-moving tool

 

 

Explorer Configuration

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• dBpowerAMP (really nice ID3 tag display in both the "properties" and the hover pop-up info box)
• Febooti Hash and CRC (See the hash (MD5, SHA*, etc.) of a file in the "properties" window)
• Folder Size for Windows (In the "details" view you can see the size of the contents of a folder)
• TuneUp Utilities - Performance tuning and customization
• WinBubble - Windows customization
• Change your date format

 

 

Registry Tweaks

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• <to come>

 

 

Windows Desktop "Addons"

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Any programs that modify windows to make it easier to use

• Taskbar Shuffle - Shuffle items on the taskbar
• allSnap - Make windows snap within an adjustable threshold of pixels
• KatMouse - Make the scroll bar under the mouse active
• Power Menu - Minimize items to the system tray, set process priority, set window transparency

 

 

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