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The Best BitTorrent Client for Windows

While you have a few choices of BitTorrent client on Windows, uTorrent is hands down the best we've ever used: it's feature-filled, very lightweight, and completely free. Note: If you don't know much...

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The Best Disc Burning App for Windows

Windows has more disc burning apps than we can count, but a few notable programs stand out from the pack. Our favorite is CDBurnerXP for its long list of features and easy-to-use interface. CDBurnerXP...

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The Best Virtualization App for Windows

Windows users have a few choices when it comes to virtualizing another OS, but our personal favorite is VirtualBox, for its solid feature set and $0 price tag. VirtualBox Platform: Windows, Mac, Linux...

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The Best System Tweaker for Windows

Windows users have a ton of system tweakers to choose from, but we love the Ultimate Windows Tweaker the most. It has a ton of different tweaks you can perform, it's portable, super lightweight, and...

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The Best Word Processing App for Windows

Windows has a few good word processors available, but when it comes to the majority of users, the free LibreOffice should serve any word processing needs you have. LibreOffice Writer Platform: Windows,...

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The Best Spreadsheet App for Windows

You have a few choices when it comes to making spreadsheets, but if you're going beyond the basics, we think Microsoft Office is the most feature-filled, easy to use, and compatible program to use....

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The Best Presentations App for Windows

Windows users don't have a ton of choices when it comes to making presentations, but the well-known PowerPoint has all the features you need for putting together a great presentation. Microsoft...

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The Best Image Editing App for Windows

Windows users have a few image editors to choose from, but as you probably expected Photoshop comes out as king. Here's a look at why it's the best, as well as a number of (much cheaper) alternatives...

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The Best Video Card Overclocking App for Windows

Overclocking is a great way to eke a bit more gaming power out of your computer, and Windows users have quite a few tools to help them do it easily. Our favorite of the bunch is the insanely easy to...

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The Best Screencasting App for Windows

Windows users have a lot of choices when it comes to screencasting tools, but the best of the bunch is the professional, feature-rich, editing, high quality-producing Camtasia Studio. Camtasia Studio...

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The Best Screen Capture Tool for Windows

Windows has about a billion screen capture tools (give or take), but we dig PicPick's huge list of options, built-in photo editor, ability to upload photos to FTP, and its $0 price tag. If you're not...

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The Best Key Remapper for Windows

If you wish your keyboard's keys were laid out just a tad bit differently, you can change it around with a keyboard remapper. Windows users have a few to choose from, but the easiest to use is...

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The Best Wallpaper Manager for Windows

Windows' built-in wallpaper switcher is okay, but not spectacular. If you'd like to beef up your rotating wallpaper, John's Background Switcher gives you tons of options for doing so, and at no cost....

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The Best Global Hotkey Manager for Windows

You can put together custom hotkeys in a number of different places, but nothing beats the flexibility of our favorite global hotkey manager, AutoHotkey. AutoHotkey Platform: Windows Price: Free...

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The Best Quick File Uploader for Windows

Windows does not have very many options for quick file uploading, and the ones that do exist aren't fantastic. The best of the pack is probably FluffyApp, which uploads to the previously mentioned...

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The Best Online Backup App for Windows

You should back up your hard drive. You've heard it a million times, but most people don't do it. So we're going to make it easy: CrashPlan is the best backup tool. It's what you should use to back up...

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The Best Disk Space Analyzer for Windows

If your hard drive is starting to fill up, you may be wondering what exactly is taking up all that space. That's where a disk space analyzer comes in: it scans your disk and shows you, in graphical...

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The Best Antivirus App for Windows

Windows has more antivirus programs than we can count, and none of them are quite perfect. Right now, we recommend Avast Free Antivirus for the best balance between protection, ease of use, and cost....

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The Best Music Player Application for Windows

There are a lot of great music players for Windows, and it's next to impossible to make a broad "best" statement that applies to everyone. But that doesn't stop the powerful, lightweight, and...

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The Best Duplicate File Finder for Windows

You download too much crap. Sometimes you download the same crap multiple times. Even if you need to keep those files, you don’t need two of them. To get rid of the dupes, we recommend dupeGuru.Read...

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The Best "Second Screen" App for Android Tablets

Your tablet can be a great productivity tool on its own, but using it as a second screen for your computer makes it even better. For Android tablets, Splashtop is our favorite way to do this. It’s...

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The Best NES Emulator for Windows

If you want the nostalgia of an old-school NES with the quality and ease of an HDTV, an emulator can take you far. If you want a perfect NES experience, you’ll want to go with the Nestopia UE core in...

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The Best SNES Emulator for Windows

It may be 25 years old, but the Super Nintendo still boasts some of the best video games of all time. If you want to SNES on your Windows machine, we think the best emulator for the job is RetroArch...

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The Best Nintendo 64 Emulator for Windows

Sure, Mario Kart 8 may have 30 characters and hovercrafts, but there’s something nostalgic about the now-classic Mario Kart 64. If you want to relive the games of your childhood, an emulator is a...

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The Best Twitter Client for Windows

The field of Twitter clients for Windows has been culled over the years, but there are still a few developers working hard on some killer apps. Aeries has stuck out with us as an impressive Twitter...

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