September 2015
Beginner to intermediate
984 pages
24h 25m
English
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Chapter 5
Windows’ Best Free Add-Ons
In This Chapter
Finding out which Windows add-ons you must have
Getting the lowdown on the best of the (free) rest
Figuring out what software you don’t need
Much as I love — and hate, and love to hate — Windows 10, it has a few glaring holes that can be fixed only by non-Microsoft software.
In this chapter, I step you through two different kinds of software. First come the (few) programs that you need to fix holes in Windows. Second is a much larger group of programs that just make Windows work better. Both of the collections have two things in common: They’re absolutely free for personal use, with one exception (which costs $5), and they all run on the desktop side of Windows 10.
Windows 10 titled “Universal” apps are still in their infancy. A year or two from now, I hope to include many of them in this Hall of Cheap Charlie Honor.
At the end of this chapter, I turn to one of my favorite topics: Software that you don’t need and should never pay one cent to acquire. There are lots of snake oil salesmen out there. This chapter tells you why they’re ...
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