Appendix E. Some Useful Accessory Programs
WINDOWS 7 comes with dozens of useful accessory tools (some are GUI applications, and others are text-based). Most of them are mentioned in one place or another in the pages of this book. But some are not. In this appendix, we provide short descriptions of interesting items that are not discussed elsewhere.
Our Favorite Five
The following five are Windows programs we use every week, if not every day. Some of them, like Calculator and Paint, have been around forever but keep appearing in new and improved versions. Snipping Tool, in contrast, is a new and welcome addition to the Windows toolkit.
Calculator
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