Must have XP utilities for netbooks

Following on from 10 ways to tweak your netbook, Gigaom have posted up a list of seven applications that will make your Windows XP based netbook “shine”. While some are obvious choices for all Windows users, such as Windows Movie Maker and Foxit PDF Reader, the other applications listed will be useful for many a netbook owner, myself included.

To get the most out of your netbook sized screen, Tweak UI, Xplorer2 and Virtual Desktop Manager are recommended. Virtual Desktop Manager, as the name suggests, gives you up to four virtual desktops which you can use for various tasks, with email on one and web browser in another as an example. Switching between the desktops is also easy and quick to do. Tweak UI on the other hand allows customization of how XP looks on the small screen with the ability of making the boxes within the Windows bar bigger. For those who move files to and from different folders frequently, Xplorer2 allows you to drag and drop the files from different folders in one window.

The other two mention applications are SyncToy, which allows you to keep two folders sync, meaning that your important files, can always be with you, and SharpKeys. SharpKeys allows you to remap the keys on your netbook.