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 client capable of keeping up with professional needs with a Universal Windows app.

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

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 decent way to go.

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 with a bsnes core.

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 RetroArch.

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.

There are a lot of great music players for Windows, and it's next to impossible to make a broad "best" statement. But that doesn't stop the powerful, lightweight and customisable MusicBee from winning our hearts for the best music player on Windows.

Finding the right Windows app for your needs among the hoards of options can be tough. In our third annual Lifehacker Pack for Windows, we're highlighting the must-have apps for every occasion.

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 analyser comes in: it scans your disk and shows you, in graphical form, where all that space is being wasted, giving you an idea of where to start cleaning. Our favourite analyser for Windows is the powerful and free WinDirStat.

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 your data, both on-site and off-site.

Last June, we picked TweetDeck as the best Twitter client for Windows, but the newly-updated version of MetroTwit has taken the crown. Its excellent interface and range of features make it a great choice for Twitter users.

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 CloudApp service via drag and drop.

You can put together custom hotkeys in a number of different places, but nothing beats the flexibility of our favourite global hotkey manager, AutoHotkey.

Windows' built-in wallpaper switcher is OK, 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.

If you wish your keyboard's keys were laid out just a tad differently, you can change it around with a keyboard remapper. Windows users have a few to choose from, but the easiest to use is certainly KeyTweak, which presents you with a full, visual keyboard layout and multiple methods for changing it.

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.

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, quality-producing Camtasia Studio.

We're once again updating our App Directory to list PotPlayer as the best video player for Windows. KMPlayer, our former favourite, has been through a major update that makes it more of a media centre than a video player.

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 favourite of the bunch is the insanely easy to use, feature-filled MSI Afterburner.