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2000-12-21
(2000-Dec-21)
1) More Uses For Old
AOL (And Other) CDs
2) Locked Out of "Windows Update?"
3) Two Quick Q&As
4) Plus! Update
5) Five Wishes For 2001
6) Last Week To Enter December's FREE Drawing
7) Opera & Cydoor Update...
8) ... And A Beonix/Mozilla Update
9) Reader Sites!
10) More Reader-Recommended Anti-Virus Tools
11) Brief Holiday Hiatus
12) Just For Grins
2000-12-18
(2000-Dec-18)
1) What Do You Do With
Your Old AOL CDs?
2) More Ways To Print From A PRN File
3) Turning Off IE Script Error Messages
4) Two New Books
5) LangaList Plus! Gift Subscriptions
6) Why Is Netscape 6 A "Server?"
7) $10,000 For Your Trouble?
8) Code x 1000 = Wow!
9) More Free Tools At PC Pitstop
10) Just For Grins
More!
2000-12-14
(2000-Dec-14)
1) Good/Bad News: Opera
Turns Freeware/Adware
2) Speaking Of Alternative Browsers...
3) More on Office 2000 SR2
4) More Ways To Bypass Your Browser's Auto-Setup
5) LangaList Plus! Update
6) Cautiously Offered Advice
7) Thanks!
8) They Loaded The Code
9) Another FREE Virus Tool
10) Just For Grins
More!
2000-12-11
(2000-Dec-11)
1) Fascinating Free
Firewall Testing Tool
2) Announcing: "LangaList Plus! Edition"
3) More Holiday Worms and Viruses
4) AOL Responds!
5) Pssst! Here's MS Office 2000 Service Pack 2
6) Don’t Make Me Beg! 8-)
7) They Just Keep Coming And Coming and Coming...
8) Wow! What A Response!
9) Just For Grins
More!
2000-12-07
(2000-Dec-07)
1) AOL's Heavy Hand
2) Bypassing Your Browser's Auto-Setup
3) Netscape 6 Minus The Extra Baggage?
4) Resource Issues, and A Great Search Engine
5) WinME's "Fatal Exception O3H" Glitch
6) Want $10,000 To Spend On The Holidays?
7) More Reader Sites!
8) Twenty Questions
9) Just For Grins
More!
2000-12-04
(2000-Dec-04)
1) Testing AOL6 and MSN
Explorer
2) Eschew Obfuscation!
3) Ad-Aware Site Glitch
4) Warning: New Email "Worm" Making The Rounds
5) A Fresh Start: All-New "Recommend" Program
6) Offered Without Comment
7) They Loaded The Code
8) Four New IE Security Holes
9) Just For Grins
More!
2000-11-30
(2000-Nov-30)
1) Updated: Free
SpyWare-Remover
2) Printing From A File
3) Better Ballots?
4) HTML Mail Pros And Cons
5) Readers' Yeas and Nays Re: Tiny Firewall
6) Last Day To Enter November's FREE Book Drawing
7) Excellent (and Free) Online Security Newsletter
8) More Reader Sites!
9) Just For Grins
More!
2000-11-27
(2000-Nov-27)
1) e-Lections and i-Voting
2) More On Password Tools
3) Tons Of Networking Help
4) Free Tiny Firewall
5) Even More Speed Tests!
6) Last Week To Enter November's FREE Book Drawing
7) Free Zip-per
8) They Loaded The Code
9) Just For Grins
More!
2000-11-20
(2000-Nov-20)
1) Readers' Choice:
Password Tools
2) Netscape 6
3) BigFix Follow-Up
4) Gateway Blows It
5) More Re: " When Simple AV Tools Aren't Enough"
6) Thanks!
7) More On Dangerous Files
8) More Reader Sites!
9) Mini-Grin
10) Just For Grins
More!
2000-11-16
(2000-Nov-16)
1) Netscape 6 Finally
Ships
2) How Much Do Standards Matter?
3) What About Opera? And Other Browsers?
4) Netscape Replies
5) Microsoft Releases IE 5.5 Service Pack 1
6) WinME "System Restore" Tips
7) Recommend It!
8) They Loaded The Code
9) Small Networks Made Easy
10) Just For Grins
More!
2000-11-13
(2000-Nov-13)
1) More Reader-Recommended Speed Tests
2) How to Repair the Registry in WinME
3) Open Letter To LockDown2000
4) Disk-Spanning--- on Floppies
5) New LangaList Versions Almost Here!
6) FrontPage Password Bug
7) Is This Information Useful?
8) More Reader Sites!
9) Automatic Update Services -- Yea or Nay?
10) Just For Grins
More!
2000-11-09
(2000-Nov-09)
1) Reader- Recommended
Update Sites
2) Two Reader Questions About "Windows Update"
3) Speaking Of Netscape...
4) When Simple AV Tools Aren't Enough
5) WindowsME Resurrects Viruses/Worms/Etc.?
6) Want $10,000 To Spend For The Holidays?
7) More On "Those Pesky fff files"
8) They Loaded The Code
9) Just For Grins
More!
2000-11-06
(2000-Nov-06)
1) Do Automatic Update
Services Really Work?
2) Speaking Of WinMag...
3) Dangerous File Extensions
4) Speed Reports
5) The New AOL6 & MSN Explorer
6) Those Pesky "FF*.Tmp" Files
7) William, Ian and Geof Got Their Books. Are You Next?
8) Win2K's "ActiveX Parameter Validation" Vulnerability
9) More Reader Sites!
10) Just For Grins
More!
2000-11-02
(2000-Nov-02)
1) A New Free Speed
Test
2) And Another VM Bug
3) The New AOL6 & MSN Explorer
4) Lethal Robot Debate
5) Don’t Make Me Beg!
6) A Reader *Really* Torture-Tests His Backups
7) They Just Keep Coming And Coming and Coming...
8) Last(?) Words On The Plug/Unplug Controversy
9) US Election Item
10) Just For Grins
More!
2000-10-30
(2000-Oct-30)
1) Two Hits and A Miss
2) Plug/Unplug Firestorm: Issues
3) Plug/Unplug Firestorm: Answers
4) Your Internal Modem's 110 Volt Surprise
5) Netscape 6's Bundled "Spyware"
6) Last Hours For October's FREE Book Drawing
7) New Free (and Noninvasive!) Download Center
8) More Reader Sites!
9) Just For Grins
More!
2000-10-26
(2000-Oct-26)
1) An Easy Fix Made
Hard (Hyperterminal)...
2) ...And A Hard Fix Made Easy
3) Netscape 6
4) BrowserTune 2001
5) Two Great Books
6) Last Days To Enter October's FREE Book Drawing
7) May I Say The B-Word?
8) They Loaded The Code
9) Brand-New "URL Discombobulator"
10) Just For Grins
More!
2000-10-23
(2000-Oct-23)
1) 84 FREE Files: A
Batch File Bonanza!
2) New Security Problem In An Old Part Of Windows
3) egamI rorriM
4) No End To Oinkage
5) Did You Already Talk About...
6) Last Week To Enter October's FREE Book Drawing
7) AOL: Good News And Bad News
8) Reader Sites Galore
9) Just For Grins
More!
2000-10-19
(2000-Oct-19)
1) Happy Anniversary!
2) Not 1, Not 2, But *3* New
Free Reg Patches
3) How Spammers Obscure Their
URLs
4) New ZoneAlarm Version
5) More Windows Bloat
6) Reader Suggestion On Basic
Disk Partitioning
7) Industrial-Strength
Imaging/Restore Options
8) Is This Information
Useful?
9) So Many Sites, So Little
Time <g>
10) Just For Grins
More!
2000-10-16
(2000-Oct-16)
1) Reader Q&A On Drive
Imaging & BackUps
2) Alternatives to CD-R?
3) Thursday's Issue
4) Bug Trio, Item #1: The "Share Level Password"
5) Bug Trio, Item #2: On A LAN? Read This!
6) Bug Trio, Item #3: The Win98/Me "WebTV" App
7) More Ways To Beat Internet Fraud
8) Thanks!
9) Reader Sites Galore
10) Too Cool
11) Just For Grins
More!
2000-10-12
(2000-Oct-12)
1) Free Security Test
Update
2) Free Speed Test and Tweak Update
3) Trimming Netscape's Oinkage, Part I
4) Trimming Netscape's Oinkage, Part II
5) Build Your Own Batch Files
6) OLS Souuuuuu-eeee!
7) $10,000 For Your Trouble?
8) Double Dose Of New Reader Sites!
9) AOL, HotMail Problems
10) Just For Grins
More!
2000-10-09
(2000-Oct-09)
1) Save Your Butt With DOS:
Pulling It All Together
2) Mea Maxima Culpa
3) Another Free Ad-Blocker
4) Still More Oinkage
5) More Nannyware Snafus--- and Grins
6) Security Problem In Word 97 and Word 2000
7) Barb and Eric Got Their Free Books...
8) More Reader Sites!
9) A Thumbs-Up For Free Partition Tools
10) Just For Grins
More!
2000-10-05
(2000-Oct-05)
1) The Clean Up Batch Files,
WinME, Win2K, Etc.
2) ScanReg /OPT?
3) FREE Alternatives to ScanReg
4) CueCat: No More Mr. Nice Kitty
5) Speak Up! I Can't Hear You Over the Fan Noise!
6) Is This Information Useful?
7) Other "BulletProofing" Ideas
8) They Loaded The Code
9) Just For Grins
More!
2000-10-02
(2000-Oct-02)
1) Beware The CueCat
2) Auto-Compact Your Registry
3) More Fraud-Busters
4) It's Ali-i-i-i-ive!
5) Free "Bullet-Proofing?"
6) New Free Book Drawing Now Open!
7) More "Oinkage"
8) More Reader Sites!
9) NannyWare Hits and Misses
10) Just For Grins
More!
2000-09-28
(2000-Sep-28)
1) Don't Wait To "Bullet-Proof" Your
System!
2) Oink! (More Disk-Hogging Files To Delete)
3) Weird Media Player 7 Security Bug
4) How's *This* For Radical Computer Design?
5) Internet Fraud Complaint
Center
6) Last Days To Enter Sept.
FREE Book Drawing
7) Nice Little Freebie
Utility
8) They Keep Loading and
Loading and Loading...
9) Kid-Safe Browser?
10) Just For Grins
More!
2000-09-25
(2000-Sep-25)
1) Bullet-Proof Your Windows
Setup
2) Ads vs No Ads (& the "Missing" Issue!)
3) More WinME Weirdness
4) But If You Insist...
5) New ZoneAlarm Beta
6) Last Week To Enter September's FREE Book Drawing
7) Reader Sites Galore
8) More Free Ad-Blockers
9) Just For Grins
More!
2000-09-18
(2000-Sep-18)
1) "Variable" Cloudiness
2) And Here's Why All This DOS Stuff Is Worthwhile...
3) More Ad-Busters
4) Your Input Needed
5) Microsoft Gets Cheap
6) Don’t Make Me Beg! 8-)
7) Reader Sites Galore
8) Widening A Browser Bottleneck
9) Just For Grins
More!
2000-09-14
(2000-Sep-14)
1) Four---Count 'Em---Four
Batch Files
2) An "Ad-Buster?"
3) A Better DLL Viewer?
4) Restoring DOS Mode to WinME
5) $10,000 For Your Trouble?
6) Kmeleon--- Another Small, Fast Browser
7) So Many Sites, So Little Time <g>
8) Security Like Swiss Cheese...
9) Just For Grins
More!
2000-09-11
(2000-Sep-11)
1) Scrub Your Hard
Disk Clean, Part 2, + New Files!
2) More (and FREE) DLL Tools
3) Enigma Browser
4) Internet Explorer's Secret Repair Tool
5) Hot-Hot-Hotspots
6) Want $10,000? For Real!
7) A Question For You Re: Password Storage
8) Reader Sites Galore
9) What Is It With Comet Cursor? And Spyware?
10) Just For Grins
More!
2000-09-07
(2000-Sep-07)
1) Cleaning Your
Cookies, the Registry, And More
2) Aren't You Glad You Didn't Buy A PIII?
3) Make It Stop! (Comet Cursor And Its Ilk, That Is.)
4) Ad-Aware Beats "OptOut?"
5) "WindowsME"
6) New Version of BrowserTune 2000
7) Easy Fix For Scratched Screens
8) September's Free Book Drawing Now Open!
9) More Reader Sites!
10) Just For Grins
More!
2000-08-31
(2000-Aug-31)
1) Disk Cleanup
Whirlwind
2) What the Heck Are %Windir% And %Temp%?
3) CleanUp.Bat for NT and Win2000
4) But Why Not Use A Regular Cleanup Tool?
5) Canadian Brownies
6) "Pokemon" Worm Kills System Files
7) Last Day To Enter FREE Book Drawing
8) MS Money 2000/2001 Security Problem
9) They Loaded The Code
10) "DLL Master"
11) Just For Grins
12) The U.S. "Labor Day" Holiday
More!
2000-08-28
(2000-Aug-28)
1) "We Interrupt This
Broadcast..."
2) Blame It On George Eastman
3) What Files Go With What Apps?
4) Remember the "Summer BugFest?"
5) Free ZoneAlarm Add-On
6) Final Week To Enter FREE Book Drawing
7) Asked And Answered
8) More Reader Sites!
9) AOL Strikes Again
10) Just For Grins
More!
2000-08-24
(2000-Aug-24)
1) Many Batch Success
Stories
2) OK to Delete Cookies?
3) CleanUp On Reboot?
4) Windows/IE Java Virtual Machine Security Problem
5) Free--- A Better "Delete" Tool
6) Fastest, Smallest, Free Browser?
7) Last Week To Enter August's FREE Book Drawing
8) Those "MSCREATE.DIR" Files
9) More Reader Sites!
10) Getting Hit By "Comet Cursor?"
11) Just For Grins
More!
2000-08-21
(2000-Aug-21)
1) Wow! What A
Response!
2) A Cleanup.Bat Improvement
3) Many More Batch Files To Come
4) More Files You Can Delete
5) More Ways To Tell What's Safe To Delete
6) Thanks!
7) Firewall Feedback
8) More Reader Sites!
9) New Version of XXcopy
10) Just For Grins
More!
2000-08-17
(2000-Aug-17)
1) Reader DOS Suggestions
2) Got Batch?
3) Free Up Hundreds Of Megs
Of Disk Space!
4) But How Do You Know What's
Safe To Delete?
5) Win $10,000! (Really!)
6) Resource Happiness
7) They Loaded The Code
8) International Readers
9) Just For Grins
More!
2000-08-14
(2000-Aug-14)
1) Save Your Butt With
DOS, Part 3
2) Summer Bugfest: Netscape
3) Summer Bugfest: IE 4 & 5 "Scriptlets"
4) Summer Bugfest: Adobe Acrobat
5) Summer Bugfest: MS Office 2000
6) Recommend It!
7) Summer Bugfest: Office/IE Patch Update
8) They Loaded The Code
9) Free Firewall Feedback
10) Just For Grins
More!
2000-08-10
(2000-Aug-10)
1) Free Firewall From The Makers of
Sygate
2) Plug A Security Hole In
Excel
3) Beware The Evil Ping
Packet
4) Windows 2000 Patch Finally
Available
5) Cautions Re: Win2K SP1
6) Win $10,000! (Really!)
7) Reader Sites Galore
8) HotSpots Sizzling
9) Just For Grins
More!
2000-07-31
(2000-Jul-31)
Save Your Butt With DOS,
Part 2
2) The Six-Dollar Lifesaver
3) Reader Tip: A For-Real,
Food Powered Robot!
4) Don't Be Fooled By This
Convincing Hoax
5) Little-Known, High-Quality
Freebies
6) Version Confusion
7) Don’t Make Me Beg! 8-)
8) Curses on Comet Cursor
9) They Loaded The Code
10) Bye For Now! (Vacation Time)
11) Just For Grins
More!
2000-07-27
(2000-Jul-27)
1) I, Robot (Not!)
2) Dealing With A Dead Dialup
3) Blocking the "Advertnet"
4) Other Ways To Escape Pages That Trap You
5) You Have The Power!
6) More On Browser Alternatives...
7) So You Want To Be A $10,000-aire?
8) Free (And Cool!) NotePad Replacement
9) They Loaded The Code
10) Just For Grins
More!
2000-07-24
(2000-Jul-24)
1) Where Are The
Robots?
2) Free DOS Utilities
3) Bugfest 1:IE/Outlook Security Problem
4) Bugfest 2: Outlook Express Problem
5) Bugfest 3:Outlook & Outlook Express Problem
6) More On Browser Alternatives
7) Is This Information Useful?
8) Well Over 500 Reader Sites Now Online!
9) Just For Grins
More!
2000-07-20
(2000-Jul-20)
1) Lots Of Butts Being
Saved
2) More on Automated Restarts
3) Automatic Restarts Via Batch File
4) Patch for the "Office HTML Script Vulnerability"
5) Web Sites That Won't Let Go
6) $10,000 Up For Grabs
7) New "Code Load" Banners Available
8) Just For Grins
More!
2000-07-17
(2000-Jul-17)
1) Save Your Butt With
DOS
2) IE 5.5 Installation
3) IE 5.5 Speed Tweaks?
4) Gibson: AOL/NetZip/Netscape *Are* Snooping!
5) What Steve Didn't Mention...
6) More On AOL & Win2k
7) Don’t Make Me Beg! 8-)
8) They Loaded The Code
9) Just For Grins
More!
2000-07-13
(2000-Jul-13)
1) Free Tools For Mem./Process
Monitoring & More
2) Another Office Suite Goes Free!
3) COPPA: From The Horse's, er, Mouth
4) Windows *Must* Reboot Every 50 Days?
5) Want $10,000 For Your Summer Vacation?
6) Where's The (*#%$ Command Line?
7) Over 500 Reader Sites Now Online!
8) Reader Wants Browser Alternatives
(PLUS: IE5.5 Ships)
9) Just For Grins
2000-07-10
(2000-Jul-10)
1) To Reboot Or Not to Reboot?
2) Stuck On An Unwanted Home
Page?
3) "We Need Your Credit
Card:" Legit & Scam!
4) Y2K + 0.5 Update
5) Dueling Security Sites
6) Recommend It!
7) New "WatchDog" Version
8) And Even *More* Reader
Sites!
9) Just For Grins
More!
2000-07-06
(2000-Jul-06)
1) More On Final
Memory/Resource Leaks Tweaks
2) Are "Web Bugs" Evil?
3) On-Line Backups OK?
4) Something Like "PC Anywhere," Except It's Free!
5) 10,000 Thanks!
6) Yahoo Email Wants Your Credit Card?
7) More Reader Sites!
8) AOL: Right Hand, Meet Left Hand
9) Just For Grins
More!
2000-07-03
(2000-Jul-03)
1) Memory Leaks, Part
Four---The Final Tweaks
2) WinMe Embargo?
3) Speaking Of WinMe
4) IE4/5 Security Patch Released
5) Free, Full-Blown Office Suite Gets Better
6) So You Want To Be A $10,000-aire?
7) They Loaded The Code
8) Just For Grins
More!
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