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2001-12-20
(2001-Dec-20)
1) Bloatus Maximus
2) Huge Special Feature:
Fast, Easy Backups For Win98 / ME / NT / 2K / XP
(includes two FREE backup-management scripts, and a
full 7,000 word feature article!)
3) Just For Grins
2001-12-17
(2001-Dec-17)
1) Rethinking "Software Bloat"
2) Digging Information From Stubborn Sites
3) Some Sites Really *Are* Dead
4) Easy, Free "Drive Rescue"
5) Saving Updates To Disk
6) Want $10,000 To Spend For The Holidays?
7) New, Free and *Fast* Firewall Tester
8) They Just Keep Coming And Coming and Coming...
9) Alternative Free PC Audit Tool
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights:
Free Download! Search Tool And Enhancement!
Glad I Asked About SecureAge!
Manually Changing Outlook's Attachment Filters
2001-12-13
(2001-Dec-13)
Special Update Issue
2001-12-10
(2001-Dec-10)
1) Mo' Betta Tweaks
2) "Simple Boot Disk" Vs. Win98/ME "Startup Disk"
3) More Elaborate Win2K, NT and XP Startup Disks
4) More On Removing Orphan DLLs
5) Make Yourself Immune To Email Changes
6) Is This Information Useful?
7) Access 1400 Search Engines, Worldwide
8) They Loaded The Code
9) "Tweaker Maniac" Strikes Again <g>
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus Edition Highlights:
How To Track Down A Scammer
Free Encryption/Security Tool
A Pay-As-You-Go ISP
2001-12-06
(2001-Dec-06)
1) 10 Tweaks To Make Windows XP Run Better
2) Not A Tweak, But A Double XP Surprise!
3) The DMA Matryoshka
4) "A Great Outlook Patch Nobody Uses"
5) Clever Way To Grab Old Drivers, Etc.
6) Mike Mullen Got A $30 Gift Certificate. Want One?
7) Free PC Software Audit
8) They Just Keep Coming And Coming and Coming...
9) "Unable to Open a Link in New Window in IE"
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus Edition Highlights:
Free Tool Is An Odd Hybrid
Reader Pick: ClipCache Plus
2001-12-03
(2001-Dec-03)
1) What About "Go Back" and "Restore" Tools?
2) Mobile Rack Storage?
3) A DMA "Doh!"
4) A Malevolent "ShieldsUp?"
5) New Month, New Chances!
6) Nice (Free!) Email Security Testing Tool
7) More Reader Sites!
8) Ethical Conundrum: A Governmental Trojan
9) Just For Grins
10) Plus! Edition Highlights:
Opera Browser Security Trouble?
Not Just Free--- Priceless!
Are Nonstandard Web Domain Names OK?
2001-11-29
(2001-Nov-29)
1) Trojan/Worm Attack!
2) Reader Backup Response
3) Powerful Freeware Email Client
4) Thanks For The Memory (Chips)
5) Strange Speed Test
6) Last Day To Enter November's FREE Book Drawing
7) You Get To Pick The New Langa.Com Graphics!
8) They Loaded The Code
9) A Tweak By Any Other Name...
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights:
Lawyer Replies to "Software Gestapo;"
Two Free Auto-Update Services;
What's Inside Your Keyboard? (yuk!);
Fix Your Own Printer
2001-11-26
(2001-Nov-26)
1) Yes Or No: Upgrade To XP?
2) Alert: "Critical" Media Player Security Problem
3) Backups, Part One: "Shadow" Failures
4) Backups, Part Two: Big Drives And Automation
5) Last Week To Enter November's FREE Book Drawing
6) The Return Of TweakIE
7) They Loaded The Code
8) A Hit And A Miss Re: XP
9) Orphan DLLs?
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights:
A PinPoint Pan; Free Diagnostic Utilities;
Time To Change Your System Battery?;
Two Free Downloads For Outlook (Not Outlook Express)
2001-11-19
(2001-Nov-19)
1) The 10 Best & Worst Things About XP
2) Creating a Windows CD from a Recovery Disk
3) What About backup To/From Tape?
4) NOD32?
5) Nice Tune/Tweak Addition...
6) $10,000 For Your Trouble?
7) WinDoctor/DI5 Conflict?
8) They Just Keep Coming And Coming and Coming...
9) More On Browser Cache Size
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights:
Free And Better Than "Net Detective"
Letter To You From Pape Tanor
More Free Outlook Express Resources
2001-11-15
(2001-Nov-15)
1) Don't Shoot The Messenger!
2) Security Patch SNAFU #1
3) Security Patch SNAFU #2
4) Even Cheaper Linux CDs
5) "Do You Recommend Norton?"
6) Spread The Word!
7) How Much Browser Cache Is Too Much?
8) They Loaded The Code
9) Outlook Express + McAffee = Lost Mail?
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights:
Frustrated by Outlook's Email Attachment Filters?;
Nice (Free!) Windows Navigational Add-On;
Backing Up OE Files
2001-11-12
(2001-Nov-12)
1) Product Activation Now Hacked, Too
2) High-Risk Security Problem--- With No Good Solution!
3) Lies, Damned Lies, and Benchmarks (Part 1)
4) Lies, Damned Lies, and Benchmarks (Part 2)
5) Eradicate IE
6) Thanks!
7) What's "WNAD?"
8) They Loaded The Code
9) Argh! It's The Return Of Evil NetBEUI!
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights:
Easily ID Mysterious Startup Entries;
Pro/Con Counterattacking Spammers;
Hard-Core Way To Ensure CDRs Can't be Read;
Navigation ShortCuts on the Toolbar
2001-11-08
(2001-Nov-08)
1) Hacked: Passport "Wallet" And Credit Card Info!
2) XP Performance By The Numbers (Part 1)
3) XP Performance By The Numbers (Part 2)
4) In Fairness: Ten Things I *Like* About XP
5) A Good Non-Microsoft Resource Re: XP Compatibility
6) Karen Kenworthy Releases New Free Software
7) Want $10,000 To Spend For The Holidays?
8) They Just Keep Coming And Coming and Coming...
9) New Linux Version (Free, As Usual...)
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights
Software Gestapo;
Recovering 100MB Of Netscape Bloat;
More On *Washing* Your Electronics!
2001-11-05
(2001-Nov-05)
1) The End Of Anonymous Surfing?
2) Bye-Bye Direct Cable Connection? Peer To Peer?
3) Useful--- And Interesting--- Pages From the Past
4) Patches, We Got Patches...
5) More on Port Probes And Online Security
6) Paulo Breim Got His $30 Gift Certificate. Want One?
7) Who's Reading Your Old CDRs?
8) More Reader Sites!
9) File-Type Hassles?
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights:
"Wilbur" Indexes Your Hard Drive For Free;
Pros and Cons Of A Popular Free Anti-Virus Tool;
Letter From Derlan
2001-11-01
(2001-Nov-01)
1) XPlosive!
2) Broadband Follow-Up
3) Take Your PC Into The Shower?
4) Bookmarklets
5) You Killed It! <g>
6) It's a new month; new chances!
7) Cool Linux Toy/Tool
8) They Loaded The Code
9) XP PowerToys
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights:
Run Your Normal Windows Apps... On Linux!
Free--- Nearly Every Browser Ever Made!
Restore Mangled Disk Partitions--- For Free!
2001-10-29
(2001-Oct-29)
Special Issue: Focus On Windows XP
1) Why A Special Focus On Windows XP?
2) XP: Upgrade Facts And Fictions
3) XPeriment #1: Fred Upgrades A Micron 1.2GHz Athlon
4) XPeriment #2: Fred Upgrades A Dell 550MHz PIII
5) Fred's XP Upgrade Advice
6) XP Pre-Installs Have Their Own Problems, Too...
7) Making XP More Secure
8) An XP/IE "Phone-Home" Issue
9) Last Days To Enter October's FREE Book Drawing
10) Just For Grins
11) Your Own Copy: All The LangaLists Ever Published!
2001-10-25
(2001-Oct-25)
1) XP Speed Issues
2) XP Speed Tweaks
3) Free "Domain Analyzer"
4) More Boolean Searches (Some FREE)!
5) Is "Net Detective" Snake-Oil?
6) Last Week To Enter October's FREE Book Drawing
7) A List Of Lists
8) They Loaded The Code
9) IE6 Install Gotcha?
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights
Free Antivirus Tools
More Windows Explorer Replacements
LangaList Archive Update En Route
2001-10-22
(2001-Oct-22)
1) Happy Anniversary!
2) Here Comes XP
3) AOL 7 Arrives (Yawn)
4) Wow! Boolean Searches Of Your Hard Drive
5) Norton AV Update
6) PR Budget = $0.00
7) Automated Images
8) They Loaded The Code
9) Free Help
10) Just For Grins, And More
11) Plus! Edition Highlights:
Amiga Does Windows;
Short and Sweet Explorer Menu Mod;
Customizing IE's Search ShortCuts
2001-10-18
(2001-Oct-18)
1) Fine Print Gotcha Results In $16,000 Bill
2) Free, Ultra-Small, Low-Impact Browser
3) About That LiveUpdate Security Hole...
4) Old and New Free Install/UnInstall Tools
5) A Way To 100% Uninstall *ANY* Software
6) Is This Information Useful?
7) A Free And Useful ActiveX Diagnostic Tool
8) More Reader Sites!
9) Not Free, But Interesting/Useful Software
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights:
Ultimate Solutions For Multi-Booting?
Powerful, Free Process Monitor
Restoring A Normal Autoexec To Windows ME
2001-10-15
(2001-Oct-15)
1) More Fine Print Follies
2) Another IE "Dotless IP" Security Hole
3) LiveUpdate: Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?
4) BrowserTune 2002
5) HotSpots
6) Thanks!
7) InCtrl Puts You In Control
8) They Loaded The Code
9) *Much* Faster "Shields Up!" Site
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights:
New Interim ZoneAlarm Update
Changing Outlook's "Junk Mail" Filters
Hiding Screen Contents Via The Redirect-to-NUL Trick
2001-10-11
(2001-Oct-11)
1) No More "Dirty Mouse Balls"
2) Who Needs Mouse Balls, Anyway?
3) Free Programming Tools
4) IE6 Decaffeinated?
5) Bug In MS Excel/PowerPoint
6) Is This Information Useful?
7) Email "WireTapping"
8) They Just Keep Coming And Coming and Coming...
9) New ZoneAlarm Version Coming!
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights:
Voice Recognition Software;
Add "CommandPrompt" To Win2K Menus;
Reader Fix For Another IE6 Issue;
Professional Solution For Font Overload
2001-10-04
(2001-Oct-04)
1) Plugging Instant-Messaging Security Holes
2) Road Runner Cable Now Walking?
3) Angry Reader Wants Explanation
4) Free "WinKey"
5) Dirty Mouse Balls
6) Marty O'Malley Got His Gift Certificate. Want One?
7) Free Intel ChipSet Accelerator
8) More Reader Sites!
9) Steve Gibson Rave
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Extra:
Slick, Free Reference On DOS 7;
What's Your Chunk Size? (A Speedup Tip);
More On Reducing Font Overload
2001-10-01
(2001-Oct-01)
1) Instant-Messaging Security Holes
2) Free "Lost And Found"
3) One's Bug Is Another's Feature
4) Outstanding, Tightly-Coded Apps
5) More Weasel-Wording In User Agreements
6) New Month: New Chance!
7) OK, OK! I Give In! <g> (Re: The "!0000" Email Fix)
8) They Just Keep Coming And Coming...
9) Shareware That Helps The United Way
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights:
Updated Free Script To Clear Typed URLs;
Fat But Useful "XP Advisor;"
Advanced CSS-Layout Tutorial
2001-09-27
(2001-Sep-27)
1) SDI Blues
2) Router Means "No FireWall Needed?"
3) Son Of "EndItAll"
4) "No Spare Stack Pages?"
5) Microsoft Personal Security Advisor
6) Free "MailWasher"
7) Last Day To Enter September's FREE Drawing
8) They Loaded The Code
9) ZoneAlarm Problems
10) Just For Grins
11) Extra Content Available In The Plus! Edition:
A Collection Of Outstanding, Tightly-Coded Apps;
Easy Solution for "Unable to browse the network";
Virus Info Meta-Page;
Nasty PPoE Problem Solved
2001-09-24
(2001-Sep-24)
1) Still More GREAT Sites
2) "PurgeIE"
3) Outlook/IE6's "Truncated Email" Problem Solved
4) Close Topic: Startup Editors
5) Last Week To Enter September's FREE Book Drawing
6) More Dual-Boot Options
7) They Loaded The Code
8) Things To Do With A Dead CueCat
9) Just For Grins
10) Extra Content In The Plus! Edition:
Checking Up On Agnitum--- Or Any Vendor!
Free Tool Easily Decodes MS Windows Error Messages;
Two Free Script-Killers
2001-09-20
(2001-Sep-20)
1) 85 Great Sites: Only The Beginning
2) Netscape/AOL Diddles With Your "Trusted" Zone?
3) Free Pop-Up Stopper
4) Many Tools Make Light Work
5) Don't Make Me Beg! 8-)
6) Drivers Sought--- and Found
7) They Just Keep Coming And Coming and Coming...
8) Anti-SPAM FAQ
9) Just For Grins
10) Outlook + IE6 + HTML Email = Problems?
Sorting Out IE6's *48* New Privacy Options;
Free MultiSearch
2001-09-17
(2001-Sep-17)
1) The Best PC Help, Reference And Test Sites
2) Disaster Aid, Via Computer
3) How *NOT* To Help, Via Computer
4) Boot Manager
5) What the Heck Are "QMgr" and "LoadQM?"
6) $10,000 For Your Trouble?
7) Short And Sweet: An Excellent Forum
8) They Loaded The Code
9) CueCat Heads For The Great Litter Box In The Sky
10) Just For Grins
11) Deep Data Recovery (Even Multiple Reformats!);
A Heartfelt "Thanks!";
Exit Shortcut Corrupts ShellIconCache?
2001-09-13
(2001-Sep-13)
1) Shortened Issue
2) Another Hoax Getting Too-Wide Play
3) WinME Freebie
4) Final Word (?) On Fast Find
5) Recommend It
6) Can't Use Windows Update After Installing IE6?
7) They Loaded The Code
8) IE6 Link Bug?
9) Just For Grins
10) Popular Reader-Recommended CD Emulation Tool;
Wrap-Up Re: Uninterruptable Power Supplies
2001-09-10
(2001-Sep-10)
1) Paging George Orwell...
2) IE6 Installation Glitches
3) Ad-Aware Update
4) Alexa Users: Amazon May Owe You Money!
5) Bill Martin Got His $30. Want Yours?
6) In Search Of A Software Toolkit
7) More Reader Sites!
8) Recovering From A Bad Reformat
9) Just For Grins
10) Twenty Free Scripts, Tools, And Executables;
33-66% More Speed From A TNT2 Video Card;
More PPoE Info
2001-09-06
(2001-Sep-06)
1) One Thousand Posts Later: WPA Update
2) Cool--- and Free!--- IE Cache Tools
3) Faster Ways To Kill FindFast
4) Internet Explorer 6
5) Installing IE6
6) A Fresh Start
7) Got Tons Of Disk Space?
8) They Just Keep Coming And Coming and Coming...
9) Meet Suradon,
Newest Member Of The LangaList Family
10) Just For Grins
11) Improved, Freeware Task Manager;
PPPoE Woes, and ZoneAlarm;
Mo' Betta Maps
2001-08-30
(2001-Aug-30)
1) IE5.5 SP2 Breaks Quicktime/Netscape PlugIns
2) New Version of Cacheman
3) A Challenge
4) Turn Off Office's Background Indexing
5) Site Hijacks Home Page--- For 25 Years!
6) Last Day To Enter Month's FREE Drawing
7) TaskWheel
8) They Loaded The Code
9) Another Free Tool To identify CDR Type
10) Just For Grins
11) More Eudora Tips;
USP/Surge Suppressor Update;
Safekeeping Your Patch/Update Files
2001-08-27
(2001-Aug-27)
1) Buried Treasures
2) TestCPU
3) US Law Makes Spamming *Easier* (sigh)
4) Safely Inspecting Suspicious Email
5) Gator Gets Worse
6) Last Week To Enter August's FREE Drawing
7) "Surf Safari" Foistware
8) They Loaded The Code
9) The Return Of "Snarg"
10) Just For Grins
11) "Green" Software Photoplayer;
Got GPS? Here's A Site For You;
Reactivating Attachments In Outlook 2002
2001-08-23
(2001-Aug-23)
1) "Product Activation" FireStorm!
2) Outlook Patch Finally Out
3) Ever Fix Someone else's PC? Read This!
4) Modem Woes
5) Customized System "Roles"
6) Eudora Backups
7) Last Week To Enter August's FREE Book Drawing
8) WMAlign MIA?
9) They Loaded The Code
10) A "Security Nugget"
11) Just For Grins
12) Plus! Edition Highlights:
New ZoneAlarm Maybe Not Stellar?
Non-Microsoft "Smart Tag" Software Hijacks Your Links
More Options for "No PC? No Problem!"
2001-08-20
(2001-Aug-20)
1) He's Ba-a-a-a-a-ck!
2) Microsoft XP's "Product Activation" = Privacy Risk?
3) Insider's Views On Tech Support
4) Gator-Alternatives Form-Filler...
5) ...And Alternative StartUp Editors
6) Recovering System Resources
7) Another Excellent Reference Site
8) Ken De Pree Got His Gift Certificate. Want One?
9) More Reader Sites!
10) Ontrack Replies Re: Partition Issues
11) Just For Grins
12) Exclusive 4-Part MiniSeries
2001-08-02
(2001-Aug-02)
1) Vacation Time
2) CD-R Wrap-Up
3) Driver Woes
4) WinME/XP/Linux/Mac Questions
5) Big Thumbs-Up For Trend Micro
6) "Drive Manager" Messes Up Partitioning
7) Fresh Start
8) Troubleshooting A System Slowdown
9) They Just Keep Coming And Coming and Coming...
10) More Foistware? (msbb.exe)
11) Just For Grins
12) Let Your PC Read The Maps;
Customizing Eudora's Filters;
Add Direct Editing Of HTML Email To Outlook
2001-07-30
(2001-Jul-30)
1) A Free Connection-Sharing Proxy/Firewall...
2) ... And A Free Startup Editor
3) Tech Support Runaround
4) Can "Good Guys" Go Bad?
5) Last 24 Hrs To Enter July's FREE Drawing
6) Now, *This* Is Cool
7) More Reader Sites!
8) Gator Fan Has Misgivings
9) About That Zip-File Virus...
10) Just For Grins
11) A Plus! Readers' Well-Honed BS Detectors;
Easy (And Cheap!) Fix For Scratched Screens;
Accessing New And Old Plus!-Site Features
2001-07-26
(2001-Jul-26)
1) Safe--- Or Sorry--- On CD-R
2) A Nasty ZIP Virus
3) Speaking Of Zip Files
4) Dodging The PhoenixNet "Phone-Home" Bullet
5) S I R C A M Follow-Up
6) Microsoft Admits WinME Memory Problems
7) Last Few Days To Enter July's FREE Book Drawing
8) Even Better (Free!) Unattended Backups
9) They Loaded The Code
10) Just For Grins
11) Free Help For MS Office Users;
Seven (Mostly Free!) Great Programs Plus Three Books;
Reader Feedback on "PestPatrol"
2001-07-23
(2001-Jul-23)
0) NEWS FLASH--- Hostile Worm Spreading Fast
1) Is Your Data Disappearing?
2) Hackers vs Crackers
3) More Foistware Follies
4) Unmentioned For A Year
5) Last Week To Enter July's FREE Book Drawing
6) Versatile Tool Removes PC "Pests"
7) They Just Keep Coming And Coming and Coming...
8) New, Free HyperTerminal
9) Just For Grins
10) Free Self-Install Module For Help File Archives;
Powerful File Information Utility;
Malicious Dialer Costs You $7 Per Minute!
2001-07-19
(2001-Jul-19)
1) Pros/Cons Re: Email Antivirus Protection
2) More Info Re: NewNet and WebHancer "Foistware"
3) A Real Security Issue...
4) ...And A Stupidly Faked One
5) Reader Question Re: Outlook Folders
6) Recommend It!
7) Domain Name Search Trick
8) They Loaded The Code
9) Unattended Win98 Backups
10) Just For Grins
11) Your Own Copy Of All The LangaLists Ever Published!
2001-07-16
(2001-Jul-16)
1) Last (Best?) Words Re: Spam
2) Web Page Harvester
3) OK, It's An "a" After All
4) Free And Easy Drive Letter Assignment Tool
5) Last Chance To Pre-Sign For New Archives
6) More Home-Page Hijacking
7) Don’t Make Me Beg! 8-)
8) They Just Keep Coming And Coming and Coming...
9) Free Security Tools, And More
10) Just For Grins
11) Safely/Surely Rooting Out A Malicious Program;
Free Graphics File Tool;
Make Your Own PDF Files For Free
2001-07-12
(2001-Jul-12)
1) SPAM Feedback
2) FrontPage 2002
3) Free FP2002 Tips
4) More Gems From The Knowledgebase
5) Speaking Of Microsoft.Com...
6) Want $10,000 To Spend This Season?
7) ZoneAlarm's Mysterious Blinking "Q"
8) More Reader Sites!
9) "Foistware Nasties"
10) Just For Grins
11) New Plus! Subscriber Site Open;
News re: New Archives Update;
A Temp File Cleaner For Win2K/NT
2001-07-09
(2001-Jul-09)
1) Has Spam Won?
2) Why Is It Called "Spam," Anyway?
3) An Easier "Whois"
4) Test Your Email Defenses
5) Ouch! Outlook Folders Can Become Unreadable
6) Is This Information Useful?
7) False Hard Drive Death
8) One Thousand, Four Hundred and Counting...
9) Just For Grins
10) Free Ad-Blocking Software;
Freeware/Shareware Bonanza;
Powerful, Free Editing Tool Returns From Oblivion
2001-07-02
(2001-Jul-02)
1) BS? You decide.
2) Ad-Aware: New Version and Site
3) More PhoenixNet News--- Almost All Bad!
4) Bad Sectors = Hard Drive Death Rattle?
5) Windows 2000 Security Hole
6) New Month: Fresh Chances!
7) Dodging The "Smart Tag" Bullet
8) They Just Keep Coming And Coming and Coming...
9) Free CAB-file Tool
10) Just for Grins
11) New Plus! Site and Web Host Ready For Testing;
Reader-Recommended Cooling Info;
An Even Better (Free!) Mini-PIM?
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