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2002-06-27
1) Speed Up Your Start Up
2) *Easily* Make Your Own Bootable CD ROMs
3) Firewalls For Old (And I Mean *Old*) Hardware
4) Free Mozilla Add-Ins/Ons
5) Think I Was Exaggerating About Deleted Files?
6) Last Days To Enter June's FREE Drawing
7) WinXP Power Tools Book
8) They Loaded The Code
9) "Fly" Over Aerial Photos Of Your Home/Office
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights:
Fast, Free File Transfers
Free "Superware" For Digital Imaging
Unusual Use For A KVM Switch
002-06-24
1) More "Dead Drive" Fixes
2) Reader Shares Tech Fix He Had To *Pay* For
3) Weird Font/Licensing Problem
4) New Letter, New Photo From Reyna
5) Mozilla 1.0, and Alternatives
6) Last Week To Enter June's FREE Drawing
7) Netscape/Mozilla Glitches Emerge
8) They Loaded The Code
9) Acronym Vs Abbreviation
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights:
Rid Your Hard Drive Of Space Hogs
A JPEG Worm?
Everything Old Is New Again
2002-06-20
1) Software Quality = Oxymoron?
2) Other Hard Drive Repair Options (Part One)
3) Other Hard Drive Repair Options (Part Two)
4) Automatically Create A "Restore Point" In XP
5) AOL Passwords Endlessly Duplicated?
6) PR Budget = $0.00
7) Cosmology And More
8) They Just Keep Coming And Coming and Coming...
9) Several New Security Problems/Patches...
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights:
Anti-Spam-Tool Reviews, How-Tos, More
Linux Counterpoint
Three Easy XP Customizations
2002-06-17
1) What's Bugging *You*?
2) Quirky Tool, Fabulous Name
3) Another "Lost Gem"
4) A Seasonal Reminder
5) WUpdate Problems For Win2K/XP Users
6) $10,000 For Your Trouble?
7) Free Offline Registry Help File
8) They Loaded The Code
9) At Long Last: Mozilla 1.0
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights:
"Ethical Hacking" Tools
Free Email Monitor/Manager
Legit, Nondestructive Ways to Uninstall IE
2002-06-13
1) A "Magic" Modem Speed-Up That Works
2) Dead Drive Fix, "Please.. Please.. Please..."
3) Speaking Of Hard Drives...
4) Bogus "Low Disk Space" Notification
5) Disappointing Read
6) Thanks!
7) More Free XP Info Sites
8) They Just Keep Coming And Coming and Coming...
9) SpamKiller Down the Tubes?
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights:
Free, Portable "Simple Contact Manager"
Reader's Real-Life Office Alternative and Linux Experiences
Repair A Burned-Out Surge Suppressor
2002-06-10
1) Firewall "Flaws"
2) Good Security Overview Articles
3) New, Free Security Tests
4) Free Government Newsletter Re: Security Problems
5) More On Open Office And File Associations
6) Is This Information Useful?
7) Spam Gourmet
8) They Just Keep Coming And Coming...
9) "XP Mania"
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights:
Silent Death" Stalks UPSes...
...And Watch Out For Other Unintended Consequences
Want "D Best" In Freeware?
2002-06-06
1) Mo' Betta Magic
2) Bad Name, Great Site
3) Networking "Gray Areas"
4) New Letter From Suradon Janno
5) Finding a "Lost Gem"
6) Want $10,000 To Spend This Season?
7) "Yet More Exceptional Freeware"
8) More Reader Sites!
9) Free File-Conversion Tools
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights:
Retrieve Microsoft Bug Announcements By Product/Date
Compact no-CD Linux Download
Free Jewel-Case Creator For CDs, And More
2002-06-03
1) "Magic" Fixes
2) Combating SPAM, Revisited...
3) More On Too-Large Menus
4) Open Office, And Software Testing In General
5) Another Way To Revert To An Old Version
6) New Month, New Chances!
7) Free "Registry Robot"
8) They Loaded The Code
9) Restore A Mangled Partition Table
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Reader Reaction and Highlights:
New Free Driver Download Site
Reader's Real-Life Linux Distro/Tool/Apps Report
Excellent Third-Party XP Info Site
2002-05-30
1) The "!000" or "AAA" Hoax
2) Old IE4 Speedup Tip Still Works On IE6
3) Opera Security Problem
4) Free Formatter For Email Newsletters
5) Windows XP Pre-SP1 Hotfixes
6) "Not All Startup Items Can Be Displayed..."
7) Last Days To Enter May's FREE Drawing
8) More Reader Sites!
9) Adding To The List Of Popup Stoppers...
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights:
346 Free Utilities
Deeper Cleaning, For Free
Custom Searching In IE6
2002-05-23
1) "Extended Edition?"
2) *Must Have* Freeware
3) The "S u l f n b l k" Hoax Resurfaces
4) Very Nicely-Done Security Resource
5) HotMail Emulates Yahoo's Privacy Breach
6) Easy 2-Way Synching
7) Last Week To Enter May's FREE Drawing
8) Lost Your CD ROM Access?
9) Small Network Refresher
10) They Loaded the Code
11) Two Reader-Recommended Popup Stoppers...
12) ... And Info On Time-Delay Popups
13) Just For Grins
14) Plus! Edition Highlights:
New Free Script-Based Tweaker/Tuneup Tool
Free Tech Books Online
A Kiwi's Monthly Maintenance Ideas
Freeware Mother Lode
2002-05-16
1) KVM Fans Emerge From The Shadows
2) Other TLAs Draw Comment, Too
3) Linux, "Just Like Mom Used To Burn"
4) Better Than "CrazyBrowser?"
5) Setting Mistakes In Stone?
6) Recommend It!
7) K L E Z Gets Worse And Worse
8) They Loaded The Code
9) The Case Of The Possessed PC
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights:
Five FREE Firewalls!
New Version of Powerful Tweak Tool
Old And New Power Toys Online
2002-05-13
1) Small Acronyms, Big Helps
2) Real-Life Example Of WPA Rinning Amok
3) "Weird Problem" Solved!
4) Malware Deactivates Anti-Spyware Tool
5) Worth Tuning?
6) Is This Information Useful?
7) K l e z Worms From People You Never Heard Of?
8) Over Two Thousand, And Counting...
9) Free LangaList Plus! Subscriptions--- For Life!
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights:
Ton Of Free Scripting Resources
Free Setup Program, Free Update To "Favorites"
Improving Fast Find and System Restore
2002-05-09
1) Reader Was A GPS Pioneer
2) "CrazyBrowser"
3) More On System Resource Issues
4) Search Engine Snooping?
5) Weird Problem
6) Want $10,000 To Spend This Summer?
7) Spyware And Worms And Trojans, Oh My...
8) They Loaded The Code
9) More On XP Password-Expiration Woes
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights:
"Handy Little Piece of Freeware"
Curing Windows Update Problems
"Splitter" For Large Files And Directories
2002-05-06
1) Excellent GPS Feedback
2) CPU Use...
3) ...And "Resource" Use
4) New Letter From Derlan
5) Password Expiration In XP
6) Karl Foster Got A Free $30 Gift Certificate. Want One?
7) K l e z Problems
8) More Reader Sites!
9) "Invasion of the Browser Snatchers"
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights
Free Save-Your-Butt Partitioning Tools
A Free And Safe Registry Editor
More WPA Workaround Info
2002-05-02
1) Your Next Essential Travel Tool
2) Highly-Recommended Popup-Stoppers
3) Selective Popup Blocking
4) Does Restoring A Backup Trigger WPA?
5) Freeware From An Unexpected Source
6) New Month, New Chances
7) Free "Driver Detective"
8) They Loaded The Code
9) Cool 2K/XP TaskBar Toy/Tool
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights:
Safer Registry Tweaks
AOL And Other Modem Fixes
More Great Uses For Old Hardware
2002-04-22
1) IE6 Security Hole
2) PopUp Stopper Method #1
3) PopUp Stopper Method #2
4) SpamCop Thinks I'm A Spammer?
5) Automatic Power-Off From DOS
6) Recommend It!
7) Workaround For "Password Not Valid..."
8) More Reader Sites!
9) Good Uses For Ancient Hardware
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights:
Pro-Quality Freeware
Free Zip-Tools
Stop That Awful Modem Screech...
2002-04-18
1) Tons Of "Firewall Feedback"
2) Good Cookies?
3) "Securing Windows"
4) More Re: "Shortcut Arrows Reappearing"
5) Meet Little Macy-Jean Calinawan
6) XP's "Recovery Console Life Saver"
7) Thanks!
8) They Loaded The Code
9) Run Microsoft Office On Linux, With No Windows
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights
Another Free "Desktop Expander"
Free Backup Tool Modification
Free MultiLingual Fonts
2002-04-15
1) Firewall Feedback
2) Spying At Public Kiosks & PCs?
3) Bugs and Beacons: Bah!
4) How To Remove IE Content Advisor Password
5) Shortcut Arrows Reappear?
6) PR Budget = $0.00
7) New IRC, AIM and Email "Blended Threat" Worm
8) More Reader Sites!
9) "Answers That Work"
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights
Troubleshooting Problems With Word
Outstanding Spyware Resource
VirtuaWin
2002-04-11
1) Readers Suggest Sane Approach To Filters
2) Time Out! (Finding Old WinMag Articles)
3) Speaking Of Google...
4) Free "Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer"
5) And Speaking Of Patches...
6) Don't Make Me Beg! 8-)
7) Update to "Free Favorites-To-HomePage Converter"
8) They Loaded The Code
9) Fred Treads On Thin Ice
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights
Live Stripper (Not what you think!)
Alternate Source For "NewDeal"
Virus *Re*-Infection
2002-04-08
1) More Filter Weirdness
2) Clean*.bat Takes Off
3) "Yahoo Service Changes Baffle Customers"
4) Using Kazaa? Watch Out!
5) "Fred, Stop B*tching About SPAM..."
6) It's A New Month...
7) Free "StatBar"
8) They Just Keep Coming And Coming and Coming...
9) Free "FuzzPad" Aids In Learning HTML
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights
Two Interesting Google Items
Remember The "Visual Thesaurus?"
New Life For Older Systems
2002-04-04
1) The Evil Of Silent Censorship
2) CleanAll Updated
3) Basic Cleanup: All Versions Of Windows
4) Advanced Cleanup Batch File For Win9X
5) Advanced Cleanup: Other Versions Of Windows
6) Sageset Unlocks CleanMgr's Power
7) SageRun Completes the Picture
8) Cleaning the Temporary File Areas
9) Extending The Commands
10) Now Add SageRun
11) Batch It Up
12) Download A CleanXP Template
2002-03-28
1) 100% Legit Workaround For Product Activation
2) McAfee's Forced Upgrade?
3) AOL To Users: Do As I Say, Not As I Do
4) Updates to "CleanAll/9x" Coming
Plus: No Monday Issue
5) Accessibility Options In Windows XP
6) Last Days To Enter March's FREE Drawing
7) Separate Tips for Win2K and Word2K
8) More Reader Sites!
9) Share Bookmarks/Favorites Among Browsers
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights:
Even Better, 100% Free Office Suite
Free Link-Shortener
Reader-Created Startup/Process Tools
2002-03-25
1) Free, Automatic Updates From The Knowledgebase
2) Free Email Providers Going Away
3) ATTBI's Email Fine-Print Gotcha
4) Reminder: If You Need To Change Your Email...
5) SpamCop
6) Which File Formats Will Survive?
7) Last Week To Enter March's FREE Drawing
8) They Just Keep Coming And Coming and Coming...
9) Where Did "SYSOC.INF" Go?
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights
Rave Re: Email Notification/Retrieval Program
Increase Safety With XP Custom Accounts
Free And Easy Suite Of Office Tools
2002-03-21
1) Free OSes / Windows Alternatives
2) Slick and FREE 3-D Visual Trace Route Tool
3) Rosetta Stone For Outlook Email Filters
4) Meet Reyna, Newest Member Of The LangaList Family
5) "...the most user friendly search engine in the world"
6) $10,000 For Your Trouble?
7) Historical Footnotes
8) They Loaded The Code
9) Cheap, Cheaper...
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights:
Serious Tool With Toylike Name
Search Trick For Your Favorites
A Support Tech ID's Performance-Killing Software
2002-03-18
1) Exploring Windows Alternatives
2) A Non-Boneheaded Blocker Site?
3) Many Flavors Of FindFast--- All Less Than Wonderful
4) MediaOne / AT&T / Etc.
5) Anti-Spam & More
6) PR Budget = $0.00
7) XP & NTFS Reader Tips
8) They Loaded The Code
9) Steve Gibson A Fraud?
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights
Free Way To Turn Caps Lock Into A Shift Key
Freeware To View All Stored Passwords
More "Favorites" Tools
Record-Breaking Downloads
2002-03-14
1) Free Favorites-To-HomePage Converter
2) How To Clean-Install IE6 On XP
3) Avoid This Fake Microsoft Security Patch
4) An Anonymous Warning
5) Free "Mail2txt" for Eudora
6) Is This Information Useful?
7) Reader-Recommended Linux Resources
8) More Reader Sites!
9) DVD and CDRs Demystified
10) Just For Grins
11) Download Your Own Copy Of All The LangaLists Ever Published!
2002-03-11
1) Feedback on "Ethical Hacking"
2) A New Scumware Source Emerges...
3) ... And An Old Kind Of Scumware Returns
4) "Scanpst"
5) Free Web Server Snooping Tool
6) Want $10,000 To Spend This Season?
7) Last Item On Weird Washings
8) They Loaded The Code
9) How Just About Anything Works
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights
Excellent, independent Support Site
Another Free Process Viewer/Killer
LangaList Archive Update En Route
2002-03-07
Special Abbreviated Update Edition:
1) Arghhh!
2) Ethical Hacking?
2002-03-04
1) It's Back From The Dead!
2) Other Ways To Rate Vendors
3) Store-Bought PCs For Less Than Build-It-Yourself?
4) Jargon And Acronyms Defined
5) We Warned You: Win95 Support Is Now Gone
6) Last Day To Enter February's FREE Drawing
7) Always Check Out The "Custom Install" Options
8) More Reader Sites!
9) A Boatload Of Freeware
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights
Dazzling Visual Tool Shows Word Relationships
Easily Set--- And Change--- Your Default Browser
A Content Filter That Actually Works?
2002-02-28
1) It's Back From The Dead!
2) Other Ways To Rate Vendors
3) Store-Bought PCs For Less Than Build-It-Yourself?
4) Jargon And Acronyms Defined
5) We Warned You: Win95 Support Is Now Gone
6) Last Day To Enter February's FREE Drawing
7) Always Check Out The "Custom Install" Options
8) More Reader Sites!
9) A Boatload Of Freeware
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights
Dazzling Visual Tool Shows Word Relationships
Easily Set--- And Change--- Your Default Browser
A Content Filter That Actually Works?
2002-02-25
1) Free IE Booster
2) AOL & Netscape Also Bypass Your Security Settings
3) RIP ResellerRatings
4) Media Player Snooping?
5) "Microsoft Security" = Oxymoron?
6) Last Week To Enter February's FREE Drawing
7) Rabid Hardware
8) Update About Suradon Janno
9) They Loaded The Code
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights
Free! AntiVirus Tools
Free! Comprehensive Process-Sniffing
Free! Toolbox For Tweakers
2002-02-21
1) Feedback On Cheap ($77!) PCs
2) More Broadband Shenanigans
3) Floppy Drives In The Dishwasher
4) Command Line & Batch Options In XP
5) MSN Messenger Worm
6) PR Budget = $0.00
7) More Downloadable Microsoft Updates
8) They Just Keep Coming And Coming and Coming...
9) "Is [X] Safe To Delete?"
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights:
It Was Inevitable--- WPA Now Fully Cracked
SMNP XP/2K Security Patch Released
Reader Declares War on Startup and Background Processes
(Free Tools!)
2002-02-18
1) The $77 PC
2) Comcast Snoops, Repents
3) Startup Screen Mods for Win98 + XP
4) Bumper Crop Of Scumware
5) More Password Revealers/Retreivers
6) Is This Information Useful?
7) Identifying Mysterious "Services"
8) More Reader Sites!
9) Windows Update Woes
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights
Plus! Edition DataBase Update
Free: Create, Edit And Securely Transmit PDF Files
Non-Microsoft Source For Windows Updates
2002-02-11
1) Last Words On WPA
2) Hard Problems With Floppy Drives
3) "Outpost" Firewall Nears Completion
4) Speaking Of ZoneAlarm...
5) Hot-Hot-HotSpots
6) Recommend It!
7) "Digital Democracy"
8) They Loaded The Code
9) An XP/Win2K Bug, And Solution
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights:
A "Thank You" Letter From Pape Tanor
Free Tool To Extend MSN Messenger
Free "Simple Administration Utility" For NT
2002-02-07
1) More: On WPA Lockout Workarounds
2) Steve Gibson's Free "Wizmo"
3) Boneheaded Blockers, Redux
4) Dead Floppy?
5) Roll Your Own Help Files, For Free
6) Want $10,000?
7) Free Photo/Image Editor
8) They Loaded The Code
9) More Password-Recovery Tools
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights:
Powerful, Personal SMTP (Email) Server
Free ICQ Security Software
Manage Your Favorites... Visually
2002-02-04
1) WPA Lockout Workarounds
2) Semi-Spyware
3) Recovering Forgotten Passwords
4) Making "Smart Tags" Stupid
5) Free "Encrypted File Transfer Protocol"
6) They Just Keep Coming And Coming and Coming...
7) Almost 500 Free Downloads From Microsoft
8) New Month, New Chances...
9) Boneheaded Blockers
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights:
"GoogleWhacking"
More Hardware Snooping--- Without Opening Your PC's Case
Free VBS Defrag Helper
2002-01-31
1) More Tools For Managing IE Favorites
2) VX2 Crawls Under Its Rock
3) Alas, "Smart Tags" Alive And Well
4) Free Filtered Searching Of Vendor Sites
5) Last Day To Enter January's FREE Drawing
6) LavaSoft Resurfaces... Again
7) Netscape Security Flaw
8) They Loaded The Code
9) "Legal Defence Fund <LDF> Ware"
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights
Free Tool Finds Spyware Others Miss
Tools Specifically To Remove VX2-Type ScumWare
Identify Mystery Hardware Without Opening Your PC
2002-01-28
1) Auto-Validate Your IE Favorites List
2) "Spyware At Its Worst"
3) Even More "ScumWare" To Watch Out For
4) Access Your DBX files--- Without Outlook Express!
5) Another Free Win2K Defrag Tool
6) Last Week To Enter January's FREE Drawing
7) IBM Deskstar 75GXP Class-Action Lawsuit
8) More Reader Sites!
9) Quiet Down Your PC's Fan(s) For Free
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Special Focus: Free Search Tools:
New, Powerful Search Toolbar
Intellisearch
Extension For Patrick Deal's Search Bar
2002-01-24
1) Readers React: "Your PC As PaperWeight"
2) Reader Defrag Tips, Info, Feedback
3) Reader Defrag Tips And Info: Win2K
4) A Better Monitor Testing Tool?
5) XXCopy Fan Replies
6) Eighteen Months And Counting
7) Turn A PlayStation2 Into A Linux PC?
8) They Just Keep Coming And Coming and Coming...
9) Free "Anti-Parasite" Browser Check
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights
Symbols, Explained and Identified
Free Registry Cleaner (And More) For All Versions Of Windows
More On Getting your Own Domain
2002-01-21
1) January's XP Surprise: Your PC As A Paperweight
2) Super-Simple Defrag Automation
3) Security problem In Windows Media Player
4) LurkHere
5) A Monitor Testing Tool; A Free Cooling Fix
6) Is This Information Useful?
7) What's Churning Your Hard Drive?
8) They Loaded The Code
9) Ultimate Boot Disk?
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights
Free, Easy Cleanups In Win2K/XP98
Nice Security Collection
More On Viewers, Editors, Tag Line Generators...
2002-01-17
1) Microsoft "Obsolete" KB items and files FOUND!
2) Free Benchmark/Diagnosis Tools
3) New, Free Chat Client
4) More On Voiding Warranties
5) Preserve Your Warranty; Preserve Your Factory Setup
6) $10,000 For Your Trouble?
7) Thumbs-Up For "Spam Weasel"
8) More Reader Sites!
9) The LAST Item On Backups (for a while <g>)
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights
Surprising Alternative To Preserve Factory Setup
Random E-mail Signature Tagline Generator
Deep-Geek Tip: Modify Any Program's Behavior
2002-01-14
1) Nifty, Free "Replicator"
2) "PC Tutorials Everyone Can Understand"
3) Mea Culpa: A "Plan B" Omission
4) New Version of Cacheman
5) Need A "Spam Weasel?"
6) Don't Make Me Beg! 8-)
7) Does Partition Magic Void Warranties?
8) They Just Keep Coming And Coming and Coming...
9) Make Win98 Look Like XP
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights
Free Personal SMTP (Email) Server
What "Network Connection Icon?" (Win9x/2K/XP)
Often-Overlooked Hardware Speedup
2002-01-10
1) "Scrap Windows?" (Plus: Security Patch Info)
2) Q&A With Founder Of "Lindows"
3) Return Of The S u l f n b k Hoax
4) For Experts: Free Do-It-Yourself NTFS Drive Imaging
5) Tons Of Freeware & Shareware
6) PR Budget = $0.00
7) Free Email Previewer/Screener For Outlook
8) More Reader Sites!
9) Tools That Migrate/Morph In XP
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights
Free and Easy Ways To Monitor Active Ports
Free "NoHTML" Converter For Outlook
Easy Fix For Slow-Launching XP/Win2K Apps
2002-01-07
1) 10 Resolutions For Better Computing In 2002
2) New Ways To Access "Backups" Article
3) But EXACTLY What Needs To Be Backed Up?
4) Backups Via The Web?
5) LavaSoft's Disappearing Act
6) Start The Year Richer!
7) Free! "Empty Temp Folders"
8) They Loaded The Code
9) Free and Easy Browser SpeedUp
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights:
Freeware To Edit Auto-Saved URLs
Screening Out Dangerous Files From Email
Bad XP Advice Making The Rounds
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