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2004-12-23
1) More Year-End PC Tweaks
2) More Reader RAM Questions: #1
3) More Reader RAM Questions: #2
4) Capturing DOS Screens In XP
5) Want To Save Some Money?
6) A Boot.Ini Editing Shortcut
7) More Re: Remote-Control Open/Close CD Trays
8) Last Chance To "Recommend And Win" This Year!
9) Optimal Drive Partitioning
10) They Loaded The Code
11) Holiday Publishing Schedule
12) Just For Grins
13) Plus! Edition Highlights:
Last Word On NetStat
PhotoShop Messes Up Thumbnail Views
Freeware/Shareware Database Tool
2004-12-20
1) Year-End PC Tasks
2) CD/DVD Printers OK?
3) Holiday Card From Ranganath
4) Five New Security Patches
5) Is This Newsletter Interesting? Useful?
6) Sharing Folders
7) Automatic Cleanups Of Multiple Accounts
8) More Reader Sites!
9) Change Default Browser
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights:
NetStat Version Weirdness
Customize Your Windows "Places" (Free!)
Free Tool To Email Huge Files
2004-12-16
1) Moving Windows; And A Dual-Boot Problem
2) "Memory Optimizer" Confusion
3) Add More RAM?
4) "Shared" System Memory
5) Reader Says: "Huh?"
6) Recommend This Newsletter And Win!
7) Synchronizing Folders
8) More Reader Sites!
9) Shrunken Screens On Laptop
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights:
Huge Freeware Resource
Free "NetStat"
Three Informative Reader-Written Articles
2004-12-09
1) Real-Life Multi-Layer Defense Example
2) Deeper Yet: Add/Remove Weirdness
3) Intelligent File Comparisons
4) StartUp Control (Win98/ME/2K/XP)
5) Handy Tip For Holiday Trips (Or Anytime!)
6) Always Room for One More!
7) "Media Access Control" Spoofing
8) They Just Keep Coming And Coming...
9) Mysterious Recycle Bin Activity
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights:
New Local Search Tool From Google
Updates Via Dialup = Frustration
Tips From A Touch Screen Repair Pro
2004-12-06
1) Norton AntiVirus Scripting Vulnerability
2) How Private Is Email?
3) Old DOS Tools OK In XP?
4) More on Add/Remove Menu Fixes
5) Free Tools Assist In Add/Remove Cleanup
6) Three Winners!
7) Remote-Control Open/Close CD Trays?
8) They Loaded The Code
9) A Favorite Tool Of Fred's Gets Updated
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights:
Flash + Smoke = Dead PC
Huge, Free "Secret Toolkit" For W98 Users
Drive Letters First In Drop-Down Menus
2004-12-02
1) Older System Hardware Woes
2) Missing "Add/Remove" Menu Items
3) Picking An OS
4) The VM Way To A Pre-Installed OS
5) Testing PC Memory
6) Is This Newsletter Interesting? Useful?
7) Malware Info Site
8) They Just Keep Coming And Coming...
9) More On Recovering/Bypassing Admin Passwords
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights:
Problems With 8.3 Filename Support
Automatic One-Step Installation-Shrinker
Free Tool Solves Audio/Video Problems
2004-11-29
1) Freeware's Plusses--- and Minuses!
2) Spyware Checkers And False Positives?
3) Software Extravaganza (Mostly FREE!): Pt 1
4) Software Extravaganza (Mostly FREE!): Pt 2
5) Software Extravaganza (Mostly FREE!): Pt 3
6) Last Day To "Recommend And Win"
7) Easy Piracy Checker
8) More Reader Sites!
9) "Memory Optimizers" Redux
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights:
Readers Test-Drive Ghost 9
Slow Down That CD!
Is Registry Compacting Worthwhile?
2004-11-22
1) Freeware, Licensing, and Legality
2) Your PC's "Media Access Control" Address
3) Meet Idania, Newest Member Of The LangaList Family
4) Slipstream + Shrink In One Step?
5) Another Way To Automate Setups
6) Last Week To "Recommend And Win"
7) Extracting Icons From DLLs
8) Another Code Load Success Story
9) Scandisk No Longer Corrects Errors?
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights:
New Malware Messes Quick launch, Logons
Move Huge Numbers Of Files, Fast
Seek and Speak
2004-11-18
1) EverNote
2) Last Suggestion Re: "Magic Fix"
3) SP1 Needed Before SP2?
4) Missed It By Just Hours
5) Safer Surfing
6) Recommend This Newsletter And Win!
7) External Drive Disappears
8) More Reader Sites!
9) "Registry Access Denied"
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights:
Huge Anti-Malware Resource--- Free!
Free High-Quality Digital Photo Tool
Defeat Wireless LAN Snoops
2004-11-15
1) Windows In 1/10th The Space
2) Farewell, Free AVG?
3) The Danger Of "Scraps"
4) Bulk Rename: Two Very Easy Ways
5) Bulk Rename: A Deep-Geek, But Flexible, Way
6) Is This Newsletter Interesting? Useful?
7) Linux Security Problem
8) Code-Load Success Story
9) What About "Quarantined" Files?
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights:
Should You Disable the "Scripting Host?"
Win98 Dies When Moving Many Files
Build Your Own Help Files... On Any Topic!
2004-11-08
1) A New Way To Slim Down Windows
2) Recovery Console Won't Install After SP2
3) Burning Files To CD In One Step
4) Unattended Scheduled Tasks
5) Another Favorite File Splitter
6) Three More Winners!
7) Bulk Rename / CD File Security
8) They Just Keep Coming And Coming...
9) More On Dealing With Old Quicktimes
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights:
Real-Time Anti-Spyware Tools
More On Reducing Interference
Free "Stinger" AV Tool
2004-11-04
1) Some Magic, After All (Part 1)
2) Some MORE Magic, After All (Part 2)
3) Two From Down Unda
4) Free File Splitter
5) When To Do Routine Maintenance?
6) New Month, New Chances
7) Can't Get To Windows "Update Catalog?"
8) Code Load Success Story
9) Can't View Quicktime
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights:
Power/File Info
Free OCR Software
PC Messes Up TV
2004-11-01
1) Backups Via USB Cable
2) Unattended Windows Setup
3) Two Free Reader-Recommended Search Tools
4) Free Disk Cleanup Utility
5) Making Room For Updates
6) Is This Newsletter Interesting? Useful?
7) BEEP BEEP
8) They Loaded The Code
9) SpazBox
10) A Political Aside
11) Just For Grins
12) Plus! Edition Highlights:
Capture Streaming Video/Audio (Free!)
Free Experimental Tools From MS
Reader-Written MP3 Freeware
2004-10-28
1) "SlipStreaming" MS Office, And More
2) Comprehensive Guide To Saving Your Data
3) Is Patch Order Important?
4) BEEP
5) Spyware Countermeasures
6) Last Days To "Recommend And Win"
7) FavIcon Buglet WorkAround
8) More Reader Sites!
9) Magic Fix Sought
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights:
Drivers and Refresh Rates In Linux
Hard Or Soft Restart Best?
Super-Fast Outlook Searches (Free!)
2004-10-21
1) Readers Post Their Favorite Tools
2) Love to BASK?
3) Ranganath Makes It To Third Grade
4) Nice Guide For "Non-Admin" Accts
5) Wants To Avoid Reinstalling All Apps
6) Last Full Week To "Recommend And Win"
7) SWF?
8) Code Load Success Story
9) Outlook Express/IE Text Size
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights:
Don't Use HostCentric Web Hosting
"Recovery Console" Trouble
Norton Fights With Chkdsk?
Moving Free Space Between Partitions
2004-10-18
1) Favorite Tools, Utilities and Add-Ons
2) Meta URL Info Tool
3) Real-Time Backups
4) Rescuing Data From An Unbootable Laptop
5) Picasa
6) Don't Make Me Beg! :-)
7) Hand-Picked Software
8) They Just Keep Coming And Coming...
9) Webhelper4u
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights:
LangaList Complete Archives Updated!
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2004-10-14
1) Updated: Free Security Analyzer
2) How To Tell If Backups Are OK
3) Delete Leftover Update/Patch Files?
4) Open PC = Open Invitation?
5) Floppy-Based Software W/O Floppy?
6) Three Winners!
7) Myth Of The Crash-Proof OS
8) More Reader Sites!
9) Per-User Vs Admin Installs
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights:
Tracking A Stolen Laptop?
"UNOFFICIAL Win98 Service Pack?"
The NSA's Own PC Security Guides (Free!)
2004-10-07
1) GPS Article Causes Server Meltdown
2) Pre-Patched SP2 Setup Without CDs?
3) Pre-Patched SP2 Setup From "Recovery Tools"
4) GDI+ Security Flaw
5) Sharing Web Space
6) PR Budget = $0.00
7) Cell Phone Erases Pen Drives?
8) They Just Keep Coming And Coming...
9) Browser Alternative
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights:
New Version Of Archives En Route
Two "Views" On The Menu
Canon Printer Problems Solved
2004-10-04
1) Update: GPS
2) That Huge Hibersys File...
3) Custom XP Installer
4) Moving Disk Images From PC to PC
5) Setting Up A New PC
6) It's A New Month...
7) Scrambled Files With Card Readers?
8) More Reader Sites!
9) Reader's Real-Life Spyware Test
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights:
Excel Macro Misinformation from MS?
Fix A Wrong "Open With" Setting
Easy Fix For Scratched Screens
2004-09-30
1) Registry-Only Backups?
2) Paper or Plastic? (SP2 Upgrade)
3) Speaking of Updates...
4) Stubborn Script Error
5) Reader Saved By BootIt
6) Last Day To Enter September's FREE Drawing
7) Final (?) Words On Quiet Cooling
8) Code Load Success Story
9) Learn By Viewing Examples (Free)
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights:
A Little Extra Security (Free)
Scanned Images Are Wrong Size
Which Encryption Standard To Use?
2004-09-23
1) The Pleasure Of *Not* Having To Update
2) Ripoff Or Not?
3) More Printer Driver Bugs
4) Cookie Cleanup Issues
5) Single User / Multiple Accounts
6) Recommend This Newsletter And Win!
7) A Resurrected NetLaunch
8) They Loaded The Code
9) Do The "Security Tango"
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights:
System Sounds Quit?
One-Stop Free Information Resource
3D Interface
2004-09-20
1) Save an Hour (Or More) On XP Installs
2) RAID-Users Speak Up
3) Simple Organizational Tricks Save Time
4) NTFS Files Insecure?
5) Warning For Air Travelers With Pen Drives
6) Is This Information Useful?
7) ClipOmatic
8) They Loaded The Code
9) Update On An SP2 Problem
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights:
PC Info Site From The UK
Free Content Indexer For Your Desktop
Another Free Internet Telephony Option
2004-09-16
1) RAID Issues
2) Why I Don't Use RAID
3) Boot Failure From Power Supply Problem
4) Big Surprise In Defrag Log File
5) CD "-R" Versus "+R"
6) Recommend This Newsletter And Win!
7) "Spyware Stormer"
8) Code-Load Success Story!
9) Desktop Sidebar
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights:
Pen Drive Security
VPC Question
Free: 8x Drive Speedup!
2004-09-13
1) Save Yourself Some Grief!
2) Constant Drive Noise (Pt 1)
3) Constant Drive Noise (Pt 2)
4) Update From Ethiopia
5) A "Cool File Server Product"
6) Don't Make Me Beg! :-)
7) Free Mail Monitor
8) More Reader Sites!
9) Free and Easy System Tests
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights:
Nifty Tool Saves Ink In Epson Printers
More on "New RAM, New Troubles..."
Overeager AntiVirus?
2004-09-09
1) Your Fellow Readers' Real-Life SP2 Experiences
2) Free Software "Gold Mine"
3) Malware Gets Harder And Harder To Remove
4) False Positive: "DSO Exploit?"
5) Simple Trick Detects "Harvesters"
6) Three More Winners!
7) More Help For "Undeletable" Files
8) They Loaded The Code
9) An End-Run Around Noise Problems
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights:
CleanUp Questions
RoboCopy Made Incredibly Easy
Burn/Access CDs From DOS, Fast!
2004-09-02
1) Get SP2 On CD, For Free
2) TugZip (Free!)
3) Accidental Torture Tests Of Pen Drives
4) Free Tools Solve Access Problem
5) BootVis: Less Than It Seems
6) New Month, New Chances
7) USB/BIOS Tips
8) More Reader Sites!
9) Tons of Software
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights:
Same Specs, Different Results!
Missing "YGXA" And Other Odd Errors
Getting Up To Speed With Older Commands
2004-08-26
1) More On XP's SP2
2) Reader Suggestions: Grabbing Files From ISO
3) More Pen Drive Options
4) RoboCopy Backups (And Other Free Tools)
5) Outlook Express/HotMail and ZoneAlarm
6) Is This Information Useful?
7) NTFS Access From Win98
8) Another Code-Lode Success Story
9) Reader Re: AOL, and Irresponsible Tech
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights:
Legit Product-Activation Workaround
Another Way To Hide Your Email Address
Free Desktop Publishing/Design Software
2004-08-19
1) A Complete PC Toolbox In Your Pocket
2) Firefox Emulation
3) XP Version Confusion
4) PDF Form-Filler
5) Plucking Files From An ISO
6) Is This Information Useful?
7) De-Worming Your PC
8) More Reader Sites!
9) A Question That Never Goes Away...
10) Just For Grins
11) Schedule Adjustment
12) Plus! Edition Highlights:
Handy Folder-Relocation Tool
"Deep Freeze" Your Software
Readers Respond Re: Inexpensive Ink
2004-08-16
1) Go Slow With XP's SP2
2) Solving USB Boot Problems
3) "AUMagic?"
4) The Continuing Quest For Quiet
5) Free Clip Art and Templates
6) Three Winners!
7) Voice-Over-IP
8) They Just Keep Coming And Coming...
9) Put Date Next To Time
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights:
"Why Even Bother With NTFS?"
New RAM, New Troubles?
Which Printers Use Lower-Cost Inks?
2004-07-29
1) Malware Boot Camp For All
2) Laptop Dust, Redux
3) Saving Complete Web Pages
4) A "Hijack" That Really Isn't
5) Excellent Advice From A Reseller
6) Last Days To "Recommend And Win"
7) Another "Wrong Way LAN Default"
8) They Loaded The Code
9) "Great Freeware"
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights:
Treatment For Invisible IE Windows
More On Sound Emulation
"Remove Directory"
2004-07-22
1) Speed-Tweaking Tool For Notebooks
2) BIOS RipOff?
3) Office 2003 Glitch
4) When Is A Byte Not A Byte?
5) More On "About:Blank"
6) Recommend This Newsletter And Win!
7) FireFox Gripes
8) Code-Load Success Story
9) Chkdsk/ZoneAlarm Conflict Still Unresolved
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights:
Outstanding (And Free!) Swapfile Resource
Free DOS Helpfile
Free, Powerful GUI-Scripting Tool
2004-07-15
1) More On The New Windows Update
2) System Restore Failures (XP and WinME)
3) Watch Your "SpeedStep"
4) More: "Missing HAL"
5) The "Contig" Defrag Trick
6) Is This Newsletter Interesting? Useful?
7) Separate Emails On Multi-User Systems
8) They Just Keep Coming And Coming...
9) Free Telephony Via Skype
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights:
Compatibility Mode Lets Old Software Run
Free Tool Enables Compatibility Tab
Xandros Speaks!
2004-07-12
1) Promise And Problems: The New Windows Update
2) Readers Experiment With PC Noise Reduction
3) "Spoolsv" Eats 99% Of CPU Time
4) Make Icons Transparent
5) Huge USB Keychain Drive? (And An Audio Tip)
6) Recommend It!
7) WebStrider
8) More Reader Sites!
9) Win98's 2GB/4GB Limit
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights:
LangaList Complete Archives Updated!
How To Update Your Current Copy Of The Archives...
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2004-07-08
1) Accidental De-Tuning
2) Migration Hassles
3) ChkDsk Problem With No Cure (Yet)
4) The "About:Blank" Hijack
5) Another Free Exit-Windows Tweaker
6) Is This Newsletter Interesting? Useful?
7) YOU DON'T HAVE TO SHOUT! <g>
8) More Code-Loaders
9) Put Page/SwapFile On Separate Partition?
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights:
New Version Of Archives En Route
Reader-Recommended Deletion Tool
Replacement UPS Batteries--- Cheap!
2004-07-01
1) Right And Wrong Ways To De-Dust A PC
2) "Some Files Could Not Be Defragmented..."
3) Update Helper
4) Transfer Wizard Goes Missing
5) Invisible IE Windows
6) New Month, New Chances
7) Win Media Player Errors
8) More Reader Sites!
9) Rare Question
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights:
Who Hosts What?
Free GoBack Boot Record Removal Tool
Nonstandard Data Storage
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