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2006-06-22
SPECIAL ISSUE!
1) Summer Hiatus
2) Reinstall XP Without Losing Any Software Or Settings
3) How To Improve On the 'Ultimate'
4) Dude, Where's 'My Documents'?
5) Two Mice Installed At Once
6) Recommend This Newsletter And Win!
7) More On: Show All Start Menu Items Without Scrolling
8) Automating Disk Maintenance--- Without Risk
9) Software For Shaky Hands
10) Upgrading From Bootleg Software
11) Those Weird Confirmation Numbers...
12) They Just Keep Coming And Coming...
13) "Trusted Site" Annoyance
14) Sloooow XP Shutdown
15) Choosing An MP3 Bitrate
16) "Windows Genuine Advantage" Is Spyware?
17) ZoneAlarm Frustrations
18) Free *Slim* PDF Reader
19) Optional Links
20) Just For Grins
2006-06-19
1) XP's No-Reformat, Nondestructive Total-Rebuild Option
2) Annual Update on Macy-Jean
3) Windows Vista Preflight Checks
4) Another Concern Re: Win98
5) More Dividing, More Conquering
6) Recommend This Newsletter And Win!
7) "May Your Life Be Filled With Lawyers..."
8) They Just Keep Coming And Coming...
9) Comodo
10) Password Issues
11) More Fixes For Hard Drive "Inconsistencies"
12) RAID Ate His Data
13) Bogus Tip Making The Rounds
14) Optional Links
15) Just For Grins
2006-06-15
1) As Win98 (Finally) Fades Into The Sunset...
2) Free Windows Vista Beta Now Available
3) OS Plays Hide-And-Seek
4) Networking XP With Older Windows
5) Divide And Conquer
6) Is This Newsletter Interesting? Useful?
7) Google Earth, Without the Huge Download
8) Still *Another* Code Load Success Story
9) 8-bit Colors In A 32-Bit World
10) Easily Control IE Font Sizes
11) New, Free Firewall Contender
12) Hard Drive "Inconsistencies"
13) Slick Tech Tip
14) Optional Links
15) Just For Grins
2006-06-08
1) Server vs PC Software
2) Free Emergency Recovery Utility
3) Are Admin Shares Dangerous?
4) Network Kills Audio?
5) Free/Very Low Cost Defraggers
6) Recommend This Newsletter And Win!
7) Free Firewalls
8) They Just Keep Coming And Coming ...
9) Free (Non-Macromedia) Flash Player
10) Security Suites vs Standalone Software
11) Reader Rave Re: RSS Readers
12) Bad MS Works Upgrade?
13) "Windows Genuine Advantage" Glitch Confirmed
14) Optional Links
15) Just For Grins
2006-06-05
1) "NTLDR is missing"
2) Defrag Just Won't Finish
3) Drowning In Dead Drivers
4) More Mothballs
5) Firewall Incorrectly Blocks Local Traffic
6) Three More Winners!
7) Too Many "KB" Files Cluttering Disk
8) Yet *Another* Code Load Success Story
9) Hoist By Their Own Petard
10) "Windows Genuine Advantage" Glitch
11) Stubborn Partition Won't Be Deleted
12) Printer Control Tool
13) Cleanup Wizard Refuses To Clean
14) Optional Links
15) Just For Grins
2006-06-01
1) A Burning Question
2) Peter Norton re: "Webaroo"
3) Mothballing A PC
4) Reader-Experience With A Recommended Tool
5) When Following The Instructions Leads You Astray...
6) PR Budget = $0.00
7) Does That Movie Seem Slightly Slo-Mo to You?
8) They Just Keep Coming And Coming...
9) Air, Oil, Water...
10) Free Microsoft Synch Tool
11) "Awesome New VPN"
12) Resurrecting A Dead Master Boot Record
13) Usenet/Newsgroup Readers
14) Optional Links
15) Just For Grins
2006-05-29
1) Asking For Trouble
2) Penny-Wise...?
3) AV Tools Block Good Software
4) Lightning Veteran Speaks
5) USB Chicken/Egg Solution
6) Last Days To "Recommend And Win"
7) Help System Needs Help
8) And *Another* Code Load Success Story
9) Music File Sizes
10) Update on 'Buying A New PC'
11) Runaway Print Jobs
12) Covering Tracks
13) XP IRQ Tweak = More Speed?
14) Optional Links
15) Just For Grins
2006-05-18
1) Your Opinions Wanted
2) A Year's Worth Of Updates on Reyna
3) Update Takes Over
4) Chicken/Egg USB Issue
5) When Is A Script Error Not A Script Error?
6) Recommend This Newsletter And Win!
7) Servers" Not Just For Large Installations
8) Still Another Code-Load Success
9) More Reader Suggestions Re: Launchers & Toolbars
10) 64-Bit Dissention
11) Synchronizing Desktop and Laptop
12) Internet Explorer Just Won't Open
13) Trouble Automating Defrag
14) Optional Links
15) Just For Grins
2006-05-15
1) Adjusting The Boot Menu Delay
2) Excellent Flash-Drive Software
3) Web Site "Script Errors"
4) Stymied In Making A Boot CD
5) Faster Downloads Via "RWIN" Tweak
6) Three More Winners!
7) A Recommended Program Launcher
8) Code Load Success Story
9) Reinstall Win98 W/O Reformat
10) One-Click Recovery Console, And More
11) How To ID Backup CD/DVDs
12) Finally, Network Will
13) Running Windows Apps On Linux
14) Optional Links
15) Just For Grins
2006-05-11
1) WiFi Security Question
2) $999 Virtual Server Product Now Free!
3) For Non-Nudist Laptop Users <g>
4) Powerful, Free Tool
5) Optimizing DSL/Cable Connections
6) Don't Make Me Beg! :-)
7) Drive Upgrade Follow-On Question
8) More Reader Sites!
9) RAR vs ZIP
10) Confused About CPU Choices
11) CDs Guaranteed For 100+ Years!
12) Printer Sharing Problem
13) Where's The Bottleneck?
14) Optional Links
15) Just For Grins
2006-05-04
1) Incredibly Useful Tweak
2) Ready For A New Beta? (IE7)
3) Feverish Laptop
4) "Network Neutrality"
5) Upgrade Vs Replace?
6) PR Budget Still $0.00 <g>
7) Zip Central, 7-Zip
8) They Just Keep Coming And Coming...
9) Connection-Sharing Question
10) LangaList Complete Archives Updated!
11) How To Update Your Current Copy Of The Archives...
12) Or Get A Full, Fresh Copy Of The Archives...
13) Alternate Way To Get A Full Copy Of The Archives
14) Optional Links (Plus! subscribers only)
15) Just For Grins
2006-05-01
1) Very Cool Tweak: The OS Hidden Inside The OS
2) Fred's Deep Blush (Deleting TMP Files) Pt1
3) Fred's Deep Blush (Deleting TMP Files) Pt2
4) Fred's Deep Blush (Deleting TMP Files) Pt3
5) Bogus "No Floppy" Error
6) Recommend This Newsletter And Win!
7) Defender Glitch Fixed (?)
8) And *Another* Code Load Success Story
9) Still *More* Ghostbusting
10) New, Java-Based Free Office Suite
11) Free Personal Web Sites From Microsoft
12) Drive + Safe Deposit Box?
13) Running Out Of USB Drive Letters
14) Optional Links
15) Just For Grins
2006-04-20
1) Rebuild XP With A Click!
2) Getting Win98 "Up-to-snuff"
3) More Ghostbusting
4) Defender Glitches?
5) NOD32, and More
6) Is This Information Useful?
7) Full Circle On Huge-Storage PCs & Servers
8) Code Load Success Story
9) Anonym.Os
10) New Version Of Archives En Route
11) Free Picture Resizers
12) Free "Writer's Cursor"
13) Another Fix For Failed Uninstalls
14) Optional Links
15) Just For Grins
2006-04-17
1) XP's Little-known "Rebuild" Command
2) Free SiteAdvisor
3) Annual Report: Faisal Eko Budiayanto
4) Windows On New Or "Alien" Hardware
5) Undetectable Hardware-Based Malware?
6) PR Budget = $0.00
7) Reader-Recommended Disk Cataloger
8) Code Load Success Story
9) Workaround For Public PC Worries
10) Update's "Black Box" Operations
11) Worried About Backup Snooping
12) More on Sneaking EXE's Past Mail Blocks
13) Stymied By DVD "Region" Blocking
14) Optional Links
15) Just For Grins
2006-04-13
1) Free Tool & Demo From Fred
2) Other Deletion Tools
3) Who You Gonna Call?
4) Gone Like A Flash (Drive)
5) ID That USB
6) Is This Information Useful?
7) Free .PST Backup Tool
8) More Reader Sites!
9) Lost Digital Pix: Found!
10) Uncensored Searches
11) Create Panoramic Photos, Free
12) SATA, PATA, IDE...
13) Sneaking EXE's Past Mail Blocks
14) Optional Links
15) Just For Grins
2006-04-10
1) Bad Advice From Reputable Source?
2) New, Free, Graphical Partitioning Tool
3) What's On Those Old CDs?
4) Drive Size Limits
5) Excellent, Free Add-Ins
6) Is This Newsletter Interesting? Useful?
7) Temperature Tools For Dell and Other Notebooks
8) They Loaded The Code
9) "Index" = "Oink?"
10) Google Security Warning
11) Drastic Measures Needed?
12) DIY Recovery CD When None Is Available
13) More on PST Files
14) Fred Treads Lightly
15) Just For Grins
2006-04-06
1) Blocking "Trackers"
2) "Why Short Passwords Are A Bad Idea"
3) How Best To Partition/Use New Drive?
4) CD/DVD Quit Working
5) Curse Of The Recovery CDs
6) It's A New Month...
7) Drive Cable Problems
8) Yet *Another* Code Load Success Story
9) Pesty PST Files
10) Monitor Adjustments
11) An Entire Library Of Free Tools!
12) More On Solving Wireless Woes
13) Two Drives, Two OSes?
14) Private Plus! Offer
15) Just For Grins
2006-04-03
1) Free NAS Software
2) Hard Drive Installation Question
3) "Turbulence In The Ether"
4) Testing RAM
5) Doing The Defrag Shuffle
6) Three More Winners!
7) Saving Win98 (or Other) Updates
8) They Loaded The Code
9) His Floppy Flopped
10) Emails With Random Verbiage?
11) City Slick
12) User Feedback: jv16 PowerTools
13) Change All Windows At Once
14) Just For Grins
2006-03-30
1) More On That $500 PC with 1,000 GB Of Storage
2) Free Temperature Tools
3) Problems With Floppy Copy
4) Public PC Worries
5) Change Menu Formats At Will
6) Recommend This Newsletter And Win!
7) StopBadWare
8) Another Code Load Success Story
9) Feed Me! Feed Me Now!
10) Task Manager Disabled?
11) RAID Problem
12) OS Transfer Question
13) More on Circumventing Censorship
14) Just For Grins
2006-03-27
1) A Complete Terabyte System For $500
2) Drive-Moving Question
3) "98SE2ME"
4) XP Home to Pro?
5) New, Highly-Automated Slipstreamer
6) Last Days To Enter March's FREE Drawing
7) Misc: Free Windows Stuff, Vista Delay...
8) Another Code Load Success Story
9) DVD Life?
10) How To Tell USB 1 from 2
11) "Restrictions In Effect ..."
12) FAST = USMT
13) Failed Uninstall; Now What?
14) Private Offer
15) Just For Grins
2006-03-16
1) No-Reformat Way To Add Or Replace A Hard Drive
2) Aussie Oddity
3) "Google Is Not Your Friend"
4) Husband's/Wife's PCs Don't Communicate
5) Password Frustration
6) Is This Information Useful?
7) Disk Management In Win2K
8) More Reader Sites!
9) Another Clueless Salesperson?
10) *Tons* Of High-Quality FreeWare
11) "Delayed Write Fail"
12) Memory Problems Corrupt Backups
13) Nasty Hardware Problem
14) Just For Grins
2006-03-13
1) Safely Adding Or Replacing A Hard Drive
2) RAM Drive Question
3) "Buffer Zone"
4) Update On Eder
5) "LDM Is Not Registered"
6) Don't Make Me Beg! :-)
7) New Partitions On A Fully-Allocated Drive
8) More Reader Sites!
9) Resource Leaks, Redux
10) More Great, Free Sniffers
11) Compressed Files
12) Free Font Editor!
13) Gmail's Long Tail
14) Just For Grins
2006-03-06
1) Digging In To Disk Management
2) Disk Tools In Conflict?
3) ISO Issues
4) More Print Queue Tricks
5) Winfixer's Ba-a-a-a-a-a-a-ck
6) New Month, New Chances
7) S.M.A.R.T, Backup Verification, And More
8) More Reader Sites!
9) Google Earthbound
10) Free USB Drive! Really!
11) Reader's Password Gripes
12) ISP Spam Filters That Work?
13) Getting Email Off Gmail
14) Private Plus!-Only $$ Offer
15) Just For Grins
2006-03-02
1) Windows' Free Disk Management Tool
2) Dominoes Still Falling
3) Mirror, Mirror On The Drive...
4) Gmail As An Antispam Tool
5) Lower-Cost Motherboard Repair Options
6) Three More Winners!
7) Ghost Busted
8) Still *Another* Code Load Success Story
9) Spin, Spin, Spin...
10) Lean, Clean Networking Restart
11) Time Running Out For Win98
12) "Make Your Own" Anything!
13) Missing "View" Tab in Folder Options
14) Just For Grins
2006-02-27
1) Hidden Gem: Windows' Disk Management Tool
2) RATs In Her PC
3) Battery Care And Feeding
4) "File Not Suitable?"
5) High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection
6) Is This Information Useful?
7) Handy Wattage Estimator
8) More Reader Sites!
9) Perfect AntiSpam Storm
10) A Hex On Fred
11) More Hexes On Fred
12) Installer Errors--- And Repairs!
13) An Overzealous Spring Cleaning
14) Just For Grins
2006-02-23
1) New To "Always-On" Connection
2) Free "Windows Defender"
3) IE7 Beta Report (And An XP Tip)
4) UPS Power Consumption
5) What Kind Of Video Card?
6) Is This Information Useful?
7) "Locking" A Drive?
8) More Reader Sites!
9) New Motherboard Needed?
10) External Drive Checklist
11) More On OEM/Retail Software Pricing
12) Questions re "Net Detective" and Archives
13) Free Cleaner
14) Just For Grins
2006-02-16
1) Deep-Geek Tools For Even Non-Geeks
2) Tragic Consequence
3) How Long Should An OS Install Last?
4) Tax Software Security
5) IE Tab Add-On For Firefox
6) Recommend This Newsletter And Win!
7) Confused Salesperson
8) Code-Load Success Story
9) "Tarpitting"
10) The End Of "EndItAll?"
11) Solvent Question Answered
12) Last Word (?) On De-Cluttering Context Menus
13) Open Office Help Needed
14) Just For Grins
2006-02-13
1) Fred's Major Brain-Fade
2) Bad Recommendations?
3) "Atwpk2t" Trouble
4) AOL/Yahoo Will Charge For Email
5) Print Queue Won't Quit
6) Recommend This Newsletter And Win!
7) PC Switch, Connectors Broken
8) Code-Load Success Story
9) OpenOffice Speedup
10) OEM vs Retail: Grey Market Software
11) OEM vs Retail: OEM Bundles
12) OEM vs Retail: Full Retail
13) OEM vs Retail: Real World Conclusions
14) Just For Grins
2006-02-09
1) Firewall News
2) Free File Unlocker
3) More OS-On-A-Stick Options
4) Russinovich On Rootkits
5) A "Serious Speed Up"
6) Three More Winners!
7) Free Icon Tweaker
8) They Loaded The Code
9) Quicktime Sans iTunes
10) Selectively Kill "Flash"
11) FolderShare Evolves More
12) Drive "Caddy" Warning
13) More on OEM vs Retail Windows
14) Just For Grins
2006-02-06
1) FireFox Issues
2) Maxthon Browser
3) EM? Hmmmmm.
4) Firewall Testing Site
5) "Rebuttal"
6) New Month, New Chances
7) Question re: CDRW
8) They Loaded The Code
9) "Missing DLL"
10) Hard Drive *Physical* Security
11) "Burn On" CD Labels OK?
12) Deep Scan Crashes PC
13) How Wikipedia Works...
14) Private Plus!-Only $$ Offer
15) Just For Grins
2006-01-26
1) XP In Your Pocket
2) Reader Tip On Easier Interface
3) Update On Suradon
4) Wants "System Restore" Off Some Drives
5) "Personal Servers"
6) Recommend This Newsletter And Win!
7) CD Markers Worth It?
8) Another Code-Load Success Story
9) Obscure e-Shorthand
10) HTML Validation Services
11) Network Won't
12) A Mountain Of CDs?
13) Tape/CD Life Tips
14) Just For Grins
2006-01-23
1) XP On Your USB Thumb Drive
2) The Empire Strikes Back
3) 100 Downloads
4) R.I.P., Sygate Personal Firewall
5) Simple Trick, Redux
6) Last Week To "Recommend And Win"
7) Custom, Focused Hard Drive Searching
8) More Reader Sites!
9) Speed Up Via Hibernation
10) Free Open Source XP Workalike OS
11) Wikipedia's Error Rate
12) Alternate Way to Pull the Plug
13) MultiBoot With Multiple Disks
14) Just For Grins
2006-01-19
1) "Pretexting," "Pharming" And Other Dangers
2) Drive Errors (Fred's Take)
3) Drive Errors (Steve Gibson's Take)
4) The WMF Security Flap
5) Simple Trick
6) Recommend This Newsletter And Win!
7) More On Storage Media Life
8) Code-Load Success Story
9) That *Other* Startup Logo Screen
10) Psst! Don't Tell!
11) Free VPN Alternative
12) Linux--- Are 400 Distributions Enough?
13) Wikipedia Woes
14) Just For Grins
2006-01-16
1) Five Essential Steps To PC Security
2) Symantec "Rootkit"
3) Microsoft Completes XP "Lifecycle" Update
4) That Pesky Vendor StartUp Logo
5) "Mystery Program from MS"
6) Is This Newsletter Interesting? Useful?
7) More CPU-Hungry Software
8) They Loaded The Code
9) CD/DVD/Flash Shelf Life?
10) Unfamiliar "File Blocked" Action
11) Microsoft Monthly Updates On CD, Free
12) Reader Feedback On "Microsoft OneCare"
13) Free VPN Software!
14) Just For Grins
2006-01-12
1) 10 Critical Factors When Buying A New PC
2) Feedback On Vista & XP's Lifecycle
3) What's Eating His CPU Cycles?
4) Too Telegraphic An Answer?
5) "Graphics Debris"
6) Is This Newsletter Interesting? Useful?
7) Upgrade Or Fresh Install?
8) Code Load Success Story
9) (K)ubunto/u
10) LangaList Complete Archives Updated!
11) Update Your Current Copy Of The Archives...
12) Or Get A Full, Fresh Copy Of The Archives...
13) Alternate Way To Get A Full Copy Of The Archives
14) Just For Grins
2006-01-09
1) New Year, New PC?
2) Real World Vs Tech Ideals
3) Outstanding Free Tool
4) "Services.Msc" Tip
5) Where the Heck Is It Stored?
6) New Year, New Month, New Chances
7) Free Guide For Older Apps In Newer OSes
8) More Reader Sites!
9) Digging Out The Last Vestiges...
10) "Hidden" File Problems
11) First-Hand Experience In Avoiding Censors
12) OEM Vs Retail Windows
13) New Laptop Screen Looks Awful
14) Just For Grins
2006-01-05
0) Happy New Year!
1) Free "FireTune"
2) Reminder For Users Of XP Home Edition Or Win98
3) Telegraphic Questions Re: Partitions
4) Lock Down A PC, Free!
5) Ancient Software On A New OS
6) Always Room for One More!
7) Hello Summer, or Winter
8) They Loaded The Code
9) Boot Drive Is F:, Not C:
10) Heads Up--- New Version Of Archives En Route
11) A Dozen+ New, Free Tools And Services From MS
12) Free, Powerful Sound Recorder/Editor
13) AntiVirus Causes Partitioning Problems
14) Just For Grins
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