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2006 Archives, Jul-Dec


2006 July-December
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2006-11-09
1) A Very Happy Anniversary
2) Does Your Page/Swap File Deserve Its Own Drive?
3) Did You *Really* Send An Infected E-Mail?
4) Getting "Snippy" With Web Pages
5) Don't Forget Firefox's "Mozilla Archive Format"
6) Powerful (But A Little Geeky) Bulk Renames
7) Outlook Won't Lose Weight After "AutoArchive" Diet
8) They Loaded The Code
9) Choosy Spammers Choose GIF
10) XXCopy Clone Now Supports Windows XP
11) DVD Disk-Spanning Backup Software
12) More On "Waaaaay Too Much Background Activity"
13) Temporary Internet Files Not Temporary Enough
14) Just For Grins

2006-11-02
1) Heads Up! Mailing Test Coming!
2) How to Keep Your Paging File Defragmented
3) Cutting 2 GB .PST, .OST Files Down To Size
4) Message Says, "You've Sent Infected E-Mail"
5) Backups Won't Span Multiple DVDs?
6) Opera "Speaks" MHT, Too
7) Good Cookies, Bad Cookies
8) They Loaded The Code
9) Outlook Express "Retrieval Tool" Is Really Search
10) Where's Today's "QuickFile"?
11) Cloned Drive Not Full Clone
12) Another Idea For Screen Protection
13) Adobe Reader Alternative Is Fast
14) Just For Grins

2006-10-30
1) GREAT NEWS!
The LangaList is Merging with Windows Secrets!
2) How To Stop Photo Thieves
3) VMware? SATA? Can't We All Just Get Along?
4) Playing (Safely) In I.E.'s Sandbox
5) Building Boot Disks From CAB Files
6) Eudora Down... But Not Out
7) How To Save Web Pages
8) They Just Keep Coming And Coming...
9) Still Waiting For Microsoft's Mail...
10) How To Dump Dumprep.exe
11) Is Perfect Disk Closer To Perfection?
12) Protecting "My Documents"
13) More On X1
14) Just For Grins

2006-10-23
1) Waaaaay Too Much Background Activity
2) Bring Order To Start Menu Mayhem
3) Links That Launch Both Site And Browser
4) Great Backup Scheme, With One Catch
5) How To Get Langa Blog Via E-Mail
6) Recommend This Newsletter And Win!
7) Another Great Fax Alternative
8) Still Another Code-Load Success
9) Software Reads EULAs (So You Don't Have To)
10) Google's Free Office Apps
11) The "Poor Man's Spectrum Analyzer"
12) Problems Averted With Partitioning
13) Media Player Feature Not Too Bright
14) Optional Links
15) Just For Grins

2006-10-19
1) When Good Teens Browse Bad Content
2) New Web Pages "Wipe Out" Old Ones
3) Virtual PC 2007 Virtually Shipping
4) Annual Report 2006: Yasmin Idania
5) How To Strip Away Web Page Bloat
6) Script Errors Block Web Sites
7) Is This Newsletter Useful?
8) How To Move Outlook Express
9) Code Load Success Story
10) Files Multiply Like Tribbles
11) Free Defrag Bests Windows' Utility
12) I'd Like To Take My Apps--- To Go
13) To AutoPatch Or Not To AutoPatch
14) What's That Garbage In Recycle Bin?
15) Optional Links
16) Just For Grins

2006-10-16
1) XP, NTFS, FAT, Drive Letter Juggling, And More!
2) How Do You Restore A Restore Point?
3) X1 Search Utility Phones Home
4) Another Great Search Utility Found
5) Just the Fax, Ma'am
6) PR Budget = $0.00
7) SpamCop's Auto-Complaint Feature
8) Code Load Success Story
9) Flog the Blog!
10) Patching Up Windows After Patch Breaks It
11) Do I REALLY Need Bart?
12) Making Room For MFT
13) The Drive To Improve Storage
14) Toolbar Add-On Adds *Delay*
15) Optional Links
16) Just For Grins

2006-10-09
1) Still *More* Extra Content!
2) Mo' Betta Linuxes
3) Free Process Explorer Improved!
4) MFT Needs Its Space
5) More Re: Virtually Running Vista
6) Covering Your LCD Assets
7) Still Not Getting The Messages
8) Is This Newsletter Interesting? Useful?
9) Well Documented Document Error
10) They Loaded The Code
11) A Wi-Fi/Cordless Phone Disconnect
12) Media Direct Disaster
13) Sharing a Connection Without Router
14) Friendly Ghost Indeed
15) How To Get A Detailed View
16) Optional Links
17) Just For Grins

2006-10-05
1) Still MORE Extra Content!
2) System Restore and
Microsoft's Confusing Naming Practices
3) Setting Up An Online Store, Pt 1
4) Setting Up An Online Store, Pt 2
5) Virtual PC Virtually Doesn't Work With Vista
6) Two Ways To Put Windows On A Diet
7) Can't Find Perfect Search Utility
8) VPN Not The Only Way To Connect
9) Recommend This Newsletter And Win!
10) Super Advice On Those "Super Hidden" Folders
11) And *Another* Code Load Success Story
12) Getting The Big Picture -- Instantly
13 How To Exorcise Reboot Demons
14) Does My Registry Look Fat In This?
15) Can't Kill New Malware
16) Optional Links
17) Just For Grins

2006-09-28
1) Another "Expanded" Issue!
2) Ewido Update
3) Ubuntu
4) Inside Svchost.exe
5) How To Shrink Sound Files
6) OEM Drive Has Better Warranty Than Retail
7) Windows File Protection Gets In The Way
8) Recommend This Newsletter And Win!
9) IncrediMail Upgrade Tactics Incredibly Bad
10) Another Code Load Success Story
11) Hot Chip... Or Not So Hot?
12) Watch Out For Sneaky Trojan
13) Data Recovery Experts Worth It?
14) Utility Makes Bootable CDs/DVDs
15) CleanMyPC Or RegistryBooster?
16) Four Ways To Repair Windows XP
17) Optional Links
18) Just For Grins

2006-09-25
ANOTHER EXPANDED ISSUE!
1) More Cool Free Tools
2) Got Your Vista RC1 Yet?
3) "Super-Hidden" Folders Are Super Annoying
4) Making the Remote Desktop Connection
5) Comodo Firewall: Friend or Foe?
6) Even *More* Ghostbusting
7) Recommend This Newsletter And Win!
8) Netmeeting As Remote Control Software
9) Code-Load Success Story
10) Web Sites Lacking In Password Quality
11) Forum Lurking Reveals Product Pitfalls
12) The Key(board) to Faster Startup
13) When Plug & Play Plugs but Doesn't Play
14) Cheap and Easy Backup?
15) Software Makes Backup Bootable
16) Optional Links
17) Just For Grins

2006-09-21
EXPANDED ISSUE!
1) Hosing Down the Dust; and This "Expanded" Issue
2) Some Very Nice Free Software
3) Can Swap Files Cause Blue Screens Of Death?
4) Update on Jakison, A LangaList-Sponsored Kid
5) In Search Of 'Mystery' Devices
6) Of Blogs and Feeds
7) Free Up Megabytes of Disk Space
8) Is This Information Useful?
9) Transform Your Desktop With Toolbars
10) Code Load Success Story
11) Cams As Testing Tools
12) Doing Something About Spam
13) Good News On Virtual PC
14) Batch-Convert Sound Files
15) PowerPoint Without PowerPoint
16) Find Yourself With a Mystery Utility?
17) Optional Links
18) Just For Grins

2006-09-18
1) We're Ba-a-a-a-a-ack...
2) How Secure Is Windows Encryption?
3) Installing Old Windows Over New
4) Adware Away--- A Good Start
5) "ShellconHiddenWindow" Unmasked
6) Three More Winners!
7) A Better Recycle Bin
8) They're Still Coming And Coming....
9) More Malicious Malware
10) Outlook Sends Mixed Messages
11) Recovering Deleted Photos
12) Solving Sloppy Startup Syndrome
13) More RAID Caveats
14) Plus! Edition Only: An 'Ultimate' Coincidence
15) Just For Grins

(There were no issues in July and August
due to a move of Fred's home and office.)


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