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Langa 1) Four---Count 'Em---Four Batch FilesYou now have a choice of four free batch files, any one of which can scrub your hard drive clean of many junk files, freeing up (typically) anywhere from tens to thousands of megabytes of otherwise-wasted disk space. You can pick any one or all of the files (they're all free); they're listed below in roughly-increasing order of "cleaning power." If you're new to the LangaList--- and many readers are (loads of new readers have been signing up lately!)--- you should know that these free files are part of a series of articles on system maintenance running on the WinMag.Com site. Those articles and the LangaList itself provide full documentation for the batch files, so you can us them safely and effectively. In fact, each batch file has its own info, as you'll see on the separate links below: Be sure to read all the info provided! The four Free cleanup files are: 1) Cleanup.Bat For
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Several readers have written to tell
me about Proxomitron ( http://proxomitron.tripod.com
), a "universal web filter." "A. Pappajohn" was the
first to write in, and here's what he said: [It's] software that acts
as a proxy server between your connection and your browser, and filters pages
and messages for code you want to remove or replace. I use it to create blocking
filters for banner ads, and fix pages I frequent that don't display to my
liking. Thanks, Pappajohn! Proxomitron seems to work, but I
have to sound a note of caution: The Proxomitron home web page loads with an
error (at least on my system), and to me it's always a little alarming when a
software company can't get their own home page right. Plus, I'm not sure exactly what kind
of a company this is: The software is free, but you're "encouraged to
register it" by buying a CD or tape of the vendor's favorite band and
sending a picture of yourself holding the tape or cd! It's just weird enough to make me
want to stay away, but you may feel differently, and so--- now you have the
link! Click to
email this item to a friend We've covered several DLL viewers in
recent issues--- utilities that let you see which DLLs go with what
applications. This can be a big help in figuring out what's safe to delete, and
"what goes with what." Reader Peter Byer has another
suggestion: A slightly more complex,
but good tech tool for viewing dll's and their connections is PRCView from http://www.softseek.com/Programming/Process_Viewers/Review_20337_index.html
.It displays all running processes (great if you suspect a trojan or virus -
nothing can hide from it). By clicking on the 'modules' icon, then highlighting
a module (a dll, for example) a second window changes to display the
applications which share the module.dll or have loaded it. Any view can be
printed to text file, and there's an option to kill a process, or debug it. And it's freeware! Thanks, Peter! Click to
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Today--- the 14th--- is the day
Windows Millennium Edition will become available at retail--- and as I've said
in past issues, I think it's wrong for most users due to its many built-in
limitations. One of the most significant
limitations is that Microsoft has made it difficult to get at pure, vanilla DOS.
It's not that WinME doesn't use DOS--- it does, just as every other member of
the Win9x family does. Indeed, WinME is just a minor update
of Win98SE that's friendlier for newbies because it's harder to get at the
"guts" of the system, where newbies can get themselves into trouble. But even though WinME is just
arriving at retail now, many copies already have been shipped on new PCs--- and
the hackers have been poking at it for some time. For example, the link at http://www.geocities.com/mfd4life_2000/
will show you how you can restore access to real-mode DOS in WinME by patching
some low-levels files in the OS. Many, many LangaList readers sent me that link
(thanks!), and many sites are featuring it. But few point out the downside of
the patch: If you hack the OS at a low level, you'll make yourself ineligible
for tech support for the OS itself--- and probably for any software, as well.
All the support tech has to ask is "did you apply a real mode patch"
and if you did, he or she can probably legitimately deny you any tech support
you'd otherwise be eligible for because the OS itself has been modified. So, patch away if you want to--- but
be aware of the possible consequences. Click to
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email this item to a friend We've discussed many browser
alternatives (alternatives to the Big Two--- IE and Netscape--- that is) many
times in the past, but here's a browser that slipped beneath my radar: This is in regards to
small fast browsers: There is a new browser, k-meleon, available from http://www.kmeleon.org
. It is still in beta but is available for download. The download is only
2.85MB. The browser looks a lot like IE and even imports your IE bookmarks but
it is extremely fast. At the present time it does not support Java and you may
have to copy and paste your plug-ins DLL to get them to work but for anyone
looking for a small fast browser I would certainly recommend it.---Charles
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Reader John Collins writes: On one of my many travels
as a webmaster code-hunter, I stumbled upon this fantastically scary site: It is the home of Georgi
Guninski, a Bulgarian computer consultant, JavaScripter, and program-bug-hunter.
I just thought that with so many of these exploits so widely available to
webmasters and the public, it may be a good idea for some the readers to take a
look at what can be against them, and take some of Georgi's advice to protect
themselves. Keep up the good work! Thanks, John. Georgi was first to
spot many holes in various browsers, and he's good about it, reporting them to
the browser makers rather than trying to use the holes for nefarious purposes:
Microsoft has explicitly thanked Georgi for helping to identify various security
holes. But as you can see from his site,
holes do remain. And if new ones crop up, odds are good you'll see some of them
first on the above link! Click to
email this item to a friend As a writer, I'm all too aware of
how easy it is for errors to creep into text; and how sentences that seem to
make perfect sense may actually be utter *non*sense. But that's not enough for me to stop
taking perverse pleasure in these really, really bad headlines sent in by reader
Howard H. Hasting, Jr.: March Planned For Next
August Blind Bishop Appointed To
See Lingerie Shipment
Hijacked--Thief Gives Police The Slip L.A. Voters Approve Urban
Renewal By Landslide Patient At Death's
Door--Doctors Pull Him Through Latin Course To Be
Canceled--No Interest Among Students, Et Al. Diaper Market Bottoms Out Croupiers On
Strike--Management "No Big Deal" Stadium Air Conditioning
Fails--Fans Protest Queen Mary Having Bottom
Scraped Henshaw Offers Rare
Opportunity to Goose Hunters Women's Movement Called
More Broad-Based Antique Stripper to Display
Wares at Store Prostitutes Appeal to Pope Teacher Strikes Idle Kids Lawyers Give Poor Free
Legal Advice Juvenile Court to Try
Shooting Defendant Fund Set Up for Beating
Victim's Kin Killer Sentenced to Die for
Second Time in 10 Years Cancer Society Honors
Marlboro Man Nicaragua Sets Goal to Wipe
Out Literacy Autos Killing 110 a
Day--Let's Resolve to Do Better 20-Year Friendship Ends at
Altar War Dims Hope For Peace If Strike Isn't Settled
Quickly, It May Last A While Cold Wave Linked to
Temperatures Half of U.S. High Schools
Require Some Study for Graduation Blind Woman Gets New Kidney
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