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This comes courtesy of the TechRepublic Windows XP Tips newsletter: If the vast amount of available space on your hard disk is dwindling, you’re probably wondering where all that space has gone. To figure that out, you may open Windows Explorer and look for the folder or folders that are using up all the hard …
Co-worker and subscriber Pat Clary sent us this. From Small Business Pipeline: Every day in your workplace, the curses get louder. Unwanted pop-up ads, slow computers, PCs that crash all the time. Despite the network firewall and the anti-virus software installed on the server and every computer, your office is infested with spyware. You’ve read …
This is another good one courtesy of Ed Bott. If you don’t subscribe to his blog, then get to it! Visit Doug Knox’s site and pick one of these handy-dandy downloadable Windows XP File Assocation Fixes. He’s got 24 in all, from Batch Files to Zip Folders.
From the Ed Bott – Ed Bott – Windows (and Office) Expertise: Security alert for Windows XP blog: Here’s a disturbing report of a Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability in Internet Explorer, from Secunia. Note that installing SP2 alone will not protect you from this problem, although it does offer a useful tool to fix it temporarily. …
I found this link on the Google Blogoscoped blog: There are a lot of great freeware programs out there. Many are as good or even better than their commercial alternatives. This is my personal selection of the best of the best. I’ve used every single product in this list and find each to be a …
From the Rays of Light blog: Last year long about November, Microsoft purchased a small Hong Kong-based software firm named Creature House. One of their principal products was a vector graphics editing program called Expressions 3. Primarily a Mac product, they also had a Windows version; both versions received very positive reviews. Microsoft’s disposition of …
Subscriber and co-worker Pat Clary sent me along a link to this Small Business Pipeline story: Microsoft Office is both popular and widely distributed, which means that there are a lot of resources available for Office users. This week, instead of focusing on one feature, I’m going to point you toward a few small but …
Michael Davis emailed me recently that The Naked PC newsletter had done a review of Junk-Out. I’ve heard of this software before. There was a Microsot MVP (I can’t remember who it was) who recommended it. Yet another product we may review at some point.
From an email from Sunbelt Software: People are talking about CounterSpy Spyware Destroyer. “I ran the latest Adaware, Spybot Search and Destroy, NAV 2005, deleted all cookies, temp files and temp Internet files BEFORE I installed CounterSpy. So how in the heck did CounterSpy find 19 pieces of Spyware, 113 bad cookies and 120 infected …
I have never tried any of these, but CrystalGraphics has a number of what they call PowerPlugs. These are plug-ins to various Office products. There are PowerPlugs for PowerPoint, FrontPage, Outlook, and Excel. The PowerPlugs can either be purchased as a suite, or individually. I’ll probably ask to review the PowerPlugs for Outlook at some …