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Print Folder Directories February 2001 Check Your E-Mail on Anybody's Computer February 2001 One file type, two associations February 2001 Protect Your Privacy with Folder Guard January 2001 Quicker Printing From Your Portable Computer January 2001 Put the Desktop on Your Taskbar January 2001 When Modems and Voice Mail Don't Mix January 2001 Clean the Right-Click Menu January 2001 Convert Mac and Unix Text Files January 2001 One file type, two associations January 2001 Check Your E-Mail on Anybody's Computer January 2001 Get More From Your Taskbar Clock With TClockEx Customizations December 2000 Put Favorite Files on a Menu December 2000 Snapping Desktop Icons December 2000 Share an Outlook Calendar December 2000 Customize the Open Dialog place bar in office 2000 December 2000 Identify Mystery Apps Running in the Shadows December 2000 Make Your Backups Painless and Brainless November 2000 Take Charge of PC Operations with Process Control 2 November 2000 Password-Protect Folders November 2000 Keeping Operations Legal November 2000 Restoring Deleted Files November 2000 Delete Files Safely, Recover Files Easily November 2000 Change more than the splash screen October 2000 Put Windows to Sleep Fast October 2000 A Better Way to Empty WindowsÆ Temp Folder October 2000 Windows Updates October 2000 Cut "Shortcut toà" October 2000 One Outlook 2000, with In-Boxes for two October 2000 Boot-Up Error Messages October 2000 More Oomph for Your Properties Sheet September 2000 Better Automatic System Backups September 2000 Still Another InfoTip Tip September 2000 Quick, Convenient Defrags September 2000 Searching in Archives September 2000 Protect File Associations September 2000 Keep Your CD-ROM Drive in One Place September 2000 Emptying Temporary Internet Files for Real September 2000 Get Your PC to Boot Up Faster September 2000 Pop Up 'My Computer' August 2000 Make the Modem Shut Up (or Speak Up) August 2000 Stop or Change the Splash Screen August 2000 Load Any Program to the System Tray August 2000 Put Away the Windows CD-ROM for Good August 2000 Stop Windows From Accessing the Floppy Drive August 2000 Save Your Screen and Blow Your Mind July 2000 Quick E-Mail July 2000 The Best File System July 2000 Power Up Your Double-Click Tricks July 2000 Scrolling, Scrolling, Scrolling on the Menu July 2000 Those Old-Fashioned Menus July 2000 Windows Toolbox June 2000 Overcome halted defrags, part II June 2000 Securely delete sensitive files June 2000 Run programs at shutdown June 2000 Protect against catastrophic installs June 2000 Eliminate duplicate graphics May 2000 The clean and efficient desktop May 2000 Instant folder trees May 2000 Restore Outlook Express choice April 2000 Two programs, one icon April 2000 Find those Outlook files April 2000 Reset an internal modem April 2000 No more freezes at boot-up April 2000 Share your computer, but keep it private April 2000 Toolbar Hide And Seek March 2000 Unique folder icons March 2000 Make quick and easy keyboard shortcuts March 2000 A Free Fix for Notepad February 2000 Overcome Halted Defrags February 2000 Save Paper When Printing From IE5 February 2000 Preview Multimedia Files February 2000 WallMaster Pro: All Pictures Great and Small January 2000 CLOSE MULTIPLE PROGRAMS SIMULTANEOUSLY January 2000 Where's My Active Desktop? January 2000 Put 'My Documents' In Its Place January 2000 You don't need no stinking passwords January 2000 Do you have the time? December 1999 Let the music play with CD Valet December 1999 CDDB players can name that tune December 1999 Get more zoom for your buck December 1999 Deactivate upstart start-up apps December 1999 Rewriting history November 1999 Manage your fonts November 1999 The worm that turned November 1999 Shut down Windows the way you start it November 1999 Save disk space on dual-boot systems November 1999 "Alarming" batch files November 1999 Secrets of the Explorer Address bar revealed November 1999 Check Win 98's File Checker October 1999 Cut down on clicks October 1999 Find fast answers October 1999 VB runtime files October 1999 Random theme changing October 1999 Cut down on clicks October 1999 The cost of looking good October 1999 There goes the Neighborhood October 1999 Icon changing made easy October 1999 Tell me what icon do October 1999 Shifty business October 1999 Themes on demand October 1999 Customize folders to find them fast October 1999 Reinstall Windows without reformatting October 1999 More files to purge September 1999 Stop annoying scans September 1999 Make the most of Windows' system resources September 1999 With TitleTime, less is more September 1999 Minimise all but one September 1999 Make desktop clutter disappear instantly September 1999 I don't want my documents in My Documents September 1999 Magic management of multiple windows September 1999 Add Windows 98 to your NT system August 1999 Restoring from an old DOS backup August 1999 Clean out the debris left by deleted apps August 1999 Trouncing the tyranny of tiny text August 1999 Shortcut to quitting Windows July 1999 Troubleshoot and repair your registry July 1999 Why can't I explore from the Start button? July 1999 Sharing apps on one PC July 1999 Windows 98 update: once is never enough June 1999 See files in the Windows folder June 1999 What's with the multiple font files? June 1999 Password-protect folders June 1999 Create an emergency "super" disk May 1999 More RAM for your dos apps May 1999 Purge unneeded files from Windows May 1999 Shortcut this May 1999 Make folder icons more distinctive with 3DFolders May 1999 Keyboard longcuts: the next best thing May 1999 Divide and conquer your Favorites menu May 1999 Keep your monitor awake May 1999 Utilities to help you manage NT and 98 May 1999 Why are my filenames truncated? April 1999 Bring alphabetical order to Windows 98 April 1999 A stimulant for your CD-ROM April 1999 Back up your crucial Windows files April 1999 Bring back my Recycle Bin April 1999 Starting DOS games April 1999 Protect your Active Desktop April 1999 The seven-megabyte solution April 1999 Skip the diskette boot check March 1999 Good things in a small package March 1999 Lost in disk space March 1999 Format diskettes on the fly March 1999 Hidden treasures March 1999 Relocate wallpaper files March 1999 Better living through a healthy Registry February 1999 Seize control of Windows' secret launchpad February 1999 Merge multiple partitions painlessly February 1999 Backup and version control in one February 1999 When System Agent loses its mind February 1999 Cleared for installation January 1999 New formats in the New menu January 1999 A Notepad replacement you already have January 1999 Truly erasing files January 1999 Are your Shortcuts out of sorts? January 1999 Clean up context menus January 1999 Repair Windows Update January 1999 The real Windows 98 Service Pack December 1998 Easy driver updates December 1998 Winformation at your fingertips December 1998 Ease PC maintenance with new Win 98 tools December 1998 Open menus faster in Windows 98 December 1998 Optimise your screen for presentations December 1998 <Caps Lock> talks back December 1998 Automate Dial-Up connections December 1998 The limitations of Sound Recorder December 1998 Why use FAT32? December 1998 See all the details December 1998 Moving files and programs from one PC to another December 1998 A portable Outlook November 1998 Backing up addresses November 1998 Find folders fast with DirNow November 1998 Change your Find November 1998 Now you know who's on Windows November 1998 Catch a teenage chess fiend - Red-handed November 1998 Get organised with Windows 98 toolbars November 1998 Laptops not ready for Windows 98 October 1998 DUN with password hassles? October 1998 Keep an eye on important files October 1998 Win 98: upgrade options October 1998 Stringing music together October 1998 Increase your keyboard power October 1998 Guilty by association? October 1998 Fix Year 2000 bugs in File Manager and DOS October 1998 Clean up after Windows litterbugs October 1998 Copy files to a printer in Win95/NT October 1998 Come back Scandisk! October 1998 Who's on Windows? September 1998 The second coming of Cardfile September 1998 Keep one program on top September 1998 Move programs without reinstalling them September 1998 Put your programs on another drive September 1998 Manage files on the fly September 1998 Clear 'recently used' file lists September 1998 Automate screen resolution changes September 1998 Fix intolerable problems by reformatting your drive August 1998 Stopping CD-ROM entry August 1998 Call the tune in multimedia player August 1998 Start multiple apps at once August 1998 Track down bloated folders August 1998 One-click exits August 1998 Configure multiple DUN connections August 1998 Endless defragmenting August 1998 If you can't delete, ask the developer August 1998 VFAT errors August 1998 How do you boot from your emergency disk? July 1998 Don't get me started! July 1998 Recover deleted files July 1998 Give your active desktop a more active role July 1998 Recording .wav files July 1998 Dual booting Win 95 and NT July 1998 Share a Win 95 printer July 1998 Easy file access with Explorer command-line switches July 1998 Making .wavs June 1998 Seize control of hidden launches with StartUp Manager June 1998 Make DOS windows do your bidding June 1998 Get the file details you want - no more, no less June 1998 Put TrueType in its place June 1998 Empty your trash anywhere June 1998 Keep your system running like new June 1998 Troubleshooting MS-DOS compatibility mode June 1998 Extend the Documents menu June 1998 If you canÆt delete, cheat June 1998 One SCSI card or two? June 1998 Take full control of the Windows 95 Control Panel May 1998 Protect limited resources May 1998 Automate Win 95 with old-fashioned batch files May 1998 Installing a speaker driver May 1998 Folders at your fingertips May 1998 Restore volume control May 1998 All you need to know about files and folders May 1998 The key to keyboard Shortcuts Apr 1998 Cybermedia's Oil Change vs IE 4 Apr 1998 Let Notepad take the wrap Apr 1998 Add Control Panel to your Start menu Apr 1998 Run batch files on shutdown Apr 1998 Thumbnail views Apr 1998 Removing troublesome programs Apr 1998 Looking for orphaned .DLLs Apr 1998 Get DOS or Win 95 prompt each time your PC starts Apr 1998 Add special effects to .wav files Apr 1998 Change filenames en masse Apr 1998 Simplify disk maintenance Apr 1998 Doing dial-up? Let FreeDum ring Apr 1998 Keep current files handy Apr 1998 Find fast or find slow? Mar 1998 Half-empty disks that tell you they're full Mar 1998 More memory for Word Mar 1998 Compressing diskettes Mar 1998 Calm your hyperactive A-drive Mar 1998 Simplify Explorer's windows Mar 1998 Radioactive time Feb 1998 More on repairing the registry Feb 1998 Deleting temporary files automatically Feb 1998 Determining folder sizes Feb 1998 Unwanted startups Feb 1998 Top 10 tips for mouse and keyboard Feb 1998 Tell Setup where to go Feb 1998 How fast is my modem, really? Feb 1998 First Aid in the Office Jan 1998 The sound of silence Jan 1998 Is there light after Dark? Jan 1998 First Aid in the Office Jan 1998 Another look at Windows 95 security Jan 1998 The sound of silence Jan 1998 Banish start-up driver error Jan 1998 Six tips for working efficiently with WinZip Jan 1998 A few of our favourite books Jan 1998 Turn off Scandisk Jan 1998 Servicing Windows 95 and NT Jan 1998 Back on the right path Nov 1997 Windows passwords revisited Nov 1997 Troubleshooting graphics cards Nov 1997 When Windows gets your name wrong Nov 1997 Repairing the registry Nov 1997 Big files and little disks Oct 1997 Schedule+ lives on Oct 1997 Viewing bitmaps as thumbnails Oct 1997 Phantom drives Oct 1997 More on printing directory lists Oct 1997 How do I reinstall Windows 95? Oct 1997 Jump-start Windows 95 Oct 1997 Quick tips for fast file access Oct 1997 Chatting in the office Sep 1997 Errors running Scandisk Sep 1997 Plus! pack woes Sep 1997 Exploring different views Sep 1997 Finding the right path Sep 1997 When CHK files proliferate Sep 1997 Reclaiming conventional memory Sep 1997 Troubleshoot Windows Fatal Exception errors Sep 1997 Let your swap file roam Sep 1997 New and undocumented tips Sep 1997 New hard disks and DriveSpace Aug 1997 Modem drivers Aug 1997 Maintaining the perfect desktop Aug 1997 More on concatenating text files Aug 1997 Why won't Win95 run on my computer? Aug 1997 Modem performance monitoring Aug 1997 What's in a Winsock? Aug 1997 Dual-booting OS/2 and Windows Aug 1997 The mystery file Aug 1997 Hardware problems that break Windows Aug 1997 Print directory lists Aug 1997 Going back to your roots Aug 1997 Recovering lost data from a hard disk Aug 1997 Icons that won't go quietly Jul 1997 International fax codes Jul 1997 Screen savers disrupt file transfers Jul 1997 Windows 95 (in)security Jul 1997 Windows networking: putting it all together Jun 1997 Dual-booting with Windows 95 OEM Release 2 Jun 1997 The Win95 Temp folder explained Jun 1997 Dress up your DOS prompt Jun 1997 Unmasking orphaned system files Jun 1997 Tap Win95's diagnostics Jun 1997 Mi modem es tu modem Jun 1997 Speed up your CD-ROMs Jun 1997 Replacing corrupted files May 1997 Password amnesia May 1997 Changing file associations May 1997 Dial and error May 1997 File transfers without parallel May 1997 Training Windows 95 to hang up properly May 1997 Track system performance with System Monitor May 1997 CD audio into .WAV file May 1997 Speeding up your system May 1997 Discovering your EXE files May 1997 Spell-check trickery May 1997 Kill your animations May 1997 Shortcuts to DOS apps May 1997 When old apps refuse to die Apr 1997 Fat stats Apr 1997 Performance improvements that don't improve performance Apr 1997 Moving apps and data between drives Apr 1997 Changing your default Web browser Apr 1997 Printing to the bitter end Apr 1997 Sharing com ports Apr 1997 Manic compression Apr 1997 Dump unneeded luggage Apr 1997 Stopping the startup stuff Apr 1997 Close a hidden program Apr 1997 Find the missing buttons in Norton Navigator Apr 1997 Keyboard shortcuts Apr 1997 Automating Windows 95 log ons Mar 1997 Tracking down DriveSpace 3 Mar 1997 Integrating Windows for Workgroups and Windows 95 Mar 1997 Plugging memory leaks Mar 1997 Minimise open windows with a single keystroke Mar 1997 Hide that old logo Mar 1997 Tile application windows Mar 1997 File for another extension Mar 1997 Change help screen font Mar 1997 Jump-start enhanced CDs Mar 1997 Setting up a dial-up network Feb 1997 Boot to Win 3.1 or 95 Feb 1997 Backup conflicts with fax Feb 1997 Make your own themes Feb 1997 Save disk space with smaller wallpaper Feb 1997 Stop Windows 95's hard disk aerobics Feb 1997 Create custom file lists Feb 1997 New folders made simple Feb 1997 Control Panel at your fingertips Feb 1997 Reassembling folders in the bin Feb 1997 Run Win95 on a new drive Feb 1997 Can you use old files on Win95? Dec 1996 Can you use 16-bit apps under Win95? Dec 1996 Renaming the hard drive in Win95 Dec 1996 Multiple ISPs for Internet Explorer Dec 1996 The case of the unsolicited Notepad Dec 1996 How to delete a password in Win95 Dec 1996 Clean up Windows, open multiple files Dec 1996 Open multiple files quickly Dec 1996 MS Office shortcut bar Dec 1996 A bigger bin for easy trash collection Dec 1996 Quick fixes for QuickTime Dec 1996 Hello NT, bye-bye 95 Dec 1996 Enjoy the silent screen saver Dec 1996 Put FAT drives on a diet, optimise CD-R backups Dec 1996 'Where's that DLL?' revisited -- find it with Link Check Dec 1996 Using ftp.exe in Windows 95 Dec 1996 Plus! Pack a plus? Nov 1996 Compress that drive with DriveSpace 3 Nov 1996 Changing your identity in Windows 95 Nov 1996 Should I dump Disk Manager? Nov 1996 Skip Schedule plus log-on Nov 1996 A more exact extract Nov 1996 The root of the problem in Calculator Nov 1996 Divide your desktop in Win95 Nov 1996 Custom start-ups in Win95 Nov 1996 More conventional wisdom Nov 1996 Wiser still Nov 1996 Launch CD-ROMs quickly, swap your soundtracks Nov 1996 Swap sounds in .AVI files Nov 1996 Where's that DLL? Oct 1996 Conventional wisdom Oct 1996 Changing Windows 95 icons Oct 1996 Can you run DOS without Win95? Oct 1996 Multiple Internet service providers with Win95 Oct 1996 Large hard disk drives differ under DOS and Win95 Oct 1996 Dual boot Win95 and DOS with OS2 boot manager Oct 1996 Deleting duplicate files in Win95 Oct 1996 Avoiding data corruption due to Windows 95 bug Oct 1996 Is Win95 using 32-bit access? Sep 1996 Slow return from DOS Mode Sep 1996 What's with MS Create DIR Sep 1996 Bringing back the password prompt Sep 1996