Geek.com: "If you have ever found yourself needing to extend your desktop to a second monitor but don't have a dual-head or additional graphics card, MaxiVista from Bartels Media may be the tool for you. It allows a second PC or laptop, connected via a LAN, to be used as a secondary monitor for your primary PC. "

Langa Letter: Cool and Quiet -- Part III

A step-by-step exploration of the causes--and cures--of noisy PCs.

RADIFIED: Hard Drive Partitioning Strategies: "This guide shares insights on the subject of hard drive partitioning. Here you will find strategies for the best way to partition your hard drive."

brswebweaver.com: "BRS WebWeaver is a free personal web server that run on the Windows platform. Even with it's small size ( ~375 KB ) and low memory requirements ( ~4 MB ) it provides lots of functionality at speeds that will impress you. Easy setup. BRS WebWeaver is simple to get up and running. Once you download the install program, it only takes 5 mouse clicks to be up and running. Want to add support for PHP, no problem just a few clicks. Want to turn on support for SSI, no problem, just a few clicks. No configuration files to edit (although you can)."

KillerInfo - Meta Search with Clustering: "A BETTER SEARCH EXPERIENCE

Traditional search engines only use a single data source, then force you to pore through page after page of search results to find what you want. KillerInfo has a Results Guide and 'Quick Peek' Feature to make searching Fast, Easy and Relevant !"

buttuglysoftware.com CleanCache 2.0 is a free (for 1 - 2 systems), very powerful Internet Explorer 6.0 and Windows XP cleaner. CleanCache 2.0 will delete the following items: Temporary Internet Files and index.dat, Internet Explorer History and index.dat, Internet Explorer Cookies (with selective save) and index.dat, Typed URLs (with selective save), Internet Explorer Form AutoComplete (using either CleanCache 2.0 built in AutoComplete deletion or by using IE's built in function), Recent Documents, Start Run History, Search History, Windows Temporary Directory, Registry MRUs, Recycle Bins, and you can create additions to delete user specified files/directories and registry entries.....[donateware].

How to capture streaming video and audio (streaming media)

Quantum Whale: "Outlook Express Tweaker is a freeware utility program helping fine-tune your Outlook Express with hidden undocumented options. This handy utility for fine tuning Outlook Express is simple to install, easy to use and absolutely free."

e-sushi

deepclean 1.0 - Easy system cleaning with one mouseclick download
vacubot 3.0 - A set and forget tool that offers user-defined system cleaning download"

Using ToolbarCop to remove the unwanted Toolband, Toolbar Icons and BHO

Windows-Help.NET -- This site offers an excellent collection of Windows XP tips including answers to some of the most common only encountered problems.

and.doxdesk.com: parasite -- a quick check whether your browser is scumware infested. The test doesn't check for all the nasties currently circulating but finds many of the common ones.

sciencedaily.com: "Researchers in North Carolina State University's Department of Computer Science have developed a new data transfer protocol for the Internet that makes today's high-speed Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) connections seem lethargic. Dr. Injong Rhee, associate professor of computer science, said BIC can achieve speeds roughly 6,000 times that of DSL and 150,000 times that of current modems. While this might translate into music downloads in the blink of an eye, the true value of such a super-powered protocol is a real eye-opener."

BBC NEWS | Health | Lifting the lid on computer filth: "Office workers are exposed to more germs from their phones and keyboards than toilet seats, scientists reveal. "

GUIdebook: Graphical User Interface gallery: "Welcome to guidebook, a website dedicated to preserving and showcasing as many Graphical User Interfaces as possible. "

Desktop Engineers Junk Drawer - Handy Odds N Ends for Windows 98, NT & 2000: "Process Explorer is SysInternals free replacement for task manager. Very full featured with items such as per-process performance information, object locks on a per-process basis, process tree (showing which processes created others), Commenting (persistent) and much more! [download from sysinternals.com]"

noao.edu: "Fred Langa's newsletter suggests using these pictures to test your printer. A high resolution version of the spectrum of our Sun, this image was created from a digital atlas observed with the Fourier Transform Spectrometer at the McMath-Pierce Solar Facility at Kitt Peak National Observatory, near Tucson, Arizona "

gadgets.pdablast.com: "The Virtual Laser Keyboard leverages the power of laser and infrared technology and projects a full-size keyboard onto any flat surface. Compatible with Palm handhelds, Pocket PCs and Laptop PCs. As you type on the laser projection; it analyzes what you're typing by the coordinates of that location.
Unlike many small snap-on keyboards for PDAs, the Virtual Laser Keyboard provides a full-size QWERTY keyboard. It is also smaller and more convenient to use than the folding-type keyboards made by some manufacturers and similar to them in functionality. "

Q. How can I stop the My eBooks, My Videos, and My Music subfolders from appearing in the My Documents folder in Windows XP and later?

A. Each new version of Windows seems to add a new set of subfolders to the My Documents folder. If you delete these subfolders, Windows will automatically recreate them the next time you log on. To stop Windows from creating these subfolders every time, perform the following steps:

1. From the Start menu, select Run, enter the command

regsvr32 /u mydocs.dll

to unregister the .dll file, then click OK.

2. Navigate to My Documents, then delete the automatically created folders that you no longer want to appear.

The steps above disable the My Documents functions, so if your system is missing some functionality, you'll need to reregister mydocs.dll. If you want to reregister the .dll file, perform the above steps again but use the command

regsvr32 mydocs.dll