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Advanced Windows Care Thoroughly examines your Windows system, accurately detects bottlenecks, and fixes them. Advanced 'WindowsCare' can automatically find the best settings to optimize Windows and dramatically boost your computer operation and ... Internet connection speed. If your computer is not suitable for the options you choose, just click "Restoration" and the changes you made will be reversed! http://www.iobit.com/WindowsCare.htm 4warding 4warding is an email service that offers email and web forwarding along with other enhanced features for free and without advertising. http://www. ... (view more)

Synopsis: What's the ultimate MS Windows Clipboard companion? Answer: ClipMate Clipboard Extender! If you do a lot of copying, cutting and pasting, editing, or anything that generally falls into the realm of 'desktop publishing' -- you *need* ... ClipMate Clipboard Extender! In development since 1991, ClipMate saves you oodles of time and makes you more productive by adding clipboard functions that the Windows clipboard leaves out (starting with the ability to hold thousands of 'clips', instead of just one!). ClipMate has functions to edit, re-format, and manage your clipboard data. It can also ... (view more)

Infopackets Reader Ryan L. writes: " Dear Dennis, How do I share the Outlook Express 6 message store over the network? If I load Outlook Express, then click Tools -> Options -> Maintenance -> Store Folder -> Browse -> [choose a ... network drive], Outlook Express simply *will not* let me choose the network drive I want. The "OK" button is grayed out. I've tried mapping a network drive [drive C on another computer made to operate as Drive Z on my computer], but that won't work, either. Any suggestions? " My response: I've tried doing the same thing in the past, ... (view more)

Windows Firewall Away If you like your firewall on only when you are away and want it off when you are on the keyboard, then this program does that. If your screensaver is on it will set your firewall on and if your screensaver is off it will set it ... off (under the Programs heading). http://nhgames.fre3.com/site/programs.htm Microsoft Acrylic Acrylic is the codename for an innovative illustration, painting and graphics tool that provides exciting creative capabilities for designers working in print, web, video, and interactive media (beta trial). http://www.microsoft.com/products/expression/ (view more)

Great news! After 1 year in the making (and many changes to our web site), I'm pleased to announce that the implementation of RSS is ... drum roll please ... finally online! If you've been reading our newsletter for some time, then I'm sure you're ... already aware that all the articles published through this web site have a similar "theme" -- namely: Microsoft Windows, computing, and the like. In terms of RSS [Rich Site Syndicate] technology, related articles are grouped together to form a "Channel". For example: The Software Spotlight Section, Bob's Freeware Picks (also ... (view more)

Windows System Optimizer Windows System Optimizer Free Edition is an easy tool to clean and optimize your Windows System. Windows System Optimizer is a fast, powerful utility software that speeds up your system, giving you maximum performance. ... http://free.windowssystemoptimizer.com/ Disk Spy Access your hard disk on physical level and view areas usually hidden from you. DiskSpy enables you to view every sector of any installed hard disk drive. It is irrelevant if this sectors are bootsectors, partition tables, file system entries or simple data files. Also areas protected by the operating ... (view more)

Infopackets Reader 'P.S. Liew' writes: " Dear Dennis, Over the years, my 'temp' folder in Windows [located at c:\windows\temp] has gathered quite a substantial amount of temporary, space-eating files as well as Internet browser history items such as ... cookies, cache and the like. I am contemplating whether or not I should delete these files in order to reclaim hard disk space, but prior to doing so, I would like to get some pointers from you as to which selection of files in this folder is safe to delete. Am I wrong to assume that it is safe to completely delete all files in c:\windows\ ... (view more)

Infopackets Reader Charles M. writes: " Dear Dennis, I have Windows Media Player installed on my system, which is okay for the majority of media files I play. A few of my friends have tried Rhapsody, Real Player, Dell MusicMatch, and such, and have ... urged me to use these players on my own system. If I decided to use one player versus another, don't I have to uninstall the others? If I don't, and put the others on hold in the recycle bin, will it impede my listening on my Windows Media Player? How do I uninstall these players, if that is what I need to do? I purchased this system (a Dell ... (view more)

Infopackets Reader Jack J. writes: " Dear Dennis, I have a question that has been bothering me for some time. I appreciate the professional advice you give in your newsletters to other Readers, and would be very thankful if you could please set me ... straight on my problem. My dilemma has to do with Secure web sites. Occasionally, I will buy a product online -- meaning that my web browser often redirected to a secure web page, where I can complete my transaction online with my credit card. I have been told by friends that providing my credit card information is 100% secure, and that I ... (view more)

Portable Windows Ce Portable Windows CE is a 'launcher' for the Windows CE device emulator that can run an emulator-based image from a USB keychain. Download the Windows CE 5.0 Device Emulator. Extract the emulator to a folder on your hard drive by ... running "setup /a". The installer will prompt you to specify a directory to extract to . For example: D:\PortableCE Copy the following launcher script to the directory you extracted the setup to. You'll need to rename the file from launchce.cmd.txt to launchce.cmd. Once you have that set up, just copy the entire D:\PortableCE folder over to your ... (view more)