MikesWhatsNews, 4, 06, 2002 in today's issue #507 Free Security E-Book Q-Sort 2000 Taipei Solitaire iCopy ExamDiff 1.6G Registry Hacks Tina's FrontPage Tips Agent Ransack 1.7.1 CCC VCW Vicman's Photo Editor Where is the Regestry ____________________________________________________________ NOTE: Any time you see the " ++ ", it means there is more of the article, or story, on the linked site. Mike ____________________________________________________________ There is a complete archive of past MikesWhatsNews newsletters available to members on the Yahoo page, it is searchable by word or issue #. Here is the address direct to the messages; http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MikesWhatsNews/messages ____________________________________________________________ Free Security E-Book http://www.thesecurityservice.co.uk/ Robert Schifreen is probably the UK's best-known IT security commentator and writer. In addition to his columns in magazines such as Secure Computing, he is also a frequent interviewee on radio and TV. He is also a regular contributor to the security problem clinic at www.itsecurity.com. Robert has contributed a monthly column to Secure Computing magazine since 1993. You can download a free e-book containing more than 100 previous columns. ++ ____________________________________________________________ Q-Sort 2000 http://www.hyperq.com/qsort.htm For Windows 95/98/ME If you use Windows 98, Windows ME or Windows 95 with Internet Explorer 4 Desktop Update sometimes the order of the Start Menu and Favorites entries get mixed up. Q-Sort 2000 arranges the "Programs" section of your Start Menu and your Internet Explorer Favorites in alphabetical order with a single mouse click. You can let sort your Start Menu and Favorites every time you start-up your computer. Q-Sort 2000 is Freeware. ++ ____________________________________________________________ Taipei Solitaire http://www.lenagames.com/dtaipei.htm Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP Play Taipei solitaire game on your desktop! Includes 50 taipei and mahjongg game layouts (3 in demo version). Additional features: unlimited undo, hints, saving game records, changing backgrounds, changing tilesets, layouts editor. ++ ____________________________________________________________ iCopy ~ freeware http://www.idev.ch/icopy/ Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP iCopy allows you to combine your scanner and printer into a copy machine. It's a small and fast program. Every TWAIN-compatible scanner can be acquired. You can change with just one click your printer. And with another iCopy starts scanning your documents. On the other hand iCopy also allows you, to scan a document with the standard TWAIN dialog. In addition to other programs iCopy just starts printing after your document has been successfully acquired. Features Works with every TWAIN compatible scanner Choose the type of copy (Color, Gray, Black/White) Choose how many copies you want to print Predefined settings for different paper sizes You can setup the scan quality Choose the zoom of your copy Acquire a document with the standard TWAIN dialog ++ ____________________________________________________________ ExamDiff 1.6G http://www.prestosoft.com/examdiff/examdiff.htm ExamDiff is a freeware Win 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP tool for visual file comparison. It has a number of simple and convenient features that many users have been asking for a long time from a file comparison tool. ++ ____________________________________________________________ Registry Hacks http://www.forrestandassociates.co.uk/pcforrest/reg_hacks.html Introduction DISCLAIMER: These hacks are intended for people who understand a) how to backup and restore their registries, and b) the REG file format. Users are advised to read the REG files first, and export relevant branches that would be over-written prior to trying these fixes. No responsibility can be taken by the author for people who don't take the necessary precautions. Contents DOSHere ~Access DOS by right-clicking drives and directories. The current path will reflect the drive/directory clicked. FindDocs ~ Add a Find... option to the My Documents right-clicked menu. IcoCache ~ Increase the shell's icon cache. IconCache ~ Increase the shell's icon cache - an improved method. IEHelp ~ Disable non-essential Internet Explorer Help options. MenuCols ~ Add a Windows 95 multi-column menu option in Windows 98. MPDVD ~ Add DVD functionality to Media Player. Requires a DVD-ROM drive, naturally. MyDocs ~ If you've lost your My Documents desktop icon, and don't have the 'New' > My Documents icon on Desktop option, you'll certainly need this. NewFix ~ Restore the Windows Explorer New menu. NoLogon ~ Disable the Cancel option at logon. OpenNew ~ Re-acquire the ability to open links in a new window. RegDone ~ Register Windows without telling Microsoft. SendToX ~ Fix the Send To > Desktop (create shortcut) option. ShowAttr ~ Restore the Show file attributes on Detail View option in Win 98 SE. Thumbs ~ Regain the ability to view thumbnails. ++ ____________________________________________________________ Tina's FrontPage Tips, by Tina Clarke Finding the folder To find a file in the navigation View, Click the file in the folder list and right click choose =91Find in navigation=92 and the file will be highlighted in the =91Navigation View=92. AccessFP - FrontPage Resource Centre Site - http://www.accessfp.net/ Ezine & Forums - http://anyfrontpage.com/ FREE FP E-Books Journal - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AccessFPJournal ____________________________________________________________ Agent Ransack 1.7.1 http://www.agentransack.com/ Agent Ransack is a tool for finding files and information on your hard drive fast and efficiently. When searching the contents of files Agent Ransack displays the text found so you can quickly browse the results without having to separately open each file! Agent Ransack provides compelling advantages over similar search tools: Regular expressions that allow complex rule based searches. Immediate contents results view. Various wizards to walk the user through the searching process. Agent Ransack is provided FREE of charge for the benefit of the Windows community. If you find it useful please register it, free of charge. ++ ____________________________________________________________ Christies Computer Corner thanks to Christy; <1stPicksoftware-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?Subject=3Dsubscribe> VCW Vicman's Photo Editor http://www.vicman.net/vcwphoto/index.htm Freeware VCW Vicman's Photo Editor is an image editing program that offers tons of powerful features. Now, adding special effects to your images has never been easier. Additional features include: Skins support Embedded button maker Gradient tools Special effects, including distortion and trilinear Support for scanned images A versatile image editor with intuitive skinnable interface and a variety of features. This powerful application is user-friendly, offering users the simplicity of image editing, high productivity and easy customizing abilities. ~~~~~~~ Where is the Registry Content-type: text/plain; charset=3Dus-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-archive-position: 58 X-Approved-By: snowy@xxxxxxxxxxx X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: 1stpickpctips-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Errors-To: 1stpickpctips-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx X-original-sender: snowy@xxxxxxxxxxx Precedence: normal Reply-To: 1stpickpctips-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx X-list: 1stpickpctips We are not going to make any registry changes/edits today. Just get to know where the resgistry is and how it looks. Take a look around but dont touch anything this time. Regedit is a utility that allows you to modify the registry or browse the current information and peek around at what Windows is "thinking." Remember, if you do want to play around with the registry and decide to make some changes, be sure to back it up first. Even the most experienced users can make mistakes that can cause Windows to err in a wide variety of ways. To run Regedit.exe, select 'Run' from the Start menu and type Regedit at the command line. Once the registry is open, you will see there are several file folders that look very similar to the Explorer menu that you probably use quite often. At this point, you can click the (+) or (-) symbols to either open or close various Keys. Keys are the highest level of architecture in the registry. From here, you can filter down into the depths of the registry. On this screen (if all Keys are closed) you will see the various HKEY_*** options. Play around with the hierarchy and go exploring. If this is your first encounter with the registry, then just look around. Without making any changes (select cancel on any boxes that may open to ensure anything you may have changed is not saved). Simply close the regedit box when you are finished browsing. Was this forwarded to you ? 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