Hi all, I'm not sure if this is the correct place for this, as it is not a program to protect your puter.....but it is freeware, and kind of neat painting program to play around with!
http://www.ambientdesign.com/artrage.html

p.s. I don't know how to make the small world with the Link after it!

IE Spyad
IE-SPYAD is a Registry file (IE-ADS.REG) that adds a long list of sites and domains associated with known advertisers, marketers, and crapware pushers to the Restricted sites zone of Internet Explorer. Once this list of sites and domains is "merged" into your Registry, most marketers, advertisers, and crapware pushers on the Net will not be able to use cookies, ActiveX controls, Java applets, or scripting to compromise your privacy or your PC while you surf the Net. Nor will they be able to use your browser to push unwanted pop-ups, cookies, or auto-installing programs on you.
http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~ehowes/resource.htm

X-IM
X-IM is a free Secure Instant Messaging
(IM) and Chat program which lets you communicate with anyone on the Internet securely, using 256-bit Strong Encryption.
http://www.x-im.net/

Favorg
Favorg scans the Web sites in your Favorites list for favicons and makes your favicons persistent. It also lets you associate any icon you choose with a given shortcut, even if no favicon is provided. Also scans your favorites list for dead links.
http://www.dothan.k12.al.us/vault/

NetMeter
NetMeter is a small, customizable network bandwidth monitoring program for Windows 95/98/98SE/ME/NT4/2000/XP
http://readerror.gmxhome.de/

url2bmp
url2bmp will create a bitmap image (.bmp, .jpg, gif or .tif) of any url. The tool allows you to create screen captures of web pages that may be higher than the height of your screen.

EasyCleaner
EasyCleaner is a small program which searches Windows' registry for entries that are pointing nowhere. EasyCleaner also lets you delete all kinds of unnecessary files like temps, backups etc. You can search for duplicate files and you can view some interesting info about your disk space usage! You are also able to manage startup programs, invalid shortcuts and add/remove software list.
http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_description/0,fid,16180,00.asp

Karen's Netmonitor
Monitor your Internet connection! This Power Tool periodically tests the web servers and e-mail servers of your choice, and attempts to download a specific page. It can also test connections to any computer on the local network, or on the Internet. It reports any errors that occur, so you can take corrective action. The 'Net Monitor can now send e-mail notifications of failures at monitored web sites and e-mail servers.
http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptnetmon.asp

NOD is an outstanding product. I ditched Norton for it awhile ago.

Some wonderful member of WC, I can't remember who provided me with this link a while back http://www.sysinternals.com Sysinternals. They have a bunch of neat little utilities. My favorite is PageDefrag and like the name implies it defrags your paging files and registry hives.

There is a very simple and fast way to clear out these index files.

Log off all users.

Log on as Administrator.

Open search and click on ''''All files and folders'''' on the left side.

Under ''''More advanced options'''' make sure that ''''Search hidden files and folders'''' is checked.

In the ''''All or part of the file name'''' section type in "index.dat" (without the quotation marks).

After the search is complete, delete everything possible. (you won''''t be able to delete the files that have been generated by the ''''administrator'''' since you are logged on as ''''administrator'''' but you can delete everything else safely......I''''ve done it, and continue to do it.

Oh, and I also run Window Washer http://www.webroot.com/wb/products/windowwasher/index.php by Webroot. Takes care of all the other unwanted files on the system.




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Thanks Koasati.

Yeh I'll work on that one

Come on AVG Free Edition, We all know that to have good and quality service we have to spend some "Dinero-Mula" thats why i Suggest Panda Internet Security as "WWW.Panda.Com" Read the following please.

A.Antivirus Protection.

B Firewall Protection to keep virus and hackers out

C.Anti spy-ware protection

D.Anti-Dialer Protection and
Anti-Spam protection.
People I'm telling you this is the last software you will ever look at. or and i forgot constant update.

AVG free edition is just fine for someone who can't or won't purchase a pay AV program. It's better than nothing.
And panda.com is some political nonsense site, no thanks. > THIS is the link to Panda's AV and security programs site. http://www.pandasoftware.com/home/default.asp

Can you skin the Earthlink Toolbar? Is it resident on the desktop when you are not online?

Here''s a free IE Browser Skinner I happened across from coffeecup.com software. So if the Earthlink toolbar integrates with your browser and takes on it''s background then I suppose it will be skinned too,I haven''t tried it yet but here''s some info and the link.

About Free Browser Skinner
With Free Browser Skinner it''s easy to create your own skin for IE from any image. Just sele*ct an image from your hard drive and the software does the rest.

Some Features of Free Browser Skinner

» Make your own Skins for Internet Explorer
» Comes with dozens of images to choose from
» Use your own BMP or JPG images
» Comes with dozens of images to choose from

http://www.coffeecup.com/download/download.php?id=217&s=1

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What is a BIOS Beep Code?
When you power on a computer the BIOS immediately takes control of the computer and performs the P.O.S.T (Power On Self Test). At the end of the POST the computer will play an audible 'BEEP' through either the PC's internal speaker of through speakers attached to the sound card (if you have a built-in sound chip). If the POST completed successfully without detecting any problems with then system will play a single short beep to let you know the test is complete and the computer will continue to startup and load the operating system.
http://www.amptron.com/html/bios.beepcodes.html

Don't Fear the Registry If you haven't spent much time in the Registry, you can easily be cowed by it. At first glance, it's a maze of apparently incomprehensible settings. In fact, though, there's a method to the madness. http://hacks.oreilly.com/pub/h/658

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