Quick search: 0del 4edit AK-MAIL Arcview Arj BulletFTP Clipboardplus CorelWeb Cuteftp Dipstick Fileidentifier Fprot Free Agent Icq Instant ON Keyview Linkbot Lview Lynx95 Midiplus Mplayer Norton Opentalks PegasusMail PKZIP Procomm Recorder SelectPhone Spinner Startclean Unixlynx Webvcr Winrexx Winamp ZIP Magic Mozilla FireFox My FireFox broke after I upgraded from version to 0.93 to 1.0. Reverting to old version didn't fix the problem - each time I'd load FireFox, all the menus and button were unresponsive and address bar inaccessible. The workaround was to load FireFox with a URL paramer, such as firefox.exe http://www.ibm.com. After I did this, the menus came back to life. Now loading FireFox without a parameter works too. Napster If your connection is fast enough, you start playing MP3 file while it is still downloading. Clicking on X doesn't really close Napster - you need to kill the program in system tray. TraySaver - killing Explorer couple of times can help TraySaver when it's not able to restore all the icons by itself. MusicMatch - as you play CD, you can put checkmarks in the list of tracks in encoder window. BUZOF - not only window title, but also text inside the window is used. Thus, if inner text changes, BUZOF may fail to respond. Solution - shorten the 'Message:' field. Microsoft Visual Source Safe When setting Working Folder, define it for a root folder of your project - this should take of all the child folders, as long as they are named the same as directories on disk. After a search (View/Search), when you browse folders, only the files that match the search pattern will display. When clicking View from VSS does not open the file properly (and you don't want to keep the file checked out), check it out and "undo check out" - the file will remain in working folder and you can view it. You can get a list of all files checked out to you - press Ctrl-S and check options "Display files checked out to" and "Search in all projects". VNC remote control - you can specify /8bit as command line parameter to force the "slow connection" mode. Winamp The URLs of the streams you listened to are saved in Ctrl-L pulldown - albeit without the stream name. when playing RealAudio file, the volume control inside Winamp doesn't work - you need to use the 'Wave' in Windows volume control. When listening to mp3.com radio, sometimes song info is not visible - reselect the song in Winamp playlist to see it Also, with mp3.com radio you can tell how many songs you already listened to - they are the ones with author/title info filled in in playlist. PKZIP for Windows command line: -add parameter is requried when adding files pkzip25.exe -add -recurse -path ep *.* - add all files into ep.zip, recurse directories and store paths pkunzip.exe no longer exists as a separate program (boo!), instead you use pkzip25.exe -extract -directories ep.zip (the -directories option creates folders stored in zip file). Radio WWW/Cash Radio - the volume control in the player will overrider the Windows 'wave volume' setting when new song starts. Intermute - you can define custom filters for specific sites - for example there may be site which needs popup windows to work, so you can enable them just for that domain. Gator Sometimes Gator starts hogging CPU for no apparent reason - kill and reload it. After the website is loaded, Gator may take few seconds to popup. Give it some time before trying to reload the page or restart Gator. If you use the firewall and block Gator from accessing the Internet, it will still work, but won't display new ads/offers. When popup window doesn't want to close, right click on the tray icon to get rid of it. When "auto login" window stops showing up, reload Gator. Sometimes after reloading the Gator icon doesn't show in system tray - if that's the case, try killing the Explorer.exe process. Spinner - you can add currently playing song to "songpad" - for example if you want to remember the name of the artist. Outlook When you set up a reminder, it will first show up 15 minutes before the event. You can drag-n-drop reminders between days MS Access - if Compact fails, some of the tables may become unaccessible - error message "The Microsoft Jet database engine stopped the process because you and another user are attempting to change the same data at the same time" 'Repair Database' takes care of that. MS Excel - to add a linebreak inside a cell, press Alt-Enter. RealPlayer 7 - it still possible to remove the obnoxious icon from the system tray, even though the setting is now burried deeper. To nuke it, right click on realaudio systray icon and goto Preferences / General / Start Center Settings. Uncheck 'Enable Start Center' button. Viola! It's gone for good! Free Agent - to delete queued messages, goto "Windows/Open Outbox" and purge them from there. To get rid of the ridicolous advertising screens that show up when you start SelectPhone-99, goto Options-Preferences-Opening/Closing screens and uncheck it. Pkzip - 'Nothing to do' error message really means "files you are trying to ZIP are not found in current directory". Corel WebDesigner - cyan (light blue) color in Designer is called 'aqua'. Norton Utilities 95 - beware of Norton Protect! It creates directory NPROTECT under C;\RECYCLED and unlike recycle bin, it is not bound by space restriction you set - when I looked to see where my disk space went, I found 95M there - mostly junk like older versions of files and and autosaved documents. Instant ON Scheduler - to send yourself a reminder message, schedule Notepad to open file on a specified date. Disable ZIP Magic when deleting ZIP archive containing many files - this way it will be deleted instantly. Pegasus Mail - when using regular expression in rules, for a simple match enclose pattern in asterisks, for example: 'subscribe' will not match anything, but '*subscribe*' will. Bullet FTP File transfer stats are shown in ballon help. If you use 'scan clipboard for URLs' feature, copy file URL before launching BFTP - it checks clip on startup. BFTP also doubles as SledgeHammer - when site is busy you can rest assured - Bullet will get thru! LVIEW When it doesn't want to print image, copy it and paste to Wordpad - from there it prints ok. When UNDO fails, try REOPEN. Open Talks When icon in taskbar is flashing, it means there is message left on 'talk robot' When you save message, it is written into TALX.TXT in installation dir. AK-MAIL: double click on URL inside message will launch web browser. LYNX-95: There is option to accept/reject cookies - pretty good. Not that I care about them. Mouse is supported - double click on link to follow it. Disable fast pasting option (same goes for ncftp-95). Setup LYNX to launch from batch file and disable 'fast paste' in its DOS properties. This version of LYNX no longer requires putting 'http://' prefix in URL. Media Player command line parameters: /play - start playing immediately /close - exit when song is done Unix Lynx - Viewing local file: lynx a.htm File Identifier - for MOD files will display long song name WINREXX - LINES(F) does not really contain number of lines in file (bug?). However, it still can be used to read till eof: DO UNTIL LINES(F)=0 L=LINEIN(F) END ICQ - while running, may affect color of Win background. Linkbot - rclick/properties will tell you what page link is referenced from. WEBVCR - after you recorded site, do not press 'play' button, rather double click on site name in tree. STARTCLEAN - better not enable 'windows desktop' option, especially if you have shortcuts to folders on other computers in MS Networking. DIPSTICK: Local site can be the slowest of all, so run Dipstick to find out the truth, do not rely on suffix. Left click on 'Drag URL here' window will display ping status window. Since it stays on top of other windows, you can put it right to URLs in IE - then it's very easy to drag addresses to it. MIDIPLUS: 'Repeat 1' repeats song once, rather than looping single sound forevfer, like CD player would. However 'Repeat 00' will loop forever. Stops when reaching the end of playlist. CUTEFTP - to remedy this prg's forgetfullness of recently visited dirs, setting 'local dir' for a site can help. ARJ - unlike PKZIP, doesn't give full help, unless invoked as ARJ -?. Vek zhivi - vek uchis'. RECORDER: If macro is recorded in folder's Explore view "playback in same window" option, it will not playback in Open view. Error message doesn't grab focus and until it's cleared, Recorder will not respond to macros. ARCVIEW - when launched by association from IMAIL, by default extracts files to desktop - not bad for small archives. 0DEL - Use '/s' parm to recurse into subdirs. ClipboardPlus - Keeps former clipboard contents in registry: My Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\COLOSUS\ClipboardPlus\LastClips Procomm 2.4 - press ESC to interrupt script. I have script that dials library and renews all books I have - if interrupted at the right place, it will simply automate my login. KeyView - when saving MS Excel file as text, it does tab-delimited file - just the way I like it! 4EDIT - pressing Shift-Space is what produces strange character instead of regular space. F-PROT - you can scan from cmdline if you specify file or directory as parameter.