More interesting links from recent surfing:

All links checked 5-4-07

http://dwightblackburn.com/ Nice site for computer help. Has links to determine what the computer error messages mean.

http://www.695online.com/ $6.95/mo Internet service nationwide.

http://www.answersthatwork.com/ Select categories from the list. Be sure to read the instructions. The documents are in compressed format and are self installing. I downloaded the file Keyboard shortcuts for Word in the Microsoft Word Miscellaneous group and it worked fine. It has a nice format and shows a lot of work that went into it. It is a PDF file, so you can only print it, not reformat it. I looked at the Fun Page. Cute stuff. Especially liked the question- Computers- Male or Female?

http://www.beemerworld.com/tips/ Good explanation of what a Hacker & a Cracker is.

http://www.smartcomputing.com/ The magazine- excellent articles. On-line subscription required. Some articles available without subscribing. Most show only part of the article to tickle you into subscribing. Good investment if you want to be more informed about computing.

http://www.bootdisk.com/ for info on how to make boot disks.

http://www.rickrogers.org/ Good info.

http://www.computerhope.com/ Free help.

http://www.rinkworks.com/ Check out his humor. Especially Computer Stupidities. Amazing.

http://www.radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/home an old favorite revisited. Locate radio on line anywhere in the world.

http://filext.com/ A comprehensive list of file extensions and associated programs

http://freepctech.com/index.php Lots of free help. For example, check out the Windows Install Guides. Detailed instructions on formatting a drive and reloading Windows. All versions from 95 to XP. Click on the Guides link at the top & check the Software guides section.

http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/ If you use Outlook Express, then you better bookmark this site and check it in detail. May save you a world of hurt.

http://www.karenware.com/ A site by a tech writer that used to write for the now defunct Windows Magazine. She writes programs and gives them away for free. She has some nice utilities. Worth getting her CD.

http://www.aumha.org/index.htm Lots of helpful links. Like the next one:

http://www.aumha.org/kberrmsg.htm Another list of Windows error messages explained. And this one:

http://aumha.org/a/xpcd.htm Burning CD’s in Windows XP

http://www.nocrash.com/index.shtml Drivers or DLL's - Update your system.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/robin.d.h.walker/ Want to test your cable modem?

http://www.simplythebest.net/ A little bit of everything. For example try the Free fonts area.

http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_index.htm Good tech talk about Windows startup programs

http://www.techweb.com/encyclopedia/ Want to know the definition of tech terms like: TCP/IP or USB?

http://windows.about.com/cs/tipsandtricks/index.htm Self explanatory which came from the next link:

http://about.com/ Help for about anything

http://www.labmice.net/misc.htm The title says: When the Cat's away... It's time to Play. Besides a load of humor links, there are some serious help links in the left menu.. check out the home page.

http://office-watch.com/index.asp Author of the famous Woody's books. Sign up here for his newsletters. I get many of my tips from him. He says: SIX GREAT PUBLICATIONS - FREE It's about time somebody told the truth about Microsoft Windows®, Office®, Access®, Project® and Windows® XP doncha think? If you want the latest up-to-the-nanosecond news -- or if you're going crazy trying to figure out how to use Office or Windows -- you're in the right place.

http://www.majorgeeks.com/  All kinds of tools for tweaking.

 

http://www.tabby.tk/ A list of 38 (as of May 2007) different browsers if you don’t like Microsoft IE. Not all are active. Scroll down the page for a list of free Office clones. Watch out for the girly ad. Don't click it.

http://www.annoyances.org/ Lots of Windows and Word help here.

http://www.computing.net/ Lotsa good stuff here. I found out what ptsnoop stands for here: http://computing.net/windows95/wwwboard/forum/13515.html

http://www.cdrom-emulator.com/ Utility to put your CD’s on the hard drive. At $29.95 it's a bargain.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/using/howto/customize/cleartype/tuner/default.asp

The above site is for anyone using Microsoft XP. Adjusts the monitor display, especially for LCD monitors.

http://www.ioisland.com/cleartweak/ Freeware program to adjust ClearType in XP. More adjustment than the built in program. Check out their other programs as well.

http://grc.com/wizmo/wizmo.htm A free program to force a shutdown of windows if you are having a problem getting windows to shut down. While there jump to the freeware page

http://www.mdgx.com/web.htm Windows XP extras

http://www.mdgx.com/web.htm Extras for all versions of Windows

http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/computer/default.mspx Good explanation and links.