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This is an old javascript clock app I used back in Windows 95 days when clock apps for windows sucked resources. 🙂 It doesn't work in wordpress – so the old page remains. World Time Clock

This page was born out of frustration. My Windows Explorer Favorites folder died. It was listed in WinExplorer but dragging items to it failed (the nasty red not allowed icon appeared ) as did right clicking to restore the default folders. The only advice I found online was to run sfc /scannow – it failed […]

This is a very old list of utilities I like (or liked) to use – I'm not keeping this page up so please don't ask me to add your utility to it. Here are some of my favorite utility programs for Win95/98. Most are freeware, others are shareware and well worth the registration fee. Looking […]

Works on Windows Millennium and Windows XP too! You cannot have 10 small links, as you can with Office2000 places bar, but you can change the default places to local or network locations. Edit the following registry path, [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Comdlg32\Placesbar] adding strings for Place0 through Place4 and the desired folder locations. For example, add the following […]

New to Office2000 Windows2000 and Millennium Places bar information here Office XP users information here If you would like to add your own folder to the Places Bar (seen in the File/Open and File/Save or SaveAs dialogs), you can do this by editing the Windows Registry. You will need to remove (rather "hide") one of […]

How did I capture all of the icons posted on the Outlook icon pages? (Along with many more not posted here yet.) Using Microangleo, IconCool editor, and other extractor utilities, you can extract the images from icon libraries, usually identified by the extension *.dll but *.exe can hold icons as well. Tip: You can easily […]

When you add sites to the Trusted, Restricted or Local Intranet zones, they are stored in the registry at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\​Microsoft\​Windows\​CurrentVersion\​Internet Settings\​ZoneMap. Each site has is represented by a key and the DWORD indicated which zone the site is in: DWORD value of 1 = Local Intranet DWORD value of 2 = Trusted DWORD value of […]

Internet Explorer includes shortcuts to several search sites, but many more exist, or the ones included are for the basic searches and you prefer to use advanced settings. While you can't easily change the IE settings, you can create your own address bar search using any search site that returns a URL containing the search:: […]