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What time is it?

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 … [Continue reading]

Help! My Favorites are Missing!

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 … [Continue reading]

My Favorite Windows Utilities

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 … [Continue reading]

Windows 2000 Places Bar

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, … [Continue reading]

Places Bar Customizations

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 … [Continue reading]

Extracting Icons from Windows files

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 … [Continue reading]

IE's Trusted, Restricted, Local Zones

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 … [Continue reading]

Creating your own Address bar searches

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 … [Continue reading]

View Your Temp Folders and Files

Do you need to view the temp files on your system? At Start menu, run, simply type %temp% This will open Windows Explorer to this location: C:DOCUME~1USERNA~1LOCALS~1Temp, where USERNA is your Windows account name, in 8.3 … [Continue reading]