This one comes from my friend J: I figured out how to sort the start menu alphabetically all the time. In regedit go to: [HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorer MenuOrder] Right click Menu Order and select Permissions Select Advanced Uncheck “Inherit from parent the…
AOL has continued their “freeing” up with 5GB of space free from X Drive. I remember using X Drive years ago until they started charging. It’s a slick little service, with the desktop app mapping a network drive for you…
Some of you may be Excel gurus, slicing and dicing your way across cells, but most of us just try and get by. Microsoft has a nice page of 56 commonly used formulas, starting from the basics and moving up…
Microsoft has made Vista RC1 available for download. For the curious amongst us, or those who downloaded the beta, for free it’s worth a look. Microsoft Vista RC1
Available for free are the original MechCommander, MechCommander Gold and MechCommander 2, as well as the manuals. I have fond memories of these the first time around and they’re a great addition to the growing list of free PC games.…
This one has been around for a while but made news by it’s buyout to LogMeIn. Hamachi creates a local network over the internet. It can be used for multiplayer games, private file sharing, and lots more. It handles NAT-NAT…
Everyone needs to create a PDF file at some point for distribution, archiving, whatever. The open source and free way to do it elegantly and simply is to use PDF Forge. Installs as a printer driver and has lots of…
This is a multi platform media player, completely open source and full of playback goodness. I was thrilled with in on my Pocket PC, and it’s ready for fourteen other platforms. VLC Media Player
SUPER is a nice GUI for a bunch of freeware and open source encoders that lets you convert multimedia files from one type to another. The interface is a it busy but it handles everything you need. SUPER (Simplified Universal…