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[abaez]

If anyone can help me with this I'd appreciate it:

I'm looking for a program where you can tag/mark a spot on a very long webpage (where you have to scroll alot) and say if you scrolled all the way back to the top, you could do something for the page to automatically take you back to the spot you tagged.

Anyone have any suggestions? I've looked at various freeware sites and haven't found anything, but I'm sure it's out there somewhere.

 

[nikko]

nlite is a great program that lets you customize a bootable XP disc. From the website:

- Service Pack Integration
- Component Removal
- Unattended Setup
- Driver Integration *
- Hotfixes Integration **
- Tweaks
- Patches ***
- Bootable ISO creation

Anyway, I used it once and it worked like a charm.

 

[chuckywang]

Smoothwall
www.smoothwall.org

 

[Jeeper94]

Ultimate Boot CD

Very powerful disc that has an enormous amount of utilitites/programs. I think everyone can benefit from using this disc. Best of all, it's FREE! Check it out!

Here is a list of what's on the CD:

Hard Disk Installation
MaxBlast 3 (Maxtor) 3.6
DiscWizard 2003 (Seagate) 10.45.06
Disk Manager (Seagate) 9.56a
Disk Manager (Samsung) 10
Hard Disk Diagnosis
Drive Fitness Test (IBM/Hitachi) 4.00
PowerMax (Maxtor/Quantum) 4.09
DLG Diagnostic (Western Digital) 4.15
DLG Diagnostic (Western Digital) 5.04c
Data Lifeguard (Western Digital) 11.0
SeaTools Desktop (Seagate) 1.06.02
SeaTools Desktop (Seagate) 3.00.07en
Diagnostic Tool (Fujitsu) 6.20
SHDIAG (Samsung) 1.25
HUTIL (Samsung) 1.19
GWSCAN (Gateway) 3.15
GWSCAN (Gateway) 5.09
Salvation HDD Scan and Repair 3.0
MHDD32 4.0
Ontrack Data Advisor Free Edition 5.0
Hard Disk Device Management
Feature Tool (IBM/Hitachi) 1.94
AMSET (Maxtor) 4.00
MAXLLF (Maxtor) 1.1
UATA100 (Seagate) 3.06
Ultra ATA Manager (Western Digital) June, 2003
SMARTUDM 2.00
ATA Password Tool 1.1
ATAINF 1.3m
Hard Disk Wiping
AutoClave 0.3
Active@ KillDisk Free Edition 3.1
Darik's Boot and Nuke 1.0.4
PC INSPECTOR e-maxx 0.95 Build 775
Hard Disk Cloning
HDClone (Free Edition) 2.0
g4u 1.17
PC INSPECTOR clone maxx 0.95 Build 769
XXCOPY 2.85.9
Hard Disk Sector Editor
Disk Editor 3.0
DISKMAN4 4.01
PTS DiskEditor 1.04
Partition Tools
Ranish Partition Manager 2.44
XFDISK (Extended FDISK) 0.9.3beta
SPFDISK (Special FDISK) 2000-03q
TestDisk 5.5
Partition Resizer 1.3.4
Partition Saving 2.91
Free FDISK 1.3.0
MBRtool 2.2.100
MBRWork 1.07b
FIPS 2.0
Active@ Partition Recovery 2.1.1
Boot Managers
Smart BootManager 3.7R1
Gujin 0.9
GAG 4.5d
XOSL 1.1.5
File Managers
DOS Navigator 4.9.0
File Maven 3.5a
NTFS Tools
Offline NT Password & Registry Editor
Active NTFS Reader for DOS 1.0.1
EditBINI 1.01.1
Boot Partition 2.50
System Burn-In Test
Lucifer 1.0
CPU Test
CPU Burn-in 1.00
Mersenne Prime Test 23.5.2
Memory Test
Memtest86 3.2
Memtest86+ 1.40
Windows Memory Diagnostic
DocMem RAM Diagnostic 1.45a
DocMem RAM Diagnostic 2.1b
TestMem4 4
ctramtest 5.1
Peripherals Test
Parallel port detection and test utilities 1.45
ATAPI CDROM Identification 2.03
CPU Information
Intel Processor Frequency ID Utility 7.2.20041115
System Information
AIDA16 2.14
NSSI 0.58.6
PC-Config 9.33
ASTRA 4.21
PCISniffer 1.3
PCI
pcidevs.txt: 21 Nov 2004 0.49B
CTIA 2.1
Benchmark Applications
System Speed Test 32 4.78
3D Benchmark VGA 1.0
CPU Benchmark
CD Index 1.1
BIOS Utilities
BIOS 1.35.1
UniFlash 1.38
WipeCMOS 1.2
CMOSPWD 4.4
!BIOS 3.20
DOS Boot Disks
FreeDOS Boot Disk 3.22
NwDsk: NetWare Boot Disk 3.22
Madboot Floppy 8.0
MSRRC: Bart's Network Boot Disk on FreeDOS 3.22
Antivirus Tools
F-Prot Antivirus for DOS (Personal use only)
Virus definition: 16 Jan 2005 3.16a
McAfee Antivirus Scanner
Virus definition: 12 Jan 2005 4.32.0
Avast! V7.7 for DOS
Virus definition: 18 Jan 2005 7.7
AntiVir Personal Edition
Virus definition: 18 Jan 2005 6.29.0.5
Network Tools
Freesco 0.3.2
Arachne WWW Browser 1.79
QNX Demo Browser (network and modem version) 4.00
NetCopy 0.2
DOSRDP 2.0/XP

 

[tcrex2000]

Here's my favorite new program as of late:

Essential PIM
This is a personal information manager / organizer. It does calendars, contacts, notes, and a to-do list. It's similar to Microsoft Outlook, but the entire program is only about 1 MB, so it's small enough to put on a flash drive and take your whole schedule with you to every computer you use. Small, quick, bloat-free but pretty! Not to mention free.

Here's the homepage, but I'd suggest using the newest beta, since it looks pretty bug-free, and it has some nice upgrades over version 1.0.

 

[BlueWeasel]

Originally posted by: Jeeper94
Ultimate Boot CD

If you love the UBCD, then definately check out the Ultimate Boot CD for Windows (UBCD4win). I've actually combined the two and modified themenu so I can launch either the FreeDOS apps from the UBCD or load the Windows-based UBCD.

http://www.ubcd4win.com/

 

[ShadowBlade]

stardock ObjectDock
a mac os x type shortcut manager, can be placed on any side or in any corner of the screen, also lets you have multiple docks
screenshot http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/shadowblade/docking.jpg
note: the dock goes away when the mouse isnt over it (theres a certain area where the mouse has to be to activate it)

 

[pepo]

OK this one is my fav one. It is called Total Copy :laugh:
What is does is simple: Total Copy improves the copy and move function of a large number of files in Windows 98, 98SE, ME, and XP. The utility lets you pause the process and resume later. If the program detects a locked file, it will ask if you want to skip it or attempt to copy it later.

A one that is of the same kind is: Kill Copy

 

[Muse]

Originally posted by: abaez
If anyone can help me with this I'd appreciate it:

I'm looking for a program where you can tag/mark a spot on a very long webpage (where you have to scroll alot) and say if you scrolled all the way back to the top, you could do something for the page to automatically take you back to the spot you tagged.

Anyone have any suggestions? I've looked at various freeware sites and haven't found anything, but I'm sure it's out there somewhere.

If I wanted to do that I'd hit Control+N (using IE 6) and another browser window opens exactly like the one you are on, exactly where you are. Then do whatever you want to do in either one of these and hit Alt+tab and you are back where you were on the other of the cloned browser windows. I don't know if something like this (or as easy) is available in Firefox, but it's probably the main reason I'm still using IE almost all the time.

I just installed the EssentialPIM program recommended a few posts ago. The first thing that happened when it launched after intallation was ask me if I wanted it to import all my Outlook information! The dialog says if you say no, you can always do it off the menu. Cool! EssentialPIM apparently stores it's database under the installation folder. I like that better than the way Outlook puts the Outlook.pst file under Documents and Settings. Well, actually, I'm going to see if I can redirect the location of the data because I like to have all my data in one place for backup ease.

Just made an Ultimate Boot CD too.

Concerning powertoys for XP: the most usefull thing there (imho) is taskswitch, which replaces alt-tab and gives you a little preview of what it is you're switching to

Is there a Powertoys for Win2000 that will do this?

 

[BlueWeasel]

Originally posted by: Muse

Originally posted by: abaez
If anyone can help me with this I'd appreciate it:

I'm looking for a program where you can tag/mark a spot on a very long webpage (where you have to scroll alot) and say if you scrolled all the way back to the top, you could do something for the page to automatically take you back to the spot you tagged.

Anyone have any suggestions? I've looked at various freeware sites and haven't found anything, but I'm sure it's out there somewhere.

If I wanted to do that I'd hit Control+N (using IE 6) and another browser window opens exactly like the one you are on, exactly where you are. Then do whatever you want to do in either one of these and hit Alt+tab and you are back where you were on the other of the cloned browser windows. I don't know if something like this (or as easy) is available in Firefox, but it's probably the main reason I'm still using IE almost all the time.

I just installed the EssentialPIM program recommended a few posts ago. The first thing that happened when it launched after intallation was ask me if I wanted it to import all my Outlook information! The dialog says if you say no, you can always do it off the menu. Cool! EssentialPIM apparently stores it's database under the installation folder. I like that better than the way Outlook puts the Outlook.pst file under Documents and Settings. Well, actually, I'm going to see if I can redirect the location of the data because I like to have all my data in one place for backup ease.

Just made an Ultimate Boot CD too.

Concerning powertoys for XP: the most usefull thing there (imho) is taskswitch, which replaces alt-tab and gives you a little preview of what it is you're switching to

Is there a Powertoys for Win2000 that will do this?

Yup, I really like how EssentialPIM can store all the data under a single file under the program directory. Makes it extremely easy to put it on a USB drive and carry it around with you.

Is it possible to keep EssentialPIM and Outlook in sync? I like to use Outlook on my desktop system, but want to get it so I can sync with EssentialPIM on my USB drive.

 

[Muse]

Originally posted by: BlueWeasel

Originally posted by: Muse

Originally posted by: abaez
If anyone can help me with this I'd appreciate it:

I'm looking for a program where you can tag/mark a spot on a very long webpage (where you have to scroll alot) and say if you scrolled all the way back to the top, you could do something for the page to automatically take you back to the spot you tagged.

Anyone have any suggestions? I've looked at various freeware sites and haven't found anything, but I'm sure it's out there somewhere.

If I wanted to do that I'd hit Control+N (using IE 6) and another browser window opens exactly like the one you are on, exactly where you are. Then do whatever you want to do in either one of these and hit Alt+tab and you are back where you were on the other of the cloned browser windows. I don't know if something like this (or as easy) is available in Firefox, but it's probably the main reason I'm still using IE almost all the time.

I just installed the EssentialPIM program recommended a few posts ago. The first thing that happened when it launched after installation was ask me if I wanted it to import all my Outlook information! The dialog says if you say no, you can always do it off the menu. Cool! EssentialPIM apparently stores it's database under the installation folder. I like that better than the way Outlook puts the Outlook.pst file under Documents and Settings. Well, actually, I'm going to see if I can redirect the location of the data because I like to have all my data in one place for backup ease.

Just made an Ultimate Boot CD too.

Concerning powertoys for XP: the most usefull thing there (imho) is taskswitch, which replaces alt-tab and gives you a little preview of what it is you're switching to

Is there a Powertoys for Win2000 that will do this?

Yup, I really like how EssentialPIM can store all the data under a single file under the program directory. Makes it extremely easy to put it on a USB drive and carry it around with you.

Is it possible to keep EssentialPIM and Outlook in sync? I like to use Outlook on my desktop system, but want to get it so I can sync with EssentialPIM on my USB drive.

Yeah, that kind of occurred to me, too. You can import Outlook's changes from EssentialPIM, but not vice versa, I assume. Having the data under the install directory is a good idea for the reason you site, that you can take your PIM with you on a flash drive and use it anywhere. You evidently prefer Outlook, though? Otherwise you wouldn't want to use both concomitantly and practically.

One thing confuses me at the moment. In the options you can pick a backup directory and whether to support backup. However, I see no way to initiate a backup. I wonder what's up with that.

 

[BlueWeasel]

Well, I like using Outlook on my desktop and laptop, since it's fairly easy to keep both updated with my latest contacts, schedule, etc.

But, I don't know how to keep Outlook on a USB drive.

EssentialPIM allows me to export all my Outlook data into EPIM and take wherever. It's not a big issue though....I'll just have to use Outlook for all the data input and just export into EPIM. I did notice that EPIM has a selective export feature, so I guess it would be possible to export the new EPIM contacts and just import those into Outlook.

 

[Capitalizt]

Computer Inspector is an AWESOME freebie program to see a list of every running process/program on your PC. You can use this to easily disable spyware and other stuff you don't want running. If you are unfamiliar with a process, just google it to see if it is harmful.

 

[SelArom]

Hey, I thought I'd throw in my free rebate tracking program. I wrote it myself and it's FREE of course. The only think you need is the .NET framework.

Program Details
Screenshot
Download Link

Comments, suggestions, and donations are greatly appreciated!

-SelArom

 

[uberw00tness]

I dont know if i posted this right (first message and all ^.^) but a great program, even if you do have to pay for it, (its worth it!) is Nortron Ghost. It reinstalls windows in about 2 minutes, for all you people who ever so crazy about crashing your computers!