What "little" program could you simply not do without?

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Originally posted by LindaHewitt
There has to be a better way to manage this process than what is currently available in IE.

All ideas and suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

Linda

:confused:

;)

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Hi Linda; You've probably solved this problem already, but I thought I'ld pass this little tip along to anyone else who's interested.

As you've discovered, the bookmark organizer built in to IE is terrible. However, the nice thing about how IE stores its bookmarks, as ordinary file names, makes it easy to manage them in Windows Explorer. Just go to C:\Windows\Profiles\Your_profile_name\Favorites, (assuming you use a profile), and copy, move, rename, whatever, all your bookmarks with ease.

This, of course, won't validate URL's, but for everthing else, it beats the pants off of whats built in to IE.

There's one other side benefit in doing it this way. You can easily copy your favorites to a floppy, for either backup purposes, or to transport them to another computer. You can even edit, and organize them while at another computer, then import them back to the original, with a simple copy, or move command.

For instance, to organize your "work" favorites, while at home, or vice-versa. ;)

Dexahol: Could you please clarify your suggestion re using Windows Explorer? I do not use a "profile", so far as I know.
Exactly, what is it I am supposed to do, with what file? to rearrange my bookmarks and have them appear in my Favorites in alphabetical order? Thanks. ... wdc

To "NEWME"

quote: "Try AVAST antivirus home edition free, they also have a forum. Works alot better than avg."

If you have the time, I would be curious to know how you feel that AVAST works better than AVG...

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Originally posted by keywester
To "NEWME"

quote: "Try AVAST antivirus home edition free, they also have a forum. Works alot better than avg."

If you have the time, I would be curious to know how you feel that AVAST works better than AVG...

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The main reason I think it's better than avg is I was using avg pro ver7 and installed avast ,which found 3 viruses residing on my pc that avg did not know or detect were there.

Also avast has a good support forum. to name a couple ,I think the scan engine does a better job and resident protection can be run as a screen saver in addition to being on in the background all the time.
Also screensaver can be used to update the VRD, virus recovery database. all in all I really like Avast home edition which is free, and they meet virus bulletins 100% detection test.
updates are fast and usually new updates occur 2 or more times a week.
I could go on but you can try it and tell me?

LindaHewitt:

regarding your post a few back on suggestions on project management, for "a freeware program that would track & prioritize bugs, problems, and issues"

I noticed that no one had responded, so thought I would kick in my 2 cents, or non-sense....

First, if you haven't already, you might want to pose this question under another category, and maybe on other forums also to get max feedback, since this is a somewhat special subject.

Secondly, there are some freeware packages that might meet your requirements, but before that, I should mention that I think that I recently ran across some open source freeware that was supposedly the equivalent of "Project". You could probably search on some freeware sites and find it.

If something like Project is too heavy duty, I was wondering if something like "LM 2000" might work. If LM2000 seems too abstract, or too involved as it might well be, you might want to look at something simpler like TreeDBNotes, or even just hierarchical "notepad" organizers like KeyNote or TreePad Lite (there is a bunch of those out there...)... Of this latter category, TreeDBNotes might be the best -- it may seem perplexing when you first fire it up, but it is actually quite straightforward to use once you see what it can do and then you can make it as complex as you need it to be... Good Luck...

If you need links, let me know -- I thought that these days most folks can easily search for what they want to check out...

:cool:

NEWME:

Actually, I have already tried out AVAST, along with most of the other better freeware AV packages, and even a paid-for AV (what was Norton AV before Symantec got ahold of it...)

I actually thought that AVAST was the better AV, but was concerned when I realized that three fairly large and resource intensive AVAST modules were concurrently running resident (which to me seemed like maybe a good thing...), and that led me to post my concerns. Long story short, a vast (pun intended) majority of respondents indicated that I would be better off with AVG and I reluctantly (suspiciously even...) switched away from AVAST. But that is a subject for another thread, and of course has already BEEN highly conversed all over the map, I was just curious what your reasoning was...

Well, this thread was already in the book of records for it's length, and now I wonder if it is approaching any records for straying from the original subject matter... :D

Well, this thread has been going for over a year since the first post on Feb. 28, 2002.

I'm glad to see it's turned out way better than I first expected it would. I hope it's helped out a lot of people and perhaps made your continous search for that free program that makes your life just a little easier.

And since keywester had mentioned about the thread getting off topic I thought I'd post another little program that I use often.

Since I'm restricted to 56k dial-up where I'm at right now I frequently have problems when downloading large files since my connection may be lost from time to time.

I often use a little program called Download Accelerator Plus which you can download here. The free version has some banner ads, or you can purchase the non-ad version.

Not only can it resume your download, but it will get the download from several different locations and speed it up as much as possible. You can even pause the download and quere other downloads to start once one is done.

Thanks again for all your contributions.

I'm not using Download Accelerator Plus as it is full of spies !

replaced it with DownloadExpress, free, integrates with IE, does the same as DAP ...

DownloadExpress @ http://www.metaproducts.com/mp/mpPro...tail.asp?id=18

Thanks aimeric, I hadn't heard about any spyware in DAP. I've got version 5.3 and my spyware killer program never reported anything. They are up to version 7 now, so I'll give DownloadExpress a try.

Thanks,
Webshark2000

welcome ...

your spykiller ? spybot ? :

Spybot SD @ http://security.kolla.de/

i.e.
tools
options
connections
settings
properties
options
idle time before hanging up---NEVER
ok-apply

this will get you by those long downloads.
least it does me.

Any anti-virus program that works. Currently using Avast which seems to do the job.
Paint program and 602 Photo Editor.

For anyone that may have been perusing the sidetrack a few posts back on AVAST and AVG antiviruses started by 'NEWME', I just ran across a review of the two and thought I should share it with anyone considering either of the two "best little freeware AVs"... (looks like you were right, NEWME...)

From the January 2004 issue of PC World magazine

Up-to-date performance test results for free antivirus programs aren't always easy to come by, but the little information I've been able to dredge up indicates that most of these utilities are improving. I tried all four of the programs below--the only free Windows antivirus programs I could find--and though I found Grisoft's AVG and Alwil's Avast 4 to be the most feature-rich, I feel comfortable recommending any of the four. They all update their virus definitions automatically and have a seal of approval from at least one testing lab.

Grisoft's AVG Anti-Virus System: AVG passed Virus Bulletin's June 2003 VB100 Windows XP test (the most recent available at press time) after failing previous attempts; it also passed ICSA's June 2003 test. AVG includes memory-resident scanners, plus e-mail scanners for Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora, and Exchange client.

Alwil's Avast 4 Home Edition: Avast likewise passed both the VB100 and ICSA tests, and it offers memory-resident scanning. But Avast surpasses AVG by scanning both Outlook and standard Internet (POP3/SMTP) mail, making it a good choice if you use a non-Microsoft mail client. Amazingly, Alwil also offers support via e-mail for its free product.

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Originally posted by keywester
For anyone that may have been perusing the sidetrack a few posts back on AVAST and AVG antiviruses started by 'NEWME', I just ran across a review of the two and thought I should share it with anyone considering either of the two "best little freeware AVs"... (looks like you were right, NEWME...)

From the January 2004 issue of PC World magazine

Up-to-date performance test results for free antivirus programs aren't always easy to come by, but the little information I've been able to dredge up indicates that most of these utilities are improving. I tried all four of the programs below--the only free Windows antivirus programs I could find--and though I found Grisoft's AVG and Alwil's Avast 4 to be the most feature-rich, I feel comfortable recommending any of the four. They all update their virus definitions automatically and have a seal of approval from at least one testing lab.

Grisoft's AVG Anti-Virus System: AVG passed Virus Bulletin's June 2003 VB100 Windows XP test (the most recent available at press time) after failing previous attempts; it also passed ICSA's June 2003 test. AVG includes memory-resident scanners, plus e-mail scanners for Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora, and Exchange client.

Alwil's Avast 4 Home Edition: Avast likewise passed both the VB100 and ICSA tests, and it offers memory-resident scanning. But Avast surpasses AVG by scanning both Outlook and standard Internet (POP3/SMTP) mail, making it a good choice if you use a non-Microsoft mail client. Amazingly, Alwil also offers support via e-mail for its free product.

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It's nice to see someone agrees :) I do like avast home and am considering the pro version based on the pro versions ability to block scripts, but there isn't really allot of differences between pro & home better user interface on pro, script blocking. But I am impressed enough with AVAST to supprot them in the future , Hopefully when gas prices come down ? Thanx for your useful input keywester .

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Originally posted by keywester
For anyone that may have been perusing the sidetrack a few posts back on AVAST and AVG antiviruses started by 'NEWME', I just ran across a review of the two and thought I should share it with anyone considering either of the two "best little freeware AVs"... (looks like you were right, NEWME...)

From the January 2004 issue of PC World magazine

Up-to-date performance test results for free antivirus programs aren't always easy to come by, but the little information I've been able to dredge up indicates that most of these utilities are improving. I tried all four of the programs below--the only free Windows antivirus programs I could find--and though I found Grisoft's AVG and Alwil's Avast 4 to be the most feature-rich, I feel comfortable recommending any of the four. They all update their virus definitions automatically and have a seal of approval from at least one testing lab.

Grisoft's AVG Anti-Virus System: AVG passed Virus Bulletin's June 2003 VB100 Windows XP test (the most recent available at press time) after failing previous attempts; it also passed ICSA's June 2003 test. AVG includes memory-resident scanners, plus e-mail scanners for Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora, and Exchange client.

Alwil's Avast 4 Home Edition: Avast likewise passed both the VB100 and ICSA tests, and it offers memory-resident scanning. But Avast surpasses AVG by scanning both Outlook and standard Internet (POP3/SMTP) mail, making it a good choice if you use a non-Microsoft mail client. Amazingly, Alwil also offers support via e-mail for its free product.

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Hey keywester I hope you don't think I am sidetracking this great post I thought that recommending good programs was the reason for the ORIGINAL thread posted by Webshark2000 in the first place, If i have steered off course my apologizes. Also there may have been a few programs I have suggested in the past that were not all that great, but the learning curve is improving with all the GREAT help provided via VIRTUAL Dr. ;)