Windows Basics and Tips--Free e-book

Here is a free E-Book on Windows basics. The idea is to deal with practical aspects of using Windows rather than discuss the mundane stuff and make it dull.

Let's leave the control panel and device manager to the geeks and make sure that you know some tips on getting the best out of Windows. To keep the things interesting, I will assume that you can start programs in Windows and can create your own documents. You also know how to locate running programs in the task bar at the bottom. If you know that much you are good to go.

WhizNote - Free Note Organizer and Text Editor for Windows

Are you finding it difficult to manage so many text files with Notepad? Use WhizNote to keep hundreds of related notes in one file. WhizNote has a separate text file editor that allows you to customize its right-click menu to insert custom text with sophisticated template features.

Quite a technical feat! Looking at how well WhizNote runs even on Windows Vista, it is hard to believe that it is a 16-bit application. WhizNote was originally developed in Windows 3.1 days that we tweaked for the first time to support long file names when Windows 95 was released. With each new Windows release, we kept tweaking it to make sure that it still runs. All that was made possible by developing a 32-bit DLL that uses the wonderful thunking mechanism in Windows.

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Finding old stuff to run on Windows Vista

• Installing WinHelp on Windows Vista: You might still be using some old programs which have not been updated for Windows Vista. They might be having their Help menu documentation in WinHelp (.HLP) format. When you click on Help menu of such a program on Vista, you will see this message, "Why can't I get Help from this program?..."
   
• Where to get WinHelp compiler: This is for those who might be looking for the old WinHelp compiler from Microsoft...