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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.

ShowSize for Windows--Forget your disk space usage worries with this fast, flexible disk space reporting tool

ShowSize disk space usage reporter - clear pie charts show how the space is used

Windows Explorer does not show folder sizes in its list. ShowSize can do that and much more. See how your disk space is distributed in various folders and file types. Get a list of files not used in many days. List or print folder contents in ways not possible with Windows Explorer. ShowSize disk space usage reporter is the next generation software that can process terabytes of disk space and millions of files.

Some examples of using ShowSize:

A disk F: is filling up fast. I want to quickly find the big-size folders and see if I can delete some. I can do that with "Folder Sizes report." Please see the screenshot and the flash demo showing this report, later on this page.

I have a big folder "F:\Photos and Travel docs" containing lots of JPG photographs in many subfolders and also some documents and zip files. I quickly want to see how much space the JPG files are taking so that I can put them on a CD. I can do that with "Folder Types report." Please see the screenshot later on this page.

I have a mixture of big and small files on a usb hard disk in many subfolders and just want to delete some large files to make space. I can do that with "Only Files report." Please see the screenshot later on this page.

WhizFolders Organizer -- Powerful Notes and Research Organizer software, ideal for note taking and personal information management

WhizFolders - note taker, notes and research organizer, rich text editor and much more

WhizFolders is a versatile note taking tool and note organizer. Use it as a noets and research organizer, a rich text editor, a hypertext cross-referencing tool, a clipboard collector, a bookmark or favorites utility, or a hierarchical note outliner.

WhizFolders is the tool that can change the way you work. This note taker and outlining tool is exactly what you need, and what you probably never even knew existed. It will keep the notes on your computer organized and well-structured, and you'll always be able to find exactly what you're looking for.

Total control of your notes. Instead of using countless documents for different notes, this note manager lets you keep thousands of notes on one subject in a single document. Inside it, you can view, rearrange and outline your notes quickly and easily. You can have many such documents, one per subject.

Make impressive software demo tutorial movies

Now you can create Flash Demos for teaching Software easily and can have fun and profit at the same time. This is a third-party software that I use as a developer and recommend it.

Software tips

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...