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Hi I find this a handy little thing

http://www.xp-antispy.de

XP-AntiSpy is a little utility that let's you disable some built-in update and authetication 'features' in WindowsXP.

For example, there's a service running in the background wich is called 'Automatic Updates'. I don't know what this service transfers from my machine to other machines on the internet, especially the MS ones. So I play it safe and disable such functions. If you like, you can even disable these function manually, by going through the System and checking or unchecking some checkboxes. This will take you approximately half an hour. But why wasting time when a little neat utility can do the same in 1 minute? This utility was successfully tested by lots of users, and was found to disable all the known 'Suspicious' Functions in WindowsXP. It's customizeable, but comes up with the Default settings, which are recommended.

All the best

Tony

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I can play this game.

I tend to like simple little things which do one thing but do it very well.

That's why I married the wife! Boom! Boom! :D

But seriously, folks ....

Volume Tray makes it really easy to adjust the volume simply by clicking on a System Tray icon with the left or right mouse button. Highly configureable with lots of skins and icon variations. Another neat feature is that it remembers the last volume setting for each user. No more logging on after someone else and being deafened.

http://glorysoft.omsk.ru/volumetray.html

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Here's another clever little tool. JDN Reserve can significantly speed up tasks such as secure disk cleaning. It does this by setting aside, or reserving, a default (90%) or user-defined portion of unused disk space. Only the unreserved space is used, so only this smaller amount of space has to be checked. Simple but brilliant!

http://www.geocities.com/jdn_reserve/

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SpamPal is my choice for email filtering. It is very easy to install and configure and no effort whatever to use. There are a number of plugins available as well as frequent updates for the database and a helpful users forum. Most importantly, it is highly effective and makes the chore of managing spam a lot less tiresome.

http://www.spampal.org/

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This is new - could be useful ? - if you back-up this way (I can't :( )

Disk Image Viewer 0.5 from :-

http://www.softwarium.com/divwin.html

Allows you to browse floppy and hard disk images in EXT2 (Linux) and FAT (DOS, Windows) file systems. It also lets you copy files from the images as well.

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Thanks AndySD. Simple, but very handy for me :) (Hope its as good as it looks, just gonna download now) <_<

Cheers. whiz...

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I find it invaluable just unzip it to the c drive and then Right click on it and put a shortcut to the Desktop.... drag this shortcut to Quick Start on the Task Bar. I tend to start it then leave it minimised in the Task Bar. Anyway have a play and see what you think.

Andy

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