What is your favorite PC MAG program ...

rtdos · Sep 23, 2003

.... for DOS, WIN3x, WIN9x? I'm compiling a list of the best (and worst) of
the PC MAG Utilities. My questions are: What is your favorite (its name)
and why? ... how is it used? ... and the filename (as you would've
downloaded it from PC MAG) and possibly where you can still download it.
Also, I may have it in my collection or know where to find it. I'd like to
compile this list and post it on my website: http://www.rtdos.com

A lot of the utilities are pretty much useless under WIN 2K or XP but it
wouldn't hurt to compile this list (hey at least I'll be doing the majority
of the work) for archiving purposes (esp those who still use or have a need
to use WIN3x or WIN9x).

But if there is already such a list (OUTSIDE OF PC MAG) then will somone
PLEASE let me know? :-)

Roger RamJet · Sep 23, 2003

... for DOS, WIN3x, WIN9x? I'm compiling a list of the best (and worst) of
the PC MAG Utilities. My questions are: What is your favorite (its name)
and why? ... how is it used? ... and the filename (as you would've
downloaded it from PC MAG) and possibly where you can still download it.
Also, I may have it in my collection or know where to find it. I'd like to
compile this list and post it on my website: http://www.rtdos.com

A lot of the utilities are pretty much useless under WIN 2K or XP but it
wouldn't hurt to compile this list (hey at least I'll be doing the majority
of the work) for archiving purposes (esp those who still use or have a need
to use WIN3x or WIN9x).

But if there is already such a list (OUTSIDE OF PC MAG) then will somone
PLEASE let me know?

My two favourites that work just perfectly under Windows 2000 are
NetPerSec and DisplaySet.

DAN · Sep 23, 2003

rtdos said:
... for DOS, WIN3x, WIN9x? I'm compiling a list of the best (and worst) of
the PC MAG Utilities. My questions are: What is your favorite (its name)
and why? ... how is it used?

Dupeless is my standard tool for sorting out pictures and other downloads. Weeds
out the dupes before I go into the details.

Clockrack is also very useful to me since the folks working with me are in all
different times zones. (IMO it is a pretty specialized use, but priceless when
needed. It doubles as a time sync client, too)

Filesnoop is useful. I use it in the role of the old viewplus.

Startup Cop was used until I discovered the Startup control panel by Mike Lin.
It puts them all to shame.

Conversely, some PCmag utils are pretty much duds. The worst failure of those
utils IMO is WMATCH. I really need its functionality for sync'ing directories
between PCs, and none of the other utils floating around really cuts the mustard
IMO (that is, since the original NC can no longer be used 'coz of LFNs). But the
poor WMATCH is so slow as to be completely useless. Especially on networked
directories.

DAN

Harvey Van Sickle · Sep 23, 2003

rtdos wrote:
-snip-

Startup Cop was used until I discovered the Startup control panel
by Mike Lin. It puts them all to shame.

On that subject, it's also worth running his StartUp Monitor --
excellent little utility.

Bjorn Simonsen · Sep 23, 2003

rtdos wrote in <8gNbb.408948$Oz4.200305@rwcrnsc54>:

Registry Detective "a read-only registry search facility that works in
conjunction with RegEdit". Works fine here with Win2k and Win98SE,
using it all the time. Don't know if a more recent version exist, or
if so where to find it (outside of pcmag/Ziff Davis)...

<clip>
Registry Detective, Version 1.0
Copyright (c) 2001 Ziff Davis Media, Inc.
Written by Neil J. Rubenking
First Published in PC Magazine, US Edition, February 20, 2001, v20n04
http://www.pcmag.com/utilities/
PLATFORMS:
Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT 4, Windows 2000
</clip>

All the best,
Bjorn Simonsen

Bjorn Simonsen · Sep 23, 2003

Bjorn Simonsen wrote in said:
Registry Detective

Bjorn Simonsen · Sep 23, 2003

A.A. Fussy wrote in said:
Button Boogie-does anyone have any download links for this PC Mag. utility?

[snip]

Attention please:
"When quoting another person, edit out whatever isn't
directly applicable to your reply. Including the entire article
will annoy those reading it." (Arlene H. Rinaldi: The Net -
User Guidlines and Netiquette, 1992:7)

Please read: The seven don'ts of Usenet
<http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/usenet/dont.html>

Re your question: tried <http://www.google.com> ?

ButtonBoogie, Version 1.1
<http://www.freewaretool.de/files/btnboog.zip>

All the best,
Bjorn Simonsen

George · Sep 23, 2003

DAN said:
Dupeless is my standard tool for sorting out pictures and other downloads. Weeds
out the dupes before I go into the details.

Anyone got a download link for this one? Can't find it anywhere.

Roger RamJet · Sep 23, 2003

Found a link for it:
<snip>
<http://download.bravotech.us/download/tools/PC Mag/fviewer.zip>
<snip>
All the best,
Bjorn Simonsen

Fviewer! What a gem. I use irt all of the time and had completely
forgotten it is one of the PC Mag apps. Well worth getting.

status · Sep 23, 2003

Roger RamJet said:
My two favourites that work just perfectly under Windows 2000 are
NetPerSec and DisplaySet.

Wasn't there a site at one time that had additional schemes created by
DisplaySet but the program wasn't required? (had to merge his color
schemes into your registry)

Bjorn Simonsen · Sep 23, 2003

George wrote in said:
Anyone got a download link for this one? Can't find it anywhere.

Did you try:
<http://www.google.com/search?num=50&hl&q=Dupeless.zip>

Found:
<http://www.real-world-solutions.org/ftp/dupeless.zip> (ver. 1.2)

All the best,
Bjorn Simonsen

A.A. Fussy · Sep 24, 2003

Bjorn Simonsen said:
A.A. Fussy wrote in said:

Button Boogie-does anyone have any download links for this PC Mag.

Click to expand...

utility?
[snip]

Attention please:
"When quoting another person, edit out whatever isn't
directly applicable to your reply. Including the entire article
will annoy those reading it." (Arlene H. Rinaldi: The Net -
User Guidlines and Netiquette, 1992:7)

Please read: The seven don'ts of Usenet
<http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/usenet/dont.html>

Re your question: tried <http://www.google.com> ?

ButtonBoogie, Version 1.1
<http://www.freewaretool.de/files/btnboog.zip>

All the best,
Bjorn Simonsen

Thanks,Bjorn-just what I was looking for.

DAN · Sep 24, 2003

What benefits does it have over Windows own MSConfig?

Very clear and clean. No install, just one exe file.
MSconfig does not exist on Win2k NT etc.

George · Sep 24, 2003

DAN said:
Dupeless is my standard tool for sorting out pictures and other downloads. Weeds
out the dupes before I go into the details.

Clockrack is also very useful to me since the folks working with me are in all
different times zones. (IMO it is a pretty specialized use, but priceless when
needed. It doubles as a time sync client, too)

Filesnoop is useful. I use it in the role of the old viewplus.

Startup Cop was used until I discovered the Startup control panel by Mike Lin.
It puts them all to shame.

What benefits does it have over Windows own MSConfig?

George · Sep 24, 2003

Bjorn Simonsen said:
Did you try:
<http://www.google.com/search?num=50&hl&q=Dupeless.zip>

Tried http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&q=dupeless
and went through pages of file not found.

Found:
<http://www.real-world-solutions.org/ftp/dupeless.zip> (ver. 1.2)

Thanks, much appreciated.

BoB · Sep 24, 2003

A.A. Fussy wrote in said:
A.A. Fussy wrote in said:

Button Boogie-does anyone have any download links for this PC Mag. utility?

Click to expand...

[snip]

Attention please:
"When quoting another person, edit out whatever isn't
directly applicable to your reply. Including the entire article
will annoy those reading it." (Arlene H. Rinaldi: The Net -
User Guidlines and Netiquette, 1992:7)

ButtonBoogie, Version 1.1
<http://www.freewaretool.de/files/btnboog.zip>

All the best,
Bjorn Simonsen

Also in any follow-ups, tell us what the program's are.
fviewer = font viewer?
btnboog = ?

Unfortunately, InControl5, the best PCutil isn't available?

P.S. Any opinion's on whether rtdos's proposal is legal?

BoB
For the duration of Swen, my address is fake.

status · Sep 24, 2003

BoB said:
A.A. Fussy wrote in said:

Button Boogie-does anyone have any download links for this PC Mag. utility?

Click to expand...

[snip]

Attention please:
"When quoting another person, edit out whatever isn't
directly applicable to your reply. Including the entire article
will annoy those reading it." (Arlene H. Rinaldi: The Net -
User Guidlines and Netiquette, 1992:7)

ButtonBoogie, Version 1.1
<http://www.freewaretool.de/files/btnboog.zip>

All the best,
Bjorn Simonsen

Click to expand...

Also in any follow-ups, tell us what the program's are.
fviewer = font viewer?
btnboog = ?

Unfortunately, InControl5, the best PCutil isn't available?

P.S. Any opinion's on whether rtdos's proposal is legal?

BoB
For the duration of Swen, my address is fake.

i don't know if it is legal or not. if it isn't then i won't post the
programs themselves but nothing can stop me from posting the filenames
for the programs so that a google search can be used, right? :-)

ms · Sep 24, 2003

Bjorn said:
Found a link for it:
<http://download.bravotech.us/download/tools/PC Mag/regdet.zip>

Also in <http://download.bravotech.us/download/tools/PC Mag/>:

<http://download.bravotech.us/download/tools/PC Mag/CookieCop2.2.zip>
<http://download.bravotech.us/download/tools/PC Mag/autowhat.zip>
<http://download.bravotech.us/download/tools/PC Mag/clckrack.zip>
<http://download.bravotech.us/download/tools/PC Mag/favetogo.zip>
<http://download.bravotech.us/download/tools/PC Mag/FavesToGo.html>
<http://download.bravotech.us/download/tools/PC Mag/fviewer.zip>
<http://download.bravotech.us/download/tools/PC Mag/rapidres.zip>
<http://download.bravotech.us/download/tools/PC Mag/regrobot.zip>
<http://download.bravotech.us/download/tools/PC Mag/shellcrypt.zip>
<http://download.bravotech.us/download/tools/PC Mag/slice32.zip>
<http://download.bravotech.us/download/tools/PC Mag/unclean.zip>
<http://download.bravotech.us/download/tools/PC Mag/wmatch.zip>

Also found:
<ftp://ftp.extremetech.com/pub/extremetech/Downloads/diskpie2.zip>

All the best,
Bjorn Simonsen

Did you find a link for ClipTrak 1.3?
An excellent clipboard extender.

Mike Sa

Bjorn Simonsen · Sep 24, 2003

BoB wrote in said:
Also in any follow-ups, tell us what the program's are.

For now, a list/overview over the various utilities
<http://www.pcmag.com/print_article/0,3048,a=20688,00.asp>

else, try google - including searching past messages in this group via
<http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search?hl=en>

All the best,
Bjorn Simonsen

Bjorn Simonsen · Sep 24, 2003

(e-mail address removed) wrote in

i don't know if it is legal or not. if it isn't then i won't post the
programs themselves but nothing can stop me from posting the filenames
for the programs so that a google search can be used, right?

Right. See past discussions, for instance some good points in:
<http://google.com/groups?hl=en&[email protected]>
thread:
<http://google.com/groups?hl=en&[email protected]&rnum=17&prev=/&frame=on>

All the best,
Bjorn Simonsen

What is your favorite PC MAG program ...

rtdos

Roger RamJet

DAN

Harvey Van Sickle

Bjorn Simonsen

Bjorn Simonsen

Bjorn Simonsen

George

Roger RamJet

status

Bjorn Simonsen

A.A. Fussy

DAN

George

George

BoB

status

ms

Bjorn Simonsen

Bjorn Simonsen