It seems that WinDirStat is speedier at scanning my drives, but Xinorbis produces a pie chart rather than a blocky treemap.

@Chris Raimondi: Plus WinDirStat's portable. Tools like this are great, except if they limit the computers you can use.

@Meetloaf13: It wasn't the option he picked. It was just what was on the shelf at the big box store when he made his decision to actually upgrade and went back.

@BlancheKisser: I figured that, at least on Lifehacker, the fact that the system shipped with 8GB of RAM would be interpreted to mean that it was a 64-bit system. Apologies for the assumption.

I've been Vista-wary for a while now. But I help my folks set up a new PC at Christmas, and Vista didn't have any of the problems I expected (SP1 must've helped, as did the 8GB RAM).

@jupiterthunder: Fork? There is no fork. Oh, wait. There is no spoon, but there is a fork.

@El-Amir: I stopped using PortableApps menu because it didn't have a feature for hiding EXE files, so all the supplemental files got listed as well.

@DeadPlayerWalking: [geek.menu] is based on the original PortableApps menu, just for information's sake.

I love mine - both of them. One's at home, the other's at work.

@Sam Wille: The problem with backing things up to my palm is that the permanent marker keeps fading. (kidding!)

@Adam: A guy at our church wears a fanny pack, every week. Big guy. Bald head. Mustache. Works in the penal system.

@aestheticirony: KidZui's whitelist with OpenDNS's blacklist, perhaps?

@Vroomtrap: It ain't so.

@concordia: Toucan is written by Steve Lamerton and packaged as a portable app. The actual download is from sourceforge.

DVD decryption always took additional software on Windows. Somehow, I don't feel like I'm missing anything.

I have one free email account that I keep checking because once, a few years back, it was how I found out that someone was buying stuff in my name.

This doesn't exactly surprise me. Outlook Web Access works in Firefox, etc. It just works better in IE.

@TendoMentis: From what I can tell from their site, it means that you can read email on an Exchange server.

Thanks to Windows 3.11, I ended up buying Norton Desktop for Windows and my first (of many) AfterDark sets.

@Scott Wegner: What I suggested is that TXT predates Windows 95, significantly. How that got construed to be a suggestion that DV get converted to TXT is beyond my ken.