Do not use Plaxo. When you use it, you are giving private and confidential information on your friends, co-workers, or family to Plaxo, without their permission. This is an invasion of their privacy and a betrayal of their confidence.

I advise all my clients thinking about Vista to wait at least one year from the official launch to purchase the OS. It is highly likely that hardware that functions fine with earlier versions of Windows will not fully function, if at all, with Vista. So if they upgrade they may have to upgrade much more than their OS…

Great tip. Who knew?

I have found LogOnMyPC to be the best deal in remote access. Quite inexpensive and full featured. Check them out at http://www.logonmypc.com

Glad to have another person sending us tips and solutions. Welcome.

Maybe I'm unnecessarily worried by this program but when I started it up it wants to access the trusted zone on my network and the internet. Why is that? This makes me think there is something else here that needs to be explained. Otherewise I would steer clear.

If you want the best Explorer alternative try xplorer² Professional. The author of the comparison did not take the time to learn about its zillions of features. It is not the easiest program to learn but once mastered it becomes essential to using Windows.

Two points on this privacy issue:

I don't believe it is necessary to download dummy.exe. Just use notepad to create an empty file and name it dummy.exe. Then change the registry key to point at your dummy.exe.

When you use Plaxo you are giving private and confidential information on your friends, co-workers, or family to Plaxo, without your correspondents' permission. This is an invasion of their privacy and a betrayal of their confidence. There are reports that Plaxo has been used in phishing schemes so I suggest you not…

This seems fantastic, maybe too good to be true. Is there a catch?

This looks inviting. I will have to spend some time checking this site's links out.

You need to scroll down towards the bottom of the website to find the link to the file.

Any chance you provide a direct link to the PDF or at least the file's name? I cannot locate it on their website.

Gina is there any possibility that one of your filters, or a comibnation of filters, is the cause of this and that you don't realize it?

I've been using "Google Apps For Your Domain" for several months now as I was part of the beta group. The mail and calendar are identical to Gmail but use your company's domain name instead of the @gmail.com domain.

I write a weekly newsletter and a bi-weekly newspaper column.

Here is the smart blond joke on this topic:

I'm tending toward my next new machine being a Mac and then loading some VM software and adding a Microsoft OS.

Leaving out Lotus 1-2-3 from the list is forgetting what drove the PC revolution in the first place. It is far more important than Excel ever can be. If not for Lotus 1-2-3 the PC might never have made it.