Great URLs for useful Windows stuff

[john]

http://www.annoyances.org/ (use the menu on the left to navigate to lists of various topics)

You may also find this useful.

[Rik]

Good links, John. 

[Sebby]

Great site; I remember visiting it back in about 2000 to see how to get ICS working on Windows 98. Good times...

[Noreen]

Loads of Vista tips here (I haven't tried any of them yet) http://www.howtogeek.com/tag/windows-vista/ I see that there are also tips for others in the "How-To's" menu bar.

[Rik]

Nice link, Noreen. 

[Sebby]

Nice. There's absolutely loads of information there.

[madasahatter]

Bookmarked to have a look at later Noreen - 

[Glenn]

Could come in handy at work, as we migrate to Vista.

[Sebby]

So could a stress ball.

[Glenn]

I've got 2 on my desk already 

[Sebby]

You're sorted then.

[Lance]

Thanks Noreen! Something for me to look through while eating dinner! 

[Rik]

I've heard of reading a book while you eat, but a laptop screen...   

[Lance]

But it is only me here tonight!!!

[Rik]

Nicky celebrating?

[Lance]

Nope, hen party!

[Rik]

I hope her head is OK this morning.

[john]

Nope, hen party!

Free range ? 

[Sebby]

I'm sure Lance would accept nothing else in this day and age.

[Lance]

[g7pkf]

Thanks to Noreen for this, VueScan operates with a wide range of scanners often allowing them to be used with Vista when the manufacturer isn't providing updates.

http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html

Free trial version, then $40 at time of posting.

It works very well, $40 seems a bit high but with a little searching 

[Glenn]

I just stumbled across this site, http://www.techsupportalert.com/ It has links to what the author says are the best free windows tools

[Rik]

The site looks good, Glenn, bookmarked. 

[T_M_D]

Would like to add a personal  for the freeserifsoftware one - exactly what I was looking for this morning 

I downloaded the free PagePlus SE software a couple of weeks ago and couldn't get it to work - I rang the Serif helpdesk, the guy was great and he told me the problem was with Vista, once I changed the option in Advanced settings for the desktop short cut to 'run as administrator' it worked fine - but I suppose most of you are already aware of this anyway... Tina.

[Lona]

Thanks John and Noreen for two really useful sites.