[JohnWill]

You're not the first to be caught by this issue.

[hewee]

Use goolge to search TSG.

[carnage007]

hey! if you'd like to split your hard drive space, because you like application files to be seperate from all your junk lie movies music games, etc,etc... Partition Magic is the way to go as you can split without losing any information. i split my 80G to 70G and 10G....so 10G is just for windows and applications and 70G is the space for everything else!

link: http://www.download.com/3120-20_4-0....magic&tag=srch

[rameam]

Couldn't find PM at the posted link, carnage007. Couldn't find it at CNET period.

[clsxmas]

Originally Posted by carnage007

hey! if you'd like to split your hard drive space, because you like application files to be seperate from all your junk lie movies music games, etc,etc... Partition Magic is the way to go as you can split without losing any information. i split my 80G to 70G and 10G....so 10G is just for windows and applications and 70G is the space for everything else!

link: http://www.download.com/3120-20_4-0....magic&tag=srch

Partition Magic is a program sold by Symantec. It is not free. Symantic is listed as a sponsor at the site you linked to.

[johnni]

I don't know if this item has already been mentioned but I have just installed a replacement for my XP Start menu called Vista Start Menu. It is freeware (although there is a non-free Pro version). It works with 2000, XP and Vista. So far I am liking it and it gives an easy shutdown/standby button etc. It installs as a program in Program Files and if you delete it the normal Start menu takes over. See a screenshot and download from:
http://www.vistastartmenu.com/index.html

johnni

[aacm]

Originally Posted by johnni

I don't know if this item has already been mentioned but I have just installed a replacement for my XP Start menu called Vista Start Menu. It is freeware (although there is a non-free Pro version). It works with 2000, XP and Vista. So far I am liking it and it gives an easy shutdown/standby button etc. It installs as a program in Program Files and if you delete it the normal Start menu takes over. See a screenshot and download from:
http://www.vistastartmenu.com/index.html

johnni

I want to say THANKS this is awesome program.. I really liket

[Tildy]

Originally Posted by johnni

r. See a screenshot and download from:
http://www.vistastartmenu.com/index.html

johnni

YES...thanks from me too

[carnage007]

hey i profusely apologise, i had partition magic on my pc and thought i'd like to share it because i thought its quite good...i knew most software on downloads.com are free and so i just did a search to see if anything popped up without following it up. so my mistake i'm sorry mate,this is the 1st time i'm in a forum so its all a bit new to me.

But here's another program and it is free, its a unzipping program like winrar, but what i like about this program is it fixes corrupted .rar files as well (or unzips it) unlike winrar...


http://www.filzip.com/en/download.html

[clsxmas]

Originally Posted by carnage007

hey i profusely apologise, i had partition magic on my pc and thought i'd like to share it because i thought its quite good...i knew most software on downloads.com are free and so i just did a search to see if anything popped up without following it up. so my mistake i'm sorry mate,this is the 1st time i'm in a forum so its all a bit new to me.

But here's another program and it is free, its a unzipping program like winrar, but what i like about this program is it fixes corrupted .rar files as well (or unzips it) unlike winrar...


http://www.filzip.com/en/download.html

No problem--that happens to all of us occasionally!! Keep sharing freebie recommendations!

[munk-man]

not really sure if this counts as freeware but if you have windows xp you can use http://www.themexp.org/ to change the layout, colors, and themes of your computer. you can even switch it up to a Mac type layout if you prefer that over windows

[John Burns]

Originally Posted by munk-man

not really sure if this counts as freeware but if you have windows xp you can use http://www.themexp.org/ to change the layout, colors, and themes of your computer. you can even switch it up to a Mac type layout if you prefer that over windows

Be careful of this site - when you download from it, there are packaged "questionable items" sometimes included in the download. McAfee SiteAdvisor has this coded red - with this message:

"In our tests, we found downloads on this site that some people consider adware, spyware or other potentially unwanted programs."

It does have good themes, etc. but you can eliminate the spyware and unwanted only if you subscribe to the site, from my experience. I have found questionable items after using it without a subscription. Just a warning.

[munk-man]

Originally Posted by John Burns

Be careful of this site - when you download from it, there are packaged "questionable items" sometimes included in the download. McAfee SiteAdvisor has this coded red - with this message:

"In our tests, we found downloads on this site that some people consider adware, spyware or other potentially unwanted programs."

It does have good themes, etc. but you can eliminate the spyware and unwanted only if you subscribe to the site, from my experience. I have found questionable items after using it without a subscription. Just a warning.

O wow I was unaware of this, I have a few themes from the site but haven't used it in quite awhile... sorry bout that everyone!

[John Burns]

Originally Posted by munk-man

O wow I was unaware of this, I have a few themes from the site but haven't used it in quite awhile... sorry bout that everyone!

No problem - just wanted to warn you - I have downloaded from there too - even took a subscription at one time - but they have to pay for the free downloads some way - so guess they package some "help" in the free downloads. Lots of good themes there - guess the safe way is to pay the subscription price ($10 per year) - lol.

[mybest2U]

Have any of you wanted to turn some YouTube videos or other computer videos into a video DVD playable in a standalone DVD player? If so, check out the program "DVD Flick", which will not only work with Youtube videos (.flv files), but will also work with just about all other major video codecs.
DVD Flick can be found at:

http://www.dvdflick.net/

And then if you want to be really fancy and add menus to your video DVD, try using "DVD Styler" from:

http://www.dvdstyler.de/

I've used both programs with great success! BTW, they are also hosted at sourceforge.net.
(And as a last side note, if you want an easy way of downloading Youtube videos to your computer, just go to YoutubeX.com and give it the Youtube URL of the video you're after).