1. Martin recommends “Rbtray” to minimize applications to tray. The program “PowerPro”, which I have already recommended in my comments to Part II (see URL there) also has a subfunction to tight click minimize button for minimizing to tray. I recommend that every user should at some stage spend some time checking out PowerPro, which also has a very eager and vibrant support forum.

Have I already said, it is a program with megatons of features for less than 2MB d/load? It’s somewhat rudimentatry website represents it regretfully only marginally.

2. One of my maain gripes is, or was ;): whenever I wanted to copy or move a large number of files I get an indicator that it may take about, say 12 minutes. A time which I of course want to spend doing other things. Thjus I come back after 15 minutes only to see that the process stopped after 2% with a message that a file cannot be copied for whichever reason. Roadkil’s Unstoppable Copier, a very small program (martin likes small) takes care of such problems!

3. inUse is a small executable from Microsoft (with the usual idiotically large installer to download) allows to schedule replacement of files that are currently in use on reboot.

4. “Resource Hacker” allows for replacement of icons and bitmaps in applications as well as number other other ways to fiddle with
executables and dlls, such as re-arranging menus. Also often useful to remove splashscreens (sometimes not complete deletion but replacement with a 1px x 1px bmp works). You ought to have heard the word backup at some stage, else, nothing can go wrong!

5. People that are interested which programs do run on startup are best served with startup.cpl (by Mike Lin), or autoruns.exe by SysInternals (if you really want to know ALL the details). Cpl’s, btw, which are control panel applets can be opened like any normal .exe file by doubleclick (also on shortcuts to them).

6. ConfigInspector from flashdeli.com might not onluy make a suitable replacemet for TaskManager, but also offers lots of other useful information. As a 125k d/load very well worth giving it a go.

7. All the drivers on your system and their versions can be gleanded from Setiawan Kusumah’s DoubleDriver application. Allows also for backup of drivers.

Cheers to all!

Also a tip (for part IV ;-): Privoxy (look at sf.net)- a open source proxy for exlude banners etc. You need some tech skills, but you config a lot!