New Programs to Try

Do you know anything about the free media software program entitled VideoLan?

The program works great and plays a myriad of audio and video file types. It works better than advertised. Kudos to your grandson for a great freeware find!

Anyone looking to replace the obnoxious QuickTime and the questionable RealPlayer should be very interested in VideoLan. Those interested can read more about it and/or download VideoLan from here. Anyone looking to replace the obnoxious QuickTime and the questionable RealPlayer should be very interested in VideoLan. Those interested can read more about it and/or download VideoLan from here

Add Irfanview to your "Send To" menu
download this great freeware program and try it!
You can add Irfanview to your right-click "Send to" menu quickly and easily. Why would you want to? Well, if your browsing your computer and find an image you'd like to crop, resize or change the format of, if Irfanview is in your "Send to" menu, all you have to do is right-click the image and send it to Irfanview. Irfanview will open with the image displayed and you can edit it however you want.
Here's how you can add Irfanview to your right-click, "Send to" menu:
1. From IrfanView, choose "Options" - "Properties".
2. When the "Properties/Settings" dialog box appears, select "Extensions".
3. Near the bottom of the dialog, check "Add IrfanView to "Send To" shell menu" as desired.
4. Click "OK" to save your changes.
You can install Irfanview, right now, and try it. It's free. We bet you'll like it as much as we do. It's lightning fast It works on Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista, and Windows 7. It works on 32bit Windows and 64bit Windows.

Kill multiple instances of a non-responsive program all at once.
Windows XP and Windows Vista

Have you ever had Internet Explorer or some other program freeze up and not be able to close it by clicking the "X" in the program's window?
Many of you know you can kill programs which have stopped responding (frozen) by using Task Manager, clicking the Processes tab, right-clicking on the non-responsive program and selecting "End process".

But what if you see a half a dozen or more of the same program? Would you like to kill all of them at once instead of having to right-click each one and select to end the process - one by one?

You can kill multiple instances of a non-responding program, all at once. Here's how:

1. Click the Start button.
2. In the Search box, type cmd to open the command window. (XP users click Start/Run and type cmd, then press enter)
3. At the command prompt, type: taskkill /F /IM /T

For example, to kill all instances of the Internet Explorer process, you'd type: taskkill /F /IM iexplore.exe /T . Make sure you type it exactly like that. Note the spaces after taskkill, after F, after IM and the program's exe, and after exe. If you don't type the command right, this tip will not work.

AutoSizer automatically resizes programs for you, keeping them at a specific size or keeping them maximized. One popular use is to keep Internet Explorer maximized when you go on the web. It works with most software programs, and supports maximizing to specific monitors on multi-monitor computers. Use the handy Always On Top system tray menu to quickly position specific programs above all others..."

So there you have it. Window resizing made easy. AutoSizer does windows - even if you don't! Grab this helpful little program right now and end your frustration with getting your programs to open in the size you want. It's called AutoSizer,