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For our BuildOrBuy Members, recommendations everyone might need for a PC! Check your List! 

Joe Whinery's List: 

• If I were Building a System Today... Rev 11 (6/1/2004).

Programs: 

1. Windows Update Tweak UI 1.33 -Microsoft.com (9/19/2002).
   

2. SiSoft Sandra - Diagnostics
   1. The SiSoftware Sandra Information Page:
      
   2. 3b Software: Registry Repair Pro
3. VCOM - Product - PowerDesk - Free Trial (Formerly from OnTrack.com)
4. NetAnts - www.netants.com (DialUp Tweak) - Faster download manager - NetAnts Free
   
5. Norton System Works - Symantec.com
   
6. Zone Alarm - ZoneLabs.com (Software Firewall)

7. Windows Registry - RegClean - Microsoft.com:

   1. ZDNet Downloads - Download RegClean 4.1a here.
      

   2. Registry Cleaning - Evidence Eliminator & MS RegClean.exe:
      1. How to Safely Clean and Repair the Windows Registry:

   Windows - Cleaning the Windows Registry
   

8. Q263044 - Fdisk Does Not Recognize Full Size of Hard Disks Larger than 64 GB -

   "NOTE: This hotfix is not designed for 48-bit logical block addressing (LBA) hard disks, and it is not supported on hard disks larger than 137 GB."

Downloads and Other Considerations For & From BuildOrBuy Members...

1. Reading - Scott Mueller, www.UpgradingAndRepairingPCs.com

2. Reading - Stephen J. Bigelow, www.dlspubs.com - Site Changed!?!

3. Reading - Windows Resource Kits, www.ResKit.com

4. Zone Labs: ZoneAlarm - Personal Firewall (All Windows Flavors - Win9x and above!)
   

5. Microsoft PowerToys for Windows XP - Includes Tweak UI and more!
6. Aladdin eSafe - Windows 2000 & WinXP Users
   
7. FreeWordSearch.com - WordSearch Bible Study Software includes KJV!
   
8. Algorithmix Sound Card Tester: From Tom Tyner. Does your Sound Card Measure up?
   
9. Expodata Systems the UK's Premier Supplier of PC Diagnostics & Memory Testers:
   
10. Google Toolbar - For M/S IE 5 or Higher Browser.
    
11. SeerMusic Player Downloads - Free!
    
12. AnalogX Direct X Audio PlugIns
    
13. www.OpenOffice.org - Developer's Free version of StarOffice
14. SUN: StarOffice - Application Suite
    
15. Software602.com - Free Office Suite